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<P>I Have received the third part of <HI>No Prote&s;tant Plot</HI> which you were plea&s;ed to &s;end me out of <HI>England:</HI> And I cou'd have wi&s;hed the two preceding parts had accompanied it, which I don't find are to be met with in this Kingdom; But I am apt to believe you did forbear the &s;ending of them, becau&s;e they might not po&s;&s;ibly contain &s;uch things as the other does in Relation to <HI>Ireland,</HI> and concerning which you only de&s;ire to be &s;atisfied in. And therefore I am as heartily thankful for this, as I have been hone&s;tly careful to inform my &s;elf by the mo&s;t Authen|tick papers and the mo&s;t knowing per&s;ons in Affairs here, with what truth the Particulars of it touching this Kingdom are related in it; For I will not pretend to meddle with its re|lations as to other places, both becau&s;e they are no part of your commands to me, and in regard I have not the &s;ame opportunities of coming to the knowledg of them: But this I may adventure to &s;ay, that if the Author did u&s;e no greater &s;incerity in his delivery of pa&s;&s;ages as to the one, than he has &s;hewn as to the other, he is ab&s;olutely one of the mo&s;t Mali|cious and Barefaced <HI>LIBELLERS</HI> that (even in this time of Exce&s;s of &s;uch Creatures) has been produced: For not to detain you too long with Prefacing, but as briefly as may be to come to the matter, neither therein to follow this <HI>LI|BELLER</HI> with a direct or formal An&s;wer, for fear of falling into the Error again&s;t which <HI>Solomon</HI> thus Cautions, <HI>An&s;wer not a fool in his own kind le&s;t thou al&s;o be like unto him.</HI> But only to make &s;ome few Animadver&s;ions upon his <HI>LIBEL,</HI> for the detection of his Malice, and the conviction of his Fal&s;|hoods in tho&s;e parts of it which touch this Kingdom and the Government of it, according as you expect, and I have premi&s;ed; I find, that alth&ocirc; at his fir&s;t entrance upon <HI>Iri&s;h Affairs</HI> in <HI>page</HI> the 2<HI>d.</HI> of his <HI>LIBEL,</HI> he appears as an <HI>Abhorrer</HI> of the Bloody and Cruel Ma&s;&s;acres committed by the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> in the late Rebellion of <HI>Ireland,</HI> yet he onely a&s;&s;umes that &s;hape in
<PB N="2" REF="4"> this Conjuncture of <HI>Time,</HI> the better to <HI>In&s;inuate</HI> him&s;elf with, and the more plau&s;ibly to <HI>Convey</HI> unto the too <HI>Credulous Po|pulace,</HI> his de&s;igned <HI>Calumnies</HI> upon per&s;ons <HI>Concerned</HI> in the pre&s;ent <HI>Government</HI> of this Kingdom; who are all firm <HI>Prote|&s;tants,</HI> and mo&s;t of whom by their <HI>Zealous</HI> oppo&s;itions of the <HI>Po|pi&s;h Party</HI> during the time of that <HI>Rebellion,</HI> as every of them by their &s;teady <HI>Admini&s;trations</HI> &s;ince, have manife&s;ted the great|e&s;t <HI>Abhorrency</HI> in the World of tho&s;e <HI>Cruelties;</HI> Although they are oppo&s;ite to the pre&s;ent <HI>FACTIO&V;S</HI> and <HI>Pretended Prote|&s;tant Party;</HI> Which therefore thus <HI>hires</HI> and <HI>employs</HI> ba&s;e and <HI>Mercenary</HI> fellows to invent and publi&s;h &s;candals of them.</P>
<P>And notwith&s;tanding he wou'd in page the 16. where he makes his next &s;tep as to <HI>Ireland,</HI> &s;eem only to inveigh again&s;t the <HI>Ingratitude</HI> of the <HI>PAPISTS</HI> for the <HI>lenities</HI> they might have received, yet in his handling thereof, he &s;catters malicious invectives again&s;t the <HI>Mini&s;ters</HI> here, and unju&s;tly glances upon them, by making in&s;tances of <HI>lenity</HI> to have been exten|ded to the <HI>PAPISTS,</HI> and of <HI>&s;everity</HI> to have been mea&s;ured to the <HI>DISSENTERS</HI> &s;ince the Kings re&s;tauration, mo&s;t where|of are perfectly invented, and not any of them can this <HI>Govern|ment</HI> rea&s;onably be charged with. Of the former &s;ort are the&s;e his following allegations mu&s;ter'd up in page the <HI>17th.</HI> viz.