of his vassals and subjects, to your Royal service, hum-
bly beseeching your Majesty to receive, favour, and aid
him with your power and liberal hand, seeing there is no
other that can and will assist us better against the here-
tics in this Holy enterprise.

"Your Majesties loyal vassal, to kiss
your Royal Hand

66

DONOGHE CARTIE.'''

LETTER OF POPE CLEMENT VIII. TO H. O'NEILL, COMPLIMENTING
HIM ON THE PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS OF HIS REBELLION, ETC.

(In MacGeoghegan, tom. iii. p. 588, Amst. 1763. Foulis, p. 482. Phelan gives an English version of it in his usual inaccurate style. Remains, ii. 236)

"To our beloved son, the noble Prince HUGH O'NEILL, Clement commander and Captain General of the Catholic army in VIII. conIreland. gratulates H. O'Neill, "Beloved son and noble sir, health and apostolical &c. on their benediction.

successful

against the

"We have learned from the letter of your eminence, insurrection as well as from the information orally communicated to "apostate us by our beloved son PETER LOMBARD, provost of Cam- English," bray, that the holy League which you and many other princes and Chieftains, and leading noblemen of that kingdom have, in the goodness of God, been led to estab

lish among yourselves, still continues to hold together in the cement of charity, and to go on increasing, and that by the aid and might of the same Lord of Hosts, you have on divers occasions been successful in battle against the English, those apostates from the Church and from the faith. Great pleasure in the Lord have we received from this intelligence; and offered up our thanks to that God the Father of mercies, who has still left to himself in that kingdom many thousands that have not bowed the knee to Baal. For these have never gone after impious heresies and profane novelties, but on the contrary fight bravely in detestation of them, for the inheritance of their fathers, for the preservation of the faith, for the maintenance of integrity and unity with the Church, which is one, Catholic, and Apostolic, out of which there is no salvation. We praise, dear son, the excellent spirit of piety and bravery manifested by yourself, and by the Princes and all others, who having engaged in this league and as worthy confederacy with you, shrink not from encountering any dangers whatsoever for the glory of God; and prove and cient proge- openly profess themselves worthy descendants, and proper successors of their ancestors, men eminently famous for their warlike bravery, zeal for the Catholic religion, and glorious renown. Preserve, children, such a spirit; preserve your unanimity and concord, and God Almighty, the God of harmony and peace, shall be with you, and fight for you, and will prostrate, as he hath done heretofore, His enemies before our face.

and com

mends them

children of their an

nitors.

"And as for ourselves, loving and cherishing as we do in the bowels of Jesus Christ, your highness, and all of you who imitate the faith and glory of your forefathers, we cease not to beseech our God for your prosperity and welfare, and we are and ever will be interested in you and for you, so far as God will enable us to He promises be thus minded. And when there shall be occasion, we will write effective letters to the Catholick kings and

to recom

Romish

princes, our children, that they support you and your mend their cause with all the aid in their power; we propose also to case to the send to you shortly a special nuncio from ourselves, and powers of from this holy College, (in which the Providence of Europe; God hath appointed us, however unworthy, to preside) a and to send man of piety and prudence, possessed of a zeal for God, them a nunand approved of by us, to attest our high respect for you, ly. and lend you aid, in all cases where there may be occasion, for the maintaining of your salutary and necessary union, propagating the Catholick faith, and performing in fine all offices connected with his function, whereby the honour and worship of God may be promoted in that kingdom.

cio present

Meanwhile it seemed good to us to forward to you His gracious these our letters as pledges of our affection towards reception of their agent yourselves and that kingdom, and as a means of admin- P. Lomistering to you all, as our dear children in Christ, the bard; consolations of our fatherly kindness. And as for PETER LOMBARD Whom your eminence has appointed to be your orator and agent at our court, we have willingly given him audience and shall be ready still to do so. And on yourself, and on the others of like mind who adhere to you in your struggle for upholding the Catholic faith, we bestow with feelings of satisfaction our own and the apostolic blessing: finally we pray that He may send his Angels to be about your path, direct your pious efforts and closing with his heavenly grace, and evermore defend you with benediction. the right hand of his power.

Given at St. Peter's at Rome, under the Ring of the Fisherman, the 20th day of January, anno 1601, in the ninth year of our Pontificate,

"SILVIUS ANTONIANUS CARDIN."

The occa

manifesto.

No. LIV.

MANIFESTO OF DON JUAN D'AQUILA,

[The Lord Deputy having issued a proclamasion of this tion at Cork, setting forth the iniquity of the practices of Rome and Spain against England, and calling on all good subjects to persevere in their loyalty to Queen Elizabeth, Don Juan D'Aquila published a sort of answer in the form of a counter proclamation, the most striking passages of which are contained in the following extracts. The whole may be seen in Foulis, p. 484, where the introductory note and reference is as follows:- This is in Latin, MS. F. 97 Cant. in Bib. Bodl. Oxon, and thus in English in Pacata Hibernia pp. 200-202.']

D'Aquila will not

"Don Juan de Aquila, Generall of the warr, and the Catholique king of Spain's chief commander in God's warr which is made in Ireland for the defence of the Faith: To all the Irish Catholiques living in Kingsale, the legitimate city of Cork, and all other villages, Cities and Castles, Sovereignty, wisheth health in him who is the true happiness . . .

allow Q. Elizabeth to have any

after the papal sen

tence to the

contrary.

"First of all, ye [the Lord Deputy, &c.] feign that we would lead away the pretended subjects of the Queen of England from their obedience, to bring them under our yoak, which is a very untruth; for we endeavour not to persude any body that he should deny due obedience (according to the word of God) to his prince. But ye

know well, that for many years since, Elizabeth was deprived of her kingdom, and all her subjects absolved from their fidelity by the pope; unto whom He that reigneth in the heavens, the King of kings, hath committed all power, that he should root up, destroy, plant, and build in such sort, that he may punish temporal kings (if it should be good for the spiritual building) even to their deposing; which thing hath been done in the kingdoms of England and Ireland by many popes, viz. by Pope PIUS QUINTUS, GREGORY the thirteenth, and now by Three biCLEMENT the 8th as it is well known; whose bulls are Rome cited shops of extant amongst us: I speak to Catholicks, not to fro- in support ward hereticks, who have fallen from the faith of the of his noRoman Church, seeing they are blind leaders of the blind, tions of the duty of Caand such as know not the grounds of the truth, it is no tholics. marvel that they do also disagree from us in this thing. But our brethren the Catholiques, walking in the purness of the faith, and yielding to the Catholique Church (which is the very pillar of the truth) will easily understand all those things. Therefore it remaineth that the Irish (which adhere to us) do work with us nothing that is against God's laws or their due obedience; nay that which they do, is according to God's word and the obedience which they owe the pope.

the obe

Therefore my most beloved, seeing that which you All "rehave so many years before desired and begged for with maining in prayers and tears; and that now, even now, the Pope, dience of Christ's vicar on earth, doth command you to take armes the English for the defence of your faith; I admonish, exhort, and to be prosebeseech you all, all I say unto whom these letters shall cuted as he come, that as soon as possibly you can, you come to us unto death." with your friends and weapons: whosoever shall do this, shall find us prepared, and we will communicate unto them those things which we possess, and whosoever shall (de

retics even