myself in this remonstrance, I conceive it both proper and charitable, in this place, to labour to acquit him, who, I understand, hath unjustly suffered for my sake, I mean sheriff Allen. The protestant sheriff Woodcock, to whose custody only I was committed, went unpunished for my escape, as really he knew nothing thereof But sheriff Allen being a catholick, who had no charge of me, nor acquaintance with me, other than that I often saw him, when he came to treat with his brother sheriff about the city affairs, he, poor innocent man, for so I take God to witness he was as to my escape, or as to any word let fall to that effect to my knowledge, or that I can guess, was, with great inhumanity, dragged to "prison, most of his goods seized upon and taken away, and a great num ber of soldiers cessed upon his house. Whereby, and being made uncapable to receive his rents or debts, or to follow any other way he had to gain a living by, his wife and children, from that day forth, were exposed to the charity of their friends, and he condemned to imprisonment for a whole year in misery. How justifiable or conscionable, this proceeding was, I will not argue, much less aggravate, having discharged my conscience thereupon: the matter itself, both to God and the world, crying loud for justice. NUMBER XI. [From Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica, vol. ii. p. 78.] The heads of the causes which moved the northern Irish, and Catholicks of Ireland to take arms. Anno 1641. [ See Review, p. 161, ge. 1. It was plotted and resolved by the puritans of England, Scotland and Ireland, to extinguish quite the catholick religion, and the professors and maintainers thereof, out of all those kingdoms; and to put all catholicks of this realm to the sword, that would not conform themselves to the protestant religion. 2. The state of Ireland did publickly declare, that they would root out of this realm all the natives, and make a total second conquest of the land, alledging, that they were not safe with them. S. All the natives here were deprived of the benefit of the ancient fundamental laws, liberties, and privileges, due by all laws and justice to a free people and a nation, and more particularly due by the municiple laws of Ireland. 4. That the subjects of Ireland, especially the Irish, were thurst out forcibly from their ancient possessions, against law, without colour or right; and could not have propriety or security in their estates, goods, or other rights, but were wholly subject to an arbitrary power, and tyrannical government, these forty years past, without hope of relief or redress. 5. Their native youth here, debarred by the practice of state, from all learning and education, in that the one only university here excludes all catholicks thence; neither are they suffered to acquire learning or breed ing beyond seas, of purpose to make them rude and ignorant of all letters. 6. The catholicks of this realm are not admitted to any dignity, place, or office, either military or civil, spiritual or temporal, but the same conferred upon unworthy persons, and men of no quality, who purchase it for money, or favour, and not by merit. 7. All the trading, treffick, shipping, and riches of this whole isle, by the corruption of the state, are engrossed by the Dutch, Scottish, and English, not residing here, who exclude the natives wholly from the same; and who return the product, and all their stock and coin back into their pative countries. 8. All the staple and rich commodities of the realm are turned to monopolies, and heavy impositions against law laid on all merchandize. 9. The principle native wares of the land exported into foreign parts, unwrought and unmanufactured, thereby depriving the kingdom of all manual trades and occupations; and driving the natives to furnish themselves from head to foot, with manufactures from abroad, at very dear rates. 10. All their heavy and insufferable pressures prosecuted and laboured by the natives of this kingdom, with much suit, expense, and importunity, both in parliament here, and in England before his majesty, to be redressed, yet could never be brought to any happy conclusion, or as much as hope of contentment, but always eluded with delays. 11. Common justice, and the rights and privileges of parliament, denied to all the natives of the realm; and the ancient course of parliamentary proceeding wholly declined. 12. His majesty's royal power, honour, prerogative, estate, revenue, and rights, invaded upon, by the puritan faction in England. 13. The government of all his realms, his queen, children and family, usurped by the parliament of England, and especially by the house of commons; as likewise, the nominating and disposing of his privy council, judges, clergy, officers, navy, forts and castles, arrogated by the said house of commons, leaving his highness nothing, but the bare name of a king. 14. The many affronts and wrongs done by the said house, to the ambassadors of foreign princes, confederates of his majesty, residing in England, and their chaplains and servants, against the conditions of their league, and the law of nations. 15. The gross injuries and scandal given by the said house of commons to the queen's majesty, and her chaplains and servants, in breach of the articles made upon her marriage. 16. The many horrid murders, robberies, pillages, waste, burnings, and other execrable cruelties, perpetrated of late by the protestant armies here, by publick direction of the state of this realm, upon his majesty's good subjects of the English pale, and other parts of this land, they not offending against the laws or peace of the realm, but merely standing upon their own defence; and this done them against his majesty's pleasure, and without his privity. 