THE VNKINDE DESERTOR OF LOYALL MEN AND TRUE FRINDS Jn the land of the holy hee hath don wicked things and hee shall not see the glory of our Lord. Isai cap. 26. vers 10. Superiorum permissu AnÌ„o 1676. CENSURA SAnctis eremi incolis strenuisque Christi athletis non immeritò annumerandus venit venerabilis ille solitarius fidelis Christâ— famulus Dominus S. E. qui ab hinc anniâ— vt fertur viginti tribus spreto hominum Commercio ad Medirerranei maris littus à Narbâ—nensi â—ivitate non procul dissitum seder Vir hic sanè si animum exscriptis spectes Candidus lustus apparet si doctrinam â—ruditissimus si facundiam ornatissimus quem insuper Corporis pudicitia animae Castitas morum Comitas quod caput est veritatis amor quae Sacrorum hominum partes effe debent ab adolescentia nisi fama mendax sit eximiè decorarunt sed has hominum invidia sprevit virtutes eumque opimo quo gaudebat in patria sacerdorio spoliavit Quid fecit vir optimus in exilium relegatus velut alter Arsenius pulsante ad cordis aurem voce Angelicâ Fuge late tace Continuò acquiescens oraculo Fugit latuit tacuit Damnatisque Babylonis plateis faciem ad Sanctam Ierusalem aeternam quaesiturus pacem convertit Enixius quaerebat Dominum quem diligebat animus in crepidine maris invenit nec dimisit ratus venenata quibus in hoc mundo omnes configimur invidiae spicula neminem nisi eo protegente declinare valere Fidam igitur stationem nactus ab omni prorsus hominum consuetudine tutam vt cum solo liberatore liberius colloqueretur diu multumque conticuit Tandem tamen aliquandò divina dispensante voluntate ruptis importuni nobis silentij repagulis vox ejus altius intonuit nostrasque ad aures à solitudinis antro allapsa non inutile eum semper otio torpuisse indicat aureum enim hunc libellum cui Titulus The Vnkind desertor of loyall men and true Frinds mole licet exiguum tamen ipsa reâ—magnis voluminibus comparandum à silentiarij ore patriae tam faedè proditae miseratio vel potius ipsa extorsit veritas Iliadem vt aiunt seu heu malorum nostrorum in nuce habes Gentem Hibernicam Catholice semper Religionis non citrà miraculum tenacissimam veteris nobilitatis insignem sceleratè modò profligatam funditusque nefariorum hominum dolo furore gladio eversam commemorat plangendamque docet Iacobum Butlerum Ormondiae Ducem ipsumque longa claraque Catholicorum majorum serie in ipso licet Hiberniae regno conspicuè oriundum malorum omnium fontem acâ—originem probat Tantorumque criminum reum invictis peragit documentis cum enim Hiberniam prorex aliquando gubernasset eique ut prese ferebat ipsa reverà exigebat patriae charitas consulturus crederetur ita omnes suis circumsepsit infatuavitque praestigiis incautos ut omnes perdiderit patriaeque statum omnino subverterit Hanc illius tam insignem numquamque expiandam perfidiam auctor execrandosque dolos barbarico indignos animo detegit palamque orbi facit quid vero indignius quid scelerarius quam Hibernos quà religione in Deum quà in regem fide inconcussos turpiter deserere ac Cromwelli Trium nationum praedatoris satellitibus sicariis ad haerere Hoc inauditum scelus molitus est Ormonius idque nescio quo inveterato in nationem suam paternamque fidem odio correptus ac velut oestro percitus huc accessit opum dignitatumque sitis inexplebilis atque effrene desiderium Auctoris scriptis fama mihi tantummodo noti mentem amo animi candorem amplector virtutes veneror acrem nitidumque stylum satis laudare nequeo par sibi in omnibus judicium admiror ardentemque in patriam gentemque suam amorem vehementer suspicio Quamobrem praeclarum hoc opus numeris omnibus â—bsolutum erudito certè dignum auctore publica luce dignissimum judico Idque vel maximè cum nihil omninò complecti videatur quod orthodoxae fidei Canonicis Sanctionibus aut morum honestati adversetur Quin imo Apostolicae Sedis decus atque honorem ubicumqueâ—se ingerit occasio egregriè tueatur Quod testatum facio veritatis promulgandae gratis ductus amore cum exactè nec non vigili curâ— omniâ— perlegerim aequaque lance trutinaverim Signatum Parisiis 12. Februarij 1676. A. I. S. T. Professor THE PREFACE BAnished for Religion and Loyalty to my Prince in the yeare 1652. by Cromwelians then bearing sway wee were som fifteen of vs ship'tin one bottom landing in Britaine in France I tooke my way to this Province not farre from Narbon where I had frinds having liu'd there before And heer I have been about 24. yeares very solitary seeing rarly any of my Countrimen Thus farre from Labans house and noys I finde great tranquility and case of minde in Magdalens silent contemplation When I have been forced a way the Land was possessed by Philistym they had the Arck captive and vnder them my country was turned to a Babylon of sinn vyce Nothing was to be seen in the Streets of