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           Mephibosheth
           and
           Ziba
           :
           OR
           ,
           THE
           APPEAL
           OF
           THE
           Protestants
           of
           Ireland
           TO
           THE
           KING
           ,
           CONCERNING
           The
           Settlement
           of
           that
           KINGDOM
           .
        
         
           —
           
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
             〈◊〉
          
           .
           
             Plat.
             in
             Sympos
             .
             ex
             Hesiod
             .
          
        
         
           
             By
             the
             Author
             of
             the
             Mantle
             Thrown
             off
             :
             Or
             ,
             The
             Irish-man
             Dissected
             .
          
        
         
           
             
               
                 
                   LICENS'D
                   ,
                
                 
                   
                     
                       August
                       the
                       30
                       th
                       .
                       1689.
                       
                    
                  
                
              
            
          
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           for
           
             R.
             Chiswell
          
           ,
           at
           the
           Rose
           and
           Crown
           in
           St.
           
           Paul's
           Church-Yard
           .
           MDCLXXXIX
           .
        
      
       
         
         
         
           THE
           PREFACE
           TO
           THE
           READER
           .
        
         
           IF
           we
           compare
           our
           present
           ,
           with
           all
           the
           Circumstances
           of
           our
           late
           unhappy
           condition
           ,
           by
           descending
           to
           a
           considerate
           recollection
           of
           those
           desperate
           Attempts
           of
           
             Arbitrary
             Government
          
           ,
           to
           violate
           our
           Religion
           ,
           and
           the
           Laws
           ,
           and
           to
           enslave
           these
           Kingdoms
           ,
           by
           a
           Despotick
           Invasion
           upon
           our
           just
           Rights
           and
           Properties
           :
           we
           must
           either
           account
           it
           the
           signal
           effects
           of
           a
           wonderful
           Providence
           ,
           or
           else
           make
           our
           Ingratitude
           as
           great
           a
           Miracle
           ,
           as
           was
           that
           of
           our
           Deliverance
           :
           And
           as
           we
           chiefly
           owe
           all
           to
           that
           Divine
           hand
           ,
           who
           by
           his
           over-ruling
           influence
           disposes
           of
           Sublunary
           Affairs
           ,
           by
           
             turning
             them
             which
             way
             soever
             he
             pleases
          
           ;
           so
           must
           we
           subordinately
           to
           him
           ,
           ascribe
           the
           present
           Settlement
           to
           his
           Instrument
           ,
           and
           the
           Restorer
           of
           our
           Peace
           ,
           his
           now
           Sacred
           Majesty
           .
           Now
           as
           all
           good
           men
           here
           must
           needs
           express
           the
           happiness
           and
           Tranquillity
           they
           enjoy
           ,
           by
           acknowledgments
           of
           this
           nature
           ;
           so
           it
           may
           be
           presumed
           ,
           that
           his
           
             Protestant
             Subjects
             of
             Ireland
          
           ,
           are
           not
           wanting
           in
           a
           right
           sense
           of
           that
           affectionate
           tenderness
           ,
           and
           regard
           for
           their
           interest
           and
           present
           condition
           ,
           which
           his
           Majesty
           has
           graciously
           vouchsafed
           
           such
           evincing
           Demonstrations
           of
           .
           For
           if
           the
           greatness
           of
           any
           danger
           ,
           does
           justly
           require
           a
           proportionable
           estimate
           upon
           the
           Means
           conducing
           to
           a
           Deliverance
           from
           it
           ;
           then
           consequently
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           of
           Ireland
           are
           by
           so
           much
           their
           more
           obliged
           unto
           higher
           Testimonies
           of
           Gratitude
           ,
           for
           his
           Majesty's
           Princely
           Endeavours
           to
           re-instate
           them
           in
           their
           Religion
           ,
           Laws
           ,
           Liberties
           ,
           and
           Possessions
           ,
           than
           were
           those
           of
           England
           ,
           by
           how
           much
           all
           these
           were
           in
           a
           greater
           measure
           infringed
           and
           now
           actually
           and
           totally
           violated
           .
           But
           as
           this
           is
           a
           truth
           ,
           which
           (
           by
           more
           than
           bare
           Arguments
           of
           presumption
           )
           I
           fully
           perswade
           my self
           ,
           that
           no
           Protestant
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           is
           so
           insensible
           of
           ,
           as
           to
           dispute
           ,
           whatever
           some
           unreasonable
           
             Male
             Contents
          
           ,
           and
           Factious
           Ill-spirited
           men
           ,
           fondly
           attempt
           to
           do
           ,
           that
           are
           Inhabitants
           of
           this
           ;
           yet
           seeing
           His
           Majesty
           has
           expressed
           so
           much
           condescention
           ,
           as
           to
           vouchsafe
           liberty
           to
           such
           of
           them
           as
           are
           in
           London
           ,
           to
           offer
           their
           Reasons
           in
           the
           framing
           up
           of
           a
           Proclamation
           of
           Pardon
           to
           the
           
             Irish
             Rebels
          
           ,
           it
           might
           justly
           be
           accounted
           a
           betraying
           as
           well
           of
           their
           Majesties
           ,
           as
           of
           their
           own
           interest
           ,
           not
           to
           endeavour
           by
           lawful
           methods
           ,
           a
           just
           preservation
           of
           both
           .
        
         
           I
           know
           it
           will
           be
           difficult
           for
           them
           to
           avoid
           a
           censorious
           imputation
           of
           partiality
           and
           prejudice
           ,
           especially
           by
           such
           as
           are
           in
           the
           bottom
           disaffected
           to
           them
           ;
           or
           rather
           in
           the
           main
           to
           the
           
             Protestant
             Cause
          
           ,
           how
           zealously
           soever
           they
           assume
           the
           outward
           shape
           of
           it
           .
           To
           this
           sort
           of
           men
           ,
           the
           most
           Candid
           ,
           and
           Indifferent
           representation
           of
           the
           present
           Insurrection
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           will
           be
           looked
           upon
           with
           an
           evil
           Eye
           ,
           and
           under
           stood
           as
           an
           effect
           of
           Self-Interest
           .
           Others
           there
           are
           that
           may
           misinterpret
           their
           Proceedings
           ,
           not
           out
           of
           a
           General
           Disaffection
           to
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           ,
           but
           because
           at
           this
           distance
           it
           is
           impossible
           for
           them
           (
           how
           intelligent
           soever
           in
           matters
           of
           State
           and
           Government
           )
           to
           be
           throughly
           acquainted
           with
           the
           Humour
           and
           Genius
           of
           
           the
           
             Native
             Irish
          
           ,
           of
           which
           none
           (
           I
           presume
           )
           can
           be
           such
           Competent
           Judges
           as
           those
           ,
           who
           have
           been
           long
           conversant
           in
           the
           Country
           ,
           and
           have
           had
           the
           Opportunities
           of
           inspecting
           into
           all
           their
           Affairs
           ,
           and
           to
           observe
           how
           their
           begotted
           Zeal
           ,
           their
           insuperable
           Cruelty
           ,
           and
           aversion
           to
           the
           English
           ,
           their
           Natural
           Inconstancy
           ,
           and
           Perfidiousness
           in
           the
           breach
           of
           Faith
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           Sacred
           and
           solemn
           Obligations
           ,
           which
           they
           can
           possibly
           lie
           under
           ,
           or
           be
           engaged
           in
           ,
           raised
           and
           fomented
           partly
           by
           the
           vileness
           of
           their
           Tempers
           ,
           but
           chiefly
           by
           the
           instigation
           of
           their
           Priests
           ,
           who
           are
           the
           publick
           Incendiaries
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ;
           and
           whilst
           the
           people
           are
           governed
           by
           their
           Arbitrary
           influence
           over
           them
           ,
           it
           must
           happen
           of
           course
           ,
           that
           such
           implacable
           Enemies
           to
           the
           
             Reformed
             Religion
          
           ,
           will
           possess
           their
           blind
           and
           slavish
           Votaries
           with
           a
           like
           antipathy
           ,
           both
           against
           it
           ,
           and
           its
           Professors
           :
           By
           which
           't
           is
           plain
           ,
           that
           if
           they
           were
           well
           inclined
           ,
           yet
           lies
           it
           not
           in
           their
           power
           to
           be
           true
           to
           the
           English
           ,
           the
           Infallible
           Dictates
           of
           their
           Priests
           superseding
           all
           other
           Considerations
           with
           them
           .
           Not
           to
           enumerate
           their
           other
           Qualities
           ,
           I
           shall
           only
           add
           their
           Dexterous
           Obsequiousness
           under
           the
           Protestant
           (
           which
           has
           been
           no
           small
           Delusion
           ,
           and
           mischief
           to
           the
           too
           Credulous
           English
           )
           and
           their
           insupportable
           Tyranny
           and
           Insolence
           under
           their
           own
           Government
           .
           We
           usually
           say
           ,
           that
           Experience
           is
           the
           best
           School-master
           ;
           and
           that
           an
           Ocular
           ,
           and
           Practical
           ,
           is
           preferrable
           to
           a
           remote
           and
           speculative
           knowledge
           ,
           which
           being
           a
           Maxim
           ,
           
             Non
             solum
             dato
             ,
             sed
             concesso
             ,
          
           as
           well
           granted
           as
           allowed
           on
           all
           hands
           ,
           it
           must
           needs
           follow
           ,
           that
           the
           
             Protestant
             Nobility
          
           and
           Gentry
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           are
           most
           capable
           of
           understanding
           its
           proper
           constitution
           ,
           and
           of
           proposing
           such
           Expedients
           ,
           as
           my
           produce
           the
           most
           durable
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           equal
           settlement
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           I
           say
           ,
           equal
           settlement
           ,
           because
           though
           their
           Sufferings
           have
           been
           such
           ,
           as
           may
           in
           Justice
           demand
           a
           Retribution
           
           from
           the
           Invaders
           of
           their
           lawful
           Possessions
           ;
           yet
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           do
           the
           Principles
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           natural
           Clemency
           and
           Compassion
           (
           which
           their
           Enemies
           even
           in
           the
           late
           Reign
           ,
           could
           not
           but
           acknowledge
           ,
           how
           far
           soever
           they
           were
           from
           imitating
           them
           )
           restrain
           them
           from
           thoughts
           of
           Blood
           ,
           and
           from
           a
           mutual
           exercise
           ,
           and
           return
           of
           the
           like
           measures
           of
           Severity
           ,
           which
           have
           been
           shewn
           to
           them
           ,
           their
           Profession
           not
           allowing
           them
           any
           such
           Latitude
           ,
           as
           
             to
             do
             evil
             that
             good
             may
             come
             of
             it
          
           ;
           seeing
           that
           the
           Apostle
           has
           thought
           fit
           to
           pass
           Sentence
           upon
           that
           unlawful
           Practice
           ,
           so
           common
           in
           ,
           and
           peculiar
           to
           the
           
             Church
             of
             Rome
          
           ,
           by
           that
           plain
           Asseveration
           ,
           that
           their
           Damnation
           is
           just
           .
        
         
           But
           though
           both
           their
           Religion
           ,
           and
           ,
           their
           Natures
           ,
           carry
           a
           powerfull
           propension
           in
           them
           to
           acts
           of
           Mercy
           ;
           yet
           neither
           (
           I
           suppose
           )
           will
           debar
           them
           from
           recovering
           of
           their
           own
           ,
           by
           having
           justice
           done
           upon
           such
           ,
           as
           have
           violently
           rent
           it
           from
           them
           ;
           nor
           will
           yet
           hinder
           them
           from
           taking
           such
           justifiable
           ,
           but
           effectual
           courses
           ,
           as
           may
           incapacitate
           their
           Adversaries
           to
           commit
           the
           like
           for
           the
           future
           :
           And
           besides
           the
           common
           equity
           ,
           we
           may
           draw
           the
           reasonableness
           of
           the
           first
           of
           these
           ,
           from
           the
           pungent
           necessity
           ,
           which
           the
           English
           are
           reduced
           to
           through
           the
           Rapin
           ,
           and
           Outrages
           of
           the
           Irish
           ,
           especially
           such
           whose
           substance
           consisted
           chiefly
           in
           
             Personal
             Estates
          
           ,
           for
           which
           if
           they
           should
           have
           no
           compensation
           from
           their
           injurers
           ,
           such
           ,
           by
           consequence
           ,
           must
           (
           notwithstanding
           the
           reduction
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           )
           remain
           in
           a
           miserable
           ,
           and
           distressed
           ,
           who
           liv'd
           formerly
           in
           a
           very
           opulent
           ,
           and
           comfortable
           condition
           :
           And
           then
           as
           to
           others
           who
           have
           real
           Estates
           to
           return
           to
           ,
           (
           tho'
           they
           have
           likewise
           incurred
           great
           losses
           in
           their
           Stock
           ,
           &c.
           )
           yet
           I
           perswade
           my self
           ,
           that
           there
           are
           hardly
           any
           of
           them
           ,
           but
           would
           desire
           to
           be
           divested
           of
           both
           ,
           and
           to
           continue
           in
           their
           present
           Exile
           ,
           under
           all
           the
           hardships
           of
           an
           indigent
           and
           mean
           Estate
           ,
           rather
           than
           return
           to
           their
           own
           
           with
           the
           conditions
           of
           a
           General
           Pardon
           ,
           and
           Indemnity
           to
           the
           Irish
           ;
           who
           are
           so
           naturally
           ,
           I
           had
           almost
           said
           essentially
           prone
           to
           Rebellion
           ,
           as
           to
           grasp
           at
           the
           next
           opportunity
           ,
           which
           must
           needs
           end
           in
           the
           inevitable
           ruine
           ,
           and
           final
           Extirpation
           of
           the
           British
           .
        
         
           A
           serious
           Consideration
           upon
           all
           which
           ,
           has
           by
           a
           natural
           Sympathy
           to
           my
           distressed
           Countrey-men
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           out
           of
           an
           hearty
           Zeal
           to
           Religion
           ,
           and
           a
           due
           regard
           to
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           
             Protestant
             Interest
          
           ,
           incited
           me
           to
           commit
           the
           following
           Sheets
           to
           publick
           view
           :
           for
           which
           boldness
           ,
           I
           could
           expect
           no
           pardon
           ,
           if
           a
           matter
           of
           so
           universal
           a
           nature
           ,
           as
           is
           the
           settlement
           of
           a
           Nation
           ,
           did
           not
           with
           all
           Candid
           and
           Judicious
           men
           ,
           give
           a
           great
           allowance
           to
           the
           infirmities
           of
           so
           honest
           a
           design
           .
           And
           tho'
           I
           heartily
           wish
           ,
           that
           some
           more
           accurate
           Pen
           would
           undertake
           the
           Subject
           ,
           the
           neglect
           whereof
           seems
           to
           be
           an
           unpardonable
           omission
           in
           those
           ,
           whose
           Learning
           and
           Parts
           entitle
           them
           to
           an
           ingenious
           defence
           both
           of
           themselves
           ,
           and
           others
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ;
           yet
           their
           silence
           in
           a
           juncture
           ,
           and
           upon
           an
           occasion
           ,
           which
           so
           nearly
           concerns
           them
           ,
           if
           they
           have
           a
           due
           regard
           to
           their
           Religion
           ,
           and
           to
           a
           firm
           and
           lasting
           settlement
           of
           their
           Country
           ,
           made
           me
           choose
           rather
           to
           say
           something
           ,
           tho'
           impertinently
           ,
           than
           to
           be
           wanting
           altogether
           to
           the
           maintenance
           of
           so
           good
           a
           Cause
           ,
           wherein
           men
           of
           Learned
           Education
           ,
           and
           of
           a
           great
           interest
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           are
           unaccountably
           defective
           ;
           excepting
           that
           Ingenious
           Gentleman
           
             Colonel
             Phillips
          
           ,
           to
           whose
           Character
           and
           Vindication
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           that
           Nation
           stands
           infinitely
           indebted
           .
           Another
           reason
           to
           the
           former
           ,
           is
           ,
           in
           pursuance
           to
           a
           Letter
           dated
           from
           Tunbridge
           ,
           and
           writ
           to
           a
           Friend
           in
           London
           upon
           this
           occasion
           ,
           wherein
           I
           promised
           a
           larger
           Discourse
           ;
           and
           to
           make
           my
           word
           good
           ,
           have
           adventured
           upon
           the
           following
           Tract
           ;
           in
           which
           the
           Reader
           will
           find
           the
           substance
           of
           that
           Letter
           ,
           together
           with
           many
           other
           ample
           ,
           and
           additional
           Improvements
           ,
           the
           design
           whereof
           (
           to
           represent
           it
           in
           a
           
           word
           )
           is
           to
           shew
           how
           improper
           it
           is
           to
           vouchsafe
           a
           Pardon
           to
           the
           Nobility
           and
           Gentry
           of
           the
           
             Irish
             Papists
          
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           reduce
           the
           Populace
           to
           Obedience
           ;
           but
           that
           the
           quite
           contrary
           ,
           is
           the
           best
           method
           ,
           as
           well
           for
           a
           safe
           and
           durable
           ,
           as
           for
           a
           ready
           and
           expeditious
           Conquest
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           &c.
           
           But
           I
           will
           detain
           you
           no
           longer
           in
           the
           Porch
           ,
           but
           send
           yon
           to
           the
           
             Main
             Work
          
           in
           the
           ensuing
           Relation
           .
        
      
    
     
       
         
         
           MEPHIBOSHETH
           &
           ZIBA
           ,
           OR
           ,
           THE
           APPEAL
           of
           the
           Protestants
           of
           IRELAND
           TO
           THE
           KING
           ,
           &c.
           
        
         
           OF
           such
           dismal
           and
           amazing
           consequence
           ,
           to
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           ,
           have
           been
           those
           frequent
           Revolutions
           in
           the
           Government
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           occasion'd
           by
           the
           constant
           Rebellions
           and
           vile
           Perfidiousness
           of
           the
           Natives
           ;
           but
           more
           especially
           the
           two
           last
           Scenes
           ,
           of
           Forty
           One
           ,
           and
           the
           present
           deplorable
           juncture
           ,
           have
           offer'd
           to
           the
           World
           so
           black
           and
           odious
           a
           Representation
           of
           their
           unparallel'd
           Barbarity
           and
           Insolence
           ,
           as
           gives
           occasion
           of
           wonder
           at
           the
           present
           proceedings
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           framing
           of
           a
           Proclamation
           for
           their
           Pardon
           .
           It
           is
           difficult
           indeed
           to
           imagine
           that
           those
           men
           who
           have
           committed
           so
           publick
           a
           Devastation
           in
           that
           lamentable
           Kingdom
           ,
           been
           so
           inhumanly
           injurious
           to
           their
           kind
           and
           too
           indulgent
           Neighbours
           ,
           t●●
           English
           ;
           as
           to
           divest
           those
           of
           their
           Substance
           a●●
           Estates
           ,
           who
           were
           formerly
           the
           chief
           Instru●●●●●
           
           of
           their
           Support
           ;
           nay
           more
           ,
           which
           are
           immers'd
           in
           Protestant
           Blood
           ,
           should
           (
           after
           all
           their
           repeated
           Violences
           and
           horrid
           Outrages
           )
           be
           kindly
           and
           amicably
           treated
           by
           those
           whom
           they
           bear
           an
           utter
           abhorrence
           and
           detestation
           to
           .
           This
           (
           though
           design'd
           as
           an
           effect
           of
           transcendent
           Mercy
           )
           is
           a
           most
           insuperable
           Grievance
           to
           the
           Protestants
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           not
           to
           them
           peculiarly
           ,
           but
           to
           England
           also
           ,
           if
           rightly
           and
           duly
           reflected
           upon
           .
        
         
           But
           that
           this
           is
           not
           
             gratis
             dictum
          
           ,
           I
           shall
           endeavour
           to
           evince
           by
           the
           sequel
           of
           this
           Discourse
           ,
           by
           asserting
           ,
           That
           so
           unaccountable
           has
           the
           Antipathy
           of
           the
           Irish
           ever
           been
           towards
           the
           English
           ,
           that
           those
           commonly
           inviolable
           Bonds
           both
           of
           Religion
           and
           Interest
           ,
           (
           which
           we
           find
           so
           operative
           in
           other
           Nations
           )
           and
           with
           which
           they
           were
           link'd
           together
           ,
           were
           not
           able
           to
           overcome
           it
           .
        
         
           That
           even
           when
           the
           English
           were
           earnestly
           supplicated
           by
           their
           own
           Kings
           ,
           to
           vouchsafe
           their
           assistance
           ,
           and
           presented
           them
           with
           Victory
           over
           their
           Enemies
           and
           Competitors
           ;
           yet
           at
           the
           same
           time
           ,
           by
           such
           a
           monstrous
           Ingratitude
           ,
           (
           as
           't
           is
           hard
           to
           conceive
           humane
           Nature
           to
           be
           guilty
           of
           )
           were
           barbarously
           assassinated
           by
           those
           Savages
           ,
           to
           whom
           they
           had
           procured
           Deliverance
           .
        
         
           But
           a
           better
           instance
           cannot
           be
           given
           of
           that
           radicared
           and
           unalterable
           Prejudice
           ,
           which
           they
           bear
           towards
           the
           English
           ,
           than
           its
           continuance
           by
           an
           uninterrupted
           hereditary
           Succession
           or
           lineal
           Descent
           from
           Father
           to
           Son
           ,
           ever
           since
           the
           first
           footing
           of
           the
           British
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ;
           and
           therefore
           ,
           as
           a
           terrour
           to
           their
           Children
           ,
           when
           they
           would
           frighten
           them
           ,
           they
           are
           wont
           to
           use
           this
           Irish
           expression
           ,
           Hoot-a-Sasonought
           ;
           the
           meaning
           whereof
           is
           ,
           That
           the
           English
           are
           coming
           ;
           by
           which
           means
           their
           Children
           
           suck
           in
           ,
           together
           with
           their
           Milk
           ,
           a
           natural
           aversion
           to
           them
           .
           So
           essentially
           true
           is
           that
           expression
           ,
           
             Odiunt
             quos
             metuunt
          
           :
           Those
           whom
           Men
           fear
           ,
           such
           they
           hate
           ;
           humane
           Nature
           being
           impatient
           under
           Superiors
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           powerful
           instinct
           of
           self-love
           ,
           apt
           to
           convert
           their
           esteem
           of
           ,
           into
           hatred
           against
           such
           persons
           whom
           they
           are
           not
           able
           to
           govern
           and
           controul
           ;
           but
           rather
           whos
           's
           high
           Power
           and
           Interest
           they
           look
           upon
           as
           dangerous
           to
           the
           repose
           both
           of
           themselves
           and
           others
           .
           And
           as
           this
           Principle
           is
           true
           in
           it self
           ,
           so
           has
           it
           been
           carefully
           instill'd
           by
           the
           
             Irish
             Parents
          
           ,
           into
           their
           Children
           ,
           industriously
           cherishing
           and
           improving
           all
           the
           outward
           symptoms
           of
           their
           dislike
           to
           the
           Interest
           and
           Government
           of
           the
           English
           ;
           against
           which
           ,
           as
           they
           use
           their
           utmost
           endeavours
           to
           embitter
           and
           prepossess
           them
           ,
           so
           are
           their
           Priests
           as
           active
           to
           sowre
           and
           corrupt
           their
           Judgments
           ,
           with
           wild
           and
           terrifying
           notions
           of
           the
           Falshood
           and
           Heresie
           of
           the
           
             Protestant
             Religion
          
           ;
           pronouncing
           the
           severest
           Anathemaes
           of
           eternal
           Condemnation
           to
           all
           that
           profess
           it
           ,
           and
           representing
           to
           them
           ,
           That
           they
           are
           without
           the
           Pale
           of
           the
           Church
           ,
           and
           to
           be
           treated
           as
           common
           Enemies
           to
           the
           Faith
           ;
           That
           they
           are
           no
           otherwise
           to
           be
           accounted
           of
           than
           as
           Dogs
           and
           Castaways
           ,
           or
           a
           sort
           of
           infernal
           Spirits
           ,
           which
           are
           sent
           into
           their
           Country
           ,
           to
           inflict
           a
           punishment
           upon
           their
           Bodies
           ,
           and
           for
           a
           trial
           of
           their
           Constancy
           in
           the
           Religion
           of
           the
           Holy
           Church
           :
           But
           that
           God
           will
           in
           his
           due
           time
           give
           them
           the
           victory
           over
           them
           ,
           and
           that
           then
           they
           will
           do
           God
           good
           Service
           that
           are
           most
           instrumental
           in
           their
           destruction
           .
           These
           daily
           and
           repeated
           suggestions
           of
           the
           Priests
           ,
           which
           operate
           upon
           their
           Votaries
           by
           a
           lasting
           and
           deep
           Impression
           ,
           have
           (
           together
           with
           the
           leaven'd
           Principles
           of
           a
           byass'd
           and
           partial
           Education
           derived
           from
           their
           Parents
           )
           established
           such
           a
           fundamental
           hatred
           in
           their
           
           minds
           against
           any
           thing
           that
           bears
           the
           Stamp
           of
           English
           ,
           that
           whenever
           by
           their
           Rebellion
           they
           wrested
           the
           Reins
           of
           Government
           from
           them
           ,
           their
           implacable
           rage
           did
           not
           only
           extend
           to
           their
           innocent
           persons
           ,
           but
           to
           every
           Vegetative
           and
           
             Inanimate
             Substance
          
           that
           bore
           but
           the
           Characters
           of
           their
           Improvement
           .
           And
           to
           me
           it
           seems
           an
           unparallel'd
           instance
           of
           an
           irreconcileable
           inveteracy
           ,
           thus
           to
           destroy
           the
           flourishing
           effects
           of
           the
           English
           Industry
           ,
           when
           no
           other
           way
           remain'd
           of
           executing
           their
           inhumane
           fury
           ,
           tho'
           at
           the
           same
           time
           they
           thereby
           defac'd
           the
           beauty
           and
           ornaments
           of
           their
           Country
           ,
           and
           consequently
           acted
           diametrically
           contrary
           to
           their
           own
           true
           Interest
           .
        
