THE STATE OF THE Papift and Proteltant PROPRIETl ES IN THE ^titgUom of ^relano, IN T HE Year 1641. when the then 'Rebellion began , and how difpofed in 1653. when the War and Rebellion was declared at an End, and how difpofed in 1662. upon the Atts ot Snlement, and how the Proprieties Hand this prefent Year 1689. with the Survey,Lofs,Coft and Charge of both Parties by the aforefaid War, or Rebellion : WITH Inferences and Expoflulations from thewhole, faithfully Cal¬ culated in fb conciiea Method and Order as was never done before * Humbly tendred to the Conlideration of the KINGS moft Excellent M A J E S T Y, and the PARLIAM E N T of LORDS and C O M M O N S now Sitting at Weftminfler. To which is added, A Lift of the prefent Nobility of / R ELAND Troteflant and Papift. LONDON, Printed for Richard Baldwin in the Old-Baily. 168 9- TO THE KINGS Moft Excellent MAJESTY. May it pleafe your Majefty, A5 it bath pleafed the Eternal to make Your Majefty the Illufl of Saving thefe Three Kingdoms, now under Your happy Go¬ vernment, from an Inundation of Popery and Slavery ready to break down the 'Banks of their Ancient Laws and Liberties: So is it the Duty of every particular T erf on ,to the utmofl of his Abilities, to at Your Royal Feet, thofe Lights and DifcoVeries,he may have gained by long Experience and ObjerVation'yto the end Your Majefty may the better be Enabled, by the General Survey of the State of Affairs, in any of Your ffingdoms,and a fair Tro- fpefl of their paft ill Government, to apply thofe which Your Majefty in Your Great Wtfdom and Rrudence, fall deem moft conducing to the of their future Happinefs: Since it is yet a- mong the mojl deeply Learned, by which means a Potent Monarch gains the mofl durable by Ere¬ cting a TSlew Fa brick of Dominion, or by (Reforming the Errors of an Ancient Confticution. Yheje Papers therefore, may it pleafe Your Majefty, falling into my Hands, and being by my [elf Imparted to forhe Perfons of Eminent Degree, and better accpiain- A i ted ThcEpiftle Dedicatory. ted "frith the Affairs of Ireland, encouraged to be' lieve, That it would be no Unkindnefs done to the Author, to Proflrate them "frith all Humility to tour Majeftys Royal Confideration j That fo tour Majefty might lejs Trouble under ft and the pref Condition of that Jour Kingdom, in reference to the 'Partial of the Lands and 'Pojfesjions in that Kingdom ; "frhereby doth mamfefi' ly appear, what Intereft prevail'din the (if fo it may be called) of the Subdued Irifh for all the - cresthey committed, and all the 'Blood they fpilt in the late Rebellion, as if the Irifh had (Rebelled to be the only Gainers, andtheP.t\g\\(hbad expended Jo Trea- fure, and the Lives of fo many to be the only Loofers in the Biflributions of their Conquefts * The ViBors not being permitted to enjoy what they had )uflly won by the Sword, while the Irifh "frere reftored to "frhat they had as truly forfeited by their Cruel Difloyalty , by which partial Piece of Juftiee, the Vi&ors were indeed fubdued, and the Conquered were in the Conclujion Victo¬ rious. All which being fully made out in the following , I thought it my Duty, most humbly to add this Offe* ring of my (incere Integrity to ferVe Tour Majefty,to the better Asfiftance and - Information of Pet Ions more able though of none more ready and zealous to approve himfelf by all the (triBeJl Performances of Loyalty Alle¬ giance, Your Majeflies moft humble, obedient and faithful Subjeft and Servant. J.C C I ) This L ETTF.R, and the Calculations annexed wereTraf- mitted from Dublin, to the late King JAMES the Second in the Tear 1688. Some few Weeks before His Highnefs the PRINCE of ORANGE EN G LAND. Miy it plcafe Tour Majejly, THE true intent of Your Majefty'smoft humble Orator, by this and his former Addrefs, being to give Truth a releafe from the common reftraints of fear, flattery or fa¬ vour, that fo Your Majefty having a true reprefentation of Perfons and things here, may be the better enabled and encouraged to apply fuitable and feafbnable Remedies, to the mod defperate Maladies of this late happy, but now mod miferable, Country. Your Majefty cannot but know, that mod Princes, have by advantageous Experience, found publick truths made known by private when fupprefied by publick Perfons, yet that the Mattets herein contained might contraft no pre¬ judice, by the obfcure Inftrument that conveys it. As in his former Letter, he humbly referred the Particu¬ lars to a Perfon of greater Circumftances of Credit with Your Majefty, then can be found in this Country. And as to the Calculations hereunto annexed, Your Maj fty will find their Credit moft fupported on your own Records, and where thofe are defective,that fupply is made by thofe probable Conje&ures, which are as well as the Records in themfelves evident, thofe Conje&ures being either ground¬ ed on that common principle of Commutative Juftice, or fubje&ed to the Menfurations of the , and tude, of Coeleftial bodies, made by , which are demonftrable, may, and muft be more, but cannot be left, then thofe Computations makes them. I know that the lofs of Five Millions and Five Hundreds and Fifty Thoufands, mentioned in the Foot of the annext Eftimate, as loft by a lefs then two Years, Irifh Government, foems to be a prodigious, and an incredible lofs 5 But r 2) But that Sum not appearing to be a Third of the whole value of the Kingdom, and it being manifeft, that at leaft one fourth of the Houfes in this City of Dublin are now waft, and that Houfe-rent here and elfewhereare fallen at leaft one Third of their former Annual value, and that Lands in the Country are generally fallen more then one Fourth, and the Inheritance now refufed at Eight Years Purchafe,which would not before have been fold for near double that value. Some here and thofe none of the meaneft Criticks in Calculations, drawing Inferences from the afocefaid pre- mifes, do conclude that this Kingdom is funk more than a moyety of its intrinfic value, within the laid time. Efpecially when they add to the aforefaid confiderations, the great Impair of the Britifh Trade. The Traders now left, being not worth a Moyety of tho/e we have loft, and thefe feeming rather prepared for flight then ftay. While by the open packing of Irijh Juries , corrupting of Evidence, and Partiality of Irifh Judges, they fee it in the Natives Power to take what Britifh Life or Effate they pleafe, and to make the moft Innocent Perfon fuffer as the greateft Malefaftor $ and all the while not feemingly break any Law by fo doing. It is well known that up¬ wards of Fifty Tndiftments were found by lrifh Evidence a- gainft the Britifh who were moft Celebrated for Loyalty in this Kingdom } who though they were afterwards all ac¬ quitted as being Innocent, had yet in all probability fuf- fjred as Traytors, had not the unexpected coming of the Earl of Clarendon to the Government, and his appointing P rot eft ant Sheriffs broke thofe Snares. Your Maj;fty fo well knowing the Validity of Oaths} as to the Proof of Crimes and Titles by the Englifh Laws, will eafily believe what fatal Execution a people let loofe may do on a people bound by thofe Cords} Efpecially where Perjury h, by forqp held no Sin, by moft a venial Sin, and by others a duty. How often do we now fee for¬ ged Deeds, formerly moft juftly. condemn'd, revived} how often do we fee and that to the great Scandal of juftice and r ?) and Government, Your Majefties Irijh Councel making ufe of Your Majtfties Name, as Highway men do of your Vublick Road, that they may the better violate your Law, rob your Subjects, and enrich themfelves, and Pirate-like, make all prize that are weaker and wealthier than them- (elves? How often do we hear the poor Britijh reflecting