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A63346	A true account of the whole proceedings betwixt His Grace James Duke of Ormond, and the Right Honor. Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, late Lord Privy-Seal, before the King and Council and the said Earls letter of the second of August to His Majesty on that occasion : with a letter of the now Lord Bishop of Winchester's to the said Earl, of the means to keep out popery, and the only effectual expedient to hinder the growth thereof, and to secure both the Church of England, and the Presbiterian party.	Ormonde, James Butler, Duke of, 1610-1688.; Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, Earl of, 1614-1686.; Morley, George, 1597-1684.	1682 (1682)	Wing T2408; ESTC R24643	20,676	35

pleased to appoint a Committee of your Privy-Council to look over the Lord Privy-Seal's Book and to call his Lordship and the Duke of Ormond before them and if upon Report from them it shall appear to your Majesty that the Earl of Anglesey has fallen into the Mistakes and Errors herein laid to his Charge That then Your Majesty would be pleased to Consider of the best and most Authentick means how Reparation may be made to all that are injured by the Earl of Anglesey's Book and Letter and to prevent the Credit his great Place supposed Knowledge especially in the Affairs of Ireland and his pretended Candor and Impartiality may give to his Writings in these and future times ORMOND A True Copy John Nicholas At the Court at Hampton-Court June 17. 1682. By the KING' 's Most Excellent Majesty AND The Lords of His Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council THE annexed Representation of his Grace the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland c. being this day presented and read to His Majesty in Council His Majesty taking the contents thereof into His Royal Consideration as a matter of very great Importance was pleased to Declare That he would hear the matter thereof in Council And did order That a Copy of the said Representation be delivered to the Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal And that his Lordship do attend His Majesty in Council on Fryday next at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon at White-Hall when His Majesty hath appointed to take that Business into further Consideration John Nicholas The Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal being by the said Order of His Majesty in Council of June 17. appointed to be at Council at white-Hall June 23. being not able to stand by reason of the Gout yet got out of his Bed and was carried thither where when the King came he spake to His Majesty as I am well inform'd to this effect SIR I Am in the first place to beg Your Majesties Pardon for my Obedience to Your Order for appearing here this day being in no condition of health to have left my Bed and altogether unfit for the presence of the King And indeed I expected that the Duke of Ormond would rather have Complained and Printed against the Earl of Castlehaven his Memoirs which Aspersed and Scandalised Your Royal Father's Government and represented the Protestants of Ireland as Rebells and the Confederate Irish Papists as Loyal Subjects then against me who had Vindicated His Majesties Government and his Protestant Faithful Subjects so Effectually in my Letter to the said Earl That his Lordship in an Epistle to the Reader which he after added to his Memoirs confessed himself and the Irish Confederates the Rebells And that all the Water in the Sea would not wash that Rebellion off that Nation This is the first quarrel I ever had with any man and Your Majesty sees how it is brought upon me and cannot but believe it very unwelcome to me from one who hath so many Years professed Friendship to me But that which troubles me in it is That it is pretended to be upon account of my failing in Duty to His Late Majesty and Your Self whereas if I can pretend to Merit in any thing it is for Exemplary and Considerable Faithfulness and Service to You both SIR That I may not trouble You with much Discourse I have reduced the Vindication of my Innocence to Writing which I present for my Answer to the Duke of Ormond ' s Accusation and to which I shall add no more but my desire That tho' the Duke of Ormond hath thought fit to Attaque me thus causelesly all the Contention hereafter between him and me may be who shall serve Your Majesty best and cost You least In the next place all the Papers Written and Printed that had passed between the Duke and the Lord Privy-Seal were read as they lay in order and both the Lords discoursed and bandied the matter fully which the King heard with great Patience The Duke of Ormond notwithstanding doing that right to the Lord Privy-Seal as to Acknowledge that none had been more Active and Instrumental in his Majesties Happy Restauration or carried it on with more Success in great Dangers and Difficulties than his Lordship In conclusion the Duke was Ordered to charge the Lord Privy-Seal by particulars in Writing that he might know what to Answer generals not being sufficient and so that business was left at that time Now follows the Lord Privy-Seal's Answer to the Duke of Ormonds Representation or Complaint against him To the King 's most