17. All the natives in the English plantations of the realm, were disarmed by proclamation, and the protestant plantators armed, and tied by the conditions of their plantations to have arms, and to keep certain numbers of horse and foot continually upon their lands, by which advantage, many thousands of the natives were expulsed out of their possessions, and as many hanged by martial law, without cause, and against the laws of this realm; and many of them otherwise destroyed, and made away, by sinister means and practices. 18. Half this realm was found to belong unto his majesty, as his ancient demesne and inheritance, upon old feigned titles of three hundred years past, by juries, against law, their evidence and conscience, who were corrupted to find the said titles, upon promise of part of those lands so found for the king, or other reward, or else were drawn thereunto by threats of the judges in the circuits, or by heavy fines, mulcts, and censure of pillory, stigmatizings, and other like cruel and unusual punishments. NUMBER XII. (From Walsh's History of the Irish Remonstrance.ĺ To the King's most excellent Majesty. The humble remonstrance, acknowledgement, protestation, and petition of the Roman catholic clergy of Ireland. [See Review, p. 413.] YOUR majesties faithful subjects, the Roman catholic clergy of your majesties kingdom of Ireland, do most humbly represent this their present state, and deplorable condition. That being intrusted by the indispensable commission of the king of kings with the cure of souls, and the care of their flocks, in order to the adminis tration of sacraments, and teaching the people that perfect obedience, which for conscience sake, they are bound to pay to your majesties commands, they are loaden with calumnies, and persecuted with severity. That being obliged by the allegiance they owe, and ought to swear, unto your majesty, to reveal all conspiracies and practices against your person, and royal authority, that come to their knowledge, they are themselves clamoured against as conspirators, plotting the destruction of the English among them, without any ground that may give the least colour to so foul a crime, to pass for probable in the judgement of an indifferent person. That their crimes are made as numerous, and as divers, as are the inventions of their adversaries: and because they cannot with freedom appear to justifie their innocence, all the fictions and allegations against them are received as undoubted verities; and which is yet more mischevious, the laity, upon whose conscience the character of priesthood gives them an influence, suffer under the supposition of all the crimes thus falsely imputed to them: it being their adversaries principal design, that the Irish, whose estates they enjoy, should be reputed persons unfit, and no way worthy of any title to your majesties mercy. That no wood comes amiss to make arrows for their destruction: for, as if the Roman catholic clergy, whom they esteem most criminal, were, or ought to be, a society so perfect, as no evil, no indiscreet person should be found amongst them, they are all of them generally cryed down for any crime, whether true or feigned, which is imputed to one of them; and as if no words could be spoken, no letter written, but with the common consent of all of them, the whole clergy must suffer for that which is laid to the charge of any particular person amongst them. We know what odium all the catholic clergy lyes under, by reason of the calumnies with which our tenets in religion, and our dependence upon the pope's authority are aspersed and we humbly beg your majesties pardon, to vindicate both by the ensuing protestation, which we make in the sight of heaven, and in the presence of your majesty, sincerely and truly, without equivocation, or mental reservation. We do acknowledge and confess your majesty to be our true and lawful king, supreme lord, and rightful sovereign of this realm of Ireland, and of all other your majesties dominions. And therefore we acknowledge and confess ourselves to be obliged under pain of sin, to obey your majesty in all civil and temporal affairs, as much as any other of your majesties subjects, and as the laws and rules of government in this do require at our hands. And that, notwithstanding any power or pretention of the pope or see of Rome, or any sentence or declaration of what kind or quality soever, given, or to be given, by the pope, his predecessors, or successors, 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 uttermost of our abilities, our faithful loyalty, and true allegiance to your majesty. And we openly disclaim and renounce all foreign power, be it either papal or princely, spiritual or temporal, in as much as it may seem able, or shall pretend to free, discharge, or absolve us from this obligation, or shall any way give us leave or licence to raise tumults bear armes, or offer any violence to your majesties person, royal authority, or to the state of government. Being all of us ready, not only to discover, and make known to your majesty, and to your ministers, all the treasons made against your majesty, or them, which shall come to our hearing, but also to lose our lives in the defence of your majesties person, and royal authority, and to resist with our best endeavours all conspiracies and attempts against your majesty, be they framed, or sent under what pretence, or patronized by what foreign power or authority soever. And further we