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A87219	The impudence of the Romish whore: continued, and improved, in her shamelesse and barbarous brood of the Jrjsh rebells; calling themselves, His Majesties Catholike subjects. Discovered by a particular of certaine motives by them divulged, and falsly alledged to be the occasion of their late taking up armes: as also, by their oath of association, and by certain ridiculous and arrogant proposjtjons, which they have prepared, with a foolish hope, that they shall be condescended unto, by the King and Parliament of England. All which are here exemplified, with some briefe notes and observations upon them: by a Lover of his countrey. Published by Authority.	Lover of his country.	1644 (1644)	Wing I108; Thomason E44_13; ESTC R2551	12,599	16

also to be imputed onely to their deare friends at Court whom they might have yet spared in policie or good manners VIII All the Staple and rich Commodities of the Realme are turned to Monopolies and heavie impositions against Law laid on all Merchandizes This was done by one of those Prerogatives which they say is invaded by the Puritan Faction in England Therefore let them also blame onely their deare Friends for it and if they will be like themselves not complain against the Prerogative of monopolizing till they have perfectly in vassalled the King to the Papall Monarchie For Papists had the first Grants of most Monopolies in England and Ireland and sold them to the Protestants to lay the scandall on them IX The principall native Wares of the Land exported into Forraigne Countreys unwrought and unmanufactured thereby depriving the Kingdome of Manuall Trades and Occupations and driving the Natives to furnish themselves from head to foot with manufactures from abroad at very deere Rate This is not done by the Puritan Faction but is performed by vertue of that Prerogative which they pretend to be invaded by the said Puritans therefore me thinks they should not yet quarrell with it and it seems reasonable also that they should remember their brethren the native Irish were for the most part such a rascall idle people that if their Staple Commodities should not have been exported unwrought they would have rotted in their hands for it was long ere their sotrishnesse could by example or compulsion be brought to any honest labour or from their ill custome in husbandrie of drawing by the horse-tailes instead of harnesse X. All their heavy and insufferable pressures prosecuted and laboured by the Natives of this Kingdome with much suit expence and importunity both in Parliament here and in England before His Majesty to be redressed yet could never be brought to any happy conclusion or as much as hope of contentment but alwayes deluded with delayes What their successes have been in Parliament heretofore I know not nor what Motives they made but if they were like their ensuing Propositions they had as happy conclusions as they deserved If they were not unreasonable yet Parliaments were not to be blamed for they had not power to preserve their own Priviledges for many years together and the Favourers and Confederates of these Irish Rebels were the cause of it XI Common Iustice and the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament to all the Natives of the Realme and ancient course of Parliamentary Proceedings wholly declined This is false and were it true it is but the same grievance which we have partly suffered by the Patrons of the fore-mentioned Rebels who we know will remember it and very zealously cut their throats as well as our in requitall thereof if God prevent not as soon as their aimes are accomplished XII His Majesties royall Power Honour Prerogative Estate Revenue and Right invaded upon by the Puritan Faction in England May we believe if the Divell should say the Lords Prayer and seeme zealous of advancing the Name Will Kingdome and Glory of God that he were in good earnest when we may confidently so do then may we be assured that the Irish Papists take up Armes for defence of the Kings Honour c. Their own malice to the Britans their covetousnesse and the honour and prerogative of the Pope were their prime inducements to rebellion and this and all the rest of their Motives to arme themselves against us were devised after the treacherous outrages by them committed Those whom they call the Puritan Faction in England have invaded none of the Kings just Prerogatives but it will appeare by the conditions of peace tendered by these Traitors in the following Propositions that they intend a greater invasion upon the royall Power Honour and Prerogative then hath been hitherto made by those whom they accuse XIII The Government of all his Realmes his Queene Children and Families usurped by the Parliament of England and especially by the House of Commons as likewise the nominating and disposing of his Privie Councell Iudges Clergy Officers Navies Forts and