Farre it is God knowes from my minde to add affliction to his afflictions sufficiat Diei malitia sua nec unquam fuit mea consuetudo lacerato animo discere vitia amicorum talem zelum ut cum S. Augustino Loquar semper fensui magis impetum punientis quam caritatem corrigentis The same Saint tells mee how to handle Sall. Dilige saith hee dic quod voles But what shall I doe to a man that hath stained his soule with the spott of herisy with what waters shall I wash him for wyping away the staine with those of Siloe quae fluunt cum scilentio or those of Rasin quae transeunt cum tumultu The last seem the more naturall for purifying him though my inclination is more for the soft running waters of Siloe Had Sall's sinn beene noe more then a slipp of Ignorance or frailty wee could have covered him with a Mantle of Charity but the abominable abjuration of faith being a sinn of a high nature and full of Impiety against God against Christ and his unspotted spouse against Charity and the Holy Ghost I can not be silent but must openly rebuke his wickedness and maintaine truth against him before all the world can I see aman deare to mee vaunting and soe desperatly defying the Hostes of the living God and say nothing that cannot be Silence here were a great sinne being the true tyme of taking up Davids Sling and stone and throwing at this Gyant dominering and vaporing against the camp of Israell I am not to powre oyle upon the head of such a sinner flattery will not cure him I must then in charity chide him and Exprobrat his deserting the Catholick faith and if hee is wise and penitent hee will say with repenting David The Just shall rebuke mee in mercy and shall reprehend mee but let not the oyle of a sinner fatte my head After lamenting Sall's woefull perversion I begin to think of my deare Contry's affliction and with feare and amazement to inquire the ground and cause of persecution there and in Enland Nothing was less feared I am confident by the Catholicks of both Kingdoms then a tempest of this nature to come upon them lying safe as they conceived under the wings of soe great and mercyfull a Monarck as Charles the second a King of pardons How then say men came this about how could soe clement a King be induced to afflict soe loyall a people as the Catholicks of England and Ireland I see noe Mistery in this business all is cleare theire affliction and cause therof is well knowne over all Europ and is as I may say even the same with that of innocent Daniell whose Loyall fidelity to Syrus King of Babylon was soe cleare as his malignant Enemys said expressly of him wee shall not finde against this Daniell any occasion unless perhaps in the Law of his God the Crime then against Daniell and all the Jews was theire Religion upon this ground the Counsellers and great men of the Kingdome gott the King to sett forth an Edict against the Jewes for professing theire Religion and by this means Daniell was cast into the lake of the Lyons by a King that lou'd him The King lou'd Daniell but hee feared the great men who pressed the Law to be executed against Daniell and this feare more strong in the King then love made poore Daniell Companion to the Lyons Your Religion noble Contry-men your Religion is the sole Cryme for which you suffer Blessed for ever be the name of God for this your Religion hath stirred up this tempest which ought not to terrifye you over much seeing the Apostles our first Captains and Leaders in this holy cause those darlings of God endured hard things for Religion Prisons whippings contumilies and all sorts of vexations were to them delights and consolations they after being scurged went from the sight of the Councell rejoycing because they were accounted worthy to suffer reproach for the name of Jesus Doe not therfore feare all that men can doe against you while with tears and patience you march under the purple Standart of Crucify'd Jesus for in the end the day and victory will be yours feare not the power of men in this glorious tryall there be more with you then against you Legions of Angells though you see them not those heavenly hostes are pitching theire tents round about you Hee that Led the Children of Israell out of Egypt in wonders through the redd Sea neuer wants power to deliver you waite for his good tyme for hee will come A Table of sage Counsells that hung by the bed of Ptolomeus Arsacides King of Egypt by him Religiously obserued all the tyme of his raigne was delivered by a Priest of the Idols to the wise Emperour Marcus Aurelius whoe dying gave it to his sonn with this short speech My sonn leaving you Emperour of many Kingdoms I presume you will with that great power be feared of all and if you wil faithfully Keep the Godly Counsells in this Table you shall be infalibly beloved of all The Table of Counsells 1. I Neuer deny'd said the vertuous King Ptolomeus justice to a poore man for being poore nor pardoned a rich man for being rich 2. I neuer loved a rich wicked man nor hated a poore just man 3. I neuer granted favours to men for affection nor distroy'd men to satisfy my passion 4. I neuer deny'd Justice to any demanding Iustice nor mercy to the afflicted and miserable 5. I neuer passed by Evill without punishing it nor good withovt rewarding it 6. I neuer did Evill to any man out of Malice