profess, that all absolute princes, and supreme governours, of what religion soever 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 subject may kill or murder the anointed of God, his prince, though of a different belief and religion from his. And we abhor and detest the practice thereof as damnable and wicked. These being the tenets of our religion, in point of loyalty and submission to your majesties commands, and our dependence of the see of Rome no way intrenching upon that perfect obedience, which by our birth, and by all laws divine and human, we are bound to pay to your majesty, our natural and lawful sovereign: we humbly beg, prostrate at your majesties feet, that you would be pleased to protect us from the severe persecution we suffer meerly for our profession in religion: leaving those that are, or hereafter shall be guilty of other crimes (and there have been such in all times, as well by their pens, as by their actions) to the punishment pres cribed by the law. Fr. Oliver Darcy, Bishop of Dromore. Fr. Geo. Dillon, of St. Francis ord. guardian of the Irish franciscans at Paris. Fr. Philip Roch, of St. Francis ord. reader general of divinity. Fr. Anthony Gearnon, of St. Francis ord. one of her majesties the queen mother's chaplains. Fr. John Everard, of St. Francis ord. conf. and preacher. Fr. Anthony Nash, of St. Francis ord. conf. and preacher. Fr. William Linch, of St. Francis ord. conf. Fr. Nicholas Sall, of St. Francis ord. conf. and preacher. James Cusack, doctor of divinity Cornelius Fogorty, protonot. apost. and doctor of the civil and canon law. Fr. Henry Gibon, of St. Aug. ord. conf. and preacher. Daniel Dougan, divine. Fr. Redmond Moore, of St. Dom. ord. conf. and preacher, Bartholomew Bellew, Dennis Fitz Ranna. Bartholomew Flemming. Fr. Peter Walsh, of St. Fran. ord. reader of divinity, and procurat. of the Rom. cath. clergy, both sec. and reg. of Irel. Fr. Redmond Caron, of St. Fran. ord. reader jubilate of divinity. Fr. Simon Wafre, of the same ord, reader of divinity. Fr. James Caverly, of St. Francis ord. conf. and preacher. NUMBER XIII [From Walsh's History of the Irish Remonstrance.] To the King's most excellent Majesty. The faithful protestation, and humble remonstrance of the Roman catholick nobility and gentry of Ireland. [See Review, p. 414.] YOUR majesties faithful subjects, the Roman catholic nobility and gentry of your majesties kingdom of Ireland, out of a deep sense of those prodígious afflictions, under which the monarchy of Great Britain, has before your majesties happy restauration, groaned these twenty years: and out of our sad thoughts, which daily bring more and more sighs from our breasts, and tears from our eyes, for not only the still and yet continued miseries, and sufferings of the catholic natives of this our unfortunate country, even amidst, and ever since, the so much famed joyes and triumphs of your sacred majesties most auspicious inauguration; but also for the causes thereof, (whereinto we have made the most narrow search we could) of these our own unparalleled calamities; and upon reflection upon that allegiance we owe, and ought by all divine and human laws, and which we are, and have been always ready to swear and perform to your majesty, our only sovereign lord on earth; and on the scandal (notwithstanding) which some persons (who are unwilling to understand aright our religion) cast upon it, as if it were not consistent with all dutiful obedience and faith to the supreme temporal magistrate; and upon consideration likewise, of a further tye of conscience on us, for endeavouring, as much as in us lyes, to clear your majesties royal breast from all fears and jealousies whatsoever, if any, peradventure, your majesty entertain of us, through the suggestion of such as hate our communion or nation; and to wipe off that scandal, and allay the odium under which our church hath layn this last century of years, among other christian 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 ensuing protestation. 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 sight of heaven, and in the presence of your majesty, sincerely and truly, without equivocation, or mental reservation. We do acknowledge and confess your majesty to be our true and lawful king, supreme lord and rightful sovereign of this realm of Ireland, and of all other your majesties dominions. And therefore we acknowledge and confess ourselves to be obliged, under pain of sin, to obey your majesty in all civil and temporal affairs, as much as any other of your majesties subjects, and as the laws and rules of government in this kingdom do require at our hands. And that notwithstanding any power or pretension of the Pope, or see of Rome, or any sentence or declaration, of what kind or quality soever given, or to be given, by the Pope, his predecessors or successors, 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 uttermost of our abilities, our faithful loyalty, and true allegiance to your majesty. And we openly disclaim and renounce all foreign power, be it either papal or princely, spiritual or temporal, in as much as it may seem able, or shall pretend to free, discharge, or absolve us from this obligation, or shall any way give us leave or licence to raise tumults, bear armes, or offer any violence to your majesties person, royal authority, or to the state or government; being all of us ready, not only to discover, and make known to your majesty, and to your ministers, all the treasons made against your majesty or them, which shall come to eur hear ing, but also to lose our lives in the defence of your majesties person, and |