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<P>THE AUTHOR AND Ca&s;e of Tran&s;planting THE <HI>IRISH</HI> into <HI>Connaught</HI> VINDICATED, from the unju&s;t A&s;per&s;ions of Col. <HI>RICHARD LA&V;RENCE.</HI></P>
<P>By <HI>Vincent Gookin</HI> E&s;quire.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>A. M.</HI> for <HI>Simon Miller</HI> at the Signe of the Starre in S^t <HI>Pauls</HI> Church-yard, 1653.</P>
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<HEAD>TO HIS EXCELLENCY the Lord Deputy General of <HI>IRELAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>MY LORD,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_IT is not any high opinion that I have of my &s;elf, or the&s;e following Papers, that makes them ambiti|ous of a Dedication, much le&s;&s;e &s;o high an one: but that which I have of your Lord&s;hip: Your great humility not to di&s;dain the meane&s;t pre|&s;ent, patience to attend the mo&s;t impertinent ad|dre&s;&s;e, and Ju&s;tice to right the lowe&s;t per&s;on injured, all which virtues I &s;eem at pre&s;ent to need, and your Lord&s;hip does more then &s;eem alwayes really to have. Be&s;ides, my Lord, I carry a con|&s;tant rea&s;on for it within me, &s;o great and particular an honour for your Lord&s;hip, that if I could do any thing worthy a hand&s;ome account, I mu&s;t profe&s;&s;e a re&s;olution to expiate this fault by greater pre&s;umptions; not to give credit to what worth the world takes <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2+ letters">tice to be in you by my te&s;timony, but rather to gain credit to my te&s;timony from your worth; My Lord, There are more con&s;ide|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4+ letters"> that have created in me this confidence; The thing mane|<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4+ letters"> this Controver&s;ie has fallen under your Lord&s;hips action, the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3+ letters">te it &s;elf therefore craves your con&s;ideration; You are the per|&s;on imagined, given cut by &s;ome to be chieflie&s;t reflected on by me in the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation: At your feet therefore I particu|larly ca&s;t my &s;elf with this tender of Satisfaction. All come to you for Ju&s;tice, I among the re&s;t, whom you have often &s;ent away with favour: My heart tels me I am innocent, and ever was in this
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kinde, yet though I am innocent, I am not clear till ab&s;olved by your mouth; My Lord, I was happy once (and rejoyced in being &s;o) for &s;ome little reputation which your own goodnes had given me with you, for I had nothing in my &s;elf to de&s;erve it: But if I have nothing in my &s;elf to forfeit it neither, I be&s;eech your Lord&s;hip that I may pre&s;erve it &s;till, that it may pre&s;erve me &s;till; Your good|ne&s;&s;e has &s;eldom denied me in my interce&s;&s;ions for others, I hope I &s;hall not be only unhappy when I plead for my &s;elf; I doubt not but divers have taken the advantage of my ab&s;ence as well as of my actions, to le&s;&s;en your e&s;teem of me: and 'tis not only that one thing of the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation, I hear they have mi&s;repre&s;ented me in; I dare &s;ay it is mi&s;repre&s;entation, if any thing therein has di&s;plea&s;ed your Lord&s;hip, who can be no more offended with any thing that's ju&s;t, then they can be pleas'd with any thing then what's otherwi&s;e: My Lord, it is your favour I crave, not theirs; before you to appear blamele&s;&s;e, not them, which I &s;hall never do while&s;t I oppo&s;e their intere&s;t and de&s;ires of Arbitrary Power, which I e&s;teem my &s;elf bound in duty to do, while&s;t I have either power or intere&s;t, &s;o far as it &s;hall &s;eem to me to oppo&s;e the Common|wealths good. My Lord, There are &s;ome things in this Treati&s;e le&s;s fit for your Excellencies view, but they are fit for Coll. <HI>Laurence,</HI> who hath &s;ometimes drawn expre&s;&s;ions from me I am not u&s;ed to, by having always fa&s;tened characters upon me which were wont here|tofore as little to be u&s;ed to me: They are &s;o frequent, and &s;o gro&s;&s;e, that they might have gained &s;ome little credit with &s;trangers who think ba&s;hfulne&s;&s;e proceeds &s;till from guilt, If I had not &s;ometimes refuted them in as loud a &s;tyle as he writ them; I likewi&s;e confe&s;&s;e, my Lord, his accu&s;ation of my reflecting on you, &s;o much refle|cted on me, that the anger of it lent my arm &s;trength &s;ometimes to &s;trike hard; for he loudly cals me out to be his enemy that &s;hall but whi&s;per that I am not,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE>MY LORD,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Excellencies mo&s;t faithfull, and mo&s;t obedient Servant
VINCENT GOOKIN.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A Ju&s;t VINDICATION of the AUTHOR and CASE of TRANSPLANTATION, from the unju&s;t A&s;per&s;ions and Cen&s;ures of <HI>RICHARD LA&V;RENCE.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_WHil&s;t any thing of Reputation might have been the effect of writing the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;planta|tion, I was content to take the labour to my &s;elf, and leave the good to others: This was the rea&s;on of &s;ilencing my Name at fir&s;t; and indeed the thing it &s;elf had never invaded the Pre&s;s, if a diffidence of my own Judgement had not made me willing to expo&s;e it to better, and the reque&s;t of &s;ome of the members of the Parliament that it might be throughly peru&s;ed by them all. But now what I intended for good, is come to be thought &s;o ill, I mu&s;t leave that re&s;olution, and a&s;&s;ert my own act to try if I can a&s;&s;ert my innocence: yet I could have wi&s;ht that he who undertook to confute me had u&s;ed more of Rea&s;on and le&s;s of Pa&s;&s;ion; it being unlikely that &s;hould make me &s;ee, which it &s;elf had fir&s;t blinded him.</P>
<P>But though I did not think fit then to put my Name in Print, yet did not that Trifle &s;teal out in &s;o clande&s;tine a way, as that the Parent was hid from all: but being laid at my door, I
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owned it (when challenged) and the rumour &s;pread like a train, &s;o that I beleeve even Col. <HI>Laurence</HI> had a jealou&s;ie, if not certainty who Writ it; which I am the more confirmd in by <HI>p. 17. line</HI> 10. of his book. The more I wonder, how not having (that I know) any per&s;onall &s;pleen again&s;t me, or (I hope) not being lead by &s;uch things, if he hath, he &s;hould fall into &s;uch foul defamations of me, as to go about to per&s;wade others &s;uch things to be true of me, as he him&s;elf mu&s;t believe mo&s;t of them to be fal&s;e: As that I am an abettor of the Iri&s;h Re|bels, a Malignant, an incendiary, an oppo&s;er of the Autho|rity, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> to which I &s;hall &s;ay little now, becau&s;e they were fixt on a <HI>chimera</HI> before (my Name being concealed.) But hereafter, if he &s;hall think fit to continue that wrong, the way will be more open to do my &s;elf right: Surely from the for|mer actings of my life he could not have charged me with all this guilt; and if in this la&s;t I happened to tread awry (be|cau&s;e I was not &s;o &s;harp &s;ighted as he) my ignorance ought rather to have been pitied, then my maliciou&s;ne&s;s cen&s;ured; I am not the fir&s;t that hath done ill (once) if I had done &s;o, and fir&s;t faults do not u&s;e to be &s;o rigidly treated, e&s;pecially by friends. I am not offended with Col. <HI>Laurence</HI> becau&s;e he is not of my minde, why &s;hould he be that I was not of his? The unhappine&s;s is great enough that I was not &s;o, he might have &s;pared the attending &s;everities.</P>
<P>I believe there is no per&s;on but would think it ea&s;ie for me to make him lo&s;e that plea&s;ure in ill hearing, that he hath ta|ken in ill &s;peaking: But I am both a Chri&s;tian to pardon, and a man not to &s;cold; my aim is at truth, not victory; to have the be&s;t, not the la&s;t word; and this re&s;olution will &s;hrink what of his Book is fit afterward to be an&s;wered, into a very little room, the carka&s;s being but &s;mall, when the guts and garbadge are thrown away: My civility obligeth me to wait upon him in the way, but not to tumble with him into the kennell.</P>
<P>The fir&s;t piece of ju&s;tice that I owe to my &s;elf, is to wipe off an a&s;per&s;ion ca&s;t on me by the Prologue, that u&s;hered Col. <HI>Laurence</HI> Book on the Stage; which though I &s;hall not at random make him the Author of, I may prove my &s;elf not
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to have de&s;erved. And this is no ill place for it now I am at the Bar, to an&s;wer (if I can) altogether.</P>
<P>Letters in the Diurnall come from <HI>Ireland,</HI> which tell us, That there are certain &s;ummes of Money rai&s;ing for Iri&s;h Agents in <HI>England,</HI> among whom the Author of <HI>the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation</HI> is believed to have a con&s;iderable &s;umme, a reward propor<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ionable unto the greatne&s;s of his de&s;erts from them.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, The Author pre&s;ents his mo&s;t de&s;erved thanks to the kinde Gentleman (if he be one) for his gratefull intelligence, which he profe&s;&s;eth el&s;e he had been a &s;tranger &s;till unto (not|with&s;tanding &s;o nearly concerning him) unle&s;s his civility had thus informed him.</P>
<P>Secondly, He is bold upon the account of his former un|provoked goodne&s;s to a &s;tranger, to reque&s;t a new favour for one whom he now knows; namely, that he would be plea&s;ed to enquire more fully after that report (doubting it may be too good news to be true) and if he be &s;o happy to finde it out, and plea&s;e but to give the Author of the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;|plantation an a&s;&s;urance of the truth of it from him&s;elf, and plea&s;e but to take off his vizard and &s;hew who him&s;elf is, the Author of the Ca&s;e doth hereby engage him&s;elf to call that Gentleman to an account for the &s;lander, if he will not him for the bribery; and this he hopes may provoke him either to make good his impeachment, or by his &s;ilence to a&s;certain others of his malice: but it is to be doubted that per&s;on hath got more by [Lying] there, then I ever have or &s;hall by &s;taying here. And I do here not only challenge him, but all per&s;ons in the world to prove that &s;ince ever I &s;erved the State, I was corrupted by the value of a penny, but have for their &s;ervice expended many pounds of my own.</P>
<P>I return now to Col. <HI>Laurence,</HI> who&s;e re&s;olution I cannot but admire in the beginning of his Book, or rather his irre&s;o|lution, in receding from the Title to his Book; there he pro|mi&s;es an An&s;wer to that &s;candalous, &s;editious Pamphlet (as he is plea&s;ed mode&s;tly to call the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation penned by me.) And indeed I mu&s;t confe&s;s, if it were a &s;candalous, &s;editious Pamphlet, he hath an&s;wered it in &s;ome &s;en&s;e, that
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is, as the image in the gla&s;s an&s;wers the face out of it; or the Echo the voice, by compo&s;ing a rhap&s;ody, as like a &s;canda|lous, &s;editious Pamphlet, as po&s;&s;ibly may be; nay I will grant him more, he hath really made mo&s;t of my Book appear fal&s;e; that is, he hath repre&s;ented very many things not truly: But if he be &s;erious, then he did well in his Title to &s;ay he inten|ded it as an An&s;wer; but ill to change his intentions before he had di&s;engaged his word pawnd: for here he tels you on the contrary, <HI>p.</HI> 1, &amp; 2. that he will not give an orderly An|&s;wer to the di&s;cu&s;&s;ors Arguments and Objections as they &s;tand (and it &s;eems for him are like to do &s;o &s;till) in his Book; but for brevities &s;ake pa&s;s them by as impertinencies: And that he may not take notice of the a&s;per&s;ions and reflexions ca&s;t by me on Authority.</P>
<P N="1">1. I de&s;ire the Reader to reflect on the heads of my Argu|ments, what they were, before he do on his cen&s;ure of their im|pertinency: They are Con&s;iderations drawn, 1. From Religion, <HI>p.</HI> 1. 2 From publique profit, <HI>p.</HI> 15. 3. From publique &s;afety, <HI>p.</HI> 20. Is Religion publiquely di&s;claimed as an impertinency by Col. <HI>Laurence?</HI> Is the Intere&s;t of the State, Adventurer, Souldier, Planter, Inhabitant, a trifle fit to be hu&s;ht up (by him) who pre|tends to be their Champion again&s;t me? Mu&s;t the &s;ecurity of all be laid by too, to &s;well his <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ardle of impertinencies? Strange! What a wilderne&s;s will he make of <HI>Ireland,</HI> which hath been all this while his Land of promi&s;e, and waded to, through a red &s;ea of blood? A Land where neither Religion &s;hall be re|garded by them as Chri&s;tians, nor advantage thought on as men, nor &s;ecurity re&s;pected as creatures: This is a new mo|dell of a Church and State beyond either <HI>Plato</HI> or S^r <HI>Thomas Moores</HI> conceptions; Sure the world in the Moon have this Government among them, which is the cau&s;e of her &s;o fre|quent changes: But I believe the godly that intend for <HI>Ire|land,</HI> will look on Religion with another eye; and the e&s;tated man will think profit a very pertinent argument to promote his journey; and &s;afety, I &s;uppo&s;e, when they come there will not be lookt on as &s;o loo&s;e a thing by any. In the mean time 'tis but a &s;ad con&s;ideration that follows Col. <HI>Laurence</HI>'s Ho yes for <HI>Ireland,</HI> that he is of &s;uch a judgement that invites
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them thither, that he regards neither Arguments drawn from Religion, Intere&s;t, or Safety, by what Arguments &s;hall they move him when he has them there?</P>
<P N="2">2. Surely this was a good brief way indeed, a &s;hort method of an&s;wering all the books in the world in a moment, to wave their Arguments as impertinencies for brevity &s;ake: But it is only orderly an&s;wering that he avoids: This &s;ure is a &s;trata|gem from warre, the &s;toute&s;t &s;ouldiers love alwayes to charge &s;cattered troops; But <HI>(Sir)</HI> you &s;hould have fir&s;t routed my Arguments; why what needs that? he has di&s;ordered them without that: O that the weake&s;t Armies could be but u&s;ed as the &s;tronge&s;t rea&s;ons; then Collonel <HI>Laurences</HI> &s;word might be as famous as his pen, what victories &s;hould we have, which now we mu&s;t re&s;t our &s;elves content to want? Surely I expe|cted, where &s;o much was promi&s;ed, &s;ome performances; the Reader will not be converted without better demon&s;trations from you; and if you carry the Tran&s;plantation, he'll think 'twas by rea&s;on of your force, not by the force of your rea|&s;on; but you do it to be courteous to me, to pa&s;&s;e by my re|flections on Authority, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Surely, if your kindene&s;&s;e, have ob&s;erved &s;o many of my defects in this kinde (for every leaf almo&s;t is dapled with malicious, &s;candalous, &s;landerous, weak, malignant, impudent incendiary, <HI>&amp;c.)</HI> 'twas well for me your cruelty was a&s;leep; you have hidden this fault, as a Lady does a little pimple, by placing over it a great &s;pot, which makes her more remark't, how ill or de&s;ervedly that will hereafter appear.</P>
<P>Leaving Rea&s;on therefore he de&s;cends to write a Hi&s;tory, 1. Of the Authority by which this was done. 2. The Rea|&s;ons of it. 3. The Manner in it. 4. My Mi&s;takes; and then with a &s;ingle Argument he pickeers on the States behalf, and attempts the an&s;wering &s;ome Objections.</P>
<P>And &s;urely the fir&s;t three of the&s;e (to &s;o mean an under|&s;tanding as mine) might have been put into the rank of imper|tinencies, and not in&s;i&s;ted on by him; for I think no body que&s;tions but there was Authority for this re&s;ult, and I never thought, nor any &s;ave their enemies, but that they did it up|on grounds and motives, and with good intentions: and what
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has been in pur&s;uance thereof hitherto acted in <HI>Ireland,</HI> was not examined by the ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation, nor cen&s;ured; but only what might happen if tran&s;planting &s;hould be conclu|ded on (generally) in probability pointed at, according to my judgement. I rea&s;oned concerning the good or bad ef|fects of Tran&s;plantation, and produced Arguments to prove the latter; To an&s;wer all which, he tels us great wonders, 'Twas re&s;olved on by Authority, and that for &s;ome rea&s;ons too, and has been pur&s;ued in <HI>Ireland,</HI> things which all men know, but how they need to be in&s;erted here, I know not.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> But that's my ignorance, for this was cau&s;ed by my &s;elf; who blame the Authority in <HI>Ireland</HI> for its Obedience to the Authority in <HI>England,</HI> and accu&s;e both for cruelty and weakne&s;&s;e, <HI>pag.</HI> 2. &amp; 3. of his Book, and many wayes in mine reflect on both: To which I an&s;wer.</P>
<P N="1">1. Unle&s;&s;e I will be &s;o ingenuous to confe&s;s all tho&s;e crimes, M^r <HI>Laurence</HI> is &s;o indulgent, as not to pre&s;s me with the proof of any of them; His A&s;&s;ertions therefore I &s;hall confront with my Actions, and leave the Reader to judge the truth of the fir&s;t, and the hone&s;ty of the &s;econd. Having had the honour to be cho&s;en a Member of the la&s;t Parliament, among many other things, the great Affair of tran&s;planting the Iri&s;h, came to be the matter of &s;ome di&s;cour&s;e: Being imployed thither (for <HI>Ireland)</HI> I did not fore&s;ee, I confe&s;&s;e, that it would be a &s;inne of &s;o deep a die, as it &s;eems it is, nay be a complication of &s;o many gro&s;&s;e enormities, if I did happen to &s;peak my minde in that affair; and not dictate Magi&s;terially, but &s;um|mon the be&s;t rea&s;on that I had to back it; This I did, and at the reque&s;t of &s;ome Members, that it might pa&s;&s;e the Te&s;t of the re&s;t, ca&s;t it into that Paper wherein it was publi&s;ht, with as hone&s;t an intention (I dare &s;ay) as Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> prints the defiance to it, though (it may be) not with &s;o good &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e: They that have &s;o much time to wa&s;te, in reading my folly and his wi&s;dom in our papers, will without being bribed by either of us, quickly pa&s;&s;e &s;entence who abounds mo&s;t in abu&s;e. Was there &s;uch an <HI>Hidra</HI> of mi&s;chiefs (as he cha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ges on me) in venturing to debate a re&s;olution not yet commenc't
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into Action? This was the Parliaments fault with me. Why did not the Parliament under&s;tand the horridne&s;s of this fact? and if wi&s;e to under&s;tand it, why not ju&s;t to puni&s;h it? It was their Authority enacted it (according to Collonel <HI>Laurence)</HI> and &s;o (if any) theirs was oppo&s;ed, cen&s;ured, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and not that in <HI>Ireland;</HI> Now what the Parliaments thoughts were of this, the Gentleman that u&s;hered in Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI>'s book with his letter, tell us, <HI>That the Iri&s;h had great hopes in that Parliament,</HI> but God be thanked they were bla&s;ted by their happy di&s;&s;olution; Thus Parliaments are made by &s;ome men to go with &s;crews to be &s;et higher or lower, as may plea&s;e their fancies or &s;erve their humours.</P>
<P>But is this the reverence this Re&s;pondent has for the Parlia|ment likewi&s;e (whom he pretends in &s;ome places &s;o much for) thus to abu&s;e the Members of it, as he hath me? Be&s;ides, by the Re&s;pondents law, nothing (though never &s;o ill done) &s;hould be rever&s;t, though on grounds never &s;o well &s;poken, when even things but in motion may not be ventilated? How long has Authority been &s;uch a tender eye with this per&s;on, that it might not be toucht? Sure 'tis but &s;ince he has got to be in a little him&s;elf; and all others but &s;o far regarded, as they may exalt his, el&s;e M^r <HI>Laurence</HI> (probably) may finde Arguments of another nature; they are but men like others, The &s;ervants of the people, God re&s;pects not per&s;ons, nor mu&s;t we make an Idol of man, <HI>Not many mighty, but God hath cho&s;en the fooli&s;h to confound the wi&s;e; Chri&s;t mu&s;t rule,</HI> &amp;c. I de&s;ire to know of the Re&s;pondent, if he hath never interpo|&s;ed his Rea&s;ons in publick State affairs of <HI>Ireland,</HI> to which he was not call'd, as the Di&s;cu&s;&s;or was to the Parliament?</P>
