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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41180	Letter to a friend containing certain observations upon some passages which have been published in a late libell intituled, The third part of no Protestant-plot and which do relate to the kingdom of Ireland.	Ferguson, Robert, d. 1714.	1682 (1682)	Wing F748; ESTC R24027	17,386	27

LETTER To A FREIND Containing certain OBSERVATIONS Upon some passages which have been Published In a Late LIBELL Intituled the Third Part of NO PROTESTANT-PLOT And which do Relate to the KINGDOM OF IRELAND Dublin Re-Printed MDCLXXXII SIR I Have received the third part of No Protestant Plot which you were pleased to send me out of England And I cou'd have wished the two preceding parts had accompanied it which I don't find are to be met with in this Kingdom But I am apt to believe you did forbear the sending of them because they might not possibly contain such things as the other does is Relation to Ireland and concerning which you onely desire to be satisfied in And therefore I am as heartily thankful for this as I have been honestly careful to inform my self by the most Authentick papers and the most knowing persons in Affairs here with what truth the Particulars of it touching this Kingdom are related in it For I will not pretend to meddle with its relations as to other places both because they are no part of your commands to me and in regard I have not the same opportunities of coming to the knowledg of them But this I may adventure to say that if the Author did use no greater sincerity in his delivery of passages as to the one than he has shewn as to the other he is absolutely one of the most Malicious and Barefaced LIBELLERS that even in this time of Excess of such Creatures has been produced For not to detain you too long with Prefacing but as briefly as may be to come to the matter neither therein to follow this LIBELLER with a direct or formal Answer for fear of falling into the Error against which Solomon thus Cautions Answer not a fool in his own kind least thou also be like unto him But only to make some few Animadversions upon his LIBEL for the detection of his Mallice and the conviction of his Falshoods in those parts of it which touch this Kingdom and the Government of it according as you expect and I have premised I find that althô at his first entrance upon Irish Affairs in page the 2d of his LIBEL he appears as an Abhorter of the Bloody and Cruel Massacres committed by the Papists in the late Rebellion of Ireland yet he onely assumes that shape in this Conjucture of Time the better to Insinuate himself with and the more plausibly to Convey unto the too Credulous Populace his designed Calumnies upon persons Concerned in the present Government of this Kingdom who are all firm Protestants and most of whom by their Zealous oppositions of the Popish Party during the time of that Rebellion as every of them by their steady Administrations since have manifested the greatest Abhorrency in the World of those Cruelties Although they are opposite to the present FACTIOVS and Pretended Protestant Party Which therefore thus hires and employs base and Mercenary fellows to invent and publish scandals of them And notwithstanding he wou'd in page the 16. where he makes his next step as to Ireland seem only to inveigh against the ingratitude of the PAPISTS for the lenities they might have received yet in his handling thereof he scatters malicious invectives against the Ministers here and unjustly glances upon them by making instances of lenity to have been extended to the PAPISTS and of severity to have been measured to the DISSENTERS since the Kings restauration most whereof are perfectly invented and not any of them can this Government reasonably be charged with Of the former sort are these his following allegations musterd up in page the 17th viz. First that PRIESTS and FRIERS are tollerated to swarm and openly to Celebrate Mass in Ireland The contrary whereof is universally known in the Kingdom Repeated Proclamations having been Issued from the Lord Lieutenant and Council for the Banishing of FRIERS and all others of the Popish Regular and Titular Clergy out of this Dominion and promising Rewards which have been punctually performed to such as shou'd find and seize them which for a great while has render'd that sort of People not to be visible in these parts and for the PRIESTS who were permitted to stay in all times in so much that not any of the ORDERS which came out of England nor even an ADDRESS which was lately made by the House of Commons there to the King