An Exact LIST Of the Lords SPIRITUAL & TEMPORAL, Who sate in the PRETENDED PARLIAMENT AT DUBLIN In the Kingdom of IRELAND; On the 7th of May, 1689. and there continued until the 18th of July following, and then Prorogued until the 12th of November next following. ALSO A LIST of the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses of the House of COMMONS, in order as they were returned. TOGETHER With a Catalogue of the Titles of all Acts passed in the said Pretended Session, and Remarks upon them, and the Preamble to the Act of Repeal of the Acts of Settlement, as it passed in the House of Commons. And the several Reasons Addressed to the late King against passing the Act. entitled An Act for Repealing the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, &c. licenced November the 13th, 1689. And Entered according to Order. LONDON, Printed by T.B. and are to be Sold by Randal tailor, near Stationers-Hall. 1689. TO THE READER. IT is a common Proverb, Happy are they, whom the Harms of other Men make wary. How far some People, altogether infatuated with the late Leaven of Passive Obedience, may be Infidels, in reference to this sententious Proverb, these Sheets are made public to the World, on purpose to discover. By the Sufferings of Ireland, at this time under the Oppressions of the late King James, is plainly set forth, the Miseries and Calamities which he had intended to have brought upon England and Scotland, had it not been for the Glorious Deliverance by King William; for Ireland is a perfect Mirror, representing the Deformities of a pretended Government, under the Management of Rome and France; where we find Popery and Tyranny strenuously endeavouring to set up, what England and Scotland are no less zealously labouring to pull down. Here we find a Parliament sitting to secure the Reformed Worship of the Omnipotent, and to recover the ancient Laws and Liberties of the People from the Damages so lately sustained through the Violations of illegal Tyranny. In Ireland we find a Mock-Parliament convened, to extirpate the very Name of the Protestant Religion, and to rend that lovely Portion of the English Dominion from the British sceptre, by exacting Laws to exterminate the whole Race of the Protestant Proprietors; which as they are the public Acts of a numerous Convention, under the Influence of a Popish Prince, and consequently too notorious to be denied; they are here Catalogued with their Authors, and transmitted to p●blick view, and may serve to show how fond the Biggots of this Nation, bow their Ears to the Delusions of those, who would make them believe they ever can enjoy an Hour of Happiness under a Government so diametrically opposite to the well being of Mankind. I shall therefore say no more, but make it my hearty Wish, that as God hath been merciful to them, in delivering them from those Calamities which others feel, they may likewise learn by reading these few Sheets, to be so merciful to themselves, as not to seek their own Destruction. The following List of Lords are of such as sate, and that of the Commons in the same Order as they were returned. Those wanting are for London-Derry, Enniskilling, and such Places as were in the Protestants Hands. The Names of the Lords and Commons of the Pretended Parliament of Ireland, Sitting at Dublin the Seventh of May, 1689. and continued Sitting till the eighteen of July, and then prorogued until the Twelfth of November. The LORDS. SIR Alexander Fitton, Lord Baron of Gosworth, Lord Chancellor. Earl of Westmeath, Earl of Barrymore. Earl of Clancarty. Earl of Tyrone. Earl of Longford. Earl of Granard. Earl of Limericke. Lord Viscount Glanmalira. Viscount Killmallock. Viscount Iv●●gh. Viscount Mountgarret. Viscount Dillon. Viscount Russe. Viscount galway. Sir Valentine Brown, Viscount Kenmare, lately made Justin Ma●. Cartby, Viscount mount Cashel, lately made. Lord Bishop of Meath. Bishop of Ossory. Bishop of Cork. Bishop of Limericke. Lord Baron of Atheuret. Baron of Kinsale. Baron of Eniskillen. Baron of Seraba●●. Baron of Castleconnell. Baron of Brittas. Baron of Dunb●yn●. Baron of Cahirr. Baron of Howth. Baron of Dunsanny. Baron of upper Ossory. Lord Baron of slain. Chief Justice Nugent, Baron of R●verstown, lately made. John Bourk, Baron of Bophin, lately made. Baron of Trinlestown. The COMMONS. County of Catherlogh. dudley Bagnal, Esq; Henry Luttrel, Esq; Borough of Catherlogh. Marcus Baggot, Esq; John Warren, Esq; Borough of Old Leighlin. derby Long, Esq; Daniel Doran. County of Gullway. Sir Ulick Bourk, Bar. Sir Walter black, Bar. Borough of Athemy. James Talbot, of Mount● Talbot, Esq; Charles Daly of Dunsundal, Esq; Boroug of Tuam. James Lally, of Tullenedally. William Bourk, of Carrowstila. County of Kilkenny. James Grace, of Courstowne, Esq; Robert welsh, of Cloneneassy, Esq; Borough of Callan. Walter butler, Esq; Thady Meagher, Esq; Borough of Thomastown. Robert Grace the Elder, Esq; Robert Grace the Younger, Esq; Borough of Gowran. Richard Butler, Esq; Walter Kelly, Doctor of physic. Borough of Inistioge. Edward Fitz Gerrald, Esq; James Fitz Gerrald, Esq; Borough of Knocktopher. Harvey Morres, Esq; Henry M●●gh, Esq; City of Kilkinny. John Rooth, Mayor of that City. James Bryan, Alderman County of Cork Justin Ma●. Car●●y, Esq; Sir Richard Nag●●, Knight Borough of Yonghall. Thomas Vniack, Alderman. Edward Gough, Alderman. Borough of Kinsale. Andrew Murrogh, Esq;, Miles de Coursey, Esq; Borough of Baltimore. Daniel O Donovan, Esq; Jeremy Donovan, Esq; Borough of Bandenbridge. Charels Mac. Carthy of Ballea, Esq; Daniel Mac. Carthy Reagh, Esq; Borough of Cloghnekelty Lieutenant colonel own Mac. Carthy, Esq; Daniel Mac. Fi● Mac Carthy, Esq; Borough of Middletown. Dermod Long, Esq; John Long, Esq; Borough of Mayallow. John Barret of Castlemore, Esq; David Nagle of Carragowne, Esq; Mannor and Borough of Roth Cormuck. James Barry, Esq; Edward Powel, Esq; Mannor of Doneraile. Daniel O Donovane, Esq; John Baggot, Junior, of Bagotstown, Esq; Borough of Charl●vile. John Baggot signior, of Baggotstown, Esq; John Power of Killballane, County of Tipperary. Nicholas Purcel of Loghmore, Esq; James Butler of Granigebegg. City of Cashell. Dennis Kearny, Alderman. James Hackett, Alderman. Borough of C●omne●●. Nicholas White, Alderman. John Bray, Alderman. Borough of Fethard. Sir John Everard, Bar. James Tobin of Fethard, Esq; City of Waterford. John Porter, Esq; Nicholas Fitz. Gerrald, Esq; County of Kerry. Nicholas Brown, Esq; Sir Thomas Crossby, Knight. Borough of Trayley. Maurice Hussey of Kerrys, Esq; John Brown of Ardagh, Esq; Borough of Dinglescouch. Edward Rice, Fits James of Ballinelig, in the County of Limerick. John Hussey of Culmullin, Esq; Borough of Ardfert. colonel Roger