* ' JJKENDXill LETTER To A FRIEND, Containing certain OBSERVATIONS Upon forae Paffages, which have been JjpUbliGjCt) In a Late LIBE LL Intituled, the Third Part of N O P RO TEST ANT-PLOT ; I • And which do Relate to the KINGDOM O F IRELAND. London Printed for Benjamin Tooke MDCLXXXII. S IRy CO I Have received the third part of No Proteftant Plot which you were pleafed to fend me out of England : And I cou'd have wifhed the two preceding parts had accompanied it, which I don't find are to be met with in this Kingdom5 But lam apt to believe you did forbear the fending of them, becaufe they might not poffibly contain fuch things as the other does in Relation to Ireland, and concerning which you only defire to be fatisfied in. And therefore I am as heartily thankful for this, as I have been honeftly careful to inform my felf by the moft Authen- tick papers and the moft knowing perfons in Affairs here, with what truth the Particulars of it touching this Kingdom are related in it 3 For I will not pretend to meddle with its re¬ lations as to other places, both becaufe they are no part of your commands to me5 and in regard I have not the fame opportunities of coming to the knowledg of them : But this I may adventure to fay, that if the Author did ufe no greater fincerity in his delivery of paffages as to the one, than he has fhewn as to the other, he is abfolutely one of the moft Mali¬ cious and Barefaced LIBELLERS that (even in this time of Excefsoffuch Creatures J has been produced : For not to detain you too long with Prefacing^, but as briefly as may be to come to the matter, neither therein to follow this LI¬ BELLER with a direft or formal Anfwer, for fear of falling into the Error againft which Solomon thus Cautions, Anfwer not a fool in his own kind leflthou alfo he like unto him. But only to make fome few Animadverfions upon his LIBEL9 for the dete&ion of his Malice, and the convi&ion ofhis Fait hoods in thofe parts of it which touch this Kingdom and the Government of it5according as you expeft,and I have premifed 5 I find,that altho at his firft entrance upon Irijh Affairs in page the 2d. of his L7BEL, he appears as an Abhorrer of the Bloody and Cruel Maffacres committed by the Papijls in the late Rebellion of Ireland, yet he onely alfumes that fhape in A this . ro this Conjun&ure of Time, the better to Infinuate himfelf with, and the more plaufibly to Convey unto the too Credulous Po¬ pulace., his defigned Calumnies upon perfons Concerned in the prefont Government of this Kingdom 5 who are all firm Prote- ft ants,and mod of whorti by their Zealous oppofitionsof the Po- pijh Party during the time of that Rebellion, as every of them by their fteady Adminiftrations fince,havemanifefted the great- eft Abhorrency in the World of thofe Cruelties5 Although they are oppofite totheprefent FACTIOUS and ftatti Which therefore t hus hires and employs bate and Mercenary fellows to invent and publiftifcandals of them. And notwithftanding he wou'd in page the 16. where he makes his next ftep as to Ireland, feem only to inveigh againft the Ingratitude of the PAPISTS for the lenities they might have received, yet in his handling thereof,he fcatters malicious invectives againft the Minijlers here, and unjuftly glances upon them, by making inftances of lenity to have been exten¬ ded to the PAPISTS, and of feverity to have been meafured to the DISSENTE RS fince the Kings reftauration, moft where¬ of are perfectly invented, and not any of them can this Govern¬ ment reasonably be charged with. Of the former fort are theft his following allegations mufter'd up in page the 1 jth. viz. Firft, that PRIESTS and FRIERS are tolerated to [warm and openly to Celebrate Mats in Ireland. The contrary where¬ of is universally knownin theKingdorn^Repeated Proclamati¬ ons having been IjJued from the Lord Lieutenant and Coun¬ cillor the Baniftiing of FRIERS, and all others of the Popijh Regular and Titular Clergy out of this Dominion, and promi- fing Rewards which have been punctually performed to (uch as fhoud find and feize them, which for a great while hasrender'd that fort of People not to be vifible in theft parts, and for the PRIESTS fwho were permitted to ftay in all times,infomijch, thatnotany oftheORDERS which came out of England, nor even an ADDRESS which was lately made by the Houfe of Com¬ mons there to the King,and by his Mayfly font hither for banijhing CO the reft of the Popifh Clergy, did mention them) Altho they are fuffer'd to remain, yet are they fo ftri&Iy inhibited by Procla¬ mations^ and thofe of them caught Offending fo feverely pu- nijhed, that for a Confderable time here has not been any fuch open Celebration of the MASS heard of amongft us, as the LIBELLER hath falfly fuggefted. Secondly, that the Introduction of the vohole Popifh Hierar¬ chy into this Kingdom was Connived at, and a publicly Affem- bly of the PAPAL Clergy allowed by a Commifjion of the Duke of ORMONDE to be held and to ft in 1666. The foanda- lous untruth of both which,do's upon inquiry appear very evi¬ dently, for as to that pretended Commiffion for Affembling of the Papal Clergy, which I begin with, becaufe from what I (half fay by way of anfwer toit,will naturally flow a confutation of that feigned connivance of the Popifj Hierarchy: it is to beobfer- ved that as my Lord Duke of Ormonde, whofe word vvillfurely outweigh that of the LIBELLERS, do's utterly deny his ever having granted a Commiffion of that.kind, fb is there no fuch thing to be found, nor the leaft footftep of it to be met within any of the Offices, through which all Commiffions muft pafs be¬ fore they can be of any vertue,and where they are Recorded for every one to have