<P>You &s;ee what the Authority is that he does &s;o revere (him|&s;elf and his contrivances and intere&s;ts) and the oppo&s;ing this, is to be an Incendiary, Malignant, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and you mu&s;t take this for a general Rule in the Affairs of <HI>Ireland;</HI> that if in the lea&s;t thing you happen not point-vice to clo&s;e with Collonel <HI>Laurence,</HI> but O if you &s;hould have the unhappine&s;&s;e and the impudence both to oppo&s;e what comes from this <HI>Tripos!</HI> If you di&s;plea&s;e but a Landprizado that is in his Livery, that very day you commence an enemy to the State, and the
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&s;ad influence will &s;it clo&s;er to you then if you were born under a three-peny planet; You are bla&s;ted for ever, and your infa|my fires in a train; he that never-&s;aw you &s;hall rail at you for a Malignant upon Publick Faith; and you are &s;lain with the white pouder of &s;ecret whi&s;pers, you cannot tell by whom&punc; But now on the contrary, how all things are lawfull for &s;ome men, nay are virtues, nay a duty, and the more exorbitant you are, the more excellent (as not fearing the per&s;ons of men) &s;o farre is it from contemning Authority?</P>
<P>Can you hardly reade Engli&s;h, and &s;o not likely to under|&s;tand the language of the Law in French or Latine? Or are you a fool, and do not under&s;tand the rea&s;on of the Law? Or have you a minde to rule arbitrarily your &s;elf? why then you may rail and petition again&s;t the Law according to the judge|ment of &s;ome to have it pull'd down: Yet this is not maligni|ty, though &s;o long (and by &s;o much Authority) &s;etled, though it be an Ax to cut off the neck of all Authority at one blow? Have the Dominions of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> a minde to reward the &s;ervices of their principal Commander&punc; with the honour of Protector; why you may, nay you are bound, &s;ay &s;ome, to bear their Te&s;timony again&s;t it, and yet I never heard that Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> was &s;o offended as to vindicate Autho|rity again&s;t the&s;e in print; if the lea&s;t crum go but awry with him, he may have Petitions framed, remon&s;trate, con&s;ult, complain, and yet be no Incendiary; O that <HI>Achilles</HI> mother had dipt us all, that &s;o we might have become invulnera|ble! But alas we are of <HI>Adams</HI> image, &s;infull and naked like him. Indeed if Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> has &s;uffer'd for his Obedi|ence, by the Author of the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation, he may glory in it, as being the fir&s;t Martyr of his Judgement upon the fyle for &s;uch a Cau&s;e.</P>
<P N="2">2. Though (Collonel <HI>Laurence,</HI> having accu&s;ed me only in general terms, without &s;hewing in particular wherein this great Malignancy lies, or what my reflections on Authority are) I might content my &s;elf with this general An&s;wer, yet becau&s;e, though it is the &s;afe&s;t way, for a &s;landerer to make his charge general as he hath done; yet it is not &s;o for him that can fully manife&s;t his innocence, and an&s;wers: I &s;hall take
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leave (not to an&s;wer him, but others whom he may have in|fected with this opinion of me, becau&s;e it may be they are &s;trangers to me, and that Authority that is in <HI>Ireland,</HI> both Civil and Martial, whom he intimates to have re&s;ented &s;uch a dealing from me) to annex the&s;e en&s;uing lines in order to their Satisfaction, and my own fuller vindication.</P>
<P N="1">1. That I have not the lea&s;t &s;ini&s;ter opinion of the Civil Government of <HI>Ireland,</HI> or the Army, but on the contrary did, and do ju&s;tly honour the wi&s;dom and ju&s;tice of the Lord Deputy and Councel, and the godline&s;&s;e, courage and pati|ence of the Officers and Souldiers in general; and therefore had no &s;ecret embers in my brea&s;t from whence any flames a|gain&s;t them might break forth, and no contrivements or de&s;igns again&s;t them, but rather their profit and highe&s;t reputation in my eye, and to &s;et it up and advance it in my place, and ac|cording to my mean abilities, knowing tho&s;e per&s;ons to have been the in&s;truments of many glorious things for the time pa&s;t in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and my de&s;ires are they may be &s;o in their po&s;terities there for many generations to come. The greater have their &s;landers been, who taking the advantage of my being in <HI>England,</HI> have made it their bu&s;ine&s;&s;e to &s;tir up animo&s;ities in the Army of <HI>Ireland</HI> again&s;t me, as if in my being here, I had negotiated divers things prejudicial to their Intere&s;t, and in particular that by my means relief was ob&s;tru|cted from being &s;ent unto them; My innocency in which, as I mu&s;t here plead to them, and to all moderate per&s;ons, not already ingaged as my enemies; &s;o I do here publickly di&s;a|vow all acts of the like kinde again&s;t them, as horrible calum|nies &s;pread abroad to my danger and defamation by malicious per&s;ons privately, who dare not offer them&s;elves to ju&s;tifie the lea&s;t part of their Libels in publick. But on the contrary, I do hereby promi&s;e to make it appear before any per&s;ons of piety and honour, either of the Army or out of it, that all that ever I propounded in <HI>England</HI> did exceedingly tend to advance the intere&s;t of the Army in <HI>Ireland,</HI> of which had I been the mo&s;t eminent member, I could not have told for my life how to have &s;tudied the good of it more; The truth of which I do not doubt but a little time will manife&s;t.</P>
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Yet I &s;hall not deny but when I was in a civil imploiment for the State in <HI>Ireland,</HI> I had &s;ome &s;harp conflicts with &s;ome par|ticular Officers for dealing unju&s;tly with the Countrey, which I did and can make appear, and I thought I was bound not to fear a man with a Sword, but defend the oppre&s;&s;ed, according to the tru&s;t repo&s;ed in me; I confe&s;&s;e I did not flatter &s;uch men, nor never &s;hall vail to any di&s;hone&s;t cour&s;e, but yet what I did I did openly, and maintained legally, and am &s;o far from repenting, that on the like occa&s;ions I &s;hould repeat the like actions; This gained me tho&s;e enemies, who never having any thing that they dur&s;t defend again&s;t me openly, have la|boured to taint my reputation with private whi&s;pers. I de&s;ire &s;uch &s;ecret murderers of my fame may finde no credit, who&s;e very private way of &s;landering, will among judicious per|&s;ons beget a greater jealou&s;ie of them&s;elves then me: If they &s;peak truth, why do they not ju&s;tifie it publickly? If a lie, why do they attempt to &s;neak it into mens thoughts pri|vately? Why do they not oppo&s;e my plainne&s;&s;e with plain|ne&s;&s;e, and urge me publickly, as I have done them? The&s;e are the per&s;ons, and the&s;e the wayes whereby I am endeavour|ed to be made an enemy to the State and Army; The Engli&s;h of which is, Becau&s;e they hate me, but cannot hurt me, they will entitle the State to the cau&s;e when it is their own private, believing then, men will condemn me, who el&s;e would con|demn them; Suppo&s;ing them to defend the States innocence, when indeed they only vent their own malice; for Collonel <HI>Laurence,</HI> though no ju&s;ter, yet he has been a nobler enemy, he has &s;poken loudly; I would he had plainly (nay &s;ometimes) truly; he &s;ayes, I reflect much on Authority! But, 1. Re|flect is a hard word, and of a wide &s;ignificancy, who can write thing but &s;o good a wit as his joyned with &s;ome di&s;gu&s;t again&s;t the per&s;on may draw it to reflect on any thing? 2. Reflecting is the ob&s;cure&s;t way of injuring; and if Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> had not been too nice a Critick on the behalf of Au|thority, plain men, who only &s;ee down right abu&s;es&punc; it may be might not have &s;een tho&s;e reflections. And la&s;tly, If they be but reflections, they are the immute&s;t injuries that may be; but I am &s;ure he hath not (reflected) but fallen down
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right outragiou&s;ly on me for that which him&s;elf confe&s;&s;es is but a reflection, without proof that it is, or naming what it is; and I believe upon examination will be found not to be my refle|ction, but his mi&s;interpretation; He would have helpt me mightily, if he had named any particulars, but his negligence has awakened my diligence both to reperu&s;e that trifle of the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation, and to enquire diligently after what others might think or have heard the&s;e reflections were; for I can avow my heart to have been &s;o clear from intending any thing of this nature, that I am a&s;&s;ured it mu&s;t be either mi|&s;taking my meaning, or my own unhappy expre&s;&s;ing of it, or my enemies wilfull perverting of it, that can engage my words to a &s;en&s;e (not only &s;o different from, but) abhor'd by my very thoughts.</P>
<P N="2">2. All therefore that I have heard from others, or can ima|gine my &s;elf in the lea&s;t degree to be in tho&s;e papers mi&s;taken or perverted to a reflection on Authority, I &s;hall &s;et down here faithfully, with the meaning I intended them, that &s;o (which is of highe&s;t con&s;equence) Authority may be cleared by me, and (which is as much my de&s;ires as hopes, that) I may not be e&s;teemed guilty by Authority.</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Pag.</HI> 3. Of the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation (in the An&s;wers to the Objection there) &s;ome things I am enform'd want an explanation to keep them from reflecting on Authori|ty: As</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> 1. The grinding of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> (&s;poken of there) with heavy pre&s;&s;ures, to the de&s;truction of more Families a|mong them, under our Protection, then out of it. To which I an&s;wer.</P>
<P>That this was a Narration of what has happened to them, not a complaint that it has befallen them, nor an accu&s;ation of tho&s;e in&s;truments by whom it has befallen, but brought in here to &s;hew they are hardned in their Super&s;tition by it, what|ever cau&s;e it &s;prung from: Here is nothing &s;poken, that the cau&s;e of this aro&s;e not from them&s;elves, or not from nece&s;&s;ity and ju&s;tice in us, but the contraay is often expre&s;&s;ed in that Book, in the&s;e vindicating phra&s;es, the States wants, the Ar|mies nece&s;&s;ities, <HI>pag.</HI> 23. Now it is not the doing of a thing,
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but the grounds on which it is done, that makes mo&s;t actions unwarrantable, which grounds are &s;o far from being condem|ned on the part of Authority in <HI>Ireland,</HI> that they are not que&s;tioned, but &s;uppo&s;ed as clear to all; for it is obvious to common under&s;tandings, that the warre again&s;t tho&s;e Rebels was ju&s;t, and therefore ju&s;tly to be pro&s;ecuted; and this could not be done without money; and for <HI>England</HI> to defray the whole charge of a numerous Army &s;o long to attend that war, could not be expected, e&s;pecially its own warre with <HI>Holland,</HI> and many other great additional expences intervening: who then &s;hould &s;uffer, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army, or the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> inhabitant? The la&s;t &s;ure, &s;uppo&s;e him in the capacity of a Rebel it was law|full to de&s;troy him; and &s;uppo&s;e him in the condition of a Subject, it was ju&s;t for him to pre&s;erve us; The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> were large contributers there, why &s;hould not the <HI>Iri&s;h?</HI> The <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> begun the Rebellion, they were the fitte&s;t to help to end it; Now that this went &s;o clo&s;e with them, as to undo them, aro&s;e from our nece&s;&s;ity, not will; and from their precedent po|verty in maintaining the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Army again&s;t <HI>England.</HI> That more Families were undone among us then them, aro&s;e hence, That &s;ingle men became Souldiers among them, and fought again&s;t us, generally tho&s;e that had Families came in, and &s;o fell among the&s;e pre&s;&s;ures; and therefore, I &s;aid, more Fa|milies of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> were undone under our Protection then out of it. Now that I did not &s;et down all the&s;e things punctually in that Treati&s;e, was not becau&s;e they were not true, but be|cau&s;e they were not pertinent; My bu&s;ine&s;&s;e was not there to write a Panegyrick for the State, and accumulate all their Prai&s;e-worthy actions, nor to write any thing in their De|fence, whom I &s;aw no hone&s;t man accu&s;e, but to give a &s;hort account of the matter of Tran&s;plantation, and an hi&s;torical report of fact where it was nece&s;&s;ary in order thereto, without putting in my cen&s;ures or approbations of every &s;ingle act, or rendring the rea&s;ons of each particular, which would have &s;well'd it to a Volume; I was not aware, I confe&s;&s;e, of a ma|licious Interpreter, who would take my words ab&s;olutely, and not con&s;ider the account they were brought in upon, for thus we may make what we will of any thing, Loyalty may be
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Trea&s;on, and Orthodox Divinity Here&s;ie.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> 2. In <HI>p.</HI> 3. I &s;peak of great Divi&s;ions among the Pro|te&s;tants, and bitterne&s;s of tho&s;e &s;o divided in matters of Religi|on again&s;t each other.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Surely, if my not &s;peaking of tho&s;e things (which I &s;o much bewail) would have contributed to their not being, my tongue &s;hould fir&s;t cleave to the roof of my mouth, ere I would publi&s;h the divi&s;ions of <HI>Reuben;</HI> nay, if it would but &s;mother it from being &s;poken of in <HI>Gath,</HI> or publi&s;hed in <HI>A&s;calon;</HI> But who does not &s;peak of it? We to upbraid one another, and the Papi&s;t to &s;corn us all; I wi&s;h the coyning new names to be the liveries of divided parties did not more loudly proclaim our rents, then my words, as of old Prote|&s;tants, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And I believe Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> po&s;&s;ibly may give &s;ome account of the mintage of this, or who continue &s;till to make it current to foment divi&s;ions &s;till; I have heard him&s;elf complain of the&s;e &s;ad differences; I think all pious, moderate Chri&s;tians do the like; Religion (like infects) running out thus into joynts and bendings, has lo&s;t much of its bloud and vigour; The&s;e things then (though 'tis deplorable with tears of bloud) being &s;o, and known by our enemies to be &s;o, it is to no purpo&s;e to go about to hide the Sunne with a mans palm, or to keep them from them (and among our &s;elves) at one time. But rather it &s;eems to be a duty call'd for at the hands of all &s;ober Chri&s;tians (who de&s;ire not like Salamanders to live in fire) to take notice of the&s;e things them&s;elves for proof that they di&s;own them, and that the&s;e are not general but par|ticular affections, not inherent in our Religion, but adherent to &s;ome per&s;ons that profe&s;&s;e it.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> 3. I &s;eem (at the foot of the &s;ame Page,) to tax the neglect of &s;ending Mini&s;ters to convert the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> as if our bu|&s;ine&s;&s;e were to &s;et up our Intere&s;ts, not Chri&s;ts.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> This is no other thing then what hath been publickly &s;poken and preacht in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland</HI> before his High|ne&s;&s;e, yet without any ill re&s;entment till now, that I have heard of; nor was it an accu&s;ation but an incentive, to quick|en the Parliament here to &s;upply tho&s;e nece&s;&s;ities there; and if intrenching on the neglect of any, it was theirs certainly,
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who had power to have &s;ent over Mini&s;ters, and could not touch the Governours of <HI>Ireland,</HI> who had no Mini&s;ters to &s;end.</P>
<P N="2">II. <HI>Pag.</HI> 4. Of the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation, I accu&s;e the ignorance and here&s;ies of divers, who were allowed Mainte|nance under the notion of Preachers.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Here is indeed a crime taxed, but it is only in tho&s;e per&s;ons that are ignorant, heretical, none in Authority; they intended piou&s;ly to maintain good preaching: Tho&s;e impi|ou&s;ly to maintain bad doctrine, whom they could not know till they &s;hould di&s;cover them&s;elves; be&s;ides having no great choi&s;e of Mini&s;ters in <HI>Ireland,</HI> they were con&s;trained to accept whom they could, not choo&s;e whom they would; to hope well till they found ill; They may be wi&s;e men to conjecture prudently from externals, but God only &s;earcheth the heart; None can deceive him, many may us, who indeed deceive our &s;elves; It could not then be a fault in the Authority to ad|mit &s;uch, but to continue them whom they knew to be &s;uch, which was as farre from being a&s;&s;erted by me, as my thoughts were of injuring them; For the Governours did clear them|&s;elves in rejecting divers of the&s;e after upon complaint, yet might the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> be &s;candalized that they were admitted before.</P>
<P N="3">III. <HI>Page 5. line</HI> 6. Some may be offended, that I &s;eem to glance upon gifted men, and to &s;peak &s;lightly of their Mi&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> I did (and &s;hall I hope) alwayes highly value and love the gifts and graces of God, whereever I found them, &s;o farre am I from contemning even the meane&s;t of Chri&s;ts little ones; It will be plain to him that views the place without pre|judice, that I &s;poke not of all gifted men, but tho&s;e only un|der the character I there give of them, <HI>viz.</HI> who are ignorant, &s;candalous, hereticall, not builders up, but pullers down; Nor of gifted men in all places, but only in <HI>Ireland,</HI> where we have too many that make the forementioned things their work; I &s;poke not again&s;t godly, &s;ober, approved Chri&s;tians &s;ent forth by Congregations, but ra&s;h, fanatick per&s;ons, who runne of their own heads; who are not gifted truly, but
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(&s;woln up with winde, and the applau&s;e of others as ignorant as them&s;elves) only pretend to be &s;o; Tho&s;e that rail again&s;t Mini&s;ters, Ordinances, Scripture, are the men I de&s;crib'd there; and he that would extend this any further then I in|tended it, may &s;uppo&s;e me guilty of one injury, but is him|&s;elf certainly of two; One again&s;t me, in corrupting my meaning; and another again&s;t tho&s;e that are gifted, in traducing their manners.</P>
<P N="4">IV. <HI>Pag. 13. lin.</HI> 26. The <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> are de&s;cribed to be under a mi&s;erable condition, and tied to impo&s;&s;ible Laws, and re&s;er|ved only for &s;laughter, and <HI>(Pag.</HI> 14.) tho&s;e frown'd upon that di&s;pence any equity to them; Does not this accu&s;e the State of inju&s;tice and rigour?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> It may do &s;o, but it mu&s;t be only with tho&s;e that are re&s;olved pertinaciou&s;ly to cleave to mi&s;takes after they have read what I write, whatever they did before; For this con|&s;ider,</P>