         
           But
           ,
           alas
           !
           this
           aversion
           was
           so
           deeply
           rooted
           by
           the
           aforesaid
           Artifices
           ,
           consisting
           in
           the
           Education
           of
           their
           Parents
           ,
           and
           Instructions
           of
           their
           Priests
           ,
           that
           no
           acts
           of
           Clemency
           or
           Indulgence
           were
           ever
           found
           capable
           to
           prevail
           with
           them
           to
           adhere
           faithfully
           to
           the
           Government
           and
           Crown
           of
           England
           ;
           no
           ,
           not
           the
           highest
           Titles
           of
           Honour
           or
           Dignity
           ;
           not
           their
           Matrimonial
           Alliances
           with
           the
           English
           ;
           not
           the
           largest
           Priviledges
           or
           Immunities
           from
           the
           Crown
           ;
           not
           the
           greatest
           places
           of
           Trust
           ,
           or
           most
           weighty
           Employments
           in
           the
           State
           ;
           not
           the
           highest
           opportunities
           of
           Advantage
           ,
           or
           of
           secular
           profit
           :
           and
           in
           fine
           ,
           not
           any
           Encouragements
           which
           were
           either
           in
           the
           power
           of
           the
           English
           to
           bestow
           ,
           or
           of
           them
           to
           accept
           ,
           could
           induce
           them
           to
           extinguish
           that
           Hatred
           in
           their
           Breasts
           ,
           which
           upon
           all
           inviting
           occasions
           they
           executed
           upon
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           trampling
           upon
           all
           their
           Obligations
           and
           Civilities
           by
           a
           most
           horrid
           Ingratitude
           and
           an
           insolent
           Contempt
           ;
           and
           that
           Humanity
           ,
           which
           in
           the
           very
           Breast
           of
           a
           Cannibal
           would
           claim
           some
           Power
           ,
           seem'd
           so
           quite
           eras'd
           out
           of
           their
           Hearts
           in
           all
           their
           outrages
           towards
           
           the
           English
           ,
           as
           if
           their
           Cruelties
           had
           quite
           unmann'd
           them
           ,
           and
           (
           as
           it
           were
           )
           sunk
           their
           erect
           into
           a
           
             savage
             Shape
          
           of
           Wolves
           and
           Tygers
           .
        
         
           Indeed
           ,
           the
           gratifying
           of
           their
           Lusts
           was
           oftentimes
           of
           that
           prevalence
           with
           their
           Grandees
           ,
           that
           to
           answer
           their
           importunity
           they
           were
           necessitated
           to
           enter
           into
           Marriage
           with
           English
           Families
           ,
           in
           whose
           beauty
           and
           humour
           ,
           though
           't
           was
           impossible
           for
           them
           not
           to
           manifest
           very
           great
           Complacency
           ;
           yet
           were
           not
           their
           Amours
           to
           the
           Children
           sufficient
           to
           restrain
           their
           Barbarity
           from
           the
           Parents
           :
           an
           instance
           as
           unnatural
           to
           others
           ,
           as
           peculiar
           to
           these
           Monsters
           ;
           and
           should
           I
           undertake
           to
           enumerate
           the
           Tragedies
           committed
           by
           them
           ,
           upon
           such
           whose
           near
           Relations
           they
           had
           taken
           to
           their
           own
           Beds
           ,
           all
           Mankind
           must
           needs
           consider
           their
           unequal'd
           inhumanity
           with
           horror
           and
           amazement
           .
           But
           I
           refer
           the
           Reader
           to
           the
           History
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           where
           he
           may
           meet
           with
           an
           abundant
           variety
           of
           places
           to
           this
           purpose
           ,
           together
           with
           those
           various
           
             Tragick
             Scenes
          
           of
           such
           bloody
           Massacres
           and
           impious
           Assassinations
           ,
           as
           no
           Story
           can
           parallel
           for
           the
           matter
           ,
           nor
           Satan
           himself
           contrive
           more
           Butcherly
           Arts
           in
           the
           manner
           of
           their
           execution
           .
           But
           I
           shall
           not
           insist
           longer
           upon
           these
           things
           ,
           which
           are
           but
           too
           lively
           imprinted
           in
           the
           Memories
           of
           the
           
             Irish
             Protestant
             Sufferers
          
           ;
           but
           rather
           proceed
           to
           my
           present
           design
           ,
           which
           is
           to
           shew
           ,
        
         
           That
           Pardon
           and
           Lenity
           to
           them
           ,
           however
           it
           carries
           the
           face
           of
           Mercy
           ,
           is
           yet
           in
           reality
           the
           contrary
           .
        
         
           And
           in
           the
           second
           place
           ,
           That
           it
           will
           not
           attain
           the
           end
           design'd
           ,
           the
           more
           easie
           reduction
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
         
           In
           relation
           to
           the
           first
           of
           these
           ,
           it
           is
           to
           be
           consider'd
           ,
           That
           Mercy
           ,
           in
           its
           true
           and
           genuine
           importance
           ,
           is
           a
           Work
           of
           Deliverance
           and
           Preservation
           ,
           and
           wheresoever
           it
           is
           vouchsafed
           ,
           a
           chief
           regard
           is
           to
           be
           had
           to
           the
           Security
           of
           Men's
           Rights
           and
           Interests
           .
           Now
           't
           is
           plain
           ,
           That
           pardoning
           of
           the
           Irish
           cannot
           be
           capable
           of
           any
           such
           Interpretation
           ,
           unless
           it
           be
           granted
           ,
           That
           the
           British
           of
           Ireland
           have
           been
           Usurpers
           of
           their
           Rights
           .
        
         
           'T
           is
           but
           too
           apparent
           ,
           That
           the
           present
           Insurrection
           of
           Ireland
           has
           wasted
           and
           destroyed
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           ;
           That
           thousands
           of
           the
           English
           have
           either
           become
           Sacrifices
           to
           the
           Rage
           and
           Cruelty
           of
           the
           Natives
           ,
           or
           else
           have
           perish'd
           by
           Famine
           or
           other
           Disasters
           .
           If
           then
           it
           be
           demanded
           ,
           Who
           were
           the
           Agents
           of
           this
           publick
           Mischief
           and
           Calamity
           ?
           Was
           not
           all
           of
           it
           transacted
           by
           the
           Irish
           ?
           That
           is
           a
           Truth
           which
           admits
           of
           no
           dispute
           .
           But
           if
           it
           be
           again
           ask'd
           ,
           Were
           not
           the
           Natives
           irritated
           thereunto
           by
           provocations
           receiv'd
           from
           the
           English
           ?
           This
           indeed
           may
           be
           controverted
           by
           some
           who
           are
           Foreigners
           to
           the
           State
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ;
           and
           therefore
           I
           think
           it
           fit
           to
           return
           an
           Answer
           to
           that
           Objection
           ,
           by
           taking
           a
           short
           Survey
           of
           the
           late
           Condition
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           immediately
           before
           this
           universal
           Devastation
           committed
           by
           the
           Papists
           .
        
         
           Tyrconnel
           was
           seated
           at
           the
           Helm
           ,
           a
           bitter
           and
           implacable
           Enemy
           to
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           .
        
         
           The
           Militia
           ,
           all
           compos'd
           of
           English
           ,
           had
           for
           a
           considerable
           time
           before
           been
           disarmed
           .
        
         
           The
           standing
           Army
           ,
           made
           up
           of
           English
           Souldiery
           ,
           disbanded
           ;
           and
           Irish
           ,
           both
           Officers
           and
           
             private
             Souldiers
          
           ,
           preferr'd
           to
           their
           places
           .
        
         
           The
           Corporations
           divested
           of
           their
           old
           Charters
           ,
           and
           then
           new
           modell'd
           by
           turning
           out
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           
           and
           placing
           Natives
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           in
           the
           Magistracy
           and
           Government
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           Papists
           made
           Judges
           ,
           put
           into
           the
           Commission
           of
           the
           Peace
           ,
           constituted
           
             Sheriffs
             ,
             Coroners
             ,
             Constables
             ,
             &c.
          
           throughout
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           The
           
             Protestant
             Clergy
          
           disturbed
           in
           their
           Ministry
           ,
           and
           the
           discharge
           of
           their
           sacred
           Function
           .
        
         
           Many
           of
           the
           poorer
           sort
           of
           Protestants
           practis'd
           upon
           by
           various
           Arts
           of
           the
           
             Popish
             Priests
          
           ,
           and
           thereby
           seduc'd
           from
           their
           Religion
           ,
           and
           turn'd
           Papists
           .
        
         
           The
           Houses
           of
           the
           Sick
           invaded
           both
           by
           Seculars
           and
           Regulars
           ,
           who
           would
           violently
           shut
           the
           Protestants
           doors
           against
           their
           own
           Ministers
           ,
           and
           by
           a
           Thousand
           impious
           contrivances
           and
           unheard-of
           Machinations
           ,
           so
           menace
           and
           terrifie
           them
           with
           the
           thoughts
           of
           Damnation
           to
           those
           of
           their
           Religion
           ,
           as
           forced
           them
           in
           the
           agonies
           of
           Death
           to
           renounce
           the
           Principles
           of
           their
           Faith
           ;
           or
           at
           least
           the
           Priests
           pretended
           that
           they
           did
           so
           ,
           and
           that
           they
           came
           off
           Conquerors
           ,
           the
           known
           and
           apparent
           refusal
           of
           many
           notwi●hstanding
           .
        
         
           This
           transient
           Prospect
           of
           Affairs
           does
           sufficiently
           discover
           to
           us
           ,
           That
           the
           Irish
           were
           under
           no
           hard
           or
           severe
           circumstances
           from
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           and
           far
           from
           standing
           in
           awe
           of
           them
           ,
           who
           (
           now
           that
           the
           course
           of
           things
           was
           so
           manifestly
           inverted
           )
           were
           become
           their
           Masters
           ,
           instead
           of
           that
           of
           their
           Slaves
           and
           Vassals
           .
        
         
           But
           perhaps
           it
           may
           be
           urged
           ,
           That
           the
           Protestants
           were
           for
           espousing
           the
           Interest
           of
           King
           William
           ,
           then
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           :
           And
           indeed
           ,
           't
           was
           reasonably
           to
           be
           supposed
           ,
           that
           all
           persons
           who
           had
           any
           valuable
           regard
           for
           their
           Religion
           ,
           or
           to
           the
           retrieving
           of
           the
           Laws
           and
           Constitutions
           of
           the
           Land
           ,
           were
           strongly
           inclined
           to
           favour
           and
           assist
           in
           so
           good
           
           and
           advantagious
           a
           Design
           .
           But
           then
           ,
           alas
           !
           the
           English
           were
           in
           no
           capacity
           of
           putting
           their
           good
           Wishes
           in
           execution
           :
           They
           had
           been
           disarm'd
           ,
           and
           thereby
           divested
           of
           all
           ability
           whereby
           to
           make
           any
           considerable
           defence
           ,
           or
           to
           provide
           for
           their
           Security
           :
           Besides
           ,
           they
           were
           under
           a
           strict
           Guard
           from
           their
           Enemies
           ,
           who
           had
           all
           the
           power
           and
           strength
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           in
           their
           hands
           ,
           and
           kept
           a
           vigilant
           and
           an
           attentive
           eye
           upon
           all
           their
           actions
           :
           which
           kept
           the
           English
           so
           much
           in
           subjection
           ,
           and
           was
           so
           great
           a
           discouragement
           unto
           them
           ,
           that
           hardly
           any
           attempted
           to
           declare
           for
           the
           Prince
           ,
           till
           February
           ;
           whereas
           most
           of
           the
           Rapin
           and
           Devastation
           was
           committed
           before
           .
        
         
           This
           compendious
           description
           of
           Affairs
           will
           (
           I
           presume
           )
           be
           deem'd
           sufficient
           to
           satisfie
           all
           judicious
           and
           impartial
           men
           ,
           that
           without
           the
           least
           provocation
           or
           plausible
           pretence
           of
           Right
           ,
           the
           
             Irish
             Papists
          
           have
           acted
           the
           late
           
             Massacres
             ,
             Burnings
          
           ,
           and
           other
           publick
           Mischiefs
           and
           Calamities
           upon
           the
           Protestants
           of
           Ireland
           :
           which
           if
           they
           had
           been
           mutual
           and
           reciprocal
           injuries
           ,
           though
           they
           that
           were
           in
           a
           good
           Cause
           ,
           would
           have
           been
           Sufferers
           for
           their
           Loyalty
           and
           Service
           to
           the
           King
           ;
           yet
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           there
           might
           have
           been
           room
           for
           the
           King's
           Mercy
           .
           But
           where
           the
           inveteracy
           of
           a
           malicious
           Antagonist
           discharged
           it self
           in
           whole
           Vollies
           upon
           a
           quiet
           and
           inoffensive
           People
           ,
           without
           any
           other
           inducement
           than
           that
           of
           a
           bare
           Surmise
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           inwardly
           affected
           to
           King
           William
           ;
           seems
           as
           irrational
           and
           unjustifiable
           an
           Argument
           for
           those
           violent
           Outrages
           committed
           thereupon
           ;
           as
           't
           is
           haply
           ,
           without
           Precedent
           (
           if
           duly
           reflected
           upon
           in
           all
           its
           circumstances
           and
           respects
           )
           that
           men
           so
           habituated
           to
           Rebellion
           ,
           and
           profess'd
           Enemies
           to
           the
           
           
             Protestant
             Interest
          
           and
           Religion
           ,
           should
           have
           a
           Pardon
           vouchsafed
           unto
           them
           .
        
         
           I
           now
           proceed
           to
           shew
           ,
           That
           a
           Pardon
           to
           the
           Irish
           cannot
           properly
           be
           interpreted
           an
           effect
           of
           Mercy
           ,
           but
           in
           reality
           the
           contrary
           .
        
         
           To
           illustrate
           this
           to
           you
           ,
           I
           think
           it
           reasonable
           to
           affirm
           ,
           That
           that
           cannot
           be
           accounted
           an
           effect
           of
           Mercy
           ,
           which
           is
           extended
           to
           such
           Criminals
           as
           have
           invaded
           and
           usurped
           the
           Rights
           and
           Properties
           of
           others
           ;
           which
           is
           consequent
           to
           my
           first
           Position
           ,
           That
           Mercy
           is
           to
           be
           confin'd
           within
           the
           Boundaries
           of
           common
           Right
           :
           and
           if
           this
           were
           not
           so
           ,
           such
           as
           live
           most
           obedient
           to
           the
           Government
           ,
           could
           expect
           no
           Security
           from
           it
           ;
           which
           would
           be
           a
           Practice
           as
           disagreeable
           to
           the
           first
           Institution
           of
           Government
           in
           the
           World
           ,
           as
           't
           is
           contrary
           to
           Nature
           and
           the
           common
           Reason
           of
           Mankind
           .
           Besides
           ,
           by
           this
           means
           no
           Government
           could
           long
           subsist
           ,
           because
           it
           must
           necessarily
           encourage
           such
           men
           as
           openly
           violate
           and
           contemn
           its
           Injunctions
           ;
           and
           by
           consequence
           ,
           such
           as
           most
           trample
           upon
           ,
           must
           possess
           the
           places
           of
           Judicature
           ,
           and
           the
           greatest
           Offenders
           become
           
             prime
             Ministers
          
           of
           State.
           
        
         
           But
           to
           encounter
           this
           Argument
           more
           closely
           ,
           'T
           is
           a
           Maxim
           receiv'd
           among
           Princes
           ,
           To
           manage
           with
           a
           steady
           and
           equal
           hand
           in
           Affairs
           of
           State
           ,
           and
           in
           consequence
           hereunto
           a
           general
           Pardon
           is
           reckon'd
           to
           be
           a
           mutual
           Good.
           But
           in
           pursuance
           to
           this
           (
           I
           presume
           )
           it
           will
           be
           granted
           ,
           that
           such
           as
           have
           adher'd
           to
           the
           Interest
           of
           King
           William
           ,
           and
           consequently
           have
           ,
           upon
           all
           occasions
           ,
           demonstrated
           their
           Zeal
           and
           Sincerity
           for
           the
           
             Protestant
             Cause
          
           and
           Religion
           ,
           may
           reasonably
           put
           in
           as
           just
           a
           claim
           to
           his
           Mercy
           ,
           as
           such
           who
           have
           declared
           their
           Enmity
           to
           both
           .
        
         
         
           The
           Justice
           and
           Equality
           of
           this
           matter
           being
           thus
           considered
           ,
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           suppos'd
           ,
           that
           he
           who
           came
           to
           rescue
           our selves
           and
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           from
           the
           violent
           Intrusion
           of
           Romish
           Idolatry
           and
           Slavery
           ,
           would
           transfer
           our
           Possessions
           to
           those
           whose
           Injustice
           he
           came
           to
           punish
           and
           suppress
           .
           This
           seems
           to
           be
           an
           Act
           of
           greater
           severity
           than
           was
           that
           precipitate
           and
           hasty
           judgment
           of
           David
           to
           
             Mephibosheth
             ,
             Let
             Ziba
             and
             thou
             divide
             :
          
           for
           in
           this
           case
           the
           Irish
           are
           in
           possession
           of
           the
           whole
           ,
           and
           are
           so
           far
           from
           making
           any
           Overtures
           ,
           or
           shewing
           any
           Indication
           of
           their
           Submission
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           not
           so
           much
           as
           the
           Argument
           of
           that
           unworthy
           Sycophant
           on
           their
           sides
           ,
           meeting
           the
           King
           on
           the
           way
           .
           Nay
           ,
           so
           far
           have
           they
           deviated
           from
           the
           least
           of
           that
           Respect
           which
           is
           even
           owing
           to
           a
           Christian
           ,
           that
           in
           their
           common
           Discourses
           they
           cursed
           the
           very
           name
           of
           the
           Prince
           of
           Orange
           ,
           as
           the
           Off-spring
           of
           that
           man
           who
           was
           so
           fatal
           to
           the
           Romish
           Church
           in
           the
           Netherlands
           ,
           which
           they
           feared
           ,
           was
           an
           ominous
           presage
           of
           his
           Posterity's
           being
           so
           to
           the●
           .
           And
           if
           their
           inveterate
           malice
           against
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           in
           Ireland
           was
           capable
           of
           any
           addition
           ,
           they
           augmented
           it
           ;
           for
           the
           Affection
           which
           was
           visibly
           discernable
           in
           them
           ,
           to
           his
           now
           Sacred
           Majesty
           ,
           whose
           Person
           and
           Government
           the
           
             Irish
             Papists
          
           have
           in
           so
           great
           an
           Abhorrence
           ,
           and
           do
           ,
           with
           the
           most
           impious
           Anathemaes
           ,
           so
           inhumanly
           execrate
           and
           revile
           ,
           that
           we
           may
           justly
           account
           their
           malice
           not
           inferiour
           to
           that
           of
           the
           Jews
           to
           our
           Saviour
           ,
           in
           scourging
           his
           Effigies
           ,
           as
           a
           meritorious
           Act
           in
           their
           Devotion
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           would
           not
           be
           understood
           in
           this
           place
           ,
           as
           if
           the
           Tenour
           of
           th●s
           Discourse
           were
           design'd
           to
           
           restrain
           the
           Fountain
           of
           the
           
             KING'S
             Mercy
          
           ;
           but
           if
           the
           Current
           be
           diverted
           from
           its
           proper
           Channel
           ,
           by
           turning
           it
           from
           his
           Enclosures
           into
           the
           Common
           ,
           methinks
           there
           is
           a
           reasonable
           subject
           of
           Complaint
           against
           those
           ,
           whose
           Avarice
           and
           too-interested
           a
           Regard
           to
           their
           private
           advantage
           (
           in
           prejudice
           to
           the
           publick
           welfare
           ,
           not
           perhaps
           of
           one
           ,
           but
           of
           three
           Nations
           )
           carry
           them
           beyond
           the
           bounds
           both
           of
           Reason
           and
           common
           Equity
           .
           We
           have
           had
           the
           most
           cogent
           and
           evincing
           demonstrations
           ,
           That
           the
           Royal
           Affections
           of
           
             His
             Majesty
          
           are
           graciously
           inclin'd
           to
           us
           ,
           by
           that
           wonderful
           Condescention
           shewn
           to
           his
           
             Irish
             Protestant
             Subjects
          
           ,
           in
           that
           he
           permits
           ,
           nay
           ,
           commands
           them
           to
           speak
           ;
           and
           since
           he
           is
           thus
           mercifully
           pleased
           to
           hear
           them
           represent
           their
           Grievances
           (
           the
           effects
           of
           their
           faithful
           adherence
           to
           the
           Cause
           he
           owns
           )
           they
           presume
           to
           request
           no
           more
           than
           this
           ,
           Not
           to
           be
           debarr'd
           from
           the
           benefits
           of
           His
           Grace
           and
           Favour
           to
           them
           :
           They
           claim
           nothing
           of
           what
           in
           Justice
           belongs
           to
           their
           Adversaries
           ;
           but
           desire
           their
           own
           ,
           not
           the
           Possessions
           of
           others
           ,
           but
           a
           Restitution
           of
           their
           proper
           Right
           ,
           and
           this
           not
           to
           extend
           to
           Losses
           in
           War
           ,
           (
           which
           those
           who
           outwardly
           seem
           to
           espouse
           ,
           but
           secretly
           endeavour
           to
           undermine
           our
           true
           Interest
           ,
           would
           insinuate
           )
           but
           for
           Robberies
           and
           other
           outragious
           Acts
           of
           Violence
           ,
           committed
           in
           time
           of
           Peace
           :
           and
           these
           of
           so
           notorious
           a
           nature
           ,
           that
           had
           even
           their
           own
           
             Popish
             Government
          
           ,
           and
           King
           ,
           been
           in
           any
           capacity
           of
           asserting
           but
           part
           of
           the
           Laws
           ,
           the
           Offenders
           would
           (
           at
           least
           in
           some
           degree
           )
           have
           been
           constrained
           to
           make
           Restitution
           .
        
         
           Nor
           do
           the
           Protestants
           of
           Ireland
           desire
           the
           Blood
           of
           any
           ,
           the
           Principles
           of
           whose
           Religion
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           
           natural
           Clemency
           ,
           being
           such
           as
           permits
           them
           not
           to
           repay
           their
           Adversaries
           in
           their
           own
           Coin
           ;
           but
           to
           chuse
           rather
           to
           leave
           them
           to
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           King's
           Justice
           .
        
         
           That
           which
           they
           would
           pray
           and
           intreat
           for
           ,
           is
           only
           that
           which
           might
           be
           a
           means
           of
           preserving
           those
           ,
           who
           have
           escaped
           the
           Irish
           Cruelty
           ,
           as
           to
           their
           Lives
           ,
           though
           not
           in
           their
           Estates
           :
           Namely
           〈◊〉
           Reparation
           for
           their
           substance
           taken
           from
           them
           ,
           without
           which
           ,
           they
           must
           inevitably
           perish
           ,
           being
           in
           a
           worse
           condition
           than
           were
           the
           Egyptians
           ,
           when
           they
           told
           Joseph
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           nothing
           left
           but
           their
           Bodies
           and
           Lands
           :
           whereas
           these
           poor
           Protestants
           ,
           who
           are
           now
           most
           humble
           Supplicants
           to
           His
           Majesty
           ,
           were
           never
           invested
           in
           the
           latter
           ,
           their
           whole
           substance
           consisting
           in
           Personal
           Estates
           ,
           which
           they
           were
           totally
           stripped
           and
           dispossessed
           of
           .
        