recourfe unto, Befides, the Ground upon which it is manifeft the LIBELLER wou'd raife this firu- Sure, and the fourfe from whence it is plain he wou'd derive this Objefiion, when explained, and confidered, cannot bear or Warrant any fuch thing, for they ftand thus, Peter Walff(who Was a ftiff oppofer both of the Popes Nuntio, and of the wholei?e- bellious party in Ireland during all the time of the Irifh Rebellion*) fometime after the Kings Refiauration having projefted and Pre- fentedtohis Majefty, a Remonfirance figned by him and divers other Roman Catholicks of this Kingdom, and containing the higheft exprefiions of Loyalty to his Majefty, and the largeft affiirances of Fidelity to the Crown, that had ever before been tenderd by Papifts, and which proved fo derogatory to the Dfurpations of the Pope, that it was discountenanced and A 2 Cert- k HI: ' ■ X ' V. - CO Cenfur d at Rome, Lovain, and other Popijh Dniverfities^ and oppos'd by the Popes Internuncio then refiding at Bruxels,who did all that in him lay to dehort PAPISTS againft it,and upon the account of all which,the fubfcribers and adherers to it have not dar'd unto this day to adventure their perfons into any fbrreign parts where the Pope bears fway. His Majefty was ve* ry well fatisfied with it, and upon Waljh's repairing into this Kingdom about the year 1666. for propagating fuch the Do- ftrine of it (which no Loyal Proteftant cou'd be againft) was pleated to fend his inftruftions to my Lord Duke of Ormonde His then Lord Lieutenant, for his fuffering of Peter Waljh to meet with fame Titular Bijhops, at that time here, to perfwade them by his Arguments, and to gain others of the Papijls by their Examples, to fubfcribe unto that Remonjirance: which meeting His Grace accordingly Permitted, but onely, and fo ftri&ly to that end propofed, as He was both vigilant in feeing that thofe Bijhops did not make ufe of it to any other purpote and careful in providing that they (hou'd not take up too much time, even in the doing of that bufinefs, and therefore very early perceiving that they cou'd not come to fuch an Agreement as might produce the effefts which were expefted, He Ordered them not only to difperfe^ but to quit the King¬ dom, infomuch that afterwards when His Grace was call'd from the Government, there were not above three Popijh Bi¬ jhops remaining, two whereof were Bedrid and the third ab- fconded 5 altho when His Grace returned again to the Govern¬ ment (in immediate Succeffion to my Lord of E/ex) he found no lefs then thirteen of them to be here, and them he has cauled to be driven out alfo, and this fufficiently confutes the LIBEL• LERS allegation of HisGrace conniving at the Popijh Hierarchy being introduced, which in Englijh is Governance, fince He did thus expel the Governors in whom it refided. Thirdly, That when the PLOT was to have been executed in ENGLAND anno 1678. there were no fewer than fifteen She- riffs in IRELAND, who were either profcffed and avowed PA- ; r 5) PAPISTS, or fuck as bred and educated their Children in that Religion 3 The notorious untruth whereof appears by the Original Roll of the SHERIFFS of that Year (whole Names are placed in the * Margin toabideall (crutiny if there Ihou'd be Occafion) not one of them there mentioned being 16 prin- tipl'd) orfufpeUed to be lo qualified, especially by my Lord Lieutenant, who cannot be fuppoled to know every Mans perfon, much left to look^ into his heart who happens to be placed in that Office, and therefore if one or two differently qualified {hou\d chance to have efcaped Him through want acknowledge Q£ Information^nd throughout a whole Kingdom, His Grace might very well be excufed in fuchaCrt/e, asitfallingout that there was not one in this, He is to be ex- treamly Juftified. And whereas he af¬ firms, Ghat the Papifis have prvmjf- cuoufij before witfi His Majefiies Prote- jlant Subjects beep advanced to-feve- ral places of power and truji, If he means publicfi places of power and trvjl, ashe muft ifhemeansany thing he lays, upon a ft rift inquiry made it cannot be found that any PAPISTS have had advancements of that kind fince His Majefties Reftauration, fave only fuch of them as were made jujlices of the Peace by the Lord BfifiiCLETs Or¬ ders in the time of hi $ Government^ and Colonel Richard TaL bott made Captain of a Troop of Horfe by Com million from the Earl of ESSEX when He was Chief Governour, fo as the prefent Government which this refleftion molt Darts at appears to be the leaft intitkd to it. Fourth- * Co. Dub. J a. Springhm Efq; Co. L owth J a. Smallwood Efq; Kings Co. John Leyefier Efq; Co. Wexford John Ttncbi Senior Co. Kilkenny John Ktdy^T> dy¬ ing within the time, Hen. Webb was made Sheriff the 23d of April 1678. Co. Meafh. Natb. Poole Efq; Queens Co. William Gilbert Efq; Co. Wick!ova chriflopher Ujher Efq; Co. Kildcife Edward Baggot Efq; Co: wefimeath Edward Terr ill Efq; Co. Ca\berlagb*George Beech Efq, Co. Longford Geo.Conyngham Efq; Co. Cork Richard mil Efq; Co. Lime)ic\ JdviOddell, Efq; Co. Kirry William Ryves Efq: Co. Water ford Tho. Chrijimas Efq/ Co. Clare Tho Hickman Efq: Co. Tipper try Tho. Osborne Efq. Co. Gallavpay 'Char, Holcroft Efq.