<P>What is it that I am proving there? 'Tis, that after Ju&s;tice is done on a Community, Mercy may take place; which Mercy that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> may ta&s;te of, I &s;hew Ju&s;tice is done on them; To make which appear, I in&s;tance all the&s;e particulars. Is not this to &s;hew the State hath done ju&s;tly, and what they have &s;uffer'd, they have &s;uffer'd ju&s;tly? Where's the accu&s;a|tion again&s;t our Governors and Government? Is it that they have done ju&s;tly? Do I not there prove, that Ju&s;tice mu&s;t ne|ce&s;&s;arily precede Mercy; and then prove, that it hath done &s;o? And is the proving of Ju&s;tice done, the proving a thing done unju&s;tly? If any be condemned there 'tis the <HI>Iri&s;h;</HI> be ab&s;ol|ved, 'tis Authority; Who u&s;es to &s;uffer Ju&s;tice? the guilty: to do it? the innocent; And yet (by this mi&s;take) to &s;ay, the State has done Ju&s;tice, is to make them guilty, and the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> has &s;uffer'd it, to make them innocent: This is to make the Judge the Thief, and the Thief the Judge; Pray put but the word Ju&s;tice to every part of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> &s;uffering there mention|ed, and then &s;ee what you can charge me for charg|ing the State with; The frowns there mentioned are re&s;trained (by the word &s;ome) to particular per&s;ons, and &s;uch, I &s;ay, &s;till there are, though they frown more on
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me. Nor have their di&s;gu&s;ts herein terminated in me, but moderate, equitable per&s;ons even of eminency in the Army it &s;elf, have born their part with me, in particular the Go|vernor of <HI>Cork</HI> for his (in tenderne&s;&s;e of the States honour) defending from injury &s;uch poor <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> as put them&s;elves under their &s;helter, has &s;uffer'd many unju&s;t defamations, becau&s;e he labour'd to pre&s;erve others from inju&s;tice.</P>
<P N="5">V. <HI>Pag. 24. line</HI> 6 I write of the incredible oppre&s;&s;ion of the Souldiers, and &s;eem to intimate the like of the Of|ficers, by &s;aying, The people have ju&s;t cau&s;es to fear to complain.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> I do believe that the Army in <HI>Ireland</HI> is the be&s;t di&s;|ciplin'd Army in the world, except that in <HI>England,</HI> whereof it is a part: Yet I believe likewi&s;e, that there never was an Army (except of Angels, where the Lord of Ho&s;ts was Captain) that had not &s;ome that &s;werv'd from the integrity of the re&s;t. I &s;aid no more (but &s;ome) and I believe them|&s;elves will &s;ay no le&s;&s;e, I do not accu&s;e all, neither will they excu&s;e all; and for the&s;e things going unpuni&s;hed for their ju&s;t fear to complain, it touches not the mo&s;t &s;ubordinate, much le&s;&s;e the Supream Officer: for the Officers not knowing it, keeps him ju&s;t; and yet the private Souldiers power over the pea&s;ant, may make his fear ju&s;t too; for though it lie in the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> mans power to complain of a fir&s;t injury, yet it lies in the poore&s;t Souldiers power to do him another, that &s;hall put him (it may be)&punc; pa&s;t complaining, or put &s;uch a &s;pecious colour on it, as may give it the face of Ju&s;tice, and then who will not believe an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Souldier, rather then an <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Teige, if the matter &s;hould come to di&s;pute; So then, though the cau&s;e be unju&s;t in the Souldier, yet it may be ju&s;t in the la|bourer, who may fear ju&s;tly to complain of injury, lea&s;t he be injur'd more by complaining.</P>
<P>The&s;e were all the things &s;ubject to &s;cruple in that Treati&s;e (which I could either conjecture or learn from others) &s;ave what is referrible to the &s;ame heads, and &s;o being the &s;ame Objections, the &s;ame An&s;wers will a&s;&s;oyl them; If I could have met any others, I &s;hould as ea&s;ily have untied them, as
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the&s;e, but not able to divine what they are, mu&s;t leave them to the Readers wi&s;dom and charity, who from what I have an|&s;wered already may rea&s;on to what I might to the re&s;t, and will perceive how unju&s;t tho&s;e multiplications were of my tra|ducing Authority, which are &s;catter'd every where in Collo|nel <HI>Laurence</HI> his Book, and his unworthy cen&s;ures on me, &s;uppo&s;ing me &s;o to have done. I reverence Authority as highly, as I prize Col. <HI>Laurence</HI> &s;lightly, who has di&s;covered but his own weakne&s;&s;e or malice, while&s;t he attempted to bla&s;t my innocence; And &s;urely he is more beholding to his Buckler then Sword; The States cau&s;e (which he pretends to maintain) then his own, which he is not able; for had he not interwoven his &s;o many abu&s;es of me with the colourable pretext of right|ing them, &s;o that 'tis a hard matter to touch him but he will cry they are wounded, I &s;hould not have &s;pared the unripping of a multitude more of his ob&s;ervable indi&s;cretions then I have done in this Book; which were &s;tuft in by him without any rea&s;on, and are overpa&s;t by me for this rea&s;on.</P>
<P>Thus I hope I have evidenc't that I have not injured Autho|rity in general; This may &s;atisfie them; but I cannot my &s;elf, un|le&s;&s;e I do right eminently unto one eminent particular per&s;on in it, who has no le&s;&s;e merited from me, then he de&s;erves to do from all others; I mean his Excellency the Lord Deputy that now is of <HI>Ireland,</HI> who as he had the chiefe&s;t power in mana|ging this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Tran&s;plantation, (as of all other things tran&s;acted in that Land) &s;o if any thing were &s;aid by me that intrencht on Authority, it might &s;eem more directly to reflect on him; and therefore I hold my &s;elf obliged particularly to give &s;ome account of my &s;elf in this thing, as of his integrity in that; Not &s;o much that he needs my doing him right, as to &s;hew how much I abhorre the doing him wrong; And all men mu&s;t &s;ee this now to ari&s;e from nece&s;&s;ity not flattery. He is certainly a fountain of much good to <HI>Ireland,</HI> and &s;tands in the gap between that poor people, and much ill; A per&s;on made rich with tho&s;e excellent endowments that inable men to command, and prepare others to obey; One of whom I &s;hould &s;ay more, but for fear to injure his mode&s;ty, and of whom I could &s;ay no le&s;&s;e to defend my own innocency.</P>
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I mu&s;t as a perclo&s;e to this, keep the Reader from being mi&s;lead by &s;ome <HI>Errata</HI>'s in this his Hi&s;tory, which are not re&s;erved (as in other Books for the latter end) but enter at the beginning, and di&s;per&s;e them&s;elves throughout.</P>
<P>1. He here begins with a &s;olemn tale of the Authority by which this was enacted, a Parliament. 2. Nay &s;everal Par|liaments. 3. On mature deliberation, and on this ground loads me with calumnies, that I &s;hould de&s;pi&s;e &s;o great power, &s;o much wi&s;dom. But the Reader mu&s;t know, that this is all otherwi&s;e, to &s;peak mode&s;tly of it; for, Tran&s;plantation was given out in Orders by the Councel of State. 2. Ratified only by the little Parliament. 3. Not long by them debated, for it was never &s;o much as once read. 4. But it was not yet put in execution. 5. That it might not, the addre&s;&s;e was to the Parliament by a Member call'd lawfully to &s;peak his minde, only his rea&s;ons given for his apprehen&s;ions; where is the Malignancy, &s;ingularity, &s;lander (in all this) that he every where belcheth out again&s;t me?</P>
<P>But I perceive by what he writes at the bottom of <HI>p.</HI> 3. That 'tis not my writing &s;o much as my &s;elf, that he quarrels with; for before, laying to my charge, that I a&s;per&s;t Authority, he is here offended with me for acquitting Authority, and is re&s;olved neither to be plea&s;ed with my doing one or the other; I mu&s;t la|ment my hard fate, and admire his dexterity, that can manage a cau&s;e both for and again&s;t the Commonwealth, and yet be &s;till Champion for Authority; and on the contrary, whether I argue again&s;t, or for it, I mu&s;t &s;till continue an enemy to Authority.</P>
<P>He is &s;o eager on Tran&s;plantation, that he tran&s;plants my very Book, the latter end here to the beginning, and my be|ginning (or Arguments) to the latter end, <HI>pag.</HI> 3. of his, where his intention is to take away the force of tho&s;e rea&s;ons, which I produce in the behalf of Authority, to ju&s;tifie their enacting the Law of Tran&s;plantation, though I apprehended inconveni|encies in the executing of it, and this is the fir&s;t e&s;&s;ay of his De|fence of Authority, the endeavouring to di&s;prove my ju&s;tifi|cation of them, and the proof he gives them of my malignan|cy: but to view it more particularly.</P>
<P>1. He is offended <HI>Pag.</HI> 4. (who pleaded for Authority all this
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while) that I did not lay the ill con&s;equents of Tran&s;plantati|on on them directly and &s;olely, but force in others to take off the envy from them, he hugely magnifies the Parliaments wi&s;dome above being &s;o hoodwinkt by others, and mi&s;lead by &s;trangers (as I &s;eem to &s;ay) whom floutingly (he continues) they needed not &s;end for into <HI>Ireland</HI> to con&s;ult with, having had enough in <HI>England</HI> to advi&s;e with that were &s;trangers to that Land.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. He takes it for granted, that the Parliament gave life to the Order for Tran&s;plantation, which is a mi&s;take, for 'twas the Councel of State, as was &s;hewn before. But</P>
<P>2. It was approved by the Parliament, nay &s;everal: that is another mi&s;take, for we have had but one &s;ince, and they ap|proved it not.</P>
<P>3. Not ra&s;hly, but upon a twelve moneths deliberation, he &s;aith, which is a third mi&s;take: for how long they would have &s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e, I know not, but all <HI>England</HI> knows the little Parlia|ment did not &s;it a year, and when they did &s;it, did they deli|berate on nothing but the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Tran&s;plantation.</P>
<P>4. This Gentlemans memory or intelligence has much failed him, for the In&s;tructions for Tran&s;plantation never were read in Parliament, but only confirm'd in another Act by the &s;mall Parliament.</P>
<P>5. He tels you (I &s;ay) there were &s;ome &s;ent for out of <HI>Ire|land</HI> to advi&s;e with, before Orders were given for the Tran&s;|plantation; but I &s;ay not any &s;uch thing; and this in &s;o little (but fertile ground you &s;ee) is his fifth (but I believe will not be the la&s;t mi&s;take.) And now I conceive you may gue&s;&s;e the rea&s;on, why in the entrance of his Hi&s;tory <HI>(Pag.</HI> 2.) he in|vokes memory and under&s;tanding (as the Poets do their Mu&s;e) 'tis &s;urely that whenever his mi&s;takes were detected, he might e&s;cape through the&s;e back-doors, though with the di&s;reputati|on of lo&s;&s;e of under&s;tanding and memory both.</P>
<P>6. In <HI>Pag.</HI> 4. of his Book, he threatens me with &s;ome thing no le&s;&s;e dire, and as ob&s;cure as the influence of a Comet, if the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> happen to rebel by my means, who yet &s;hall be quel'd by his, and have their rebellious bloud let out. But I &s;hall neither be di&s;turb'd at his railing <HI>(Pag.</HI> 5.) nor terrified with
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his threatning <HI>(Pag.</HI> 4.) of letting bloud, though I know him to have been one of the engines of death; In the mean time, Let others be cautioned by my mi&s;ery, how they prog|no&s;ticate any effect, though never &s;o clear in the cau&s;e, left they be made the cau&s;e them&s;elves: as here he would feign me to in&s;tigate a people to rebell <HI>(Pag.</HI> 4.) becau&s;e I &s;ay &s;uch a cour&s;e is likely to provoke them to it. Indeed I &s;hould intreat Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> out of his great charity, to help the people of <HI>England,</HI> to have Ju&s;tice done (who did &s;uffer much this winter from inundations) upon the Almanack-makers, for they fore-told there would be great rain, and thereof certainly mu&s;t be as much the Authors, as I, if the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> rebel, of their in&s;urrection; But I pray God in &s;uch evil likelihoods, that I may ever be mi&s;taken. I de&s;ire not to have a Countrey rui|ned, to have Prophecies verified.</P>
<P>Secondly, At <HI>Pag.</HI> 5. he is offended, that I &s;ay, the face of things, is much differed in <HI>Ireland</HI> (it may be I &s;aid differed, but is <HI>differed</HI> is non-&s;en&s;e, and his own term) but tell him not whether to the better or the wor&s;e: yet he tels you my mean|ing, I mu&s;t mean to the wor&s;e.</P>
<P>And &s;urely, 1. Then he hath &s;hewed him&s;elf a charitable man, (a thing hanging doubtfull between two con&s;tructions) to interpret it to the wor&s;e part: But a hor&s;e-flie will only &s;ettle on a gall.</P>
<P>2. Had I been thus impertinent, &s;o much as to debate, whether <HI>Ireland</HI> could be in other then a better e&s;tate, then before, after an Army had quite &s;ubjected it, in which &s;o war|like and bu&s;ie an Officer as Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> was, I might de|&s;ervedly have incurred &s;o terrible a thing as his di&s;plea&s;ure; but what my meaning was, might in likelihood be be&s;t colle|cted from the end for which that &s;entence was produc't, and that was, as he tels you, that the Tran&s;plantation need not be urg'd, becau&s;e the face of things in <HI>Ireland</HI> was much altered; Now was it a rational collection (or rather like one of his) to &s;ay, The <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> are as much, or more rebellious then ever, as high, as numerous, as powerfull, Therefore have pity on them, do not tran&s;plant them: Or rather thus, Their courage is exhau&s;ted, their numbers decay'd, their Souldiers (mo&s;t of them) &s;ent
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beyond &s;ea, their Prie&s;ts bani&s;ht, the remainder lie at your feet, therefore do not tran&s;plant them (though heretofore you thought on that cour&s;e) &s;ince now there is not the &s;ame nece&s;&s;ity which made it then fit, but many expedients which make it now unfit; this di&s;cour&s;e he might have found more at large <HI>pag.</HI> 13. Of the ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation, which would &s;ufficiently have acquainted him with my meaning. But 'tis a hard matter to make one that &s;tops his ears hear, or him that &s;huts his eyes &s;ee. He ends this Paragraph like the Moneth of <HI>March,</HI> which comes in like a Lamb, and goes out like a Li|on: he roars again&s;t Incendiaries and their impudence in the conclu&s;ion, till he become all on fire him&s;elf, nay and an In|cendiary too, labouring to kindle the fire of di&s;cord in the pacifick hearts of tho&s;e in <HI>England.</HI> But (though I do, yet) I hope the Commonwealth &s;hall not &s;uffer by any flames of my kindling; for if I carry fire Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> can bring water. But I would intreat him to make u&s;e of it to allay the heat him&s;elf is in, and I will undertake to &s;atisfie for what|&s;oever detriment the Commonwealth &s;u&s;tains by tho&s;e pa|pers.</P>
<P>But his oppo&s;ition to that which he cals my third Argu|ment, in the behalf of Authority (for it &s;eems I am become Defendant, and he is Plaintiff in their &s;uit) pre&s;&s;es in for room to be heard, <HI>Pag.</HI> 5. of his, wherein mark his Rhetorick now, By a fiction of the per&s;on, he introduces me &s;peaking thus, That becau&s;e Authority did not in their goodne&s;&s;e execute, what in their wi&s;doms they order'd, therefore they have &s;tu|died to make the people mi&s;erable, that they might have an op|portunity of &s;hewing them mercy; And this is the Summe of my defence &s;o farre as he can make it (hang) together. Me thinks my Arguments repriev'd from the amazement unto which it may be his threatning of hanging them together puts them, &s;peaks more recollectedly then that di&s;tracted &s;en&s;e which he takes as their confe&s;&s;ion from the gallows; To &s;hew him this in the my&s;teries of his own Science; When he that is now Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> was a Mar&s;hal, had he never a con|demn'd per&s;on under his juri&s;diction, whom gracious Autho|rity re&s;cued from execution by a mercifull reprieve, hoping
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afterward they might have cau&s;e to increa&s;e it to pardon? O, but this &s;ayes he, is to bring the man into mi&s;ery to have an opportunity to &s;hew mercy? No, <HI>Sir,</HI> but it is to intend mercy to a man that brought him&s;elf into mi&s;ery; The <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> ca&s;e &s;eem'd to me thus, They by an imparalell'd crime, merit an unparallel'd puni&s;hment, and are for a long time &s;o high in their ob&s;tinacy, that nothing but extreams can work on them. This I &s;aid might put Authority on tho&s;e Re&s;olutions which was ju&s;t in them to do (indeed) and for the other to &s;uffer; but yet they loved mercy to, and will &s;hew it if they may (with|out cruelty to them&s;elves) even to the <HI>Iri&s;h;</HI> nay, when not only the good of the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> but of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> their peace, plenty and &s;afety is combined with it, as was endeavoured to be &s;hewn in the ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation; but as impertinen|cies the&s;e Arguments were not vouch&s;afed an An&s;wer by this Gentleman; they re&s;pite therefore the execution of this, to &s;ee if any other way will bring about their ends, to &s;hew, that nothing but nece&s;&s;ity puts them on &s;o rigid a one as this; To &s;ay then Authority is clement and deliberative, is to expo&s;e them to laughter, as he thinks, with whom the&s;e are ridicu|lous things; as Religion, Intere&s;t and Security before were impertinencies; But if that per&s;on that writ the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;|plantation (after &s;o much cau&s;e of pen&s;ivene&s;&s;e, as he hath from the tyranny Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> wit has exerci&s;ed over him, and the fear his power will execute his threatnings) if he could be &s;till &s;o &s;anguine as to recreate him&s;elf with a &s;portive humour, he profe&s;&s;es he &s;hould quit Authority, and labour to make the Collonel ridiculous rather, as being the &s;afer, and by farre the ea&s;ier task; but he needs not, he can make him|&s;elf &s;o.</P>
<P>This is the Summe of <HI>Pag.</HI> 3, 4, 5. From the 6. to the 9 he goes on in telling a &s;tory what was acted in <HI>Ireland,</HI> in order to Tran&s;plantation; which being a tale, and not rea&s;on; a matter of fact related, but no Argument produced for the ne|ce&s;&s;ity or expediency of Tran&s;plantation, is to be put upon the &s;yle of things without this Que&s;tion, which is not What was done, or not done; But upon a &s;uppo&s;ition of the Tran&s;plan|tation to be done, What is likely to follow? From which con&s;i|deration,
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he argues very remotely, who tels you, what is pa&s;t, when I &s;peak of what's to come. The Gentleman is much mi&s;taken, I had nothing to &s;ay again&s;t what was done in <HI>Ireland,</HI> but I had &s;omething to &s;ay again&s;t what was conclu|ded in <HI>England</HI> at that time when I might &s;peak, and before them to whom it was proper to &s;peak: My de&s;ign was to pre|vent what might be done, not cen&s;ure what was done: which things, if this per&s;on had not confounded but kept &s;eparate in his under&s;tanding, he had not fallen &s;o often de&s;perately up|on me, and foully in his own undertaking. But it &s;eems he mu&s;t politiquely make the Commonwealth an enemy, to &s;hew him&s;elf a friend; and feign &s;ome body to accu&s;e Authority, that he might write an Apology in their Defence.</P>
<P>And now how faithfull has Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> been to his fir&s;t ingagement (to wave impertinencies) when we have hither|to had nothing at all el&s;e from him? which that it may appear evidently, I &s;hall joyn his premi&s;&s;es as farre as we have gone, and his conclu&s;ion together, and &s;ee how &s;trong influence the one has upon the other.</P>
<P>All the Inconveniences urged by the Author again&s;t general Tran&s;plantation (&s;ayes he) are vain terrors and panick fears, that's the conclu&s;ion: And why? For it was not the Authority of <HI>Ireland,</HI> but in <HI>England</HI> that projected it <HI>(Pag.</HI> 1.) and doubtle&s;&s;e they intended it for the <HI>Engli&s;hs</HI> good <HI>(Pag.</HI> 3.) and the Authority in <HI>Ireland</HI> has proceeded &s;lowly in it <HI>(Pag.</HI> 7, 8.) The&s;e are his Premi&s;&s;es, the Connexion is excel|lent.</P>
<P>Well, but this is but the forlorn hope of his Book, the main body is re&s;erved for <HI>pag</HI> 9 where he intends to make &s;trange Di&s;coveries of nothing but mi&s;takes in the Author of the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation; To which I have only thus much to &s;ay in general.</P>