Excellent Majesty The Earl of Anglesey Keeper of your Majesties Privy-Seal mistead by an ill President admitted most humbly represents THat having this Eighteenth day of June received in Bed where he had continued for above a Month last past very much afflicted with the Gout and deprived of the use of Hands and Leggs and by reason of Pains and Sicknesses getting little rest which he hath reason to believe was well known to the Duke of Ormond your Majesties Order in Council of the Seventeenth with a Copy of the Representation of the said Duke annexed and Command to attend your Majesty in Council on Fryday next at Three of the Clock in the Afternoon at White-Hall which he resolves by Gods Blessing to do if he shall be in a Capacity of Health and Strength to be carried thither without Peril of his Life which he doth not believe that the Duke himself thinks after a year and halfs concerning himself in this Controversie is to be adventured to gratifie a hasty proposal upon his changing his way of proceeding In the mean time That your Majesty may not be under the least prepossession by what the Duke hath represented with heat and sharpnels against the said Earl he doth humbly offer to Consideration That though the Duke appear before your Majesty as a Representer the said Earl cannot but look upon him as a Petitioner the Title by which all Subjects that complain Address to your Majesty and for want of which he hath observed many Suitors rejected with their Requests And therefore your Majesty is desired to be informed in the first place by a deduction of all that hath passed between the Duke and the Earl in this Affair which is as followeth The Book complained of was written about two years ago by meer Accident of the Earl of Castlehaven's sending his Printed Memoirs to the Earl then at Blethington in Oxfordshire where having read the same and conceiving the English and Protestants to be unjustly dealt with therein and the Irish foul Cause professedly justified though the most Execrable Rebellion that ever was in the World the Earl could not digest the same but upon a bare Old Memory without help of Writings or Notes immediately put pen to paper and the Eighth of July wrote a Letter to the said Earl of Castlehaven which he believes his Lordship hath yet to shew tho' when it appeared afterwards in print

almost worn out his Strength and Life without Conviction of any failure or transgression which surely the said Duke would never do after he had privately quarrell'd the Earl and exposed him the worst he could in Print and this Affair having taking a circuit of almost two years unless he conceived he had met with some extraordinary juncture to bear down the Earl nor trouble your Majesty and Council when so great Affairs are before them with such private concerns and complaints after so long a run and using other ways unsuccessfully to Vindicate himself from what was never intended as a Charge against him I conclude Praying as I have heartily endeavored for the Glory and Prosperity of your Majesties Government to be equal to the greatest of your Royal Predecessors wishing your Majesty many such Subjects as I have been and am whom the Duke of Ormond seems so Earnest to rid your Majesty of or leave under a black Character and misrepresentation in your Service which he shall never be able to compass ANGLESEY At the Court at White-Hall this 13th day of July 1682. By the King 's Most Excellent Majesty AND The Lords of His Majesties most Honorable Privy-Council UPon Reading this day at the Board a Paper delivered in by his Grace the Duke of Ormond His Majesty in Council was pleased to Order That a Copy of the said Paper be sent to the Right Honorable the Earl of Anglesey Lord Keeper of the Privy-Seal which is accordingly hereunto annexed who is to return an Answer thereunto to His Majesty in Council upon Thursday the 20th instant at Hampton Court at Nine in the Morning Phil. Loyd I. THE Cessations and Peaces Dishonorable to the Crown of England Pag. 27. II. Of Advantage only to the Irish. ibid. III. Destructive to the English Protestants ibid. IV. That therefore the Lords Justices and Council were from the beginning averse to them Pag. 60. V. That for the same reasons the chief and most of the English Nobility in Ireland and the generality of the English Scotch and Irish Protestants of all Qualities and Degrees sooner or later opposed both the Cessations and Peaces Pag. 65. VI. That amongst them were found the Earls of Kildare Thomond c. Ibid. VII And that the two first Peaces were against Law and several Acts of Parliament in both Kingdoms Pag. 64. The Council not sitting the 20th of July tho' the Lord Privy-Seal who received the 13th the particular Charges of the Duke of Ormond against him then delivered in Answer'd them the 14th yet gave not in his Answer till the next Council held at Hampton-Court the 27th of July which was as followeth July the 14th 1682. The Answer of Arthur Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal to the Paper deliver'd by the Duke of Ormond at Council July 13. 