         
           Some
           have
           urged
           His
           Majesty's
           Proclamation
           of
           Pardon
           in
           Scotland
           ,
           as
           an
           Argument
           to
           infer
           the
           reasonableness
           and
           necessity
           of
           the
           like
           to
           be
           extended
           to
           the
           Rebels
           in
           Ireland
           ;
           but
           't
           is
           plain
           to
           me
           ,
           that
           an
           Instance
           of
           so
           great
           disparity
           ,
           insisted
           upon
           by
           men
           of
           understanding
           ,
           serves
           but
           to
           confirm
           the
           Apprehensions
           and
           Opinions
           of
           many
           in
           that
           ,
           which
           't
           is
           not
           my
           business
           here
           to
           mention
           :
           Only
           this
           I
           will
           affirm
           ,
           That
           it
           seems
           not
           to
           be
           chargeable
           upon
           our
           Prime
           Ministers
           of
           State
           ,
           but
           upon
           a
           small
           Fry
           that
           hope
           to
           fat
           themselves
           in
           the
           Troubled
           Waters
           of
           Ireland
           .
        
         
           They
           are
           not
           unacquainted
           with
           the
           Humour
           and
           Disposition
           of
           the
           Irish
           ,
           and
           how
           subject
           they
           are
           to
           bribe
           ,
           when
           reduced
           to
           any
           Exigency
           :
           For
           which
           reason
           they
           are
           very
           unwilling
           at
           present
           to
           dispossess
           them
           of
           that
           Wealth
           ,
           which
           by
           Rapin
           and
           Spoil
           they
           have
           gained
           from
           the
           English
           ;
           to
           the
           intent
           that
           it
           may
           be
           
           left
           to
           be
           offered
           at
           their
           Altars
           ,
           to
           make
           an
           Atonement
           for
           them
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           return
           ,
           It
           seems
           easie
           to
           answer
           that
           Objection
           of
           the
           Proceedings
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           which
           in
           no
           Circumstances
           or
           Respects
           ,
           run
           parallel
           with
           the
           present
           Rebellion
           of
           Ireland
           .
        
         
           Those
           of
           Scotland
           were
           guilty
           of
           no
           Murthers
           or
           Robberies
           ,
           upon
           their
           first
           Excursion
           ,
           but
           acted
           only
           in
           their
           own
           defence
           ;
           whereas
           those
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           began
           both
           ,
           without
           any
           opposition
           ,
           or
           the
           le●st
           disturbance
           given
           them
           by
           the
           British
           .
        
         
           They
           of
           Scotland
           had
           a
           pretence
           (
           though
           weak
           and
           insufficient
           )
           of
           being
           induced
           to
           what
           they
           did
           ,
           at
           the
           Instigation
           of
           their
           Lords
           ,
           and
           Grandees
           ,
           who
           were
           for
           the
           late
           King
           James
           ,
           and
           acted
           under
           his
           Commission
           .
        
         
           But
           they
           of
           Ireland
           had
           not
           so
           much
           as
           this
           colour
           ,
           when
           they
           committed
           their
           Outrages
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           Nay
           ,
           to
           come
           nearer
           to
           them
           ,
           even
           their
           own
           Government
           issued
           out
           Proclamations
           for
           restraining
           their
           inhumane
           violence
           :
           Though
           't
           was
           plain
           ,
           that
           this
           was
           only
           a
           pretence
           of
           Justice
           ,
           there
           being
           no
           effectual
           course
           taken
           to
           bring
           notorious
           Offendors
           to
           the
           least
           ,
           not
           to
           say
           ,
           condign
           Punishment
           ,
           but
           were
           rather
           secretly
           animated
           ,
           and
           encouraged
           in
           their
           Villanies
           by
           their
           Gentlemen
           ,
           and
           Grandees
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           come
           to
           a
           period
           ,
           as
           to
           this
           Affair
           of
           Scotland
           ,
           they
           are
           a
           People
           of
           the
           same
           Nation
           ,
           united
           in
           one
           common
           interest
           ;
           nay
           ,
           and
           in
           Religion
           too
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           main
           and
           essential
           part
           of
           it
           :
           and
           his
           Majesties
           Pardon
           ,
           when
           graciously
           vouchsafed
           to
           such
           ,
           may
           be
           interpreted
           to
           be
           of
           an
           universal
           influence
           ,
           and
           extent
           ,
           because
           it
           comprehends
           as
           well
           Friends
           as
           Enemies
           ,
           by
           reaching
           to
           those
           Relations
           which
           are
           general
           among
           
           them
           ,
           and
           so
           in
           a
           manner
           including
           all
           ;
           besides
           ,
           what
           these
           Rebels
           did
           ,
           was
           by
           vertue
           of
           a
           pretended
           Commission
           ,
           and
           so
           their
           opposition
           ,
           and
           acts
           of
           Hostility
           ,
           may
           come
           under
           the
           Construction
           of
           a
           War
           ,
           and
           in
           that
           respect
           more
           proper
           for
           pardon
           .
        
         
           Whereas
           the
           Irish
           (
           not
           to
           enumerate
           Particulars
           ,
           or
           to
           aggravate
           matters
           ,
           which
           are
           notorious
           enough
           in
           themselves
           )
           can
           lay
           claim
           to
           none
           of
           these
           Reasons
           ,
           in
           all
           which
           they
           are
           utterly
           Foreign
           ,
           and
           bear
           no
           relation
           to
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           .
        
         
           I
           will
           now
           descend
           to
           a
           recital
           of
           those
           Reasons
           ,
           which
           seem
           of
           force
           to
           perswade
           any
           unprejudiced
           and
           impartial
           man
           ,
           That
           a
           General
           and
           Free
           Pardon
           will
           not
           attain
           the
           end
           designed
           ,
           the
           speedy
           Reduction
           of
           Ireland
           .
        
         
           We
           that
           by
           sad
           and
           lamentable
           experience
           are
           fully
           acquainted
           with
           the
           Humour
           and
           Genius
           of
           the
           Natives
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           are
           none
           of
           us
           ignorant
           that
           Arts
           of
           Mildness
           and
           Indulgence
           ,
           are
           not
           proper
           means
           to
           dispose
           them
           to
           obedience
           ;
           the
           more
           that
           they
           are
           caressed
           ,
           or
           favoured
           ,
           the
           more
           rough
           ,
           and
           intractable
           they
           appear
           to
           be
           :
           and
           all
           the
           Civilities
           ,
           or
           acts
           of
           kindness
           ,
           which
           have
           ,
           or
           can
           be
           shewn
           to
           them
           ,
           do
           but
           serve
           to
           heighten
           their
           Insolence
           ,
           and
           Ingratitude
           ,
           instead
           of
           begetting
           in
           them
           any
           hearty
           Affection
           ,
           or
           esteem
           .
           That
           this
           is
           an
           Impartial
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Practical
           ,
           and
           not
           a
           Malicious
           ,
           or
           Speculative
           Notion
           of
           the
           evil
           temper
           ,
           and
           vile
           Disposition
           of
           this
           people
           ,
           as
           well
           their
           former
           ,
           as
           their
           late
           unworthy
           carriage
           towards
           those
           of
           the
           English
           ,
           who
           had
           been
           most
           obliging
           to
           them
           ,
           is
           a
           demonstrative
           ,
           and
           an
           infallible
           proof
           ;
           by
           which
           the
           Protestants
           are
           now
           (
           though
           too
           late
           )
           convinced
           ,
           that
           in
           this
           ,
           they
           nearly
           resemble
           their
           Bogs
           ,
           which
           are
           never
           to
           be
           
           trusted
           to
           by
           going
           gently
           over
           ,
           but
           the
           only
           safety
           is
           by
           cutting
           your
           way
           to
           the
           bottom
           .
        
         
           If
           any
           Proposals
           be
           made
           to
           them
           either
           in
           War
           ,
           or
           Peace
           ,
           they
           immediately
           draw
           this
           favourable
           Inference
           from
           it
           to
           themselves
           ,
           That
           they
           are
           looked
           upon
           as
           very
           formidable
           ,
           and
           considerable
           ;
           That
           they
           are
           of
           the
           stronger
           side
           ,
           and
           upon
           that
           account
           will
           never
           resolve
           to
           submit
           :
           I
           want
           not
           Instances
           which
           I
           could
           recount
           of
           this
           present
           Rebellion
           ,
           of
           divers
           Gentlemen
           ,
           who
           applied
           to
           some
           of
           the
           
             Irish
             Grandees
          
           ,
           for
           their
           protection
           ,
           upon
           assurance
           of
           former
           Friendship
           ,
           (
           which
           the
           Irish
           are
           as
           profuse
           in
           the
           Expressions
           ,
           as
           they
           are
           perfidious
           in
           the
           discharge
           of
           )
           and
           to
           that
           ,
           they
           added
           promises
           of
           making
           suitable
           Retribution
           ,
           to
           whatsoever
           acts
           of
           favour
           should
           be
           shewn
           to
           them
           ;
           but
           instead
           of
           meeting
           with
           a
           return
           of
           kindness
           from
           the
           Irish
           ,
           (
           as
           the
           former
           Civilities
           done
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           their
           repeated
           acknowledgments
           of
           them
           ,
           with
           most
           vehement
           Protestations
           of
           a
           sincere
           Friendship
           ,
           might
           have
           made
           it
           reasonable
           for
           them
           to
           expect
           )
           were
           entertained
           with
           Insultings
           ,
           and
           vile
           Expressions
           of
           Reproach
           ,
           and
           Contempt
           .
        
         
           Again
           ,
           I
           cannot
           see
           ,
           how
           a
           General
           Pardon
           will
           affect
           them
           to
           a
           suitable
           submission
           ,
           or
           to
           a
           laying
           down
           of
           their
           Arms
           ,
           it
           will
           rather
           make
           them
           more
           obstinate
           in
           their
           Rebellion
           ,
           which
           I
           gather
           from
           the
           following
           Reasons
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           If
           it
           be
           an
           Argument
           on
           our
           side
           ,
           to
           hasten
           the
           Conquest
           ,
           for
           fear
           of
           assistance
           from
           the
           French
           ,
           or
           of
           our
           other
           Embroils
           ;
           this
           seems
           to
           give
           equal
           encouragement
           to
           the
           Irish
           ,
           to
           hold
           out
           ,
           in
           expectation
           of
           those
           Advantages
           so
           favourable
           to
           their
           interest
           .
           The
           Irish
           Understanding
           and
           Courage
           is
           observed
           
           to
           be
           by
           themselves
           understood
           ,
           and
           depended
           upon
           by
           Negatives
           :
           The
           Enemy
           ,
           say
           they
           ,
           are
           afraid
           of
           us
           ;
           therefore
           they
           know
           ,
           we
           are
           wise
           in
           Council
           ,
           and
           strong
           in
           Arms
           ;
           if
           not
           ,
           they
           would
           never
           offer
           such
           terms
           to
           us
           .
           'T
           is
           a
           Maxim
           received
           amongst
           them
           ,
           
             Never
             bid
             first
          
           ;
           and
           they
           deduce
           this
           Consequence
           from
           it
           ,
           
             That
             he
             's
             on
             the
             weaker
             side
             who
             does
             .
          
        
         
           The
           Commonalty
           of
           the
           Irish
           are
           born
           up
           in
           this
           Rebellion
           by
           the
           assurances
           they
           have
           from
           their
           Priests
           ,
           of
           being
           relieved
           by
           Catholick
           Princes
           :
           That
           the
           common
           Interest
           of
           their
           Holy
           Church
           and
           Religion
           ,
           will
           oblige
           them
           to
           it
           :
           That
           the
           present
           Differences
           betwixt
           them
           and
           the
           French
           will
           be
           compos'd
           by
           the
           next
           Pope
           ;
           there
           being
           nothing
           more
           common
           than
           for
           every
           Infallible
           Vicar
           of
           Christ
           ,
           to
           act
           Diametrically
           contrary
           to
           his
           Predecessor
           ;
           as
           being
           generally
           of
           another
           Interest
           ,
           swayed
           by
           different
           Principles
           ,
           and
           governed
           by
           new
           Maxims
           and
           Policies
           of
           State.
           
        
         
           To
           this
           they
           add
           ,
           That
           't
           is
           impossible
           for
           
             Catholick
             Princes
          
           to
           joyn
           with
           Hereticks
           to
           maintain
           the
           Interest
           of
           an
           Usurper
           ,
           who
           is
           such
           an
           open
           and
           profess'd
           Enemy
           to
           their
           Church
           ,
           in
           opposition
           to
           Saint
           James
           ,
           whom
           they
           style
           ,
           
             the
             Confessor
          
           ,
           and
           doubt
           not
           to
           see
           him
           triumphant
           over
           the
           Hereticks
           of
           Europe
           :
           These
           and
           the
           like
           ,
           are
           the
           usual
           Arguments
           of
           the
           Priests
           ,
           which
           they
           artfully
           instil
           into
           the
           Common
           People
           .
        
         
           Now
           what
           can
           more
           effectually
           confirm
           them
           in
           the
           belief
           of
           this
           opinion
           ,
           than
           to
           offer
           them
           more
           than
           they
           can
           ask
           ,
           (
           viz.
           )
           a
           Pardon
           for
           Life
           and
           Estate
           ,
           together
           with
           the
           enjoyment
           of
           all
           they
           had
           before
           the
           Rebellion
           ;
           and
           not
           only
           that
           ,
           but
           what
           
           they
           have
           violently
           got
           since
           by
           Robbing
           and
           Pillageing
           of
           the
           English
           .
        
         
           The
           Irish
           have
           not
           been
           shie
           in
           their
           frequent
           Discourses
           ,
           That
           if
           they
           miscarried
           in
           this
           attempt
           ,
           the
           Requital
           must
           be
           such
           as
           to
           put
           them
           beyond
           all
           expectation
           of
           another
           Opportunity
           :
           For
           they
           confessed
           ,
           that
           what
           they
           did
           ,
           proceeded
           not
           from
           any
           provocation
           given
           them
           by
           the
           English
           ;
           nor
           could
           they
           have
           any
           pretence
           (
           the
           Government
           being
           wholly
           vested
           in
           themselves
           )
           whereas
           in
           the
           former
           Rebellion
           they
           wanted
           not
           matter
           of
           Complaint
           ,
           for
           which
           Reasons
           they
           owned
           ,
           That
           they
           could
           not
           think
           of
           Mercy
           ,
           if
           that
           proved
           an
           Abortive
           ,
           which
           they
           were
           labouring
           with
           all
           their
           might
           to
           bring
           forth
           to
           such
           perfection
           as
           to
           secure
           ,
           and
           perpetuate
           to
           themselves
           the
           Catholick
           Interest
           ,
           and
           Religion
           ,
           all
           which
           is
           agreeable
           to
           their
           Motto
           ,
           
             Now
             ,
             or
             never
             ;
             now
             ,
             and
             for
             ever
             .
          
           And
           to
           confirm
           them
           in
           their
           Opinions
           in
           this
           matter
           ,
           take
           the
           following
           brief
           account
           of
           their
           Actions
           .
        
         
           Their
           Lords
           ,
           and
           Clergy
           ,
           put
           the
           Populace
           upon
           the
           most
           Violent
           and
           Irregular
           Courses
           ,
           telling
           them
           ,
           That
           they
           must
           now
           trust
           to
           their
           Musket
           and
           Skene
           ;
           for
           their
           Actions
           have
           been
           such
           ,
           as
           left
           no
           room
           for
           a
           Pardon
           from
           the
           English
           ;
           and
           pursuant
           to
           this
           ,
           there
           is
           scarce
           a
           Private
           Soldier
           ,
           but
           will
           tell
           the
           Protestants
           that
           they
           expect
           no
           mercy
           ,
           as
           being
           conscious
           to
           themselves
           ,
           that
           they
           have
           left
           nothing
           undone
           that
           could
           provoke
           ,
           or
           disoblige
           the
           Protestants
           .
        
         
           Now
           if
           after
           all
           this
           ,
           they
           be
           Courted
           and
           Addressed
           to
           ,
           before
           a
           Blow
           is
           struck
           by
           the
           King's
           Army
           ,
           which
           is
           sent
           over
           ;
           they
           will
           be
           so
           far
           from
           making
           a
           right
           use
           of
           this
           Indulgence
           ,
           that
           it
           will
           
           only
           raise
           their
           Scorn
           ,
           and
           puff
           them
           up
           with
           Insolence
           and
           Ambition
           ,
           equal
           to
           that
           of
           their
           obtaining
           a
           Victory
           :
           For
           however
           his
           Majesty
           in
           great
           mercy
           and
           tenderness
           of
           Christian
           Blood
           ,
           may
           make
           Proposals
           to
           them
           ;
           yet
           their
           Earthy
           ,
           and
           Slavish
           Nature
           ,
           is
           such
           ,
           as
           will
           induce
           them
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           nothing
           but
           fear
           of
           them
           ,
           begets
           those
           tenders
           of
           Pardon
           and
           Mercy
           ,
           and
           whilst
           they
           are
           prepossessed
           with
           Apprehensions
           of
           so
           base
           a
           a
           Composition
           ,
           and
           Alloy
           ,
           offers
           of
           Indemnity
           to
           their
           Grandees
           ,
           is
           to
           them
           Huzza's
           of
           Victory
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           Reason
           in
           maintenance
           of
           my
           opinion
           ,
           is
           ,
           that
           giving
           Pardon
           to
           all
           that
           lay
           down
           Arms
           ,
           &c.
           will
           be
           a
           means
           to
           enlarge
           the
           War
           :
           For
           no
           doubt
           the
           Generality
           of
           Men
           of
           Estates
           will
           make
           their
           submission
           to
           the
           
             English
             Government
          
           ,
           but
           this
           outward
           compliance
           will
           only
           render
           them
           the
           more
           useful
           to
           their
           own
           Party
           ,
           both
           in
           respect
           of
           giving
           them
           Intelligence
           ,
           and
           Advice
           ,
           and
           of
           supplying
           them
           with
           Money
           ,
           which
           they
           may
           receive
           out
           of
           their
           Estates
           in
           the
           English
           Quarters
           ,
           and
           their
           Friends
           out
           of
           that
           in
           the
           Irish
           .
        
         
           It
           seems
           a
           vulgar
           ,
           and
           dangerous
           errour
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           taking
           away
           the
           Men
           of
           Estates
           from
           the
           Irish
           ,
           will
           be
           a
           means
           of
           obliging
           the
           rest
           to
           submit
           ,
           whereas
           it
           rather
           portends
           the
           quite
           contrary
           ,
           and
           I
           'm
           really
           of
           opinion
           ,
           that
           the
           Irish
           Ambition
           is
           nothing
           beyond
           having
           them
           in
           their
           Quarters
           .
        
         
           This
           renders
           them
           formidable
           in
           the
           opinion
           of
           their
           own
           Party
           ,
           that
           they
           should
           be
           so
           courted
           ,
           and
           sortifies
           the
           Commonalty
           with
           an
           Assurance
           ,
           
           that
           when
           matters
           are
           come
           to
           the
           worst
           ,
           they
           can
           have
           recourse
           to
           a
           Pardon
           .
        
         
           This
           may
           be
           deemed
           a
           Maxim
           of
           War
           calculated
           for
           the
           World
           of
           the
           Moon
           ,
           that
           upon
           a
           Rebellion
           ,
           the
           men
           of
           Estates
           ,
           and
           Leaders
           into
           it
           ,
           as
           soon
           as
           they
           have
           formed
           an
           Army
           and
           headed
           them
           ,
           till
           they
           had
           seized
           upon
           all
           the
           English
           Estates
           ,
           should
           then
           be
           invited
           to
           Pardon
           ,
           and
           thereby
           be
           capacitated
           to
           attend
           ,
           not
           only
           the
           present
           success
           of
           this
           ,
           but
           of
           another
           Rebellion
           :
           which
           as
           it
           has
           been
           a
           practice
           too
           frequently
           pursued
           in
           the
           English
           Conquests
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           as
           its
           fatal
           Consequences
           have
           but
           too
           fully
           evinc'd
           ;
           so
           is
           it
           matter
           of
           Astonishment
           ,
           and
           Admiration
           to
           see
           the
           same
           measures
           re-assumed
           in
           the
           present
           juncture
        
         
           This
           seems
           an
           Invitation
           to
           them
           to
           Rebel
           ,
           to
           vouchsafe
           a
           pardon
           to
           such
           ,
           by
           whose
           influence
           and
           example
           the
           inferiour
           sort
           have
           been
           prompted
           ,
           and
           instigated
           to
           it
           :
           For
           the
           Rabble
           are
           not
           capable
           of
           making
           an
           head
           ,
           but
           by
           the
           Government
           ,
           and
           direction
           of
           their
           Superiors
           ;
           but
           when
           once
           they
           are
           gathered
           into
           a
           body
           ,
           they
           are
           then
           more
           easily
           managed
           ,
           and
           commanded
           without
           them
           :
           And
           't
           is
           doubtless
           a
           signal
           advancement
           to
           their
           common
           interest
           and
           design
           ,
           to
           protect
           ,
           and
           preserve
           them
           'till
           the
           next
           opportunity
           presents
           ,
           of
           making
           another
           attempt
           .
        
         
           On
           the
           contrary
           ,
           it
           appears
           to
           be
           much
           more
           reasonable
           ,
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           the
           pardoning
           the
           Populace
           ,
           and
           excluding
           their
           Commanders
           ,
           would
           be
           a
           more
           expeditious
           Expedient
           whereby
           to
           obtain
           the
           Kingdom
           :
           For
           though
           the
           Irish
           Heads
           of
           their
           Clans
           influence
           the
           Common
           People
           ,
           whilst
           the
           Lands
           ,
           and
           Herds
           follow
           them
           ,
           yet
           that
           homage
           ,
           and
           Dependance
           ,
           
           ceaseth
           of
           course
           ,
           when
           they
           are
           divested
           of
           both
           .
           This
           common
           experience
           evinceth
           to
           be
           true
           ,
           by
           shewing
           how
           careless
           and
           unnatural
           the
           vulgar
           Irish
           are
           to
           their
           Grandees
           ,
           when
           they
           find
           it
           their
           interest
           not
           to
           adhere
           to
           them
           .
        
         
           This
           would
           quickly
           receive
           a
           Demonstration
           ,
           if
           a
           Proclamation
           were
           issued
           forth
           ,
           extending
           only
           to
           Private
           ,
           and
           Inferiour
           men
           ,
           or
           at
           least
           to
           none
           exceeding
           the
           degree
           of
           a
           Captain
           .
        
         
           Before
           the
           late
           King
           
           James's
           Accession
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           men
           rarely
           heard
           the
           poorer
           sort
           speak
           of
           their
           Old
           Lords
           ,
           but
           with
           sad
           Complaints
           ,
           that
           they
           had
           ever
           been
           the
           occasion
           of
           their
           ruin
           ;
           and
           whatever
           they
           now
           do
           ,
           proceeded
           more
           from
           a
           dependence
           upon
           Foreign
           aid
           ,
           than
           any
           Confidence
           they
           placed
           either
           in
           their
           Chieftians
           ,
           or
           themselves
        
         
           And
           if
           now
           an
           Experiment
           were
           made
           ,
           which
           they
           would
           adhere
           to
           ,
           whether
           their
           English
           ,
           or
           Irish
           Landlords
           ?
           This
           would
           no
           longer
           remain
           a
           Question
           ,
           for
           they
           are
           by
           so
           much
           the
           more
           sensible
           of
           the
           great
           advantages
           derived
           to
           them
           from
           the
           English
           Government
           ,
           by
           how
           much
           they
           are
           possessed
           with
           a
           deep
           sense
           and
           apprehension
           of
           their
           present
           Sufferings
           ,
           under
           their
           own
           ,
           or
           rather
           
             French
             Tyranny
          
           ,
           when
           the
           
             English
             Farthing
          
           is
           become
           their
           Sixpence
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           not
           rational
           for
           Men
           to
           adhere
           to
           such
           as
           are
           in
           no
           capacity
           ,
           either
           of
           securing
           themselves
           ,
           or
           their
           Dependants
           :
           Separate
           them
           from
           the
           opinion
           of
           Foreign
           Assistance
           ,
           and
           they
           will
           soon
           despair
           of
           their
           own
           Strength
           ,
           and
           forsake
           their
           Grandees
           ;
           but
           to
           reduce
           them
           by
           pardoning
           their
           Lords
           ,
           is
           (
           if
           it
           should
           take
           )
           the
           only
           way
           to
           fix
           
           them
           perpetually
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           suggest
           to
           them
           an
           opinion
           ,
           that
           they
           are
           very
           considerable
           abroad
           in
           their
           
             Foreign
             Alliance
          
           ;
           or
           else
           ,
           That
           the
           English
           would
           not
           make
           court
           to
           them
           at
           home
           ,
           when
           they
           are
           at
           their
           Devotion
           ,
           and
           lie
           at
           their
           mercy
           ,
           as
           now
           they
           must
           be
           own'd
           to
           do
           .
        