Mac. Elligor. Cornelius Mac. Gillicuddy. City of Lymerick. Nicholas Arthur, Alderman. Thomas Harrold, Alderman. Borough of Roscommon. John Dillon, Esq; John Kelley, Esq; Borough of boil. Captain John King. Terrence Mac. Dermot, Alderman. County of Meath. Sir William talbot, Bar. Sir Patrick Barnwall, Bar. Borough of Rato●th. John Hussey, Esq; James Fitz. Gerrald, Esq; Borough of trim. Captain Nicholas Cusacke. Walter Nangle, Esq; Borough of Navan. Christopher Cusack of Corballis, Esq; Christopher Cusack of Ratholeran, Esq; Borough of Kells. Patrick Everard, Esq; John Delamare, Esq; Borough of Athboy. John Trynder, Esq; Robert Longfield, Esq; City of Cork. Sir James Cotter, Knight. John gallovvay, Esq; County of Lymerick. Sir John Fitz Gerrald, Baronet. Gerrald Fitz Gerrald, Knight of the Glyn. Borough of Killmallock. Sir William Harley, Baronet. Jahn Lacy, Esq; Borough of Askeaton. John Bourke of Cahirmoyhill, Esq; Edward Rice, Esq; County of West-Meath. The Honourable colonel William Nugent. The Honourable colonel Henry Dillon. Borough and Mannor of Mullengarr. Gerrald Dillon Esq; prime sergeant. edmond Nugent of Carlanstowne, Esq; Borough of Athlone. Edmond Malone of Ballynahoune, Esq; Edmond Malone of Jurisperit, Esq; Borough of Kellbeggan. Brian Geoghegan of Donor●, Esq; Charles Geoghegan of Lyonane, Esq; Queens County. Sir Patrick Trant Knight, Edmond Morres, Esq; Borough of Marribrough. Pierce Bryan, Esq; Thady Fitz Patrick, Esq; Borough of Ballynekill. Sir Gregory Byrne Baronet. Oliver Grace Esq; Borough of gallovvay. Oliver martin, Esq; John Kirwan, Esq; County of Cavan. Phillip Reyley of Aghnecrevy, Esq; John Reyley of Carirobuck, Esq; Borough of Cavab. Phillip Oge O Reyly, Esq; Hugh Reyley of Lara Esq; Borough of Bellturbet. Sir Edward Tyrtel, Baronet. Phlilip Tuite of Newcastle, Esq; County of Waterford. John Power, Esq; Matthew Hore, Esq; Borough of Dungarvan. John Hore, Esq; Martin Hore, Esq; County of Alig●●. Henry Crofton, Esq; Oliver OGara, Esq; Borough of Sligo●. Terrence Mac D●●ogh, Esq; James French, Esq; County of Tyr●●●. colonel Gourdon D Neal●, Lewis do of Dung●●n●●, Esq; Borough of Dung●●non. Arthur O neal, Esq; Peter Dannelly of Dungannon. Borough of ●●●●bane. Christopher N●g●●●, Esq; Daniel Donelly, Gent. County of clear. Daniel O 〈◇〉, Esq; John Mac Nemarra of Cr●●●●gh, Esq; Borough of 〈◇〉. Florence Mac Nemarr a of D●●●●d, Esq; Theobald Butler of Sraghnagohoone, Esq; County of Leytrim. Edmond Reynells, Esq; Iriel Farrel, Esq; Borough of James-Town. Alexand●● Mac Donnel, Esq; William Shanley, Esq; County of Ardmagh. Francis Stafford, Esq; Constantine O neal, Esq; County of Antrim. Cormuck o'neill. randal Mac Donnel. Borough of Bellfast. Marcus talbot. Daniel O'Neale. County of Wexford. Walter Butler of Monfin, Esq; Patrick Colclough of Mochury, Esq; Borough of Wexford. William Talbot, Esq; Francis Ro●th. Merchant. Borough of New Ross. Luke Dormer, Esq; Richard Butler, Esq; Borough of Newburgh. Abraham Strange of Taberduffe, Esq; Richard Doyle of Kilorky. Borough of Eniscorthy. James Devereux of Carigmenan, Esq; Arthur Waddington Portriffe. Borough of Taghmon. George Hore of Polehore, Esq; Walter Hore of Harperstowne. Borough of Bannow. Francis Plowden, Esq; Dr. Alexius Stafford. Borough of Cloghmine. Edward Sherlock of the City of Dublin, Esq; Nicholas White of Rosse, Merchant. Borough of Fetherd. The Right Honourable colonel James Porter. Captain Nicholas Stafford. County of Longford Roger farrel, Esq; Robert Farell, Esq; Borough of Lanesbrough. Oliver Fitz Gerrald, Roger farrel. County of Mayo. Gerrald Moore, Esq; Walter Bourke, Esq; Borough of Castlebarr. John Bremingham Portriffe. Thomas Bourke, Esq; County of down. Murtogh Mac Gennis of Green-Castle, Esq; Ever Mac Gennis of Castle-william, Esq; Borough of Newry. Rowland White, Esq; Rowland Savage, Esq; Borough of Killileagh Barnard Mac Gennis of Ballygorianbeg, Esq; tool O' Neile of Drummekelly, Gent. County of Dublin. Simon Lutterel of Luttrellstowne, Esq; Patrick Sarsfield of L●can, Esq; Borough of Swords. Francis Barnwall of Woodscarke in the County of Meath, Esq; Robert Russel of Drynham, Esq; Borough of New Castle. Thomas Arthur of Colganstowne, John Talbot of Bellgard. City of Dublin. Sir Michael Creagh, Knight, Lord Mayor. Terence Dermot, signior, Alderman. college of Dublin. Sir John mead, Knight. Joseph Coghlan, Esq; County of Wickloe. Richard Butler, Esq; William Talbot, Esq; Borough of Cares-Fort. Hugh Byrone, Esq; Pierce Archbold, Esq; upon default of a Process of P.A. Polewheele, Esq; Borough of Wickloe. Francis tool, Esq; Thomas Byrne, Esq; Borough of Blessington. James Eustace, Esq; Maurice Eustace, Gent. County of Kildare. John Wogan, Esq; George Aylmer, Esq; Borough of Naa●. Walter Lord Dungan. Charles White, Esq; Borough of Athy. William Fitz. Gerrald, Esq; William Archbold, Esq; Borough of Harristowne. James Nihell, Esq; Edmond Fitz. Gerrald, Esq; Borough of Kildare. Francis Leigh, Esq; Robert Porter, Esq; Kings County. Hewer Oxburgh, Esq; own carol, Esq; Borough of Phillipstowne. John Cannor, Esq; hour Oxburgh, Esq; Borough of Bannagher. Terrence Coghlan, Esq; Taerence Coghlan, Gent. Borough of Drogheda. Henry Dowdal, Esq; Recorder. Christophor Peppard, Fitz. George, Alderman. County of Lowth. Thomas Bellew, Esq; William Talbot, Esq; Borough of Atherd●e. Hugh Gernon, Esq; John Babe, Esq; Borough of Dundalk. Robert Dermot, Esq; John Dowdgall, Esq; Borough of Carlingford Christopher Peppard Fitz Ignatius, Esq; Bryan Dermot, Esq; County of Ros-Common. Charles Kelly, Esq; John Bourke, Esq; Borough of four in Commitat. West-Meath. John Nugent of Donore, Esq; Christopher Nugent of Dardystowne. Borough of Portarlington in Queens County. Sir Henry Bond, Baronet. Sir Thomas Hacket, Knight. Borough of St. Johnston in Commit. Longford. Sir William Ellis, Knight. Lieutenant Coll. James Nugent, Monaghan. Bryan Mac Mahon. Esq; Hugh Mac Mahon. Esq; Gowran. Coll. Robert Fielding instead of Richard Butler, Esq; The Commons choose Sir Richard Nagle their Speaker, and Mr. John Kerney was Clerk of that House. The several Bills that past both Houses of Parliament in the Session begun at Dublin, the 7th of May 1689. to which the Late King assented are as follows. 1. AN Act of Recognition. 2. An Act for Annulling and making voided all Patents of Officers for Life or during good Behaviour. 3. An Act declaring that the Parliament of England cannot bind Ireland, and against Writs of Error, and Appeals to be brought for removing Judgments, Decrees and Sentences given in Ireland into England. 