EIGHT SERMONS DEDICATED TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HIS GRACE The Lord Duke of Ormond AND To the most Honourable of Ladies the Dutchess of Ormond her Grace Most of them preached before his Grace and the Parliament in Dublin By the Right Reverend Father in God Griffith Lord Bishop of Ossory The Contents and particulars whereof are set down in the next Page LONDON Printed for the Author Anno Dom. 1664. Imprimatur Geor. Stradling S. T. P. Rev. in Christo Pat. D. Gilb. Episc Lond. à Sac. Domestic Ex Aed Sab. Jul. 1. 1663. THE DESCRIPTION AND THE PRACTICE Of the four most admirable BEASTS Explained in four SERMONS Upon REVEL 4.8 Whereof the first three were preached before the Right Honourable JAMES Duke of ORMOND And Lord Lieutenant of IRELAND his Grace And the two Houses of Parliament and others very Honourable Persons By the Right Reverend Father in God Gr. Lord Bishop of OSSORY London Printed by Tho. Roycroft for Philemon Stephens and are to be sold at the Golden Lion in St. Pauls Church-Yard 1663. The particular Sermons and Contents of the whole Book THe description and the practice of the four most admirable Beasts upon Revel 4.8 In four Sermons The only Way to the Kingdom of Heaven upon Matth. 6.33 In one Sermon The Saving Serpent upon John 3. In one Sermon The only Way to preserve Life upon Amos 5.6 In one Sermon The ejection or destruction of Devils upon Mat. 17.21 In one Sermon but prevented to be finished Whereunto is added The persecution and oppression of two right Reverend Bishops of Ossory TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE Duke of ORMOND His GRACE WHen the Parliament out of their love to Christ and respect to the Reverend Bishops his Servants humbly moved his Majesty for some augmentation to be made to the means of divers of them and had omitted the Bishop of Ossory out of their List as a man that either needed it not or cared not for it seeing he never moved any man as some others did to seek for any augmentation for him Your Grace was the only Advocate to put his Majesty in mind of the Bishop of Ossory and to add four hundred pounds per annum for his augmentation to the perpetual Obligation of the present and succeeding Bishops of that See to your Grace and to all your succeeding Family But what your Grace hath then so graciously begun I humbly beg your Grace would be pleased as graciously now to finish and perfect that pious work which you have so religiously begun not so much in regard of my self who after I was cast down to the dust and there lay wallowing a long while and was at last beyond my desert and any certainty of expectation lifted up again to mine Office and restored to mine Honour and Dignity have vowed and resolved to spend what God hath restored to me for the Honour of God and the service of the Church of Christ that is besides my necessities to repair his Church to relieve the distressed to punish perjurers and such high Malefactors * Which is equal to the relieving of the distressed and to do my best to hinder any man that fought against that most Excellent pious King Charles the First under the Standard of the Beast to carry away and injoy any part of the inheritance of the Church of Christ for his reward for that transcendent wickedness And therefore I spent already about four hundred pounds in repairing the ruinous Cathedral and above three hundred pounds more in seeking the right of the Church out of the hands of Hucksters and the Adversaries of King Charles the First And I do profess that having food and rayment and to defray my necessary occasions I weigh not one straw either of mine augmentation or of any other supportation that I have †I dare take my oath I am not to this day one penny the richer for my Bishoprick When as the reparation of the Church and Bishops house the Suits in Law to recover the revenues of the Bishoprick and the printing of my Books for the service of the Church and the good of Gods people hath consumed all that I received God is El Shaddai a God all-suficient for me as he hath been hitherto But I beg this of your Grace in respect of the poor See of Ossory and the succeeding Bishops that perhaps shall not pass through so many storms as I have done and therefore shall not be so well able to abide the weather and to endure the wants that I did but will be most willing to do God that good service which God and such good men as the King and your Grace will inable them to do And I doubt not but as your Grace hath alwayes been so sweet a Friend and so bountiful a Benefactor and Patron both to my self and many more of the Servants of Christ so your Grace without any motion of mine will do far better things and things far better then I can prescribe or imagine And therefore craving pardon for my presumption I rest Your Graces daily Orator Gr. Ossory TO THE Most vertuous and the most honourable of Ladies THE LADY ELIZABETH Dutches of ORMOND Her Grace Elect Lady YOur dayly Orator that formerly hath written Books and Epistles to mighty Kings and most honourable Princes doth now beg leave to dedicate these ensuing Sermons unto your Graces view I know many Scholers expecting their preferment will not be wanting to express the noble Acts unparaleld Fidelity and most justly deserved Honours and Praises of the thrice honourable your dear Husband the Duke of Ormond's Grace but my age