* Co. Leytrim Henry Crofton Efq: CoySiig% Roger Smith Efq: Co. Mayo Sr. George Bingham Bar. Co. Rofcotnmon Ed. Gardiner Efq: Co. DonegalL G-o. Faughan Efq: Co. Tyrone John Moderale Efq: Co. Fermanagh Ferdlnando Davi* Co. Antfim. Eaw. Har.rifon Efq: Co. Armagh Godfry Walter Efqi Co. Monaghah Rich. John fon Efq: Co. Down Hugh Eccles Efq: Co. Cavan John Coyn Efq: Co. & City of Londonderry James ■ Morifonapd char.'Newtowne. CO Fourthly, That though a Proclamation was publifhed in Ire¬ land,/^ fearching the houfes of all Roman Catholiques for Arms^ yet when the SHERIFF of the County of GALWAY went in purfuance thereof to fearch the Earl of CLANRICKARDS houfe, where as he was informed all the Papifls in that County had lodged their Arms, the faid Earl produced a Warrant from my Lord LIEUTENANT the Duke of ORMONDE/hat his houfe fljould not be fearched, Which Article althd it be placed in page the 27th of the LIBELL yet for order fake is ranked and taken notice of here with the others of page the 17th in the Libel/, becaufe it is of the lame nature, and of the like truth with them: For my Lord Duke of ORMONDE was fb far from grantiag a Warrant to that Earl to hinder his houfe from being fearcbed for Arms, that He never fo much as gave him a Licence to keep any, but contrarywife where the Earl of ESSEX'm his Government had given the faid Earl his Licence to keep a quantity of Arms, they were fince by my Lord Duke of ORMOND'S Orders taken from him, and delivered into the publickflores. Laftly, he alleadges, That yet while all this forbearance and tendernefs have been expreffed to the PAPISTS, the DISSENTERS have fallen under the misfortune of having an exprefs Law made againfl them, and divers of them have been profecuted to Fine and Imprifonment upon it. Wherein the LIBELLER (hews his Ignorance as well as his Malice, for al¬ though the Statute of 2d. Eliz. for the Uniformity of Com¬ mon-Prayer in this Kingdom (Which is without doubt againft the PAPISTS, and who are frequently profecuted upon it) fhould by conftru&ion be extended unto the DISSENTERS, (as I never heard it to be fo Adjudged in the Cafe of any of them, fo far are They from having been Profecuted notwithftanding their openly numerous andfrequent Meetings) yet was there never any Particular exprefs Law made againft Them either before, or as the LIBELLER wou'd have it believed, fince the KINGS Reflauration, And as that too mo- <*7 y moderate A3 of 2d. Elizab. be all that is in Force againflf the PAPlSTS^ov that can be (uppofed to be againft the DIS¬ SENTERS fo it is to be wiftied that for the quiet of the King¬ dom,»20re and feverer Laws were made againft both. And this brings me to the latter fart of my Ajfertion, that asmoft of the LIBELLERS inftances of the Lenity (hewn the PAPISTS and of thcjeverity extended to the DISSENTERS in this Kingdom, fince the KINGS reftauration are invented, which I hope I have fully proved to you fothatnone of them canbe rea- fonably charged upon the prefent Government, which I think, I (hall be able very eafily and briefly to (hew you,For all the LI¬ BELLER obferves with femblance of truth, and which looks like an Objection in that point as to this GOVERNMENT a- gainft which he levels it, is, that there hath not any Laws been made againfi the PAPISTS in Ireland (ince the Kings return, fave one againfl their living in Wall*d Towns. But if the method of enafting Laws in Ireland be thought upon, how that by Poynings AH the Chief Governour cannot call a Parliament, for the making of Laws in that Kingdom^be¬ fore he prays the King and Councils leave for it, and tranfmits fbme Bills for their Approbation to be faffed in it, and untill he receives thofe Bills back again with Licence for the calling of a Parliament,and\f it be Conlidefd that my LORD LIEUTE¬ NANT the Duke of ORMOND fince his being here, hath RE¬ PEATEDLY prayed fuch Licence, and Tranfmitted Bills,where¬ of fome were as effe&ual againft the PAPISTS (although there were none among them againft other DISSENTERS) as cou'd be devifed, and that he and the Kingdom were di(aj~ pointed therein, by the oppofitions of fome Perfons who are mightily extolTdby the LIBELLER, that obje&ion of there being no more Laws againft the PAPISTS cannot in the leaft affeft this Government, efpecially in the perfon of the Duke of ORMO ND, neither can his Grace be thought to be concern¬ ed in the letter offufpenfion o£ or difpenfation with the Law a- gainft PAPISTS ImugxnwalTdTowns,which the LIBELLER men*- (8) mentions $ that being procured and executed when the Lord BERKLT was Governor^ no more than he is to be refponfible if the Orders for the taking off that fufpenfton which the LIBELLER paffesover with//ewe, and which were grounded upon the Addrefs of the Houfe of Commons in England,,were not as effectuallyi as they fhou'd be put in execution here, they happening to come Over hither in the time of the Earl of Ejfexs Government. After the LIBELLER has thus, as in a falfe Artificial Qlafs, which 1$ able to make the bejl faces look deformed, rnifi- reprelented our GOVERNODR and others co-operating with him for the KINGS fervice in the Government, and as he fancies has by his traducements of them rendred the worjl of things, which he the worfl of Men cm feign to be believed con¬ cerning them: he proceeds to page the 40th, and from having before endeavoured to afperfe them as if they fhou'd by his ficti¬ tious indulgences to the PAPISTS incourage them in the old POPISH PLOT 5 He there advances and in effeft charges them with being ABETTORS with them in the new fang- led PROTESTANT PLOT 5 But the perfons he names for fup- port of this Charge are fome of them, fo ridiculoufiy Idle, and others of them fo notorioufly wicked, and the inftances he brings for proof of it, are all of them fo manifeflly falfe^ that if the LIBELLER were not pofleft with a lingular fpirit of folly as well as of lyings he wou'd never have mention'd them, for as to SMITH who I find to be the firft of the perfons named, he is fuch an abjeCt wretch, and fo great a malefaCtor, and even in the Goaf where he has moft defervedly layn for a great while,and ftill lies, do's daily appear fo vicious a thing, that he had