on the late bad and miferable times, when the Jrijb made all the Britijh within their reach either acceffaries to their Guilt, or Subjedt to their Wrath ? When in fix Months time with¬ out Comiferation to Sex or Age without any Oppofitionor Provocation they Murthered upwards of one hundred thoufand Britijh in one Province of this Kingdom, and that with all imaginable Circumftances of Cruelty and Barbari¬ ty ? All which muft be true or the Records taken on your Father of bleffed memories Commiflion, reciting Circum¬ ftances of time, place and number of Perfons fo Murthered muft be all falfe, and had the Government, Garrifons and Army been then, as now, in the Irijh hands, it is more then probable, there had not one Britijh Perfon been left alive in this Kingdom, And can the fright of the Britijh at, and their flight from, thefe Flames now, which they found and felt fo de- ftru&ive then, be matter of blame to them or fupprize to any, or can it be prefumed that the natives dilapoint- ment by that War hath lefned their rage, or bettered their Nature, if when the Irijh had no (hare in the Government, nor Arms, nor knov/ledge how to ufe them, and no com* mandof Garrifons or Souldiers, but thefo and many other advantages in the BritiJI) hands, if they were then able, to make their wrath fo fuccefsful, what can rationally be expe&ed, to become of the BritiJI}, now amongft them ? I do the more willingly Enumerate thefe Particulars rather to confirm the following, and more moderate Eftimate, then the larger made by others, concerning the aforeiaid lofs. Yet this I may with more truth then fatisfa&ion affirm, that if the judicial proceedings paft in that time are not re¬ viewed, CO veiw'd, if the gaps lately made, to let in an inundation of Arbitrary Power, on the Britijh Propriety is not repaired, and thofe who made them feverely punifhed 3 and Jaftly, if no better fecurity, then Irijh Judges, Sheriffs and Juries can be found to preferve the Britijh Proprieties, Ichabod may well be the Chara&er, a Foreigner the Matter, and defohtion the portion, of this unhappy Country, when it becomes a habitation for wild Beafts, or worfe Creatures, under only the (hape and refemblance of human Features. Your Ma jetties Improvement of thefe and better helps may fo open your Eais, that in the words of the Pfalmiff The Jorrowful flghing of the Prifoner may come up before you 3 and then I no ways doubt, but in the further words of the fame Pfalmtff, according to the greatnefs of your Power and Good nefs of your Nature, you will preferve thofe who feem appointed to dye, that they may yet live to pray for your Ma jetties long Lif e,e^r. as doth, m\y itpleafe your Majefty, your Majefties moft humble, dutiful and obedient Subjeft and Servant. An Efiimate Containing, The Latitude> Longitude and Survey of the whole Kingdom of Ireland. 2. What Part or how many Acres thereof are profitable, and how many unprofitable. 3. The Annual value, with the value of the Inheritance of both in 1641. before the Late IriJI) Rebellion began,with what it was reduced unto in the Years 1653. when the laid Rebellion was declared at an end. How the raid Irijh Propriety was fetled, and difpofed in the laid Year, 1653. How difpofed in 1662. and 1663. by the Atfs of Setle- went, and Explanation, and by the CommiJJioners for Exe¬ cuting the faid Ads. How it (lands on the date of this Eftimate, viz. in the Year 1688. The CO The particular lofsand gain of both Protefiant land Irffo part, by the fa id Rebellion. The whole charge Of the then King and the Protefiant Party, to fupprefsthe faid Rebellion, Laftly Inferences from all the aforelaid Calculations. The Surrey.' • v,ww..e,?/ .hi V.2 To '• >.V.erbf ! iv/ i:s7r: The Latitude of Ireland, North, is par rale! to Dumfrizk in Scotland, which is about Sixty Miles more North then England. :. ... jSW/tfr it is parralel to Sti Michaels Mount in Cornivafh The Longitude, to the utrnoft point of 'Ibtcbnocfft in the County of Galloway. Eafi, to the f/tW of Hath near Dublin. The whole number of Acres, by comparing feverdl Sur¬ veys, appears to be about ten Millions and four Bunded Thoufand Irifh sieves, (twenty one Toot to the Firth) which make about Seventeen Millions Engliffj Meafure, and makes Ireland equal in quantity to England ) Wales excepted. Of the faid ten Millions four Hundred Thoufand Acres, there appears to be about three 'Millions of Mountains, Wood, Bog and otfoer unprofitable Acres. So that the profitable part appears' to be about feven Millions and four Hundred 1 houland Acres, 'which were thus feized, poffeffed and enjoyed Jnttdf 1641. before the Rebellion began, Firft, The Rritifio or Proteftant Propriety, was then about two Millions four Hundred Thoufand Of the profitable Acres, Irif/j Me&fure. 1 he Irifh, or Rowan Catholicky Propriety was the re ¬ mainder ^ being about five Millions of the faid Acres. Memorandum^ - that in JmouTf&f. 'the /R'ebelTipn. wa, pttblckfy ded&r^d to&£ wf-a*n fheirthe' aFdfei;vrI irifh Propriety, of the faid five Millions of Acres was » ftributed and difpoftd of as follows. B Firfl, (6) Firft, Unto fuch of Irift) Rowan Catholicky, who proved their conftant good affe&ion to the Britijh Interejl, were reftored about one Hundred Thoufand Acres. Secondly, There was fet a fide to fatisfie the Officers, and Souldiers who ferved in the Irifl) War before dnno. 1649. being the Year Oliver Crowrvel came over into Ireland in the Counties of Wtckloup, Longford, Letryw , Donnegal, and within the Mileline of Sea and Shannon, about four Hundred Thoufand Acres. Thirdly, There was diftributed to the adventurers who advanced Monies on the Atis of the Seventeenth and Eigh¬ teenth ol King Charles the Firft, to carry on the War of Ireland, about eight Hundred Thoufand Acres. Fourthly, There was fet forth to the Officers and Soul¬ diers, who ferved from 1649. until the Year 1653. being the declared end of the faid War, about two Millions of Acres, Fifthly, There was fet forth to feveral Grants, about one Hundred Thoufand Acres. Sixthly, To the Rowan Catholickj according to their feveral proofs of their qualifications by the Commiflioners at Lougbreaghtfurfaznt to thedecrees of the Commifiioners at /4thloane, about feven Hundred Thoufand Acres in the Province of Conaugh, and County of Clare. Seventhly, There was fet afide for the fupport of the Government, the forfeited Houfes in the walled Towns, and about Eight Hundred Thoufand Acres in the Counties of Dublin, Louth, Cor h Cat hor lough and Kildare ; the moft of which were fet in Leafes of Thirty one Years, to Britijh Froteftants. Memorandum. That the aforefaid Britijh or Prof eft ant Proprieties were Anno. 1653. reftored ^o the refpe&ive for¬ mer Proprietors. And thus ftood the Proprieties of Lands in the Kingdom of Ireland, until Anno 1660. The reftauration of the Late King. Memorandum. AH C 7) Memorandum, That in Years 1661. 