years, among other chriftian people in these nations, of a different way from ours in the worship of God; we humbly crave your majesties pardon, to vindicate both ourselves, and our holy belief, in that particular of our allegiance, by the enfuing proteftation. Which (in imitation of the good example given by our clergy, and pursuant to the general doctrine and practice of the catholick church) we make in the fight of heaven, and in the presence of your majefty, fincerely and truly, without equivocation, or mental refervation.

We do acknowledge and confefs your majefty to be our true and lawful king, fupreme lord, and rightful foveraign of this realm of Ireland, and of all other your majefties dominions. And therefore we acknowledge and confefs ourselves to be obliged, under pain of fin, to obey your majefty in all civil and temporal affairs, as much as any other of your majesties fubjects, and as the laws and rules of government in this kingdom do require at our hands. And that notwithstanding any power or pretenfion of the Pope, or See of Rome, or any sentence or declaration, of what kind or quality foever, given, or to be given, by the Pope, his predeceffors, or fucceffors, or by any authority, spiritual or temporal, proceeding or derived from him, or his See, against your majesty, or royal authority, we will still acknowledge and perform, to the uttermoft of our abilities, our faithful loyalty, and true allegiance to your majesty. And we openly difclaim and renounce all foreign power, be it either papal or princely, fpiritual or temporal, in as much as it may feem able, or fhall pretend to free, discharge, or abfolve us from this obligation, or fhall any way give us leave or licence to raise tumults, bear armes, or offer any violence to your majefties perfon, royal authority, or to the ftate or government; being all of us ready, not only to discover, and make known to your majefty, and to your minifters, all the treasons made against your majefty or them, which shall come to our hearing, but also to lose our lives in the defence of your majefties person, and royal authority; and to refift with our beft endeavours all confpiracies and attempts against your majefty, be they framed or fent under what pretence, or patronized by what foreign power or authority foever. And further we profefs, that all abfolute princes, and fupreme govenours, of what religion foever they be, are God's lieutenants on earth; and that obedience is due to them, according to the laws of each commonwealth respectively, in all civil and temporal affairs; and therefore we do here protest against all doctrine and authority to the contrary. And we do hold it impious, and against the word of God, to maintain, that any private fubject may kill or murther the anointed of God, his prince, though of a different belief and religion from his. And we abhor and deteft the practice thereof as damnable and wicked.

These

These being the tenets of our religion in point of loyalty and fubmiffion to your majefties authority, and our obfervance and veneration of, or communion with, the See of Rome, in matters purely fpiritual, no way entrenching on that perfect obedience, which, by our birth, by the laws of God and man, we are bound to pay to your majesty, our natural and lawful foveraign.

Proftrate at your majesties feet, we moft humbly beg, that all your majefties Roman catholick fubjects of Ireland who fhall, by fubfcription or confent, concur to this publick protestation of loyalty, be protected from perfecution, for the profeffion or exercife of their religion, and all former laws, upon that account, against them repealed.

Patrick Moore of Duans-town.
Nicholas Haly of Towrine.
Pierce Butler of Callan.
Pierce Butler of Killuealegher.
John Sedgraw of Cabragh.
Richard Wadding of Killbarry.
Tho. Brown of Clan-Donel-
Roe.

Oliver Caffel of Dundalke.
Patrick Clenton of Irish-town.
Capt. Chriftopher Turner.
John Baggot.
William Grace.
John Arthur of Hogeftown.
Marcas Laffan of Greats-town.
Chrift. Aylmer of Balrath.
James Plunkett of Gibston.
Tho. St. John of Mortles-town.

William Barioge of Rincorran.
Rich. Strange of Rockwell-
caftle.

James Butler of Ballenekill.
Anthony Colclough.
Tho. Sarsfield of Sarsfields-

town.

Pierce Nangle of Monanimy.
Ja. Wolverftown of Stillorgan.
Michael Brett.

Patrick Boyton of Bally-turny

mac-oris.

James White of Chambolly.
Major Lawrence Dempfy.
Captain Richard Dempfy.
Edward Nugent of Calvin.
Patrick Porter of Kingston.
Major Marcus Furlong.

NUM B. XIV.

[From Lesley's Answer to King. Append.]

Extract of Dr. Gorge, Secretary to General Schomberg in Ireland, his Letter, dated April (or May) 1690, to Colonel James Hamilton, in London, to be communicated to the Lady Viscountefs Ranelagh, the Lord Maffareen, and others.

[See Review, vol. ii. p. 159.]