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, <HI>that</HI> PRIESTS <HI>and</HI> FRIERS <HI>are tolerated to &s;warm and openly to Celebrate</HI> Ma&s;s <HI>in</HI> Ireland. The contrary where|of is univer&s;ally known in the Kingdom; Repeated Proclamati|ons having been <HI>I&s;&s;ued</HI> from the Lord <HI>Lieutenant</HI> and <HI>Coun|cil</HI> for the Bani&s;hing of <HI>FRIERS,</HI> and all others of the <HI>Popi&s;h Regular</HI> and <HI>Titular Clergy</HI> out of this <HI>Dominion,</HI> and promi|&s;ing <HI>Rewards</HI> which have been <HI>punctually</HI> performed to &s;uch as &s;hou'd <HI>find</HI> and <HI>&s;eize</HI> them, which for a great while has render'd that &s;ort of People not to be <HI>vi&s;ible</HI> in the&s;e parts, and for the <HI>PRIESTS</HI> (who were permitted to &s;tay in all times, in&s;omuch, that not any of the <HI>ORDERS</HI> which came out of <HI>England,</HI> nor even an <HI>ADDRESS</HI> which was lately made by the Hou&s;e of <HI>Com|mons</HI> there to the King, and by his Maje&s;ty &s;ent hither for <HI>bani&s;hing</HI>
<PB N="3" REF="4"> the re&s;t of the <HI>Popi&s;h Clergy,</HI> did mention them) Alth&ocirc; they are &s;uffer'd to remain, yet are they &s;o &s;trictly inhibited by <HI>Procla|mations,</HI> and tho&s;e of them caught <HI>Offending</HI> &s;o &s;everely <HI>pu|ni&s;hed,</HI> that for a <HI>Con&s;iderable</HI> time here has not been any &s;uch open <HI>Celebration</HI> of the <HI>MASS</HI> heard of among&s;t us, as the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> hath fal&s;ly &s;ugge&s;ted.</P>
<P>Secondly, <HI>that the Introduction of the whole</HI> Popi&s;h Hierar|chy <HI>into this Kingdom was Connived at, and a publick A&s;&s;em|bly of the</HI> PAPAL Clergy <HI>allowed by a Commi&s;&s;ion of the Duke of</HI> ORMONDE <HI>to be held and to &s;it in</HI> 1666. The &s;canda|lous untruth of both which, do's upon inquiry appear very evi|dently; for as to that pretended <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> for <HI>A&s;&s;embling</HI> of the <HI>Papal Clergy,</HI> which I begin with, becau&s;e from what I &s;hall &s;ay by way of <HI>an&s;wer</HI> to it, will naturally flow a confutation of that feigned <HI>connivance</HI> of the <HI>Popi&s;h Hierarchy:</HI> it is to be <HI>ob&s;er|ved</HI> that as my Lord Duke of <HI>Ormonde,</HI> who&s;e word will &s;urely outweigh that of the <HI>LIBELLERS,</HI> do's utterly deny his ever having granted a <HI>Commi&s;&s;ion</HI> of that kind, &s;o is there no &s;uch thing to be found, nor the lea&s;t foot&s;tep of it to be met within any of the <HI>Offices,</HI> through which all <HI>Commi&s;&s;ions</HI> mu&s;t pa&s;s be|fore they can be of any vertue, and where they are <HI>Recorded</HI> for every one to have recour&s;e unto; Be&s;ides, the <HI>Ground</HI> upon which it is manife&s;t the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> wou'd rai&s;e this <HI>&s;tru|cture,</HI> and the <HI>&s;our&s;e</HI> from <HI>whence</HI> it is plain <HI>he</HI> wou'd derive this Objection, when explained, and con&s;idered, cannot bear or <HI>Warrant</HI> any &s;uch thing, for they &s;tand thus; <HI>Peter Wal&s;h</HI> (who was a &s;tiff oppo&s;er both of the <HI>Popes Nuntio,</HI> and of the whole <HI>Re|bellious</HI> party in <HI>Ireland,</HI> during all the time of the <HI>Iri&s;h Rebellion)</HI> &s;ometime after the Kings <HI>Re&s;tauration</HI> having projected and Pre|&s;ented to his <HI>Maje&s;ty,</HI> a <HI>Remon&s;trance</HI> &s;igned by him and divers other <HI>Roman Catholicks</HI> of this Kingdom, and containing the highe&s;t expre&s;&s;ions of Loyalty to his Maje&s;ty, and the large&s;t a&s;&s;urances of Fidelity to the <HI>Crown,</HI> that had ever before been tender'd by <HI>Papi&s;ts,</HI> and which proved &s;o <HI>derogatory</HI> to the <HI>&V;&s;urpations</HI> of the <HI>Pope,</HI> that it was <HI>di&s;countenanced</HI> and
<PB N="4" REF="5"> Cen&s;ur'd at <HI>Rome, Lovain,</HI> and other <HI>Popi&s;h &V;niver&s;ities,</HI> and oppos'd by the <HI>Popes Internuncio</HI> then re&s;iding at <HI>Bruxels,</HI> who did all that in him lay, to dehort <HI>PAPISTS</HI> again&s;t it, and upon the account of all which, the &s;ub&s;cribers and adherers to it have not dar'd unto this day to adventure their per&s;ons into any forreign parts where the <HI>Pope</HI> bears &s;way. His Maje&s;ty was ve|ry well &s;atisfied with it, and upon <HI>Wal&s;h</HI>'s repairing into this Kingdom about the year 1666. for propagating &s;uch the Do|ctrine of it (which no Loyal Prote&s;tant cou'd be again&s;t) was plea&s;ed to &s;end his in&s;tructions to my Lord Duke of <HI>Ormonde</HI> His then Lord Lieutenant, for his &s;uffering of <HI>Peter Wal&s;h</HI> to meet with &s;ome <HI>Titular Bi&s;hops,</HI> at that time here, to per&s;wade