this Cittie but oppression of the Iust jniquity rage and fury against Roman piety the Altars falne downe and the Priestes bitterly persecuted some of them consuming a way in prisons som cast into exile and others chased in wods and mountains like wyld beasts all of them charged with two great crymes To be Catholick Priestes and Loyall to theire king All the Catholicks true to God and Prince transplanted into a corner of the Kingdom And this calamity they suffered with the rest that Royall authority was layd a sid and a Dagon sett vp The tyranny of the vsurping Parlament and reverenced This was the face then of that inchanted Iland and they say things are noe way amended as to Catholick natives since the kings going homeâ— that change having noe ways bettered theire fortunes but that theire calamities and miseries soe it is written from many hand 's are dayly increased soe as men beaten with Scourges in Crumwells tyme cry out they are now beaten with Scorpions Often have I lamented all a lone for my deare Countrys desolation and found my greefe inconsolable because I saw noe end of their sufferings Somtym it came to my minde that if a sincere relation of our hard servitude and extremities were given to Catholick Princes with humble prayers this would doe vs good but a gaine when I called to minde that this had been don allready and that able and noble personages had said these things in significant language and that they had in all Courts but cold and delaying answers I dispair'd of all releefe that way One of our Bishops having been in Rome Anno 1652. Ad visitanda limina Apostolica had conferrence with the then Cardinal Secretary after Alexander Septimus his Eminency said to the Bishop it
60000 l due to honest men and good Subjects vpon his Estate before the Rebellion 6. Whether his Grace hath not received 30000 l. out of Soldiers and Adventurers Lands which he invaded and entered vpon without any Title as appears by the Records of the Court of Claymes in Ireland which hath decreed the Lands from him 7. Whether by the Act of Explanation he hath not got the Citty of Kilkenny and six other Corporat Townes together with their Lands and Liberties valved by himselfe and his friends of the Councell but at 60000l though they are well worth 120000 l 8. Whether he did not obtain by a special warrant from his Majestie 72000 l. out of the Soldiers and Adventurers half year Revenue 9 Whether there is not confirmed to him 50000 l. More by the Explanatory Act for waving a grant which he got by the Act of Settlement 10. Whether he had not got as many Gentlemens Estates vpon the pretence of a grant of enjoying all Lands that he could prove by witnesses to have payed him any Chiefrey as is worth at least 150000 l. and whether also he hath not obtained that for the said Lands no quitt Rent be paid to the King which grant at 3d. An Acre per annum amounts to 26000 l 11. Whether he hath not abitrarily layd vpon the Inhabitants of the City of Dublin 8000 l. Per Annum amounting for these six years past of his Government to 48000 l 12. Whether he hath not against the Fvndamental Laws and Magna Charta inclosed divers parcells of Land belonging to the kings good subjects without their consent to the value of 1500 l. per Annum at the very gates of Dublin to the great prejudice of that City and the Country the profit of which Land and Park he hath bestowed vpon the Lord of Dungannon and Colonel Cook 13. Whether it be credible that his Grace is zealous for the English and Protestant Interest seeing it is not possible for the Soldiers and Adventurers to be reprized according to his Majesties gracious Declaration when his Grace hath swallowed up in gifts and grants the best part of the Stock of Reprizalls and hath made or permitted such Embeslements of his Majesties revenue and applyed the Royal authority wholly to gain vast advantages to himself and whether by preferring his own private gains and grants before the Publique good and the Iust right of the Adventurers and Soldiers he hath not unsettled the Kingdom of Ireland and unsatisfied the two main interests of Protestants the Soldiers and Adventurers to such a degree that it is to be feared it will be a continual charge to England to keep to the rules of the Acts of Settlement and Explanation so destroyed and desperate a people and whether all this expence trouble and danger for preserving the Duke of Ormond and his Family that is as much Irish as any can be in other mens Inheritances and Rights be the interest of England or agreable to the Maxims of sound Policy or of Christian piety 14. Whether such of his Majesties Protestant Subjects of Ireland as have escaped the Duke of Ormonds Proviso have not Iust grounds to fear that if the same Duke of