1662. and 1663. by A&s of Parliament and decrees of the Court of Claims, there were taken away from the aforefaid Interefts and re¬ trenchments of one third, by the Explanatory Aft, and reftored to former Proprietors about two Millions of Acres of the aforefaid Lands, fo that at the Period of the (aid Commiffions of Claims, the aforefaid Propriety was as fol¬ lows, Firfl, The Proteflant Propriety, and the Propriety of the Roman Catholicism who proved their conftant good affe&ion to the Enghfbm were untoucht, either by A3 of Parliament or decrees of the Court of Claims. Secondly, The Lands of the Officers who ferved hi« Majefties in the Irifh War, before the Year 1649. were reduced to about one hundred and ninety thoufand Acres, the reft of their Lands were reftored to former Irifh Pro¬ prietors Thirdly, The aforefaid Adventurers fatisfaciion was by the faid Afts of Parliament, and decrees of the Court of Claims reduced to about three hundred thoufand Acres. Fourthly, Remaining then with the Officers and Soul- diers who ferved fince the Year 1649. about twelve hun* dred thoufand Acres. Fifthly, There was then left with the Tranfplantable Irijh in the Province of Conaugh and County of Clare about fix hundred Thoufand Acres. Sixthly, There were confirmed to Grantee, by the A&s of Parliament about Two hundred thoufand Acres>of which about one Moyety was to Roman Catholics 5 the other to Britiflo Protejiants. Seventhly, There is left of courfe Land ,undifpofed and over-plus Lands in the hands of Souldiers^nA Adventurers about one hundred thoufand Acres. So that there appears,confirm'd by A&s of Parliament, and the CommiJJioners of the Explanatoric A&s, about fe- venteen hundred and eighty thoufand Acres, totheSouI- diery and Adventurers, and to the Proteflant Grantees by B 2 Provifoes ( 8.) Provif&ei in both the;" faid Aart End; all which will more fully appear by itihe following Diagram, * \ • The Value in 1641, before the R.et>eUion began. Total j4nmial value at The whole King-"1, 4 Shi Hi tigs a'11' Ac'fel twelve ye&rS put- dom contains le- j comes to one-mil-I chale comes to ven millidns four [ lion four hundred j,fe veil teen millions huhdte.d thotffand an eighty thdu-j feven hundred and profitable Acres, j Pand poundsSter-1 fixtv thou find of which the j ling j pounds'Sforling. Irifh Proprie-?Acres one mft-punto twelve mil- ty then wasMion of pounds/-lions Sterling, five millions of j Seeding comes o i L ■ '»V . ' : ' > ." . " id I Aa> . • • • ) " ; r I.. t . . I nil )rii : hoc bjilaorfnoamav C 9 ) Britifh PtrfriitylfdUr hundred and 1 lions (even hundred two millions and (eighty thoufand (and fixty thoufand four hundred ( pounds Sterling (pounds Sterling, thoufand Acres comes to five mil- j The P^duced value of the whole and of each Propriety in 1653. When the Rebellion w^s declared at an End was. The whole: King- dom (even millions four hundred thou* (and Acres comes Annual value, at 9 Inheritance at 8 pence an Acre years pur chafe to two hundred ^comes to twomil- feventy (even thcui/y ions t wo. hun d red fand five .hundred(and 2Q thoufand pounds Sterling jpounds Sterling. So that the difference betwixt 1641. and 1653. ^ fif¬ teen millions five hundred and forcy thau&nd pounds Ster¬ ling. The Irtfh. Pro- hcomes to one mil-stance at eight pr'nty then about/lion eighty feven/years purchafe five millions of A- r thoufand fi chun-} conies to one million and a half Sterling. exes at nine pence an Acre per annum dred pounds Ster- ding. The Iriheri- .So that; the difference betwixt 1641. and 1653. of this Propriety was, nine millions four hundred and eighty thou¬ fand pounds. The Britifiav Pro- tefiant Propriety was two millions and \per annum comes to ninety thou¬ fand pounds Ster- purchafe comes to 7 hundred and 20 thou- four hundred thou A ling. The InheriAfand pounds fand Acres at 9d.jtance at eight years J Sterling. So ^ c 10 ) So that the difference betwixt 1^41. and 1653. in this Propriety was five millions and forty thoufand pounds Ster¬ ling. Memorandum, That befidcs the aforefaid Irijh Propriety in Lands, there appears by your Majefty's Records in the Juditory Office that there were as many Houfes in Wal¬ led Towns,befides Tythes and Reworks belonging to the Irijl), which did yield in Anno 1653, about fivethoufand pounds Sterling per annum, which at eight years purchafe was then worth forty thoufand pounds Sterling. Memorandum, That the Protejlant Propriety , within the Walled Towns, is not included in the above Calculations, neither the Tythes or Glebe belonging to two thoufand four hundred Parifh Churches 5 there being about that Number of Parifiies in this Kingdom. The next general Head is the particular Lofs and Gain of both Britifl) and IriJfj by the faid Rebellion. Memorandum, That by the aforefaid Article, it appears, that the Britijh have got, and the Irifh have loft by the faid Rebellion, about two millions of Acres, which by the aforefaid Valuations in the Year 1653. appear to be worth two millions of nine pences per annum., which is feventy five thoufand pounds Sterling and at eight years purchafe for the Inheritance, is fix hundred thoufand pounds Ster¬ ling. I his was the Common value when the Britijh entred on the faid forfeited Lands, and to this is to be added the aforefaid forty thoufand pounds for their Intereft in Walled Towns and Retfories. Thi fix hundred and forty thoufand pounds is the whole of the Britiflo Gain, and Irijh L ofs by the faid Rebellion. • Memorandum, That the Irijh lofs of Houfes,Goods Stocks, &c. being occafioned by their own Rebellion are not in¬ cluded in this calculation. The next thing confiderable is the Irijt.) gain, and the Britijh lofs, which appear by thefe following Particu¬ lars. I. By C ii ) I. By thirteen Years lofs of Rents, the Annual Propriety of the Britijh did amount, as aforefaid, before the Rebel¬ lion began, to four hundred and eighty thoufand Pounds, which for thirteen Years amounts unto fix millions two hundred and forty thoufand Pounds Sterling. II. The faid Rebellion began the 23d, of October 1641. at which time the Britijh had one whole Years (lock of Hay and Corn by them, which ufually fupplyed them, with materials to fatisfie their Number and May Rents then enfuing, and had likewife then fowed their Winter Corn, both which could not be lefi worth then half a Years Rent of the whole Land, which appears as aforefaid, to be two hundred and forty thoufand Pounds. III. The Britijh Propriety was as is well known, well ftock'd and improved Anno. 1641. and confiding of two millions four hundred thoufand Acres Irijh Meafiire, which appears to be near a third of the whole Kingdom, muft have its proportion of the three millions of unprofitable Acres as aforefaid, and there could not be lefs ftock, on two Acres and a half Jri[/j Meafnre (which confidering the Addition of the unprofitable muft be more then four Englijh Acres) then one Bcaft on the Pafturable Part 5 what Acres were under Corn muft be of a much higher value, which Beaft Comntuni Rato, could not be of lefs value then twenty Shillings } by which the value of the Britifo ftock at a mo¬ derate rate appears in the Year 1641. to be worth two millions four hundred thoufand Pounds. IV. The value of their Houfes, Goods and Improvements cannot be valued at lels then double the value of their ftoeks, which makes four millions eight hundred thoufand Pounds. The aforefaid four Sums which were received, and robbed or taken from the Britijh during the faid Re¬ bellion appears to be thirteen millions two hundred and forty thoufand Pounds, which fuppofeth the whole Bri- tifl) Propriety, to be robb'd, fpoiled or enjoyed by the Irijh during the faid Rebellion, whereas it is evident that the Metropolis of DMin> the City of Droghedagb in the Pro. vince S ( 12 ) vince of Letnflcr, the City of London*Derry , ColerAh* Town and Caftle of Inms-hjUin, Towns of Bcll-fifi and Carig-fergHj in the PfoVlnc^ of Z)lfter, the City of Cofk^ the T owns of Ban don Bridge, Tonghal and King-file were never in the Irijh hands 5 But thefe compared with all the other Towns and Cities of this Kingdom, with more then nineteen parts in twenty of all the Lands which within fix Months after the Rebellion* began, where dill in the Irijl: hands, there cannot be abated in the afarefaid con¬ sideration one tenth of the aforefaid Sum. Yet abating the tenths* there remains neat lofs to the Britijh, and got by the Iri[h twelve millions one hundred and thirty thou (and Pound's Sterling. V. On. or -about the Years 1662. and 16^3- there was taken from the