them by his Arguments, and to gain others of the <HI>Papi&s;ts</HI> by their Examples, to &s;ub&s;cribe unto that <HI>Remon&s;trance:</HI> which meeting His <HI>Grace</HI> accordingly Permitted, but onely, and &s;o &s;trictly to that end propo&s;ed, as He was both vigilant in &s;eeing that tho&s;e <HI>Bi&s;hops</HI> did not make u&s;e of it to any other purpo&s;e, and careful in providing that they &s;hou'd not take up too much time, even in the doing of that bu&s;ine&s;s; and therefore, very early perceiving that they cou'd not come to &s;uch an Agreement, as might produce the effects which were expected, He Ordered them not only to <HI>di&s;per&s;e,</HI> but to quit the King|dom, in&s;omuch that afterwards when <HI>His Grace</HI> was call'd from the Government, there were not above three <HI>Popi&s;h Bi|&s;hops</HI> remaining, <HI>two</HI> whereof were <HI>Bedrid</HI> and the <HI>third</HI> ab|&s;conded; alth&ocirc; when His Grace returned again to the Govern|ment (in immediate Succe&s;&s;ion to my Lord of <HI>E&s;&s;ex)</HI> he found no le&s;s then <HI>thirteen</HI> of <HI>them</HI> to be <HI>here,</HI> and <HI>them</HI> he has cau&s;ed to be driven <HI>out</HI> al&s;o, and this &s;ufficiently <HI>confutes</HI> the <HI>LIBEL|LERS allegation</HI> of His Grace conniving at the <HI>Popi&s;h Hierarchy</HI> being introduced, which in <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> is <HI>Governance,</HI> &s;ince He did thus expel the <HI>Governors</HI> in whom it re&s;ided.</P>
<P>Thirdly, <HI>That when the</HI> PLOT <HI>was to have been executed in</HI> ENGLAND <HI>anno</HI> 1678. <HI>there were no fewer than fifteen She|riffs in</HI> IRELAND, <HI>who were either profe&s;&s;ed and avowed</HI>
<PB N="5" REF="5"> PAPISTS, <HI>or &s;uch as bred and educated their Children in that Religion;</HI> The notorious untruth whereof appears by the Original <HI>Roll</HI> of the <HI>SHERIFFS</HI> of that Year (who&s;e <HI>Names</HI> are placed in the
<NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg"><P>Co. <HI>Dub. Ja. Springham</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Lowth Ja. Smallwood</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P><HI>Kings</HI> Co. <HI>John Leye&s;ter</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Wexford John Tench: Senior</HI></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Kilkenny John Kealy</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR> dy|ing within the time, <HI>Hen. Webb</HI> was made <HI>Sheriff</HI> the 23d of <HI>April</HI> 1678.</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Meath. Nath. Poole</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P><HI>Queens</HI> Co. <HI>William Gilbert</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Wicklow Chri&s;topher U&s;her</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Kildare Edward Baggot</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P>Co: <HI>We&s;tmeath Edward Terrill</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Catherlagh George Beech</HI> E&s;q;,</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Longford Geo. Conyngham</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Cork Richard Hull</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Limerick John Oddell,</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q;</ABBR></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Kerry William Ryves</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Waterford Tho. Chri&s;tmas</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Clare Tho Hickman</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Tipperary Tho. Osborne</HI> E&s;q;.</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Gallaway Char. Holcroft</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Leytrim Henry Crofton</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Sligo Roger Smith</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Mayo</HI> Sr. <HI>George Bingham Bar.</HI></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Ro&s;common Ed. Gardiner</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Donegall Geo. Vaughan</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Tyrone John Moderale</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Fermanagh Ferdinando Davi.</HI></P>