Ormond should continue in his Gouvernment and press as now he doth the Paymeut of 100000 l. they will not be in a condition to live or to pay his Majesties quit Rents and the necessary charges of the Kingdom 15. Whether after the Prohibition of transporting Cattle and so much oppression by the Lord Lieutenant and his Creatures it be possible For his Majesties empoverished subjects of Ireland to pay the 300000 l. assessed by the Explanatory Act whereof the First 100000 l. is for his Grace 16. Whether his Grace had not a great regard For his Majesties service when he lately pressed the King and Councel to call a Parliament in Ireland For imposing new Taxes vpon that miserable people and For confirming all his own new acquisitions whereby the Soldiers Advenrurers and Nominees are defrauded of his Majesties intended Favours and the English interest utterly destroyed 17 Whether the Duke of Ormonds gifts and grandis amount not unto 630000 l. and whether this Summe would not have satisfied all the English Interest of Ireland and have settled the Protestants and well meriting Natives Natives of that Kingdome in peace whereas now his Majesty and all Christendom is troubled with their Clamours against the breach of Publique Faith and all this stirr destruction of the people and discredit of the Government to humour one particular man whose merit is not so extraordinary â—s his management hath been vnsuccesful 18. Whether not only some of the Nobility of Ireland but very many of the Nobi lity Knights and Gentry of England have not lost greater revenues and richer moveables for being Cavaliers then the Duke of Ormond whose Estate was much incumbered and his rents before the rebellion exceeding not 7000 l. per Annum and during the Warr got more by his Government of Ireland and giving up Dublin then he could it he were in possession of his Estate 19. Whether such as endeavoured to conceale these miscarriages and miseries of the Kingdom of Ireland From his Majesties and the Parliaments knowledg and yet strive to have the Duke of Ormonds distructive Government continue deserve not to be questioned by the Parlament as betrayers of the Publique good and of the Lawes and Liberties of England 20. Whether it be fit that the Government of Ireland should continue so long in one person as it hath in the Duke of Ormond though he were not an Irish man and all his relations were not Papists and very great Enemies of the English and Protestant interest What man can apprehend or read these incredible gettings and recompenses given Ormond without amaizment By the nine first Quaeries you see his grace is as yet countable for many thousands of thousands of the two hundred thousnd pound sent out of England into Ireland since his last goverment there and of the three hundred and sixty thousand pounds assessed by the Parlament of Ireland and fifty thousand pound advanced out of the Soldiers and Adventerours Rents and that notwithstanding those vast Summs the Marshall and Civil listes were a yeare and halfe in arrears Let his Majesty call him to question or Forgive him both is in his Royall breast to doe in the 20. Quaeries in relation to the Lord Duke of Ormond himselfe you will finde that hee received in all as in gifts and grants that amounted to six hundred and sixty thousand pound starling if this wonderfull and strange masse of treasures be not a sufficient Recompence and reward Let the reader Iudge For this amounts according to Marchants rating a Tunn of gould to sixty three tunns of gould one Tunn of gould only makes a great noyse and surely is a vast summ of monys What then shall wee say of sixty three Tunns Wee finde in the Cronicles of England that thirty thousand markes
Lynch knight whom I doe instance for a thousandmore not for any acquaintance with him what right I say had he to this knight's estate vpon what accompt did he invade the islands of Aaron this gentleman's inheritance and had his son Richard created earle of that place and estate it is manifestly known that Domimum perfectum plenum of said estate was in Sr. Robert Lynch and his heires and yet my lord tooke those lands from him quo titulo quo iure is the question deffend F. VVailsh if you can in this place your great patron ipsa synderesis tould Ormond that he was doeing wrong and robbery the lands appertaning to Sr Robert that judicium naturale quo as S. Basil speakes ab iniquis bona facile discernere postumus clearly convinced Ormond that he was doeing a robbery that law of nature quod tibi non vis fieri alteri ne feceris that light of which holy David speakes signatum est super nos lumen vultus tui domine all those sacred lawes cryed out the depriving of Sr. Robert Lynch of his estate was factum contra legem dei aternam all