been only fit for the Laws to take notice of, were it not for the nature of the Information he gave in, which Authority wou'd not pafs over without examining, for be it known unto tfie LIBELLER and to all fuch whofe turn he wou'd ferve, and under whofe pay he writes, that thole in GOVERNMENT here, are as apprehenfive of Dangers as they can - i - - — ■- y CO can be 3 Though not as inventive of them as they fox this only reafon, are,becaufe not in GOVERNMENT there 3 [Therefore of the great /holes of Informations brought in here, fince the fir ft di/covery of the Plot, and which tended to the proof of it, not one was ever rejeffed, altho coming from the vilefi of Men. And therefore when that of SMITH againft the Prieft St. LAWRANCE proffer d it felf at DUBLIN ft was immediately received and folemnly proceeded upon , the Lord PRIMATE who was then the firft of the Council on the place, by the Lord LIEUTENANTS happening at that time to be in the Country, having conven'd fiich COVNCELLORS as were in the Town, and with them having given all necejfary Orders in that affair, which produced the immediate apprehenfton oiSt.Lawrenceyoge- ther with the feifure of his papers,and theCommitment of his Per- fon, and SMITH had all the Encouragement fit to be given him in this his Difcovery,infomuch thar if any perfons, were found, refle&ingupon his Evidence, they were reprimandedby the Ma- gijiracy for it, But this did not anfwer his end5 in what he de- figned and expe&ed by making Inch difcovery feeing no left than that he fhou'd forwith be permitted to go out of prifon upon the foot of it, Which there was no reafon in the earth yet to allow him, until he had to Jatisfaftion either proved his accufati- on of St. LAWRANCE upon his Tryal, or difproved others accufations of him felf and for which he was imprifond, upon J^is own TryaT) And therefore, he did betake himfelf unto ano¬ ther courfe, and to walk/m theJleps of fome of his predeceffors the IRISH evidences,who obtained their releafmentsout of prifon in this Kingdom where they found they were too much known fry getting themfelves to be lent for as Witneffes into ENGLAND where they were too little known 3 For which purpofe,according to the Mode of the times we are fallen into, he Prepares a NA- JRATITE with a letter to indole it in, unto a BVSIE Perfon at LONDON in fuch matters, and by the ajfftance of, together with recomendatory letters from a half witted fellow and wretch¬ ed RIMER of this Town5 gets them tranfmitted to him, who up¬ on his receiving of them,and according to his accuftomed manner of B run- C 10 J) tunning headlong without weighing Matters, or if he chance to do it, making the fcales to light on that fide which contains leafi truth, and is likelieft to make the greatejl ftir, condu&s them with all fpeed and bujle to WHlTEHAL,anA in hopes of hav¬ ing this frefh INFORMER or rather new Engine lent for over to work. with, lodges them with Mr. Secretary JENKINS for the Information of the KING and COUNCIL,having moft du¬ tifully and mannerly taken efpecial care before to Print and publifh them for the Amufement of the world, but His MAJESTY and the Lords knowing this Conductor and his drift, too well,and experiencing fuch kind of Artifices as this Informer ufed, too much, wou'd not be fo pafled upon by them, and yet at the feme time were pleafed fo far to take notice of thofe Papers, as to fend them over hither with Orders to proceed upon them accordingto Law here, where the matter of them were proper¬ ly Cognizable-^ and where preparations were made for St.Law¬ rence his being ftriftly profecuted upon them, The KINGS Counfel having by order and with great circumfpeBion formed a firm IndiBment for mifdemeanor ("which was all that in their Opinions the matter could bearj to be preferred againft him, and the Judges having carefully provided that no PAPIST nor any fufpeBed to be POPISHLY affeBed fhou'd pals upon the Tryal of him, which came on the laft Michaelmas Term in the Kings Bench, Where a Jury all confiding of the JlriBeJl Pro- teftants and ablefi Citizens of the City of Dublin did appear^ where SMITH had the greateft liberty and latitude afforded to him, and which he made ufe of in the proffering and manage¬ ment of his evidence, that any Court did ever give or Witnefs take, and where St. LAWRENCE (whofe perfon I kpow not, and whofe profeffion I abominate, and therefore, you may be fure I fpeak impartially what was obferved univerfellyj had nothing beyond meer JuJiice extended to him, and as a part thereof was that of Allowance of Counfel to plead for him, (which the LIBELLER with more Malice than Law makes his Obfervation uponj to be reckon'd, fince he ftanding indiBed for mifdemeanor only, no Judicature cou'd have refu- oo fed it tohim JuJlly, Co as all things teemed to concur $ not to have been calculated for St. LAWRENCES Condemnation, ex¬ cept SMITH himfelf, who by variety of villanies proved up¬ on him in other Cafes, which he cou'd not deny, and by ma¬ ny and palpable incoherences and contradictions that fell from * him in this Cafe, which were not to be reconciled, did wholly prevent it, for they were the reafons that particularly fwayed with the Jury to acquit St. LAWRENCE by their verdiCts, and generally made all others who heard them, to do the like in their Judgments, and thefe were the motives, which made the Gentlemen of the long Robe (as they have declared) to forbear, becaufe they were afoamed to appear on the behalf of (itch a blur A and jlellionated Creature, and none of thoCewildinJlan- ces which the LIBELLER invents and mentions only to de- bafe them, and to refleCt upon Authority, and which it is to be obferved he at once