<P N="1">1. That it &s;eems he hath only &s;hewed his own mi&s;takes all this while.</P>
<P N="2">2. Granting mine him&s;elf but mi&s;takes, he &s;hould rather have pitied a poor mans weakne&s;&s;e, then have laid &s;o much malice and mi&s;chief to his charge as he does. But &s;uppo&s;e</P>
<P N="3">3. The mi&s;takes &s;hould re&s;t on his part &s;till. What a gulf
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of errour has he plung'd him&s;elf into? Let us &s;ee where to fix them right.</P>
<P>My fir&s;t mi&s;take is (&s;ayes he, <HI>Pag.</HI> 16.) the &s;uppo&s;ing a ge|neral Tran&s;plantation, when but a particular was intended, and is to be practi&s;ed.</P>
<P>1. If this be &s;o, I wonder how the Collonel came &s;o to fall out with me; he intends only a particular Tran&s;plantation, and I write only again&s;t a general one; and yet he writes again&s;t me, and rails at me &s;ufficiently for writing for it; and now we are friends again; and he tels me, he intends to put in practice what I de&s;ire; O <HI>Aedipus</HI> unfold this my&s;tery: Tell where the difference lies; This is like a drunken quarrel, which none can trace to the occa&s;ion; Or like the feud between <HI>Martin Luthers</HI> Scholars, becau&s;e one was the Di&s;ciple of <HI>Martin,</HI> and the other of <HI>Luther;</HI> and yet you &s;ee how zealou&s;ly he maintains the &s;cuffle; Surely people will take us for a couple of di&s;&s;embling Atturneys, who &s;quabble at the Barre in the Court, and are agreed at the Barre in the Tavern; or con|clude, That if there was one mi&s;take, there were two mi|&s;takes: if I was mi&s;taken in the Que&s;tion, then he mu&s;t be mi|&s;taken in the quarrel.</P>
<P>But &s;econdly, The perfect way for his evidencing my mi|&s;take in this; had been to have cited the Acts and Orders for Tran&s;plantation, in which the Reader might have &s;een either his mi&s;take or mine, by the general or particular current of them; but &s;ince you may refu&s;e to believe him, if you will not take it on his credit, I &s;hall de&s;ire your a&s;&s;ent no further then my witne&s;&s;e compels; Thus then runs the Order of the Councel of State, in their In&s;tructions, entituled, <HI>Further In&s;tructions,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>That all Per&s;ons who have right to Articles or Mercy, held forth by any qualifications in the Act of Parlia|ment, tran&s;plant them&s;elves,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>except only &s;uch as did not ad|here to the Rebels at any time before</HI> September 1643. <HI>and have ever &s;ince profe&s;&s;ed the Prote&s;tant Religion; and women who married Engli&s;h Prote&s;tants &s;ince the &s;econd of</HI> December 1650. <HI>and them&s;elves become Prote&s;tants.</HI> I would now de&s;ire Col|lonel <HI>Laurence</HI> to &s;peak ingenuou&s;ly and roundly, how many <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> he believes in the whole Land fals within the compa&s;&s;e of
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the exception from Tran&s;plantation, and whether upon &s;eri|ous con&s;ideration, he will defend (that) for a mea&s;ured truth (which it may be come unweighed from him, <HI>pag. 17. lin.</HI> 19. of his Book) that the twentieth man was not by Order to be tran&s;planted, be&s;ides Souldiers, of which many are gone beyond Seas? I appeal to tho&s;e who knew the condition of <HI>Ireland</HI> in tho&s;e times, whether tho&s;e In&s;tructions adhered to, would not tran&s;plant almo&s;t every man? How is it po&s;&s;ible to be otherwi&s;e, when the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> were hem'd in to their very gates, and the whole Land became a wilde rode for the Rebels, if it were po&s;&s;ible for any con&s;iderable number to be innocent, it mu&s;t be tho&s;e who inhabited with the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in their Towns? And yet (to take the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Inhabitants of <HI>Kin&s;ale</HI> for example) the&s;e were judged &s;o clearly tran&s;plantable, that in order thereto their whole E&s;tates had been di&s;pos'd of, had not the timely clemency of his Excellency the Lord Deputy &s;tept in for their relief.</P>
<P>3. The Authority there makes but two di&s;tinctions of men, 1. Tho&s;e that are to die. 2. Tho&s;e to be tran&s;planted; From whence is it not rational to &s;ay, all tho&s;e are to be tran&s;planted that are to live; and do they not name expre&s;ly plowmen, la|bourers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> when they &s;ay they &s;hall not die? There is no <HI>Medium</HI> in that Article between dying and tran&s;plan|ting.</P>
<P>But fourthly, I &s;hall make him, who has been my accu&s;er all this while my Judge now (And if you judge of what's to come by what's pa&s;t, you may think he will not be partial on my &s;ide;) if you plea&s;e to look into <HI>pag.</HI> 11. of his Book, there you &s;hall &s;ee in a different Character the&s;e words, <HI>That all per&s;ons who have right to Articles, or any favour or mercy held forth,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>All and every the per&s;ons afore-&s;aid, &s;hall before the 1 of</HI> May, 1654. <HI>tran&s;plant them&s;elves into Connaught,</HI> &amp;c. I wonder what re&s;triction or limitation is here to deny a gene|ral Tran&s;plantation; All pardoned for life and e&s;tate are to go; What can be more general, unle&s;&s;e he will &s;uppo&s;e tho&s;e that lo&s;t their lives might go too by a more then Pythagorick tran&s;migration? Nay, what he here denies, and makes the root of all my Errour, what will you &s;ay if him&s;elf grant, and
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&s;ay the &s;elf-&s;ame thing el&s;where? View <HI>Pag.</HI> 7. of his Book, <HI>lin. 10. For though the Parliament in their (In&s;tructions) included all per&s;ons within any the qualifications in the Act of Settle|ment,</HI> &amp;c. Is not this to grant what I &s;ay, to conclude the Parliament included all? They are their words, as he quotes them him&s;elf.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> But it may be &s;aid, This is foul play to di&s;member a &s;entence; Hear what he &s;ayes after <HI>(Yet in their Declarations thereon, they confine it to Propriators of Land or Per&s;ons, who had been in actual Rebellion,</HI> &amp;c.) this turns the currant again&s;t me again.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> I believe he intended it &s;hould do &s;o, but yet it does not; You may &s;ee by his glo&s;&s;e he had a good minde to have corrupted the Text, for the&s;e la&s;t are his words, not Authori|ties, as you may &s;ee by his next words <HI>(or to u&s;e their own words)</HI> i. e. the Parliaments; Now what are the Parliaments words (according as he was feign to cite them?) Reade on there, and they &s;ay thus, <HI>That all Per&s;ons that had contrived, advi&s;ed, promoted, acted, or voluntarily aided, a&s;&s;i&s;ted or abetted the Rebellion,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Or have been in actual Arms;</HI> Good Collo|nel <HI>Laurence</HI> are none but Propriators of Lands or Per&s;ons in actual Rebellion intended here to tran&s;plant? Pray fir&s;t of all tell us, What you mean by actual Rebellion, for I perceive you intend this fig&punc; leaf to hide your nakedne&s;&s;e withall; you &s;eem to mean tho&s;e that were actually in Arms? But then if Propriators of Land and Souldiers were only intended, what's the meaning of the&s;e additions <HI>(advi&s;ed, promoted, a&s;&s;i&s;ted, or abetted)</HI> do they &s;ignifie &s;omething, or are they the Tau|tologies of Authority? They may be in&s;ignificant now they are urged again&s;t you; but I warrant them recover their vi|gor, when you come to lay the Law to the <HI>Iri&s;h;</HI> or do you mean a third &s;ort, be&s;ide the Propriator and Souldier (by being in actual Rebellion?) Indeed this is the true &s;en&s;e of the word; there is no middle between Loyalty and Rebellion; to advi&s;e, promote, a&s;&s;i&s;t, abet, <HI>&amp;c.)</HI> is Rebellion (if it be in|tentionally only, it comes not under mans cognizance) and if actual, 'tis actual Rebellion? The Collonels meaning then is this, That though the In&s;tructions of Authority include all, yet in
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their Declarations they confine it <HI>(To all)</HI> this is a &s;trange oppo&s;ition, a pretty univer&s;al re&s;triction: 'Tis &s;trange Au|thority would let their In&s;tructions and Declarations run &s;o at odds, and interfere &s;o mightily: Sure I am he mu&s;t mean one of the&s;e two &s;en&s;es, unle&s;&s;e perhaps to evade me he'll &s;ay he means non &s;en&s;e: if the fir&s;t; then he becomes an Advocate for the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> and excu&s;es them all from actual Rebellion, ex|cept Landedmen and Souldiers; if the &s;econd, then (which he dreads more) he pleads for me, and again&s;t him&s;elf, excu|&s;ing none from Tran&s;plantation; if the fir&s;t, he abu&s;es Au|thority, if the &s;econd, his Reader; into the&s;e difficulties has he ingaged him&s;elf, to ingage me; <HI>Sir,</HI> How much rea&s;on have we here to invoke your truth and mode&s;ty, as in the begin|ning you did your memory and under&s;tanding; I be&s;eech you hereafter learn to &s;peak le&s;&s;e confidently, or re&s;olve to &s;peak more truly; Though your pa&s;&s;ion may prompt you to contra|dict me, yet let your rea&s;on curb you from (thus gro&s;ly) con|tradicting your &s;elf.</P>
<P>5. Ob&s;erve, That though you may perceive Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> to be a very learned man by the many Books he quotes in his Tract (as the <HI>Act of Settlement, Further In&s;tru|ctions, Orders,</HI> &amp;c.) Yet he has been very unhappy in his apprehen&s;ion of them (as many times great Readers have &s;mall judgements) for the truth is, Authority in that Act of Settlement in the part cited by him, &s;peaks not of tran&s;planting tho&s;e that were in Rebellion, or had advi&s;ed, a&s;&s;i&s;ted, abetted, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> into <HI>Connaught,</HI> but &s;omewhat further even out of the world; as you may &s;ee the words in the clo&s;e of the Act of Settlement, <HI>Artic. 1. All tho&s;e before, nay tho&s;e who have con|tributed Money or Victuals (which they cannot make appear to have been taken away from them by meer force) &s;hall be excepted from pardon of life and e&s;tate;</HI> How &s;hall we &s;alve this cruell capital mi&s;take for Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> (truly I know no way but this) That though this be not an account of Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI>'s rea&s;on, it is of his faith; that he is no <HI>Sadducee,</HI> he holds there are Spirits, and that they can walk, and may be tran&s;planted, and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e E&s;tates: Yet I believe, becau&s;e they are Spirits, they need not &s;uch bodily provi&s;ions
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as we doe, and therefore are to be &s;ent into <HI>Con|naught.</HI></P>
<P>6. There has been lately a Petition by &s;ome in &s;everal Counties in <HI>Ireland,</HI> preferr'd to the Authority there, that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> might be generally tran&s;planted, becau&s;e the Orders of the Councel of State did &s;o require. It &s;eems I am not &s;in|gle in the con&s;truction of tho&s;e Orders.</P>
<P>I have the longer in&s;i&s;ted on this, for that it is the hinge of the whole controver&s;ie between the Re&s;pondent and me, who fals vehemently upon me, that I &s;hould abu&s;e Authority with an Act they never intended; inforcing this every where into his Book, and impo&s;ing it upon the Reader with &s;uch ardour and frequency, that he is almo&s;t afraid not to think it to be true; yet upon examination of Records it appears fal&s;e, his own te&s;timonies make him give up the Bucklers; and upon tho&s;e proofs I crave the &s;entence of all unprejudicated per&s;ons, Whether I had not rea&s;on (being a Member of the Parlia|ment, and for <HI>Ireland)</HI> to repre&s;ent my &s;en&s;e to them of &s;uch an Order (as Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> will not abu&s;e them with once intending to act in?) Or whether he had ju&s;t provoca|tion &s;o to abu&s;e me, and him&s;elf too? This then which he cals my mi&s;take proves to be his; and he cals it my fir&s;t (which acknowledgement from an opponent is worthy of thanks) but he mu&s;t excu&s;e me from making him the like civil return, for it is not his fir&s;t by a great many.</P>
<P>There is one Objection again&s;t me from <HI>Pag.</HI> 9. and 10. of his Book, that &s;uppo&s;ing the Orders to be general; however there is no &s;uch thing in preparation or practice in <HI>Ireland,</HI> but rather that they have admitted con&s;cientious and prudent de|bates concerning it; To which I an&s;wer,</P>
<P N="1">1. Then it &s;eems they condemned general tran&s;planting, and I de&s;ired (and endeavoured) only again&s;t that. I hope then Authority there, will not own Col. <HI>Laurence</HI>'s clamours again&s;t me, who moved in their own &s;phere; nor cen&s;ure my &s;ub&s;erviency to them&s;elves.</P>
<P N="2">2. Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> told you, they had Orders out of <HI>England</HI> for doing this, and I do not under&s;tand what place is left for the con&s;ultation of Inferiours, after the determina|tion
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of Superiours, e&s;pecially who cry up their own obedience &s;o much as he. Let him an&s;wer this Objection, I cannot for him.</P>
<P N="3">3. But now he &s;peaks more broadly, and &s;ayes, They are re&s;olved on a particular Tran&s;plantation, and you &s;aw <HI>England</HI> re&s;olved on a general; which is to &s;ay, he re&s;olves not to obey; &s;ome men may &s;ay any thing, but I tremblingly now repeat it after him.</P>
<P N="4">4. If this be the re&s;olution, I know not, that I de&s;erved &s;uch rude thanks for endeavouring to obtain an Order for it; But however I &s;hall be glad of the event (being po&s;&s;e&s;t of my poor de&s;ign in it) and leave it to &s;ome more turbulent hu|mour, to di&s;pute whether it be by Order or not.</P>
<P N="5">5. 'Tis his Re&s;olution, and 'tis not his Re&s;olution: It is his Re&s;olution for the pre&s;ent; but it may be not for the time to come; The Tran&s;plantation may be but particular now, but it may be general hereafter; Hear his intimation of it, <HI>pag.</HI> 10. of his Book. When (&s;ayes he) there &s;hall as much rea|&s;on appear for tran&s;planting the whole as a part, then the Di&s;cu&s;&s;er may offer his Arguments, and the Actors their An|&s;wers, but (for the pre&s;ent) no &s;uch preparation. He tels you only then what is re&s;olved at the pre&s;ent, not what may be acted for the future, when any man &s;tarts new rea&s;ons, but <HI>p.</HI> 17. he &s;peaks more plainly; whether all &s;hall go at one time or not (&s;ayes he) is di&s;putable.</P>
<P N="6">6. Con&s;ider if this be likely (whatever may be done at pre|&s;ent) from the&s;e two Propo&s;itions put together; He tels you, <HI>Pag. 17. lin.</HI> 19. the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> to be tran&s;planted are not the 20^t^h part of the Nation, nay &s;o incon&s;iderable they cannot be mi&s;t, but as one friend may mi&s;&s;e another; and yet almo&s;t all <HI>Con|naught</HI> is laid out for them.</P>
<P>Let us proceed to what he cals my &s;econd Mi&s;take, which is (as he &s;aith) my Arguments again&s;t a promi&s;cuous Tran&s;|plantation without re&s;pect to merit or behaviour, and that (&s;ayes he) is not &s;o. In an&s;wer to which con&s;ider</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, I think it had been a Mi&s;take to have written for a Tran&s;plantation without re&s;pect to merit, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But I conceive none to oppo&s;e it.</P>
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Secondly, If it was a mi&s;take in me to write for it, it will be a greater in him to act for it, which yet he profe&s;&s;es to do; and I am glad he complies with me in his deeds, though he &s;eems to be at variance by his words.</P>
<P>Thirdly, If the Orders ran for a generall Tran&s;plantati|on, then for a promi&s;cuous one doubtle&s;&s;e, for non-pro|mi&s;cuous makes a difference, and general &s;uppo&s;es none; but the fir&s;t was proved before, and therefore the &s;econd needs no proof now.</P>
<P>Fourthly, As the Re&s;olution is pious in the Authority there to make a di&s;tinction, &s;o I wi&s;h the Obedience may&punc; be cheerfull in the Executioners to perform it; the merit is &s;o &s;mall on the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> part, that their rewards will be more ju&s;t then co&s;tly; But unle&s;&s;e this Rule be better kept (generally) for the time to come, then it has been in &s;ome particulars (that I could name) for the time pa&s;t (but I am confident) without the fault, or &s;o much as knowledge of Authority, we &s;hall have no cau&s;e to boa&s;t of our &s;ignall recompences, nor the po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ors to rejoyce in them: But I have better hopes for the time to come; to re&s;olve well is to begin to do well; and this the Gentleman profe&s;&s;es, and I &s;hall in charity believe him till his actions di&s;ingage me.</P>
<P>Fifthly, Then it appears that this is no poi&s;oned Arrow &s;hot by me at Authority, as he &s;ayes <HI>(Pag.</HI> 10. of his Book) but rather that his cen&s;ure is a bolt of his, too &s;oon let flie at me.</P>
<P>My third Mi&s;take (he tels you) is, that I think Tran&s;planta|tion was principally propo&s;ed as a puni&s;hment for murther, and thereupon grounds a large Di&s;cour&s;e, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. I was not &s;o fooli&s;h to think my &s;elf &s;o wi&s;e, as to pretend to know the rea&s;on of Tran&s;plantation, which (though I have &s;ince heard the Re&s;pondent &s;peak, 'tis my dul|ne&s;&s;e) I do not even now conceive; but then, though I be|lieve the State has rea&s;on for it above my apprehen&s;ion, or if they had not, I &s;hould yet in duty &s;ubmit, looking upon it as a work (to my poor capacity) of very threatning con&s;e|quence, I thought (if it were done) it mu&s;t be on very con|&s;tringent
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motives; and I thought there were none more bin|ding then Religion, Profit and Safety; the fir&s;t of which I pro|&s;ecuted from <HI>Pag.</HI> 1. to the 15. under which head comes the pa&s;&s;age that he a&s;&s;aults here.</P>
<P>2. Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> will be but an ill Souldier if he cannot di&s;cern his friends from his enemies; What confu&s;ion may he bring upon an Army? 1. It cannot be my ground (for he con|fe&s;&s;es) I rea&s;on again&s;t it: 2. But it is one that I have heard from tho&s;e of his judgement often inculcated, and I believe he that denies this to be the rea&s;on, will not &s;uddenly be prepar'd to a&s;&s;ign a better.</P>
<P>3. He is again mi&s;taken, for this, that Tran&s;plantation was done on the account of puni&s;hment, was not a po&s;ition, but a &s;uppo&s;ition, not an a&s;&s;ertion fa&s;tned on Authority, or any one el&s;e, but an indefinite Objection which might have been u&s;ed by any body, and (it may be) was by &s;ome body, or if not, yet might have been, or may be, and it &s;hews only his care that writ the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation, not to pretermit any thing that might po&s;&s;ibly be &s;aid again&s;t him, &s;o farre was he from his Antagoni&s;ts humour, to &s;lide by all the Arguments again&s;t him as impertinencies; which different proceeding (it may be) was that which mo&s;t offended this Gentleman, looking on it as his own re|proach.</P>
<P>4. He &s;ayes, This was not the Rea&s;on of Tran&s;plantation; then it &s;eems there is one rea&s;on le&s;&s;e for it then I thought there had been.</P>
<P>5. If it was not, it might have been; It may be the Re&s;pon|dent did not perceive its force, and &s;o (not knowing how it could &s;erve his turn) disbanded it; for certainly he has ei|ther not much rea&s;on to &s;pare in this controver&s;ie, or it lies in ambu&s;h for us; and indeed I &s;hould be much &s;urpriz'd to &s;ee it.</P>
<P>6. I have only his bare word, That puni&s;hment was not a principle of Tran&s;plantation; and &s;o fir&s;t I am left to my good nature, whether I will believe him or no. 2. I have no tem|ptation to believe him, for then I mu&s;t believe my &s;elf a ma|lignant, incendiary, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> having the &s;ame Author for both.