<P>Co. <HI>Antrin Edw. Harri&s;on</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Armagh Godfry Walker</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Monaghan Rich. John&s;on</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Down Hugh Eccles</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>Cavan John Coyn</HI> <ABBR>E&s;q</ABBR>:</P>
<P>Co. <HI>&amp;</HI> City <HI>of Londonderry James Mori&s;on</HI> and <HI>Char. Newtowne.</HI></P></NOTE> <HI>Margin</HI> to abide all &s;crutiny if there &s;hou'd be Occa&s;ion) not <HI>one</HI> of them there mentioned being &s;o <HI>prin|cipl'd,</HI> or <HI>&s;u&s;pected</HI> to be &s;o <HI>qualified,</HI> e&s;pecially by my Lord <HI>Lieutenant,</HI> who cannot be &s;uppo&s;ed to know every <HI>Mans per&s;on,</HI> much le&s;s to <HI>look</HI> into his <HI>heart</HI> who happens to be placed in that <HI>Office,</HI> and therefore if <HI>one</HI> or <HI>two</HI> differently <HI>qualified</HI> &s;hould chance to have <HI>e&s;caped</HI> Him through want of <HI>knowledge</HI> or <HI>Information,</HI> and throughout a whole Kingdom, <HI>His Grace</HI> might very well be <HI>excu&s;ed</HI> in &s;uch a <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> as it falling out that there was not <HI>one</HI> in this, He is to be ex|treamly <HI>Ju&s;tified.</HI> And whereas he af|firms, <HI>That the Papi&s;ts have promi&s;|cuou&s;ly before with His Maje&s;ties Prote|&s;tant Subjects been advanced to &s;eve|ral places of power and tru&s;t,</HI> If he means <HI>publick places</HI> of <HI>power</HI> and <HI>tru&s;t,</HI> as he mu&s;t if he means any thing he &s;ays, upon a &s;trict <HI>inquiry</HI> made it cannot be found that any <HI>PAPISTS</HI> have had <HI>advancements</HI> of that <HI>kind</HI> &s;ince His Maje&s;ties Re&s;tauration, &s;ave only &s;uch of <HI>them</HI> as were made <HI>Ju&s;tices</HI> of the <HI>Peace</HI> by the Lord <HI>BERKLEY</HI>'s Or|ders in the time of his <HI>Government,</HI> and Colonel <HI>Richard Tal|bott</HI> made <HI>Captain</HI> of a <HI>Troop</HI> of <HI>Hor&s;e</HI> by Commi&s;&s;ion from the <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>ESSEX</HI> when He was <HI>Chief Governour,</HI> &s;o as the <HI>pre&s;ent Government</HI> which this reflection mo&s;t <HI>Darts</HI> at, appears to be the lea&s;t <HI>intitled</HI> to it.</P>
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<P> Fourthly, <HI>That though a Proclamation was publi&s;hed in</HI> Ire|land, <HI>for &s;earching the hou&s;es of all Roman Catholiques for Arms, yet when the</HI> SHERIFF <HI>of the County of</HI> GALWAY <HI>went in pur&s;uance thereof to &s;earch the Earl of</HI> CLANRICKARDS <HI>hou&s;e, where as he was informed all the Papi&s;ts in that County had lodged their Arms, the &s;aid Earl produced a Warrant from my Lord</HI> LIEUTENANT <HI>the Duke of</HI> ORMONDE <HI>that his hou&s;e &s;hould not be &s;earched,</HI> Which <HI>Article</HI> alth&ocirc; it be placed in <HI>page</HI> the <HI>27th</HI> of the <HI>LIBELL</HI> yet for order &s;ake is <HI>ranked</HI> and <HI>taken</HI> notice of <HI>here</HI> with the others of <HI>page</HI> the <HI>17th</HI> in the <HI>Libell,</HI> becau&s;e it is of the &s;ame <HI>nature,</HI> and of the like <HI>truth</HI> with them: For my Lord <HI>Duke</HI> of <HI>ORMONDE</HI> was &s;o far from granting a <HI>Warrant</HI> to <HI>that Earl</HI> to hinder his <HI>hou&s;e</HI> from being <HI>&s;earched</HI> for <HI>Arms,</HI> that He never &s;o much as gave him a <HI>Licence</HI> to keep any, but contrarywi&s;e where the <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>ESSEX</HI> in his <HI>Government</HI> had given the &s;aid <HI>Earl</HI> his <HI>Licence</HI> to keep a <HI>quantity</HI> of <HI>Arms,</HI> they were &s;ince by my Lord <HI>Duke</HI> of <HI>ORMOND</HI>'S Orders taken from him, and delivered into the <HI>publick &s;tores.</HI></P>
<P>La&s;tly, he alleadges, <HI>That yet while all this forbearance and tenderne&s;s have been expre&s;&s;ed to the</HI> PAPISTS, <HI>the</HI> DISSENTERS <HI>have fallen under the misfortune of having an expre&s;s Law made again&s;t them, and divers of them have been pro&s;ecuted to Fine and Impri&s;onment upon it.</HI> Wherein the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> &s;hews his <HI>Ignorance</HI> as well as his <HI>Malice,</HI> for al|though the <HI>Statute of</HI> 2<HI>d. Eliz.</HI> for the <HI>&V;niformity</HI> of <HI>Com|mon-Prayer</HI> in this <HI>Kingdom</HI> (Which is without doubt again&s;t the <HI>PAPISTS,</HI> and who are frequently pro&s;ecuted upon it) &s;hould by con&s;truction be extended unto the DISSENTERS, (as I never <HI>heard</HI> it to be &s;o <HI>Adjudged</HI> in the Ca&s;e of any of them, &s;o far are <HI>They</HI> from having been <HI>Pro&s;ecuted</HI> notwith&s;tanding their openly <HI>numerous</HI> and <HI>frequent Meetings)</HI> yet was there never any <HI>Particular expre&s;s Law</HI> made again&s;t <HI>Them</HI> either before, or as the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> wou'd have it believed, &s;ince the <HI>KINGS Re&s;tauration,</HI> And as that too
