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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

Parliament yea in despight of Parliament and contrary to the Lawes of God and the Kingdome therefore they ought rather to have been sooner broken then so long tolerated as they were XVI The many horrible murders Robberies Pillages Wasts Burnings and other execrable Cruelties perpetrated of late by the Protestants Army here by publike direction of the State of this Realme upon His Majesties good Subjects of the English Pale and other parts of the Land they not offending against the Laws or Peace of the Realm but meerly standing upon their own defence and this done them against His Majesties pleasure without his privity The impudence of every sonne of the Babilonish Whore is very monstrous but none like that of her Irish Bastards For after they had committed I will use their owne words so many horrid Murders Robberies Pillages Wasts Burnings and other execrable Cruelties upon the harmlesse Protestants living among them who neither gave occasion of offence nor suspected such cruelty till they felt the skenes in their throats they are neverthelesse not ashamed contrary to their own and our knowledge to affirme that these cruelties were put in execution upon them and by direction of the State of that Realme before they tooke up Armes or acted in the massacre of the Protestants which is the most impudent falshood that ever was averred by any child of the Devill For all the Brittish Isles rung with the horrour of their hellish cruelties before the Protestants whose brethren were murdered unawares had so much as a thought of any such offence as was pretended or of any such defensive preparatives as have beene since made Yea it is generally knowne that the remainder of the murdered Britans in Ireland tooke not up Armes to prevent their totall extirpation till that mischiefe was begun and proceeded in almost beyond prevention And that they then armed themselves against these Rebells with his Majesties privitie and good liking appeares with his detestation of their inhumanity by the Act of Parliament made against them and confirmed by his Majesty as also by his owne voluntarie Declarations often mentioning bleeding Ireland and remembring the Parliament not to be remisse in sending supplies against those Miscreants though since termed his loyall Subjects Therefore no tongue but Irish could have averred so apparent a falshood nor any but Popish Irish Traitors have dared to affirme that our preparations to avenge the blood of his murthered Subjects and our Brethren was without his Majesties privitie and against his pleasure unlesse they will confesse and prove his secret will to be contrary to that which was revealed XVII All the Natives in the English Plantations of this Realme were disarmed by Proclamation and the Protestant Plantators armed and tied by the Condition of their Plantations to have Armes and to keep certain numbers of Horse and Foot continually upon their Lands by which advantage many thousands of the Natives were expulsed out of their possessions and many hanged by Martiall Law without cause and against the Laws of this Kingdom and many of them other ways destroyed and made away by sinister means and practices That which is here affirmed is totally false for had the Natives been indeed unarmed and the Protestants armed as by law they ought to have been and as the trecherous condition of the Irish required the publique peace had been yet preserved at least such Butcheries had not been committed But the Britans were too secure and so farre from using the cruelties against the Irish or taking the advantages laid to their charge that they suppressed them not as they ought to have done much lesse hanged them as they deserved for which cause they have since cut their throats who saved them from the Gallowes XVIII Halfe this Realme was found to belong unto His Majesty as his ancient Demeasne and Inheritance upon old feigned titles of 300. yeares past by Iudges against Law their Evidence and Conscience who were corrupted to finde the said Titles upon promise of part of those lands so found for the King or other rewards or els drawne thereunto by threats of the Iudges of the Circuits or by heavy Fines Mulcts and Censures of Pillory Stigmatizing and other like cruell and unusuall punishments What was unjustly found for the King by the corruption of Judges and others let them answer for whom it concernes as also to the rest of this Article For we have seen and felt so much injustice in England that much of it may perhaps be true But me thinks Saint Patricks Beads-men should have considered that this imputation of injustice will more disparage their friends at Court then those whom they account their enemies for from them proceeded that injustice which was done The Preface to the Oath of Association taken by the Irish Rebels Whereas the Roman Catholikes of this Kingdome of Ireland have beene inforced to take up Armes for the necessary defence and preservation as well of their Religion plotted and resolved to be quite suppressed by the Puritan Faction as likewise of their Estates and Liberties and also for the defence and safeguard of His Majesties Royall Power Prerogatives and Right invaded upon which we will defend so farre forth onely as may serve our owne turnes And for that it is requisite there should be an unanimous consent and reall union betweene all the Catholikes of this Kingdome to maintain the premises and strengthen them against their adversaries It is thought fit by them that they and whosoever should adhere unto their party should for the better assurance of their fidelity and constancy of the publike Cause take the insuing Oath The Rebells Oath of Association I A. B. do promise vow and make Protestation before God and his Angels of my Allegiance to my Soveraigne Lord King Charles and to the Heires of his Body Kings and Queenes of England and that I will maintaine his and their just Prerogatives Honour Estate and Rights the Power and Priviledges of Parliament and all the ancient and fundamentall Lawes of England now of force within this Realm so farre forth as they are not contrary or against the Romane Catholike Religion this was well provided And do further promise vow and protest before God and his Angels that I as Confederate and Associate to the rest of the Confederate Catholikes of this Kingdome will by all lawfull meanes maintaine uphold and defend to my power the free exercise of the said Religion through this Kingdome as also the just liberties possessions and estates of this Kingdome who have or shall take this Oath and performe the Contents thereof with men money and other provision as it shal be reasonably required from time to time by the said Catholikes Confederates And moreover I will joyn with the same Confederates in any lawfull way that shal be agreed on by them to free this Kingdome and Nation from the oppressions and cruell Government of the now State and Officers of this Realm and from the designes or attempts

