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An Apology for the failures charg'd on the Reverend Mr. George Walker's printed account of the late siege of Derry in a letter to the undertaker of a more accurate narrative of that siege.
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1689
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Wing A3549; ESTC R24184
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the Mother-Church and the Bishoprick too by the Bishop's Abdication Yet upon your Canonical Obedience tell me could you do less in Mr. Walker's Circumstances than cover this pernicious Counsel of your Diocesan which created Nature can't expiate and assure your Sovereign God intimates to the World the Church of England defends and maintains their Majesty's Interest and the Protestant Religion and improve your Rhetorick to perswade their Majesties the Dissenters are at best unserviceable to either Interest I hope Sir by this time you are satisfied of Mr. Walker's Innocency in his Publishing the above Account You Presbyterians distinguish between the Action and the Anomy or Irregularity of it which latter you say in the Original makes the sin You will also grant that the bare Instrument is often blameless when the principal efficient is very culpable I plead for no more on behalf of this worthy Gentleman and so conclude his Apology though I heartily wish he had not given me the trouble am perswaded himself does he had not given the occasion to any to believe very applicable to him stepping out of the Bishops Coach that Passage of the Satyrist †Juv. Sat. 10. lin 278 ad lin 282. respecting Consul Marius if the comparison be not too mean for the Collonel's Merit quod illo cive tulisset Natura in terris quid Roma beatius unquam Si animam exhalasset opimam Cum de Teutonico vellet descendere curru I intended my hand being in to bestow a cast of my Office upon these Gentlemen whose alone Commands could qualifie Mr. Walker to plead Not Guilty to your Charge and to have assign'd the leading Reasons of their exerting their Authority over him in this juncture But being doubtful of their Gratitude I shall leave to themselves that Province mean while will furnish you with some Queries I 'd have you lodge with 'em to which their Answers whether Categorical or Equivocal will discover these Reasons and peradventure what lies somewhat deeper Qu. 1. Whether these Gentlemen I mean the Westminster Ecclesiastic Club or if you please Committee for the Church of Ireland were not sollicitously apprehensive of the too great Figure the Northern Scots made for many years past Being unquestionably the greatest Body of Protestants in Europe intirely united in Principle Interest Alliance and mutual Accord who upon an Estimate made of their Number three years since were found to amount to Eighty Thousand Fighting Men ‖ Pray see for this the ingegeniously Penn'd Letter to the truly Honourable Sir Arthur Royden about that time and upon a more exact since to about a 1000000. Whether they were not sufficient to have preserved intire the Province of Vlster and by their assistance to the English in all other parts either to have sav'd the whole Kingdom from being lost or before this time to have retriev'd it without putting our King or Kingdom of England to any other charge than Arms Ammunition one Chief Commander little or no Treasure had Arms been sent 'em any time before March last Whether the matchless Prowess and Services of those sew Inniskillin-Men with those in the Garrison of Derry do not determine this Quere in the Affirmative Qu. 2. Whether suppose Presbytery and Prelacy plac'd on a level share equally in the Favour of King and Parliament with the Church-revenues and Dignities every individual being left to his proper choice all which Conditions I humbly conceive pre-requisit to the right stating the Question in that great Northern Body the Tyth fall to the Church of England's share I know who would venture a Pole e're they yielded that if the danger of incurring the Guilt of Sacrilege did not deter ' em Qu. 3. Whether these Gentlemen don't in judgment determin the second Query in the Negative Since one of their Club a Gentleman of great Sense as intelligent in Irish Affairs as any upon the report of so many thousands dying in Derry by Famine spoke plainly among some of his Gown what others would perhaps for State-reasons have minc'd viz. T was no matter how many of them dy'd for they were but a pack of Scots Presbyterians And I 'm perswaded had Mr. Wr. when he brought the Colonel to London left the Parson at Donnoh-moor a pack of Presbyterians they had been still But pray deal gently with the young Man Mr. for his Father's sake who as I have heard was the most Scotiz'd Presbyterian Minister of the English Nation Qu. 4. What Counsels what Instruments may be justly charged with the unattoneable Guilt of retarding the Conveyance of those Arms and Ammunition till the Season was lost which might have sav'd or speedily reduc'd Ireland Not our most gracious Sovereign whose Royal Propension repeated Royal Commands for the speedy and effectual relieving the Protestants there His Majesties Royal Concern for the Delays of the Conveyance of these Succours his Subjects of the first Figure attest and the Rebels dreaded the event of Not the Dissenters nor moderate Conformists both whose accurat accounts of the condition of Ireland were last Spring frequently confronted by Letters from Eutopia till the doleful event discover'd the truth of the former and Fiction of the latter Not the City of London whose forwardness to spare no Treasure or if need were Hands in that Service whose unparallel'd Hospitality and incredible Charge in maintaining distressed Protestants from Ireland as well all England over as in the City of London all of you that retain any Sparks of Honour and Gratitude admire and Celebrate Qu. 5. Whether those unaccounted but not unaccountable baffles giv'n to the reliefs sent to Derry first by Colonel Coningham c. and afterwards by do not issue from the same Spring with the Delays mentioned in the next preceding Query Whether the Romance of Kilmore Boom will attone for the loss of those Thousands of Souls near a Myriad by this time of immortal Memory that perished in Derry for want of those Succours Royal Bounty so amply provided Royal Care order'd the speedy and seasonable conveyance of But of this enchanted Boom at more leisure Qu. 6. Whether some Men are not satisfy'd I don't say endeavour Ireland be entirely lost tho themselves have large Stakes there to lose and remain unreduc'd for some years rather than Dissenters be employ'd in retrieving it share in the Rewards of that Service make some Figure in their Country be rendred capable of their Prince's Favour of Honours and Offices in common with their Fellow-Subjects proportionably to their Merit I 'le exclude from this Category and with their own approbation all the moderate Sons of the Church of England both Clergy and Laity yet am sure some such Men there be These Gentlemen can peradventure discover ' em Qu. 7. Whether if all Protestant Subjects were equally forward with the Dissenters for the Service of the King Kingdoms and Protestant Religion the late King James's Arrival in Ireland had not been effectually prevented And besides either the saving or