1682. as a Charge of particulars against him SAving still the benefit of his former Answer deliver'd in the 23d of June and what was then done at Council the said Earl further saith That 't is to be consider'd that all the said particulars were passages in a private Letter to a Friend not designed for publick view That the Earl of Castlehaven to whom it was written being convinced thereby as appears by a Second Epistle to the Reader added to his Memoirs wherein he saith that his acting as a Confederate Catholick was in plain English as a Rebel That he doth not excuse the Rebellion for all the Water of the Sea cannot wash it off that Nation it having been begun most bloodily on the English in that Kingdom in a time of setled Peace without the least occasion given A Noble and Remarkable Confession of one who had been long of the Supreme Council of the Confederate Irish. And which makes it the more wonderful that the Duke of Ormond should be so severe a Censor on a Letter which had so good an effect on him it was written to In the next place the said Earl saith That since the Duke of Ormond thought it fit to concern himself in a Letter not written to him he should have been so impartial as to have taken Notice of this Passage therein Pag. 61. Your Lordship having been privy to all the Cabals and Secret Councils against the English and Protestants will I hope if you find any thing written by me questionable or doubtful in your Opinion favour me with your severest Reflections thereupon for as I design nothing but exact Truth wherever it light so if by any inadvertancy or want of full information I should Err or come short in the least your Lordship shall find me ready to retract or supply but never to persist in it whereby it appears that the Earl of Anglesey had no Intention to Injure any man as he is not Conscious he hath These things premised the said Earl gives this short Answer or rather Justification to the said particular Charges First to that Marked No. 1. 2. 3. which are all but one Clause in the letter Page 27 viz. that the Cessations and Peaces were of advantage only to the Irish and highly dishonorable to the Crown of England and destructive to the English and Protestants Answer The said Earl passing by the Irish and Papists being the Chief promoters of them the English and Protestants sent Agents to Oxford purposely to oppose and divert the Influence thereof and to hinder agreements with the Irish which they fore-saw would be destructive to the English and Protestants the whole passages of the proceedings herein were published in 1644. in a Book Intituled the False and Scandalous Remonstrance of the Inhumane and Bloody Rebells of Ireland together with an Answer thereunto on the behalf of the Protestants of Ireland the perusal whereof will fully Justify the Earl in what he hath written besides the Two Houses of Parliament their Declarations and Reasons against both Cessations and Peaces But to put it past dispute the Earl Refers to His Majesties Declaration and the Act for the Settlement of Ireland in which the Duke of Ormond himself had a great hand and gave the Royal Assent pa. 10. c. By which his Majesty that now is in full Parliament Declares that his Royal Father had been forced to the Cessation and Peace which he had made with the Irish and that he was thereby Compelled to give them a full pardon in the same Act His Majesty also declares that he himself was necessitated to make the second Peace with the Irish upon difficult Conditions If all this do not prove the Cessations and Peaces dishonorable to the Crown of England of advantage only to the Irish and destructive to the English and Protestants I submit to Judgment And why else were the Peaces upon hearing all Parties laid aside and the Irish their Estates divided among the English 2d Charge That therefore the Lords Justices and Council were from the beginning averse to them page 60. Answer To prove that the Justices and Council were from the beginning averse to the

Cessations and Peaces I Refer to their many Letters which I have ready to produce in some whereof the Duke of Ormond then Earl Joyned by which they Declare the Horridness and Vniversality of the Rebellion and the Design of the Irish to Extirpate the English and to Cast off the English Government and that there was no way of Recovering that Kingdom to the Crown of England but by a vigorous and total Reducing them to obedience But when other Councils were taken up one of the Lords Justices and divers of the Chief Officers and Councellors of greatest Experience in that Kingdom and who best understood how to deal with that People were displaced and affairs put into other hands the grounds and proceedings and success whereof the Duke of Ormond can better Relate than I. Charge 3d. Concerning the Protestants of all degrees sooner or later opposing both the Cessations and Peaces and the Nobility named that did so pag. 65. Answer This is matter of Fact unquestionable and without which and their subduing the Irish to the Crown of England who were sheltered and protected by the Cessations and Peaces their Estates could never have been granted to the English and Protestants as they are if there were any mistake in the enumeration of the Nobility which is possible the Letter being written by memory and far from Books and Papers it will not be great or material and is easily amendable without varying the Case Charge 4th That the two first peaces were against Law and several Acts of Parliament in both Kingdoms pag. 64. Answer They are not only against the whole Scope of the Laws in Ireland and England for Establishing the Protestant Religion and Suppression of Poperty but against these particular Acts of Parliament viz. 2 Eliz. Cap 1. 