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3. I have rea&s;on not to believe him; for, 1. He was in <HI>Ire|lan</HI> (and this Order came from <HI>England,</HI> and therefore) was not at the debates, and &s;o could not know the motives fur|ther then it &s;hould expre&s;&s;e them it &s;elf, which it does not; And yet in the confidence of this Negative Argument, he is ready to cry <HI>victoria,</HI> pag. 11. where having cited the words of the Act of Settlement, he triumphs thus, <HI>Is there in all this one word of tending to ground-tran&s;plantation upon principles of puni&s;hment?</HI> Ju&s;t as if I &s;hould argue, Is there in all this one word of rea&s;on given for Tran&s;plantation (as indeed there is not) therefore Authority had not one rea&s;on for their action? Or as if I &s;hould &s;ay, there is &s;carcely a line of &s;en&s;e in Col. <HI>Laurences</HI> Book, from whence another &s;hould collect, there is &s;carce any &s;en&s;e in Col. <HI>Laurence?</HI> What a de&s;perate Con|clu&s;ion would this be? But, 2. Though it was not expre&s;t that it was their rea&s;on, yet he could not tell that it was not; for as they do not affirm it, &s;o they do not deny it; they might di&s;clo&s;e &s;ome of their rea&s;ons, and conceal others. 3. I would know if the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> had not thus tre&s;pa&s;&s;ed, whether they &s;hould have been tran&s;planted? If he &s;ay, No (as he mu&s;t and does, <HI>Pag.</HI> 11.) then their Tran&s;plantation was the effect of their Rebellion; and what is puni&s;hment but the effect of &s;inne? But he &s;aith, it was to pre&s;erve the <HI>Engli&s;h;</HI> and might it not be for to puni&s;h the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> too? May not one cau&s;e have many effects? Were not the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> pre&s;erv'd by the &s;laughter of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Ar|mies, and yet they puni&s;ht for their Rebellion too? O won|derfull acutene&s;&s;e of judgement, that can thus divide a hair, that can oppo&s;e things &s;ubordinate, nay in&s;eparable! For could the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> be &s;afe without the puni&s;hment of the <HI>Iri&s;h?</HI> Why then was not &s;o much bloud and trea&s;ure &s;a|ved? Am I now mi&s;taken? Or am I not rather taken a|mi&s;&s;e?</P>
<P>7. After all this bu&s;tling, which was onely to &s;hew his &s;trength, and that he will be compell'd to nothing; yet to &s;hew he is ma&s;ter of good nature to, and can be flexible, he meek|ly re&s;igns up the Conclu&s;ion at the foot of <HI>Pag.</HI> 11. admitting this in &s;ome degree to be done upon the account of puni&s;h|ment; But his inducement is remarkable, <HI>For the further
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clearing up the Ju&s;tice and Rationality of this work</HI> (i. e.) <HI>Tran&s;plantation, admit,</HI> &amp;c. He confe&s;&s;es he cannot fully clear up the Ju&s;tice and Rationality of this work without ad|mitting it to have been done on a principle of puni&s;hment; and yet was di&s;plea&s;ed with my &s;aying it was done on this prin|ciple, that is, becau&s;e I did not &s;ay, this work was unju&s;t and irrational; And now in meer compa&s;&s;ion to my credit, and his own ea&s;e, he re&s;olves to di&s;cover no more of my mi&s;takes; I would he would be equally courteous to him&s;elf, and di&s;cover no more of his own neither.</P>
<P>But now, <HI>Tam Marti, quam Mercurio;</HI> The Hi&s;torian throws away his Gown, and the Collonel draws his Sword; he is Polemical as well as Practical. Like a Plaintane leaf, as he heals on one &s;ide, &s;o he draws on t'other; as he has &s;miles for his favourites, &s;o he has frowns for his enemies: Among whom he has the greate&s;t Antipathy again&s;t the Author of the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation (that is) anger, of which there can be a&s;&s;igned no rea&s;on.</P>
<P>With whom he is re&s;olved to di&s;pute <HI>pro</HI> and <HI>con,</HI> 1. Intro|ducing his Arguments again&s;t me. And &s;econdly, Re&s;olving to an&s;wer mo&s;t of my &s;waying Rea&s;ons, that is, I &s;up|po&s;e tho&s;e, that he can be&s;t make an&s;wer to, and are lea&s;t &s;waying.</P>
<P>In the pur&s;uing this de&s;ign of his, I mu&s;t here premi&s;e this one thing; that I do not condemn Authority, but acquit my felf; that I am not oppo&s;ing what they &s;hall do, but main|taining what I have formerly &s;aid; that I cen&s;ure not their actions, (which are good) but Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI>'s Rea&s;on's, which are bad; That though Tran&s;plantation be fit to be pro|ceeded in, yet doubtles they do it on better grounds and rea&s;ons then tho&s;e maimed ones that he produces for them; 'tis him, not them I di&s;pute again&s;t.</P>
<P>That he may do the fir&s;t, he is feign to beg my lately &s;o de|&s;pi&s;ed principle, That this Tran&s;plantation was grounded on puni&s;hment, which now it &s;erves his turn, he tricks very fine and gay, and enlarges its Ba&s;e at <HI>pag.</HI> 12. and 13. of his Treati&s;e, that &s;o it may uphold the figure of Tran&s;plantation to be &s;et on it.</P>
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But his Order is full of very fine confu&s;ion and mazes; it is &s;port to &s;ee how he is lo&s;t in his own labyrinth; I will but re|peat his own words; at the end of <HI>Pag.</HI> 11. there are five or &s;ix lines of mo&s;t incomprehen&s;ible Seraphical &s;en&s;e; Thus they enter, <HI>For the further cleaning up the Ju&s;tice and Ra|tionality of this work, admit it in &s;ome degree to have been done upon the account of puni&s;hment, which in a &s;en&s;e may be admitted, for had they never offended, they had never been liable thereto; Therefore con&s;ider what puni&s;hment it was they did incurre by their offence, which will be the better done, 1. by,</HI> &amp;c. Is not here a fine civil wilderne&s;&s;e with ex|qui&s;ite art contrived, for a man to lo&s;e him&s;elf thus many times in poor five lines, as you &s;hall &s;ee.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Here's <HI>Peleon</HI> tumbled upon <HI>O&s;&s;a;</HI> All the degrees of compari&s;on jumbled together; he will clear up the Ju&s;tice and Rationality of this work, which that he may do, he will admit it to have been done on the account of puni&s;hment; which that he may do, he will enquire what puni&s;hment it was they incurr'd; which that he may do, he will con&s;ider fir&s;t the offence, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Cannot a ready Ma&s;ter now cut out pre|&s;ently work enough for nine Journeymen? Why here's a circuit taken in, as if the <HI>Pyramides</HI> were to be reedified, Ri&s;e up Tran&s;plantation, and go to your Con&s;ideration, for your Con&s;iderations Con&s;ideration has a Con&s;ideration: O for a Midwife! What a thing it is for a man to have a co&s;tive brain; But</P>
<P>Secondly, As we have &s;een this Ma&s;terpiece of Art &s;hew &s;o well together, &s;o no le&s;&s;e curio&s;ity is in every limb, if you view it a&s;under.</P>
<P N="1">1. He admits the Tran&s;plantation in &s;ome degree to be done on the account of puni&s;hment; Pray to what is in <HI>(&s;ome degree)</HI> referred, to Tran&s;plantation? There are no degrees in that, it is a continued act, and of one kinde: unto <HI>(To be done)</HI> the action I hope will be perfect, and not admit degrees; <HI>To puni&s;hment,</HI> it is very remote from that; be&s;ides, are there future &s;ufferings prophe&s;ied (be&s;ides it &s;elf) which is &s;ome de|gree of puni&s;hment, but not all.</P>
<P N="2">2. Having thus begun his &s;entence, and brought it, to a
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Colon, he makes one Parenthe&s;is ride in the neck of another <HI>(which in a &s;en&s;e may be admitted) (for had they never offended, they had never been liable thereto)</HI> and &s;o &s;weetly and mo&s;t me|lodiou&s;ly concludes the Period. Did ever two Parenthe&s;is's fini&s;h a &s;entence before? This is ju&s;t like a hor&s;e, that (running full &s;peed) &s;tops on a &s;udden, and throws his rider over his neck.</P>
<P N="3">3. <HI>Therefore</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>con&s;ider what puni&s;hment it was they did incurre by their offence; Wherefore? What did ju&s;t now pre|cede? Becau&s;e if they had never offended, they had never been liable thereto; Therefore con&s;ider what puni&s;hment they did in|curre by their offence;</HI> And very good rea&s;on too; an excel|lent connexion! Ju&s;t like &s;uch an introduction as this, becau&s;e if the Angels never had &s;inned, they had never fallen, There|fore let us con&s;ider the Nature of Hell: A &s;ublime Preface! O that the Ma&s;ters of Rhetorique wanted &s;o fine a Platform to commend to their boyes for the patern of an <HI>Exordium;</HI> Me thinks a &s;peech would begin mo&s;t gracefully and heroically in &s;uch a flow &s;pondee pace as this; becau&s;e mo&s;t noble hearers, if <HI>Paris</HI> had not taken <HI>Helen</HI> away from <HI>Menelaus, Hector</HI> had never been kill'd by <HI>Achilles;</HI> Therefore be pleas'd to hear the Tragedy of the warres of <HI>Troy;</HI> This is a Marriage between Ea&s;t and We&s;t; Ju&s;t as if this Gentleman &s;hould de&s;ire one to peru&s;e his late elaborate piece, for this rea&s;on, becau&s;e if I had not writ again&s;t Tran&s;plantation, he had not writ for it; Who will de&s;pair but that the Poles may meet and hang about one anothers neck, &s;ince they &s;ee as unlikely conjun|ctions?</P>
<P N="4">4. To con&s;ider their puni&s;hment, he mu&s;t fir&s;t con&s;ider their offence; and after the fir&s;t, the Reader will look for a &s;econd; But his pa&s;&s;ionate Di&s;cour&s;e, quite drowned his me|mory: So that he forgets to introduce that ever after; though this were a fault in the literal &s;en&s;e, yet it may be in the my|&s;tery 'tis not; which doubtle&s;&s;e was to &s;hew, that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> of|fence was &s;o great, that there could be never another found to &s;econd it.</P>
<P N="5">5. After he has painted out their offence in good and true colours (to give every thing its due) he tels you not, but
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leaves you to your own gue&s;&s;es concerning their puni&s;hment, though this Di&s;cour&s;e was begun for that end, tumbling again, <HI>Pag.</HI> 13. into the con&s;ideration of Tran&s;plantation; this cannot it &s;elf be the puni&s;hment he intended, 1. Becau&s;e he will hardly yield it a puni&s;hment: And &s;econdly, were it one, it is not &s;ure commen&s;urate to the offence treated of uni|ver&s;ally; Of this Preface, I &s;hall onely adde this one thing more, That as he very feelingly deplores the &s;ufferings of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> dead, &s;o that he would exerci&s;e &s;ome of his compa&s;&s;ion towards tho&s;e that are living, is my de&s;ire, and may it be his practice; God will require it, if any &s;hall &s;o farre mock him, as to puni&s;h the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> for being cruel to the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and them|&s;elves be &s;o too; There were Phari&s;ees that abhorr'd their fathers killing the Prophets in old time, and yet them&s;elves &s;lew them in their own time; What mean tho&s;e words, that the old Prote&s;tants are as bad, nay wor&s;e then the <HI>Iri&s;h?</HI> yet they are too common in the mouths of &s;ome in <HI>Ire|land.</HI></P>
<P>And thus, if from good beginnings we may flatter our &s;elves with a fair i&s;&s;ue, then &s;ure Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> may not de&s;pair, who in five lines has fallen but five times, as he was entring on what was material; But it may be he does this as a Souldier like|wi&s;e, who having now drawn down his Artillery to play on me, threw up this blinde work before, for their &s;ecurity.</P>
<P>But now, Arm, Arm; The Alarm is given, the enemy is near; <HI>Long lookt for comes at length;</HI> now near half of his book is done, he will prove (that which he &s;hould have done at the beginning) that the Tran&s;plantation is nece&s;&s;ary; for which end he produces but a brace of Rea&s;ons, <HI>Pag.</HI> 13. 1. It is the mo&s;t probable means to &s;ecure the pre&s;ent <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> intere&s;t. 2. To maintain one for the future without charging <HI>England</HI> either in men or money.</P>
<P>To prove the fir&s;t, His Argument runs thus, That which was the ruine of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> chiefly in the la&s;t Rebellion, ought for the future to be avoided: But the living mixedly with the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> was &s;o; on the &s;hewing of which he dilates, <HI>Pag.</HI> 14, 15, 16. Therefore they ought now to be &s;eparated. To which I an&s;wer,</P>
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1. That I do an&s;wer, and not call his Argument an imper|tinency (which doubtle&s;&s;e I might) as he does mine, &s;o in &s;afety to e&s;cape him.</P>
<P N="2">2. That here he fights again&s;t no enemy (at lea&s;t of me) for I was not again&s;t a particular Tran&s;plantation (rightly ordered) though it may be I thought it not &s;o ab&s;olutely nece&s;&s;ary; my whole Book runs again&s;t, what the Order ran far, A general Tran&s;plantation.</P>
<P N="3">3. But yet I think the rea&s;on on which he affirms it, weak, <HI>viz.</HI> 1. That the mixtion of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> with the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> was the cau&s;e; and &s;econdly, though it was a cau&s;e heretofore, that it &s;hould be a cau&s;e now, is a <HI>non &s;equitur:</HI> For the fir&s;t con&s;ider,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, It is irrational, That the &s;cattering of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> among the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> was the cau&s;e of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> ruine; for while&s;t they continued &s;cattered, they wrong'd them not, but when they became imbodied, they did the mi&s;chief; which is the de|&s;ign this Gentleman pur&s;ues; and therefore provides doubti|ly for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;afety, from that which was the cau&s;e of their de&s;truction.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> But it was their numbers and power which was the cau&s;e, and the cohabitation with the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> gave them oppor|tunity to make u&s;e of the&s;e by way of &s;urprize, which tran&s;|planted they cannot do, <HI>p.</HI> 14.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> That is not prevented by the Method which the Re|&s;pondent propounds neither; hear him&s;elf &s;peak, <HI>pag. 17. lin.</HI> 19. The Proprietors, and all relating to them, cannot be ra|tionally judged to be <HI>(near)</HI> the twentieth part of the people of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and there are none to go be&s;ides (according to him) but tho&s;e that have been in arms; More then 19 parts then of the people are to remain among us, and cohabit with the <HI>Engli&s;h;</HI> there's no great danger of them; but if the twen|tieth &s;tay, we are all undone: Look to <HI>lin.</HI> 29. of <HI>pag.</HI> 17. and he puts it out of all que&s;tion, where he mu&s;ters all to be (in his opinion) tran&s;planted, both Proprietors and men in arms, and his rolls give us this account of them; any man that knows (&s;ayes he) the &s;tate of <HI>Ireland,</HI> mu&s;t acknowledge they <HI>(i. e.)</HI> all to be removed, are &s;o incon&s;iderable, that hey will not be
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mi&s;&s;ed or di&s;cerned as to the numbers in the Countreys from which they remove, further then one friend, may want ano|ther.</P>
<P>Is not here great ingenuity, and rare wi&s;dom? Ingenuity, to tell you the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> mu&s;t be tran&s;planted, becau&s;e mixing with them ruined the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and yet afterwards to tell you the number tran&s;planted will not be &s;o con&s;iderable as to be mi&s;t. Prudence, to fore&s;ee the cau&s;e of a mi&s;chief, and to remove it by letting what produc't it remained &s;till: Yet the&s;e contra|ry re&s;olutions &s;erved him in their proper &s;tarions, the fir&s;t to oppo&s;e me, That numbers in <HI>Ireland</HI> mu&s;t be tran&s;planted, lea&s;t they ruine the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> for the time future: The &s;econd, to mollifie the Reader, and take off his hard conceptions of Tran&s;plantation, that the number would be &s;o incon&s;iderable, as could not be mi&s;t. Indeed it was uncivilly done of me to be peeping further into a mans meaning then he expected, and unkindely to bring his witne&s;&s;es thus to confront one ano|ther face to face, which he as little de&s;ired.</P>
<P>2. But on the contrary, Cohabiting with the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> was a means probably to have qua&s;ht the Rebellion, if other whol|&s;ome concurrents (appointed by Law) had been duly executed; as, 1. Care taken for &s;preading the Prote&s;tant Religion, the neglect of which left them to their own, the &s;tronge&s;t incen|tive to Rebellion, and tie to unanimity in it, and this would do well to be heeded for the time to come, which would work a change in their mindes, for changing of place will never make them hone&s;t. 2. Educating their Gentry in Civility and Re|ligion, for which the Court of Wards was erected, and doubt|le&s;&s;e was then convenient there for that Nation. 3. Suppre&s;|&s;ing their Language, Manners, Laws, Septs, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Many more are ob&s;erved by Hi&s;torians. The&s;e and &s;uch like things negle|cted, next (the provocation of the Divine Maje&s;ty by the &s;ins of the <HI>Engli&s;h)</HI> were the cau&s;es of that horrid bloudy Rebel|lion, and not their dwelling among <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> which if helpt with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of &s;uch provi&s;ions as the Law did make, might probably have produced the contrary; that I am not &s;ingular in my opinion, but the Gentleman in his: Hear our Hi&s;torians them&s;elves, S^r <HI>Joh. Davis,</HI> of the cau&s;es of former Re|bellions