Castles arrogated by the said House of Commons leaving his Highnesse nothing but the bare name of a King The Parliament have taken upon them no more then by the Lawes and ancient Priviledges of the Kingdome appertains unto it For his Queene Children and Familie ought to be regulated by the Lawes whereof they are the supreme Judges and the disposure and ordering of all particulars mentioned in this Motive especially when the publike safety is in hazzard belong unto the Parliament though Rebels and Malignants pretend ignorantly or insolently to the contrary and thereby the King loseth no Honour as these and other of his disguised enemies would make ignorant people to believe but His Majesties dignity and safety is rather thereby secured from the mischiefs and indignities which these would bring upon him who will not leave him so much as they say the Parliament hath left him the name of a King and the benefit of living if he shall at last faile their concealed expectations XIV The many affronts and wrongs done by the said House to the Ambassadours of forraigne Princes Confederates of His Majestie residing in England and to their Chaplains and Servants against the condition of the League and the Law of Nations What Affronts these insolent Animals can justly say have been offered by the House of Commons according as they object no man shall ever heare for it is but a scandalous suggestion of that impudence which dares affirme any falshood and judgeth it meritorious to slander and lie for the Catholike Cause XV. The grosse injuries and scandals given by the said House of Commons to the Queenes Maiesty and her Chaplains and Servants in breach of the Articles made upon the Marriage These are the Champions intituled The Queenes Army and you must not think much if they lie and raile for Her who have listed themselves to fight under her Banner Yet take notice that this and many other of these Motives of taking up Armes had neither colour nor occasion of being the ground of their quarrell till after their said Armes were taken up and the whole Kingdome of Ireland made as it were a bloudy slaughter-house by these Butchers But perhaps they knew before hand what occasion their Jesuiticall Directors would compell the Queene to give this Parliament of being questioned and what impeachments would thereupon be drawne up and therefore they barbarously murdered their neighbouring Protestants beforehand therefore they surprized those harmlesse Brittans in their beds and houses before they dreamed of an enemy and therefore they tooke up Armes to be in readinesse and that instead of a legall purgation they might wash her from future imputations in the precious bloud of Innocents As for those Articles and Conditions of Her Marriage and the Priviledges thereby granted to her Popish Priests and Servants they were made without the consent of a

of all others that have plotted the destruction of the Roman Catholike Religion within this Land or the professors thereof And this Oath and Protestation and every part thereof I do take freely syncerely and heartily in the literall sense without any equivocation or mentall reservation and shall not for any cause respect or pretence relinquish this Promise Vow or Protestation So helpe me God and the holy Gospels I would we were so cordiall and unanimous in our Associations and Covenants as it is probable they wil be in this The meanes to reduce this Kingdome to Peace and Quietnesse This Kingdome being for the most part composed of divers ancient Irish and English Families the Irish having without stroake or striving voluntarily submitted unto the Government of the Kings of England and do glory that His Majesties Ancestors and first Predecessors are of their owne bloud The Arrogant Rebels claime kindred and would forsooth be cosens to the King take pleasure and delight and a conscionable pride to be ruled and commanded by him and likewise the ancient English being Colonies setled here upon the first Conquest of this Kingdome if Conquest it may be justly called have ever since continued here and by their faithfull indeavour sealed with their bloud have maintained preserved themselves this Kingdom in their natural obedience so long as they were kept under by strong hand to their Kings being extremely provoked with the indignities offered to their Prince whom they naturally and passionately affect and being all grieved to see and observe the gates of his mercy goodnesse forceably shut by violence against his Catholike Subjects may be neverthelesse reduced to peace upon the granting and confirming to them in Parliament of the Conditions following if the same be condescended unto before bloud-letting make matters irreconcileable The insolent Propositions which the Irish Rebels have propounded at Oxford as the Termes upon which they will treat of peace with some briefe Observations upon them I. First that a generall and free pardon without any