         
           Besides
           ,
           the
           bringing
           in
           the
           common
           People
           by
           their
           Lords
           ,
           is
           to
           make
           them
           own
           their
           Deliverance
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           consequently
           to
           be
           under
           a
           stricter
           and
           more
           indispensable
           obligation
           of
           homage
           and
           subjection
           to
           them
           ,
           than
           formerly
           ;
           which
           (
           I
           presume
           )
           would
           be
           a
           thing
           neither
           honourable
           nor
           safe
           .
        
         
           The
           ordinary
           People
           have
           no
           inclination
           to
           travailing
           ,
           no
           ,
           not
           so
           much
           as
           removing
           from
           one
           Province
           to
           another
           .
           Let
           them
           but
           enjoy
           the
           conveniency
           of
           returning
           to
           their
           Cabins
           ,
           and
           of
           living
           quietly
           under
           the
           protection
           and
           security
           of
           the
           
             English
             Laws
          
           and
           Government
           ,
           and
           they
           will
           account
           to
           have
           made
           a
           very
           good
           and
           advantagious
           exchange
           .
        
         
           Thus
           having
           ,
           in
           general
           terms
           ,
           described
           the
           present
           constitution
           and
           circumstances
           of
           the
           Irish
           ,
           I
           shall
           now
           descend
           to
           particulars
           ,
           and
           first
           look
           back
           into
           their
           ancient
           forms
           and
           modes
           of
           Government
           ,
           before
           the
           arrival
           of
           the
           English
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           which
           nearly
           resembled
           that
           of
           the
           Arabs
           ,
           though
           not
           so
           regular
           :
           for
           their
           chief
           regard
           was
           to
           the
           Power
           and
           Force
           of
           him
           that
           govern'd
           ,
           not
           to
           the
           Right
           of
           Succession
           ;
           it
           was
           enough
           ,
           if
           he
           were
           of
           the
           same
           Family
           ,
           whether
           Brother
           or
           
             Son.
             Elder
          
           or
           Younger
           ,
           and
           in
           proportion
           to
           these
           wild
           Maxims
           ,
           they
           enjoyed
           their
           Estates
           .
           He
           that
           was
           accounted
           the
           most
           Warlike
           ,
           or
           more
           truly
           speaking
           
           most
           barbarous
           ,
           the
           rest
           of
           the
           Family
           submitted
           to
           him
           .
        
         
           This
           
             Savage
             Custom
          
           prevailed
           upon
           them
           till
           the
           coming
           of
           the
           English
           ,
           whose
           presence
           among
           them
           gave
           some
           check
           to
           it
           ;
           yet
           could
           never
           be
           extirpated
           ,
           till
           the
           
             English
             Laws
          
           and
           Government
           were
           established
           in
           their
           Country
           ,
           which
           to
           this
           day
           (
           notwithstanding
           their
           present
           Usurpation
           )
           they
           cannot
           but
           acknowledge
           to
           be
           an
           Happy
           Conquest
           ;
           but
           though
           the
           advantages
           of
           it
           be
           great
           to
           themselves
           ,
           yet
           there
           are
           many
           of
           them
           so
           unreasonably
           prepossest
           in
           favour
           of
           their
           former
           Confusion
           ,
           or
           rather
           in
           prejudice
           to
           their
           present
           Change
           ,
           because
           done
           by
           the
           English
           ,
           as
           to
           wish
           again
           for
           their
           Onions
           and
           Garlick
           of
           Aegypt
           ,
           and
           to
           anathematize
           the
           best
           Reform'd
           amongst
           them
           ,
           for
           introducing
           the
           
             English
             Customes
          
           and
           Restraints
           upon
           a
           
             Free
             People
          
           ,
           as
           they
           accounted
           themselves
           ,
           when
           indeed
           they
           were
           but
           Slaves
           to
           their
           own
           Brutality
           and
           Lust
           .
        
         
           I
           shall
           not
           stuff
           Paper
           with
           what
           our
           Chronicles
           and
           Histories
           of
           Ireland
           relate
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           Title
           and
           Interest
           of
           England
           to
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           nor
           repeat
           the
           Treasure
           of
           Blood
           and
           Coin
           it
           has
           cost
           ,
           to
           preserve
           it
           under
           the
           
             English
             Government
          
           ;
           but
           shall
           only
           observe
           to
           the
           Reader
           ,
           that
           it
           never
           continu'd
           so
           long
           without
           a
           Deluge
           of
           Blood
           ,
           as
           in
           the
           late
           Calm
           and
           peaceable
           Interval
           ,
           since
           the
           War
           of
           Forty
           One
           ,
           which
           was
           not
           ended
           till
           Fifty
           Three
           ,
           nor
           the
           Kingdom
           setled
           till
           Sixty
           Three
           .
           So
           that
           by
           a
           proper
           computation
           ,
           it
           was
           not
           perfectly
           quiet
           in
           the
           possession
           of
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           above
           Twenty
           Two
           years
           ;
           for
           we
           must
           commence
           the
           date
           of
           our
           Troubles
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           from
           the
           Late
           
           King
           's
           ascending
           the
           Throne
           .
           This
           is
           then
           but
           
           a
           short
           Rest
           of
           Twenty
           two
           years
           for
           that
           desolate
           Kingdom
           ,
           (
           tired
           with
           the
           long
           fatigues
           of
           a
           constant
           War
           ,
           and
           almost
           all
           its
           
             British
             Veins
          
           quite
           emptied
           of
           
             Protestant
             Blood
          
           )
           and
           yet
           the
           longest
           and
           most
           profitable
           that
           ever
           the
           English
           enjoy'd
           there
           ,
           much
           of
           which
           is
           attributed
           to
           the
           Conquest
           of
           Cromwell
           ,
           who
           thought
           it
           a
           diminution
           to
           his
           Honour
           ,
           to
           condescend
           to
           any
           terms
           with
           so
           base
           an
           Enemy
           ;
           and
           had
           not
           the
           Interest
           of
           their
           Patron
           ,
           the
           late
           King
           ,
           prevailed
           in
           the
           Settlement
           of
           that
           Nation
           ,
           but
           lest
           them
           in
           the
           same
           condition
           they
           were
           found
           in
           at
           the
           Restauration
           of
           King
           CHARLES
           the
           
             Second
             ,
             Ireland
          
           had
           been
           in
           the
           greatest
           Tranquillity
           of
           any
           of
           the
           three
           Kingdoms
           ,
           and
           consequently
           an
           entire
           Interest
           for
           our
           Deliverer
           ,
           His
           present
           Majesty
           .
        
         
           It
           is
           now
           a
           matter
           deserving
           our
           consideration
           ,
           Whether
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           as
           it
           remains
           in
           the
           Irish
           and
           French
           hands
           (
           whether
           by
           both
           or
           either
           united
           )
           it
           can
           be
           reasonably
           suppos'd
           to
           with
           ▪
           stand
           His
           Majesty's
           Forces
           and
           Subjects
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           In
           order
           to
           which
           ,
           first
           reflect
           upon
           the
           Irish
           ,
           as
           to
           their
           Commanders
           ;
           and
           secondly
           ,
           as
           to
           their
           Troops
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           As
           to
           their
           Commanders
           ;
           Notwithstanding
           that
           they
           boast
           of
           some
           few
           Colonels
           ,
           and
           inferiour
           Officers
           ,
           yet
           they
           cannot
           nominate
           one
           Man
           that
           ever
           actually
           did
           or
           can
           Command
           a
           Field
           .
           Their
           great
           Captain
           
             Justin
             Mac
             Carthy
          
           might
           be
           as
           good
           in
           a
           Cellar
           as
           any
           General
           in
           Europe
           ;
           but
           in
           a
           Field
           (
           as
           the
           King
           of
           Denmark
           said
           of
           him
           ,
           when
           he
           was
           sent
           to
           him
           )
           his
           Army
           must
           not
           be
           commanded
           by
           Glass-Eyes
           .
        
         
         
           Their
           Offi●ers
           being
           thus
           mean
           ,
           their
           Troops
           are
           next
           to
           be
           considered
           ,
           and
           they
           perchance
           in
           the
           general
           ,
           are
           the
           most
           abject
           wretches
           in
           the
           world
           ▪
           taken
           by
           force
           from
           the
           Spade
           and
           Cabin
           ,
           who
           by
           Blows
           and
           continual
           Instruction
           ,
           were
           brought
           to
           handle
           their
           Arms
           ,
           but
           not
           one
           in
           ten
           can
           fire
           a
           Musquet
           without
           
             shut
             eyes
          
           and
           a
           
             trembling
             hand
          
           .
           I
           speak
           not
           this
           at
           randome
           ,
           or
           by
           hear-say
           ,
           but
           upon
           good
           grounds
           .
           'T
           is
           true
           ,
           their
           Horse
           are
           better
           ,
           but
           yet
           we
           have
           had
           a
           demonstration
           of
           their
           behaviour
           and
           all
           their
           actions
           in
           the
           North.
           
        
         
           This
           being
           a
           true
           Character
           of
           their
           own
           Force
           ,
           their
           dependence
           must
           be
           upon
           the
           
             French
             Auxiliaries
          
           ,
           to
           supply
           these
           Defects
           ;
           but
           how
           that
           suits
           with
           the
           Irish
           Interest
           and
           Design
           is
           not
           difficult
           to
           imagine
           .
        
         
           The
           
             Irish
             Gentry
          
           (
           for
           I
           must
           say
           that
           the
           common
           People
           desire
           not
           War
           with
           the
           English
           )
           put
           themselves
           upon
           this
           Rebellion
           ,
           not
           so
           much
           out
           of
           a
           Loyal
           Adherence
           to
           their
           King
           ,
           as
           to
           be
           free
           
             Lords
             of
             the
             Soil
          
           ,
           and
           are
           now
           under
           no
           predominancy
           ,
           if
           they
           are
           capable
           by
           their
           own
           strength
           to
           continue
           their
           Deliverance
           ,
           otherwise
           they
           had
           better
           be
           under
           the
           English
           mild
           Government
           than
           the
           French
           Arbitrary
           Power
           ,
           whose
           cruel
           Tyranny
           to
           his
           native
           Subjects
           affords
           no
           Invitation
           or
           Encouragement
           to
           others
           ,
           to
           put
           themselves
           under
           it
           .
        
         
           By
           this
           short
           Enquiry
           ,
           it
           seems
           plain
           ,
           That
           the
           present
           posture
           of
           Affairs
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           are
           not
           in
           so
           good
           a
           disposition
           ,
           as
           to
           entitle
           those
           wretched
           People
           to
           demand
           terms
           ,
           but
           rather
           to
           throw
           themselves
           upon
           and
           acquiesce
           in
           the
           King's
           Mercy
           ;
           and
           that
           to
           descend
           to
           Capitulations
           with
           them
           ,
           much
           
           more
           to
           give
           their
           Leaders
           Pardon
           ,
           is
           to
           encourage
           and
           revive
           a
           running
           Enemy
           .
        
         
           If
           then
           it
           be
           granted
           ,
           That
           they
           are
           not
           in
           a
           capacity
           to
           oppose
           the
           Arms
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           that
           one
           Fourth
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           is
           already
           in
           the
           actual
           possession
           of
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           the
           best
           of
           the
           Irish
           Forces
           lost
           ,
           and
           that
           many
           of
           them
           living
           have
           laid
           down
           their
           Arms.
           This
           being
           premised
           ,
           the
           next
           thing
           to
           be
           considered
           ,
           is
           ,
           What
           Motives
           there
           are
           for
           giving
           Pardon
           to
           their
           
             Chief
             Commanders
          
           ,
           and
           those
           which
           are
           insisted
           upon
           are
           two
           .
        
         
           The
           first
           is
           ,
           That
           by
           giving
           a
           General
           Pardon
           ,
           the
           Kingdom
           will
           be
           the
           sooner
           gain'd
           .
        
         
           The
           second
           ,
           That
           a
           Pardon
           will
           preserve
           the
           Towns
           and
           Cities
           ,
           which
           the
           Irish
           will
           burn
           ,
           if
           made
           desperate
           .
        
         
           To
           the
           first
           of
           these
           I
           shall
           return
           a
           two
           sold
           Answer
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           That
           a
           Pardon
           to
           the
           Chief
           Lords
           and
           Men
           of
           Estates
           ,
           will
           not
           affect
           the
           Army
           ,
           for
           that
           few
           of
           them
           are
           consider'd
           there
           as
           Souldiers
           ,
           in
           regard
           that
           other
           men
           ,
           subordinate
           to
           them
           ,
           are
           the
           Commanders
           and
           Leaders
           in
           the
           Army
           ;
           so
           that
           pardoning
           them
           secures
           not
           the
           men
           of
           action
           ,
           who
           lie
           under
           such
           circumstances
           as
           a
           general
           Pardon
           will
           not
           free
           them
           from
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           A
           Pardon
           for
           all
           Crimes
           and
           Misdemeanours
           relating
           to
           the
           Crown
           ,
           will
           be
           no
           Security
           to
           the
           
             private
             Souldiers
             ,
             Captains
             ,
             Lieutenants
             ,
          
           &c.
           my
           Reason
           is
           ,
           For
           that
           all
           the
           Robberies
           and
           Spoils
           done
           to
           the
           English
           ,
           were
           committed
           by
           such
           ,
           though
           at
           the
           secret
           instigation
           and
           encouragement
           of
           their
           
             Great
             ones
          
           .
           Now
           the
           English
           cannot
           prefer
           
           an
           Action
           at
           Law
           against
           any
           but
           these
           private
           men
           ;
           and
           if
           thereby
           they
           become
           obliged
           (
           as
           in
           Justice
           they
           ought
           )
           to
           make
           restitution
           of
           what
           they
           have
           made
           a
           violent
           Seizure
           from
           the
           other
           ,
           that
           must
           certainly
           bring
           on
           their
           inevitable
           Ruin
           ,
           which
           will
           make
           it
           as
           equal
           to
           them
           to
           die
           in
           the
           Field
           as
           in
           a
           Gaol
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           ,
           as
           to
           the
           second
           Motive
           ,
           That
           a
           General
           Pardon
           will
           prevent
           Burning
           and
           other
           Devastations
           ,
           I
           answer
           ,
           That
           it
           will
           have
           the
           quite
           contrary
           effect
           ,
           and
           consequently
           be
           an
           occasion
           of
           more
           Mischief
           ;
           which
           I
           undertake
           to
           demonstrate
           from
           the
           following
           reasons
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           It
           is
           an
           unalterable
           Maxim
           ,
           rivetted
           amongst
           ●em
           ,
           as
           well
           by
           the
           Principles
           of
           their
           Religion
           as
           natural
           genius
           and
           common
           Custom
           ,
           to
           do
           as
           much
           Mischief
           as
           they
           possibly
           can
           to
           the
           Protestants
           ;
           and
           as
           soon
           as
           they
           receive
           an
           account
           of
           this
           Pardon
           ,
           will
           be
           very
           industrious
           to
           leave
           what
           marks
           they
           can
           of
           their
           inveterate
           Fury
           ;
           and
           't
           is
           possible
           for
           them
           to
           effect
           this
           in
           a
           days
           time
           throughout
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           yet
           keep
           within
           the
           compass
           of
           their
           Pardon
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           This
           General
           Pardon
           will
           not
           prevent
           Burning
           and
           other
           destructive
           Arts
           of
           the
           English
           Plantations
           ,
           but
           rather
           promote
           them
           ;
           for
           that
           their
           Lords
           being
           reinvested
           in
           their
           Estates
           ,
           will
           consider
           ,
           That
           if
           the
           English
           Houses
           and
           Improvements
           be
           destroyed
           ,
           their
           Estates
           will
           be
           the
           sooner
           inhabited
           ,
           for
           that
           the
           English
           coming
           in
           poor
           ,
           will
           have
           nothing
           to
           build
           or
           improve
           their
           Estates
           :
           so
           that
           in
           course
           ,
           the
           Irish
           Lands
           must
           be
           first
           Peopl'd
           .
        
         
         
           For
           these
           reasons
           it
           seems
           evident
           ,
           That
           a
           General
           Pardon
           will
           not
           have
           the
           effect
           propos'd
           ,
           neither
           as
           to
           the
           more
           expeditious
           reduction
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           nor
           for
           the
           preventing
           of
           the
           Ruin
           and
           Devastation
           feared
           from
           the
           Irish
           .
        
         
           The
           next
           consideration
           ,
           in
           order
           to
           the
           former
           ,
           is
           ,
           What
           Mischiefs
           will
           attend
           a
           General
           Pardon
           ,
           and
           how
           it
           will
           affect
           the
           English
           or
           British
           Interest
           ;
           which
           shall
           be
           laid
           down
           in
           these
           seven
           following
           particulars
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           It
           will
           be
           an
           encouragement
           to
           the
           Irish
           ,
           to
           commit
           the
           same
           Outrages
           again
           ,
           and
           will
           animate
           them
           to
           an
           embracing
           of
           the
           first
           opportunity
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           now
           more
           reason
           to
           expect
           to
           prove
           favourable
           to
           them
           ,
           than
           formerly
           ,
           since
           that
           the
           French
           are
           engaged
           with
           them
           in
           one
           bottom
           ,
           and
           are
           link'd
           together
           in
           a
           general
           Interest
           ,
           as
           being
           (
           as
           't
           is
           said
           )
           by
           vertue
           of
           the
           late
           Compact
           ,
           entituled
           to
           a
           share
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           .
           Now
           ,
           if
           at
           any
           time
           the
           French
           should
           be
           at
           leisure
           ,
           by
           concluding
           of
           a
           Peace
           with
           his
           
             Enemies
             abroad
          
           ,
           he
           may
           ,
           at
           pleasure
           ,
           pour
           an
           Army
           into
           Ireland
           ,
           where
           the
           Natives
           there
           will
           be
           in
           a
           readiness
           to
           give
           them
           a
           kind
           reception
           ,
           and
           that
           without
           hardly
           exposing
           themselves
           to
           any
           hazard
           ,
           in
           regard
           that
           they
           will
           suppose
           that
           they
           will
           be
           no
           Losers
           by
           it
           .
           Since
           a
           Pardon
           attends
           their
           greatest
           Outrages
           ,
           the
           worst
           that
           can
           ensue
           ,
           will
           be
           only
           to
           bring
           them
           in
           ,
           and
           to
           secure
           them
           from
           committing
           more
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           It
           will
           enrich
           the
           Irish
           ,
           and
           impoverish
           the
           English
           ,
           who
           ,
           at
           a
           moderate
           computation
           ,
           may
           be
           deem'd
           to
           have
           lost
           in
           
             Personal
             Estates
             ,
             Money
             ,
             Goods
             ,
          
           and
           Cattel
           ,
           to
           a
           greater
           value
           than
           the
           Land
           
           of
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           amounts
           to
           ,
           all
           which
           is
           in
           the
           possession
           of
           the
           Irish
           ,
           which
           as
           it
           renders
           the
           Protestants
           of
           little
           use
           in
           defence
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           so
           on
           the
           other
           side
           ,
           it
           strengthens
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Irish
           ,
           and
           makes
           them
           formidable
           and
           very
           capable
           of
           raising
           disturbances
           in
           it
           .
           Money
           commands
           Men
           ,
           and
           Men
           command
           Kingdoms
           ,
           and
           the
           Irish
           were
           never
           since
           the
           Conquest
           ,
           Masters
           of
           more
           ,
           if
           they
           pass
           unquestioned
           ,
           with
           the
           
             Personal
             Estates
          
           of
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           .
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           It
           will
           be
           the
           irresistible
           Ruin
           of
           the
           Protestants
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           seeing
           that
           all
           the
           Tenants
           are
           despoiled
           of
           their
           Stocks
           ;
           so
           that
           a
           Tenant
           having
           no
           Cattel
           to
           put
           upon
           his
           Land
           ,
           can
           consequently
           pay
           no
           Rent
           ,
           nor
           be
           capable
           of
           living
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           .
           A
           Calamity
           better
           indeed
           exprest
           with
           Tears
           than
           Ink
           ;
           and
           't
           is
           no
           small
           addition
           to
           so
           lamentable
           a
           subject
           ,
           to
           see
           some
           Thousands
           ,
           that
           
             twelve
             months
          
           ago
           ,
           and
           less
           ,
           lived
           perhaps
           as
           plentifully
           as
           any
           People
           of
           Europe
           ,
           at
           this
           day
           
             Wandring
             Beggars
          
           ,
           and
           some
           perishing
           in
           the
           Fields
           for
           want
           of
           Sustenance
           ,
           as
           they
           must
           inevitably
           do
           ,
           if
           Ireland
           were
           in
           the
           English
           hands
           tomorrow
           ,
           upon
           the
           Conditions
           of
           a
           General
           Pardon
           to
           the
           Natives
           .
           Great
           (
           I
           had
           almost
           said
           ,
           infinite
           )
           numbers
           there
           are
           ,
           that
           in
           November
           last
           lost
           
             personal
             Estates
          
           ,
           to
           the
           value
           of
           Thousands
           ,
           not
           having
           now
           Clothes
           to
           their
           Backs
           ,
           nor
           Bread
           to
           eat
           .
        
         
           They
           are
           now
           scattered
           through
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           some
           relieved
           by
           the
           Benevolence
           of
           their
           Relations
           ,
           others
           by
           the
           publick
           Charity
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           by
           reason
           of
           the
           distance
           of
           their
           abode
           ,
           are
           the
           less
           remarkable
           ;
           but
           when
           once
           they
           meet
           together
           
           in
           the
           same
           place
           ,
           from
           whence
           they
           were
           expell'd
           by
           Irish
           Robberies
           and
           the
           like
           acts
           of
           an
           inhumane
           violence
           ,
           it
           may
           reasonably
           be
           said
           of
           them
           ,
           as
           of
           the
           Prophet's
           dry
           Bones
           ,
           
             Can
             these
             live
          
           ?
           and
           his
           return
           will
           be
           the
           proper
           answer
           ,
           
             Thou
             Lord
             ,
             knowest
          
           .
           For
           ,
           should
           they
           have
           no
           Reprize
           on
           the
           Irish
           Estates
           ,
           they
           must
           inevitably
           perish
           at
           the
           very
           doors
           of
           their
           Enemies
           .
        
         
           Fourthly
           ,
           As
           this
           will
           ruin
           all
           men
           of
           Personal
           Estates
           ,
           so
           will
           it
           also
           have
           the
           same
           effect
           upon
           those
           of
           Real
           :
           For
           ,
           their
           Tenants
           being
           lost
           ,
           their
           Lands
           must
           of
           Course
           lie
           waste
           ,
           and
           even
           quite
           depopulated
           :
           For
           ,
           the
           Landlords
           of
           Ireland
           were
           as
           well
           stripped
           of
           their
           
             Personal
             Estates
          
           ,
           as
           their
           Tenants
           ,
           and
           generally
           came
           for
           England
           ,
           with
           as
           small
           a
           Provision
           for
           their
           Subsistence
           in
           it
           ;
           so
           that
           in
           their
           return
           ,
           they
           will
           not
           have
           a
           Penny
           to
           buy
           Stock
           ,
           nor
           a
           Bed
           to
           lie
           upon
           .
        
         
           Fifthly
           ,
           As
           it
           destroys
           all
           the
           Protestants
           that
           have
           ,
           or
           had
           ,
           an
           Interest
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           so
           it
           for
           ever
           deterrs
           any
           new
           Planters
           .
           It
           can
           never
           be
           forgotten
           ,
           That
           in
           the
           midst
           of
           Peace
           a
           Nation
           was
           destroyed
           in
           a
           day
           ,
           and
           the
           Authors
           indemnified
           that
           did
           it
           .
        
         
           Who
           will
           adventure
           themselves
           in
           such
           a
           Country
           ,
           or
           ,
           at
           least
           ,
           attempt
           to
           go
           to
           a
           place
           that
           lies
           at
           the
           mercy
           and
           devotion
           of
           Savages
           ,
           and
           is
           not
           protected
           by
           its
           Friends
           .
        
         
           Sixthly
           ,
           A
           General
           Pardon
           will
           make
           it
           a
           perpetual
           Charge
           to
           England
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           place
           it
           beyond
           a
           possibility
           of
           its
           reimbursing
           the
           expence
           its
           reduction
           will
           now
           contract
           upon
           this
           Nation
           ;
           besides
           
           the
           apparent
           hazard
           of
           multiplying
           the
           like
           charge
           and
           trouble
           ,
           by
           being
           expos'd
           to
           the
           same
           Work
           in
           a
           few
           years
           again
           ;
           for
           ,
           as
           long
           as
           their
           Grandees
           enjoy
           their
           Estates
           ,
           they
           will
           influence
           the
           populace
           ,
           so
           as
           to
           have
           them
           at
           their
           beck
           ,
           for
           any
           design
           ,
           which
           they
           will
           not
           be
           wanting
           to
           promote
           ,
           against
           the
           Government
           .
        