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in <HI>Ireland,</HI> 1. The intollerable oppre&s;&s;ion of the Armies <HI>(p.</HI> 28.) 2. Too large proportions of Land given to the Souldiers, though they warred at their own charge <HI>(p.</HI> 133.) contrary to the practice of other Generals, as <HI>Scipio, Pompey, Cae&s;ar (pag.</HI> 156.) 3. The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> &s;eating them&s;elves in the rich plains, and driving the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> to mountains and barren Lands <HI>(pag.</HI> 160.) 4. The <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> being together, making their con&s;pira|cies undi&s;coverable <HI>(pag.</HI> 161.) 5. Their cohabitation gave them power to ri&s;e <HI>(pag.</HI> 173.) 6. A di&s;cretionary way of governing them, more martial then civil <HI>(p.</HI> 253.)</P>
<P>3. Though this &s;hould in likelihood prevent &s;urprizes to come, and that Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> &s;hould not be taken nap|ping, yet it prevents not Rebellion, and &s;o is too narrow a plai&s;ter to cover the &s;ore of <HI>Ireland;</HI> nay it &s;eemed to me to lay the &s;eeds of an everla&s;ting feud, 1. By perpetuating the di&s;tinctions of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> Prote&s;tant and Papi&s;t. 2. By joyning <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> forces, to make them con&s;iderable. 3. By &s;e|que&s;tring them, to give them the advantage of privacy in all their con&s;piracies.</P>
<P>4. If he had nothing but &s;afety before his eyes, without either con&s;idering any thing el&s;e (which I believe was farre from Authority) then he might have thought on a &s;afen way yet, which was to knock them all on the head, that will make them &s;ure, and us &s;afe for certain.</P>
<P>5. If we will believe tho&s;e that write the Hi&s;tory of <HI>Ireland,</HI> they tell us, this Gentlemans remedy of &s;evering the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> wholly, wrought not that &s;afety for the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> which he fore-tels; the account they give of it, is; In the time of <HI>Hen.</HI> 2. the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> were wholly &s;ubdued, and all or the greate&s;t part of them, &s;aith <HI>Spencer,</HI> &s;hut out by the Conque|rour into the mountain part of the Land; but in the Divi&s;ion of <HI>York</HI> and <HI>Lanca&s;ter,</HI> the great <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Lords and Gentle|men repaired to the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of their friends, which advan|tage the bani&s;ht <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> taking, came down, and vanqui&s;hing the remaining <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> repo&s;&s;e&s;t them&s;elves of the Land again: we cannot alwayes promi&s;e our &s;elves the guard of an <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army, of which we &s;ee &s;ome are drawn into <HI>England</HI> already, nor a&s;&s;ure our &s;elves again&s;t &s;uch changes as have been.</P>
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His in&s;tance of the Briti&s;h pre&s;ervation of them&s;elves by be|ing imbodied, is <HI>Cau&s;a pro non cau&s;a,</HI> and a fal&s;e allegation of Story be&s;ides: For, 1. It aro&s;e not from thence, but from the di&s;&s;imulation of the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> who fearing to deal with both parties, gave out at fir&s;t, that their quarrel was only again&s;t the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> whom whil&s;t they were worrying, the others con|trived their own pre&s;ervation.</P>
<P>2. Sir <HI>John Davis</HI> &s;ayes expre&s;ly, that <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> was a mixt Plantation of Briti&s;h and Iri&s;h.</P>
<P>3. What he &s;ayes of fact is fal&s;e too, for 100000 were murther'd in <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> in three dayes, and this he cals pre&s;er|vation.</P>
<P>6. Yet this does not conclude &s;o great a nece&s;&s;ity of this cour&s;e as he layes upon it; that it is e&s;&s;ential to their &s;afety, as nece&s;&s;ary as the &s;topping a leak in a &s;hip to its pre&s;ervation (that is, without which it cannot be) for the bare compa&s;&s;ing his end by this, does not exclude the attainment of it by other means; Now it may be, all the con&s;iderations in the world that conduce to &s;afety, may not one time come into his me|mory, if &s;ome of them be not above his under&s;tanding: But I am &s;ure he has not been plea&s;ed to think one of them worth the mention, and &s;o they cannot be ju&s;tly condemned before they are heard: The &s;afety of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> may be compa&s;&s;ed by the tran&s;planting of the <HI>Iri&s;h;</HI> Therefore by no other way, is ju&s;t &s;uch an Argument as this, <HI>Richard Laurence</HI> is a Collo|nel in <HI>Ireland;</HI> Therefore there's never another Collonel but he: I am &s;ure the Argument is as pitifull, as that Land would be, if it were &s;o; Our old doting Ance&s;tours thought Com|munion one of the&s;e wayes; Where had been our Empire (&s;ayes <HI>Seneca)</HI> if whol&s;om Providence had not mixed the conquered with the Conquerours? And <HI>Livy,</HI> The State of <HI>Rome</HI> was advanc't by receiving their enemies into them.</P>
<P>But I mu&s;t proceed to the other head I propo&s;ed, which was to &s;hew the <HI>infirmnes</HI> of his con&s;equence (as well as the errour of his Propo&s;ition) That though the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> mixing with the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> were the cau&s;e of their ea&s;ie perpetrating their bloudy re&s;olutions, yet there is no &s;uch danger of the like in time to
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come, and &s;o his rea&s;on is no rea&s;on; this will appear by con|&s;idering how the ca&s;e is changed with the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> from what it was then, in a double re&s;pect.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t of all, Their inability to do us harm; they were &s;trong, they are weak; they were numerous, they are con|&s;umed by Sword, Pe&s;tilence and Famine; they were hearty, they are out of courage; they were rich, they are poor and beggarly; they had Souldiers, they are left naked; they had Cities, &s;trong-holds, they have now but cottages to put their heads in; they had civil power, they have lo&s;t it; they had Prie&s;ts to harden them, they are bani&s;hed; the Tables are ju&s;t turned; the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> are what the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> were; rich, high, powerfull, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> what the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> were, poor, few, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> The <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> never had &s;o great a &s;trength in <HI>Ireland</HI> &s;ince the conque&s;t of it, the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> never &s;o &s;mall; now the conditi|ons are changed, mens expectations may be likewi&s;e; What can they do? What may not they be made &s;uffer? What fear is left for us, or hopes for them? Our condition is not &s;o de|&s;perate, as that we need run to extreams to guard it; we may &s;afely ta&s;te the good of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> without fearing the ill; they have more rea&s;on now to fear ns, then we had to fear them.</P>
<P>But &s;econdly, Advantages we have of doing them good; they are few, the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> many; we may over&s;pread them, and incorporate them into our &s;elves, and &s;o by an onene&s;&s;e take away the foundation of difference and fear together; we may breed up their youth, habituate them to our cu&s;toms, cau&s;e a di&s;u&s;e of their Language: we have opportunities of communicating better things unto them, and probabilities they may be received, the Prie&s;ts being gone that did harden, and affliction on them which may &s;often: I had no temptation to &s;ay the&s;e things, other then proceeded from a prompting rea&s;on, and a convinced con&s;cience; I have lo&s;t as good an e&s;tate almo&s;t, as Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> has got by them; They could neither &s;erve me by their power or riches: The Lord knows I &s;poke only from the bowels of a man towards men, and the charity of a Chri&s;tian to mi&s;erable blinded Chri&s;tians, and one who had read a little what has happened to others
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by this practice, and therefore would that we &s;hould avoid their rocks: My end was good, if I had been mi&s;taken in the means.</P>
<P>If I had thought it would have brought the lea&s;t damage upon the intere&s;t in <HI>England,</HI> I would have abhorr'd what I writ with my heart, and burrt it with my own hand: But if Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> and I were not of one judgement, I know no rea&s;on but we might have pre&s;erved one affection.</P>
<P>I expected now to have untied his &s;econd Argument he propo&s;ed for Tran&s;plantation, <HI>viz.</HI> from the future intere&s;t of the <HI>Engli&s;h;</HI> but either he had a horrible treacherous me|mory, (and 'twas a &s;trange carele&s;ne&s;&s;e, that having but two Arguments in a Cau&s;e, wherein he is &s;o violent, and was op|po&s;ed with above twenty, he &s;hould lo&s;e one of them by the way) or a great ob&s;tinacy, that he will neither &s;hew his rea|&s;ons, nor change his minde: Well it &s;eems (though I finde him a bitter enemy, yet) he can be as good a friend, for he never for&s;akes where he once takes; if he carry not a cau&s;e 'tis not his fault but his evidences (whom he has &s;ummon'd) but they refu&s;e to appear; he will not for&s;ake his one tru&s;ty Argu|ment, which was faithfull to him when all the re&s;t for&s;ook him, but in his great humility marches up (though a Collonel) but with one after him, which is a command too &s;mall for a Corporal.</P>
<P>Well, having offered his &s;ervice to his cau&s;e, with this one Melancholy &s;tray Argument, <HI>pag.</HI> 17. &s;corning to tread all rodes and beaten paths, he findes out a new way of rea&s;oning, altogether unknown either in the Schools or at the Bar; for they, fond men as they are (which of it &s;elf is a &s;ufficient quarrel again&s;t Univer&s;ities and Innes of Court) fir&s;t tell you a long tale, which they call opening the Ca&s;e, or &s;tating the Que&s;tion, and then they offer their Rea&s;ons, or (as they call them) Arguments for or again&s;t; But he skirmi&s;hes with his &s;ingle Argument fir&s;t, and then after begins to &s;tate the Que|&s;tion: Ju&s;t as if Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> &s;hould in a quarrel draw his Sword, and then looking about him, ask, what's the matter? Or as if a man &s;hould aim at nothing, or go to no place, or a dog &s;hould hunt no game; or la&s;tly, an Argu|ment
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(as his does) conclude nothing; but it was but one, and not very con&s;iderable, he may hazard it as he plea&s;e, for the lo&s;&s;e cannot be great.</P>
<P>Yet let us do our &s;elves &s;o great a courte&s;ie, as to hear him reade his <HI>The&s;is,</HI> and fir&s;t his di&s;tinctions are many, &s;harp and new.</P>
<P>The Que&s;tion is confined (&s;ayes he) to the extent and man|ner, that's &s;harp; by extent he means per&s;ons (as you may &s;ee) and by manner time and place, as if time and place can|not be extended, and per&s;ons could be tran&s;planted, and it be done in no manner; his branches are appo&s;ite, but not oppo|&s;ite: 2. Confined to extent, it is univer&s;al or partial: This is new; to be confined to a univer&s;ality: 'Tis ju&s;t as if a man were a pri&s;oner to the Univer&s;e. 3. Partial Tran&s;plantation is two-fold, 1. What part. 2. Which part: This is high again, &s;o high, I confe&s;&s;e, that I am not able to reach the mean|ing, I wonder if him&s;elf can finde a difference between what part, or which part.</P>
<P>Secondly, I would fain know, what's the meaning of his asking Que&s;tions, and di&s;puting now? If the manner be re&s;ol|ved on, 'tis pa&s;t di&s;pute; If it be &s;till di&s;putable, why has he &s;o often a&s;&s;erted, that Authority re&s;olved on &s;uch a particular Tran&s;plantation? Even in this very page he &s;ayes, 'tis out of que&s;tion, and yet da&s;hes it with a <HI>provi&s;o:</HI> So farre as I or he know, who are not acquainted with the my&s;teries of State; What does the State publi&s;h one thing, and intend &s;ecretly another? This is a my&s;tery indeed; yet this Gentleman takes the boldne&s;&s;e to publi&s;h it: But I will not too be|lieve it.</P>
<P>Thirdly, So farre as I or he knows, who (he addes) are but private men; If he knew the Author of the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;|plantation, then he knew whom he &s;o often called Malignant, Incendiary, and &s;o mu&s;t know him&s;elf mi&s;taken; if he did not, why does he here &s;o po&s;itively &s;ay, he is but a private man?</P>
<P>Fourthly, If Authority have re&s;olved on the manner, how comes he to offer his opinion here? If they have, 'tis need|le&s;&s;e; If not, why was it &s;o criminal in the Author of that
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Ca&s;e, to offer his? How comes the &s;ame thing to be a virtue in the Re&s;pondent, and a vice in me?</P>
<P>Fifthly, He &s;ayes, 'tis di&s;putable whether all &s;hall remove at one time; it &s;eems then, that though a part only be tran&s;|planted now, yet the re&s;idue may happen to follow hereafter; and &s;o he contradicts him&s;elf, who &s;ayes el&s;where, <HI>A general Tran&s;plantation is re&s;olved again&s;t;</HI> and &s;o I had rea&s;on to write again&s;t general Tran&s;plantation, which may happen (it &s;eems) if not at this time, yet at &s;ome other.</P>
<P>Sixthly, He is un&s;atisfied with the Orders of Authority, as well as he thinks I am; for if I doubted of the exce&s;&s;e, he &s;cruples at the defect; he judges a le&s;&s;e number then what is intended is not &s;afe (if &s;o little.) Nay, in another place, it is not &s;afe to let above the fifth part &s;tay, and yet, he &s;ayes, it is re&s;olved, that not above the twentieth part &s;hall go; From whence the re&s;ult will be this ea&s;ie Conclu&s;ion, that Authority have given out Orders, which in Col. <HI>Laurences</HI> judgement are not &s;afe.</P>
<P>Seventhly, He contradicts him&s;elf again, when in <HI>Pag.</HI> 17. (he &s;ayes,) The twentieth part of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> are not to remove; and yet (&s;o near as <HI>Pag.</HI> 16.) &s;ayes, It is not &s;afe to admit above the fifth part of <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Papi&s;ts to &s;tay.</P>
<P>But &s;ince he is able to &s;ay nothing for him&s;elf, he is re&s;olved to an&s;wer what can be &s;aid again&s;t him&s;elf; To which purpo&s;e he propounds four Objections.</P>
<P><HI>Object.</HI> 1. That putting them together, may inable them to make a war.</P>
<P>He an&s;wers, <HI>Pag.</HI> 18. Fir&s;t, That the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> are not afraid of Armies, but Tories; But I reply, That is not the Que&s;tion, Whether the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> fear them? But whether it would not in|able the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> to warre, to put them all together? He &s;aid him|&s;elf before, That the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> imbodied need not fear the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> and why &s;hould the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> imbodied fear the <HI>Engli&s;h?</HI> Does U|nion &s;trengthen one, and weaken t'other?</P>
<P>2. He an&s;wers, That united they will require le&s;&s;e forces to &s;ubdue them, then turning Tories to pur&s;ue them; I reply,</P>
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1. Either they have a minde to turn Tories or not; if they have, then be&s;ides our forces to defend <HI>Connaught,</HI> we mu&s;t have others to attend the Tories out of it, and &s;o the charge will not be le&s;&s;ened but doubled; if they have not a minde to turn Tories, then an unnece&s;&s;ary charge will be upheld &s;till, to attend them with an Army, le&s;t they &s;hould rai&s;e a warre; Tran&s;plantation cannot hinder tho&s;e that will be Tories; Non|tran&s;planting cannot further tho&s;e that would not.</P>
<P N="2">2. Does not this oppo&s;e all the rea&s;on in the world, that a power united &s;hould require le&s;&s;e force to oppo&s;e it? Yet this is the Gentlemans paradox; We u&s;e to &s;ay, <HI>&V;nited force is &s;tronge&s;t;</HI> and does that which is &s;tronge&s;t require only that which is weak to overcome it? <HI>Divide and reign,</HI> &s;aid the &s;even Wi&s;e-men; but the eight, <HI>&V;nite your enemies, if you would reign.</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. I would intreat this Gentleman to &s;ubmit the trial to &s;en&s;e; Are a few &s;parks of fire hardlier quencht then a flame? Is a bank again&s;t the Sea ea&s;ier made then again&s;t a puddle? Is a river weaker in the unparted channel, then in the rivol<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">s? Let him try if he can break a faggot quicklier bound, or un|tied; What &s;hall we &s;ay to him, that bids battel to all the To|picks together? And yet he that cannot pretend to &s;en&s;e, of|fers to nibble at wit in the clo&s;e of this an&s;wer, <HI>Thus by bring|ing them into a body</HI> (&s;ayes he) <HI>we play our game in</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>with them, but by leaving them di&s;per&s;ed, we play our game in</HI> Iri&s;h <HI>with them;</HI> Playing in <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> and playing in <HI>Engli&s;h;</HI> Do men u&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o play in games, or at games? You may know by his terms of Art, that he is but a bungler, and that if the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> had not met with &s;hreuder game&s;ters then him&s;elf, they had never in likelihood been &s;o &s;oundly beaten, as they have been.</P>
<P>2. The next Objection he an&s;wers, is only the&s;e two words of mine ('Tis &s;trange) he names the Tories indeed, but having devoured them in the la&s;t, he will not chew the cud in this, <HI>Pag.</HI> 19.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 'Tis &s;trange! &s;o 'tis indeed a &s;trange Objection, Who made it? He a&s;&s;ails a poor Parenthe&s;is in its trenches, O valiant, the Fortification about it was not able to re&s;i&s;t him!