infinuates to be believed by others, and yet exprefly (ays, he will not fo much as conjecture them himfelf: (o as he needed not in the Conclufion of this his fable ofSMITH, have any more told us that he was no diviner, than I need tell you after all this that he is an idle Dreamer. The next man our LIBELLER produces is JAMES MOR- LET,i whom he Stiles Captain MORLEY,though I know not for what reafon, unlefs it be becaufe of his appearing at the head ofthebandof IRISH WITNESSES, which fometime fince Marched to LONDON, and of his drawing them up with what he would have them fwear unto for him, but however true he may be in giving of that Title to him, I am Jure he is moft falfe in thofe things he relates 0/ and poffibly from him, and becaufe the LIBELLER will not be long before he makes my words good (though neither I nor all the World will ever be able to make his foj he no fooner mentions the name of MORLEY, but as if it were a fpell to raife a lye with, he falls plum into the telling oCone concerning him, by introducing and expref- fing of him to have appeared and Sworn before the Committee of LORDS and COMMONS in England, twoConfults which the B 2 Pa- c" y Papifts had in Ireland in reference to the extirpating the Fro~ teftant Religion in that Kingdom,, whereas it appears by MORLETS Examination taken either beforeaC^^/^eeofthe LORDS, or of the COMMONS, or both, that he did not fwear tothofe Confultsybut only to a hearfay touching them5 which faid he had fromHVBBERT TIRRELL and ffowy 6 Nw/, who it is to be obferved, were two beggars.znd fuch mifcreants that an honeft and a difcerning PROTESTANY who knew them as well as MORLEYdid, woud hardly have adventurd to re* peat any thing after them, much lefs to conduct what they fhou*dfayyunto publick.ajjembliesy and in prejudice of any who was a PROTESTANTaho, efpecially Confidering that as it is well known MORLEY had fuch experience of their villanies, as before that time, he did rejeff their proferrd Oaths to him in lome Trial which he had in this Kingdom, however afterwards he became fo reconciled to them, as in the laffc PARLIAMENT at Wejlminfier to make ufe of their names for injurioufly accufwg of Sir JOHN DAVIS, a perfbn who with all £7/ Rela¬ tions^ have ever been eminent profeffors of the PROTESTANT Religion, and for that reafon known to be obnoxious to the POPISH Party, and it is befides to be remarked that Tirrell has lately and folemnly difavowed his ever having known of any fuch Confults, and declared that what he had informed concer¬ ning them was a meer fittiony which as TYRRELL alledges MORLEY prompted and hired him to make, and to get others to fwear unto for carrying on fome deftgns of his owny and what is yet more remarkable 6 N'EAL (who has lately hanged for a Robbery in this KINGDOM) did juft before he was thrown off the Ladder, Confefs himfelf to be perjw «d, both in what he deliver d as to thole CONSZ)LTSy and in what he had fworn againft Sir JOHN DAVIS , and that he was by MO R LEYS dejtre led into the latter perj?j*y9 which Confejfion coming from one in the inftant he was going to the dead, muft be convincing with all but fuch who will not be perfwaded tho one rofe from the dead 5 After the L IB E L L E R has thus begun and difpach'd (13 ) this untruth of MORLEY, who has no reafon to con him thanks for it, fince it hasprovoked and produced the reprefentation of thefe truths concerning him, he growes upon his own hands, and to (hew his proficiency in the lying-trade*, he proceeds to the delivery of a gr offer falcity, in afferting, that (ix .or feven witneffes have been procured to depoje in this Kingdom, that IVOR.LEY teas fuborned by the Earls of ESSEX and SHAFTS- BURY, and by Sir ROBERT CLAYTON, tofivear treafon a- gainll the Duke of ORMONDE the Lord CHANCELLOR. BOYLE and Sir JOHN DAVIS, whereas upon fearch in the Offices where things of that nature (if any had been,) wou'd be lodg'd, and upon inquiry from the Officers who cou'd not but know of them if they were there, it cannot be found that ever any one Juch depofition was taken, or fo much as as heard of, but (everal Examinations (and with probability of truth too confidering the before mentioned proceeding of MORLEY) do appear of his Contrivances of that kind with people of infi¬ nite lower ranks, and it is to be hoped of infinite different prin¬ ciples too , than it can be thought the Earls of ESSEX and SHAFTSBVRY and Sir Robet CLAYTON are of, who the Lord Duke of ORMONDE and thofe named with him ' do not fuppofe wou'd Imbarque themfelves with fuch a fort of man as MORLEY'is, and in fuch manner of Defigns as he was upon, (b as the Letting up of thefe imaginary depofitions, which never had being but in this LIBELLERs idle brain, and in his Idler LIB ELL, muft have been a piece of MORLEY$ magickj by fuch Incantations to charm hofe perfons of pena¬ lity to ftand by him in this time of his defervedly Expi- • ring Creditj and to raile their Spirits ("tho mod Z)ndefcr- vedly) ngainft others whom his and tie LIBELLERS ma¬ lice would point them unto, and whom ("though it be impo- fible to find them out by the mark the LIBELLER puts upon themf) of having obtain'd thole depoftions, because there were never any fuch, yet by all this Lurry about Morley, I guels them to be certain perfons of foch uprightnejs and integrity as I am certain, they will not fear to have their Anions pla- cd i f Ch) approaching light of a c9d in that which the LIBELLER, threatens PARLIAMENT with them, and which then pines b right efi when MORLET and the LIBELLER, and fuch other fans of darknefs are fcatter d from before it, and thanks he to God, we have no reafon to defpair of a blejjing of that kind to attend