         
           Seventhly
           ,
           A
           General
           Pardon
           will
           be
           the
           only
           Instrument
           of
           preserving
           all
           the
           Irish
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           for
           the
           reasons
           already
           mentioned
           ,
           of
           diminishing
           the
           English
           ,
           which
           will
           make
           it
           a
           perfect
           
             Irish
             Colony
          
           ,
           who
           are
           wonderfully
           productive
           of
           their
           Breed
           ,
           and
           must
           therefore
           necessarily
           be
           kept
           in
           Obedience
           ,
           by
           a
           powerful
           Army
           ,
           which
           will
           be
           very
           expensive
           to
           the
           CROWN
           ,
           for
           that
           it
           is
           the
           English
           Trade
           and
           Consumption
           ,
           that
           made
           the
           Revenue
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           which
           sinking
           to
           a
           low
           ebb
           ,
           must
           be
           supplied
           out
           of
           England
           .
        
         
           These
           Reasons
           ,
           being
           allowed
           to
           be
           of
           force
           ,
           against
           granting
           of
           a
           General
           Pardon
           to
           the
           Irish
           ;
           I
           will
           in
           the
           next
           place
           offer
           what
           seems
           an
           Expedient
           in
           this
           Affair
           ,
           whereby
           the
           Irish
           may
           not
           be
           made
           desperate
           ,
           nor
           yet
           the
           losing
           Protestants
           irrecoverably
           ruined
           :
           but
           that
           both
           the
           one
           and
           the
           other
           ,
           may
           be
           rendered
           useful
           to
           the
           King
           and
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           yet
           even
           the
           Irish
           not
           excluded
           from
           his
           Majesty's
           mercy
           .
        
         
           I
           cannot
           undertake
           so
           much
           as
           a
           regular
           computation
           of
           the
           Numbers
           of
           the
           Irish
           ,
           but
           know
           in
           one
           County
           where
           the
           Protestants
           were
           numbered
           700
           ,
           the
           Papists
           amounted
           to
           7000.
           
           And
           tho'
           other
           Counties
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           are
           better
           planted
           with
           British
           ,
           yet
           at
           the
           
           lowest
           ,
           and
           most
           moderate
           reckoning
           ,
           there
           is
           above
           five
           Irish
           for
           one
           British
           .
        
         
           Now
           if
           of
           so
           many
           Millions
           (
           for
           it
           is
           not
           to
           be
           supposed
           that
           one
           
             Irish
             Papist
          
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           is
           ,
           or
           indeed
           can
           be
           free
           ,
           both
           as
           a
           Native
           ,
           and
           as
           of
           that
           Communion
           ,
           as
           not
           being
           admitted
           to
           Mass
           ,
           or
           Confession
           ,
           a
           prohibition
           from
           either
           of
           which
           they
           believe
           to
           be
           Damnable
           ,
           that
           joins
           not
           in
           the
           Extirpation
           of
           Hereticks
           )
           an
           Hundred
           should
           be
           excepted
           from
           Pardon
           ,
           could
           this
           reasonably
           be
           interpreted
           an
           Act
           of
           Severity
           ,
           or
           a
           design
           to
           extirpate
           a
           People
           :
           Do
           we
           find
           in
           any
           Story
           such
           a
           Decimation
           ?
           Pardon
           me
           ,
           that
           I
           use
           the
           word
           so
           improperly
           ,
           for
           here
           is
           not
           one
           of
           Twenty
           Thousand
           taken
           off
           :
           if
           such
           moderate
           Justice
           can
           be
           excused
           to
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           it
           can
           deserve
           no
           less
           then
           Adoration
           from
           the
           Papists
           ,
           nor
           could
           such
           a
           Miraculous
           Mercy
           proceed
           from
           any
           Monarch
           ,
           or
           Religion
           ,
           but
           ours
           .
        
         
           Notwithstanding
           all
           which
           ,
           't
           is
           matter
           of
           admiration
           to
           see
           the
           Shimeis
           of
           our
           Age
           (
           the
           Family
           of
           Saul
           )
           throw
           up
           the
           Dust
           of
           their
           Cloven
           Feet
           ,
           and
           scurrilously
           call
           our
           David
           a
           Man
           of
           Blood
           ;
           though
           to
           this
           day
           ,
           he
           has
           not
           suffered
           one
           drop
           to
           be
           spilt
           :
           but
           in
           his
           Royal
           Will
           carefully
           imitates
           the
           exemplary
           goodness
           of
           his
           Blessed
           Master
           ,
           who
           in
           the
           discharge
           of
           his
           Embassy
           into
           this
           lower
           World
           ,
           affirms
           ,
           That
           the
           design
           of
           his
           Negotiation
           ,
           was
           not
           ,
           to
           destroy
           ,
           but
           to
           preserve
           the
           Lives
           of
           Men
           :
           And
           even
           in
           the
           Pardon
           proposed
           ,
           the
           Exception
           is
           under
           Eighty
           ,
           and
           though
           all
           of
           them
           so
           notoriously
           immersed
           in
           Blood
           and
           Rapin
           ,
           that
           the
           very
           Cannibals
           would
           deem
           them
           quite
           divested
           of
           Humanity
           ;
           yet
           His
           Majesty
           leaves
           a
           Door
           of
           Mercy
           ,
           wherein
           for
           them
           to
           enter
           ,
           if
           they
           will
           but
           testifie
           by
           
           their
           Actions
           ,
           that
           they
           strive
           to
           merit
           an
           Admission
           .
        
         
           But
           when
           this
           does
           justly
           silence
           the
           Enemies
           of
           God
           ,
           and
           the
           King
           ,
           as
           it
           reasonably
           ought
           to
           do
           ,
           yet
           they
           will
           still
           impertinently
           object
           ,
           That
           though
           the
           Lives
           of
           these
           men
           ,
           may
           be
           so
           wrapt
           up
           by
           their
           own
           behaviour
           ,
           as
           to
           render
           them
           capable
           of
           meriting
           their
           preservation
           ,
           yet
           their
           Estates
           must
           be
           sacrificed
           to
           the
           Resentments
           of
           the
           present
           Government
           :
           and
           to
           make
           their
           Seditious
           noise
           ,
           carry
           some
           sound
           of
           truth
           ,
           they
           sum
           up
           their
           Estates
           by
           Multiplication
           ,
           and
           that
           to
           thrice
           as
           much
           as
           they
           really
           amount
           to
           .
        
         
           But
           why
           do
           not
           these
           Iusticiaries
           who
           express
           so
           great
           a
           care
           ,
           and
           sollicitude
           for
           the
           Irish
           ,
           give
           us
           an
           account
           of
           what
           the
           British
           have
           been
           deprived
           of
           ,
           which
           is
           so
           great
           ,
           that
           all
           the
           
             Irish
             Papists
          
           Estates
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           were
           they
           to
           be
           sold
           ,
           could
           not
           make
           satisfaction
           for
           one
           Moiety
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           robbed
           the
           Protestants
           of
           ,
           in
           their
           Personal
           Substance
           .
        
         
           But
           I
           hear
           some
           of
           them
           say
           ,
           by
           an
           equal
           Parity
           of
           Reason
           ,
           that
           the
           British
           desire
           satisfaction
           out
           of
           Irish-mens
           Estates
           ;
           Merchants
           may
           expect
           reparation
           for
           their
           losses
           at
           Sea
           out
           of
           Prizes
           taken
           by
           the
           King's
           Ships
           .
           This
           Argument
           may
           well
           be
           thought
           to
           proceed
           from
           men
           of
           Abdicated
           sense
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Interest
           :
           For
           pray
           ,
           wherein
           consists
           the
           Parallel
           ?
           Merchants
           venture
           themselves
           with
           the
           expectation
           of
           divers
           Accidents
           ,
           and
           Contingencies
           ,
           and
           accordingly
           lay
           their
           designs
           of
           profit
           in
           a
           form
           proportionable
           to
           their
           hazards
           .
        
         
           And
           to
           shew
           the
           Consideration
           ,
           the
           Government
           has
           for
           them
           ,
           and
           what
           relief
           they
           are
           to
           expect
           upon
           a
           loss
           at
           Sea
           ,
           the
           Parliament
           provided
           in
           the
           Statute
           
           for
           Subsidies
           of
           Tunnage
           ,
           and
           Poundage
           ,
           that
           in
           such
           Cases
           ,
           they
           should
           receive
           back
           the
           Customs
           they
           paid
           .
        
         
           Now
           though
           it
           be
           impossible
           to
           run
           the
           Comparison
           ,
           yet
           the
           Gentlemen
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           I
           durst
           be
           Guarantee
           for
           ,
           will
           thankfully
           acknowledge
           the
           like
           satisfaction
           :
           Give
           them
           but
           as
           much
           as
           they
           have
           paid
           in
           
             Quit
             rent
             ,
             Taxes
             ,
             Harth-money
             ,
             Customs
             ,
          
           and
           Excise
           ,
           since
           they
           were
           put
           into
           a
           Legal
           Possession
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           by
           King
           Charles
           the
           Second
           ,
           and
           they
           will
           desire
           no
           more
           .
        
         
           I
           confess
           these
           Pot-guns
           of
           the
           Jacobites
           are
           not
           worth
           answering
           ,
           yet
           I
           cannot
           forbear
           mentioning
           one
           thing
           more
           :
        
         
           Who
           are
           they
           that
           commit
           Robberies
           at
           Sea
           ?
           if
           Pirates
           ,
           and
           especially
           of
           the
           King's
           Subjects
           ,
           are
           they
           treated
           like
           Enemies
           of
           War
           ?
           And
           will
           they
           be
           established
           in
           a
           quiet
           ,
           and
           peaceable
           possession
           of
           what
           they
           have
           robbed
           from
           their
           fellow-Subjects
           ?
           The
           case
           is
           the
           same
           in
           Ireland
           :
           Our
           fellow-Subjects
           ,
           for
           so
           they
           were
           entitled
           ,
           before
           this
           Rebellion
           ;
           set
           upon
           their
           quiet
           and
           innocent
           Neighbours
           ,
           and
           seized
           violently
           upon
           their
           whole
           substance
           .
           How
           equal
           the
           Parallel
           then
           is
           ,
           of
           losing
           Ships
           at
           Sea
           by
           a
           Foreign
           Enemy
           ,
           and
           such
           Robbers
           at
           home
           ,
           a
           Child
           may
           judge
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           come
           to
           that
           I
           propose
           as
           an
           Expedient
           to
           answer
           the
           thing
           designed
           ,
           (
           viz.
           )
           a
           quick
           and
           easie
           Conquest
           of
           Ireland
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           pursuit
           of
           this
           Topick
           ,
           the
           Question
           that
           will
           arise
           from
           it
           ,
           will
           be
           ,
           whether
           pardoning
           the
           Commonalty
           in
           general
           ,
           and
           excepting
           some
           few
           of
           the
           Grandees
           ,
           or
           pardoning
           the
           chief
           men
           with
           the
           Commonalty
           ,
           under
           the
           same
           Qualifications
           ,
           will
           
           most
           contribute
           to
           the
           safe
           and
           effectual
           reduction
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           I
           shall
           espouse
           the
           first
           of
           these
           ,
           by
           asserting
           ,
           That
           pardoning
           the
           Commonalty
           ,
           and
           excepting
           some
           of
           their
           greatest
           men
           ,
           will
           soonest
           prevail
           ,
           and
           that
           for
           these
           three
           Reasons
        
         
           First
           ,
           Pardoning
           the
           Commonalty
           ,
           and
           excepting
           some
           of
           their
           chiefest
           men
           ,
           will
           encourage
           the
           Populace
           to
           submit
           upon
           that
           very
           assurance
           ,
           and
           consequently
           upon
           their
           own
           bottom
           ,
           without
           any
           dependance
           upon
           the
           Heads
           of
           their
           Clans
           ;
           which
           of
           how
           contemptible
           a
           consideration
           soever
           it
           may
           appear
           to
           some
           ,
           is
           certainly
           a
           matter
           of
           the
           greatest
           moment
           in
           the
           Reduction
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           .
           For
           't
           is
           as
           well
           the
           assiduous
           contrivance
           ,
           as
           common
           interest
           of
           the
           Irish
           Grandees
           ,
           to
           keep
           the
           Commonalty
           under
           the
           Circumstances
           of
           a
           constant
           dependence
           upon
           them
           ,
           endeavouring
           to
           possess
           them
           with
           an
           opinion
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           by
           their
           means
           ,
           and
           upon
           their
           account
           only
           ,
           that
           the
           others
           obtain
           terms
           and
           security
           ,
           by
           which
           politick
           influence
           upon
           the
           ordinary
           sort
           ,
           in
           the
           closing
           of
           one
           Rebellion
           ,
           they
           lay
           a
           foundation
           for
           ,
           and
           so
           not
           only
           give
           Birth
           ,
           but
           add
           Fuel
           to
           another
           :
           For
           the
           Heads
           of
           Clans
           ,
           as
           well
           by
           themselves
           ,
           as
           by
           the
           co
           ▪
           operating
           instigation
           of
           their
           Priests
           ,
           carefully
           instil
           into
           the
           Ignorant
           Multitude
           ,
           that
           let
           them
           make
           an
           insurrection
           when
           they
           please
           ,
           they
           can
           incur
           no
           danger
           ;
           for
           at
           the
           utmost
           extremity
           of
           things
           they
           are
           ,
           and
           must
           ever
           be
           the
           Grand
           Instruments
           of
           their
           Preservation
           :
           Let
           them
           be
           never
           so
           deeply
           involved
           in
           Blood
           and
           Rapin
           ,
           yet
           that
           their
           power
           and
           interest
           is
           such
           ,
           as
           must
           necessarily
           bring
           them
           off
           :
           They
           are
           the
           Tall
           Cedars
           ,
           that
           can
           at
           any
           time
           defend
           the
           lower
           Shrubs
           ,
           and
           what
           need
           they
           fear
           ,
           since
           they
           are
           under
           so
           strong
           a
           
           Guard
           ,
           and
           Protection
           ,
           whose
           Persons
           are
           so
           formidable
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           inviolable
           to
           the
           English
           ,
           as
           always
           to
           shield
           them
           from
           harm
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           this
           deluded
           Mobile
           see
           ,
           that
           the
           King
           has
           no
           regard
           to
           their
           Leaders
           ,
           but
           on
           the
           contrary
           excludes
           the
           greatest
           of
           them
           from
           Pardon
           ;
           this
           will
           demonstrate
           to
           them
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           his
           Royal
           Mercy
           ,
           not
           the
           interest
           of
           their
           Lords
           ,
           that
           must
           preserve
           them
           :
           This
           will
           remove
           the
           opinion
           of
           their
           dependance
           upon
           their
           Lords
           ,
           and
           consequently
           oblige
           them
           to
           suitable
           apprehensions
           of
           His
           Majesty's
           Clemency
           to
           them
           ;
           by
           which
           means
           deriving
           their
           preservation
           from
           the
           Crown
           ,
           they
           will
           wholly
           depend
           upon
           it
           :
           whereas
           they
           never
           were
           yet
           separated
           from
           the
           interest
           of
           their
           Clans
           ,
           but
           in
           those
           few
           years
           of
           
           Cromwel's
           Government
           ,
           the
           good
           effect
           whereof
           those
           who
           were
           Eye-witnesses
           of
           it
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           and
           now
           living
           ,
           can
           give
           a
           description
           ;
           when
           most
           of
           the
           Commonalty
           went
           to
           Church
           ,
           and
           Doors
           with
           a
           Wooden
           Latch
           were
           as
           secure
           ,
           as
           an
           Iron
           Grate
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           Second
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           Pardoning
           the
           Commonalty
           ,
           without
           any
           dependence
           upon
           their
           Commanders
           ,
           being
           extended
           as
           a
           matter
           of
           meer
           Grace
           and
           Princely
           favour
           to
           them
           ,
           will
           possess
           those
           poor
           people
           with
           apprehensions
           of
           the
           good
           Inclinations
           of
           the
           English
           towards
           them
           ,
           which
           will
           induce
           them
           to
           a
           ready
           submission
           .
        
         
           They
           (
           as
           most
           barbarous
           People
           )
           are
           generally
           of
           Diffident
           ,
           and
           Timorous
           Natures
           ,
           and
           't
           is
           with
           some
           difficulty
           ,
           that
           they
           can
           be
           prevailed
           upon
           to
           believe
           ,
           that
           their
           Crimes
           shall
           be
           forgiven
           .
           This
           ,
           I
           suppose
           ,
           may
           proceed
           from
           the
           fierceness
           ,
           and
           cruelty
           of
           their
           own
           Dispositions
           ,
           as
           not
           looking
           for
           those
           unexpected
           returns
           of
           kindness
           from
           such
           ,
           whom
           they
           have
           testified
           
           so
           Implacable
           an
           Aversion
           ,
           and
           Prejudice
           against
           .
        
         
           Now
           whilst
           they
           crowd
           under
           their
           Leaders
           ,
           they
           are
           fostered
           up
           in
           that
           Opinion
           ,
           which
           the
           way
           prescribed
           of
           reducing
           them
           ,
           will
           take
           them
           off
           ,
           and
           make
           them
           sensible
           that
           the
           Protestants
           look
           not
           on
           them
           as
           the
           Authors
           ,
           but
           the
           forced
           Instruments
           of
           this
           Rebellion
           ;
           which
           ,
           when
           they
           are
           made
           apprehensive
           of
           ,
           will
           soon
           divert
           the
           stream
           from
           its
           former
           Current
           ,
           and
           their
           private
           Soldiers
           will
           fly
           from
           their
           marked
           out
           Commanders
           ,
           as
           from
           a
           Plague
           ,
           or
           publick
           Contagion
           .
           Now
           that
           this
           is
           no
           Novel
           Notion
           ,
           their
           very
           practice
           in
           former
           Rebellions
           does
           fully
           evince
           ,
           when
           the
           Father
           to
           save
           his
           own
           ,
           would
           betray
           his
           Sons
           Life
           ,
           which
           was
           the
           usual
           method
           throughout
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           :
           Neither
           is
           it
           in
           the
           power
           of
           their
           Priests
           (
           how
           Arbitrary
           soever
           in
           the
           exercise
           of
           their
           Function
           )
           to
           govern
           ,
           or
           restrain
           them
           longer
           ,
           than
           whilst
           their
           own
           Party
           can
           protect
           them
           ;
           their
           Secular
           ,
           carrying
           so
           great
           a
           Predominancy
           over
           their
           Spiritual
           Interest
           ,
           as
           makes
           them
           inseparable
           Slaves
           to
           their
           Cow
           ,
           and
           
           Pottato-Garden
           ;
           and
           he
           only
           commands
           them
           that
           is
           Lord
           of
           the
           Soil
           ,
           without
           any
           regard
           to
           Proximity
           of
           Blood
           ,
           or
           Ancient
           Property
           .
        
         
           But
           to
           proceed
           to
           my
           Third
           Reason
           ,
           That
           pardoning
           the
           Commons
           ,
           is
           the
           ready
           way
           to
           put
           a
           period
           to
           the
           Rebellion
           :
           Our
           Laws
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Reason
           acquaint
           us
           ,
           That
           the
           King
           's
           General
           Pardon
           is
           no
           security
           to
           any
           private
           man
           for
           personal
           actions
           ,
           for
           any
           Robberies
           ,
           or
           Mischiefs
           done
           to
           the
           Protestants
           .
           Now
           all
           the
           waste
           ,
           and
           havock
           committed
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           was
           done
           by
           the
           Commonalty
           ,
           though
           by
           private
           orders
           ,
           
           and
           instructions
           of
           their
           Leaders
           ,
           and
           to
           their
           greatest
           profit
           .
        
         
           These
           men
           will
           be
           told
           by
           their
           Lawyers
           ,
           That
           this
           Pardon
           is
           but
           a
           snare
           to
           bring
           them
           in
           ,
           and
           that
           private
           Actions
           which
           will
           be
           commenced
           against
           them
           ,
           will
           rot
           them
           in
           Gaol
           .
        
         
           But
           the
           General
           Pardon
           excepting
           so
           many
           men
           of
           Estates
           ,
           and
           in
           express
           words
           declaring
           that
           they
           shall
           be
           converted
           to
           a
           restitution
           of
           what
           the
           Protestants
           have
           lost
           ,
           this
           will
           quiet
           ,
           and
           allay
           the
           fears
           of
           the
           Commonalty
           ,
           that
           they
           shall
           be
           free
           from
           Actions
           and
           Suits
           at
           Law
           ,
           by
           the
           satisfaction
           the
           Estates
           of
           their
           Commanders
           will
           make
           .
        
         
           If
           these
           Reasons
           be
           allowed
           sufficient
           for
           the
           confirmation
           of
           what
           they
           are
           alledged
           ,
           the
           next
           thing
           that
           falls
           under
           our
           present
           Consideration
           ,
           is
           ,
           What
           Settlement
           will
           most
           effectually
           conduce
           for
           the
           speedy
           planting
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           :
           for
           that
           there
           is
           too
           apparent
           Reasons
           to
           fear
           ,
           that
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           Farmers
           ,
           and
           Traders
           are
           now
           incapacitated
           ,
           and
           consequently
           can
           be
           of
           little
           use
           ,
           or
           benefit
           ,
           till
           something
           be
           raised
           to
           put
           them
           in
           stock
           ;
           so
           that
           it
           must
           necessarily
           be
           a
           new
           People
           that
           must
           bring
           that
           upon
           the
           Wheel
           ,
           for
           it
           is
           not
           visible
           how
           the
           late
           English
           ,
           or
           British
           Interest
           can
           make
           it
           more
           .
        
         
           Now
           to
           invite
           both
           His
           Majesties
           Subjects
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           Foreigners
           of
           the
           Reformed
           Religion
           ,
           into
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           these
           things
           offer
           to
           their
           encouragement
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           To
           take
           off
           the
           Umbrage
           and
           Fears
           of
           new
           Rebellions
           .
        
         
           And
           to
           give
           a
           rational
           prospect
           and
           assurance
           of
           advantage
           to
           such
           as
           shall
           come
           there
           ,
           for
           the
           future
           .
        
         
         
           For
           the
           First
           ,
           to
           remove
           the
           fears
           ,
           which
           men
           are
           generally
           possess'd
           with
           of
           Insurrections
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           there
           needs
           a
           retrospection
           into
           that
           Government
           ,
           since
           its
           first
           Conquest
           by
           the
           British
           ,
           and
           then
           see
           the
           success
           it
           had
           :
           which
           useful
           Animadversion
           will
           naturally
           lead
           men
           to
           a
           consideration
           of
           what
           misfortunes
           and
           miscarriages
           it
           has
           since
           been
           incident
           to
           ;
           and
           to
           what
           in
           a
           more
           especial
           manner
           it
           has
           been
           of
           late
           obnoxious
           ;
           it
           being
           a
           received
           Maxim
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           the
           Body
           Politick
           ,
           as
           Natural
           ,
           that
           the
           most
           secure
           way
           of
           applying
           a
           wholesome
           Remedy
           ,
           is
           first
           to
           make
           a
           right
           discovery
           of
           the
           Disease
           .
        
         
           The
           Deportment
           of
           the
           English
           in
           their
           first
           Government
           of
           Ireland
           was
           managed
           with
           abundance
           of
           Candour
           ,
           and
           Generosity
           of
           Temper
           ,
           by
           all
           means
           and
           ways
           imaginable
           ,
           indulging
           a
           Savage
           People
           over-run
           with
           rudeness
           and
           barbarity
           :
           and
           seeing
           that
           they
           were
           then
           united
           in
           the
           Principles
           of
           one
           Religion
           ,
           it
           might
           be
           conjectured
           no
           artful
           undertaking
           ,
           or
           task
           of
           extream
           difficulty
           ,
           to
           reduce
           them
           to
           an
           entire
           obedience
           to
           the
           Civil
           Government
           ,
           who
           stood
           so
           unanimously
           well
           affected
           to
           that
           of
           the
           Ecclesiastical
           .
        