Btitifo and reflated to the Irijh, by Acts of Parliament and Decrees of the Court of Claims, above two millions of profitable Acres, the Annual value of which aid Lands in Anno. 1653. when the Britijh fir A re-en trod upon them at nine pence an Acre appears to be feventy five thoulartd y which at eight Years Purchafe for the In¬ heritance is, fix hundred thouland Pounds, but by the Britifi enjoyment and improvement of the Paid Lands from 1653. unt^ ^62. and 1663. the Annua! value of the faid Lands vva raifed unto two Shillings three pence an Acre, which was two hundred twenty and five thouland Pounds Sterling loft, and the lrijh have got by their Rebellion, Thirteen Millions (even hundred and eighty thoufand Pounds, to which being added the five Millions forty thoufand pounds damage done the Britifb Propriety , as appears by the fore- mentioned Diagram, in reducing the values of the Inheritance of the faid Lands in 1653. frorn what h was worth in 1641, makes the neat damage of the Proteftant Propriety by the faid Rebellion to be eighteen millions eight hundred and twenty thoufand Pounds Sterling. The next General head is the Particular charge of the faid Rebellion to the King and the Britijh or Protejlant In- tcrefi of this Kingdom. 1. By an adjufted Account now of Record here in Dub¬ lin it appears, that from the 2 %th,of October 1641, to the Year 1649 , there wasdueonly to the Commiffioned Offi¬ cers , about eighteen hundred thoufand pounds Ster¬ ling. 2. There could not be lefs than double that Sum due to the JVon Commijjioned Officers and private Soldiers within the (aid time, which amounts to three millions fix hundred thot;(and pounds. 3. There was received by the faid Officers and Soldiers in N oneyyQuarters and Provifions within the faid time, one fourth of the whole, which was defaulted out of the Officers Debenters, and amounted to one million three hundred and forty thoufand pounds. So that from 1641 to 1649, the Charge of the faid War appears to be at lead: fix millions feven hundred and forty thoufand pounds *, and what fince, to the Period of the War in 1653. appears by thefe following Particulars. 1. By an adjufted Account,there appears due to the Offi¬ cers and Souldiers,who (erved within the faid time, about twelve hundred thoufand pounds, which was fatisfyed in Lands. 2. The faid Officers and Soldiers were paid two Parts more in Money,which was two millions four hundred thou¬ fand poundst C 3, There c 14) 3. There was one fourth dedufted out of both Officers and Soldiers Debenters on the account of quarters and pro- vifion , which amounts to, as aforefaid, twelve hundred thoufand pounds. 4. By an adjufted account it appears , that the EngUJh Adventurers advanced in the Years 1641 and 1642 about four hundred thoufand pounds, which Money being ad¬ vanced and paid in the aforefaid Years of 1641 and 1642 and no fatisfa&ion made until the Year 1655 and 1656, the Intereft muft be more than the Principle, which amounts at lead: to eight hundred thoufand pounds. 5* There was near ten thoufand Scots, who ferved moft part of the War, in the Province of Z)lfter,under the com? mandof General Lejley 3 but their Arrears being never fta- ted, adjufted nor paid, cannot be fo Particularly afcer- tained, but cannot be lefs then one Million of Pounds. Memorandum , That there was many Independent Troops in ZJlJler and Munjier whole accompts were never adjufted, fathfied or paid. Memorandum, That in this Calculation is alio omitted the moft Chriftian and Charitable releif given and lent by the States of Holland, who in one Ship fent thirty thoufand Pounds in provifions in the beginning of the Rebellion, which came fo Seafonable that hundreds of Briti>fh Families were thereby preferved from ftarving and perifhing, nor is there mentioned the charge of Ships, Arms or Ammunition during the War. Memorandum,That there is not any mention made ofthe great Colkftion of Charity for the releif ofthe defpoyled Proteftants ofthe Country. The aforefaid Particulars fince the Year 1649. amounted to fix millions fix hundred thoufand Pounds s before 1649. appears to be fix millions feven hundred and forty thoufand Pounds. Both Sums containing the whole of the aforefaid charge amount to thirteen millions three hundred and forty thou¬ fand Pounds. The C 15 ) The BritiJI) or Uroteflant lofs and damage appears to be as aforefaid eighteen millions eight hundred fixty two thou- fand Pounds, and both together make l hirty two mil¬ lions one hundred and fixty thoufand Pounds, From all the Premifes aforementioned the Inferences following do naturally arife. 1. Whereas the Englifi adventurers debt who advanced Money on the credit of two Afts of Parliament in the Year 1641. and 1642. for fupport of the Irijh War did amount to more then eight hundred thoufand Pounds,and it appearing as aforefaid, that they received not more then three hundred thoufand Acres of Land for fatisfa&ion of of the (aid debt, and it like wife appearing by the aforefaid Diagram, that the Annual value of the faid Lands was at mod but eleven thoufand two hundred and fifty Pounds, it is manifeflc that the faid adventurers paid more then feventy Years Purchafe for what was not worth really more then eight. 2. Whereas there appears as aforefaid due to the Englifi Souldiery above all the deductions, fix millions fix hundred thoufand Pounds Sterling, and thofe who ferved before the Year 1649. having received but one hundred and nine¬ ty thoufand Acres of Land, and as many Houfes in Wal¬ led Towns, and Incumbrances, as were worth at moftbut five thoufand Pounds per annum. And whereas it appears that the Souldiery fince 1649. had left them by the Court of Claims about twelve hundred thoufand Acres, makingin all about thirteen hundred and ninety thoufand Acres which with the five Thoufand Pounds per annum for Rents of Houfes , ap¬ pears at molt to be worth no more then fifty feven thou¬ fand one hundred twenty five Pounds per annum, as appears by the aforefaid Diagram it is as clear that the faid Soul¬ diery have paid more then one hundred and fifteen Years Purchafe for what was not worth more then eight. 3. Whereas it appears as aforefaid,that the whole lofs in Houfes, Lands, Tythes and ReBories of the Irijh do amount at moft but to fix hundred and forty thoufand Pounds, and ( 16) it appearing that the Britijh loft, and the during their Rebellion got. 1. As much Corn and Hay from the Britijh as was at leaft worth as aforefaid two hundred and forty thoufand Pounds, which Sum alone is more then one third of their whole loft. 2. The Britijh ftock of Horfes,Sheep, Cattle,<&*c. appears as aforefaid to be worth two millions eight hundred thorn fand Pounds, which appears to be more then four times the aforefaid loft. 3. The Britijh Houfes, Goods and Improvements which the Irijh got, and the Britijh loft, appears to be five millions fix hundred thoufand Pounds, which is more then nine times the aforefaid lofs. 4. The Rents which the Irijh received from the Britijh Propriety during their Rebellion, amounting to five millions eight hundred and forty thoufand Pounds as aforefaid is more then nine times the aforefaid lofs. The Britijh lofs in their Improvements on the reftored Lands by the Court of Claims in 1662. and 1663. amounts to fixteen hundred and fixty thoufand pounds as aforefaid, which alone is near Treble of the whole of the Irijh lofs. Memorandum^ That the aforefaid five Sums which the Irijh got from the Brttfjh, dedu&ing the Tenth as afore¬ faid, is fifteen millions and thirty thoufand pounds: fo that it is plainly demonftrated, That the Irijh got from the Britijh more then 7 hirty times what they loft by their Rebellion. Memorandum, That to the aforefaid Britijhlof, there is yet to be added the damage done their Propriety, from the value it was worth in the Year 1641, to what it was redu¬ ced to in the Year 1653, which appears to be five millions two hundred and eighty thoufand pounds, which makes the whole lofs and damage done the Britijh by that Rebel¬ lion to amount unto above twenty millions of Pounds Sterling 5 which Sum appears to be loft out of lefs than a Third C 17 ) Third of the whole Propriety of this Kingdom; and is, 1. More than double the value of the whole Propriety of their Lands in the Year 1641 , and more than twenty times the value it was reduced to in the Year, 1653. 