that time, for the weather feems to clear very much, and the aire to be fo well upon Purifying,, that thole infections cannot remain. And as the LIBELLER has thus ingenuoujly in this Paragraph reprefented things that never were, fo he will not leave it offuntill he has as ingenuoufy mifre- prefented Matters otherwife than they were, according to the lay¬ ing of Frfwe,the true Parent of this lying Monfier,that pariterfa- tta at que 1 nfeffa canebat5 thus purpofely to refleft upon perfons concerned in this Government (which the fcope of his whole dip courfe as to Ireland drives at) he wou dfrom the receiving an In¬ formation which was given in here againft MORLET\ for fuch treafonable exprejjions as are not fit to be repeated, but in a Judi¬ cial way of proceeding againft him^ and from the tranfmijjion which was made of it to the KING and COUNCIL in ENG- LAND) infer afondnefs&l do not know what, to have been in them ofit,whereas they did but as they were bound, in taking a matter of that dangerous import when it was offer d, and as they wou'd have done, if it had related to any one elfe befides MORLET^ and only obferved their duty and thtCufiomeoi their Predecefforsm tranfmitting (as they alwaies did J things of fuch a tranfcendent nature, let them concern whomfoever they wou'd, And why this ordinary pra&is'd method in all other Cafes, ftiou'd be thus extraordinarily handled and repre- fented in MORLETs by the LIBELLER, is what I cannot think of any other reafon to be given for, but this, that he is a LIBELLER3 Befides, fuppofe it were true, as the LIBELLER lays* (and it is the only thing he fays of affairs in IRELAND which fuppofition it felf can help^) That at the time of this tranfmijjion as to MORLEY it was withal dejlrd he pond be fent over hither to be Tried, where his Crime was fuppofed to be done. (altho really no fuch thing was 05 ) was defired) and that the KING had granted it, which He neither did, nor denyed , becaufe no application was made for it, do's the LIBELLER believe himfelf ? or can he ima- gin any one elfe will believe him in, but laugh at him for, this his doffrine thereupon, That it were illegal and Arbitrary to fend a Male faff or to be Tryed here for a faff committed by him here^ For furely that is as legal and looks fbmething more rea- finable than to fend for perfons from hence to be Tryed ill England for things they are only charged to haveCommittedhere, as we fee has of late been pra&ifed, and which tho the Law¬ yers fey may be done in this Cafe, I am fore no Lawyer will ever allow what the LIBELLER feys in the other Cafe, efpecially,if nopertinenter a reafon be given than this,which he affigns for it, becaufe the party was bom and bred and has an EJlate in ENGLAND, For foch Circumflances alone,qan never proteff any one in ENGLAND, or IRELAND, from an- fwering for his breach of the Laws'm either KINGDOM,and in that KINGDOM too, where he Co broke them \ fthe KING pleafe to have him fent thither. Nay in this Cafe of MORLET,, if the matter charged upon him to be Committed here (from which I (hall not with the LIBELLER acquit him only be¬ caufe he is a PROTESTANT,confidering what kind of one he (hewed himfelf in the times of ufurpation, thorough-pacedly fir¬ ming of them, and what fort of one he manifefts himfelf in the prefent time of faffion,by thofe bafer Offices of fubornation and Perjury miniftring to it,) were any felony under Treafon, I (peak it with reverence, it wereunjufl not to fend him hither to be tryed, becaufe the Statute of Hen. the 8th for Tryalofforreign matters in England, extends exprefly and only toTreafensfothat leffer Offences done here cannot be tryed there, andconf quent- ly, to have kept him in foch Cafe on the other fide from appear¬ ing here, wou'd be to hinder a malefaffor from being brought to jujlice, which were not jfujl $ But as MORLETS Cafe is, being for Treafon Committed here, which by that Statute may be Tryed there, the KING can jfuflly enough (if He Pleafes) detain him to be Tryed in ENG LAND% or 00 -*%u or ("if he thinks fit) as jfufh too may fend him hither for Tryal, for by that Statute it is in the KINGS Choife, in which of the KINGDOMS fiich a Cafe (had be Tryd'-y But then iftheTryal be ordered to be there upon a Treafon Committed here, the Judges in ENGLAND are therein to Govern themfelves accor¬ ding to the Lam of Ireland, that is, they are not to adjudge any thing to be TreaJon9 but what is fo by the Law of IRELAND, or by feme Act of PARLIAMENT in ENGLAND where IRELAND is named, or that is Ena&ed in IRELAND and this Rule holds concerning Pleas in dif- charge of Treafon alfo, wherefore though MORLEYS charge confiftsof Treafonable words only, and they really were fpoken two years ago as the LIBELLER, obferves, whereby he was to be difcharged by the late Statute in ENGLAND(iF they were alledg'd therej yet being laid to be fpoken here9 where that Statute not naming IRELAND, nor being Ena¬ cted in IRELAND do's not extend, he cannot reap any Benefit by it 5 From all which though I will rot takeupon me to con- jefture, what were the Gw/e/MORLEY was not fent hither9 yet I may rationally conclude,thau&ycou'd not beany of thofe which are given by the LIBELLER for it, fbas he proves to be as grofly out in his Matters of Law as he is notorioufly miflakgn in his matters of fait $ And where,for Conclufion of this his Pa¬ ragraph, and for the biinging oSMorley by it, he fays, it is remarkable that what MORLEY did declare, (I fuppofe he in¬ tends to the PARLIAMENTj in relation to the Duke of ORMONDE the Lord CHANCELLOR, and Sir John Da¬ vis, he refer d himfelffor, the truth of it to tie Council Books or to depofitions before the Council