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

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 Observatious upon them By a Lover of his Countrey Published by Authority Printed by Robert Austin M.DC.XLIV The Motives and Reasons which the Irish Rebels have published as the occasions of their taking up Arms with brief Replies unto them THese Motives and Propositions following lately published by the Popish Irish Rebels and excellently discovering the shamelesse insolence madnesse and folly of that barbarous Nation came newly to my hands which having perused I perceived the Motives to be so false and the Propositions so absurd that me thought I saw in them and through them the very Quintessence of that brutish Malignity which might be extracted out of Popery and Barbarisme united And though they divulged these Conceptions of theirs to advance their own designes I judged it not amisse to further their publication that the besotted English may take notice of the sting which is in the taile of those dangerous Scorpions newly invited and entertained by some of them into their bosomes and to that purpose therefore I send them forth with an Antidote pressed out of their own poyson for the curing of the mischiefs and malignancy which the might els perhaps occasion or increase and you shall finde them in briefe Notes annexed to the severall insuing Motives and Propositions as they hastily dropped from my Pen. The Rebells first Motive I. It was plotted and resolved by the Puritan● of England and Ireland to extinguish quite the Catholike Religion and the Professors and Maintein●rs thereof and to put all Catholikes of this Realme to the Sword that would not conforme themselves to the Protestant Religion There was no expression of any purpose in those whom they call Puritans nor in any other of the English Nation to extirpate them or their Popish Heresies otherwise then according to the Laws long since established no probability of any secret or published intent to put any of them to the ●word for their Religion in a hostile or illegall way nor to punish them in a legall way so much as their mischievous and seditious activenesse often deserved II. The State of Ireland did publikely declare that they would root out of the Realme all the Natives and make a totall second Conquest of the Land alledging they were not safe with them If the State of England or Ireland ever made any such Declaration it was not untill their bloudy unequal'd and inhumane massacres of the British Protestants were first causlesly and without provocation both begun and almost finished It was not before these Irish had taken up rebellious and persidious Arms nor was it then purposed by the Britans that any innocent Irish should have suffered either in body or estate though they who judge the cruelty of other mens hearts by their own falsly pretend this Motive III. All Natives here were deprived of the benefit of the ancient Fundamentall Lawes Liberties and Priviledges due by all Lawes and Iustice to a free People and Nation and were particularly due by the Municipall Lawes of Ireland This is falfe for the Irish were for the most part during many Ages past a bruitish People liuing under the Arbitrary tyrannies of their pettie Lords according to rude Customes more Heathenish then Christian and having instead of Ecclesiasticall or Civill Lawes certain uncertain Traditions patched up out of Popery Prophanenesse and Superstition without any conformity to Justice or to such Lawes as became a civillized Nation untill their wildnesse became regulated by the good example of the English who gave them wholsome Lawes yea and Priviledges and Freedomes from their Oppressors IV. That the Subjects of Ireland especially the Irish were thrust out forceably from their ancient possessions against and without colour of Right and could not have propriety or security in their estates goods or other rights but were wholly subject to an Arbitrary Power and Tyrannicall Government these forty years past without any hope of reliefe or redresse They had generally except those who forfeited their estates by wilfull Rebellion the same right and propriety which the Britans had if they submitted to the Lawes as they did And if any propriety were taken from them by a tyrannicall or Arbitrary Power it was by the corruption and cruelty of those whom they now take to be their great Friends and by whom the Britans there and we here also were and are as much oppressed as they pretend to have been in this Motive V. Their native Youth debarred by the practice of State from all learning and education in that the onely Vniversity here excludes all Catholikes thence neither are they suffered to acquire learning or breeding beyond the Seas on porpose to make them rude and ignorant of all Letters This is untrue for the native Youth have as free libertie of education in all good Studies Arts and Sciences as the Britans and are debarred nothing but what the Children of the said Britans are also debarred if they be not conformable to the Lawes Yea they are debarred nothing but what is likewise mischievous to themselves and repugnant to the Law of God of which prohibitions none ought to complaine seeing the like are in most other Kingdomes and States much lesse ought they to make it a motive of rebellion or thereupon to inferre that it is purposed meerly to keep their Youth ignorant of letters VI. The Catholikes of this Kingdome are not admitted to any Dignities Place or Offices either Military or Civill Spirituall or Temporall but the same are conferred upon men of no quality who purchase it either for money or favour and not by merit The Protestants are not admitted to Dignities Militarie Civill or Spirituall in Spaine were that a just Motive therefore their Lawes not allowing it for their Natives to take up Armes against the State and murder unexpectedly their brethren as these have done Now if such dignities were conferred for money and on undeserving men it was done by their good Friends and Patrons onely who did the like here and therefore me thinks they should have concealed their corruptions till they had totally inslaved them which yet is but partly effected VII All the trading trafficke shipping and riches of this whole Isle by the corruption of the State are ingrossed by Dutch Scottish and English not residing here who exclude the Natives wholly from the same and who returne the Product of all their stocke and coyne backe into their native Countreyes This if it were so is