by his Majesty sent hither for banishing the rest of the Popish Clergy did mention them Althô they are suffer'd to remain yet are they so strictly inhibited by Proclamations and those of them caught Offending so severely punished that for a Considerable time here has not been any such open Celebration of the MASS heard of amongst us as the LIBELLER hath falsly suggested Secondly that the Introduction of the whole Popish Hierarchy into this Kingdom was Connived at and a publick Assembly of the PAPAL Clergy allowed by a Commission of the Duke of ORMONDE to be held and to sit in 1666. The scandalous untruth of both which do upon inquiry appear very evidently for as to that pretended Commission for Assembling of the Papal Clergy which I begin with because from what I shall say by way of answer to it will naturally flow a confutation of that feigned connivance of the Popish Hierarchy it is to be observed that as my Lord Duke of Ormonde whose word will surely outweigh that of the LIBELLERS do's utterly deny his ever having granted a Commission of that kind so is there no such thing to be found nor the least footstep● of it to be met with in any of the Offices through which all Commissions must pass before they can be of any vertue and where they are Recorded for every one to have recourse unto Besides the Ground upon which it is manifest the LIBELLER wou'd raise this structure and the sourse from whence it is plain he wou'd derive this Objection when explained and considered cannot bear or Warrant any such thing for they stand thus Peter Walsh who was a stiff opposer both of the Popes Nuntio and of the whose Rebellious party in Ireland during all the time of the Irish Rebellion sometime after the Kings Restauration having projected and Presented to his Majesty a Remonstrance signed by him and divers other Roman Catholicks of this Kingdom and containing the highest expressions of Loyalty to his Majesty and the largest assurances of Fidelity to the Crown that had ever before been tender'd by Papists and which proved so derogatory to the Vsurpations of the Pope that it was discountenanced and Censur'd at Rome Lovain and other Popish Vniversities and oppos'd by the Popes Internuncio then residing at Bruxels who did all that in him lay to dehort PAPISTS against it and upon the account of all which the subscribers and adherers to it have not dar'd unto this day to adventure their persons into any forreign parts where the Pope bears sway His Majesty was very well satisfied with it and upon Walsh's repairing

into this Kingdom about the year 1666. for propagating such the Doctrine of it which no Loyal Protestant cou'd be against was pleased to send his instructions to my Lord Duke of Ormonde His then Lord Lieutenant for his suffering of Peter Walsh to meet with some Titular Bishops at that time here to perswade them by his Arguments and to gain others of the Papists by their Examples to subscribe unto that Remonstrance which meeting His Grace accordingly Permitted but onely and so strictly to that end proposed as He was both vigilant in seeing that those Bishops did not make use of it to any other purpose and careful in providing that they shou'd not take up too much time even in the doing of that business and therefore very early perceiving that they cou'd not come to such an Agreement as might produce the effects which were expected He Ordered them not only to disperse but to quit the Kingdom insomuch that afterwards when His Grace was call'd from the Government there were not above three Popish Bishops remaining two whereof were Bedrid and the third absconded althô when His Grace returned again to the Government in immediate Succession to my Lord of Essex he found no less then thirteen of them to be here and them he has caused to be driven out also and this sufficiently confutes the LIBELLERS allegation of His Graces conniving at the Popish Hierarchy being introduced which in English is Governance since He did thus expel the Governors in whom it resided Thirdly That when the PLOT was to have been executed in ENGLAND anno 1678. there were no fewer than fifteen Sheriffs in IRELAND who were either professed and avowed PAPISTS or such as bred and educated their Children in Religion The Notorious untruth whereof appeares by Original Roll of the SHERIFFS of that Year whose Names are placed in the Margin * Co. Dub Ja. Springham 〈◊〉 Co. Lowth Ja Smallwood E●● Kings Co John Leyster Esq Co Wexford John Tench Seni●●● Co Kilkenny John Kealy Esq ●●ing within the time Hen 〈◊〉 was made Sheriff the 23 〈◊〉 April 1678 Co Meath Nath. Poole Esq Queens Co William Gilbert E●● Co