You know how often and how early we preffed the neceffity

of restoring a civil government in this province, and how often and openly we declared that the ruine of the countrey must be the prejudice, and endanger the ruine of the army; and that there could be found no hands fo cheap and eafie to be got, or any that would be more hearty and faithfull than the protestants of this countrey, who having their particular interests seconded by natural and religious motives, must be more zealous in carrying on this war, than any foreign or mercenary foldiers, as is evident by what has been done by the Londonderry and Enefkillen foldiers, who are and were made up of the meaneft and lowest people of this and the neighbouring provinces. You cannot forget who offered, and that at their own charge, on our first landing here, to block up Charlemont, and to raise regiments to fecure the northern garrisons, that the established army, might have the more leisure to attend the motions of the publick enemy; and I prefume you cannot but as well remember, who ridiculed, fcorned, and contemned all motions of that kind, and who

affirmed,

affirmed, and that openly, that the protestants of this province, ought rather to be treated as enemies than friends, and that the beft of them had either bafely complied with K. J. and his party, or cowardly left and deferted their countrey; that the goods and ftocks of the proteftant inhabitants, once feized by the enemy, were forfeited, and ought not to be restored, but given as encouragement to the foldiers; that all papifts ought to be plundered, and none protected; that the restoration of civil government was a diminution of the power of the general and the army, and that all the proteftants, inhabitants of this province, were false to the present government, and ought not to be trufted with places of truft or power; that as their perfons were not to be trusted, so their oaths and complaints were neither to be believed not redreffed; that so an easier and a fafer approach might be made to invade the little left them by the Irish.

That all endeavours of the fettlement of a publick revenue were defigns to oppress the army; that free quartering was the least retaliation that proteftants could give for being restored to their former eftates; that religion is but canting, and debauchery the neceffary character of foldiers. If to these you add the preffing of horses at pleasure, quartering at pleasure, robbing and plundering at pleasure, denying the people bread or feed of their own corn, though the general by his publick proclamation requires both; and fome openly and publickly contemning and fcorning the faid proclamation; whereby multitudes of families are already reduced to want of bread, and left only to beg, or fteal, or ftarve. These being the practices, and these the principles, and both as well known to you as to me; can it be wondered that the oppreffed protestants here fhould report us worse than the Irish? Or can it be wondered that God should pursue us with his dreadful judgments, who have fo provoked him with our daring fins? Or can we rationally expect God should fight for us, while we thus fight against him? We may as well expect grapes from thornes, and figs from thiftles, as fuccefs to a proteftant caufe from fuch hands. Can we expect Sodom to destroy Babylon, or debauchery to deftroy popery? Our enemy fights with the principle of a mistaken confcience against us, we against the conviction of our own principles against them, What I have learned of the enemies principles and practices fince I left you, I fhall here inform you, and reduce what I have to say to these two general heads.

I. The frequent difcourfe of their king.

II. His public declarations and proclamations for the well-government of his army.

I. As to his private discourse.

1. He expreffeth great zeal, and paffionate affection to his English subjects, in fo much that both French and Irish often

fay

fay of him, as he did of King David, That he loves his enemies, and hates his friends.

2. He is heard often to defire his officers, That in their engagement with the English, they should be treated as mistaken fubjects, and not as obftinate rebels.

3. He is heard often to declare, that fince he rightly underftood chriftianity, he ever afferted chriftian liberty, as well in his past profperity, as prefent adverfity.

4. That all perfwasions in matters of religion, Who have most charity and least of severity, are most agreeable to christianity.

5. He is often heard to complain, That he ever obferved, an aptitude and propenfity in persons of power to persecute such as differ from them.

6. That this natural aptitude to perfecute, ought to be reftrained by wholesome and effectual laws.

7. That this perfecuting spirit influencing the greater number of all perfwafions, especially perfons in power, is the only cause of his majefty's prefent fufferings.

8. He is paffionately kind to all deserters, and chearfully receives and foon prefers them.

9. He pretending his fufferings to be thus on the account of confcience, seems not to doubt, but God will find fome unexpected means, for his reftauration, in 1690, as he did in 1660.

10. He is heard frequently to declare against the dragooning perfecution of France, and the barbarous and inhumane murders committed on the proteftants of this kingdom in the year 1641, as paffionately, and perhaps as fincerely as the Scribes and Pharifees did against their forefathers for perfecuting the prophets.

To thefe I think fit to add the particulars of his majesty's publick declarations, which are ordered to be read once every two months in the head of every troop and company in his whole army, and to be fixed up in all the boroughs and markettowns in this kingdom.

1. His majefty is pleafed earnestly to recommend the performance of publick and private duties to God, to all under his command, and particularly recommends to the Roman catholicks of his army frequent confeffions, and strict obfervation of Sundays and Holy-days.

2. He publickly declares what fubfiftence he allows to every horfe, dragoon, and every private foldier in his army, and what is referved in the paymaster's hands for the accoutrements and the hospital.

3. He avoids and forbids as unneceffary, the charge of all agents, and commands the majors of every regiment to do that work, and to fave the charge.

4. He ftrictly requires the private foldier out of the faid fubfiftence duly and truly to pay his quarters.