         
           But
           it
           was
           afterwards
           found
           a
           Work
           of
           a
           far
           different
           nature
           ,
           and
           much
           harder
           to
           effect
           ,
           to
           reform
           the
           Errors
           and
           Innovations
           introduced
           into
           their
           Church
           ,
           than
           to
           propagate
           Christianity
           ,
           where
           it
           was
           never
           established
           before
           :
           the
           Irish
           hating
           ,
           in
           religious
           matters
           ,
           what
           came
           from
           the
           
             English
             Clergy
          
           ;
           and
           so
           inveterate
           they
           were
           against
           their
           Reformers
           ,
           that
           they
           would
           anathematize
           all
           such
           as
           seem'd
           inclined
           to
           favour
           them
           ,
           giving
           it
           in
           strict
           Charge
           to
           their
           Children
           ,
           never
           to
           imitate
           the
           Customs
           and
           Manners
           of
           the
           English
           ;
           which
           ,
           to
           create
           the
           greater
           abhorrence
           
           against
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           to
           demonstrate
           their
           implacable
           rancour
           ,
           would
           (
           agreeably
           to
           their
           more
           early
           nurture
           and
           education
           of
           their
           Off-spring
           )
           put
           the
           first
           Food
           into
           their
           Mouths
           with
           the
           point
           of
           a
           Sword
           ;
           a
           true
           Hieroglyphick
           of
           their
           savage
           Cruelty
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           their
           expressions
           were
           a
           denotation
           of
           their
           great
           Barbarity
           ,
           which
           they
           used
           upon
           that
           occasion
           ,
           
             Wishing
             that
             they
             might
             never
             die
             ,
             but
             with
             a
             Sword
             in
             their
             hands
             ,
             in
             the
             midst
             of
             their
             enemies
             .
          
        
         
           This
           Barbarism
           the
           English
           Government
           thought
           to
           eradicate
           ,
           by
           reducing
           them
           to
           the
           more
           easie
           Discipline
           of
           Civility
           ,
           and
           that
           to
           be
           done
           by
           the
           gentle
           methods
           of
           Kindness
           ,
           and
           a
           favourable
           Indulgence
           to
           their
           Lords
           and
           the
           Heads
           of
           Clans
           ,
           making
           them
           Presents
           ,
           &
           giving
           them
           a
           legal
           power
           over
           their
           Followers
           and
           Tenants
           ,
           thereby
           to
           wean
           and
           alienate
           them
           from
           that
           Arbitrary
           Violence
           which
           they
           had
           usurp'd
           before
           ;
           all
           which
           ,
           like
           Honey
           in
           a
           vitiated
           Stomach
           ,
           turned
           to
           Choler
           ,
           and
           they
           became
           the
           greater
           Enemies
           to
           good
           Laws
           and
           Constitutions
           ,
           by
           having
           the
           opportunity
           put
           into
           their
           hands
           of
           converting
           them
           from
           a
           regular
           administration
           to
           vile
           and
           enormous
           Abuses
           .
        
         
           To
           this
           the
           English
           Government
           superadded
           that
           powerful
           Tye
           of
           Marriage
           ,
           that
           so
           uniting
           in
           Blood
           might
           be
           an
           Introduction
           to
           English
           Humanity
           and
           Civility
           ;
           but
           all
           this
           was
           like
           
             Corn
             sown
             upon
             Thorns
          
           ,
           choaked
           up
           by
           the
           natural
           brutality
           of
           that
           ungrateful
           People
           ,
           insomuch
           ,
           that
           they
           could
           not
           be
           brought
           to
           any
           part
           of
           conformity
           (
           no
           ,
           not
           in
           their
           Garments
           )
           to
           English
           Fashions
           ,
           until
           by
           Statute-Laws
           they
           were
           compelled
           to
           decency
           :
           Such
           an
           invincible
           detestation
           they
           bore
           to
           the
           Manners
           and
           Customs
           of
           the
           British
           ,
           which
           recalls
           to
           my
           mind
           a
           passage
           I
           was
           in
           part
           an
           eye-witness
           of
           :
           A
           Gentleman
           of
           
           the
           Irish
           marrying
           one
           of
           Lynster
           ,
           whose
           Education
           there
           being
           something
           refined
           by
           conversing
           with
           the
           English
           ,
           and
           coming
           to
           his
           own
           House
           ,
           according
           to
           the
           Custom
           of
           the
           Country
           ,
           all
           his
           Tenants
           and
           Clans
           ,
           brought
           in
           
             Beefs
             ,
             Muttons
             ,
             &c.
          
           in
           a
           great
           abundance
           ,
           and
           the
           Lady
           finding
           more
           than
           could
           be
           spent
           while
           't
           was
           fresh
           ,
           ordered
           to
           have
           some
           of
           it
           powdered
           up
           ;
           which
           these
           People
           hearing
           of
           ,
           renounced
           their
           Lord
           and
           Lady
           ,
           as
           invaders
           of
           their
           ancient
           Priviledges
           and
           Liberties
           ,
           which
           (
           as
           they
           affirm'd
           )
           were
           never
           violated
           before
           in
           that
           House
           ,
           where
           't
           was
           never
           known
           that
           Flesh
           was
           salted
           ,
           but
           on
           the
           Trencher
           .
        
         
           I
           must
           intreat
           the
           Reader
           's
           Pardon
           for
           this
           digression
           ,
           and
           return
           to
           the
           still-mistaken
           tenderness
           of
           the
           
             English
             Government
          
           ,
           which
           was
           so
           very
           indulgent
           ,
           that
           though
           the
           Irish
           were
           never
           
             twenty
             years
          
           quiet
           ,
           and
           scarce
           half
           so
           long
           ,
           till
           King
           James
           the
           First
           ,
           yet
           did
           the
           Kings
           and
           Queens
           of
           England
           not
           only
           vouchsafe
           Pardon
           ,
           but
           likewise
           heapt
           Creations
           of
           great
           Honour
           and
           Dignity
           upon
           those
           who
           ,
           in
           the
           general
           acceptation
           ,
           were
           irreconcileable
           Enemies
           both
           to
           It
           and
           Them.
           I
           will
           not
           stand
           to
           enumerate
           particulars
           ,
           but
           rather
           referr
           the
           Reader
           to
           the
           several
           Authors
           that
           have
           writ
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           shall
           only
           give
           a
           succinct
           account
           of
           some
           passages
           of
           the
           Rebellion
           of
           Forty
           One
           ,
           too
           deeply
           imprinted
           in
           the
           Memories
           of
           Men
           ,
           ever
           to
           be
           eras'd
           or
           forgotten
           ,
           which
           ,
           if
           Sir
           
             John
             Davis
          
           ,
           that
           writ
           so
           excellently
           of
           the
           Defects
           of
           the
           Kings
           of
           England
           in
           the
           
             Civil
             Policy
          
           ,
           in
           the
           Government
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           had
           lived
           to
           be
           a
           Spectator
           of
           ,
           he
           would
           have
           enlarged
           that
           admirable
           Discourse
           ,
           in
           which
           he
           prophetically
           lamented
           what
           we
           have
           by
           two
           Rebellions
           since
           fatally
           found
           true
           :
           In
           the
           Rebellion
           of
           
             Forty
             
             One
          
           ,
           their
           barbarous
           and
           inhumane
           Massacres
           demonstrated
           to
           the
           World
           the
           cruel
           design
           of
           the
           Irish
           ,
           quite
           to
           extirpate
           and
           destroy
           the
           whole
           Race
           and
           Progeny
           of
           the
           British
           ,
           which
           in
           their
           former
           Insurrections
           they
           had
           in
           some
           measure
           spared
           ,
           but
           were
           resolved
           to
           correct
           that
           Errour
           in
           this
           ,
           which
           they
           looked
           upon
           themselves
           to
           have
           been
           guilty
           of
           in
           former
           Rebellions
           ,
           and
           as
           a
           demonstration
           of
           their
           carefulness
           in
           the
           execution
           of
           so
           damnable
           a
           Design
           ,
           there
           was
           not
           found
           Five
           of
           the
           
             Roman
             Catholicks
          
           innocent
           ,
           though
           they
           cannot
           but
           acknowledge
           ,
           but
           that
           even
           in
           the
           time
           of
           
           Cromwel's
           Government
           they
           had
           fair
           Trials
           ,
           and
           no
           Articles
           entred
           into
           with
           them
           ,
           but
           were
           most
           inviolably
           and
           punctually
           observ'd
           ,
           even
           to
           the
           Priviledges
           of
           a
           little
           Town
           call'd
           Featherd
           ,
           where
           ,
           until
           the
           Restauration
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           Second
           ,
           the
           Irish
           not
           only
           enjoyed
           their
           Estates
           ,
           but
           had
           the
           keeping
           of
           their
           Town
           ,
           chose
           their
           own
           
             Officers
             ,
             &c.
          
           
        
         
           But
           in
           all
           the
           Promises
           or
           Articles
           made
           with
           the
           
             Irish
             ,
             Cromwel
          
           observed
           one
           standing
           .
           Rule
           ,
           never
           to
           give
           a
           Pardon
           for
           Estate
           to
           any
           of
           their
           Grandees
           ,
           nor
           grant
           terms
           for
           Priests
           to
           remain
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           .
           Had
           the
           Monarchs
           of
           England
           acted
           by
           the
           same
           measures
           before
           that
           ,
           I
           mean
           ,
           since
           the
           Reformation
           ,
           there
           had
           been
           no
           such
           National
           Revolution
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ;
           as
           the
           vast
           multitudes
           of
           the
           
             Protestant
             Exiles
          
           in
           this
           give
           but
           too
           lamentable
           a
           proof
           of
           ,
           and
           consequently
           there
           had
           been
           no
           occasion
           for
           this
           Discourse
           :
           for
           by
           that
           means
           the
           Irish
           could
           never
           have
           been
           capable
           of
           making
           an
           Insurrection
           ,
           and
           so
           could
           not
           have
           come
           under
           such
           Circumstances
           ,
           as
           to
           require
           a
           Pardon
           for
           their
           Security
           ,
           not
           to
           relate
           the
           wonderful
           good
           effect
           which
           Seven
           years
           continuance
           of
           that
           Government
           
           met
           with
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           which
           was
           ,
           That
           most
           of
           the
           
             Common
             People
          
           went
           to
           Church
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           the
           discreetest
           of
           their
           men
           of
           Estates
           began
           to
           hearken
           with
           great
           attention
           to
           Discourses
           made
           upon
           the
           Fopperies
           and
           absurd
           Innovations
           of
           Popery
           .
           The
           Country
           flourished
           to
           a
           vast
           degree
           ,
           grew
           rich
           and
           populous
           to
           a
           Miracle
           ,
           and
           had
           the
           same
           Settlement
           been
           confirm'd
           ,
           in
           which
           it
           lay
           under
           at
           the
           Restauration
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           Second
           ,
           there
           had
           been
           no
           possibility
           left
           for
           the
           effecting
           of
           those
           
             fatal
             Mischiefs
          
           which
           have
           prevail'd
           with
           so
           irresistible
           a
           force
           in
           that
           poor
           Kingdom
           .
           But
           his
           Mercy
           to
           this
           perfidious
           People
           was
           ,
           upon
           its
           first
           vouchsafing
           ,
           feared
           to
           be
           an
           
             ominous
             presage
          
           of
           Cruelty
           to
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           :
           And
           we
           have
           now
           but
           too
           fatal
           experience
           of
           the
           truth
           of
           what
           even
           at
           that
           time
           it
           portended
           .
           By
           what
           has
           been
           insisted
           upon
           ,
           it
           seems
           sufficiently
           plain
           ,
           That
           the
           Success
           attending
           the
           Indulgence
           of
           the
           English
           Government
           to
           the
           Irish
           ,
           has
           alwaies
           been
           to
           enable
           and
           animate
           them
           to
           fresh
           Rebellions
           ,
           in
           which
           their
           inveterate
           Genius
           has
           fully
           shewn
           ,
           That
           they
           were
           never
           wanting
           upon
           the
           least
           inviting
           opportunity
           ,
           alwaies
           with
           open
           Arms
           and
           as
           ready
           Hearts
           embracing
           the
           Enemies
           of
           England
           ,
           as
           their
           Patrons
           ,
           in
           imitation
           of
           the
           vile
           and
           ungrateful
           Carriage
           of
           the
           Samaritans
           to
           the
           Jews
           ,
           whom
           they
           owned
           as
           Brethren
           ,
           when
           they
           were
           in
           Prosperity
           ,
           and
           stood
           in
           need
           of
           their
           assistance
           and
           protection
           ;
           but
           disclaim'd
           all
           kind
           of
           relation
           or
           affinity
           to
           them
           ,
           when
           they
           were
           distrest
           by
           other
           Nations
           ,
           and
           so
           either
           called
           for
           their
           Relief
           ,
           or
           else
           supposing
           that
           the
           Enemies
           of
           the
           Jews
           would
           proceed
           against
           them
           as
           their
           Friends
           and
           Confederates
           ,
           resolved
           to
           untwist
           all
           the
           Bonds
           of
           their
           Alliance
           ,
           and
           to
           side
           with
           the
           common
           
           Adversary
           ,
           when
           it
           appeared
           to
           be
           for
           their
           Interest
           so
           to
           do
           .
        
         
           And
           something
           parallel
           to
           this
           ,
           is
           also
           the
           demeanour
           of
           the
           Irish
           toward
           the
           Spaniard
           ,
           who
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           
             Elizabeth
             ▪
          
           were
           their
           
             Catholick
             Guardians
          
           ,
           from
           whom
           they
           boastingly
           derived
           their
           original
           Extraction
           and
           Descent
           :
           Now
           the
           Spaniards
           are
           their
           Paltroons
           ,
           and
           the
           French
           their
           Deity
           ,
           and
           so
           as
           Catholick
           as
           they
           pretend
           ,
           would
           not
           stick
           to
           make
           court
           to
           the
           Turk
           ,
           were
           he
           in
           a
           capacity
           to
           invade
           England
           ,
           and
           to
           offer
           them
           assistance
           .
        
         
           The
           premises
           of
           this
           Discourse
           seem
           very
           copious
           as
           to
           the
           asserting
           a
           necessity
           of
           extraordinary
           acts
           to
           take
           off
           the
           fears
           that
           ,
           by
           the
           experience
           of
           former
           Precedents
           ,
           may
           reasonably
           be
           judg'd
           to
           attend
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           to
           give
           encouragement
           for
           new
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           for
           old
           Inhabitants
           .
        
         
           Now
           there
           seems
           nothing
           possible
           to
           secure
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           but
           the
           extirpation
           of
           
             two
             Setts
          
           of
           Men
           among
           them
           ,
           such
           as
           are
           invested
           in
           the
           greatest
           Command
           and
           Authority
           over
           their
           Bodies
           ;
           and
           the
           Priests
           and
           Clergy
           ,
           who
           have
           so
           absolute
           a
           Government
           over
           their
           Souls
           .
           For
           these
           are
           the
           men
           that
           have
           been
           the
           great
           Instruments
           and
           Incendiaries
           of
           all
           their
           Rebellions
           ,
           that
           have
           as
           well
           forwarded
           as
           headed
           the
           easie
           Multitude
           ,
           and
           without
           whose
           Instigation
           the
           Populace
           would
           have
           submissively
           acquiesced
           under
           ,
           and
           never
           appear'd
           against
           the
           British
           .
           And
           if
           our
           long
           experience
           of
           former
           Times
           and
           Revolutions
           be
           deem'd
           a
           competent
           Testimony
           in
           this
           case
           ,
           With
           what
           greater
           shew
           of
           Reason
           have
           we
           now
           cause
           to
           be
           afraid
           of
           the
           time
           to
           come
           ,
           especially
           if
           we
           consider
           the
           present
           juncture
           and
           Constitution
           of
           Affairs
           ?
           For
           now
           the
           French
           have
           found
           the
           way
           into
           that
           
             Kingdom
             ▪
          
           and
           are
           
           throughly
           acquainted
           with
           the
           Interest
           ,
           Situation
           ,
           Strength
           ,
           or
           rather
           Weakness
           of
           it
           ;
           are
           entituled
           to
           a
           proportion
           in
           it
           by
           vertue
           of
           the
           pretended
           Right
           of
           the
           late
           King
           James
           ,
           and
           in
           order
           to
           that
           ,
           have
           Livery
           and
           Seisin
           given
           them
           .
           This
           ministers
           just
           occasion
           of
           fear
           ,
           that
           they
           will
           give
           frequent
           Alarums
           to
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           which
           never
           had
           before
           a
           foreign
           Enemy
           in
           the
           bowels
           of
           it
           ;
           the
           Spaniards
           seeing
           but
           the
           edges
           and
           out-skirts
           of
           it
           ,
           whereas
           the
           French
           industriously
           pry
           into
           every
           corner
           ,
           upon
           the
           favour
           of
           him
           that
           delights
           in
           the
           destruction
           of
           these
           Kingdoms
           ,
           which
           to
           facilitate
           ,
           or
           rather
           to
           the
           utmost
           of
           his
           power
           compleat
           ,
           gives
           up
           the
           distressed
           innocent
           Protestants
           of
           Ireland
           into
           the
           barbarous
           hands
           of
           the
           
             French
             King
          
           ,
           whose
           Success
           and
           Dexterity
           ,
           though
           not
           Inclination
           ,
           is
           greater
           in
           the
           Butchering
           Hereticks
           ,
           as
           the
           good
           and
           great
           King
           James
           calls
           the
           Protestants
           of
           these
           Kingdoms
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           if
           the
           common
           Herd
           of
           the
           Irish
           be
           separated
           from
           their
           prime
           Leaders
           ,
           and
           from
           their
           
             Wolves
             in
             Sheeps
             clothing
          
           ,
           there
           will
           be
           none
           left
           to
           blow
           up
           the
           Coal
           of
           Treason
           or
           Sedition
           among
           them
           ,
           or
           any
           to
           head
           or
           animate
           them
           in
           it
           :
           And
           the
           progress
           of
           a
           few
           years
           of
           careful
           Instruction
           from
           our
           Protestant
           Clergy
           ,
           in
           the
           Rudiments
           and
           first
           Draughts
           of
           our
           Profession
           ,
           will
           initiate
           them
           into
           the
           more
           safe
           Religion
           and
           
             easie
             Government
          
           of
           the
           British
           .
           Besides
           ,
           if
           the
           French
           have
           no
           Confederates
           left
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           to
           give
           them
           a
           favourable
           reception
           ,
           (
           as
           in
           this
           case
           they
           would
           not
           )
           there
           would
           be
           no
           great
           reason
           to
           fear
           them
           ,
           neither
           would
           they
           dare
           to
           attempt
           the
           Country
           without
           that
           dependence
           .
        
         
         
           If
           it
           should
           be
           thought
           hard
           usage
           to
           dispossess
           the
           Irish-men
           ;
           it
           may
           be
           answered
           ,
           that
           there
           are
           
             Fields
             of
             Mercy
          
           for
           the
           King
           to
           extend
           :
           and
           this
           desired
           for
           the
           preservation
           of
           the
           
             Protestant
             Interest
          
           ,
           is
           but
           a
           
             small
             Enclosure
          
           ;
           not
           one
           ,
           as
           I
           said
           before
           ,
           of
           
             Twenty
             :
             Thousand
          
           ;
           nor
           was
           there
           ever
           greater
           Criminals
           up
           to
           the
           Elbows
           in
           
             Protestant
             Blood
          
           in
           the
           Rebellion
           of
           
             Forty
             One
          
           :
           the
           very
           same
           individual
           men
           that
           are
           engaged
           in
           this
           ,
           
             found
             guilty
          
           ,
           and
           once
           Condemned
           for
           that
           ,
           and
           how
           their
           Estates
           after
           forfeiture
           were
           torn
           from
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           ,
           is
           no
           secret
           to
           the
           World.
           Nor
           is
           it
           unknown
           ,
           that
           upon
           their
           Restauration
           ,
           in
           the
           year
           
             One
             Thousand
             Six
             Hundred
             and
             Sixty
             two
             ,
          
           above
           
             Sixty
             Thousand
          
           Protestants
           were
           drove
           out
           to
           seek
           their
           Bread
           ,
           and
           scattered
           through
           the
           World
           :
           This
           was
           nothing
           .
           But
           to
           banish
           less
           than
           an
           Hundred
           must
           be
           great
           Cruelty
           ,
           though
           men
           twice
           guilty
           of
           Blood
           and
           Treason
           ,
           and
           those
           whose
           Estates
           they
           are
           in
           present
           possession
           of
           ,
           stained
           with
           neither
           .
        
         
           This
           is
           a
           Compendious
           ,
           as
           well
           as
           an
           easie
           way
           to
           remove
           the
           fears
           of
           future
           Rebellions
           ,
           and
           gives
           good
           assurance
           for
           the
           time
           to
           come
           ,
           that
           the
           Commonalty
           will
           be
           united
           as
           one
           people
           with
           the
           British
           ,
           when
           they
           have
           neither
           Lord
           ,
           nor
           Priest
           to
           follow
           ▪
           And
           when
           they
           have
           no
           Instructers
           to
           bear
           up
           the
           credit
           of
           their
           old
           Superstition
           ,
           they
           will
           of
           course
           become
           Proselytes
           to
           the
           
             Protestant
             Communion
          
           ;
           for
           the
           people
           are
           naturally
           zealous
           of
           their
           
             erroneous
             Traditions
          
           ,
           instill'd
           into
           them
           by
           their
           Priests
           ,
           and
           are
           of
           a
           Credulous
           Disposition
           ;
           which
           shews
           ,
           that
           the
           Authors
           of
           these
           being
           once
           removed
           ,
           the
           effects
           will
           soon
           cease
           ,
           and
           the
           people
           for
           want
           of
           their
           own
           ,
           will
           naturally
           resolve
           themselves
           into
           the
           
             Reformed
             Religion
          
           :
           We
           know
           that
           't
           is
           a
           
             common
             principle
          
           of
           Mankind
           ,
           to
           have
           some
           Religion
           or
           other
           ;
           and
           then
           most
           ignorant
           ,
           and
           barbarous
           parts
           
           of
           the
           Universe
           ,
           adore
           the
           most
           Contemptible
           Beings
           ,
           rather
           than
           be
           divested
           of
           a
           Deity
           :
           which
           mis-application
           of
           their
           Worship
           ,
           cannot
           be
           thought
           an
           Argument
           ,
           that
           there
           is
           no
           God
           ,
           as
           some
           Atheistically
           dispute
           ;
           but
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           presupposes
           his
           ▪
           Existence
           to
           be
           engraven
           in
           such
           
             legible
             Characters
          
           ,
           in
           the
           minds
           of
           men
           ,
           which
           so
           powerfully
           inclines
           them
           to
           so
           firm
           an
           assent
           to
           that
           infallible
           truth
           ,
           as
           to
           believe
           every
           thing
           to
           be
           a
           God
           ,
           rather
           than
           that
           there
           is
           none
           at
           all
           :
           They
           can
           easily
           from
           a
           continued
           Chain
           ,
           and
           Concatenation
           of
           Subordinate
           Causes
           ,
           collect
           one
           prime
           and
           Metaphysical
           one
           ;
           and
           tho'
           they
           do
           not
           understand
           its
           Nature
           ,
           they
           question
           not
           its
           Existence
           :
           Thus
           the
           Academicks
           ,
           and
           
             Peripateticks
             ,
             Epicureans
          
           ,
           and
           Stoicks
           in
           Cicero
           ,
           ransack'd
           the
           great
           variety
           of
           Nature
           ,
           some
           making
           Fire
           ,
           some
           water
           ,
           some
           the
           
             Four
             Elements
          
           ,
           some
           Nature
           it self
           to
           be
           a
           God
           ;
           but
           notwithstanding
           these
           mis-apprehensions
           concerning
           the
           true
           Object
           of
           Divine
           Worship
           ,
           few
           ,
           or
           none
           questioned
           a
           Supream
           and
           Independent
           Being
           ,
           the
           great
           Creator
           of
           that
           admirable
           Fabrick
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           of
           so
           orderly
           an
           Harmony
           ,
           and
           Contexture
           in
           all
           its
           parts
           ,
           as
           sufficiently
           denotes
           the
           infinite
           Wisdom
           ,
           and
           Soveraign
           Power
           of
           that
           Grand
           Architect
           ,
           who
           made
           Heaven
           and
           Earth
           ,
           the
           Sea
           ,
           and
           all
           that
           in
           them
           is
           .
           This
           being
           then
           a
           perpetual
           ,
           and
           unalterable
           Instinct
           in
           Humane
           Nature
           ,
           to
           embrace
           some
           kind
           of
           Religion
           ,
           or
           other
           ;
           it
           must
           needs
           follow
           ,
           that
           the
           Irish
           ,
           when
           they
           are
           debarr'd
           from
           their
           false
           ,
           must
           in
           consequence
           adhere
           to
           the
           true
           ,
           and
           
             Reformed
             Worship
             of
             God
          
           :
           From
           which
           ,
           as
           the
           Priests
           by
           all
           the
           Impious
           Arts
           of
           
             Romish
             Policy
          
           ,
           endeavour
           to
           frighten
           ,
           and
           discourage
           them
           ,
           by
           loading
           it
           with
           Ignominious
           Reproaches
           of
           Novelty
           and
           Falshood
           ,
           and
           of
           certain
           Damnation
           attending
           the
           Profession
           of
           it
           ;
           so
           on
           the
           other
           hand
           ,
           if
           these
           Vermin
           
           were
           once
           removed
           ,
           who
           poison
           and
           corrupt
           the
           minds
           of
           the
           people
           ,
           tincturing
           them
           with
           strong
           prejudices
           ,
           against
           what
           can
           be
           offered
           ,
           for
           their
           confutation
           by
           the
           