<PB N="7" REF="6"> moderate <HI>Act</HI> of 2<HI>d. Elizab.</HI> be all that is in <HI>Force</HI> again&s;t the <HI>PAPISTS,</HI> or that can be &s;uppo&s;ed to be again&s;t the <HI>DIS|SENTERS,</HI> &s;o it is to be wi&s;hed that for the quiet of the King|dom, <HI>more</HI> and <HI>&s;everer Laws</HI> were made again&s;t <HI>both.</HI> And this brings me to the <HI>latter part</HI> of my <HI>A&s;&s;ertion,</HI> that as mo&s;t of the <HI>LIBELLERS</HI> in&s;tances of the <HI>Lenity</HI> &s;hewn the <HI>PAPISTS</HI> and of the <HI>&s;everity</HI> extended to the <HI>DISSENTERS</HI> in this <HI>Kingdom,</HI> &s;ince the <HI>KINGS</HI> re&s;tauration are <HI>invented,</HI> which I hope I have fully proved to you, &s;o that <HI>none of them</HI> can be rea|&s;onably charged upon the pre&s;ent <HI>Government,</HI> which I think, I &s;hall be able very ea&s;ily and briefly to &s;hew you, For all the <HI>LI|BELLER</HI> ob&s;erves with <HI>&s;emblance</HI> of <HI>truth,</HI> and which looks like an <HI>Objection</HI> in that <HI>point</HI> as to this <HI>GOVERNMENT</HI> a|gain&s;t which he <HI>levels it,</HI> is, <HI>that there hath not any Laws been made again&s;t the</HI> PAPISTS <HI>in</HI> Ireland <HI>&s;ince the Kings return, &s;ave one again&s;t their living in Wall'd Towns.</HI></P>
<P>But if the method of enacting <HI>Laws</HI> in <HI>Ireland</HI> be thought upon, how that by <HI>Poynings Act</HI> the Chief Governour cannot call a <HI>Parliament,</HI> for the making of Laws in that <HI>Kingdom,</HI> be|fore he prays the <HI>King</HI> and <HI>Councils</HI> leave for it, and tran&s;mits &s;ome <HI>Bills</HI> for their <HI>Approbation</HI> to be <HI>pa&s;&s;ed</HI> in it, and untill he receives tho&s;e <HI>Bills</HI> back again with <HI>Licence</HI> for the calling of a <HI>Parliament,</HI> and if it be Con&s;ider'd that my <HI>LORD LIE&V;TE|NANT</HI> the Duke of <HI>ORMOND</HI> &s;ince his being here, hath <HI>RE|PEATEDLY prayed</HI> &s;uch <HI>Licence,</HI> and <HI>Tran&s;mitted Bills,</HI> where|of &s;ome <HI>were</HI> as effectual again&s;t the <HI>PAPISTS</HI> (although there <HI>were none</HI> among them again&s;t other <HI>DISSENTERS)</HI> as cou'd be <HI>devi&s;ed,</HI> and that he and the <HI>Kingdom</HI> were di&s;ap|pointed therein, by the oppo&s;itions of <HI>&s;ome Per&s;ons</HI> who are mightily extoll'd by the <HI>LIBELLER,</HI> that objection of there being <HI>no more Laws</HI> again&s;t the <HI>PAPISTS</HI> cannot in the lea&s;t affect this Government, e&s;pecially in the per&s;on of the <HI>Duke</HI> of <HI>ORMOND,</HI> neither can <HI>his Grace</HI> be thought to be concern|ed in the letter of <HI>&s;u&s;pen&s;ion</HI> of, or <HI>di&s;pen&s;ation</HI> with the <HI>Law</HI> a|gain&s;t <HI>PAPISTS</HI> living in <HI>wall'd Towns,</HI> which the <HI>LIBELLER</HI>
<PB N="8" REF="7"> mentions; that being procured and executed when the Lord <HI>BERKLY</HI> was <HI>Governour,</HI> no more than <HI>he</HI> is to be <HI>re&s;pon&s;ible</HI> if the <HI>Orders</HI> for the taking off that <HI>&s;u&s;pen&s;ion</HI> which the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> pa&s;&s;es over with <HI>&s;ilence,</HI> and which were grounded upon the <HI>Addre&s;s of the Hou&s;e of Commons in England,</HI> were not as <HI>effectually,</HI> as they &s;hou'd be put in <HI>execution here,</HI> they happening to come <HI>Over hither</HI> in the time of the <HI>Earl</HI> of <HI>E&s;&s;ex</HI>'s Government.</P>