nor villany for avarice 7. I was neuer without feare in prosperity nor without courage in adversity 8. My dore was neuer open to a flatterer nor my eare to a murmuring detractor 9. I indeavoured still to make my selfe beloved of the good and feared of the Evill 10. I ever favoured the poore that were able to doe little for themselves and I was evermore favoured by the Gods that were able to doe much for all Those rare Counsells should be exposed in the houses of Kings and all puplick places to the view of men to be knowne of all in theire respective dignitys and callings and it would be a pious and noble action if our gratious souveraigne would be pleased to consider seriously with himselfe how farre these just and Laudable Counsells haue been regarded during the tyme of his raigne especially in conferring of estates and lands from one part of his subjects to another part of them contrary to all due course of Law and without hearing of the partys oppressed which hath been procured to be done by the undue information and perswation of certaine of his Councellers and Ministers of State and chiefly of the Chancellor the Earl of Clarindon If his Majesty shall doe this grace and justice to his Catholick subjects of Ireland thousands of Widow's and Orphans will be eased and relieved who
now sitt downe in great poverty Lamenting extreamly their Lands Houses and all they had wrongfully taken from them and this day possessed and injoy'd by those invaders God bindes all Kings and Iudges by this commandement Thou shalt not doe that which is uniust nor Iudg uniustly Consider not the person of a poore man neither honour thou the countenance of him that is mighty Judg justly to thy Neighbour God alsoe forbids to give away one subjects bread to another reason vertue and the lawes of God Nature and Nations are the rules that ought to guid all Princes and Magistrats in the goverment of the people under them Did not God himselfe complaine of Evell Iudges in this Kinde How is the faithfull Cittie full of Iudgment becom an harlott Iustice hath dwelled in it but now man-killers The Princes are unfaithfull Companions of thieves al love guifts follow rewards They Iudge not for the pupil and the widowes cause goeth not in to them And againe our Lord saith They are made grosse and fatt and haue tranegressed my words most wickedly The cause of the widow they have not Iudged the cause of the pupil they have not directed and the Iudgment of the Poore they have not Iudged Shall I not vissite upon these things saith our Lord or upon such a Nation shall not my soule take revenge Certainly it is against Gods just Iudgment to omitt such things and crimes unpunished There are thousands of distressed Catholick Pupils and wedowes his Majesty cannot chuse but know it that have not gott Iustice whose cause and complaint had noe Entrance into his Courtes they cry'd out for Iustice and were not heard they Cry'd for mercy and found it not and such as live of those oppressed soules are still crying to heaven and the King for remedy Poore desolate and dejected they are waiting at the doore of the Kings pallace and noe regard is had of theire tears prayres and petitions Wee are indeed becom the reproach of all Nations round about us by the craft and iniquity of States men that have poysoned the Fountaine of Iustice It is said of some of those that theire vices have farre exceeded theire vertues and that in all theire proccedings against our Nation there was found in them noe truth noe integrity noe Religion noe shame but an insatiable covetousness and a flameing ambition of making themselves great and powerfull and are not such men say you able to poysen the Fountaine of Iustice and mercy toe in a Kingdome This sore oppression and our necessitys every day growing greater forceth us to implore Iustice and mercy and to minde the King of what the Apostle saith to a King Non enim sine causa gladium portat If the Law of God will alow of soe many thousands of innocents to be destroy'd is a maxim that toucheth much his Royall Wisdome and to be distroy'd and sacrificed to augment the estates of men that were great and rich enough before can Iustice suffer this can the mercifull brest of a Clement King endure to see soe many sad spectacles of woes and miserys without all relief will not God at long running look downe and examin these cruell proceedings It hath been a principall care and study of some statesmen neare the King to oppress and overthrow the Catholicks of Ireland and at the same tyme to perswade his Majesty that wee ought to be destroy'd by Iustice and Law Theire Malice they have evidenced in theire language and viperous writings Of this stuff you have enough in the Earle of Orerys answer to Peter Welsh his letter to the then Marquis now Duke of Ormond desiring ajust and mercifull regard of the Reman Catholicks of Ireland what could be more rationall then such a demaund yet Orery must quarrell with the contents of said letter and beleh out poyson against the whole Nation and theire Religion To this answer P. W. replyed and solidly confuted Orery lett the indifferent Reader after deliberation Iudge of which side truth sollid reason and learning is in the writings of both It vexed Orery above all measure that P. W. advanced these two propositions 1. That