bids me expect my dissolution and not worldly promotion and therefore onely challengeth that presumption to dedicate these few Sermons unto your Graces view not as some others use to do to beg for any patronage or defence for any thing that I have said therein for what is good will justifie it self and what is amiss let it be justly blamed I will never protect it but to shew unto the world how highly I do honour your Grace and would needs finde out by what wayes I should propagate and perpetuate your Graces Worth Piety and Vertue to the indelible view and remembrance of all your Off-spring for their glory and the glory of all their Posterities for their example throughout all the remainder of these last Ages of the World for I believe that I may truly say it without errour that neither Gorgonia nor Trasilla nor any other of those glorious Stars that in their times shined in the Firmament of the Church and which are registred to Posterities for their everlasting praise by Saint Nazianzen Saint Jerome and other Fathers of the Church were comparably so blessed in the choicest of the blessings of this life * Id est in their Husbands and Children nor were they so patient in their afflictions so pious in their conversation so humble and so meeke in their demeanour towards the worthiest of
Gentry of the Country Clergy and Laity to meet on a certain day in Llan-geuenie to consider what we should best do for the defence of our Country and though that Doctor White and my self Mr. Jo. Gruff and Mr. Morgan and Mr. Michael Evans drew an Oath of our faithfulness and Allegiance to his Majesty and the defence of our Country to the uttermost hazard of our lives and fortunes against the rebellious Parliament so full and so well as our Wits and Learning could devise and all that were there excepting Mr. O. Wood of Llan Gwyven took it without any scruple yet before any one drop of bloud was spilt or many daies were past the Gentry Articled with General Mitton to yield up that Island into his hands and he did set Garrisons where he pleased then I conscious of what I had done alwaies and every where against the Rebels durst not trust to the mercy and truth of the Parliament but gave ten pounds to Captain Roberts that Mr. O. Wood had appointed over the Garrison in Holy Head to suffer me to pass in a Parliament Ship for the King had none in those parts into Dublin and the Master of the Ship that carried me said he durst not set me on shore any where but bring me to Captain Wood that was then Vice-Admiral to the Parliament in the Bay before Dublin yet I thought it was better for me to trust that God would deliver me from that wood than to stay among the bryars of the Long Parliament so when we came to the Bay and neer the Vice-Admirals Frigot it being late in the Evening I told the Master that I was very ill as I was indeed and I gave him a 20 s. piece of Gold for carrying me over and desired that I might stay in my Cabin there till next morning which he readily yielded And early the next morning when I thought all the Seamen in Captain Woods Ship excepting the Sentinel that kept the Watch were asleep lest any of them should know me I desired to be sent to the Vice-Admiral and so I was And when I came there I gave 2 s. 6 d. in silver to the Sentinel to tell Captain Wood that here was a Kinsman of my Lord of Yorke whom I knew was respected by all the Parliamenteers because he had besieged the Castle of Conway for the Parliament and was the chief man that called Mitten into the Country and the only instrument to bring Anglesey to submit unto him and he had a Pass from Holy Head to go to do a little business in Dublin and when he had finished his business to return with as much speed as he could unto my Lord of York again and I thought this was a fair tale and indeed I thank God it took effect for Captain Wood came to me and after he had examined me about divers things and I had answered him as warily as I could he searched me and though I had in my Pocket a Letter from his Majesty in my behalf to my Lord of Ormond yet because I had so artificially set it on the backside of a Pocket-glass and Comb-case betwixt the leather and the glass he suspected no such thing though he beheld his own face in the glass and so conceiving no ill thought of me but that I was a very good friend of the Parliament being a Kinsman of my Lord of Yorke and of his name too he called for a good Glass of Clarret-wine and drank to me and to my Lord of York and I drunk it off every drop and put on a bold face as I was wont to do every where knowing that degeneros animos timor arguit And then he sent me to shore towards Hoeth and before we came to Land we should see three or four Souldiers runnagadoes that were desirous to go to the Parliament ship but I gave five shillings to the Rowers to put me to land a pretty way from them and when I was set on land the boat-men turned away presently and would not receive the Souldiers into their boat which the Souldiers seeing called unto me to come to them How I escaped the runnagado Souldiers or to stay for them but I would not tarry but went away as fast as I could and they seeing that presented their Guns as if they would shoot at me yet I still ventured to go on knowing that being no standing mark it was but a chance to hit me if their pieces were charged and they shot at me and when