2. It appears, as aforefaid, to be more than the whole Propriety, that all the Lands in this Kingdom, was worth in the Year 1641. 3. The ProtejlanPsLofs and Damage,as aforefaid,appears to be near double the charge of the aforefaid War. 4. It appearing before the death of Charles the Second, That Lands in this Kingdom, were raifed to equal value in 1641, it isdemonftrable, That the Britifh Induftry had rai¬ fed this Kingdom, inthirty years time, notwithftanding all their difcouragements, to upwards of fifteen millions of pounds Sterling. The late King Charles in favour to the Irijh, releafing by the Explanatory AS the clear Right, which the Crown had, to the whole Province of Connaug/>*,Counties of Clare,Lyme- r/V^and Upper ary 5 His Majefty thereby parted with ten times more than the Iriflj forfeited. VI. By Provifoes in the Aft of Settlement and Explanation, and by Pendens and other Donatives given the Irifh, as ap¬ pears by the Treafurv Accounts of both Kingdoms, there appears much more given to them, than was forfeited or loft by them. VII. Thelaft Parliament in this Kingdom, giving his Ma¬ jefty twenty eight Subfidies, and three hundred thoufand poundsin Money, gave more in value, than all the forfei¬ tures by that Rebellion, they fetling a revenue of upwards of two hundred thoufand pounds per annum, on the Crown, with a Nemine ContraMcente, by that gave more then ten times the value of the fiid forfeitures. VIII. The Charge of the faid Rebellion, appearing to be thirteen millions three hundred and forty thoufand pounds, it is evident, that the aforefaid Irtfh Io(s, will not pay a fourteenth part of the (aid Charges. IX' Admit ( i8 ) IX. Admit the Lands of this Kingdom were before the Commencement of the prefent /r/jlj Government (or Irijlj Adminijlration) raifed to the value of 1641, and that Lands were only fallen one fourth in their yearly^ value, which appears to be about three hundred ninety three thoufand pound,and that they were only funk in the Inheritance,one third, which is five millions five hundred and fifty thou¬ fand pounds, then both making five millions nine hundred and forty three thoufand pounds, which this King¬ dom is already funk, with only one years Irijh Govern¬ ment. X. Whereas it appears by the Excellent Preface of the A& of Settlement, that Anno 1660, (even years after the aforefaid Rebellion was declared at an End, when Perfons and things were in calm and (erene Frame in this King¬ dom, tbemoftableof the Irijh Agent r, were fully heard before His Majefty and Council in England, what they could anfwer in behalf of their Country-men, yet on the (aid hearing, the Univerfal Guilt of the Irijfj, with their Horrid Maffacres and Barbarous Murthers, in that Re¬ bellion, were fully proved, their juft Forfeitures of their Lives and Eftates affirmed, and that Rebellion declared by the faid King and Council in England, and afterwards by the Parliament and Councel of Ireland , the mod Horrid and Univerfal Rebellion which ever be- fel that Kingdom, and as thereby it appears to be the higheft in point of Guilt, fo by what hath been faid as aforefaid, it appears to be the greateft in point of Lofs and Charge, and though, as by the (aid Excellent Preface, it further appears, that by Gods blefiing on the Britijh Forces, the (aid Irijh were Totally, Univerfally and Abfolutely fubdued, yet it appears, as aforefaid, that Affairs have been fo managed , that the Nocent, Conquer'd Irifi Party, both in times of Peace and War, have been Gain- ersj and the Innocent, Victorious Britijlj, the only Loofirs by that Rebellion. But let it ever be remembred by your Majefty and not forgot by all Succeeding Kings of Eng* C 19) land, nor the Engltjh Nation, That if the publick Diftur bances in England heightned into a Civil War (chiefly oc- cafion'd by the Maffacre and Rebellion here) at the lame time, and the great Corruptions of thofe through whofe hands mod of the Adminftrations palled, relating to Ire¬ land, had not prevented, That Rebellion had not coft the Britifh one fourth of the Time, nor one penny Charge* but on the contrary the very Forfeitures of the Irijh would not only have paid all that whole Reckoning, but an over- % plus, fufficient to have plentifully rewarded the Victorious Britifh,which no doubt will be found Mathematically True, jf'tll if ever the Irifh give another occaflon to try it. H| Lajlly, Whereas it appears as aforefaid, that the whole Lois, Cofts and Charge of the King and Proteftant Party, to lupprels the faid Rebellion, did amount to thirty four millions four hundred and eighty thoufand pounds Ster¬ ling, and whereas it fufficiently demonftrates, who have been the greateft Gainers, and greateft Loofers, fo it (hews who have moft caufe to complain of the difmal Effe&s of that Rebellion, whether the Conquering Britijh, or the Conquered Irijh: And lo, it is more then probable, that the faid Rebellion began the 23th of OSobcr 1641. and ended in the Year 1653, and that as it coft and loft more Treafure, lo if there were as careful a Scrutiny made after the Blood fpilt, or occafiond to be fpilt, as of Treafary fpent 5 both would appear much greater, then the price of all the late Chriftian Victories over the great Turk1, which may be a fufficient and feafonable Caution, both to Prince and People to prevent future Rebellions in this Kingdom, which fince its Original Conqueft, hath by the Sins of both, been made an Acheldama, or Field of Blood. The late unufual Prodigies from the Heavem, the late dif¬ mal Apparitions in the Air,the late-unheard of Inundation on this City, the aftoniflhing Variances of our great Ones dete&ing each others Nakednefs, the late revival of our National and Religious Animofiues, with the Britifl,b Migremns hinc, and other fatal Prognostics, feems to fore¬ tell ( 30 ) tell as fatal, or more fatal Judgments, than that which laft befel this Kingdom, which next to the Abomination of Defoliation, which befel the Jews^ was the heavieft and fharpeft, that ever befel lb fmall a fpot of the World,fince the World began,which were it defcribed,as it ought,could not be believed, but by fuch as faw it, were Aftors in it, or fuffered by it, which with Gods biefiing on Your Ma- jefty's Councels,may be yet eafier prevented then hereafter cured, which is the proper end of this Eftimate, and gives Foundation for the Britijh following Expoftulation with their King and their Irijh Neighbours. , Dread Sir, WHat have we done, to merit the feverity of your higheft difpleafure? Nay, what have we not done, which might intitle us to your higheft Favour 5 were we, or our Anceftors ever falle ? or were our Irifb Adveifaries, or theirs ever true to the Crown of England} The Irif/j have frequently made us, and our Anceftors, Beggars, but never yet made either Rebels. Were not our Eftates feized, our Houfes burnt, our Goods and Stock plundered, our Chargeable and Laborious Improvements fpoiled, our Perfons ftripped, and inhumanly Murthered in the Year 16415 only for our Loydty to our God, and our King ? And when by an Article made in the Ceffation, every Individual Perfon