the worst of the Irish Papists were no Regicids 2. That the Irish Papists fought against such men when England Scotland and the Protestants of Ireland deserted the Royall cause To the first Orery makes this pittifull answer That the Irish Papists are no Regicids let it be considered that the Doctrin of Regicids is common in Romish Schools and the practice in theire courts This is a false Calamny tell us Orery in what Romish University or School is this Doctrin Common in what Catholick Court is this practice you can not tell us and therfore you are convinced of Calumniating Catholick Schools and Courts which is no creditt for you In the meane tyme wee demaund Orery in what School was the Doctrin had by which Crumwell and the rabble of blooddy Rebells murthered the good King Charles the first in the School of Geneve or Rome Speak freely your minde and tell us on what side were you when the King was murthered of Crumwells party or the Kings of Crumwells party you were then and had you been then in London likely this is the opinion of many you had been a high man in that blooddy jury and after that Kings death noe man desired more as was generally spoken of you to King Crumwell and unKing our present soveraigne then you To P. W. his second proposition you answer thus That to touch the annoynting is virtually to touch the annoynted take away the regalia and in effect you take away the King Orery all this is true but what Illation make you of this who I pray are those that touched the annoyntings and the annoynted the Catholicks of Ireland or Cromwells party whose faithfull Ianniser you haue been The annoyntings you haue touch'd formally all the Regalia the Kings Cittys Townes Forts Militia and for addition to your treason you made open warre against the Crowne and King it was Crumwell and you all touched then the annoynted virtually and here you stayd not but touch'd the annoynted formally when you put him to death by an unheard and most blooddy solemnity and as it were by Iustice or course of law an asacinate that hath contaminated the glory of the English Nation though the best and most of the Peers and good people of England abhorr'd it Your answer to this second proposition you conclude thus Had the Devill had leave to touch Jobs person hee would not haue spar'd him when hee touch'd all that was his You say right Orery but what say you to this that you and your Companions after touching all that was the Kings have touched his sacred person and Barbarously kill'd him See and recken among your selves what Kinde of Divells you were then and if you haue not gon a stepp farther against your owne King then the Divell did against Job Orery you might take us for men of
treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland marcht two of his Daughters one to great Geraldin Earl of Killdare first Earl of Ireland another to the Lord Barry Viscount of Barremore hee used for his Motto in this his great prosperity Gods providence is my in heritance a Christian and modest one which for all that signifyed hee had nothing left him by his parents These things I utter not by way of reproach for wee are all the Children of Adam but to minde Orery a little of the low and small nest in which his Father was hatched that hee should not soe farr forgett himselfe as to contemne and trample under foote a whole Nation wherin are soe many antient and noble Familyes and let him give mee leave to till him it is agreat and an unwary Impertinency for guilty and contaminated men to reproach the Innocent Hee that says much or displeaseth others must heare somthing will displease himselfe as alsoe hee that goes armed against many expects many armed against him In tyme of usurpation those that commaunded were very insolent it was then indeed men could say of England what was said of Athens that there only small theeves were hang'd but the great ones were free and condemn'd the rest wee hope it is not now soe in England however Orery for one man hath had the good Fortune to escape in all tymes and on all sides and to have a good post and place in Every goverment It is commonly said that against a mischief badd parents doe to theire Children there is noe other cure then patience but Orery being noe Parent but an Enemy to our Nation is not to be borne with and it is more reasonable his owne confusion should be his cure then our patience The Catholicks of Ireland look upon him as a great beast makeing a prey of all that 's weaker and realy hee hath soe dealt with us wherfore wee may deal with him in the same way according to our strength and if hee is soe strong and in court soe much favoured as wee may not have him cited to make answer the court will give us leave to expose his vertues or vices as wee finde them written by others In what I have writt I have but done my duty in strycking him that stryck's my Country for as Tertulean says In hostem Patriae omnis homo miles est I will here take my leave of Count Orery minding him of what P. W. in his little book stiled the Irish Cullours foulded printed at London Anno Domini 1662. in pag. 20. therof hee speaks of Orery to the Duke of Ormond as followeth For indeed my Lord hee appears to mee all a long his writings of the number of those who see heaven and all the hopes of the other life as