they saw their vain threatning did not frighten me they began to run after me as fast as ever they could and I began to run from them as fast as ever I could and being a pretty way before them and seeing some Irish men reaping not far off I made towards them and thought I could get to them before they could overtake me and so I did yet running so fast and so far I was all of a sweat before I came unto the Reapers who kept off the Souldiers that they durst not come near me Thus was I saved from those that I assured my self would have robbed me if not kill me Then I went to Dublin and stayed there and preached often untill Ireland was surrendred upon Articles unto the Parliament and I being by name to have the benefit of those Articles and having received a very fair and considerable sum of money by the hands of Sir George Lane from my Lord of Ormond that had alwaies shewed himself a most honourable friend and a bountiful helper and benefactor to me I resolved to live upon that small temporal means which I had about twenty pounds a year in Wales But after I put my Books and Cloaths and houshold-stuff How I was taken prisoner and robbed by Captain Beech. And nothing troubled me so much as the loss of a paper Book which I had written full of Sermons which vexeth me to this very day and all the Money I had and my self into the Packet-boat to pass to Holy Head our ship was taken about the middle way by Captain Beeche and I was robbed of all that I had in it Cloaths Books Money and Houshold-stuff and with a great deal of intreaty and favour I prevailed with Captain Beeche to cast us all his Prisoners upon a little Island called Irelands eye and making there a fire that we brought with us from the Ship we had a boat that carried us into Hoath and from thence we went all to Dublin where Doctor Loftus very friendly gave me as much money as carrried me to London and there I petitioned to the Committee for Sequestred men to be restored according to the Articles of Anglesey and of Ireland to my means and one of them named Scot that since hath been hanged demanded if I had not written the Grand Rebellion and I answered I did then said he and do you come for performance of Articles that deserve rather to have your head cut off No no said
not nor ever shall be able to prove that he did but the Scots say that he did and so they do say a thousand things more then I believe to be true and they should believe nothing especially what they know not against their King when as all other men that are both wise and honest can sufficiently answer and justifie all that ever his now Majesty did And I that am not worthy to be of his counsel and to know the reasons of his actions yet could shew you very just and sufficient reasons for every thing that ever I heard his Majesty did and I would do it but that Himself and his Council I know can justifie all his actions with many far deeper reasons then I can dive into Therefore these very firebrands of sedition knowing this would a little excuse his Majesty by laying the faults upon his Counsellors that seduced him And who are they They speak in general in universalibus latet error so did the long Parliament against our late King there they learned their lesson and they walk in the same paths But the former Parliaments could name their names the Duke of Buckingham so can these men name the Duke of Ormond And what hath he done I observe two things that they charge him with 1. To testifie what he knew to be truth and these men conceived to be otherwise A mighty fault because they had not their eyes open to see the truth his Grace offended to testifie the truth 2. In obeying his Majesty's gracious goodness by relieving those that were necessitous and perhaps for ought that they know had done his Majesty very good service and for ought that we know had done no injury to any of our men and this is a sin unpardonable with these uncharitable men I but they will say by relieving these he lets the Army starve and I demand what Subject ever did pawn his own lands melt his own plate lay out his own moneys to relieve the King's Armies and to shew himself I will not say more faithful but I say neer so faithful to his King and so bountiful a benefactor and friend to all the King 's loyal Subjects as the Duke of Ormond hath alwayes been I must and ever will with all thankfulness acknowledge it when the long Parliament and their whelps had robbed me of all that I had all the relief and subsistence which I had from all the friends in the world was that bountiful gift which this noble Duke sent me by Sir George Lane And I could name the many many more to whom his Grace did the like And are these things faults worthy to be reproved And I am sure he hated the Rebellion and disowned the Rebels of this Nation as much or more then any man and would you have him to be an enemy to the postnati and a stranger to the innocent God hath made him a more honourable and a more gracious man I but we are not yet come to the quick the English interest by the favour of the Duke unto the Irish and the Judges of the Court of Claim is much shaken and is like to be dismembred and left inanimate But would you have the English interest to continue be it right or wrong or would you have it so to continue that God might bless it and it to prosper If so then let it be rooted in justice and established