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But he relinqui&s;hes the Objection that it will make Tories: It &s;eems the Collonel likes not that &s;port: that's above his &s;trength; nor &s;ayes a word to the Objection, that's above his rea&s;on: So I have &s;een a young Spaniel &s;olemnly pur&s;uing his game with the re&s;t of the dogs, when on a &s;udden, a Bird &s;pringing out of a bu&s;h diverts him from the company, and he runs barking and &s;taring after that: If the Tories do ri&s;e, who can help it? let others look to that: he's re&s;olved to run down the poor parenthe&s;is.</P>
<P>3. But the Collonel fore&s;ees his credit is ingaged, and there|fore back again he turns, and will not let tho&s;e Tories go &s;o; he will venture to &s;peak with them at lea&s;t; thus he &s;huffles and cuts, run backwards and forwards: this is neither good pace, nor good trot; Well, What &s;ayes he at length? What if they will not go but turn Tories? He an&s;wers to this <HI>pag.</HI> 20. that he &s;hould be loath to force them, if it be impo&s;&s;ible or hazar|dous; but if from a rebellious &s;pirit they refu&s;e, he judges it be&s;t to put it to the tryall, before the Army di&s;|band.</P>
<P><HI>Rep.</HI> 1. He is kind, he will not force men upon impo&s;&s;ibilities; but by his good leave I think he offers a little force to &s;en&s;e; for if a man be forc't on't 'tis po&s;&s;ible; if it be impo&s;&s;ible, the force is &s;o likewi&s;e.</P>
<P>2. If it be a de&s;perate hazard, he will not force them; this is kinder yet, he deals as he would be dealt with; he loves not de&s;perate hazards.</P>
<P>3. But the condition of this pre&s;ent Obligation is, That the above bounden <HI>Richard Laurence</HI> be convinc't of the&s;e things, otherwi&s;e this Act and Deed of his to be null, and of no force: This will I fear re&s;cind his former Conce&s;&s;ions. There are but two wayes of convincing a man, by rea&s;on or experiment; the fir&s;t has been u&s;ed, and though he cannot an&s;wer it, yet he can reject it; I can advi&s;e him no other way then the &s;econd; That he vouch&s;afe the per&s;ons tran&s;planted his company in a &s;utable equipage to them, and that will better inform him of the hazards.</P>
<P>4. But if they will turn Tories, he &s;aith, 'tis be&s;t put it quickly to the tryal; His an&s;wer ought to have been, That
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this is not a way to make them Tories: but it &s;eems his rea&s;on can dictate no &s;uch thing to him, and therefore he mu&s;t try it before he can an&s;wer you; till when he grants the Conclu&s;ion. But <HI>Sir,</HI> &s;ome trials are dangerous (as if fire will burn) and &s;uch things it is better to keep from tryal; you have forgot you &s;aid before, that Tories have been &s;o de&s;tructive to our Ar|mies; now you will have our Army be as de&s;tructive to them; but yet I perceive you are wi&s;e for your &s;elf; it is enough for you to give coun&s;el, the executing of it as a Legacy you kinde|ly bequeath to others; the Army mu&s;t try before more be di&s;|sbanded; But why may not Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> try it after, who fears not disbanding? No, the Ape will have coals out of the fire, but &s;he will pull them out with the Cats foot; This Gentleman is like a Cypher, joyned with an Army, he adds much to them, but take him by him&s;elf, and he &s;ignifies ju&s;t nothing.</P>
<P>5. In &s;tead of an&s;wering, he wonders <HI>(pag.</HI> 20) that the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e of Tran&s;plantation &s;hould engage them to a new war; &s;o &s;light a thing, and yet <HI>pag.</HI> 19. he &s;ayes, It is not &s;trange that they &s;hould re&s;ent it more then death it &s;elf, and gives many rea&s;ons for it; Strange that they &s;hould (fight) again&s;t it, and yet not &s;trange that they &s;hould (die) again&s;t it: <HI>Apollo</HI> reconcile me the&s;e two; Thus 'tis done in a word, Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> had rather die then fight it &s;eems.</P>
<P>The Re&s;pondent affects confu&s;ion as much in word as deed, and therefore has &s;uffered two Objections to &s;traggle from their company, to the rear of his Book, <HI>Pag.</HI> 26. which I &s;hall de&s;ire to march up into their proper place, that &s;o I may take a view of them with the re&s;t here, and the Reader &s;ee the whole &s;trength he mu&s;ters at one view.</P>
<P>1. The la&s;t and great Objection (he &s;ayes) is the impo&s;&s;ibi|lity of Tran&s;plantation, which I prove not (he thinks) but impliedly, 1. In &s;aying, they may have &s;till a dram of re|bellious bloud left: And &s;econdly, That the power and &s;trength of <HI>England</HI> is but a &s;care-crow, and Hat on a &s;tick, fit to drive Gee&s;e; To the fir&s;t he an&s;wers, it may &s;hew it difficult, but not impo&s;&s;ible, becau&s;e they can let that out;
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and for the &s;econd, his An&s;wer is to the &s;ame (or no) purpo&s;e.</P>
<P><HI>Reply</HI> 1. I mu&s;t take off the calumny the Re&s;pondent layes on me, That I re&s;emble the power of <HI>England</HI> to a &s;care-crow, or a Hat on a &s;tick, fit to drive Gee&s;e; Is it not enough that he feigns me to abu&s;e Authority in <HI>Ireland?</HI> But he will com|pell my words to an abu&s;e of the Authority of <HI>England:</HI> Strange ignorance never to under&s;tand me, or malice alwayes to pervert me! When will he leave wronging him&s;elf, for me he cannot? 1. Scare-crow is a word of his own foi&s;ting in. 2. There is not a word &s;poken there (in that pa&s;&s;age) of Au|thority, either in <HI>England</HI> or <HI>Ireland.</HI> To any per&s;on of an uncraz'd brain, my meaning was very obvious, that the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> would not go according to Orders, nor drive by force, for &s;o that innocent Proverb only &s;ignifies, and is as harmle&s;&s;e as tho&s;e creatures I u&s;ed in the compari&s;on: I have too high an e&s;teem of the Army to give them &s;uch language, I know their worth, and the greatne&s;&s;e of their actions and &s;ufferings in <HI>Ireland;</HI> of which I wi&s;h they may be near an end, to enjoy rewards proportionable to their very great de&s;erts.</P>
<P>2. He had no rea&s;on to be offended that I did &s;uppo&s;e a dram of rebellious bloud to lie &s;till in the <HI>Iri&s;h;</HI> I would there were no more: But he is hard to be plea&s;ed; if I &s;peak chari|tably of them, then I am a friend to the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> and if I &s;peak ill of them, then I am an enemy to the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and incite the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> to rebell; and as he u&s;es me, ju&s;t &s;o he does them: For when he mu&s;t ju&s;tifie Tran&s;plantation, then they are the wic|kede&s;t people in the world; but at another time pretty hone&s;t. There are two pa&s;&s;ages which brought together make him a good Advocate for the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> pag. 11. of his Book, he &s;ayes, <HI>All Per&s;ons that had contrived, advi&s;ed, promoted, a&s;&s;i&s;ted, or abetted the Rebellion, mu&s;t tran&s;plant:</HI> yet <HI>Pag.</HI> 19. he &s;ayes, <HI>Tho&s;e to go will hardly be mi&s;t being not near the twentieth part of the people (be&s;ides Souldiers.)</HI> Now &s;urely we have done the good hone&s;t people wrong all this while, for we &s;landered them, as if few of them were hone&s;t; and it &s;eems not above the twentieth part were otherwi&s;e; well but all their ho|ne&s;ty &s;hall not &s;ave them from going to <HI>Connaught,</HI> and
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&s;o he makes us amends for the commendations he gave them.</P>
<P>3. I &s;aid, 'tis impo&s;&s;ible to make them go if they would not; To which he an&s;wers, 'Tis not impo&s;&s;ible, for he can let out this dram of Rebellious bloud in them: What then? And will that make them go, or not? They will not go when they are alive, and can they go after they are dead? He cannot make them when 'tis po&s;&s;ible, but he will make them go when 'tis impo&s;&s;ible. He does ill &s;ure! This is the third time (as I remember) that he has frightned us with the&s;e Stories of dead folks walking.</P>
<P>4. Did not I prove this (and he approves it likewi&s;e) when I &s;hew'd they abhor'd this more then death it &s;elf; Can you compell a man to an act that prefers death before it? Compell him before you cannot, he will die or you can but kill him, compell him after you cannot, he is dead.</P>
<P>I have given a &s;ingle An&s;wer to both his, becau&s;e they &s;hrink into one likewi&s;e, and for his making me the encou|rager of a &s;econd Rebellion, I think that worth none; like a Hedge-hog 'tis his nature to roll up and down, and to prick.</P>
<P>You might imagine that I had now put in my final An&s;wer, having untied his to the la&s;t, and great Objection, as he terms it; but he that (you may remember) before makes a fir&s;t without a &s;econd, findes out &s;omething here after the la&s;t, which is this; It may be objected, he &s;ayes, that yet this Tran&s;plantation will be the de&s;truction of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Nation, having nothing to &s;ub&s;i&s;t on, either in their journey, or when they come thither. This he an&s;wers, 1. With examples of tran&s;planting in others.</P>
<P>2. With the tender care of Authority for the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> in this, <HI>Pag.</HI> 27, 28. To the fir&s;t An&s;wer I reply,</P>
<P N="1">1. If the Re&s;pondent had plea&s;ed he might have taken no|tice of my proofs, where I lay down this Propo&s;ition, but tho&s;e had fore-&s;tall'd his An&s;wer; he loves to u&s;e bare affir|mations him&s;elf without proof; and if others will not do &s;o too, it had been as good they would; for he'll deny their Affir|mations, but not trouble him&s;elf to an&s;wer their Arguments.</P>
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2. Unle&s;&s;e it were (upon &s;o fair an occa&s;ion offered) to give us an account of his reading in Hi&s;tory, he need not have travell'd &s;o farre for examples to confute me withall, but pro|ved this by his own example, &s;ince he could not by his rea&s;on; Might he not too have oppre&s;t us with in&s;tances of all &s;orts, whereas he only culs a few that are &s;elect? Do not flowers re|cover their lo&s;t colours by removing? Fruits and berries come to their gratefull ta&s;te: Is not Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> fortune much bettered, &s;ince he was tran&s;planted? And does not <HI>change of pa&s;tures make fat&mdash;</HI></P>
<P>Secondly, Is the Gentleman in je&s;t or &s;erious? If the fir&s;t, and it be only to &s;hew his wit, he maintains paradoxes, good leave have he, &s;ince the&s;e occa&s;ions return not often upon him; But if he does not &s;hew his wit in it (as I believe indeed he does not much) then I wonder how he could be deceived him&s;elf, or deceive others with &s;uch examples as he produces, which do as much illu&s;trate the things they are brought for to prove, as a dark Lanthorn does the Candle that is in it; nay are &s;o extreamly different, as light and darkne&s;&s;e are not re|mov'd further a&s;under; View but the&s;e few parallels, and that will &s;hew their agreement: 1. Sayes he, <HI>The</HI> Engli&s;h <HI>are to remove into</HI> Ireland, <HI>the</HI> Engli&s;h, Dutch, French <HI>have tran&s;|planted them&s;elves into</HI> America; <HI>which are greater journeys, then from one part of</HI> Ireland <HI>to another, yet the&s;e were not un|done by it, tho&s;e we hope will not be:</HI> This indeed has a &s;hadow of rea&s;on to &s;trangers, but cannot delude tho&s;e that look tho|rowly into it. For</P>
<P>1. Does he make no difference between tho&s;e that go out of a place, and tho&s;e that are driven out (as the <HI>Iri&s;h)</HI> between tho&s;e that hope for gain by it, as tho&s;e Nations, and tho&s;e that receive puni&s;hment in it (which is the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> condition) why does he not let the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> &s;tay till the &s;ame invitations that drew other Nations to tran&s;plant, invite them al&s;o? Did he not confe&s;&s;e heretofore, That the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> were as willing to im|brace death as going into <HI>Connaught?</HI> and proves, that they had good rea&s;on &s;o to do: yet here (having forgot what he &s;aid there, and it being for his behoof to &s;ay the contrary) he &s;cruples not at the contradiction, but would make you believe,
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That Tran&s;plantation is &s;o facil a thing, that 'tis but like going out of <HI>England</HI> into <HI>Ireland,</HI> nay le&s;&s;e; Thus occa&s;ion is the winde, and his invention the &s;ail, and as that veres, &s;o he hands and &s;hifts this without any dread at all of doing violence to truth, or injury to his Reader; going is but going with him, 'tis no matter how or where.</P>
<P>But &s;econdly, Tho&s;e Nations that tran&s;planted them&s;elves into forreign parts, did not thereby lo&s;e tho&s;e E&s;tates they left behinde them, but get tho&s;e they found before them, nor change one for another, but adde one to another: Do the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> thus?</P>
<P>3. They had all nece&s;&s;ary provi&s;ions and accommodations along with them, el&s;e they might have refu&s;ed to have gone, but the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> mu&s;t go, whether they have them or not; Does not this make a difference?</P>
<P>4. The <HI>Dutch</HI> and <HI>French</HI> that made forreign Tran&s;planta|tions were rich and full of trea&s;ure, commencing their actions either on their Kings account, or the &s;tocks of united Mer|chants, &s;o to improve their new po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions; but the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> are beggars&punc; an und one people, they have nothing to begin with; the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> that are to come are men that have bought E&s;tates, the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> that go are men that have &s;old or forfeited them: Does not this vary the ca&s;e &s;omewhat?</P>
<P>5. Tho&s;e that you &s;ay tran&s;planted them&s;elves, went into places where either none were to oppo&s;e them, or they had power (at lea&s;t as they conceived) to force their po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions: But the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> go naked and unarmed to be &s;etled upon other mens Lands, in <HI>Connaught;</HI> who (to their encouragement I believe the Collonel &s;peaks it, <HI>Pag.</HI> 19. of his Book) will bid them (he &s;ayes) &s;uch welcome, as they will bid the Souldiers and Adventurers upon their Land.</P>
<P>6. Tho&s;e Planters he &s;peaks of, went with a Commi&s;&s;ion as large as their power could write for them, to take what they would, do what they could, but the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> go with chains at their heels, as pri&s;oners at large; when they are there, they mu&s;t not on &s;uch a penalty come near the Sea, or a Gari&s;on, or cut a &s;tick of wood to build a hou&s;e without particular licence, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> I write not this as if the Commonwealth injured them in
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putting &s;uch conditions on them, but to &s;hew the Col|lonel abu&s;es his Readers in producing &s;uch compari&s;ons to them.</P>
<P>7. The&s;e Planters did only &s;ubdue, not turn out the Nati|ons where they came; What would the <HI>Spaniards</HI> Indies be worth him el&s;e? The <HI>Romans</HI> mixed their Colonies with the Natives (&s;ayes <HI>Ro&s;inus)</HI> nor did the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> pale in <HI>Ireland</HI> in|&s;inuate any of this practice (as his pitifull ignorance in Hi&s;to|ry makes him &s;ay, <HI>pag.</HI> 26.) for <HI>Campion</HI> tels us, 'twas the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> nece&s;&s;ities not will made that di&s;tinction: His words are, <HI>When the Iri&s;h had rai&s;ed tumults continually again&s;t the Engli&s;h planted here with the conque&s;t: at la&s;t they cour&s;ed the Engli&s;h into a narrow circuit of ground, out of which they dur&s;t not peep, whereupon it was called their pale:</HI> 'Tis wonder he did not tell us of a like de&s;ign of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in <HI>France;</HI> for the <HI>French</HI> Hi&s;tory tels us, (but he wanders not &s;o far I hope in his reading) <HI>That in the time of our</HI> Henry <HI>the</HI> 3^d, <HI>there was an Engli&s;h Pale in France, which reacht from the river</HI> Charent <HI>in</HI> Xantoirgue <HI>to the</HI> Pyrenaees; and yet I hope the <HI>French</HI> were not tran&s;planted, but it &s;hewed how farre the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> had Do|minion over the <HI>French.</HI></P>
<P>And now, who would believe that a man in &s;uch eminent place as Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> is, &s;hould be &s;o weak to hope to convince any body with &s;uch childi&s;h Sophi&s;ms as the&s;e? Therefore what he begins his An&s;wer withall, <HI>pag.</HI> 27. That if this were the true &s;tate of the Ca&s;e, there were much in it; I &s;hall conclude mine, &s;ince it appears that this is the truer&punc; &s;tate of the Ca&s;e, by his own confe&s;&s;ion it remains, that there is much in it; and &s;o I pa&s;&s;e to the &s;econd branch of his An|&s;wer, which is</P>
<P>2. The Authority in <HI>Ireland</HI> has a tenden regard of them; To which I an&s;wer,</P>
