REASONS For HIS MAJESTIES Issuing A General Pardon TO THE Rebels of IRELAND, That will Submit: ●… ithout EXEMPTION of the Considerable and Influencing Men among them. ANSWER to the late DECLARATION framed by the English Nobility and Gentry of IRELAND.  

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August 30. J. Fraser.   
FIrst, if the considerable Men should be excepted, and only they that are less considerable pardoned, they that are considerable would prevent the Declaration of Pardon's coming to the Knowledge of them that are less considerable; or else, with the Assistance of their Clergy, they would blast and baffle the Credit of the said Declaration, so as it should not be believed, nor ●… luence the commoner sort to lay down their Arms, but all in Conjunction would ●… sperately maintain the War; the Consequence of which Resolution must be the ●… urdering of all the Protestants they have in their Power, either by Sword, or Fa●… ne, and the Firing of all parts of the Kingdom which they cannot prevent from ●… ling into the hands of His Majesties Forces; by which means His Majesties Forces ●… ll be forced to lye in the Field all this Winter, and by consequence perish, or be ●… eatly diminished without an Enemy, and England will be at a great and constant ●… arge in the Recruiting and Supporting of those Forces.  
Secondly, If His Majesties Declaration of Pardon should be Universal, and the Ge●… rality of the Irish thereby induced to lay down their Arms, His Majesty would re●… i've the Kingdom suddenly, and without Devastation, and prevent the Hazards which ●… tend all Wars, and also the loss of so many Lives as will be employed in the forci●… e Reducing of the said Kingdom, as also the Lives of the Protestants that are now ●… ere. He will also prevent the hazard of the French King's sending Forces into Ire●… nd when the Confederates have drawn their Armies into Winter Quarte●●  
Thirdly, By Protracting of the War, and laying of the Kingdom waste, not 〈…〉 the Protestants that are now in Ireland will be destroyed but also they that are 〈…〉 in England, who are under such necessities as they cannot live but by the Charit●… the English; and whenever the Kingdom shall be reduced, they will be so far 〈…〉 being able to re-edify their Houses and Towns, which will be destroyed in the●…gress of the War, that they will be forced to sell their Estates at inconsiderable R●… for their present Suppor●, and their Children being deprived of maintenance 〈…〉 means of Education, must fall into the Rank of the meanest of the People, and 〈…〉 whole Kingdom must come into hands that have Money to purchase it, and reb●… the Towns▪ And besides this, the Benefits of all Civil Employments will fall; 〈…〉 are the Miseries of the Church, and Destruction of the college, to be forgotte●… this Calamity.  
Fourthly, If the Kingdom be laid waste, it will for many Years be a constant Bu●… to England, since His Majesties Revenues there must sink to such a degree as to be 〈…〉 able to support the Government, whereas for these several years past it has m●…tain'd an Army of ten Thousand men, besides discharging and clearing the Civil L●… and transmitted annually into the Privy Purse 40000 Pounds; all which it may ag●… do in a little time, if the Rebels can be prevailed on to submit without commit●… greater Devastations.  
Fifthly, by an Universal Pardon, His Majesty will greatly justify himself to, 〈…〉 strengthen himself with His Roman catholic Allies, for it will then be visible, t●… Religion is not the motive of the prosecution of the Rebels, which the French 〈…〉 Jesuits will greatly insinuate, but only their Rebellion, and calling in the French, 〈…〉 are the common Enemy.  
It will not be amiss to take Notice of the Reasons offered by some for the exem●…ing of the considerable Persons of that Kingdom, which are, That Ireland has o●… rebelled from the Crown of England, and will ever incline so to do, so long as 〈…〉 considerable Properties remains in the Hands of the Irish, and if there be not n●… made several Examples of Justice.  
To which it may be answered, that if it please God to put us into the Possession●… that Kingdom, we have more security for our peaceable continuance therein, t●… ever yet we had; for 'tis certain, that the Irish had never Power to hurt the Engl●… and Protestants of that Kingdom, but for the advantage they had of a Popish Ki●… who divested the Protestants of all Power, Civil and Military, and Dissarm'd th●… with the greatest Severity, and put all the Power, Military and Civil, together w●… the Arms, Fortresses and Magazines of the Nation, into the Hands of Irish Papi●… But by the present Settlement of the Government, we are for ever freed from 〈…〉 danger of a Popish King, and by consequence from the like Calamities; and as 〈…〉 making Examples of Justice, we need not fear, that though the Kings Declaration●… Pardon be never so Universal and Extensive, many of the Irish will reject the same, a●… persist in their Rebellion, among whom there will be proper objects of Justice fit●… make Examples of, without precluding any from Submitting and Assisting His Maje●… in reducing those that will not.  
I shall offer one Consideration to the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Ireland, to wh●… the forming of a Declaration to go along with His Majesties Army was referred, a●… that is this, Whether they can with Modesty, propose any thing that shall increase 〈…〉 Charge and Danger of England in the reducing of Ireland, since that Work is to be●…fected by English Lives, and English Purses, and that they that prescribe these dan●…rous and chargeable Methods, do not lay their Fingers to the Work, nor have th●… consulted those Noblemen and Gentlemen of Ireland, who are now hazarding th●… Lives in that Service.   

Printed for William not in the Pall Mall. 1689.