4. An Act for Repealing the Acts of Settlement, and Explanation, Resolution of the Doubts and all Grants, Patents and Certificates, pursuant to them, or any of them. 5. An Act for punishing of Persons who bring in Counterfeit Coin of Foreign Realms being Currant in this Realm, or Counterfeit the same within this Realm, or Wash, Clip, File or Lighten the same. 6. An Act for taking off all incapacities on the Natives of this Kingdom. 7. An Act for taking away the Benefits of the Clergy in certain Cases of Felony in this Kingdom for two years. 8. An Act to continue two Acts made to prevent delays in Execution: and to prevent Arrests of Judgments and Superseding Executions. 9. An Act for Repealing a Statute entitled an Act for Provision of Ministers in Cities and Corporate Towns. And making the Church of St. Andrews in the Suburbs of the City of Dublin Presentative for ever. 10. An Act of Supply for his Majesty for the support of his Army. 11. An Act for Repealing the Act for keeping and Celebrating the 23 of October as an Aniversary Thanksgiving in this Kingdom. 12. An Act for Liberty of Conscience, and Repealing such Acts or Clauses in any Act of Parliament, which are inconsistent with the same. 13. An Act concerning tithes, and other Ecclesiastical Duties. 14. An Act Regulating tithes, and other Ecclesiastical Duties in the Province of Ulster. 15. An Act concerning Appropriate tithes, and other Duties payable to Ecclesiastical Dignitaries. 16. An Act for Repealing the Act for Real Union and Division of Parishes, and concerning Churches, Free-Schools and Exchanges. 17. An Act for Relief and Release of Poor distressed Prisoners for Debts. 18. An Act for Repealing an Act entitled an Act for Confirmation of Letters Patents, granted to his Grace James Duke of Ormond. 19. An Act for Encouragement of Strangers and others to inhabit and plant in the Kingdom of Ireland. 20. An Act for Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries. 21. An Act Prohibiting the Importation of English, Scotch, or Welsh Coals into this Kingdom. 22. An Act for Ratifying and Confirming Deeds and Settlements and last Wills and Testaments of Persons out of Possession. 23. An Act for the speedy Recovering of Servants Wages. 24. An Act for vesting in his Majesty the Goods of Absentees. 25. An Act concerning marshal Law. 26. An Act for Punishment of Waste committed on Lands restorable to old Proprietors. 27. An Act to enable his Majesty to Regulate the Duties of foreign Commodities. 28. An Act for the better settling Intestates Estates. 29. An Act for Advance and Improvement of Trade, and for the Encouragement and Increase of Shipping and Navigation. 30. An Act for the Attainder of divers Rebels, and for the Preserving the Interest of Loyal Subjects. 31. An Act for granting and confirming unto the Duke of Tyrconnel Lands and Tenements to the value of 15000 l. per Annum. 32. An Act for securing the Water-Course for the Castle and City of Dublin. 33 An Act for relieving Dame Anna Yolanda Sarracourt alias Duval and her Daughter. 34. An Act for securing Iron-works and Land thereunto belonging on Sir Henry Waddington Knight, at a certain Rates. 35. An Act for reversal of the Attainder of William Ryan of Bally Ryan in the County of Tipperary Esq; and for restoring him to his Blood, corrupted by the said Attainder. By several of the foregoing Acts it is most evident, that the design of that pretended Parliament, was to ruin all the Protestants of Ireland, I mean the mayor part, for those Gentlemen that were returned as Members for the college of Dublin, opposed their Proceedings, and when they found they could do no good, left the House; and the Bishops in the House of Lords also opposed their Proceedings. Most of their Parliament-men were such as were name by Letters from the Earl of Tyrconnel or the Titular Bishop of Clogher his Secretary to the several Corporations. And they were in that hast, that few of the new Charters were past the Seal, when the Elections were made, and some of them are not past to this day. The Protestants were in possession of several Officers in that Kingdom, but pursuant to that Act to make voided all Patents of Offices for Life or Behaviour, they are turned out and Papists put in. The Address presented by the purchaser to stop passing the Act of Repeal of the Act Settlement gave a full state, how far the Protestants were concerned therein. There was a Clause in that Act of Repeal, which without doubt, as it would be strained by them, would bring in all Protestants, that were any way concerned or interested in Ireland, it follows in these words. It's Enacted that all manors, Lands, &c. and all Estates and Interests whatsoever in Law or Equity, which on the First of August 1688. or at any time since belonged to any in Rebellion in England, Scotland or Ireland, or who corresponded or kept intelligence, or went contrary to their Allegiance to dwell or stay among the said Rebels or any of them, or was any way Aiding, Assisting or Abetting to them, or any of them, are forfeited and vested from the said First of August, freed from all Estates, tails, Remainders and Reversions. By their Act of Repeal for the Act of Provision of Ministers, the Ministers in Cities and Corporations are stripped, having no other Provision than what was granted them by that Act which they have repealed. By the Act concerning tithes and other Ecclesiastical Duties, the Roman catholics are to pay all their tithes to their Clergy, and most of the Protestants having come out of the Kingdom, and the rest that remained, having lost what Substance they had, the Protestant Clergy could expect nothing: And besides this, the Papist Clergy had got Leases granted to them, of the Livings of such of our Clergy as were come out of that Kingdom. The Act to rest in King James the Goods of Absentees, is penal on such as had any of their Goods in their Hands, and did not discover the same, and the Books of some Merchants were seized on, to discover the Effects of their Correspondents, who were Absentees. On pretence of Waste committed by the Protestants on Land in their Possession, several were brought up to Dublin in Custody, by virtue of their Act for Punishment of Waste committed on Land, restorable to old Proprietors, and there compelled to make the old Proprietor what Satisfaction he pleased, and discharge his Contempt, or remain confined. By the Act of Attainder, some thousands were by Name attainted as Rebels, among whom, are the Duke of Ormond, Earl of Cork, and Earl of Strafford; others that came out of that Kingdom, since the Invasion( as they call it) were attainted if they did not return by the first of September last, those that came before, had till the first of November. And by the Act, all such as had Estates in Ireland, together with all Widdows and Orphans that come from thence, were to return for Ireland about that time, or they forfeited all. Although some