in truth or otherwise the breath of the Lord will scatter it and the wrath of God will soon destroy it and instead of blessing will as Jacob said bring the curse of God upon you and your Posterity And you might see if you had your eyes open the great care of my L Duke and the great pains and diligence of the Court of Claim to search out the truth of every cause that the innocent should not be made guilty nor the nocent carry away the victory And what more would you have done Yet as I said before they that have learned the way to be Rebels do know the way to be rebellious still But especially because Rebels and Traytors have had their Presidents and examples to chalk and tread out the desperate pathes of treachery and rebellion unto them because as the Poet saith Nullum caruit exemplo nefas You cannot easily name the wickedness that I can not parallel with the like example as If Alexander and Holophernes were drunk so was Noah long before them If Oedipus committed incest with Jocasta so did Lot commit incest with his own daughters and if Polynices kill'd his own brother Eteocles so did Alexander Caracalla kill his own brother Getha Romulus killed Remus and Cain his onely brother Abel And so the men that became Rebels and Traytors unto their King and murderers of their Brethren here amongst us may alledge they are not the first that rebelled but they can name enough that murdered their oppressors which they onely intended to do and they can cite you great Massacres and the rooting out of many Potentates that Lorded and domineered over the poor people as the massacres in France the Cicilian Vespers the treachery of Mithridates and the subjects of Pontus that conspired together to destroy all the Romans that were dispersed over all the Kingdom of Pontus so the Saxons became treacherous and the murderers of all the British Lords on Salisburie-plain and they say the Irish did the like to eradicate the Daues out of this Kingdom and they have done no more unto their Oppressours But to answer these subtle Pleaders for the defence or lessening of their sinful mischief by the example of others wickedness I say 1. That no example can any ways excuse wickedness but rather aggravates the sin that the sight of others falling into the ditch should teach us to beware of the like fall yea though we should have never so many examples of any evil-doing yet we ought not to follow them because the Lord tells us plainly We ought not to follow a multitude to do evil and it is our duty not to do what others do but what God commands us and all others to do 2. I say that herein hîc hîc caruit exemplo nefas those two fold treachery and rebellion 1. Of the late English-Scotizing Rebels And 2. Of the bloody Irish murderers can not be fitted with any Presidents nor parallel'd out of any Histories I do assure you that I have read as many English Greek and Latin Histories as well I could yet in all the Histories that I have read I do profess unto you I never found so much cruel subtlety and such infernal impiety as I saw in the English Rebels nor so much ingratitude inhumanity and cruelty as we read in Sir John Temples Book was acted in the Irish Insurrection if you will afford it no worser name for 1. Touching the English and Scotish Rebellions first for their subtlety the subtle serpent devised not so many lies to deceive our forefathers as they most impudently
able to make any man blind to make a blind man to see and with Fire that burns every thing else to preserve the three Children in the Fiery Furnace and to make the raging Sea that swallows down and drowneth man and beast to be a Wall of defence unto the children of Israel 3. Respect 3. God is said to be Omnipotent and Almighty because he is able to do what he will not do that is more then ever he did or ever will do for he is able of these stones to raise up Children unto Abraham Math. 3.9 And he saith to St. Peter Think you that I cannot now pray to my Father and he shall presently give me more then twelve legions of Angels Math. 26.52 and so he can do many thousand things that he doth not and will not do Titus 1.2 2 Tim. 2.13 Aug. de Trinitat l. 15. c. 15. But it is objected that the Apostle saith He cannot lie and again He cannot denie himself to which St. Augustine answereth that Magna est Dei potentia non posse mentiri it is an argument of Gods great power that he cannot lie or deny himself because that to lie is the sign of weakness and imbecillity when the lyer is not able to do what he saith or to perform what he promiseth And he that desireth further satisfaction in this Point let him look into my Best Religion See the Best Religion where I have handled the same more at large So you have seen how and in what respect God is said to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Almighty and that should teach us a twofold Lesson 1. The one of Fear Two Lessons to be learnt 2. The other of Comfort For 1. God threatneth to â—unish and plague wicked sinners 1. Of fear and he that blesseth himself when he heareth the curse the Lord saith he will not spare him Deut. 29.19 but will blowout his name from under heaven and again he saith Levit. 