2 in Ireland and 28. H. 8 Cap. 13 c. And in England the Statutes of the 17 Caroli 1. Cap. 34. 35. 36. 37. in one of which it is provided that all pardons granted to any of the Rebells of Ireland without assent of Parliament shall be void and yet by the Cessations they were Reprieved and by both the Peaces fully pardoned And in the same Act it is also enacted that whosoever shall make any promise or agreement to Introduce or bring unto the Realm of Ireland the Authority of the See of Rome in any Case whatsoever or to defend or maintain the same shall forfeit all his Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods and Chattells After some Debate of the said Charges and Answers at Council the Lords Concerned being withdrawn this Resolution passed by the Lords on the Lord Privy-Seals Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven viz. that it was a scandalous Libell against His late Majesty against His now Majesty and against the Government but no particular Clauses were mentioned to ground that Censure upon and when the parties were Called in again the Lord Chancellor only told the Lord Privy-Seal that the King Conceived him faulty in the Clause pag. 32. of the said Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven wherein the Committees of the Parliament of Ireland were mentioned as having been in at the Intrigues of the Popish Faction at Court but that the Council had appointed his Lordship to be heard next Council day Aug. 3d. when he was to produce the vouchers Mentioned in his Answer as appears by the order following At the Court at Hampton-Court This 27th day of July 1682. By the Kings Most Excellent Majesty and the Lords of His Majesties Most Honorable Privy Council It was this day ordered by His Majesty in Council that the Right honorable the Earl of Anglesey Lord Privy-Seal do on Thursday next being the third of August produce to His Majesty in Council appointed at Hampton-Court at Nine in the Morning the Vouchers mentioned by his Lordship in his Answer this day read at the Board to the Paper delivered in the 13th Instant by his Grace the Duke of Ormond Phi. Lloyd The Lord Privy-Seal Continuing Extream ill of the Gout and finding himself prejudged by the Lords the said 27th day of July Aug. 2. wrote the following Letter to His Majesty and sent it enclosed to the Lord President to be presented which was done Accordingly May it please your Majesty Having Received your Majesties order in Council of the 27th of July to produce the third of Aug. next at Hampton-Court to your Majesty in Council the Vouchers mentioned by me in my Answer to the Paper delivered in the 13th Instant by the Duke of Ormond and the increase of my fit of the Gout occasioned by my last Attendance incapacitating me personally to obey the said Order I hold it my duty to yield the obedience I am able by this humble address to your Majesty I find by the entry of the last Council days proceedings that beyond what the Lord Chancellor declared to me at the board of your Majesties Judgment of a Clause in the 32 page of my Letter to the Earl of Castlehaven which was not so much as mentioned in the Duke of Ormonds said paper A Resolve passed by the Council on that Letter to this effect that it was a scandalous Libel against your Majesties Royal Father against your Majesty and against the Government but I find no Clauses whereon such Judgment is grounded your Majesty may Imagine with what Amazement as well as trouble this came to my knowledge I should with less Concern have seen a dagger at my old faithfull heart then to have Received the wound I have from your Royal hand after Three and Twenty years faithfull and diligent service under great Trusts I do not know by what Right or Authority the Council Table who are limited by Lawes in their Jurisdiction take upon them the Tryal of a Peer for pretended Libelling though I shall be glad to see their zeal against real Libelling which is the Dangerous and Countenanced sin of the Age. I am supported at present under my misfortune in this that your Majesty who hath so often declared to your People that you will Govern according to Law will not deny your old Servant a fair and Legal Tryal in some one of your Courts of Justice upon the points whereof the Duke of Ormond hath accused me before they take any Impression on your Majesty to my prejudice and then I no ways doubt by a due Administration of the Laws I shall by Jurors legally Impanel'd and untamper'd with which is the Right of every Subject be represented to your Majesty in this affair under a Charracter more suitable to that unblemished and honor with which I am arrived at old age But if the Duke of Ormond upon his prosecution of me before those Judges who have power to hear and determine shall by supplying his defect of proofs in Council Convict me for a Libeller in any one point of his Charge I shall not only deserve your Majesties Censure but the utmost severity of the Law in my punishment which may Gratifie the Ambition of some who promote