Wicklow Christopher Usher 〈◊〉 Co Kildare Edward Baggot Es● Co. Westme●th Edward Terill E●● Co Catherlagh George Beech 〈◊〉 Co Longford Geo Conyngham E●● Co Co●k Richard Hull Esq Co Limerick John Oddell Esq Co Kerry william Ryves Esq Co Waterford Tho Christmas Es● Co Clare Thomas Hickman Esq Co Tipperary Tho Osborne Esq Co Gailaway Char. Holcraft Esq Co Leytrim Henry Crofton Esq Co Sligo Roger Smith Esq Co Mayo Sr. George Bingham Bar. Co Roscommon Ed. Gardiner Esq Co Donegall Geo. Vanghan Esq Co Tyrone John Moderale Esq Co Fermanagh Ferdinando Davis Co Antrim Edw Harrison Esq Co Armagh Godfry Walker Esq Co Monaghan Rich Johnson Esq Co Down Hugh Eccle● Esq Co Cavan John Coyn Esq Co City of Londonderry James Morison and Char. Newtowne to abide all scrutiny if there shou'd be Occasion not one of them there mentioned being so principl'd or suspected to be so quallified especially by my Lord Lieutenant who cannot be supposed to know every Mans person much less to look into his heart who happens to be placed in that Office and therefore If one or two differently quallified should chance to have escaped Him through want of knowledge or Information and throughout a whole Kingdom His Grace might very well be excused in such a Case as it falling out that there was not one in this He is to be extremly Justified And whereas he affirms That the Papists have promiscuously before with His Majesties Protestant Subjects been advanced to several places of power and trust If he means publick places of power and trust as he must if he means any thing he says upon a strict inquiry made it cannot be found that any PAPISTS have had advancements of that kind since His Majesties Restauration save only such of them as were made Justices of the Peace by the Lord BERKLEY's Orders in the time of his Government and Colonel Richard Talbott made Captain of a Troop of Horse by Commission from the Earl of ESSEX when He was Chief Governour so as the present Government which this reflection most Darts at appears to be the least intitled to it ●ourthly That though a Proclamation was Published in Ire●●●d for searching the houses of all Roman Catholiques for Arms 〈◊〉 when the SHERIFF of the County of GALWAY went in ●●rsuance thereof to search the Earl of CLANRICKARDS ●●use where as be was informed all the Papists in that County ●●d lodged their Arms the said Earl produced a Warrant from 〈◊〉 Lord LIEUTENANT the Duke of ORMONDE that his ●ouse should not be searched Which Article althô it be placed in ●●age the 27th of the LIBELL yet for order sake is ranked and ●aken notice of here with the others of page the 17th in the Libell because it is of the same nature and of the like truth with them For my Lord Duke of ORMONDE was so far from granting a Warrant to that Earl to hinder his house from being searched for Arms that he never so much as gave him a Licence to keep any but contrarywise where the Earl of ESSEX in his Government had given the said Earl his Licence to keep a quantity of Armes they were since by my Lord Duke of ORMOND's Orders taken from him and delivered into the publick stores Lastly he alleadges That yet while all this forbearance and tenderness have been expressed to the PAPISTS the DISSENTERS have fallen under the misfortune of having an express Law made against them and divers of them have been prosecuted to Fine and Imprisonment upon it Wherein the LIBELLER shews his Ignorance as well as his Malice for although the Statute of 2d Eliz. for the Vniformity of Common-Prayer in this Kingdom which is without doubt against the PAPISTS and who are frequently prosecuted upon it should by construction be extended unto the DISSENTERS as I never heard it to be so Adjudged in the Case of any of them so far are they from having been Prosecuted notwithstanding their openly numerous and frequent Meetings yet was there never any Particular express Law made against them either before or as the LIBELLER wou'd have it believed since the KINGS Restauration And as that too moderate Act of 2d Elizab. be all that is in Force against the PAPISTS or that can be supposed to be against the DISSENTERS so it is to be wished that for the quiet of the Kingdom more and severer Laws were made against both And this brings me to the latter part of my Assertion that as most of the LIBELLERS instances of the Lenity shewn the PAPISTS and of the severity extended to the DISSENTERS in this Kingdom since the KINGS restauration are invented which I hope I have fully proved to you so that none of them can be reasonably charged upon the present Government which I think I shall be able very easily and briefly to