<P N="1">1. That his Excellency the pre&s;ent Lord Deputy in <HI>Ireland,</HI> has had a tender regard unto them, as he has unto all per&s;ons, and of all actions; and 'twas well for the Natives he was there, for el&s;e I doubt the fingers of &s;ome had been heavier on them then his loins.</P>
<P N="2">2. But yet he mu&s;t exerci&s;e this kindene&s;&s;e to them in what
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he may, not in what he will, he mu&s;t do according to orders, not his own intentions, unle&s;&s;e he have a &s;ecret unlimited power, which this Gentleman has taught me to &s;ay, he and I being pri|vate men are not in a capacity of knowing.</P>
<P N="3">3. The bending of Tran&s;plantation &s;o hard on the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> does not altogether &s;o much re&s;t on the per&s;ons that are to execute it, as on the nature of the thing it &s;elf, and the per&s;ons to un|dergo it, and the place to which, and the condition how they mu&s;t abide there: The Lord Deputy may make &s;ome alleviati|ons (and will I am &s;ure as many as he can) but cannot take off the burden; He may delay their going but not hinder it; he may (like a good Phy&s;ician) give them &s;ome ea&s;e.</P>
<P>And thus I have been patient to attend particularly upon all Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> hath &s;aid that re&s;pects me in his Book, a &s;hort Scheme of which I &s;hall here offer to the Readers eye for the confirmation of his memory; He hath attempted to bring one Argument for Tran&s;plantation, and an&s;wer four Objections again&s;t it, and a poor Parenthe&s;is; with what &s;uc|ce&s;&s;e the Reader may judge, if any &s;hall be &s;o much at lei&s;ure, and will be &s;o friendly as to hear the cau&s;e of this Difference; This <HI>Modicum</HI> is the meat he hath invited his friends to, the re&s;t are feathers to choke me, Railings, Threatnings, Fal&s;ities, Mi&s;takes, and Self-contradictions; The&s;e &s;well the Volume&punc; el&s;e his <HI>Iliads</HI> might have been put into a Nut&s;hell; The&s;e Ar|guments of mine he throws by as impertinencies; &s;ome drawn from Religion, &s;ome for profit, and &s;ome for &s;afety, which branch into above twenty &s;everal heads; If he have &s;atisfied him&s;elf with this kinde of dealing, I believe he has not others, I am &s;ure he has not me; his friends may cling to his per&s;on, mine to me, but per&s;ons unintere&s;ted in both, or intere&s;ted in the Tran&s;plantation will be &s;wayed by rea&s;on, and will not be &s;a|tisfied without it.</P>
<P>But the thing is now beyond con&s;ideration, being put into action; which I &s;hall &s;ubmit unto as freely as Collonel <HI>Lau|rence;</HI> and what I here write is not to condem it, but to ju&s;ti|fie my &s;elf. States and Governours have grounds and rea&s;ons for their actions better then, and above ordinary comprehen|&s;ions; &s;uch I doubt not theirs are that e&s;tabli&s;h this, which as
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they are not bound to give an account to any of, &s;o 'twere in|&s;olence to demand it, and impudence not to obey them; I binde up my rea&s;on in theirs, and &s;hall condemn my own ra|ther then theirs; I wi&s;h them all happine&s;&s;e in this, as well as their other Coun&s;els, and doubt not but to finde from them bet|ter reception, or at lea&s;t a milder interpretation of that which was aim'd only at their &s;ervice, then from Collonel <HI>Laurence,</HI> if I happened to tran&s;gre&s;&s;e in &s;ome particulars through frailty, not malice.</P>
<P>Be&s;ides, that Authority as it is more benign and powerfull then commonly private per&s;ons are, &s;o there are two things I here pre&s;ent them that may invite them to it:</P>
<P>The fir&s;t is, that when that fir&s;t Paper of Tran&s;plantation was penned by me, it was intended not in oppo&s;ition, but al|wayes in &s;ubordination to the plea&s;ures of his Excellency the Lord Deputy, and Councel of <HI>Ireland,</HI> not by way of pre&s;cri|ption, but &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to their wi&s;doms; nor in retrenchment of what they had done, but to be pre&s;ented to them for ap|probation and liking, in ca&s;e they &s;hould judge it expedient; It was not an appeal from, but to them, which in ca&s;e it had been further con&s;idered of here in <HI>England,</HI> would have been remitted to them for their cen&s;ure or approba|tion.</P>
<P>The &s;econd is, That that Paper being a draught only of Rea&s;ons, and briefly, made &s;ome things to appear in a rough|er hue, then if attended with tho&s;e qualifications that I pro|mi&s;ed in that Book, and was ready to have pre&s;ented to the Parliament in ca&s;e they had required them; which qualificati|ons it was not &s;ea&s;onable to publi&s;h with the Book it &s;elf, be|cau&s;e it might have given too timely a notice of what would have been acted by them: And after their Di&s;&s;olution it was too late, the thing being pa&s;t all debate: But is not too late for me to alledge to manife&s;t my own innocency, nor for his Ex|cellency the Lord Deputy and Coun&s;el to con&s;ider of, to &s;hew the ju&s;t re&s;pect had by me to their Authority, however others have labour'd to &s;ugge&s;t unto them the contrary; I &s;uppo&s;e I have hitherto &s;erved the Commonwealth of <HI>England,</HI> above being now liable to the ju&s;t cen&s;ure of Malignity again&s;t them;
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and although my actions have not been &s;o con&s;iderable, as my+&s;elf de&s;ired they &s;hould be; yet neither can I think they ought to be &s;o &s;lighted in compari&s;on of Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> and his Adherents, as if they were the only men, the pillars who&s;e &s;trength upheld all: &s;o I have &s;een at the entrance of &s;ome magnificent building, a carved antick groan with bowed &s;houlders, as if he &s;u&s;tain'd the whole weight, as if he upheld the hou&s;e, whereas the hou&s;e upholds him; This I take to be their ca&s;e.</P>
<P>The re&s;t of his work (not yet taken notice of) is only a &s;hort Catechi&s;m compo&s;ed by him from <HI>pag.</HI> 20. to <HI>pag.</HI> 26. for the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> to learn as they travel unto <HI>Connaught,</HI> having little el&s;e to do, put (but not dige&s;ted) into Que&s;tions and An|&s;wers; or Ca&s;es of Con&s;cience to &s;atisfie the &s;cruples of the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> who are &s;omewhat troubled in minde at their being tran&s;planted; where him&s;elf asking the Que&s;tions, and gi|ving the An&s;wers, it may be thought he will be more di&s;|creet then to po&s;e him&s;elf (whatever another robu&s;tiou&s;ly may do:) And yet I have heard &s;ome young Novice conju|rers, have ra&s;hly rais'd &s;pirits, which after they could not lay; and it may be this may be his ca&s;e, I &s;hall examine it, and (that he may not complain of any part of his Book being rejected, as impertinent, for he that had taken up that re&s;olution, had di&s;carded the whole) &s;et down &s;ome &s;hort Ob&s;ervations on it.</P>
<P><HI>Que&s;t.</HI> 1. Why the Landlord mu&s;t go, not the Tenant; He an&s;wers, he is not tran&s;planted <HI>qu&acirc;</HI> Landlord.</P>
<P><HI>Rep.</HI> 1. He tels you of his not tran&s;planting, when the Que&s;tion was moved of his tran&s;planting.</P>
<P>2. The Que&s;tion asks (why) he is tran&s;planted; he an&s;wers (How) he is not; <HI>i. e. qu&acirc;</HI> Landlord.</P>
<P>3. He an&s;wers, he is not tran&s;planted <HI>qu&acirc;</HI> Landlord, but tels you not whether he be tran&s;planted <HI>qu&acirc;</HI> Tenant, or <HI>qu&acirc;</HI> man, or <HI>qu&acirc;</HI> Rebell; Well though the <HI>qu&acirc;</HI> may be doubtfull, yet the be&s;t on't is, the tran&s;planting will be certain.</P>
<P>4. 'Tis &s;trange that he is not tran&s;planted <HI>qu&acirc;</HI> Landlord, when mo&s;t of the Landlords are to be tran&s;planted; if it be a lot, the Dice runs &s;hrewly again&s;t them.</P>
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5. They are not to be tran&s;planted <HI>qu&acirc;</HI> Landlords, and yet the Tenants go not though they are men and Rebels as well as the Landlords; This is a likely &s;tory.</P>
<P>6. He forgets him&s;elf, for afterward <HI>p.</HI> 22. he there tels you the Rea&s;ons why the Landlords go, they had more means, and more influence, and therefore are to be tran&s;planted; and had they not this as they were Landlords? and as having this he grants they &s;hall be tran&s;planted, and yet denies they are as Landlords tran&s;planted. He has a notable Metaphy&s;i|cal head (it &s;eems) thus to be able to ab&s;tract things; if he were a Chymi&s;t he would either finde out the Philo&s;ophers &s;tone, or knock out his brains again&s;t it, he's &s;o good at &s;e|paration.</P>
<P>7. As a Landlord he is not to be tran&s;planted: that is it may be, if he had not been a Rebel; and &s;o he &s;tarts a curious new notion, that all men that have Lands in <HI>Ireland</HI> &s;hall not go to <HI>Connaught;</HI> and that this is the &s;ubtilty he &s;prings, his own words a&s;&s;ure us <HI>pag. 22. lin.</HI> 21. It is not their having Land is the fault, but mi&s;-improving the ability it gave them.</P>
<P>8. He goes not away as a Landlord; I am confident now I have hit on his &s;en&s;e, and this is it; for he has lo&s;t his e&s;tate by forfeiture before he goes, and &s;o is none.</P>
<P>His &s;econd Que&s;tion, Whether the Tenants have not been equally guilty, and yet are not tran&s;planted; and then this is with childe of another young que&s;tion; If this be not partia|lity; To the fir&s;t he an&s;wers nothing: To the &s;econd, No.</P>
<P><HI>Reply</HI> 1. This que&s;tion &s;eems to be to the former, like one of <HI>Hopkins</HI> or <HI>Sternholds</HI> P&s;alms, Another of the &s;ame.</P>
<P>2. Yet now I rub my eyes, methinks I &s;py a glimering dif|ference; for his fir&s;t que&s;tion was before, Why the Landlord &s;hould be tran&s;planted, and not the Tenant? But his &s;econd is, Why the Tenant is not tran&s;planted, but the Landlord? and between the&s;e two you know there's a va&s;t difference; Ju&s;t as much as was between Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> and the Mar&s;hal-General, though not &s;o much as between a hor&s;e-mill, and a mill-hor&s;e; though they are terms convertible.</P>
<P>3. His &s;econd An&s;wer is true, if he can prove his &s;uppo&s;iti|on, That Tran&s;plantation is a free meer act of grace, but that's not true. For</P>
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1. He mu&s;t remember that (before) he granted it (in &s;ome &s;en&s;e) a puni&s;hment; and if &s;o, 'twill then come to be (in &s;ome &s;en&s;e) inju&s;tice, where an offence is equal to make the &s;uffering unequal according to his own re&s;olution.</P>
<P N="2">2. Is this now an act of grace, which him&s;elf &s;ayes <HI>Pag.</HI> 19. the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> have rea&s;on to accept of death rather? Is not this to make the State ridiculous, to tell men they hold forth great acts of grace to the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> &s;uch as they have rea&s;on rather to die then accept of?</P>
<P>His third Que&s;tion; What are the Rea&s;ons the Landlord is tran&s;planted, not the Tenant?</P>
<P>I &s;hall &s;peak to this, 1. in general; and then, 2. in particu|lar to his An&s;wers, which (as the Legion &s;aid of him&s;elf) are many, and yet there was never a good one.</P>
<P N="1">1. I ob&s;erve this is the the third concoction of this que&s;tion, whereby you may perceive (though his Book &s;hews his &s;to|mack's very great) his dige&s;tion is not very good; What has an <HI>Ignis fatuus</HI> met him, that he &s;trayes thus up and down? Nothing but the &s;ame que&s;tion? 'Tis a conjecturers circle, and he cannot get out on't. But it may be I have the my&s;tery on't; 'Tis a knotty que&s;tion this, and fit to be &s;earch't into; But his invention is ob&s;tinate, and will confe&s;&s;e nothing directly, and therefore he re&s;olves to circumvent her with multiplying and varying the forms of the &s;ame que&s;tion; It may be thus he may pump out &s;omething out of her at length; Well how&s;oever, what he cannot furni&s;h you with in an&s;wers, he &s;upplies in que|&s;tions.</P>
<P N="2">2. He now an&s;wers what the Rea&s;ons are of this act; and yet before he askt the &s;ame que&s;tion twice, and pretended to give an&s;wers; What's the rea&s;on of this act of his? Why you mu&s;t under&s;tand that now he is come to his an&s;wers with rea|&s;on, and tho&s;e before are his an&s;wers without rea&s;on. His rea|&s;ons are,</P>
<P><HI>Rea&s;.</HI> 1. The Landlords maintain'd the Rebels; Therefore merit to be tran&s;planted mo&s;t.</P>
<P><HI>Reply.</HI> And the Tenants maintained the Landlord, and the Rebels too; The fir&s;t, Immediately, the &s;econd, Me|diately.</P>
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<HI>Rea&s;.</HI> 2. The Landlords, maintaining the Army &s;hould have had an equal &s;hare in the booty; and to ju&s;tifie this he brings Scripture to confirm the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> dividing the goods after they had plundered the <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> But how know you they &s;hould? Have the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Landlords that maintained the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army had an equal &s;hare in the booty they got? Or are the Rebels acts which were lookt on as inhumane, now become &s;acred, and parallel to <HI>Davids</HI> actings in the Scripture? The plundered <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> will hardly believe the Preacher that brings this Divinity.</P>
<P><HI>Rea&s;.</HI> 3. It will break their Septs, which I confe&s;&s;e to be ne|ce&s;&s;ary, <HI>Pag.</HI> 22. of the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> 1. I did, and do &s;o &s;till, by which he may &s;ee I was for the good of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> and therefore needed not have been in &s;uch choler with me.</P>
<P>2. Yet it does not infer his Conclu&s;ion; for the Septs will be broke if the Tenants be tran&s;planted, and the Landlords &s;tay.</P>
<P>3. Yet are not the Septs broke by this, for only Proprietors going, their elde&s;t &s;ons and other &s;tay, who when their fathers die will &s;till head their Septs of parties.</P>
<P>4. The Law has provided for this (without tran&s;planting) <HI>An. 5. Ed.</HI> 4. as by taking &s;irnames, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and for breaking their dependencies, <HI>An. 11. Eliz.</HI> but this Gentleman &s;tudies only martial Law.</P>
<P>5. The Septs may be broke by removing the Landlords mu|tually out of their own into remoter Counties, which was the way of Tran&s;plantations our Hi&s;torians &s;peak of, and former State&s;men advis'd to.</P>
<P>3. But if it be only this he intends to put in execution, I &s;hall not quarrel with him. But how to &s;alve this proceeding with publick Orders already given out, I confe&s;&s;e I know not; Tho&s;e being general, if I have either eyes or ears; and for pri|vate Orders (if there were any) they were only to be taken notice of, by tho&s;e to whom they were no &s;ecrets, and &s;o could not by me; Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> then being re&s;olved to conde&s;cend to me in the thing, I &s;hall not quarrel with him for differing from me in words; for what he knows I writ for him
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before; And I am &s;ure he acts for me now, if his &s;ayings and doings differ not. Choler in him began the quarrel, or a wor&s;e principle; nece&s;&s;ity made me take it up; I mu&s;t either &s;ubmit to tho&s;e crimes he charges me with, or by a reply di&s;charge my &s;elf; If he had u&s;ed fewer ill words, he had not received &s;o many; which though perhaps&s;harp, are neither &s;colding nor lies.</P>
<P>If he had &s;tayed to right Authority, till I had wronged them, he had never been an Apologi&s;t; nay, it may be he has wrong'd them more (in &s;cribling &s;o weakly for them) then another could in writing &s;trongly again&s;t them. If a conceited injury done to others made him thru&s;t him&s;elf into print, a reall one done me &s;peaks my excu&s;e: Let no poor &s;ufferer by the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> betray his Rea&s;on or Religion to his pa&s;&s;ion here, to think no evils can be too great to be brought on the <HI>Iri&s;h.</HI> It was their being cruel makes thee hate them &s;o much; to puni&s;h them, do no not run into their &s;in, lea&s;t God puni&s;h thee; Do not think that he that writes this, and the Ca&s;e of Tran&s;plantation pleads for them, but thy cau&s;e; 'Tis &s;afe, profitable for thee, that &s;ome be removed, not all; This Collonel <HI>Laurence</HI> &s;ayes &s;hall be done, this I de&s;ired might be done; Where is my of|fence again&s;t Authority more then his, my love to the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> more then his, or my care of thee le&s;&s;e then his; I was far from being moved by them to do what I have done, but by the <HI>Eng|li&s;h</HI> intere&s;t, as I apprehended; I was by the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> of <HI>Kin|&s;ale</HI> and <HI>Bandon</HI> cho&s;en a Member of the la&s;t Parliament, and though their genero&s;ity was &s;uch, as by their own disbur&s;ments to offer to defray my journey for <HI>England,</HI> yet I accepted it not; 'tis unlikely the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> &s;hould corrupt me, and 'tis a lie whoever &s;hall &s;ay it, becau&s;e he wants &s;omething el&s;e to &s;ay; But I have tired my &s;elf to refute &s;landers, and am glad I &s;hall now end.</P>
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