of their pretended Acts were sufficient to have ruined most, if not all the Protestants of Ireland: Yet it was thought fit to pass so many, to make the Work as certain and sure as they could. The Preamble to the Act of Repeal of the Acts of Stttlements and Explanation, &c. as it past the House of Commons. WHereas the Ambition and Avarice of the Lords Justices ruling over this your Kingdom, in 1641. did engage them to gather a malignant Party and Cabal of the then Privy Council contrary to their sworn Faith and natural Allegiance, in a secret Intelligence and traitorous Combination, with the Puritan Sectaries in the Realm of Great Britain, against their lawful and undoubted sovereign, his Peace, Crown and Dignity, the Malice of which made it soon manifest in the Nature and Tendency of their Proceedings, their untimely Prorogations of a Loyal ●nanimous Parliament and thereby making voided, and disappointing the Effects of many seasonable Votes, Bills and Addresses, which passed into Laws, had certainly secured the Peace and tranquillity of this K●●gdom, by binding to his Majesty the Hearts of his Irish Subjects, as well by the ties of Affection and Gratitude, as Duty and Allegiance there. The said Lord Justices traitorously disbanding His Majesties well assured catholic Forces, when his Person and Monarchy were exposed to the said rebel Sectaries, then marching in hostile Arms to dispoi● him of his Power. Dominion and Life, their immediate calling into the place and stead of those His Majesties faithful disbanded Forces, a formidable Body of disciplined Troops allied and confederated in Cause, Nation and Principles with those Rebel Sectaries, their unwarrantable Entertainment of those Troops in this Kingdom, to the draining of His Majesties Treasury, and Terror of his catholic Subjects, then openly menaced by them the aforesaid Lords Justices with a Massacre and total Extirpation, their bloody Prosecution of that Menace, in the Slaughter of many innocent Persons, thereby affrighting and compelling others in despair of Protection, from their Government, to unite and take Arms for their necessary Defence, and Preservation of their Lives; their unpardonable Prevarication from His Majesties Orders to them, in retrencing the time by him graciously given to his Subjects so compelled into Arms, of returning to their Duty; and stinting the General Pardon to such only as had no Free-hold Estates to make Forfeitures of; their pernicious Arts in way laying, exchanging, and wickedly depriving all Intercourse by Letters, Expresses and other Communication and Privity betwixt Your said Royal Father and his much abused People; their insolent and barbarous Application of Racks and other Engines of Torture to Sir John red, His then Majesties sworn mental Servant, and that upon thier own conscious Suspicions of his being entrusted with the too just Complaints of the persecuted catholics aforesaid. Their diabolical Malice and Craft, in essaying by Promises and Threats, to draw from him, the said red, in his Torments, a false and impious Accusation of his Master and Sovereign as being the Author and Promoter of the then Commotion, so manifestly procured, and by themselves industriously spread. And whereas a late eminent Minister of State, for parallel Causes and Ends, pursuing the Steps of the aforesaid Lords Justices, hath by his Interest and Power, cherished and supported a Fanatical Republican Party, which heretofore opposed, put to flight, and chased out of this Your Kingdom of Ireland, the Royal Authority lodged in his Person, and to transfer the calamitous Consequences of his fatal Conduct from himself, upon your trusty Roman catholic Subjects, to the Breach of public Faith solemnly given and proclaimed in the Name of our late Sovereign, interposed betwixt them and his late Majesties general Indulgence and Pardon, and wrought their Exclusion from that Indemnity in their Estates, which by the said public Faith is specially provided for, and since hath been extended to the most bloody and execrable Traitors, few only excepted by Name in all your Realms and Dominions. And further, to preclude from all Relief, and even Access of Admittance to Justice, Your said Irish catholic People, and to secure to himself and his Posterity, his vast Share of their Spoils. He the said eminent Minister, did against Your Sacred Brothers Royal Promise and Sanction aforesaid, advice and persuade his late Majesty to give, and accordingly obtained his Royal Assent to two several Acts. The one intitulled, An Act for the better Execution of His Majesties gracious Declaration for the Settlement of this Kingdom of Ireland, and Satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers, Souldiers, and other His Majesties Subjects there. Which Act was so past at a Parliament held in this Kingdom, in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of his Reign. And the other, An Act entitled, An Act of Explanation, &c. Which Act was passed in a Sessions of the said Parliament held in this Kingdom, in the Seventeenth and eighteen Years of his Reign, most of the Members thereof being such, as forcibly possessed themselves of the Estates of your catholic Subjects in this Kingdom, and were convened together for the sole special Purpose of creating and granting to themselves and their Heirs, the Estates and Inheritances of this Your Kingdom of Ireland, upon a scandalous, false Hypothesis, imputing the traitorous Design of some desperate, indigent Persons to seize Your Majesties Castle of Dublin, on the Twenty third of October, 1641. to an universal Conspiracy of Your catholic Subjects, and applying the Estates and Persons thereby presumed to have forfeited to the Use and Benefit of that Regicide Army, which brought that Kingdom from it's due Subjection and Obedience to His Majesty, under the Peak and Tyranny of a bloody Usurper: An Act unnatural, or rather viperously destroying His late Majesties gracious Declaration, from whence it had Birth, and its Clauses, Restrictions and Uses, inverting the very fundamental Laws, as well of Your Majesties, as all other Christian Governments. An Act limiting and confining the Administration of Justice to a certain Term or Period of Time, and confirming the Patrimony of Innocents unheard, to the most exquisite Traytors, that now stand Convict on Record; their Assigns and Trustees, even of the then deceased Oliver cronwell himself, for whose Arrears, as General of the Regicide Army, special Provision is made at the svit of his Pensioners. Now in regard the Acts above mentioned do in a florid and specious Preamble, contrary to the known Truth in Fact, comprehend all Your Majesties Roman catholic Subjects of Ireland, in the Guilt of those few indigent