26.23 if you wa k stubbornly and contrary unto me I will also walk contrary unto you and plague you seven times more for your offences and do not you think that God is able to make good his threatnings Therefore we ought all of us to humble our selves and to fear the Almighty God and as our Saviour saith Math. 10.28 to fear him who is able to destroy both body and soul 2. This Doctrine of the almighty power of God 2. Lesson may afford us a great deal of comfort against the Devil our afflâ—ctions and all Tyrants For when we see Satans army and consider his stratagems against us we may well cry out with Elizaeus servant Alas what shall we do 2. Reg. 6.15 But when we remember what our Saviour saith I give to my sheep eternal life and they shall never perish neither shall any pluck them out of my hand John 10.28 because my Father which gave them me is greater then all and none is able to take them out of my fathers hands 1 Pet. 1.5 we may comfort our selves and be assured that as St. Peter saith the godly that do serve the Lord shall be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation because he that is in us is greater and more powerful then he that is in the world 1 John 4.4 5. The last Attribute here set down is which was and is and is to come and this crowneth all the other Attributes of God for without this to be Lord to be a God and to be Almighty would avail little or nothing but to be so and to be so for ever Esai 43.10 Psal 90.2 is all in all and only the honour and prerogative of the Almighty God And so God saith Before me there was no God formed neither shall be after me and the Prophet David speaking to him 1 Tim. 1.17 saith Before the mountains were made and before thou hast formed the earth or the world thou art God from everlasting Exod. 3.14 and world without end and St. Paul calls him the king of ages or the everlasting King and the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews Esai 57.15 saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For as he saith unto Moses I am is his name that is an Eternal being and which inhabiteth eternity and as here these Beasts do say which was that is Lord God almighty and therefore the Maker and Creatour of all the things that are What the former point should teach us and which is that is Lord God Almighty and therefore the ruler and governor of all the things that are and which is to come that is to be as he is Lord God Almighty therefore the rewarder of all men as their works shall be And this Eternal being of God should teach us all to labour for eternity for that which is vain and vanisheth is of nothing worth but the truth is that we shall all be Eternal and for ever either in felicity or misery in joy or in torments and therefore our study and care should be so to live and to serve this Eternal God that we may live with him in Eternal happiness and avoid those Eternal torments wherein the wicked shall be chained for ever For you shall find that as the same Father saith Praeterit jucunditas non reditura manet anxietas non peritura And therefore I advise you all and my hearts desire is that you would be all like these four Beasts as I have explained them in their description and their practice that so with these Beasts you may for ever live with him which was and is and is to come To whom be all Honour and Glory and Praise and Thanks for ever and ever Amen Jehovae Liberatori THE ONLY VVAY TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN A SERMON Preached before the Duke of Ormond's Grace and the two Houses of Parliament in Dublin By Griffith Lord Bishop of Ossory LONDON Printed for the Author Anno Dom. 1664. THE FIFTH SERMON MATH 6.33 and LUKE 12.31 But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you I Have not long since began to treat of this Text before the most Religious and most Honourable Person here And what then the time prevented me I shall now endeavour by Gods help to conclude unto you yet with an abstract and an abreviation of the particular Points and Heads I then handled that so you may the better understand the whole And as St. Paul saith Though to us it is troublesome yet for you it is profitable to hear the same things again Quia labilis memoria hominis and good things will soon slip out of our minds And I said then that the Angel Vriel tells Esdras 2 Esdr 8.2 3. the man of God That as the earth hath more dust and clay for earthen vessels then Ore and Mines for gold so this present world hath more men
corrigere est nefas and as our Saviour saith If any man sue thee for thy Coat let him have thy Cloak also So I say if any great man that hath a great Place or great Friends take away thy Lands let him take away thy House also rather then spend thy Money and lose that with thy Lands for as Christ saith If these things be done to the green tree what shall be done to the dry So if these Proceedings pass against me that can both speak and follow my businesse to the uttermost and I thank God have ability to go through with it what shall become of thee and thy Cause that art a poor man when thou swimmest against the stream and kickest against the pricks Therefore I advise thee rather in such a case to cry to God than complain to any Judge lest that as the Poet saith Excessit medicina modum thy remedy will prove worse than thy disease For thou seest how I am served put our of my House and spend above 60 li. and have no redress 2. If this proceeding and dealing with me be as I conceive it not so fair and so just as it should be both for the King and my self that am ejected