exception be granted to all His Majesties Subjects of this Kingdome and that in pursuance thereof and strengthening of the same an Act of Association may passe in Parliament here Some good use might be made of some things to be taken from this Proposition at another time but not in the Irish sense for though I am not so uncharitable as to deny mercie to the whole Nation without respect to the innocent yet by my consent I would have no other peace then the Jewes had with the Amalekites concluded with those who were either actors in the late Massacre of our brethren or obstinate in the Romish Superstitions for considering their principles and their condition it is impossible there should be safety in being at peace with them II. That all marks of Nationall distinction between English and Irish may be abolisht and taken away by Act of Parliament This motion to some intents and purposes might be considerable if the Kingdome were purged of bloody and obstinate Hereticks III. That by severall Acts of Parliament to be respectively passed here and in England it be declared that the Parliament of Ireland hath no subordination to the Parliament of England but that the same hath in it selfe supreme Iurisdiction in this Kingdome as absolute as the Parliament of England there hath This is a meer Irish motion raised out of witlesse and rebellious presumption deserving only to be scorned and passed by till opportunitie affords use of it IV. That the Acts of 10. Hen. 7. commonly called Poynings Act and all other Acts expounding or explaining the same may be repealed Let this be referred to Poynings to report his opinion of the motion and by my consent let it be granted when he certifies for the propounders V. That as in England there passed an Act of Trienniall Parliament there may passe another for a sexenniall Parliament here This for ought I know may be assented unto when Ireland is reduced to obedience and restored to peace VI. That since this Kingdome since S. Patricks time continued constant in the Catholike Religion and that the same was onely professed in His Majesties Dominions unto the change happened in Henry 8. his time upon occasion known though not fit to be repeated and since that Religion is professed by the most learned Divines throughout the most considerable parts of the Christian world and was never condemned but was alwayes affirmed by all Oeconomicall Councells and that the same is most consonant to the Monarchicall Government which the opposites of Catholike Religion as experience sheweth in all and every our neighbouring Countreys industriously labour to dissolve destroy and beat down It may be enacted by Parliament that the Acts of the second of Q. Elizabeth in Ireland and all other Acts made against Catholikes or the Catholike Religion since the second of Henry 8. may be repealed This Proposition savours not so well now as perhaps it would have done in Saint Patrick's daies and therefore we will either referre it back to Saint Patrick's time or leave it to be answered or condiscended unto till Saint Patrick's time comes againe for his Metropolitanship is of little authority at this present What his Religion was we are uncertain but we know very wel that the Religion of these Irish Rebels is very conformable to the Papall Monarchy and very advantageous to those temporall Monarks who are Vassalls thereunto whilest they can humour their Soveraigne Lord the Pope or till his Holines growes froward or quarrelsome for his private ends and what conformity there is then between that which these call Saint Patrick's religion and the temporall Monarchies of Christian Princes we are well informed by those Histories which testifie the Papall pride and tyranny But that it hath any conformity with our British Monarchie which is bounded and regulated by the Lawes I understand not yet this I hope whatever conformity they seem to have that instead of those acts which these Rebells desire should be repealed to the reviving of Saint Patrick's Religion as they tearme their Heresies some other shall be enacted to help root it quite up without any respect to their foolish hopes or their false peace or their most learned Divines or their Oeconomicall Counsels or their Irish Skenes or their Catholique devises VII That the Bishopricks Deanries and all other Spirituall Promotions of this Kingdome and all Frieries and Nunneries may be restored to the Catholike Honours and that the Impropriations of Tythes may likewise be restored and that the City Ambits and Precincts of the Religious Houses of the Monks may be restored to them but as for the residue of their temporall possessions it is not desired to be taken from the present Proprietors but to be left to them untill that God shall otherwise incline their own hearts This Proposition with the next and some other of those that follow were indeed the true inducements occasioning the Irish Rebells as they have confessed