was left to choole his Party, did not we, as Univerfally and Unanimoufly declare our folves of your Fathers Party 5 as the Irifa declared themfelves to be of the Rebels Party ? We, and our Anceftors have been conftantly made the But, but its evident, that the Crown of England, and the Soveraignty of this Country, have been the Mark of the Natives AVrath. Though your Fa¬ ther left us, and that by a Law, to be fupported by the Parliament c 2i y Parliament of England,and they really were kind to us,in the day of our extremity, yet our Loyalty to him fo fubjed by the Parliament 5 and eafily forefoeing, thofe methods, prefaging worfe to enfue, though the Parliaments Forces were Triumphant in the three D King- ( 22 ) Kingdoms, yet notwithftanding all difcouragements, we entred in a new Treaty with the Confederate Catholic?, and out of our paffionate defire to ferve and fave your Ma- jefty's Father in that Exigency, your Brother, and we fub- mitted, to whatever Articles were propofed by the faid Irijh ^ yet as advantageous as thofe Articles were to them, and as prejudicial as they were to us, the Irijh Comniiffi- oners could not be prevailed with to fign them, until the ijth of January 1648. when they well knew, it was too late, to prevent what followed the %Qtb foliowing, which Articles, whofoever reads will find them, the moft Tray- terous, that were ever made by Subjeils with their Prince, We thus finding, that we could not do, what we would, for your Father, and (vainly) hoping the Irijh might be more Loyal and Faithful to your Brother 5 we joynM our felves to them, and continued with them, till we found, it was more for his Service, to leave them, then longer ftay with them, their Armies proving Cowardly and Treacherous, and their Clergy charging us with their Crimes} though we flood, until we loft our Lives, by fighting with our own Country-men, in the Field, while they faved theirs, by running into the Neighbouring Woods and Bogs. Though we were the on¬ ly Party that ftood, and the Irijh the only Party that run, at the Fight at Dublin, yet their EccJejiajlics chargM us, as the occafion of that defeat, and the fame Caufe pro¬ ducing the fame Effed, dfewhere, the Clergy openly Preach'd? "I hat they could expect no better Succefs, while they joyned with us, that were Heretickj 5 and being dis¬ appointed in their frequent Attempts to Murther the Du{e of Ormoacl, and charging all their Mifcarriages 0:1 his want of Conduit, whereas their Supream Trujls had the whole Conduct of their Army, and his Grace nothing left but the bare Title of General 5 and he refufing to quit his empty Command at their delire, at a great^ meeting of their bifhops, and others their dignified Clergy, they fixed up a publick Excommunication againft him, and all that fhould .1 >8 in 11 1 |i m II III 11 1 4i t Coolie; fh01"1^ J°Yn Wlth him, or adhere to him. Which forced v^om\;5 his Gr^reto leave the Kingdom incognito, and fo he left w4 v?e|jj, ns the fecond time to (hift for our (elves 5 and we con- , \q J ceiving it more for your Brothers Service, to leave them, vmetotir then longer to joyn with them, we ferving again under Irijh Com^il ollr Comtrywcns Banners, in left then two years time, with •Hem, tmtih ollr h-lp> t^ie whols Kingdom was. fubdued. But that Army •w, being headed by a Junfto Parliament, and they, and their iiowin/^' Confidents, put into all places of Trufl and Power in the akraVr other two Kingdoms, as well as in this, yet fo defirous, tlit'iiV' wcre to ^erve your Brother, and arrive at a lafting t ^ fettlement^ and fo well known, were our delires and In- .r),0 r ,j.s tendons to our Brethren, and they fo confident of our Af- >von fi? that a few of us, without the help of an Irijh hand } ; (j'J On the x^th of December 1659. Supprized, and Seized the conncue n ftrong Caftle of Dublin, and in lefs then fourteen Days got ^ V the Power of the whole Kingdom into our Hands, and as !Y ,. ^ icon as we had fetlcd it, tendred the Government to his : t!p late Majefty with the offer of a well regulated and difci- ,e plined Army to Affift his Reftauration to his other King- nCoijr«; doms, and had the Honour of being the firft of the three inning into! Kingdoms,who declared for his Reftauration.Was not his /eiveretkc: Majefty fo highly pleafed with the Sence of this our feafbn*- Patty that he able Loyalty, That he made our Tender, and his Gracious ics charg'J| acceptance, to be made a perpetual Record in his High oie Cao£ p Court of Chancery in this Kingdom 5 and without any know- Jergy op® ledg, petition or capitulation of ours, of his own free Will, Succefi)vvhilt gave us his Royal Affurance of being continued in our Em? mdbeingdi| ploys? /\nd when by previous or legal Grants, that Grace thertbeftf was made unprafticable, in that cafe, theloofing Party was riages 01 i to be reprized in value, worth and purchafe, as in, and by, ynjlifo&tk the faid Record, relation being thereunto had, it may, and fflotliingkft will,more fully appear. itoqtki 'meeting of they fed / all that D 2 And ibouli C 24 ) And was not moft: of usfoon after choft Members of Parliament in this Kingdom ? and did we not then, and there, with all imaginable ctrcumftances of duty and af- fe&ion, without any confideration of our own ftraits, or Exigencies, give his Majefty twenty eight fubfidies, and the Inheritance of a Revenue of more then two hundred thouland pounds per annum ? And fo paflionately defirous were we, of living like good Neighbours, good Subje&s, and good Chriftians, with the Irifb, that we as readily con¬ tented, to pay his Majefties one full Years profit of our Eftates, which we afterwards made up three hundred thoofand pounds in Money, which was then more than one third of all the Current Coyn in this Kingdom, and this barely to fupply and enable his Majefty to exercife his greater Bounty, to fuch of the Irifb, as he knew moft deferving 5 yet was this thought too little by the Irifb A- gents, though we had loft much of our Eftates and im¬ provements very feverly by the Proceedings of the Court of Claims, and the faid Agents promifingus an abfolute confir¬ mation, in what we had left, without expefting more from us, we readily contented to retrench one third, of what we then had, the aforefaid Particulars, being moft of them matters of Record, fome matters of Fa ft, and all demonftratively true, let all the Annals and Records of this, or former Ages be examined, and tee if thence can be extracted, a Loyalty exceeding this of ours. But Oh ! let it not be told in Gath nor Publifned in the Streets of AskAon, the returns we have had for all thefe our aforefaid fervices, let them fink in perpetual oblivion, and never be remembred by Pofterity, that we who gave fuch Evidences of our Loyalty to our Exiled Prince, were not thought fit to be employ'd after his return, that we who fo faithfully terved him in War and Mitery, (hould be thrown out of his fervice in times of Peace and Profperity, our Employs being not only taken from us, without any of that promifed cornpenfation made us, but that which MI C 2$ ) is yet worle, thofe very Employs put into the worft of Irijh bands. Are not many of them now arm'd in peace, whom we lately difarm'd in War for being Rebels? Are not many, we then made Prifoners, now made our Mafters? are not we made Captives to them in peace , which we made cur Captives in time of War ? did we give up the conquered Irifh to your Brothers mercy to be now given up by your Majefty to their cruelty ? Are not the Perlbns, moft Rebellious, reputed now the moft Loyal and meri¬ torious, is not their late horrid Rebellion, made now the ftandard of Loyalty and merit? how often do we now hear, the Z)ltock_ Irijh bcaft of their merit, that they killed