<P>After the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> has thus, as in a fal&s;e <HI>Artificial Gla&s;s,</HI> which is <HI>able</HI> to <HI>make</HI> the <HI>be&s;t faces</HI> look <HI>deformed,</HI> mi&s;|repre&s;ented our <HI>GOVERNO&V;R</HI> and <HI>others co-operating</HI> with <HI>him</HI> for the <HI>KINGS</HI> &s;ervice in the <HI>Government,</HI> and as <HI>he</HI> fancies has by <HI>his</HI> traducements of them rendred the <HI>wor&s;t of things,</HI> which <HI>he</HI> the <HI>wor&s;t of Men</HI> can <HI>feign</HI> to be <HI>believed</HI> con|cerning <HI>them:</HI> he proceeds to <HI>page</HI> the <HI>40th,</HI> and from having before <HI>endeavoured</HI> to <HI>a&s;per&s;e them</HI> as if <HI>they</HI> &s;hou'd by his <HI>ficti|tious indulgences</HI> to the <HI>PAPISTS</HI> incourage <HI>them</HI> in the old <HI>POPISH PLOT; He</HI> there <HI>advances</HI> and in effect <HI>charges</HI> them with being <HI>ABETTORS</HI> with them in the new fang|led <HI>PROTESTANT PLOT;</HI> But the <HI>per&s;ons</HI> he names for &s;up|port of this <HI>Charge</HI> are &s;ome of them, &s;o <HI>ridiculou&s;ly</HI> Idle, and others of them &s;o <HI>notoriou&s;ly</HI> wicked, and the in&s;tances he brings for proof of it, are all of them &s;o <HI>manife&s;tly fal&s;e,</HI> that if the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> were not po&s;&s;e&s;t with a &s;ingular <HI>&s;pirit</HI> of <HI>folly</HI> as well as of <HI>lying,</HI> he wou'd never have mention'd <HI>them,</HI> for as to <HI>SMITH</HI> who I find to be the fir&s;t of the per&s;ons named, he is &s;uch an <HI>abject wretch,</HI> and &s;o great a <HI>malefactor,</HI> and even in the <HI>Goal,</HI> where he has mo&s;t <HI>de&s;ervedly</HI> layn for a great while, and &s;till lies, do's daily appear &s;o <HI>vicious</HI> a <HI>thing,</HI> that he had been only fit for the <HI>Laws</HI> to take notice of, were it not for the <HI>nature</HI> of the <HI>Information</HI> he gave in, which <HI>Authority</HI> wou'd not pa&s;s over without examining, for be it known unto the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> and to all <HI>&s;uch</HI> who&s;e turn <HI>he</HI> wou'd &s;erve, and under <HI>who&s;e</HI> pay he writes, that tho&s;e in <HI>GOVERNMENT here,</HI> are as <HI>apprehen&s;ive</HI> of <HI>Dangers</HI> as they
<PB N="9" REF="7"> can be; Though not as inventive of <HI>them</HI> as <HI>they,</HI> for this only rea&s;on, are, becau&s;e not in <HI>GOVERNMENT</HI> there; Therefore of the great <HI>&s;holes</HI> of <HI>Informations</HI> brought in here, &s;ince the fir&s;t <HI>di&s;covery</HI> of the <HI>Plot,</HI> and which tended to the <HI>proof</HI> of it, not <HI>one</HI> was ever <HI>rejected,</HI> alth&ocirc; coming from the <HI>vile&s;t</HI> of <HI>Men.</HI> And therefore when that of <HI>SMITH</HI> again&s;t the Prie&s;t St. <HI>LAWRANCE proffer'd</HI> it &s;elf at <HI>D&V;BLIN,</HI> it was immediately <HI>received</HI> and <HI>&s;olemnly proceeded upon,</HI> the Lord <HI>PRIMATE</HI> who was then the <HI>fir&s;t</HI> of the <HI>Council</HI> on the place, by the <HI>Lord LIE&V;TENANTS</HI> happening at that time to be in the <HI>Country,</HI> having conven'd &s;uch <HI>CO&V;NCELLORS</HI> as were in the <HI>Town,</HI> and with <HI>them</HI> having given all <HI>nece&s;&s;ary Orders</HI> in that <HI>affair,</HI> which produced the <HI>immediate apprehen&s;ion</HI> of St. <HI>Lawrence,</HI> toge|ther with the <HI>&s;ei&s;ure</HI> of <HI>his papers,</HI> and the <HI>Commitment</HI> of his <HI>Per|&s;on,</HI> and <HI>SMITH</HI> had all the <HI>Encouragement</HI> fit to be given <HI>him</HI> in this <HI>his Di&s;covery,</HI> in&s;omuch thar if any per&s;ons, were found, reflecting upon his <HI>Evidence,</HI> they were <HI>reprimanded</HI> by the <HI>Ma|gi&s;tracy</HI> for it, But this did not an&s;wer <HI>his</HI> end, in what <HI>he</HI> de|&s;igned and expected by making &s;uch <HI>di&s;covery,</HI> being no le&s;s than that <HI>he</HI> &s;hou'd forwith be <HI>permitted to go</HI> out of <HI>pri&s;on</HI> upon the foot of it, Which there was <HI>no rea&s;on</HI> in the earth yet <HI>to allow him,</HI> until <HI>he</HI> had to <HI>&s;atisfaction</HI> either proved <HI>his accu&s;ati|on</HI> of St. <HI>LAWRANCE</HI> upon his <HI>Tryal,</HI> or di&s;proved <HI>others accu&s;ations</HI> of <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> and for which <HI>he</HI> was <HI>impri&s;on'd,</HI> upon his own <HI>Tryal;</HI> And therefore, <HI>he</HI> did betake <HI>him&s;elf</HI> unto ano|ther <HI>cour&s;e,</HI> and to <HI>walk</HI> in the <HI>&s;teps</HI> of &s;ome of <HI>his predece&s;&s;ors</HI> the <HI>IRISH evidences, who</HI> obtained their <HI>relea&s;ments out of pri&s;on</HI> in