             Protestant
             Clergy
          
           ;
           a
           more
           easie
           access
           would
           be
           obtained
           for
           wholsom
           instruction
           and
           advice
           to
           enter
           ,
           and
           their
           own
           reason
           ,
           together
           with
           that
           of
           their
           interest
           ,
           would
           beget
           in
           them
           a
           sober
           ,
           and
           more
           impartial
           attention
           ,
           to
           the
           excellent
           frame
           ,
           and
           constitution
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           than
           their
           present
           implicit
           belief
           of
           the
           dictates
           of
           their
           pretended
           
             Infallible
             Church
          
           suffer
           them
           to
           be
           capable
           of
           .
           All
           Protestants
           know
           ,
           that
           't
           is
           not
           possible
           for
           Humane
           Nature
           to
           resist
           those
           invincible
           Arguments
           ,
           which
           may
           be
           urged
           to
           them
           in
           vindication
           of
           our
           Church
           ,
           and
           Religion
           ,
           if
           they
           will
           but
           lay
           aside
           their
           Prejudices
           ,
           and
           be
           so
           just
           to
           their
           own
           reason
           ,
           as
           to
           give
           it
           its
           true
           Empire
           ,
           and
           Praedominancy
           in
           a
           right
           judgment
           ,
           and
           discriminative
           determination
           of
           truth
           from
           errour
           :
           This
           (
           as
           I
           have
           hinted
           already
           )
           the
           removal
           of
           their
           Priests
           ,
           (
           who
           delude
           their
           Votaries
           like
           the
           
             Indian
             Bramins
          
           ,
           or
           such
           as
           waited
           upon
           the
           Oracles
           of
           old
           )
           and
           a
           sensible
           apprehension
           of
           the
           great
           advantages
           derived
           upon
           themselves
           ,
           by
           this
           strong
           endearment
           of
           their
           persons
           unto
           the
           English
           ,
           would
           abundantly
           facilitate
           their
           Conversion
           :
           add
           to
           this
           ,
           a
           true
           and
           lively
           Character
           of
           the
           Horrid
           Corruptions
           ,
           and
           abuses
           of
           their
           Church
           ,
           of
           its
           notorious
           degeneracy
           from
           its
           Original
           Institution
           ,
           of
           the
           distinct
           times
           ,
           and
           periods
           ,
           of
           its
           declension
           from
           its
           former
           purity
           ,
           into
           errour
           and
           superstition
           ,
           upon
           what
           occasions
           ,
           through
           what
           Interests
           ,
           and
           by
           what
           indirect
           Principles
           ,
           sinister
           Maxims
           ,
           and
           secular
           Policies
           ,
           they
           were
           first
           formed
           ,
           and
           introduced
           ;
           of
           the
           strange
           Artifices
           ,
           and
           subtle
           inventions
           ,
           and
           impious
           Machinations
           of
           their
           Priests
           ,
           to
           retain
           them
           either
           in
           absolute
           ignorance
           ,
           or
           erroneous
           apprehensions
           
           of
           Religion
           ;
           locking
           up
           from
           them
           the
           Divine
           Oracles
           ,
           lest
           they
           should
           these
           behold
           the
           
             things
             that
             belong
             unto
             their
             Peace
             ,
             and
             which
             are
             able
             to
             make
             them
             wise
             unto
             Salvation
          
           ;
           and
           consequently
           would
           fully
           discover
           to
           them
           ,
           the
           great
           Deformities
           ,
           and
           absurd
           Falshoods
           ,
           the
           
             piae
             fraudes
             ,
             Romish
             Intriegues
          
           ,
           and
           
             Vnwarrantable
             Equivocations
          
           ,
           so
           universally
           practised
           by
           that
           pretended
           
             Catholick
             Church
          
           :
           As
           well
           as
           representing
           how
           their
           common
           Argument
           of
           the
           Novelty
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           may
           by
           turning
           the
           point
           to
           them
           ,
           be
           justly
           retorted
           upon
           themselves
           ,
           in
           as
           much
           that
           't
           is
           not
           we
           ,
           but
           they
           who
           are
           the
           Novelists
           ;
           not
           we
           who
           relinquished
           their
           Communion
           ,
           but
           they
           who
           forsook
           that
           of
           the
           
             Ancient
             Church
          
           :
           not
           we
           ,
           by
           our
           separation
           from
           their
           Corruptions
           ,
           but
           they
           by
           their
           erroneous
           Additions
           to
           that
           Faith
           ,
           which
           was
           first
           delivered
           unto
           the
           Saints
           :
           Not
           we
           ,
           who
           reduce
           all
           things
           to
           the
           
             Primitive
             Standard
          
           ,
           but
           they
           who
           have
           debauched
           the
           Principles
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           by
           their
           Adulterating
           Innovations
           :
           Not
           we
           who
           (
           like
           that
           of
           the
           Jews
           )
           were
           first
           an
           independent
           
             National
             Church
          
           established
           in
           purity
           of
           Doctrine
           ,
           and
           a
           wholsome
           Discipline
           ;
           but
           by
           the
           Tyranny
           and
           Encroachment
           of
           this
           Usurper
           of
           an
           Universal
           Title
           ,
           and
           Jurisdiction
           ,
           became
           envassalaged
           to
           her
           heavy
           Yoak
           ,
           as
           the
           Jews
           did
           to
           that
           of
           the
           Gentiles
           ,
           and
           afterwards
           broke
           the
           Brasen
           Serpent
           of
           their
           Idolatry
           ,
           pulled
           down
           the
           Images
           ,
           and
           cut
           down
           the
           Groves
           ,
           and
           took
           away
           the
           high
           places
           of
           their
           Superstitious
           Devotion
           ,
           and
           reduced
           our selves
           to
           our
           antient
           Platform
           :
           but
           they
           parallel
           to
           these
           heathenish
           Violations
           of
           the
           
             Jewish
             Oeconomy
          
           ,
           had
           introduced
           such
           notorious
           Errors
           and
           Corruptions
           into
           the
           Church
           ,
           as
           had
           almost
           eaten
           into
           the
           Heart
           and
           Life
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           and
           vertually
           ,
           if
           not
           formally
           ,
           undermined
           ,
           its
           very
           foundation
           ;
           and
           then
           they
           impertinently
           demand
           that
           irrational
           
           Query
           ,
           Where
           was
           your
           Religion
           before
           Luther
           ?
           With
           how
           much
           advantage
           may
           men
           return
           the
           Argument
           by
           demanding
           where
           their's
           was
           before
           the
           Council
           of
           Trent
           ?
           Inasmuch
           ,
           as
           ours
           received
           its
           Establishment
           from
           our
           first
           Conversion
           to
           the
           Faith
           ,
           from
           
             Joseph
             of
             Arimathea
             ,
             Simon
             Zelotes
             ,
          
           or
           whoever
           was
           the
           first
           Preacher
           of
           Christianity
           in
           Britain
           ;
           but
           theirs
           ,
           as
           it
           now
           stands
           ,
           with
           its
           new
           Articles
           embodied
           into
           the
           Ancient
           Creed
           ,
           which
           they
           have
           made
           equally
           necessary
           to
           Salvation
           with
           the
           prime
           Principles
           of
           Religion
           ,
           is
           of
           no
           longer
           date
           ,
           than
           that
           Council
           ,
           as
           the
           Decisions
           of
           it
           do
           abundantly
           evince
           .
        
         
           Next
           to
           an
           Impartial
           unfolding
           to
           them
           the
           apparent
           weakness
           of
           this
           pretended
           Argument
           of
           the
           Novelty
           of
           our
           Religion
           ,
           the
           removing
           of
           another
           popular
           objection
           ,
           of
           our
           granting
           a
           possibility
           of
           Salvation
           to
           men
           of
           their
           Church
           ,
           and
           their
           denying
           it
           to
           those
           of
           ours
           ,
           will
           be
           of
           great
           use
           to
           bring
           them
           to
           our
           Communion
           :
           and
           how
           easie
           is
           it
           ,
           to
           represent
           to
           them
           ,
           the
           Fallacy
           of
           this
           plain
           and
           absolute
           Sophism
           ?
           for
           ,
           do
           we
           grant
           a
           possibility
           of
           Salvation
           to
           all
           in
           their
           Church
           equally
           ,
           and
           without
           any
           restriction
           ,
           as
           the
           Priests
           contend
           for
           ;
           and
           would
           make
           their
           rude
           ,
           and
           ignorant
           Votaries
           believe
           ?
           Or
           ,
           is
           it
           only
           in
           cases
           of
           invincible
           ignorance
           ,
           and
           that
           but
           a
           bare
           possibility
           ;
           whereas
           we
           affirm
           a
           certainty
           of
           Salvation
           in
           our
           own
           Church
           ;
           and
           can
           any
           rational
           man
           be
           supposed
           to
           be
           encouraged
           by
           this
           Concession
           (
           if
           it
           be
           any
           )
           either
           to
           persevere
           in
           a
           Religion
           which
           under
           the
           most
           favourable
           Qualifications
           that
           can
           be
           imagined
           ,
           hath
           but
           a
           bare
           possibility
           of
           Salvation
           ,
           attending
           it
           ,
           and
           that
           to
           very
           few
           persons
           ;
           or
           to
           espouse
           that
           ,
           in
           preference
           to
           another
           ,
           that
           hath
           all
           the
           warrantable
           grounds
           of
           a
           firm
           certainty
           ,
           and
           the
           most
           convincing
           assurance
           that
           Religion
           can
           be
           capable
           of
           ?
           
           Were
           not
           this
           to
           forsake
           a
           secure
           Ship
           ,
           and
           in
           a
           Storm
           to
           put
           to
           Sea
           upon
           a
           Plank
           ?
           or
           like
           an
           unskilful
           Pilot
           ,
           that
           upon
           his
           approach
           to
           an
           Haven
           ,
           should
           be
           told
           ,
           that
           there
           are
           two
           different
           ways
           that
           lead
           to
           the
           Port
           ;
           the
           one
           direct
           ,
           and
           safe
           ,
           the
           other
           circular
           ,
           and
           full
           of
           dangerous
           Rocks
           and
           Shelves
           ,
           and
           yet
           should
           make
           choice
           of
           the
           latter
           ,
           because
           there
           is
           a
           bare
           possibility
           of
           escaping
           from
           Shipwrack
           .
           Again
           ,
           granting
           a
           bare
           possibility
           of
           Salvation
           under
           the
           aforesaid
           limitations
           ,
           is
           only
           an
           effect
           of
           Charity
           in
           us
           ,
           and
           not
           of
           the
           least
           approbation
           of
           their
           Religion
           ;
           and
           herein
           we
           imitate
           the
           Holy
           Apostle
           St.
           Paul
           ,
           who
           as
           he
           gave
           an
           higher
           Encomium
           to
           this
           ,
           than
           to
           any
           other
           Divine
           Grace
           :
           so
           also
           acknowledged
           ,
           that
           such
           as
           built
           Hay
           and
           Stubble
           upon
           the
           Foundation
           of
           Christianity
           ,
           should
           be
           saved
           so
           as
           by
           fire
           ,
           that
           is
           ,
           with
           difficulty
           ;
           whereas
           such
           as
           did
           so
           ,
           denied
           the
           possibility
           of
           St.
           
           Paul's
           Salvation
           ,
           as
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           does
           to
           us
           .
           To
           this
           we
           may
           add
           the
           practice
           of
           the
           Orthodox
           towards
           the
           Donatists
           ,
           who
           were
           so
           favourable
           in
           their
           Constructions
           of
           them
           ,
           although
           Hereticks
           ,
           as
           not
           to
           exclude
           them
           from
           the
           aforesaid
           possibility
           ;
           but
           on
           the
           contrary
           ,
           the
           Donatists
           like
           the
           Church
           of
           Rome
           ,
           confined
           Salvation
           to
           themselves
           ,
           and
           denied
           it
           to
           the
           Orthodox
           .
           But
           I
           shall
           not
           insist
           longer
           upon
           these
           Points
           ,
           referring
           the
           
             Inquisitive
             Reader
          
           ,
           for
           his
           more
           ample
           satisfaction
           ,
           to
           Archbishop
           Laud's
           Book
           against
           Fisher
           the
           Jesuit
           ,
           and
           to
           the
           Learned
           Dean
           of
           St.
           
           Paul's
           his
           Vindication
           of
           the
           said
           Book
           :
           But
           though
           the
           brevity
           designed
           ,
           hinders
           me
           from
           protracting
           this
           Discourse
           upon
           this
           Subject
           ,
           yet
           not
           from
           making
           a
           necessary
           Apology
           for
           what
           I
           have
           said
           already
           .
           Some
           may
           perhaps
           be
           so
           Censorious
           ,
           as
           to
           suppose
           the
           foregoing
           Arguments
           to
           be
           designed
           by
           the
           Author
           ,
           as
           a
           Model
           ,
           or
           Platform
           for
           others
           to
           imitate
           ,
           
           or
           transcribe
           in
           the
           reduction
           of
           the
           
             Irish
             Papists
          
           to
           our
           Church
           ;
           and
           therefore
           to
           take
           off
           that
           imputation
           ,
           I
           think
           fit
           in
           my
           own
           defence
           to
           make
           the
           following
           Asseveration
           ,
           That
           my
           sole
           intention
           in
           it
           ,
           proceeded
           from
           a
           pure
           Zeal
           to
           the
           
             Reformed
             Religion
          
           ,
           and
           a
           desire
           to
           shew
           how
           easie
           it
           might
           be
           to
           work
           upon
           the
           Vulgar
           Romanists
           ,
           by
           these
           or
           the
           like
           Motives
           ,
           if
           their
           Priests
           were
           once
           removed
           from
           them
           :
           This
           ,
           as
           it
           would
           certainly
           be
           a
           very
           great
           happiness
           to
           the
           Nation
           in
           general
           ,
           by
           making
           it
           of
           one
           interest
           by
           being
           of
           one
           Religion
           ;
           so
           would
           it
           be
           an
           act
           of
           Transcendent
           Charity
           to
           the
           Souls
           of
           these
           poor
           Wretches
           ,
           who
           are
           miserably
           seduced
           by
           the
           Impious
           Delusions
           of
           their
           Priests
           ,
           and
           with
           all
           good
           men
           ought
           to
           be
           the
           principal
           inducement
           of
           prohibiting
           them
           a
           free
           exercise
           of
           their
           innovated
           and
           depraved
           Superstition
           ,
           which
           cannot
           be
           effectually
           accomplished
           without
           expelling
           their
           Priests
           out
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           :
           And
           if
           the
           British
           could
           be
           so
           happy
           as
           to
           live
           ,
           to
           reap
           the
           benefit
           of
           the
           reduction
           of
           the
           Irish
           to
           their
           Church
           ,
           it
           might
           reasonably
           be
           hoped
           ,
           that
           this
           present
           would
           put
           a
           period
           to
           all
           future
           Rebellions
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           .
           To
           which
           I
           may
           add
           a
           Passage
           of
           a
           Country
           Fellow
           ,
           who
           passing
           through
           the
           Rubbidge
           of
           London
           ,
           after
           the
           Fire
           ;
           and
           seeing
           a
           Crowd
           of
           people
           ,
           came
           up
           to
           them
           ,
           and
           enquired
           what
           was
           the
           matter
           ?
           some
           answered
           ,
           that
           they
           were
           waiting
           for
           the
           Committee
           to
           settle
           the
           Foundations
           ;
           and
           one
           said
           ,
           they
           had
           resolved
           the
           Buildings
           should
           be
           on
           the
           old
           Foundation
           ;
           to
           which
           the
           Countrey
           Fellow
           with
           an
           Oath
           replyed
           ,
           It
           had
           been
           as
           good
           then
           ,
           that
           London
           had
           never
           been
           burnt
           .
           I
           leave
           others
           to
           make
           the
           Application
           ,
           and
           shall
           only
           say
           with
           Lamentation
           ,
           that
           what
           that
           poor
           Fellow
           spoke
           ignorantly
           ,
           is
           verified
           of
           the
           Protestants
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           who
           have
           no
           other
           
           Expectations
           to
           bear
           up
           their
           Spirits
           in
           this
           Deluge
           of
           misery
           ,
           now
           violently
           descended
           upon
           them
           ;
           but
           ,
           that
           as
           the
           Blood
           of
           the
           Martyrs
           in
           the
           
             Primitive
             Church
          
           increased
           their
           Numbers
           ;
           so
           this
           may
           lay
           a
           Foundation
           ,
           by
           shewing
           the
           indispensable
           necessity
           of
           putting
           the
           Irish
           past
           the
           hopes
           of
           repeating
           the
           like
           Tragedy
           ,
           and
           that
           nothing
           but
           such
           a
           method
           can
           possibly
           repair
           the
           Ruines
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           hitherto
           been
           shewing
           the
           Miseries
           and
           Calamities
           that
           have
           attended
           the
           British
           Plantations
           ,
           by
           the
           frequent
           Rebellions
           of
           the
           Irish
           .
        
         
           And
           then
           the
           Justice
           of
           making
           some
           Reparation
           at
           this
           time
           to
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           out
           of
           the
           Estates
           of
           some
           of
           the
           most
           notorious
           Leaders
           of
           this
           Rebellion
           .
        
         
           And
           have
           also
           shewn
           the
           great
           advantage
           such
           Justice
           would
           derive
           upon
           that
           Kingdom
           at
           this
           time
           ,
           in
           new
           planting
           it
           .
        
         
           I
           am
           in
           the
           next
           Remarks
           to
           observe
           ,
           how
           much
           it
           imports
           England
           to
           improve
           this
           opportunity
           ,
           which
           the
           Enemies
           of
           their
           publick
           Peace
           and
           Tranquillity
           have
           put
           into
           their
           hands
           :
           and
           this
           is
           a
           subject
           of
           so
           copious
           a
           nature
           ,
           as
           might
           claim
           a
           Treatise
           by
           it self
           ;
           but
           my
           design
           being
           to
           awaken
           ,
           not
           direct
           the
           Wisdom
           and
           Conduct
           of
           England
           ,
           I
           shall
           only
           remind
           them
           of
           the
           Charge
           and
           Expence
           of
           
             English
             Blood
          
           that
           poor
           distressed
           Kingdom
           has
           already
           cost
           ,
           and
           then
           lay
           before
           them
           the
           Advantage
           that
           would
           accrew
           to
           England
           ,
           if
           Ireland
           was
           once
           reinstated
           and
           settled
           in
           Protestant
           hands
           .
           That
           the
           loss
           of
           Men
           is
           the
           greatest
           misfortune
           and
           severest
           punishment
           that
           can
           arrive
           to
           ,
           and
           be
           inflicted
           upon
           a
           Nation
           ,
           is
           confirmed
           by
           the
           Judgment
           of
           an
           infallible
           Author
           .
           For
           when
           the
           Prophet
           was
           sent
           to
           David
           ,
           to
           offer
           three
           things
           to
           his
           choice
           ;
           
           not
           one
           of
           them
           consisted
           in
           depriving
           him
           of
           
             Treasure
             ,
             Herds
          
           ,
           or
           Possessions
           ,
           but
           every
           punishment
           was
           ,
           the
           loss
           of
           Men.
           
        
         
           It
           is
           not
           possible
           to
           give
           an
           exact
           account
           of
           the
           numbers
           ,
           that
           Caldron
           of
           England
           ,
           as
           Ireland
           may
           be
           truly
           call'd
           ,
           has
           swallowed
           up
           in
           five
           hundred
           years
           ;
           but
           according
           to
           the
           best
           computation
           that
           can
           be
           made
           ,
           there
           has
           been
           by
           
             War
             ,
             Famine
          
           ,
           and
           Murders
           ,
           of
           the
           British
           ,
           more
           than
           
             Twenty
             Hundred
             Thousand
             Souls
          
           .
           By
           the
           several
           accounts
           in
           History
           ,
           of
           the
           Supplies
           sent
           from
           England
           in
           the
           Rebellions
           there
           ,
           the
           computation
           is
           made
           too
           large
           here
           to
           mention
           the
           particulars
           ,
           but
           may
           reasonably
           be
           believed
           ,
           if
           we
           recount
           the
           several
           Rebellions
           in
           
             Five
             hundred
             years
          
           ,
           when
           there
           was
           never
           
             Twenty
             years
             free
          
           ;
           and
           in
           the
           last
           ,
           where
           some
           account
           was
           taken
           ,
           it
           was
           found
           to
           exceed
           
             Two
             Hundred
             Thousand
          
           ,
           and
           that
           after
           not
           
             Twenty
             years
          
           of
           perfect
           Peace
           ;
           for
           although
           the
           Kingdom
           was
           for
           the
           greatest
           part
           quiet
           ,
           during
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           James
           ,
           and
           some
           of
           that
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           First
           ,
           yet
           some
           places
           of
           it
           were
           constantly
           involv'd
           in
           Trouble
           .
        
         
           It
           would
           hardly
           be
           believ'd
           in
           Story
           ,
           since
           there
           is
           no
           precedent
           ,
           That
           a
           Kingdom
           so
           frequently
           conquer'd
           ,
           and
           so
           horribly
           outragious
           in
           their
           Rebellions
           and
           inhumane
           Massacres
           ,
           should
           still
           be
           put
           into
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           Rebels
           ,
           that
           are
           implacable
           in
           their
           hatred
           to
           their
           Conquerors
           ;
           but
           it
           has
           rather
           been
           an
           Infatuation
           than
           Mercy
           in
           the
           English
           ,
           to
           retain
           such
           Serpents
           in
           their
           Bosoms
           ,
           which
           nothing
           can
           excuse
           ,
           but
           that
           it
           is
           a
           Judgment
           of
           God
           to
           blind
           the
           Eyes
           of
           his
           People
           in
           this
           matter
           ,
           that
           so
           these
           Philistines
           may
           be
           left
           to
           punish
           the
           Sins
           of
           these
           Nations
           ,
           who
           have
           reason
           to
           repent
           for
           their
           past
           Omissions
           ,
           and
           to
           pray
           that
           they
           may
           
           never
           more
           be
           incident
           to
           the
           same
           Errour
           and
           Miscarriage
           ,
           lest
           the
           Message
           of
           the
           Prophet
           Ahab
           be
           ours
           ,
           
             Because
             thou
             hast
             let
             go
             out
             of
             thy
             hand
             ,
             &c.
             
          
        
         
           After
           the
           loss
           of
           that
           which
           comprehends
           it
           ,
           't
           will
           appear
           vain
           to
           mention
           the
           Treasure
           this
           Kingdom
           has
           buried
           there
           ,
           but
           it
           is
           an
           additional
           aggravation
           to
           our
           other
           Misfortunes
           ,
           and
           had
           half
           of
           it
           been
           expended
           in
           other
           Adventures
           ,
           it
           might
           have
           been
           return'd
           with
           greater
           advantage
           than
           the
           whole
           Kingdom
           of
           Ireland
           has
           hitherto
           been
           worth
           :
           Not
           but
           that
           it
           is
           obvious
           to
           every
           eye
           ,
           that
           Europe
           cannot
           shew
           such
           a
           spot
           of
           Ground
           ,
           that
           may
           deserve
           the
           Motto
           Trajan
           gave
           to
           his
           Money
           in
           reference
           to
           Dacia
           ,
           which
           applying
           to
           this
           fertile
           Island
           ,
           we
           may
           thus
           express
           ,
           
             Hiberniae
             Abundantia
          
           .
        
         
           Having
           thus
           hinted
           at
           the
           Losses
           which
           England
           has
           sustain'd
           by
           Indulgence
           given
           to
           the
           Irish
           ,
           I
           now
           come
           to
           discuss
           those
           Advantages
           which
           would
           accrue
           to
           this
           Kingdom
           ,
           if
           regard
           were
           had
           in
           the
           next
           Settlement
           to
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           ,
           that
           have
           their
           Dependence
           in
           that
           Country
           .
        