Persons aforesaid, and on that Supposition alone, by the Clause immediately subsequent to that Preamble, rest all their Estates in his late Majesty, as a Royal Trustee, to the principal Use of those who Deposed and murdered Your Royal Father, and their lawful Sovereign. And furthermore, to the Ends that the Articles and Conditions granted in the Year 1648. by Authority from Your Majesties Royal Brother, then lodged in the marquis of Ormond, may be duly fulfilled and made good to your Majesties present Irish catholic Subjects, in all their Parts and Intentions, and that the several Properties and Estates in this Kingdom may be settled in their ancient Foundations, as they were on the Twenty first of October 1641. And that all Persons may acquiesce and rejoice under an impartial Distribution of Justice, and sit peaceably down under his own Vine or Patrimony, to the abolishing all distinction of Parties, Countries and Religions, and settling a perpetual Union and Concord of Duty, Affection an● Loyalty to Your Majesties Person and Government: In the Hearts of Your Subjects be it enacted, &c. An Address presented to the Late King James, to stop passing of the Act of Repeal of the Act of Settlement, &c. THis humble Representation made unto Your Majesty, is in the Behalf of Your Majesties Subjects of all Degrees, Sex and Ages. The Design and Intention of it, is to prevent the ruin and Desolation which a Bill, now under Consideration, in order to be made a Law, will bring upon them and their Families, in case Your Majesty doth not interpose and protect them, so far as the known Laws of the Kingdom, and Equity, and good Conscience will warrant and require. It is in the Behalf of Purchasers, who for great and valuable Considerations, have acquired Lands and Tenements in this Kingdom, by laying out, not only the Portions and Provisions made by their Parents for them, but also the whole Product of all their own Industry, and the Labour of their Youth; together with what could be saved by a frugal Management, in order to make some certain Provision for Old Age and their Families, in purchasing Lands and Tenements, under the Security of divers Acts of Parliament, public Declarations from the late King, and all those accompanied with the Possession of twenty five Years. Divine Providence hath appointed us our Dwelling in an iceland, and consequently we must Trade, or live in Penury, and at the Mercy of our Neighbours. This necessitates a Transmutation of Possession by Purchase from one Hand to another, of Mortgaging and Pledging Lands for great and considerable Sums of Money, by charging them with Judgments, and indeed gives Name to one of the greatest Securities made use of in this Kingdom, Statutes, Merchants, and of the Staple, and very many, especially Widows and Orphans, have then whole Estates and Portions secured by Mortgages, Bonds of the Staple, and Judgments. Where, and when shall a Man purchase in this Kingdom, under what Title, or on what Security shall he lay out his Money, or secure the Portions he designs for his Children, if he may not do it under the Security of divers Acts of Parliament, the solemn and reiterated Declarations of his Prince, and a quiet and uncontroverted Possession of twenty Years together. And this is the Case of thousands of Families, who are Purchasers under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. I do not undertake at present to justify those Acts in every particular contained in them. But if it be considered that from the twenty third of October, 1641. till the twenty ninth of May, 1660. the time of His Majesties Restauration, the Kingdom was upon the Matter in a Continued Storm, the Alterations of Possessions were so universal, and Propriety so blended and mixed by Alotments and Dispositions made by the then usurping Power, it may well be concluded, that they must be somewhat more than Men, that could or can frame a Law to take in every particular Case, though it should have swollen to many volumes and Laws, which are to be of such universal Consequence as this was, are to have regard to the Generality of the Kingdom of People, though possibly some particular Person may have Hardship in his private Concern. But if we may judge of general Laws with the Produce and Effect of them, and at the same time have a Prospect of the State and Condition of this Kingdom, from 1640. and as far backward as you please, until the time of His late Majesties happy Restauration, and at the same time take into Consideration, what the Kingdom became in a few Years after the Commission for executing those Acts was at an end, their Buildings and other Improvements, their Trade and Commerce, the vast herds of Cattle, and Flocks of Sheep, equal to those in England, together with great Sums of Money, brought over by our Fellow Subjects of England, who came to Purchase and Plant in this Kingdom, the Manufactories set on foot in divers parts, whereby the meaner Inhabitants were at once enriched and civilized; it would hardly be believed to be the same Spot of Earth; nay, overflown and moorish Grounds were reduced to the bettering of both Soil and Air. The Purchasers who brought the Kingdom to this flourishing Condition, fly to Your Majesty for Succour, offering their Estates and Fortunes to any legal trial within this Kingdom, being willing and ready to submit the same to any established Judicature; where, if it shall be found, that they enjoy any thing without legal Title, they will sit down and acquiesce in the judgement. But to have their Purchases made voided, their Lands and Improvements taken from them, their Securities and Assurances for Money lent declared null and voided, by a Law made ex post Facto,, was never practised in any Kingdom or Country. If their Bill, now designed to be made a Law, had been attempted two, three, four or five Years after the Courts for Execution of these Acts were ended, the Purchasers would not have laid out their Estates in acquiring of Lands, or in Building and Improving on them. Thousands who sold their small Estates and Free-holds in England, and brought the Price of them to Purchase and Plant here, would have stayed at Home, and Your Majesties Revenue, with that of the Nobility and Gentry had never come to the height it did. If Your Majesty please to consider upon what Grounds and Assurances the Purchasers of Lands and Tenements in this Kingdom proceeded, you will soon conclude never any proceeded upon surer Grounds. The Acts of the Seventeenth and eighteen of King Charles the First Your Father of Blessed Memory, takes notice, that there was a Rebellion begun in this Kingdom, the Twenty third of October, 1641.