this <HI>Kingdom</HI> where <HI>they</HI> found <HI>they</HI> were too <HI>much known,</HI> by getting <HI>them&s;elves</HI> to be &s;ent for as <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> into <HI>ENGLAND</HI> where <HI>they</HI> were too <HI>little known;</HI> For which purpo&s;e, according to the <HI>Mode</HI> of the <HI>times</HI> we are <HI>fallen into, he</HI> Prepares a <HI>NA|RATIVE</HI> with a <HI>letter</HI> to inclo&s;e it in, unto a <HI>B&V;SIE Per&s;on</HI> at <HI>LONDON</HI> in &s;uch matters, and by the <HI>a&s;&s;i&s;tance</HI> of, together with <HI>recomendatory letters</HI> from a <HI>half witted fellow</HI> and <HI>wretch|ed RIMER</HI> of this <HI>Town;</HI> gets them <HI>tran&s;mitted to him,</HI> who up|on his <HI>receiving of them,</HI> and according to <HI>his accu&s;tomed manner of</HI>
<PB N="10" REF="8"> <HI>running headlong without weighing matters,</HI> or if he chance to do it, making <HI>the &s;cales to light on that &s;ide which contains lea&s;t truth,</HI> and is likelie&s;t <HI>to make the greate&s;t &s;tir,</HI> conducts them with all <HI>&s;peed</HI> and <HI>bu&s;le</HI> to <HI>WHITEHAL,</HI> and in hopes of hav|ing this fre&s;h <HI>INFORMER</HI> or rather <HI>new Engine</HI> &s;ent for <HI>over</HI> to <HI>work</HI> with, lodges them with Mr. Secretary <HI>JENKINS</HI> for the <HI>Information</HI> of the <HI>KING</HI> and <HI>CO&V;NCIL,</HI> having mo&s;t <HI>du|tifully</HI> and <HI>mannerly</HI> taken <HI>e&s;pecial care</HI> before to <HI>Print</HI> and <HI>publi&s;h</HI> them for the <HI>Amu&s;ement of the world;</HI> but His <HI>MAJESTY</HI> and the <HI>Lords</HI> knowing this <HI>Conductor</HI> and his <HI>drift, too well,</HI> and experiencing &s;uch kind of <HI>Artifices</HI> as this <HI>Informer</HI> u&s;ed, <HI>too much,</HI> wou'd not be &s;o pa&s;&s;ed upon by <HI>them,</HI> and yet at the &s;ame time were plea&s;ed &s;o far to take notice of <HI>tho&s;e Papers,</HI> as to &s;end them <HI>over hither</HI> with Orders to proceed upon them <HI>according to Law here,</HI> where the <HI>matter</HI> of them were proper|ly <HI>Cognizable,</HI> and where <HI>preparations</HI> were made for <HI>St. Law|rence</HI> his being &s;trictly pro&s;ecuted upon <HI>them,</HI> The <HI>KINGS Coun&s;el</HI> having <HI>by order</HI> and with <HI>great circum&s;pection</HI> formed a firm <HI>Indictment</HI> for <HI>mi&s;demeanor</HI> (which was all that in <HI>their Opinions</HI> the <HI>matter</HI> could bear) to be preferred again&s;t <HI>him,</HI> and the <HI>Judges</HI> having carefully <HI>provided</HI> that no <HI>PAPIST</HI> nor any <HI>&s;u&s;pected</HI> to be <HI>POPISHLY affected</HI> &s;hou'd pa&s;s upon the Tryal of <HI>him,</HI> which came on the la&s;t <HI>Michaelmas Term</HI> in the <HI>Kings Bench,</HI> Where a <HI>Jury</HI> all con&s;i&s;ting of the <HI>&s;tricte&s;t Pro|te&s;tants</HI> and <HI>able&s;t Citizens</HI> of the City of <HI>Dublin</HI> did appear, where <HI>SMITH</HI> had the greate&s;t <HI>liberty</HI> and <HI>latitude</HI> afforded to <HI>him,</HI> and which <HI>he</HI> made u&s;e of in the <HI>proffering</HI> and <HI>manage|ment</HI> of his <HI>evidence,</HI> that any <HI>Court</HI> did <HI>ever give</HI> or <HI>Witne&s;s take,</HI> and where St. <HI>LAWRENCE</HI> (who&s;e <HI>per&s;on</HI> I <HI>know</HI> not, and who&s;e <HI>profe&s;&s;ion</HI> I <HI>abominate,</HI> and therefore, you may be &s;ure I &s;peak impartially what was ob&s;erved univer&s;ally) had nothing beyond <HI>meer Ju&s;tice</HI> extended to <HI>him,</HI> and as a part thereof was that of <HI>Allowance</HI> of <HI>Coun&s;el</HI> to plead for him, (which the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> with more <HI>Malice than Law</HI> makes his Ob&s;ervation upon) to be reckon'd, &s;ince he &s;tanding <HI>indicted</HI> for <HI>mi&s;demeanor</HI> only, no <HI>Judicature</HI> cou'd have refu|&s;ed