those lights of God and nature condemnes this fact soe that finis operis finis operantis objecctum circumstantiae omma qua agebat Ormonius erant contralegem Dei what then can he say or plead for himselfe or you for him he cannot alleage that he acquired that Dominium by any pact stipulation donation permutation or prescription what then will men say in this case noe other then that Ormonds invading that gentlemans lands was apertum latrâ—cinâ—um Likely you may tell me the King made a grant to Ormond of the said knights estate you know well that in lege naturae noe human power can diâ—pense and it is certaine that the law of nature doth bind all kind of men and that none can pretend exemption from the force of that law the impression therof being a light made in every mans haert soe that this law binds as well the prince as the lowest man legi naturae saith lactantius net praerogari fas est nec derogare ex hoc aliquid licet neque tota abrogari potest nec vero aut per senatum aut per populum hac lege liberari possumus shall I say more probable it is that God himself cannot dispense in the law of nature take S. Thomas his authority for it quia id sapientiae divinae omnino repugnat proendeque fieri non potest 1. 2. quaest 100. ar 8. ratio est saith the saint quia lex naturalis nihil aliud est vt docet S. Aug quam ipsius aternae legis incommut abilis rattonis ipsius divinae sapientiae in mentibus hominum facta transcriptio Now it is evidently cleare a man's life liberty fame lands estates and fortunes are his owne by the law of nature and that by force of the same law quisuis potest se defendendo sua vine vi repelsere and soe could Sr. Robert against Ormond invading his estate had he beene able to doe soe But you will say the landsand estates of subjects forfeited to the king for treason rebellion and other like crimes by way of attaindeur may be disposed of by the king I grant that but this authority for taking away from such men their lands and estates the prince hath from the law of nature which doth not protect any privat man to doe against the publick good wherefore the commonwealth can take away the life of a man and his estate though both are his by the law of nature when he transgresses against the prince or publick good to whom by pact or law of nature he should oboy this the prince can doe for justice sake but not for convenience or at his will and pleasure for the bonds prescribed to the jurisdiction of a prince are justice law and reason and not to doe his owne pleasure Now I would know from you what crime hath Sr. Robert committed was he convinced of any crime against the king before any bench of justice what hath he don who charged him the law of England a good law sayes noe man can be condemned but by course of law that is the subjects birth-right and to that effect are lawes made that justice may be don to all men princes are obliged in conscience to administer justice ackording the law I demand againe what hath Sr. Robert Lynch don you will say he was ingaged in the â—rish rebellion for soe you still call that just war which you could never as yet prove nor never shall but grant it hath been a rebellion Sr. Robert Lynch as all the confederat catholicks had an act of oblivion from the king in the peace of 48. ergo your rebellion was pardonned ergo Sr. Robert Lynch cannot loose his estate for that nor hath he since that time entred into a new rebellion or committed any act of â—reason Ormond cannot say he broake the Articles of peace of 48. for he still observed them and adhered to the gouverment and to Ormond and had nothinh to doe with the congregation of Iamestowne whose acts were by Ormond esteemed or reputed treasonable â— tell me then what right had Ormond to that noble gentlemans estate you see the King's grant if any he gave being against the law of nature and the law of the land is voyd and cannot excuse Ormond's conscâ—ience and if the king by a wrong information had granted one mans estate to an other that other cannot prescribe quia numquam erat in bona fide and consequently in conscience he is bound to restore the said estate because he houlds it malafide and the prince himselfe rightly informed is obliged in conscience to have the estate restored to the right owner But now let uâ— returne to the other part of the F letter wherin he vseth a christian freedom of minding the king and Ormond how dangerous a thing is the violation of publick faith and how such transgressors have beene severly punished in all ages but above all he brings downe a formidable example of publick faith broken with the Gabionites and how King David fir appeasing the great famin and the anger of God come vpon the people delivered to said Gabionits seaven children and nephews of Saul who crucifyed them alive vpon a montaine to expiat this publick horrid sin even in the face of sun Lib. 2. Reg. c. 21. he ends his letter to Ormond thus My lord conclude here but with my harty wilâ—es that in the house and at the Counsells of our great king your Excellency may both appeere and prove your selfe hereafter what you are in part already an other Ioseph that by the best advises you may preserve the best of Princes and all his people of soe many different nâ—tions of the british monarchy may it be soe my lord and may the catholicks of Irland in particular owne you a great deliverance as I can not but confidently