one hundred thoufand Hereticks in fix Months time, and re¬ proaching the Lempftcr IriJfj that they killed not half that number in double that time ? who ever thought that the Boyles,Coots,St. Georges, &c. (hould be turned out and pur- fued as difaffefted to your Majefty, and the Mac-gennis, Mac-mahous, Oneales, &c. brought into their places, and re¬ ceived as good Subjects. And as I have often heard the Britifh making the aforefaid, and like Expo (lulat ions with their King, Jo have I heard them as frequently making thefe and the like Expojhilations with their Irifh Neighbours. Sir/,What are our Crimes,or what have we, or our fore- Fathers done ? what is the greatnefs of our, or their guilt, that nothing but our utter Extirpation,can be our expiation? have not they and we, been ever purfued as Beaftsofprey, by many of you, who have given clearer Evidence of your being Wolves, and Tygers,then Men orChriftians? have we not dearly bought the Eftates we have here enjoy'd ? might we not have bought the beft Land in England, on eafier Terms then we paid for the worft in Ireland? did we firft get them by oppreffion, or injury, that we muft now loofe them by Perjury and Forgery,after we have made the Annual value, more worth then the Inheritance when Purcha'd ? You C *5 ) Yon well know that Cat aline like, trie EviJs you have done cannot Ipe fafe, but by attempting greater 5 and we sis well know, that the (Reedier is your "haft, the feoff¬ or you will be at your Journeys end. You ttluft be¬ lieve as yenr Church believes, and do as your Pnefts will have you do 5 and we well know, what they would have done with £xcomnwnicated Heretics. You ennnot be true to your own Principles, and continue true to us, we do not expeft Grapes from Thorns, nor Ftggs from Ihijlles'-i fuch as is the Tree, fuch will be the Fruit 5 your National Principles are bad, but your Eccleftaftics worfe$ theft are the two Bellows that blow up the Flame of ycur wrath to the height, that nothing but our Blood, can be our expiation. Should we give you up our Lands, ftock and Improvements, fhould we voluntary yeild our ftlves to be your (laves, nay fhould we turn Papifts, that would not fave us, nor fatisfieyou, our Originalguilt is our Dn- pardortabk fin ^ we afb Britijh, and true to the Briti/h In t ere ft, which can be expiated with nothing lefs than'our' Blood } are not loop's of you yet alive, who drank not many Years fince, too deep of that Cup,and are you thirfty ftill? were not Hecatombs of our flaughtered Brethren then Vi&ims to your mercileis rage, and are you enraged ftill ? was the Harveft fo pleafant then,that now you have power, you are fo Induftrious to fbw the fame Seeds again ? have youfofoon forgot, that when we wanted hands to re¬ venge, that Innocent Blood, which you fo Barba-roufly fpilt then, ard were utterly unable to prevent you of [pilling more, did not God himftlf arift, and plead our caufe, when our Swords could not reach you ? did not his Arm find you out ? did he not then fend a Peftilence, and a Famin amongft you, what the one left, did not the other take, and what both left, did not the Sword devour? and were not thefe, as inexorable to your cries, as you had been before to ours? did not theft deal, as feverely with you, as you had done before with us? did not theft depopulate as many Villages, Parifhes and Towns,in your Proprieties ( V ) Proprieties as you had before in ours ? be that thus Miracnloufly helped us, and as juftly punifhed you, in that Rebellion, why think you may he not do the like for us in your next, which you now ieem to be preparing for? we know his Almighty Arm is not fhortned, your Exul¬ tation , your Te & your Church-merriment for the Exaltation of Rowan, CatbdUdG^ may like the Mufick or rather bowlings at Moloebs Sacrifices, drown the prefent cries of the oppreffed, and ftop the Ears of Men, but will it, think you, as eafily ftop the Ears, or withhold the hand of God ? As we find your malic* no ways abated, fo we wifh and advife you to fie very cautious, how you force it upon anotherTryal, whether his Arm be any Way (harmed > When many of you had drunk deep of otir Blood, to fatiate your rage, were not many of the fame Perfons,fhortly after in the time of Famin as greedy of our Flelh, to fat i die your hunger 3 and did you Cambat\ike eat fever al, and were you not at'laft by the fame- J-ti-ft God referved to be yet more chaftized, by the ffiafpeft and fevereft of E»glrfo hands 3 you made it your fport to deft ray us, they made it their work to deftroy you ? they with as much cafe conquered yon , as you before had Murthered us 3 their great endeavour was to keep off our hands from being your Afliftance, and then feared no harm which could come to them fingly from yours. When your Supream Councel were confuking how to deftroy Crowwel, you know the advice given by the Lord Vfeount Clmmaker^ which was to joyn with him, giving this, as his reafbn, that he never knew his Country Men joyn with any Party, but they (freight deftroyed them, you may make your felves as infamous to Pofterity, as he who deftroy#d Diana\Tewpte^you may deftroy again much of the Country, but cannot long keep it. What C 28 ) What if like Ifaac we are now bound as a ready Sa¬ crifice to your rage, was it yowr courage that did thus bind us ? or our Submiffion to the will of God and his Vice-gerent, and as God wrought a Miraculous delivery for him, fo we doubt not but in his time, which is the beft time, he will work the like for us? What if by the Mifreprefentation of a great Courtier, or greater Favorite with his Prince, than with his God, we are now as the Jews, once were to Han/an, given up to his hands, to be deftroy'd ? have we not a Queen Hejier in our view, who is more able to fave, then he to deftroy us? what if we, who have been as terribly formidable to the Irifh, as Santpfon was to the Phi lijl tans, having now our ftrength taken from us, are become as contemptible as he, without his Locks, yet on the return of our ftrength, we difpair not foon to pull down that Irijh Fabric, which you have now fet up to make us your flaves . fiift experiment which the Crown of England ever made of Ireland} thiiving under an J hoped, it may be the laft, and its our only with, that it may not now prove to be to dearly bought, its manifcfl: by the experience of former Ages, that the lived well and fafe, under the Britifb Government, and 'tis as manifeft, that the Britifh cannot live fo under yours. But you alfo further plead, that you are Innocent, and mod injurioufly barr'd of any benefit by that plea, and that by the exprefs words of the Explanatory Ad. 1. You cannot but acknowledge, that in the times of ufurpation, you had time without limitation, to prove your Innocence. 2. Such of you, as did appear fo were all reftored. 2, When conftant good affedion was thought too nar¬ row, the qualifications for Innocency, fo opened that door, that you got the whole Province of and County of Clare from the then Power. 4.On the Late Kings reftauration in 1660.the clamour of Innocency was again revived; and though the Guilt of the Irijh was then fully proved,and the juft forfeiture of your Lives and Fortunes affirm'd, as appears by the Preface of the AU of Settlement aforementioned,yet a Years time more was allow'd for Tryal of your Innocence. 5. On palling the Explanation Bill in the Houfe oiCom¬ mons in Ireland, it was made appear, that your Agents had inferted that Bar, or claufe againft Innocency, in the A& of Explanation, on purpofe to reproach the then ex¬ pected Settlement. 