of this Kingdom 5 it is more remarkable that MORLET did declare nothing there (whatfocvcr he has done clfewhcre ) as to any of thofe Perfons, fave only Sir JOHN DAFIS, and as to him that he refer d nothing to the C0VNC1L BOOKS, or to de¬ pofitions before the COVA/CIL to prove, ether than a pre¬ tended Copy he produced of the faid 6 Neal or TYRRELLS Examination, but of which there never was any Original in C 17) In the Council books or at the Council Board, or indeed in be* rng, lo as the LIBELLER by his thus elaborately attempting to preferve MORLETS galping reputation, for fupport of his Scandalous reflections upon the Government, does but de- deftroy his own Credit, and confound his own Devices. There are two other perfons, whom the LIBELLE R brings by head and ftioulders into this Paragraph for evidence of what he aims at by it,but he giving only lurnames to them as HANLON, and MZJRPHT, whereby it is Impoffible without more certainty , out of the herds that are of thole names, to gather whom he means, and not affigning any par¬ ticulars to have come from them, in proof of his General af- fertion which he Cites them for, by means whereof he only lets up Shadows to be contefted within them 5 I will therefore pals them over and come to that more folid body in the LIBEL¬ LERS (ingle opinion of Mr. HAWKINS, whom he (hews as his next and la ft man, but who performed fuch a part when he firft brought himfelf upon the ftage, as I cannot tell whether folly, or fomething that is worfe were his greateft Vice, and therefore I will determin on neither fide, but give a true ac¬ count of it, as it has been colle&ed out of the Original papers of that matter, and then let any Jober and impartial man make his Judgment of it, and of him upon it, which was thus 5 Mr. HAWKINS (between whom and fome of the mac GEN- NISES his neighbours there were fome differences) came to my Lord LIEUTENANT to the CASTLE, having made his way as being a ftranger by prelenting of a letter from Sir HANS HAMILTON a late member ofthe Council unto his GRACE, & there acquainted his Grace that one Daniel Hanvy came to him to his houfe in the Country, and told him of a meeting which he had a little before with one ConmacGennis at Down-Patrick, and that among other things which at that meeting palled be¬ twixt them, mac GENNIS engaged him to joyn with him in fwearing HIS GRACE, My. HAWKINS and others into the Plot, and at the lame time did give him a little money, and promifed him a great deal more when they (hou'd afterwards C meet. f18 ; meet, as they then agreed to do at Dublin, where the defign was to be carried on betwixt them, That with this Information Mr. HAWKINS repaired to Sir HANS HAMILTON.\ who advifed him to carry it to my LORD LIEUTENANT where he thus brought; it,hereupon my Lord LIEUTEN ANT caufed Mr. HAWKINS to bring HANKY to him, and after his GRACE had with great privacy taken his Examination y which was much to the purpofe aforefeid, he asked Mr. HAWKINS if he knew CON mac GENNIS, and where he was to be found, which he faid he did very well, and that as HANTY told him, he was come to Town in order to their afbrefaid appointed meeting, which was to be fometime on that or the day following , and though Mr. HAWKINS did not know the certain honfe where it fhou'd be in, yet he would learn it from HANVY,and thereupon hepropofed to his GRACE that for having more Witnejfes befides HANVY of what (hou'd pafs at that intended meetings his GRACE wou'd appoint another Trufly perfon to joyn with one NEAL mac LAUGHKIN whom Mr. HAWKINS defigned to employ, for fo difpofing of themfelves in the Room of the Houfe wher^ the others were to meet in5 that they might(without be¬ ing obferved by them) fee them9 and hear the dilcourfes be¬ twixt them 5 Which my LORD LIEUTENANT complied with, and was accordingly done, only with this Variation, that Mr. HAWKINS employed another in that fervice in the (lead of LAUGHLIN, who cou'd not be found, In the mean time his GRACE kept this matter as a fecret from all per- fons9 leaffc any difapppointment fliou'd befall (uch a promifed difcovery, afterwards Mr. HAWKINS came to my LORD LIEUTENANT, and acquaintedi/Vz* the parties had met,and the perfon appointed by his GRACE,with the other whom Haw- kins did employ in the Over hearing of them,came likewife,& told hisGracethat they faw HANVY & another man whom he Call'd CON mac GENNIS together,and heard difcourfe of foch defigns as were at firft informed, but withal that they ob- fervedand heard tfrac GENNIS to fey at their parting to the; 1 Ma- ( *9 ) Mafter ofthehoufe,whocametowardstheendof their difcourfe to them Thefe words, take notice I never Jaw this perfon pointing at HANVYbefore the laji night, upon this Report brought to my Lord LIEUTENANT He ordered CON mac GENNIS to be lent for, who appeared and denied his name to be CON mac GENNIS, affirming it to be OWEN DUFFY\ and proved it to be fo by invincible Circumftances $ but he owned at the (ame time his having gone under the name of CON mac GENNIS too, and his having had the afbrefaid meeting with HANVY,> whom withal he protefted he never faw until the night before he had the meeting with him, which wither other feigned parts, he (aid he was prevailed upon to Aft, by the defires of one HENRY FARRELy whofe reafon for the (ame he knew not, but referr'd it to F;4RREL to declare: At his proceed¬ ing my Lord LIEUTENANT (as any one wou'd bej was ftrangly furprifed, and the more, becaufe his GRACE was (atisfied at his firft fight of the Man,who now is DUFFY\ and before he named himfelf to be fo, that he was not CON mac GENNIS whom HANVY had defcribed, for him His GRACE had occafions to fee and know long before, in