( And so doth a Bill once red in the House of Lords) whoever looks into that Royal Martyrs Discourses upon that Occasion, will see with what an Abhorrency he laments it, and that he had thoughts once to come over in Person to suppress it. These Acts promise Satisfaction out of forfeited Lands, to such as would advance Money for reduceing those Disturbers of the public Peace unto their Duty. The next Invitation was His late Majesty, Your Brothers Letter from Breda, some few Weeks before his Restoration, which hapne● the Twenty ninth of May, 1660. and within six Months after, come forth His Majesties Gracious Declaration for the Settlement of this Kingdom. This, may it please Your Majesty, is the Basis and Foundation of that Settlement, and was some Years after enacted and made a Law, by two several Acts of Parliament. It is true, that the usurping Power in the Year 1653. having prevailed here, did dispose and set our the Estates of catholics unto Adventurers and Souldiers, and in a year or two after, transplanted all catholic Free-holders, for no other reason but their being so, into Connaught, where Lands were set out unto them under divers Qualifications, which they and their Heirs, on those deriving under them, as Purchasers, enjoyed, and still do enjoy, under the Security of the before men●ion Acts of Parliament and Declaration. His Majesties gracious Declaration of the Thirtieth of November 1660. which I call the Foundation of the Settlement, was, before it was concluded on, under the Consideration of that Prince, and the Lords of his Council of England, where all Persons concerned for the Proprietors, as well Old as New, were heard, whoever reads it, will find many Difficulties which He and his Council met with from the different and several Pretenders, what Consideration was had, and Care taken to reconcile the jarring Interests, and to accommodate and settle as well as was possible, the Mass or Body of his Subjects here. It was some years after, before the Act for the better Execution of his Majesties gracious Declaration became a Law. It was near two years on the Anvil: It was not a Law that passed in a few Days, or Sub silentio: It was first according to the then Course of passing Laws, here framed by the Chief governor, and Council of this Kingdom, by the Advice, and with the Assistance of all the Judges, and of His Majesties Council, learned in the Laws, and then transmitted into England, to be further considered of by His Majesty, and Lords of His Council there, where the Council at Law, and Agents of all Pretenders to the Propriety of Land in this Kingdom were heard. And that Act, commonly called the Act of Settlement, approved of and re-transmitted under the Seal of England, to receive the Royal Assent, which it did, after having passed both Houses of Parliament. The innocent Proprietors being restored pursuant to this Act, and some Difficulties appearing, as to the further Execution of it, another passed, commonly called, The Act of Explanation, which went the same Course, and under the same Scrutiny. It is confessed, that though they are two Acts, it was the same Parliament who were chosen according to the ancient Course of choosing Parliaments. But if any Miscarriages were in bringing that Parliament together, or in procuring the aforesaid Acts of Parliament, to pass which, I can in no wise admit, and the less, for that Your Majesties Revenue was granted and settled by that Parliament, and many good and wholesome Laws therein enacted. Yet itis manifest, that nothing of that kind ought to affect the plain and honest Purchaser, who for great and valuable Consideration, acquired Lands under the Security aforesaid, and expended the Remainder of his Means in Building, Improving, and Planting on them, and that for the following Reasons. Imprimis. The Purchaser advising with his Council how to lay out, secure his Money, that it may not lie dead, not only to his, but the public Detriment, tells him, that he is offered a Purchase of Lands in Fee, or desired by his Neighbour to accommodate him with Money, upon the Security of Mortgage, judgement, or Statute Staple, and upon Inquiry into the Title, he finds a good and secure Estate, as firm in Law, as two several Acts of Parliament of force in this Kingdom, can make it: And in many Cases, Letters patents upon a Commission of Grace, for remedying defective Titles, he finds Possession for many years hath gone along with this Title, and several Descents cast, and possibly that the Lands have been purchased, and passed through the Hands of divers Purchasers; he resorts to the Records, where he meets with Fines and common Recoveries, the great Assurance known to the Laws of England, under which( by the Blessing of God) we live; and tells him, that there is no Scruple nor Difficulty of Purchasing under this Title, since he hath the Security of two Acts of Parliament, Certificate Letters patents, Fines, and Recoveries, and that no Law of force in the Kingdom can stir, much less shake this Title. How is it possible to imagine, that the Legislative Power should be made use of to avoid this Mans Estate, who perhaps was never in this Kingdom, until after these Acts were enacted, and become Laws. It will be the like Case with all Persons, who on the Marriage of their Children, and considerable Marriage Portions paid and received, have procured Settlements for jointures, Portions and Remainders for their Children and grandchidren: And all these are to be laid aside without any Consideration of Law or Equity in the Case of Purchasers, or any misdemeanour or Offence committed by them, whereby vast Numbers of Your Majesties Subjects, the present Proprietors and their Lesees, and in very many Cases, Widows and Orphans, Marchants and Traders, will be at one stroke outed and removed from the Possession of their Lands and Improvements, which in many places are more in value than the Townships whereon they are made. This, with Submission, without some Fraud, Deceit, or Default of the Purchaser, never was, and itis hoped never will be done by any People or Nation professing Christianity. Nor is it for the Honour, welfare, or Advantage of the King or Kingdom, to have it so done. What will Strangers, and our Fellow Subjects of England and Scotland say, we sold our Estates in England, transported us and our Famalies into Ireland, to Purchase, Improve, and Plant there? We acquired Lands under as secure Titles as Acts of Parliament, the greatest known Security could make them; our Conveyences, both by dead and Matters of Record, are allowed good, firm, and unquestionable by any Law in force at the time of the Purchase, we have had the Possession ten, twelve, or fifteen years, and are grown old, upon them we have clearly withdrawn our Effects from England, and settled here, not doubting, but our