of Mr. Thomas wading of waterford and that of Mr. Phillip Hore of Kilshalchan the seat of Kâ—lbarry neare waterford hee hath from the former adelicious place with the whole estate vpon a thousand pound a yeare and Kilshalchon within seven miles of Dublin a faire seat with the livings of eight hundred pound yearly these Gentlemens Children which were many in number by this munificencie are to shift for themselves in great misery the Lord knowes in whar condition they are in and this befalls them and severall others that Ceorge Lane should be gratifyed an unknowne man For writing for Ormond hee has had conferred vpon him other estates in all neare vpon foure thousand pound annuall rent this wee are informed brave rewards for a Secretary I dare confidently say stout and valiant Collonells Officers and Gentlemen of quality which firmly adhered to the King Fought stoutly for him and lost both life in the bed of honour and estates in his service have not nor any of theires in reeompence received the least provision reward or comfort in this I may say that George Lane his penn hath been more Fortunate and profitable to him then these noble Gentlemens swords have been unto them a sad incourragement and cold Satisfaction to worthy Royalists to see this little Lane and such like night-sprungmus heroms to have suckt the Fattness of the earth from farre better plants then themselves and perhaps the hands of as low men as themselves will be ready to pluck them up root and branch when the season shall serue to cleare the Land of such weeds by what meanes this will com to pass I am quite Ignorant but I think the Iustice of God will make way for it and take not only from Ceorge Lane and men of that ranck but even from Ormond and the greatest of them all the conferred estates of honest men for seldom the blessing of God doth accompany unjust plunderes and Robbers And it is the opinion of severall true harted subjects to his Majesty that things are not like to prosper with himselfe untill this be don But I heare sum body say Ormond hath don the King great service though hee hath not preserved the Monarchie of Brittaine as Cochles and Musius did that of Rome and that his affection to King and Country have been as great as theires to the Senat and common wealth of Rome occation being only wanting as For his affection to King and Crowne I beleeve hee had as much as another noble man but to his Country where hee hath his estate and lands hee had none at all If affection to the king can draw rewards and Remunerations there be thousands loved the King and the intrest of the Crowne of England as much as Ormond ever did and appeared undoubtedly in all occations against the Kings enemys nevertheless thousands of them never had an Aker of ground nor a Cottage to shelter themselves in in frosty weather in recompensation of such affection therfore I doe heire conclude that Ormond was happily Fortunate in his affections to the King and Crowne and others were not having obtained those Evtraordinary rewards from his Royall Majesty which in the insuing Chapter I doe resolve more amply to discover and speak of CHAPTER 15'th The Remunerations the Duke of Ormond had from the King after his Restauration These remunerations will bee found soe great that you must needs confess Ormond was not Loyall gratis neither doe I in any way doubt but there be som Bassa's of the great Turck and some of the chiefest of them would come and serve our King and serve him Loyally for soe incredible a recompence as Ormond had Let us now speak of the quantity and quality therof according the best notice wee have received Wee have said above his Annuall rents before the warre was but seven thousand pound starling his ancient estate being then incumbred with Annuitys and Leases which otherwise was worth forty thousand pound starling per Annum and at present it is vpon Eighty thousand now the first part of his new great revennues is the Kings grant of all those lands of his owne estate which were leased and morgaged the rest were grants of other mens Estates and other gifts of his Majesty for auoyding the