         
           And
           not
           to
           trouble
           the
           Reader
           with
           what
           he
           may
           see
           put
           forth
           ,
           by
           a
           more
           accurate
           Pen
           ,
           in
           that
           ingenious
           Discourse
           of
           the
           
             Interest
             of
          
           England
           
             in
             the
             preservation
             of
          
           Ireland
           :
           I
           shall
           only
           name
           some
           few
           things
           by
           him
           omitted
           ,
           and
           first
           shew
           ,
           That
           Ireland
           might
           be
           made
           a
           Nursery
           for
           Seamen
           to
           England
           ;
           which
           upon
           too
           frequent
           experience
           is
           found
           to
           be
           so
           much
           wanting
           ,
           that
           upon
           every
           
             Marine
             War
          
           ,
           the
           Merchants
           Ships
           are
           forc'd
           to
           stay
           at
           home
           ,
           for
           want
           of
           Men
           to
           supply
           them
           ;
           so
           that
           it
           may
           be
           said
           ,
           (
           though
           a
           Paradox
           )
           that
           by
           employing
           
           the
           hands
           of
           War
           ,
           we
           destroy
           the
           Sinews
           of
           it
           ,
           Money
           ,
           by
           our
           Embargoes
           upon
           Trade
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           since
           England
           justly
           challenges
           the
           Priority
           in
           Trade
           ,
           and
           will
           by
           no
           means
           admit
           Ireland
           to
           touch
           the
           forbidden
           Fruit
           ,
           their
           Navigation
           ,
           this
           is
           the
           way
           not
           only
           to
           keep
           them
           from
           transgressing
           ,
           but
           also
           at
           the
           same
           time
           to
           employ
           them
           in
           being
           Fosterers
           (
           to
           use
           their
           own
           Language
           )
           to
           your
           Navigation
           ,
           and
           that
           is
           ,
           by
           keeping
           them
           imployed
           in
           Fishings
           .
           That
           Island
           seeming
           to
           be
           set
           in
           the
           Sea
           ,
           as
           a
           Bait
           for
           the
           Inhabitants
           of
           the
           Deep
           ,
           and
           might
           very
           well
           imploy
           Twenty
           thousand
           in
           that
           Service
           ,
           which
           ,
           besides
           the
           immense
           Treasure
           the
           product
           of
           their
           Labours
           would
           bring
           to
           England
           ,
           this
           other
           signal
           advantage
           would
           accrew
           from
           it
           ,
           (
           viz.
           )
           The
           having
           so
           many
           men
           at
           a
           call
           ,
           and
           in
           actual
           readiness
           for
           the
           Service
           of
           England
           ,
           since
           they
           will
           never
           be
           engag'd
           in
           Voyages
           abroad
           .
        
         
           And
           as
           Ireland
           may
           be
           a
           Nursery
           for
           Seamen
           ,
           so
           is
           it
           a
           Forrest
           ,
           out
           of
           which
           the
           wooden
           ,
           yet
           invincible
           ,
           Walls
           of
           England
           may
           be
           repaired
           ,
           the
           Timber
           of
           Ireland
           being
           in
           some
           respects
           ,
           and
           for
           divers
           uses
           ,
           more
           proper
           for
           building
           Ships
           ,
           than
           the
           freer
           and
           clean
           Oak
           of
           England
           .
           Nor
           must
           we
           end
           here
           ,
           but
           as
           we
           have
           begun
           with
           the
           Timber
           for
           Shipping
           and
           brought
           them
           on
           the
           Stocks
           ,
           so
           must
           not
           leave
           them
           until
           flown
           from
           their
           Nests
           ,
           with
           their
           Wings
           spread
           at
           Sea
           ;
           it
           being
           practicable
           to
           build
           ,
           rigg
           ,
           and
           even
           from
           the
           Vane
           at
           the
           Topmast-head
           to
           the
           Bolt
           in
           the
           Keel
           ,
           to
           set
           out
           a
           Ship
           to
           Sea
           from
           Ireland
           .
           I
           have
           seen
           one
           of
           two
           hundred
           Tunn
           so
           fitted
           ,
           excepting
           the
           Sails
           ,
           which
           might
           easily
           be
           had
           ,
           if
           encouragement
           were
           given
           .
        
         
           Iron
           is
           not
           wanting
           in
           that
           
             Kingdom
             ;
             Flax
          
           for
           
             white
             Occum
          
           there
           is
           in
           great
           abundance
           ;
           as
           also
           
           Hemp
           for
           Cordage
           ,
           which
           is
           made
           there
           .
           And
           as
           before
           I
           mentioned
           the
           encrease
           of
           Seamen
           ,
           so
           in
           this
           I
           might
           urge
           the
           addition
           of
           Ship-Carpenters
           .
        
         
           I
           might
           enumerate
           ,
           even
           to
           a
           Volume
           ,
           the
           particular
           instances
           wherein
           Ireland
           may
           be
           of
           use
           to
           England
           ,
           but
           I
           shall
           name
           for
           all
           but
           two
           more
           ,
           that
           of
           Iron
           and
           the
           
             Linnen
             Manufactory
          
           ,
           both
           of
           which
           drain
           out
           of
           England
           more
           than
           all
           the
           foreign
           Commodities
           imported
           into
           it
           besides
           :
           This
           ,
           without
           a
           serious
           consideration
           of
           the
           Assertion
           ,
           seems
           an
           extravagant
           Notion
           ;
           I
           must
           therefore
           ,
           before
           I
           pass
           from
           it
           ,
           give
           some
           Reasons
           for
           my
           opinion
           ,
           which
           be
           pleas'd
           to
           take
           in
           the
           following
           particulars
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           The
           Consumption
           of
           Linnen
           is
           of
           greater
           value
           than
           Silks
           ,
           or
           any
           
             foreign
             Manufactory
          
           ;
           for
           ,
           not
           the
           poorest
           Beggar
           at
           the
           Door
           ,
           but
           bears
           a
           proportion
           in
           that
           Commodity
           .
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           The
           Importation
           of
           Linnen
           admits
           of
           no
           Improvement
           nor
           Exportation
           to
           any
           part
           of
           the
           World
           ,
           but
           our
           own
           Plantations
           ;
           but
           Silks
           ,
           I
           mean
           raw
           
             Grogreen
             ,
             Yarn
             ,
             Cypress
             ,
             Cotton
             ,
          
           and
           many
           foreign
           Commodities
           are
           in
           England
           improved
           and
           manufactured
           ;
           so
           that
           upon
           Exportation
           they
           fetch
           into
           the
           Kingdom
           a
           great
           part
           of
           what
           was
           taken
           out
           ,
           by
           the
           Importation
           ;
           as
           is
           found
           by
           experience
           .
           The
           East-India
           Trade
           doth
           ,
           notwithstanding
           the
           Gold
           and
           Silver
           carried
           thither
           ,
           for
           purchasing
           Commodities
           ,
           that
           after
           brought
           home
           by
           Exportation
           ,
           bring
           in
           more
           ready
           Money
           than
           was
           sent
           out
           for
           their
           purchace
           .
        
         
         
           Linnen
           and
           Iron
           are
           the
           Commodities
           ,
           I
           mean
           those
           of
           Swedeland
           and
           the
           
             East
             Sea
          
           ,
           which
           take
           from
           us
           the
           least
           of
           our
           Native
           Commodities
           ,
           and
           by
           that
           means
           draw
           away
           so
           much
           Money
           ,
           that
           the
           Computation
           being
           made
           ,
           has
           been
           found
           to
           be
           the
           loss
           of
           England
           in
           some
           Millions
           by
           that
           Trade
           ,
           of
           
             Linnen
             ,
             &c.
          
           of
           France
           .
        
         
           I
           presume
           ,
           by
           these
           few
           Instances
           already
           nam'd
           ,
           it
           will
           be
           allowed
           ,
           That
           Linnen
           and
           Iron
           carry
           away
           the
           greatest
           part
           of
           the
           Coin
           and
           Treasure
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           for
           Bills
           of
           Exchange
           are
           the
           same
           thing
           ,
           and
           allowed
           so
           by
           men
           of
           Commerce
           .
        
         
           Now
           ,
           if
           Ireland
           ,
           be
           capable
           of
           such
           a
           management
           ,
           as
           to
           furnish
           the
           same
           Commodities
           ,
           this
           will
           save
           the
           loss
           of
           so
           much
           Treasure
           ,
           as
           yearly
           goes
           out
           of
           England
           into
           foreign
           parts
           to
           purchase
           them
           .
        
         
           Experience
           is
           an
           undeniable
           Evidence
           in
           this
           case
           ,
           and
           that
           which
           may
           be
           done
           in
           part
           ,
           is
           not
           difficult
           to
           effect
           in
           the
           whole
           .
        
         
           There
           was
           in
           the
           year
           before
           
           Tyrconnel's
           accession
           to
           the
           Government
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           transported
           out
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           of
           
             Iron-pots
             ,
             Bar-Iron
             ,
             &c.
          
           to
           the
           value
           of
           more
           then
           Twenty
           Thousand
           pounds
           ,
           and
           the
           
             Linnen
             Manufactory
          
           was
           in
           so
           hopeful
           a
           Progress
           ,
           that
           of
           it
           a
           very
           considerable
           value
           was
           shipped
           into
           England
           ,
           and
           afforded
           cheaper
           than
           it
           can
           possibly
           be
           brought
           from
           any
           parts
           of
           the
           World.
           
        
         
           Now
           ,
           if
           all
           that
           has
           been
           discours'd
           upon
           this
           Subject
           be
           apparently
           practicable
           ,
           and
           that
           so
           vast
           an
           improvement
           may
           be
           made
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           for
           the
           advantage
           of
           England
           ,
           and
           that
           nothing
           hath
           been
           
           such
           an
           insuperable
           Obstacle
           and
           Impediment
           unto
           it
           ,
           as
           the
           great
           Indulgence
           given
           to
           the
           Irish
           ,
           and
           consequently
           the
           fresh
           instances
           of
           Rebellion
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           as
           deriv'd
           from
           the
           former
           :
           It
           seems
           then
           extreamly
           rational
           to
           remove
           those
           publick
           Discouragements
           ,
           by
           laying
           a
           Foundation
           of
           future
           Safety
           ,
           and
           of
           a
           firm
           and
           lasting
           Peace
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           ,
           which
           would
           invite
           Inhabitants
           thither
           ,
           that
           might
           secure
           that
           Nation
           to
           the
           CROWN
           of
           ENGLAND
           ,
           with
           less
           Cost
           and
           greater
           Returns
           for
           that
           Charge
           now
           expended
           upon
           it
           .
        
         
           I
           shall
           close
           this
           Discourse
           with
           a
           succinct
           account
           of
           what
           advantage
           such
           a
           Settlement
           would
           bring
           to
           His
           present
           Majesty
           ,
           and
           his
           Successors
           ;
           which
           I
           shall
           endeavour
           to
           shew
           in
           the
           following
           particulars
           .
        
         
           First
           ,
           As
           to
           the
           encrease
           of
           Subjects
           ,
           We
           find
           that
           King
           David
           ,
           (
           who
           was
           a
           man
           after
           God's
           own
           Heart
           )
           ambition'd
           nothing
           beyond
           the
           numbers
           of
           his
           People
           ;
           and
           it
           had
           not
           been
           his
           Sin
           ,
           but
           Glory
           ,
           to
           have
           encreased
           them
           ;
           but
           his
           fault
           consisted
           in
           this
           ,
           (
           viz.
           )
           The
           numbring
           of
           them
           ,
           of
           which
           God
           had
           made
           a
           solemn
           Promise
           to
           the
           
             Patriarch
             Abraham
          
           ,
           That
           they
           should
           be
           as
           the
           Stars
           in
           Heaven
           ,
           that
           cannot
           be
           numbred
           .
           So
           said
           the
           Angel
           ,
           
             Look
             and
             see
             if
             thou
             canst
             count
             them
             .
          
           This
           may
           be
           inverted
           in
           the
           Story
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           where
           the
           numbers
           slain
           are
           harder
           to
           be
           reckoned
           than
           are
           those
           of
           the
           living
           .
        
         
           But
           if
           there
           was
           thought
           to
           be
           near
           
             Two
             millions
          
           of
           Souls
           in
           Ireland
           ,
           at
           the
           beginning
           of
           this
           last
           Ravage
           ,
           we
           may
           reasonably
           account
           it
           possible
           ,
           
           for
           there
           to
           have
           been
           five
           times
           that
           number
           ,
           if
           Acts
           of
           Violence
           had
           not
           put
           a
           period
           to
           more
           mens
           Lives
           ,
           than
           that
           of
           natural
           Death
           :
           And
           in
           proportion
           to
           this
           ,
           With
           what
           vast
           incredible
           multitudes
           of
           men
           (
           may
           we
           reasonably
           compute
           )
           would
           these
           Kingdoms
           have
           abounded
           ,
           and
           consequently
           how
           rich
           and
           invincible
           ?
        
         
           Secondly
           ,
           How
           would
           it
           contribute
           to
           the
           eternal
           Fame
           ,
           and
           immortalize
           the
           Memory
           of
           our
           Gracious
           and
           Victorious
           King
           ,
           to
           all
           Posterity
           ,
           that
           under
           his
           most
           Auspicious
           Reign
           such
           an
           happy
           Model
           ,
           and
           frame
           of
           Government
           should
           be
           established
           ,
           as
           none
           of
           his
           Predecessors
           could
           ever
           attain
           unto
           ?
           Which
           would
           verifie
           that
           of
           our
           great
           and
           miraculous
           Deliverer
           ,
           which
           was
           said
           of
           
             David
             ,
             And
             he
             shall
             be
             as
             the
             light
             of
             the
             morning
             when
             the
             Sun
             ariseth
             .
          
        
         
           Thirdly
           ,
           This
           would
           infinitely
           augment
           their
           Majesties
           Revenue
           ;
           as
           to
           which
           ,
           that
           Ireland
           may
           be
           made
           considerable
           ,
           is
           apparent
           from
           the
           several
           Gradations
           already
           made
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           In
           all
           the
           Kings
           and
           Queens
           Reigns
           precedent
           to
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           we
           hear
           of
           nothing
           ,
           but
           of
           sending
           Money
           into
           that
           Kingdom
           .
        
         
           In
           her
           Reign
           there
           was
           something
           raised
           in
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           conducing
           to
           its
           support
           ,
           which
           was
           in
           proportion
           to
           the
           Forfeitures
           and
           Abatements
           of
           the
           
             Irish
             Interest
          
           ,
           for
           that
           nothing
           improved
           the
           Receipts
           but
           the
           lessening
           of
           them
           ,
           which
           made
           room
           for
           more
           industrious
           people
           .
        
         
         
           In
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           James
           the
           First
           ,
           there
           was
           a
           farther
           Enlargement
           and
           Encouragement
           given
           to
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           ,
           and
           accordingly
           the
           Revenue
           encreased
           from
           
             thirty
             five
             thousand
             pounds
          
           to
           fifty
           .
        
         
           King
           Charles
           the
           First
           made
           some
           addition
           to
           the
           British
           Settlement
           ,
           and
           by
           the
           encouragement
           of
           Grants
           ,
           to
           strengthen
           defective
           Titles
           ,
           advanc'd
           the
           Revenue
           to
           
             eighty
             thousand
             pounds
          
           ,
           and
           so
           incredibly
           did
           that
           Country
           grow
           and
           improve
           under
           the
           hands
           and
           industrious
           management
           of
           the
           British
           ,
           that
           where
           Money
           was
           formerly
           ,
           in
           the
           Reign
           of
           Queen
           Elizabeth
           ,
           debased
           twenty
           pound
           
             per
             Cent
          
           ,
           beyond
           the
           intrinsick
           value
           of
           Sterling
           ,
           it
           came
           to
           that
           pass
           ,
           that
           Gold
           became
           a
           Burthen
           to
           the
           Kingdom
           ,
           and
           men
           in
           their
           Bargains
           made
           exceptions
           of
           it
           in
           Payment
           ,
           but
           the
           
             bloody
             Massacre
          
           in
           
             Forty
             One
          
           soon
           put
           an
           end
           to
           that
           Flood
           of
           Prosperity
           .
        
         
           In
           the
           Reign
           of
           King
           Charles
           the
           Second
           ,
           upon
           his
           Restauration
           ,
           the
           Protestants
           lay
           under
           some
           discouragements
           ,
           occasioned
           from
           their
           Fears
           of
           a
           Rising
           from
           the
           indulgence
           given
           to
           the
           Natives
           ,
           procured
           by
           the
           Interest
           of
           the
           late
           
             King
             James
          
           ,
           then
           Duke
           of
           York
           ,
           whose
           Darlings
           and
           especial
           Favourites
           they
           were
           ,
           by
           means
           of
           whose
           interessed
           regard
           for
           them
           ,
           many
           (
           by
           his
           powerful
           sollicitations
           to
           his
           Brother
           )
           were
           restored
           to
           their
           Estates
           ,
           that
           were
           Capital
           in
           their
           Crimes
           .
           This
           gave
           just
           occasion
           of
           Jealousie
           to
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           ,
           that
           most
           of
           their
           Enemies
           would
           meet
           
           with
           the
           like
           success
           ;
           and
           during
           this
           Inundation
           ,
           the
           Revenue
           of
           Customs
           and
           
             In-land
             Excise
          
           ,
           dwindled
           to
           less
           than
           70000
           pounds
           
             per
             Annum
          
           :
           But
           upon
           the
           King
           's
           better
           information
           of
           the
           settlement
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           great
           Encouragements
           were
           revived
           to
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           and
           then
           in
           one
           year
           commencing
           in
           1664
           ,
           the
           Customes
           ,
           and
           
             import
             Excise
          
           ,
           that
           upon
           an
           exact
           account
           made
           the
           precedent
           year
           but
           34000
           pounds
           clear
           ,
           made
           86000
           :
           So
           great
           an
           alteration
           did
           the
           promised
           security
           of
           the
           
             Protestant
             Interest
          
           ,
           effect
           in
           that
           Kingdom
           :
           And
           in
           the
           same
           proportion
           did
           the
           In-land
           Excise
           advance
           from
           36000
           to
           80000
           pounds
           ,
           and
           from
           that
           time
           forward
           ,
           until
           the
           Accession
           of
           the
           late
           King
           to
           the
           Throne
           ,
           did
           the
           Revenue
           rise
           ,
           and
           amount
           to
           140000
           in
           the
           Import
           Duty
           ,
           and
           above
           100000
           pounds
           ,
           in
           the
           
             In-land
             Excise
          
           :
           But
           from
           the
           Reign
           of
           the
           late
           King
           ,
           it
           daily
           declined
           ;
           a
           plain
           Demonstration
           that
           the
           Revenue
           of
           Ireland
           ,
           like
           the
           Army
           of
           the
           Israelites
           ,
           prevailed
           no
           longer
           than
           the
           hand
           of
           Moses
           was
           lift
           up
           in
           favour
           of
           them
           .
        
         
           Now
           by
           the
           same
           rule
           of
           proportion
           ,
           that
           the
           Intradoe
           of
           Ireland
           flourisheth
           with
           the
           growth
           and
           increase
           of
           the
           Protestants
           ,
           may
           his
           present
           Majesty
           expect
           the
           Augmentation
           of
           his
           Revenue
           ,
           as
           that
           Kingdom
           shall
           be
           established
           in
           the
           hands
           of
           the
           British
           ;
           and
           were
           it
           proper
           in
           this
           Discourse
           to
           descend
           to
           Particulars
           ,
           it
           would
           be
           no
           difficult
           province
           to
           evince
           ,
           how
           possible
           it
           is
           for
           that
           Kingdom
           to
           be
           improved
           to
           double
           the
           value
           it
           ever
           yet
           made
           to
           the
           Crown
           .
        
         
           I
           have
           now
           come
           to
           a
           period
           of
           my
           design
           ,
           and
           having
           given
           a
           true
           ,
           and
           (
           I
           hope
           )
           Impartial
           Account
           of
           the
           Nature
           ,
           Temper
           ,
           and
           Constitution
           of
           that
           hitherto
           unhappy
           Kingdom
           ,
           together
           with
           a
           
           description
           of
           the
           proper
           Causes
           of
           those
           dismal
           Revolutions
           ,
           and
           Vicissitudes
           ,
           which
           have
           attended
           the
           fortune
           of
           its
           
             English
             Inhabitants
          
           :
           I
           shall
           in
           few
           words
           Apologize
           for
           this
           Narrative
           ,
           which
           I
           do
           believe
           to
           be
           the
           sense
           of
           the
           
             British
             Protestants
          
           ,
           whose
           lot
           is
           fallen
           in
           that
           Akeldama
           .
        
         
           We
           do
           not
           then
           presume
           ,
           to
           anticipate
           the
           King's
           unlimited
           Clemency
           to
           all
           his
           Subjects
           ,
           or
           desire
           that
           it
           should
           be
           wholly
           engrossed
           by
           such
           as
           are
           Protestants
           ,
           much
           less
           to
           offer
           Reasons
           for
           the
           utter
           extirpation
           of
           the
           Natives
           ;
           but
           rather
           wish
           their
           Reformation
           than
           Confusion
           ;
           and
           to
           the
           end
           that
           they
           may
           become
           our
           Brethren
           ,
           as
           well
           in
           Religion
           ,
           as
           Temporal
           Interest
           ,
           do
           humbly
           offer
           these
           Remarks
           ,
           by
           which
           (
           we
           presume
           )
           it
           doth
           evidently
           appear
           ,
           that
           without
           the
           total
           remove
           of
           their
           Pestilent
           Deluders
           ,
           the
           Priests
           ,
           and
           extirpating
           the
           most
           considerable
           of
           their
           Leaders
           ,
           and
           men
           of
           Estates
           ,
           that
           Kingdom
           can
           never
           be
           established
           upon
           the
           firm
           basis
           of
           a
           durable
           and
           lasting
           peace
           :
           but
           on
           the
           contrary
           be
           exposed
           to
           greater
           danger
           and
           distress
           ,
           than
           it
           has
           ever
           been
           subject
           to
           ,
           since
           the
           Conquest
           :
           For
           ,
           besides
           the
           Foreign
           pretensions
           that
           were
           never
           so
           plausible
           ,
           as
           now
           ,
           the
           English
           will
           not
           be
           encouraged
           to
           plant
           so
           readily
           there
           ,
           as
           they
           have
           formerly
           done
           ,
           by
           which
           the
           Irish
           will
           soon
           fill
           the
           Kingdom
           ;
           and
           by
           their
           Prodigious
           increase
           in
           their
           numbers
           ,
           will
           improve
           proportionably
           in
           their
           strength
           ,
           which
           with
           assistance
           from
           the
           French
           ,
           will
           render
           them
           as
           well
           invincible
           in
           their
           own
           thoughts
           ,
           as
           really
           more
           formidable
           than
           ever
           to
           the
           British
           ,
           and
           so
           bring
           this
           rising
           Phoenix
           to
           ashes
           ,
           out
           of
           which
           it
           can
           never
           be
           expected
           to
           revive
           .
        
         
           But
           all
           our
           hopes
           (
           under
           the
           Divine
           disposer
           of
           all
           things
           here
           below
           )
           are
           wrapt
           up
           in
           His
           present
           Majesty's
           
           great
           Wisdom
           and
           Conduct
           ,
           in
           which
           ,
           without
           the
           least
           reluctance
           we
           chearfully
           ,
           and
           most
           humbly
           ,
           acquiesce
           ;
           and
           agreeably
           to
           the
           Title
           ,
           and
           patient
           submission
           of
           our
           Mephivosheth
           ,
           make
           our
           devout
           and
           hearty
           Prayers
           ,
           for
           the
           Long
           and
           Happy
           Reign
           of
           their
           Majesties
           .
        
         
           For
           we
           were
           all
           but
           
             Dead
             Men
          
           ,
           when
           the
           
             Lord
             our
             King
             came
             for
             our
             Deliverance
          
           ;
           and
           if
           it
           be
           his
           Will
           ,
           let
           the
           Ziba's
           of
           that
           Kingdom
           take
           all
           ,
           so
           that
           we
           may
           live
           in
           Peace
           ,
           under
           the
           benign
           influence
           of
           his
           Government
           ,
           who
           hath
           saved
           us
           from
           the
           Jaws
           of
           that
           
             Roman
             Beast
          
           ,
           which
           was
           open
           to
           devour
           not
           only
           us
           ,
           but
           these
           Nations
           ,
           and
           hath
           so
           seasonably
           preserved
           us
           from
           sinking
           into
           an
           Abyss
           of
           Destruction
           ,
           at
           a
           time
           ,
           when
           there
           seemed
           none
           to
           help
           ,
           or
           to
           deliver
           .
        
         
           And
           now
           that
           powerful
           ,
           and
           all
           wise
           Providence
           ,
           which
           has
           so
           eminently
           appeared
           in
           the
           preservation
           of
           this
           great
           Instrument
           and
           Protector
           of
           the
           
             Reformed
             Religion
          
           ,
           give
           him
           a
           wise
           ,
           and
           understanding
           Heart
           to
           govern
           this
           People
           ,
           whom
           he
           hath
           sent
           to
           save
           ,
           in
           such
           a
           Miraculous
           ,
           and
           extraordinary
           manner
           :
           And
           bless
           their
           Majesties
           with
           a
           Long
           ,
           Peaceable
           ,
           and
           Prosperous
           Reign
           in
           this
           World
           ,
           and
           Crown
           them
           with
           Eternal
           Glory
           ,
           and
           Immortality
           in
           the
           next
           .
           Amen
           .
        
         
           FINIS
           .