Posterity may be so likewise. We have purchased Annuities and Rent-charges out of Land under the same Securities, and now the old Proprietors, though many of them had Satisfaction in Connaught, would fain have a new Law to dispossess us of our Estates and Improvements made as aforesaid. It will not be believed that the Chief of those who drive on this Design, should in Parliament, and elsewhere( which ought to consist of the gravest, wisest, and wealthist. Free-holders of the Kingdom, for such the Law presumes them) make a noise with that good and wholesome advice of Caveat Emptor, in this Case, or that can think that Caveat is proper here. The Purchaser ought to be wary of any Flaw in the Title at the time of the Purchase made, and Purchasers at his Peril, if any such there be, but who is that Purchaser that must be ware of a Law to be made twenty, thirty, or forty years after his Purchase, or to destroy his Security for Money lent, or Settlement on Marriage. This is not a Defect in the Title; but under favour, is a President which no human Foresight can prevent, and if once introduced, no Purchaser could ever be safe, the worst of Lotteries affording a securer way of Dealing than Ireland would. Can it be for Your Majesties honour or advantage to have Thousands of Families ruined by such a Proceeding as this is, what will become of our Credit, and consequently of our Trade abroad, where will the Reputation and public Faith and security of the Kingdom be, when foreign Merchants shall know from their Correspondents here, that they cannot comply with their engagements to them: their Estates, Houses and Improvements both in Country and City which they had acquired for great and valuable Considerations, and within the Securities of the Laws being taken from them by a Law made yesterday, in case this Bill should pass, so that in effect we are not only contriving to break and ruin our Traders and Merchants at home, but even those in foreign Parts, which will infallibly destroy Your Majesties Revenue and s●●k that of every Subject. Surely these Particulars, and the Consequences of them, are worth more than two or three days Consideration, which is as much as this Bill could have, since the Parliament was not opened until the 7th of this Month. The very Report of what is designed to be done by this Bill hat already from the most improved and improving spot of Earth in Europe from stately herds and Flocks from plenty of Money at seven and eight per Cent. whereby Trade and Industry were encouraged, and all upon the security of those Acts of Parliaments, from great and convenient Buildings newly Erected in Cities and other Corporations, to that degree, that even the City of Dublin, is since the passing of these Acts and the security and quiet promised from them enlarged to double what it was. That the Shipping in divers Parts were five or six times more, than ever was known before to the vast increase of your Majesties Revenue, reduced to the saddest and most disconsolate condition of any Kingdom or Country in Europe, infinite numbers of the Inhabitants having Transported themselves and their Families with what remained of their Estates into other Kingdoms: That very many of the Buildings both new and old in this City, and in the very Heart and Trading part of it are uninhabited and waste. It's grievous to see as you pass through the City, the Shops shut up, and in the Country the Herds and Flocks are utterly destroyed, so that of necessity the Tenant must break, throw up his Lease, leave the Key under the Door and the Land become waste; and from hence will necessary follow, that the Farm-houses and Improvements must go to decay, and Beef, Tallow, Hides, Wool and Butter, from whence arise the wealthy of the Country will fail us. What is to become of the frequent Declarations made by the Earl of Clarendon, and the Earl now Duke of Tyrconnel of Your Majesties fixed Resolutions never to lay aside the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, why did the Judges in their several Circuits declare in all places where they sate unto the Countries there Assembled, that Your Majesty was resolved to preserve the Acts of Settlement, and that they were appointed by the then Chief Governor, here to declare the same unto them, from whence they took confidence to proceed in their Purchases and Improvements, and with submission be it spoken if this Bill pass are deluded. Shall Patents on the Commission of Grace signify nothing, the Great Seal of England tell them they may proceed upon the public Faith, and here again they may become Purchasers, paying considerable Fines unto the King, to whom Rents were reserved, where none were due before, and many Places the Rent increased as in Case of Fairs and Markets, granted together with the Lands on them, Patents, liberty of free Warren, and to Enclose and Impale for Park; surely some consideration ought to be had of those whose Money was paid on this Account. It would be further considered that Your Majesty before your Access to the Crown, had passed several Lands and Tenements in this Kingdom, in Certificate and Patent pursuant to those Acts of Settlement, and that you made Leases of them on which many and great Improvements have been made. It is true likewise that Your Majesty sold and exchanged some small Proportions of the same Land and received in Money twelve Years Purchase for some of them, which Your Majesty conveyed by Fines and other. Assurances in Law; and though Your Majesty may if it seem meet unto you, part with all that Estate. Yet itis humbly conceived it ought to be with reservation to the Lessees, and those few Purchasers, as it was done by Mary Qeeen of England: who though zealous to the highest degree in the Religion she professed, and that she restored such Part of Lands belonging to Monasteries as remained in her hand indisposed; did nevertheless permit the Grantees and Purchasers peaceably to retain such part of them, as they were possessed of by grant or purchase; and which for ought appearing, is enjoyed by them, and those deriving under them unto this day, though she came to the Crown within few years after passing the Act for dissolving monasteries, for if no considerations be had of them, Your Majesty gives away the terms of Years and improvements from your Lessees, and the Land from him to whom Your Majesty sold it, without restoring the Purchase Money, than which no Case can be harder, and without Your Royal Assent, neither of these will be done. For the objections commonly made against the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, which are usually, that many Innocents were never heard; and that there was not time sufficient for hearing of them: but how this should affect