trouble of searching after all his particulare gettings many there are without doubt unknowne to mee I will here put downe certaine Quaeres in number 29. Out of which hee that will may take notice of these Immense recompences given him Quaeres touching the Present Condition of his Majesties Kingdom of IRELAND 1. WHether it be not demonstrable by search made into the Records of his Majestys Auditor General of Ireland that had his Majestys Revenue of that Kingdome been well managed there had been money enough to answer the necessary Charge of that Kingdom 2. Whether vpon search made of his Majestyes Exchequer in England there doth not appear upwards of 200000 l. Sent out of England into Ireland since the Duke of Ormonds last Government there 3. Whether there doth not appear that there were twenty four subsidies amounting to 360000 l. Assessed by the late Parliament of Ireland 4. Whether there was not 50000 l. advanced out of the Soldiers and Adventurers Rents 5. Whether the aforesaid Summs thus extraordinarily raised do not amount to abve six hundred thousand pounds 6. Whether the aforesaid extraordinary Summs would not discharge near Four Years of his Majesties Establishment both in the Civil and Martial List Independently of the Revenue of that Kingdom 7. Though the aforesaid Summs Extraordinarily raised would have paid near Four Years Establishment yet whether the Martial and Civil Lists be not a Year and half in arrear 8. Whether his Majestyes Ordinary certain and Casual Revenue which if well managed might have fully paid his Majesties necessary Charge whether vpon the aforesaid Principles it is not demonstrable that the said revenue harh not discharged more then one year and a halfs Establishment in six years time 9. Whether it be not demonstrable then that there hath been more then Four years and a half Revenue embesled in six years time and whether the chief Governour be not more Faulty in this great miscarriag then the Earle of Anglesy Quaeres in Relation to the Lord Duke of Ormond 1. WHether by sales of Offices as Lord Steward and receits out of his Majesties Exchequer of England the Lord Duke of Ormond hath not raised upwards of 30000 l 2. Whether he did not receive by one Act of Parliament of Ireland as a gift 30000 l 3. Whether it doth not appear by the Records of his Majesties Tresurie in Ireland that his Grace did receive 12000 l. Before his being last Levtenant 4. Whether he did not receive 12000. l. Per Annum as Lord Levtenant which was a Moyetie more than any Lord Levtenant received and that Moyetie amounts in six years to 36000 l 5. Whether it doth not appear that his Grace hath released by the Act of Sentlement
an accommodation with the Confederate Catholicks as the King had commaunded and the Queen and Prince ordered by theire express instructions sent to him by Mr. Wintergrant can bâ— excus'd from treason let any indifferent man Iudge Soe much I thought fitt to mention of Mr. Wintergrant his Imployment of the Queen and Princes orders and instructions for concluding a peace with the Irish Catholicks and of the Kings express commaunds to Ormond to the same purpose of the dilligence of Monsieur la Monnerie and Monsieur Tallone to that effect in the mame of the French King theire Master as alsoe of the Articles of the aforesaid accomodation most advantagious to the Kings intrest offered by his subjects the Confederate Catholicks Put all these together my gentle reader and then Iudge if Ormond hath not shewed himselfe transacting with the Parliment disobedient to the Kings Commaunds and to those of the Queen and Prince an Enemie to the Catholicks of Irland and a frind to the vsurping Parliment I now pass to a great and Irreparable Injury don to the whole Nation by his Grace a graceless action the excluding of all the Catholicks of Irland from the benefitt of the generall pardon and indemnity granted to all his other subjects of what Religion soever CHAPTER 18'th How and by whome were the Catholicks of Irland excluded from the benefitt of generall pardon CErtaine it is that the King intended the pardon and act of Indemnity as well for the Catholicks of Irland as for those of England and thee rest of his subjects which is made cleare and evident by his Majestys speech in favour of the Irish Catholicks in the house of Peeres Iuly the 27'th 1660. I hope said the King I need not put you in minde of Irland and that they alone shall not be without the benefitt of my merey they have showne much affection to mee a broad and you will have a care of my honour and what I have promised to them Could the Kings intention of the benefitt of pardon and his mercy to the Irish Catholicks be spooken in more cleare and noble expressions But this Ormond to his Eternall infamy be