the quality of a Deputy Purfuvant for difpatching of Irifh Witnejfesy (ent for from hence into ENGLAND,but what HIS GRACE moft wonder'd at was> that HANVY (hou'd have affirmed as he did, his having had a familiar acquaintance for many years toge¬ ther with that CON mac GENNIS before, and yet that he fhou'd now take this DUFFY for him5 Hereupon my Lord LIEUTENANT had HAWKINS and HANVY who were attending, called in, where HANVY upon the queftion put to him, declared again (uchfof long acquaintance with CON mac GENNIS, and all the other matters touching him , and confidently affirmed, that DUFFY then prefent before him was the Man , and Mr. HAWKINS (although at his firft coming to my Lord LIEUTENANT, and as is before mentioned,fo told HxsGRACEthathe knewCON mac GENNIS * very well, and confequently, cou'd not but at this time know that DUFFY whom he faw thus to perfonate him was ano- C 2 ther i w (no) ther perfbn) yet as if he wou'd have had my Lord Lieutenant deceived, did fuffer Duffy to pafsupon His GRACE fox Con mac GENNIS, without offering any thing to undeceive him^ until my Lord LIEUTENANT did at laft take notice to them, how that perfon had proved himfelfto be OWEN DUFFT^nd how his Grace himfelf knew that it was not CON mac GENNIS, upon which HANVT and HAWKINS confefled themfelves to be miftaken, and foin great confufion vanifhed* After this fcene was thus over, which in the perfons and the farts of it looked the moft odd, and was the Jeaft intelligible, that for a great while has been prefented, my Lord LIEUTE¬ NANT condu&ed the whole matter to the Council, where it feemed as a perfedt riddle, and becaufe FARRELL appeared the ableft to unfold it, by giving an account how he came to make DZJfAFT perfonate CON mac GENNIS unto HANVT, he was order'd to be examined, who in his Examination and upon his Oath declared,that NEAL mac LAUGHLIN did fome time before, lodging at his houfe, let fall expreflions which gave him fufpicion of HAWKINS his being upon fome evil de¬ signs, and that he was7 confirmed therein afterwards, by lighting upon a letter from HAWKINS to mac LAUGHLIN which FARRELL produced, and HAWKINS confefled, but pretends to be an innocent end , and which direfted mac LAUGHLIN to go to one RAWLINSON \n Dublin fox foe fox- nifhing him with money, enjoyning him afterwards to repair to HAWKINS into the North concerning the bufinefs which mac LAUGHLIN was to do for kirn$ That after mac LAUGH¬ LIN (who then went to the North accordingly) returned unto Town, he came to Farrells houfe, but told him that he was to lodge no longer with him, for that he had a lodging provided in another place hard by the faid RAWLINSON 5 which with FARRELLS obferving of mac LAUGHLIN to be flufh of money, and underftanding that HAWKINS was come to Town, put it out of all doubt with him that there was fome mifchief a contriving , which Farrell refolved to imploy him¬ felf in the finding out^and for that purpofe remembring that mac ·1oei hfJili ,cto onx !,, tn~ /,Id; ( 21) mac LAVGHLJN had been very inquifitive of him for CON mac GENNIS, and perceiving feveral mefiengers to come to hif houfe at divers times in a day to enquire for CON mac GENNIS, as from perfons newly come out of the Country, He dogg'd fome of Them to a certain Houfe whither he prevailed with OWEN DVF FY to go with him, and if there fhou'd be Occafion to take upon him the name of CON mac GENNIS, after whom this great inquiry had been, and when they came thither and a little after they ha And befides it is manifeftby HAWKINS his above mentioned Letter to Mac LAUGHLIN (which FARRELL produced upon his being Examined, and HAWKINS Confelled in his Examination to be his hand) that there was a familiar acquaintance betwixt him and Mac LAWGHLIN before, which Letter, looking fo fufpicious, and being follow¬ ed with WEYERSand the others Informations, which founded fo dangerous, my Lord LIEUTENANT and COUNCILcou'd do no lefs than as they did,to Commit HAWKINS upon them, and notwithftanding the LIBELLER, and his Party wou'd now, becaufe it feems to thwart their defigns, refled upon the Government for doing of it,as too much countenancing of In" formations, yet (as has been found by late experience,) they wou'd be apt at another time (ifit might advance their pur- pofes) more foverely tofdl upon theGOVERNMENTfornot doing of it, as too great difcountenancingof Evidence, fo partial and fo pajjionate are the FACTIOUS. Thus, (SVr,) have I run through the feveral Parts of this LIBELL, which touch upon th\sKingdom,and the Government of it, and in my anfvvers tothem,I havefor the mod part mentioned and referrd unto fuch papers ofEJiate & publicly Records, and be¬ fides, all the matters of them prove to fall within the knowledges of fo many perfons living, that if I had not a fingular regard to truth (which I hope I fhallever follow) and a particular re- f 2 3) (peft for you (whom I am certain I will never abufe)yet y°u may be fure I wou'd not dare and therefore that I have not adventur'd to fay any thing, but what contains the greateft veracity , fince in doing otherwife (which was a (ufficient Precaution to me from the beginning unto the end of this work) I knew I (hou'd be by variety of Tefiimnies difproved, and render'd not only as Odious, but as Ridiculous and Contemp¬ tible to the World, as our LIBELLER, has (hewn himfelf, who though ke won'd have it believed, as if he were in his principles the fartheft removed from the Popijh Party, do's yet expofe his LIBELL (by the grofs lies which ar,e difperfed through it) to be the neareft allied unto the Popifh Legend. I am with Efteemand refpedt, «r Dublin the I ft. of April 1682. Sir Your mofi and tnofl humble Servant. ■