those who Purchased after the Acts were passed, and Certificates and Letters Patents passed, on them is not demonstrable from any Rule of Law or Equity. The Person designing to purchase, inquires whether the Title of the Land or Tenements, to be sold, be good in Law or Equity, and being assured in that he forbears further enquiry, being assured that never any Purchaser in Possession, having Law or Equity on his side was dispossessed by any Person whatsoever, upon grounds of Equity and the Purchaser here, hath the Law with him by the Acts of Settlement, and the Equity by the payment of his Money. It is to be wished that if Widows, Orphans or any other Persons have fallen under any hardship by the general Settlement of the Kingdom; that some way be devised to make them reparation, but the way prescribed by this Bill is to rob the Innocent Purchasers, Creditors and Orphans of their Estates, to do it contrary to the public Faith, Laws of the Land, and to the Precept of Holy Writ, which forbids doing evil, that good may come thereof. It is manifest from what hath been said that if this Bill proceed as it is now contrived, that all the Protestants of the Kingdom are undoubtedly, and without reserve, ruined; since the Rappererees, that is the Armed Multitude, have taken away all their movable Estates, and this design is to take away all the Lands and Tenements purchased by them. The Thriving catholics, who were Purchasers( as indeed most of the Province of Connaght are) are likewise to be turned out of their Estates and Possessions, and their own, and the Improvements of those who held under them utterly lost. As to the politic part, which those great Statesmen, who drive on this Bill, make mention of, that will be likewise worthy of Consideration. It is said this will unite Your Majesties Subjects in this Kingdom, that is too gross to pass, since the first mention thereof, hath it not made a division and breach betwixt them, nay, where there was none before, and doth it not grow wider: It was never heard, that accommodations where all in contest was given to one of the Parties, made an Union and Friendship: It is so far the contrary, that where nothing is Awarded by one of the Parties, it makes the whole Award voided and of none effect. And admitting that the old Proprietors had right; it is not enough, except he have it against the Purchaser, and if the design be what is pretended, to restore this Kingdom to the Peace and Plenty, which is flourished in some time since, to unite Your Majesties Subjects. This can never be effected excepted all Pretenders recede, in some degree from the full of their pretensions for the Accomendation of the whole, and the public quiet and safety: Would it not be an unreasonable, thing in a Cargoe, where divers Merchants are concerned, and have Goods and merchandise in a Storm, to throw out by consent, the Goods of any one Merchant, though in the bottom of the Holt, and hardest to be come at, for the safety of all concerned, without Satisfaction given him by a Contribution from those who had the Advantage of it. Or if it could be done, or that they had time, were it not much more just, that the loss should be equally divided amongst them, by throwing out a just proportion from all concerned, than to single out one part of the People by their Ruin to advance the others. This is not in my judgement, the readiest way to Unite them. Suffer me to make one step more, and Query whether the Catholic Purchasers will join hearty with those that enter upon them. Farewell Trade and Commerce, where Acts of Parliament shall be made to destroy Securities which were good when made. Farewell all Improvements in Ireland, where no Man shall ever know what Estate he hath, if the Foundation of the general Settlement should now be overturned. I cannot foresee what the Consequences may be of having it published, and made known in England and Scotland and elsewhere, where the Protestant Religion is professed, that such a Proposal as this, in Relation to your Protestant Subjects, hath been prepared for Your Majesties Consideration, in order to be passed into a Law, and this when they were secure by the Laws of the Land, not so much as common Equity, to question the Titles by which they held: That nevertheless. Use should be made of the Legislative Power, to enact a new Law after so many Assurances given them to the contrary, and after so many Years quiet Possession, to turn them out of their Estates together. It is much to be feared, that those who advised first this Method of Proceeding, have considered their own particular Advantage, and that of their Friends and Relations, without the least thought of Your Majesties Service; for surely this can never be thought so, nor the way to settle this Kingdom. Nor can it be imagined, but that Men thus despoiled, will as often as Parliaments shall be called, make application for Redress and Repeal, as in the Case of the Spencers, to Repeal a Repeal, and they and their Posterity will be always soliciting your Successors to give them Relief, in a Case of so great moment and general Concern as this is. As for the Reprisals mentioned to be made them out of the Estates of the new forfeiting Persons( which must be conceived to give any colour to this manner of Proceeding) ought to be equal to the Estate which the Proprietor shall be ousted off, that will be very uncertain; for it must be known who the Forfeiting Persons are, and what their Lands amounts to. Since it may be probably concluded, that there are many of Your Majesties Subjects now in England, would ere this, have attended here, If they had not been stopped from coming by duresse or embargo, and many other legal and justifiable excuses, too long, for this present Paper. And withal, that where any of them are seized of any New Estates, so much must be restored to the Old Proprietor, and what is old, subject to their Settlements and other encumbrances. After all this, it is in the power of Your Majesty to prevent the Ruin of so many of Your Subjects as have been Purchasers and Improvers in this Kingdom, by prescribing more moderate ways, than by depriving them of the whole, of what they have Legally and Industriously acquired, and that Committees of both Houses may hear and inquire whether any Medium may be found out betwixt the extremes for the accommodating, as near as may be the Purchaser and the old Proprietor, so that if there be Cause of Complaint it may not arise from a Total disappointment of either Party. This is a little of what may be said on this Occasion, but the hast of those who drive on this Bill, will allow no furthertime at present to speak to all the several Interests concerned in the Acts of Settlement and Explanation. FINIS.