Mathematitians make us behold in a darke Chamber what soever passeth a broad through a little Crany in such a manner that all things wee see appeare like shaddows and landsckips turned topsceturvy Verily I take this Gentleman to be abused soe by himselfe And that after hee hath stopped up all the windows and accesses to heavenly Ray's hee hath made a little hole for the Moone and all the blessings of the other life have seemed very slender to his distrustfull spiritt and that hee hath put on a Resolution to make a Fortune at what price soever and to build on earth like Caine after hee hath allmost renounced the hopes of heaven If Orery be such a man as P. W. discribes him if hee hath not a trembling in the head as old Cain the Murtherer had hee cannot Chuse but have a trembling and great heavenisse at the hart After ending with Orery I sinde a nother Kinde of snake in the grass latet anguis in herba full of poyson this man conceals his name wherfore I know not for hee needed not feare to write any thing against the Catholicks when all things runn against them Likely his fancy was to throw the stone and hide his hand Hee writt at London Anno 1664. a Book full of vennime with this title Horae Subcesiva In pag. 83. hee affirmeth that Charles the second is not obliged in the least by any Law of God or man of warr or Nations to keep any one particle of the Irish Articles made or granted by King Charles his Father in the yeare 1648. to this purpose hee setts downe formally these words in pag. 81. King Charles the second May Iure Belli gentium lege talionis without breatch of faith or Articles not excepting those of 1648. soe much insisted on and soe mightily pleaded for by P. W. by that just Law soe often used and prescribed by God himselfe take the lives and fortunes of all bloodd-thirsty Popish Rebells and theire confederats and assotiats M This Godly man doth not cite in what Code or Book this Law often used and prescribed by God himselfe is to be had nor can hee nor doth hee give any other reason or proofe for his assertion then his owne Authority which can be of noe vallue with any pious man I appeal to all the noble-men and the worthy Protestant People of England if this is not rather the proposition of a Murtherer then of a Christian Gentleman This mans Book Horâ— Subcesivae P. W. did learnedly confute in an Appendix hee added to his reply to Orerys answer and soe confounded him that hee neuer writt word after in his owne defence I remitt the Reader to what hee shall finde in said Appendix of this Matter and after reading all let him Iudge as hee shall finde fitting and reasonable Can wee forgit to list in the number of our Enemys the Earle of Clarendon Chancellor of England hee deserves to head the first ranck of them a man of Ruine and Distruction a Pest to Catholicks and Ireland Was not this Clarendon this blooddy and covetous Statesmaen heard oft to say with a fierce countenanc and passionat tone the Irish deserve to be exterpated and then hee would after his usuall manner com out with a great oath and swear they shall be extirpated Good God what a heathnish Expression is this in the Mouth of a Christian Statesman a Chancellor of Engelland Is not a Christian King well Counselled in having neare him for chiefe Minister of State such a blooddy man voyd of all Iustice and mercy But did this Athist soe great an Enemy to Godliness can not be a Christian think that God that hath appoynted an Angell for the Guard of Every indivtduall person would take noe care to preserve the body of an intyre Nation but let them all be destroy'd to satisfy the minde and anger of a blooddy man Clarendon was in this Bussiness like that Astronomer or Philosopher who look't upon the starrs and fell into a well before his feet hee had then designed in his owne minde the ruine of the Catholicks of Ireland and very soon after hee stole out of England with a Guilty Conscience and Baggs of Gold
people crying out comfort theire harts for they are perrishing and let it be done as God would have it to be done by your Majesty that the blessings of the poore may fale upon you as they did upon Iob and all the blessings of heaven But why great King give mee pardon for speaking to you why have wee your Catholick subjects of Ireland been neglected even to ruine and Distruction what did your Majesty see in us that could render us in capable of the pardon granted to the Rebells in generall if our rising in arms which was against our fellow-subjects for our owne defence and not against the Crowne hath bin Iudged a Rebellion by your Royall Father and your selfe I hope you hould us farre smaller Rebbels then those that made open warre against the Crowne and your Majest'ys and in fine Murther'd your Father why then are they pardon'd and wee not but incase our Revolution hath bin Iudg'd a Rebellion and in case it had bine truly soe upon the place made and concluded Anno 1648. The Marquis of Ormond hauing bin your Royall Fathers Commissioner to that Effest Wee had an act of Oblivion from your Father of blessed Memory for all that had passed and after confirmed by your Majesty this Act of Oblivion hath wyp't away the Rebellion ergo it can not rise againe in Iudgment against us nor can wee be punished for a Crime already forgiven this being soe why are wee cast