6. The Cornmiffioners for Executing the of Settle¬ ment being prevailed with by your Agents, to put the proof of your guilt upon us, and they feverally refuting and undervaluing the Evidence of the Souldiery, both before and fince 1649. as Parties, by reafon of the latisfadion confirmed to them by the Ads, and rejeding the as ParticipetCriminis , and the Irijh having deftroyed all the Old Britijb within their reach,there waslittle polfibility to \ to m t. ^ . ... c 3* ) t° prove the Guiltof the mod: many who were prelcribed by publick Proclamation, and large Sums of¬ fered to any to bring in their heads, were by tbefe rc- ltraints, made Innocent $ the Mar quefs of Antrem the only furviving General which the Rebels had in Vlfter was o- penly declared Innocent 5 and the then Duk§ of Ormond being fo declared the fame day, was heard to fay, that that Judgment was certainly erroneous 5 for that they head¬ ing two differing Parties, and Fighting with each other, on Authorities, could not poffibly be both Innocent, the LordsTaaff, Prefton, Mufskerry and Caftle-havtn being the only furviving Generals, in the other Provinces of that Kingdom, were lb far from efteeming themfelves Obnoxi¬ ous, for what they did in that Rebellion , that they not JrfOCl^r o a re^aurat'°n to their former Proprieties by the Aas of Settlements, but had large Donatives of for5 feited Lands, confirmed to them by that Law 5 and three or them the Addition of new Honours conferred on them, to make them the more fignally meritorious, and were railed to that Elevation of confident Merit, that they and others, moft Aftive in that Rebellion , petitioned the Government here, to have their arrears Stated, for the good Services they did his Majefty in that Rebellion. So that by the aforefaid reftraints given by the Commiflioners, and by the powerful intereft of the aforefaid Generals and their Clergy, few or none were made Nocents, but fuch as wanted either Friends or Money, to make them Innocent. But when the guilty Claimant found that it was eafier buy¬ ing an inconfiderable part of his Eftate from the Souldier or Adventurer, then to run the Rifque of the whole by the expenfive methods of that Court, they would ufually pur- chafe that fmall proportion, and limit their Claims to the purchafed part,and to that no oppofition being given they were declared Innocent ofcourfe, and being thus declared, they would foon after get their whole Eftate by duecourfe of Law, though this cheat is exprefly mentioned in the Aft of Explanation, yet there may the Reader find the decrees E 2 under C 32 ) under the Name or Title of decrees, de good by that Law,as illegal as were their whole col lu five decrees, pafled afcer the 2:1. of July i 66%the well knowing that was the time limited by Law for their Adjudication, and the Britijh preparing little or no oppofition againft the worftof the Claimants, Innocents were made as faft as their Claims were read, and the work was lb Sweet and Plealant to the Commiffioners, that they continued mak- ing Innocents until the 22 d,of following, fifty one days after the time by Law limited was expired, and in thefe fifty one days made more Innocents then they had done be¬ fore,and that the benefitfdefer ves a worfer name) might be equally divided, the Commillioners agreed that each Com- midioner in his turn prepare his Lift of Claimants for that Days work, only the laft day viz. 2 2d. of , there was upwards of fevcnty Claims pofted up to be heard, and their Clerk having not time to read half the Claims, and he making that day as many Innocents as the Court, was reported to (hare half the benefit of that Days work. Yet as IL LEG A L Corrupt and as thefe Decrees Were, they muft, and that by a Britijh Parliament be confirmed,and one third of what Was left the Britijh re- trencht,or not one Foot could beconfirmM to the by that Law, as appears to any that reads but that Aft of Ex¬ planation. THESE WERE FINE INNOCENTSl Thefe and their Nocentsare like to make fair Sheriffs, Judges and Juries of fach Eftates as are fecured, or left the Bri¬ tijh by that Law. And as the Irijf} had thefe Encouragments in times of Peace, fo on enquiry, it will be found, that they had as many or more in times of War, which fas appears) was begun not only with the higheft Approbation and En- couragment of their own Clergy, but had the United Concurrence, Benediaions and Mafies of moft of the Ro- mijh Clergy ifl Europe, for their good Succefs. Urban the VIII. (33) VIII. the then Pope, thought it not enough, to fend his Nuntio, to be President of their Councels, and to Aft as General over their Armies, but with him, fent his Bull, bearing date the i yth of May, 1642. fix Months after the beginning of the faid Rebellion, when above one hundred thoufand innocent Britifi) had been inhumanly Butchered by the 7r//7yind they at that inftant Murthering more, as faft as they could, yet in the faid Bull, his Holinefs was pleafed to call thefe perfidious, horrid Irifij Murtherers, Faithful Chrifti- ans, Godly Warriors, their Rebellion a Godly undertaking to relieve their Country and their poor MaJJacred and Mur- thered Britifh Proteftants, Heretickj and workers of Iniquity, and by the faid Bull, gives further Encouragment to the faid Irifh, to confefs to any fecular or regular Prieft ap¬ proved by the Ordinary of the place, who on hearing their laid Confeffions, was Impowrd to give them abfolutions from all their Sins, how great, or hainous fo ever they were. In Imitation of this Holy Example, given by his Holinefs himfelf, it is notorioufly known, that no Pennance was more ufually impofed by their Biggoted Clergy, on the meft vileft Offenders, then the Murthering of Innocent Proteftants, under the name of Heretickj, and that before they would give abfolution, they would frequently ad¬ vance Monies and promife their faying feveral Mafles for their good Succefs. And to conclude, at the Writing hereof, there is fuch Intelligence here obtained, which gives more then a pro¬ bable afluraace, the fame Spirit is now at work, and fome of the faid Clergy have actually Employ d profligate Vil¬ lains, to Murther fuch Proteflants, as are in profpedt, un¬ der God, moft likely to preferve the Reformed Religion in this part of the World. Are ( 34 ) Are thefe the Do&rines or Praftifes of Cbriftians, or are they not rather the Doftrines of the Devil, who was a Mur- therer from the beginning ? Well might the Heathen Cry, Sit Anima mea cum Philofophit5 and as well may the hrifti- an lay, Noftrum non eh Evangeli ant hi font Anti-chrijU potiuj qnkmChrifti Pontifices & Sacerdotes. A .x \jcfo X r" t " •' - )1 ' "i $ r. m A L I S T of the Nobility of Ireland, in id88. Proteftants. Papifts. Duke of Marquefe of Orn/ond. Antrim. Earls. Earls. Ktldare. Clanrickard. Thomond. Cafilehaven. Cork JFiy? Meath. Defmond. Fingall. Barrymore. Cajilemayne. Meath. Car ling ford. Gffory. Tyronne. liojjcommon. Tyrconnel. Londonderry. Donnegal. Arran. Conaway. Carberry. j4rdglafs. Rannalagh. Cavan. \ Jnchiquin. Clancarty. Orrery. Mountrath. Drogheda. Waterford. Mount-alex* ander. Down. Longford. Proteftants. Vifcounts. Grandifon. fVilmot. Loflus. Swords. Kilnwrry. Cafileton. Lhamworth. Sligo. Waterford. Strangford. Tuant. Carelow. Cullcn. Shannon. Dromoore. Mazarine. Kells. Dnngannon. Fitzharding. Clare. Charlemonnt. Powers. Blejfing Town. Rofs. Lifsburne. Papifts. Rathcoole. Bareford. Bronkart. Galmoy. KingJJand. Gormanftown. Mayo. JCillmaJlock• Ba- Proteftants. Barons. Kin/ale. Kerry. Hoath. Mount joy. Foliot. Maynard. Gorges. Proteftants. Barons. Digbey. Lifford. Herbert. Loghlin. Coleraine. Leitritn. Donmore. Proteftants. Barons. Killard. King/ion. Colooney. Santry. Clawnally. Altrym. Bifhops, 24. Papifts. Barons. Aihenry. Cahir. Baltimore. Strabane* FINIS. Errata. PAg. 1.1. 27. omitted, id valet quantum rendi pot eft. pag. 11.1.9. y-November for Number, pag. 12.1.18. dele re.