it said hath cruelly opposed in propounding a wicked and cunning prouizo in the house of Peeres which theire Lordships thought would have satisfy'd vs and soe have past it by by this perfidious fraud of Ormond wee have been exempted from the benefitt of the Indemnity This is the grace Ormond Peter Walsh his saviour of the Irish Nation hath don vs for which the Mallediction of God will likely fall vpon him and his posterity After being excluded from the generall pardon Ormond Clarindon Orrery Cloathworthy and the rest of that holy Synagog put theire heads together for drawing vp a Bill of Settlement of the Kingdoms of Irland soe powerfull they weare in Cheating his Majesty as hee gave them his ordinance for conceiving said Bill of Settlement and theire owne Secretary had the penning of it By the artifice of those great men and force of that Bill wee have lost for ever our Lands Estates and the liberty of free borne subjects This Bill is of an Immens Bulck fraght with faire Language and barbarous contents and proceedings They call it the Kings most gratious Declaration for the settlement of Irland This monstrous Bulck with all the substance therin hath bine reduced into few heads by a learned Laeyer as followeth The substance and sens of the vast bill of settlement 1. BY the late act of Parliment made for the settlement of Irland all that might pretend to be free from the guilt of the late Commotion are concluded from being heard and theire estates disposed for the most part to such of the English as served the Vsurper Crumwell against his late and now Majesty 2. Those who submitted to the peace concluded by his late Majestys Authority in the yevre 1648. are by the said act debarred from the benefitt of the articles concluded in and by the same peace and the publick faith then given denyed them as hath bine already decree'd 3. Innocents are secluded from being restored to theire houses in Corporations a few excepted whoe were restored to theire houses by his Majestyes Letters 4. Catholicks are not suffered to have theire freedom in Corporations or liberty of traficke 5. The Lords ad other Catholicks whoe had presentations of benefices are secluded from the benefit of theire said Privileges except they becom Protestants 6 All the Nobility and gentry that submitted to said Peace of 48. and put themselves to vast charges and expences in raising troopes and Regiments of Horss and foote to serve his Majesty against the Vsurper have lost theire Estates and theire Lands settled vpon those who made the Vsurpers quarell theire owne and fought vnder him against the King and his Catholick subjects of Irland and not only that but are alsoe excluded from all Imployments in the Kings service or Common wealth except they renounce theire Faith By these meanes they are brought to great distress want of Creditt Livelyhood and reliefe Nil nisi vota supersunt A short Ponderation vpon these Branches 1. NEver was pronounced from the begining of Christianity to this day a more vnjust and wicked sentence against Christians then have been by this act which beares the name of the Kings most gratious Declaration for the settlement of Irland 2. What can there be more cruell mor vnjust more Impious then to hinder one to answer for himselfe and prove himselfe Innocent what more against the law of nature What can there be more iniquous and vnworthy of kingly piety then to conferre the loyall subjects Estates vpon open knowne Rebells What more sacred then publick Faith What more infamous then the violation of the same For which in all tymes dreadfull punishments have befalne the Violatours 3. Can there be any thing more Barbarous and against Iustice then to turne an Innocent out of his owne house and right Inheritance 4. The Christians in Constantinople and other the Dominions of the Turck are dealt with farre better and with more moderation then the Catholicks of Irland whome those Statsmen have excluded from all Commerte which the very Turcks doe grant vnto theire Christians 5. Men must renounce theire Religion the Basis of salvation or loose theire Advousins a cruell Impious Tye vpon Catholick patrons but each of them will answer Non Emam tanti panitere 6 Heer you see Rebellion rewarded and Loyalty punished a preposterous and monstrous kinde of Iustice Behold O bountifull God this theire portentous and Impious iniquity Now I see afflicted Countrimen you may ramble vp and downe the world and loudly raise your voyce and say Spectaculum facti sumus mundo Angelis hominibus Wee are made a spectacle to the world to Angels and to men Could there be more formal Iniquity then to devest Innocent true subjects of theire estates and liberty and conferre the same vpon those fought against the King and Crowne was