of why left under a staine of Rebellion the true Rebells being forgiven why being Innocent doe wee suffer this contumely why are wee strucken downe as dead men by your Royall Hand Lands Houses Estates and all wee had being conferr'd on men which have noe right to them our Enemy's and one tyme your owne they pretend noe claime to our estates and livings noe pack't stipulation or convieance by your Majesty's pleasure only that 's theire sole tytle they hold all and wee have lost all By what Law are wee thus treated and destroy'd by that of God or Nature or Nations all done against us is against all those Lawes and against the Law of Englaend to a good Law by which noe man is to be deprived of his lands and goods but by a due course of Law the benefitt of this Law was denied us Wither then shall wee turne what are wee able to doe for our selves the Father is not able to helpe the Child nor the Child the Father Mothers are weeping over theire little ones languishing in want and hunger If wee are Innocent the Act of Oblivion hath made us soe though wee had bin guilty before why are wee cast out of our Houses despoyl'd of our Lands and Estates that our Forefathers have possessed soe many ages If wee have committed any Crime or treason against the Crowne your Royall Father or your selfe that was not remitted it were a greater mercy to hasten us into the other world by a short and violent death then to condemne us to a lingering one to be consumed in coldness hungar and nakedness and a shamefull slavery at home and in all the Regions of Europ Your Majesty hath been pleased to tell publickly the Peers and People of England That wee abroad have followed your Majesty from Kingdom to Kingdome and that with all cheerfullness and obedience that wee received and submitted to your Royall Orders and betook our selves to what fervice your Majesty directed at that tyme most convenient and behooffull to your Majesty though attended with inconveniences enough to our felves and your Majesty Iudged this our demeaniour very worthy of Protection Iustice and favour Your Kingly Language the 27. Iuly 1660. to the House of Peers touching the Act of indemnity was this I hope I need say nothing of Irelande and that they alone shall not want the benefitt of my mercy they have shew'd much affection to mee a broad and you will have a care of my honour and what I have promised to them These veritys uttered by your Majesty are owned by our greatest Enemys for such and that wee sacrifised our selves and all wee had faithfully and hartily in your Majestys service Let mee demaund here where then have been Braghall Coot Cloathworthy and others of that band those Grandees your Majesty hath been pleased to honour with great titles the two first were made Earls of Orery and Montrath and the last Cloathworthy that knowne plunderer of the Queens Chappell and summersett House an infamous man created viscount Massaren where I say againe have these men been in the dark day of your Callamitys and adversitys what were they then doeing They were then stiffly struggling against your Crowne and person and Laying about them with maine indeavours that the Royall Family of the Stuarts should neuer returne to theire owne Dominions to which purpose they contrived the forementioned horrid ingagement In those days they stiled your Majesty only Charles Stuart to call you King was a treason among them And what is don in the end After all theire villanys contempt of Royall Family open Rebellion and warr against the Crowne and after putting the good King to death after our fidelity obedience and harty affection to your Majesty and after your owne Kingly Testimonys and expressions of the same the matter hath been strangly carryed How The knowne Rebells had your Majestys pardon they were magnify'd had places of trust and profitt in the cammon wealth and to boot they carryed away our Houses Lands and Estates by your Majestys Graunt under the great Seal O tempora O mores O Laceratam Iustitiam And what is our lott and share of this Tragicall play after your Royall promisees of all favour and Protection wee are left naked and desolate crying to God as those of Jerusalem did distroyed by theire Enemys Remember O Lord what is fallne unto us behold and regard our reproath Our inheritance is turned to Aliens and our Houses to strangers Wee are Pupills without Fathers the joy of our hart hath failed our quire is turned to mourning This is our deplorable state what your Majesty will doe with us or for us is only knowne to God aud your selfe and wee are to pray that God will be pleased to incline your hart to such a resolution as may bring us some comfort which wee much need Cor Regis in manu Domini quocunque voluerit inclinubit illud Give freedom great King to a poore Priest to speak truth to your Majesty it is noe new thing that good Priests speak to Kings and God himselfe saith hee will curse the blessings of those Priestes that will not speak truth and give glory to his holy Name And the Prophet Malachias tells your Majesty that regard is to be had of what the Priest says For the lipps of the Priest saith that Prophet shall keep knowledg and the Law they shall require out of his Mouth because hee is the Angell of the Lord of hostes The truth I presume to speak to you my King with