out of my House and Lands then I conceive His Majesty and the Parliament should to prevent the like Oppression and wrongs to poor men provide an easier and plainer way to relieve the oppressed and to set down an usual Form of Indictment or to cause that the Indictments should not be so easily and so frequently upon every Lawyers motion quasht as they are reported to be Especially when the matter of Force is plain and evidently proved And this redress of Injuries I petition and move for for these four special reasons 1. Because the difficulty of framing the Indictments so that a cunning Lawyer cannot easily find a fault and a flaw in it and then the frequent quashing of such Indictments as are found faulty is a great wrong to his Majesty in depriving him of those Fines that otherwise are due and should be rendered unto him 2. It is a great Abuse and injury unto the poor Subject that shall be driven out of his Possession and for want of a sufficient Clerke or Counsellour to draw the right form of his Indictment which as I see few can do he shall both spend his Money and lose his labour and perhaps he is not able to do as I did three or four times to draw Indictments till he finds one that may stand good 3. This frequent quashing of Indictments is a great encouragement for Oppressors and wicked men to wrong their neighbours more and more for say they I will enter upon him and thrust him out and if he doth indite me I will remove it to the Kings Bench and I shall find a Lawyer that will quash his Indictment by and by 4. This very practise and proceeding may be feared to prove the very bane and destruction of whole Nations and Kingdoms For if Righteousness exalteth a Nation and a Kingdom is translated from one Nation to another People because of unrighteousness as Solomon saith and as we may read it in all Histories Then you may see how requisite it is for Kings and Princes to look to those things and not to suffer unrighteous Judges either for favour to one or hatred to another to do what they list and to make their Laws like a Nose of Wax to bend which way they please or like a Spiders Web that catcheth the small Flies but is broken by the great humble Bees all to pieces but to be like the Chancellour Steel that although he hated my person yet he said though I deserved it not I should have Justice and so he did me Justice presently and I love to do right to my Adversary and to say the truth of mine enemy But for my self I thank God for it as I lived many years very quietly and contentedly with far less means then 20 li. a year and with far less pains and troubles then I have now so I doubt not but I could live so still and I resolved and vowed as I have attested in my Epistle to his Majesty that if I should recover this Bishops Court unto the Church I would wholly and fully bestow the same for the repairing of the Cathedral Church of Kilkenny So that recovering it I should not be one Penny the richer or not recovering it not a Penny the poorer and so the wrong done by this Proceeding whosoever did it is as I conceive more against the King and the Church than against my self And if the Proviso for Sir George Ayskue carrieth this Bishops Court to him from the Church which in my understanding is clean contrary to the very words of the Act pag. 72. Let him pray that he hath it not with that Sauce which God prescribeth in Psal 83. And so I end and so be it as God pleaseth Amen And after I had delivered this same Relation unto his Majesty and shewed the Effect and sum thereof by the next day I gave him this Petition To the Kings Most Excellent Majesty The Humble Petition of Gruffith Lord Bishop of Ossory Sheweth THat your Petitioner hath caused five of the Tenants of Sir George Ayskew to be twice Indited for a forcible Entry upon the House and Lands of the Bishop of Ossory and yet your Petitioner with the Expence of above 60 l. could not prevail to have them punished as the Law requireth whereby your Majesty is wronged in not receiving the Fines that should be imposed upon them for that offence and your Petitioner is abused in being still kept out of his Possession to about 300 l. Damages May it therefore please your Majesty to write to the Duke of Ormond or to the Parliament to see that the former Proceedings may be reviewed and that your Petitioner may be relieved according to Justice And your Petitioner shall ever pray c. And my Lords Grace of Canterbury very graciously and like a most Religious Father and Countenancer of the Fathers of the Church going with me to deliver it to his Majesty and to let him understand the substance of it said here is the good Bishop of Ossory so his Grace was pleased beyond my Desarts to stile me that hath a very reasonable Petition to your Majesty and telling him the sum of it his Majesty like a most Pious King most graciously answered I will do it with all my heart and my Lords Grace sent for Secretary Benet and he drew me this his Majesties Answer the next day Whitehal July 16th 1663. HIs Majesty is graciously pleased effectually to recommend the Consideration of this Petition to his Grace the Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the end his Grace may forthwith take care to settle and establish the Petitioner in his Right and that such who disturb him may be punished according to Law I know not what more I could have desired his