<PB N="11" REF="8"> it to him <HI>Ju&s;tly,</HI> &s;o as all things &s;eemed to <HI>concur,</HI> if not to have been <HI>calculated</HI> for St. <HI>LAWRENCES Condemnation,</HI> ex|cept <HI>SMITH</HI> him&s;elf, who by <HI>variety</HI> of <HI>villanies</HI> proved up|on <HI>him</HI> in other Ca&s;es, which <HI>he</HI> cou'd not deny, and by <HI>ma|ny</HI> and <HI>palpable incoherences</HI> and <HI>contradictions</HI> that fell from <HI>him</HI> in this <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> which were not to be <HI>reconcil'd,</HI> did wholly <HI>prevent</HI> it, for they were the rea&s;ons that particularly <HI>&s;wayed</HI> with the <HI>Jury</HI> to acquit St. <HI>LAWRENCE</HI> by their <HI>verdicts,</HI> and generally made <HI>all others</HI> who <HI>heard</HI> them, to do the like in their <HI>Judgments,</HI> and the&s;e were the <HI>motives,</HI> which made the <HI>Gentlemen</HI> of the <HI>long Robe</HI> (as they have declared) to <HI>forbear,</HI> becau&s;e <HI>they</HI> were <HI>a&s;hamed</HI> to appear on the behalf of &s;uch a <HI>blur'd</HI> and <HI>&s;tellionated Creature,</HI> and none of tho&s;e <HI>wild in&s;tan|ces</HI> which the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> invents and mentions only to <HI>de|ba&s;e</HI> them, and to <HI>reflect</HI> upon <HI>Authority,</HI> and which it is to be ob&s;erved <HI>he</HI> at once <HI>in&s;inuates</HI> to be believed by others, and yet expre&s;ly &s;ays, <HI>he will not &s;o much as conjecture them him&s;elf:</HI> &s;o as <HI>he</HI> needed not in the <HI>Conclu&s;ion</HI> of this his <HI>fable</HI> of <HI>SMITH,</HI> have any more told us that he was no <HI>diviner,</HI> than I need tell you after all this that he is an <HI>idle Dreamer.</HI></P>
<P>The next man our <HI>LIBELLER</HI> produces is <HI>JAMES MOR|LEY,</HI> whom <HI>he</HI> Stiles <HI>Captain MORLEY,</HI> though I know not for what rea&s;on, unle&s;s it be becau&s;e of <HI>his</HI> appearing at the <HI>head</HI> of the band of <HI>IRISH WITNESSES,</HI> which &s;ometime &s;ince <HI>Marched</HI> to <HI>LONDON,</HI> and of his <HI>drawing them</HI> up with what he would <HI>have them &s;wear unto</HI> for <HI>him,</HI> but however <HI>true</HI> he may be in giving of that <HI>Title</HI> to <HI>him,</HI> I am <HI>&s;ure</HI> he is <HI>mo&s;t fal&s;e</HI> in tho&s;e things <HI>he</HI> relates <HI>of</HI> and po&s;&s;ibly <HI>from him,</HI> and becau&s;e the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> will not be long before <HI>he</HI> makes my words <HI>good</HI> (though neither I nor all the World will ever be able to make his &s;o) he no &s;ooner <HI>mentions</HI> the name of <HI>MORLEY,</HI> but as if it were a <HI>&s;pell</HI> to rai&s;e a <HI>lye</HI> with, he falls plum into the telling of <HI>one</HI> concerning <HI>him,</HI> by introducing and expre&s;|&s;ing of <HI>him</HI> to have <HI>appeared</HI> and <HI>Sworn</HI> before the <HI>Committee</HI> of <HI>LORDS</HI> and <HI>COMMONS</HI> in <HI>England, two Con&s;ults which the</HI>
<PB N="12" REF="9"> Papi&s;ts <HI>had in</HI> Ireland <HI>in reference to the extirpating the</HI> Pro|te&s;tant Religion <HI>in that</HI> Kingdom, whereas it appears by <HI>MORLEYS Examination</HI> taken either before a <HI>Committee</HI> of the <HI>LORDS,</HI> or of the <HI>COMMONS,</HI> or <HI>both,</HI> that <HI>he</HI> did not <HI>&s;wear</HI> to tho&s;e <HI>Con&s;ults,</HI> but only to a <HI>hear&s;ay</HI> touching <HI>them;</HI> which <HI>he</HI> &s;aid he had from <HI>H&V;BBERT TIRRELL</HI> and <HI>Henry</HI> &ocirc; <HI>Neal,</HI> who it is to be ob&s;erved, were <HI>two Beggars,</HI> and &s;uch <HI>mi&s;creants</HI> that an <HI>hone&s;t</HI> and a <HI>di&s;cerning PROTESTANT</HI> who knew <HI>them</HI> as well as <HI>MORLEY</HI> did, wou'd hardly have <HI>adventur'd</HI> to <HI>re|peat</HI> any <HI>thing</HI> after <HI>them,</HI> much le&s;s to <HI>conduct</HI> what they &s;hou'd <HI>&s;ay,</HI> unto <HI>publick a&s;&s;emblies,</HI> and in prejudice <HI>of any</HI> who was a <HI>PROTESTANT</HI> al&s;o, e&s;pecially Con&s;idering that as it is well known <HI>MORLEY</HI> had &s;uch experience of their <HI>villanies,</HI> as before that time, <HI>he</HI> did <HI>reject</HI> their <HI>proferr'd Oaths</HI> to <HI>him</HI> in &s;ome <HI>Trial</HI> which <HI>he</HI> had in this <HI>Kingdom,</HI> however afterwards <HI>he</HI> became &s;o <HI>reconcil'd</HI> to <HI>them,</HI> as in the la&s;t <HI>PARLIAMENT</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter</HI> to make <HI>u&s;e</HI> of <HI>their names</HI> for injuriou&s;ly <HI>accu&s;ing</HI> of Sir <HI>JOHN DAVIS,</HI> a per&s;on <HI>who</HI> with all <HI>his Rela|tions,</HI> have ever been <HI>eminent profe&s;&s;ors</HI> of the <HI>PROTESTANT Religion,</HI> and for that <HI>rea&s;on</HI> known to be <HI>obnoxious</HI> to the <HI>POPISH</HI> Party, and it is be&s;ides to be <HI>remarked</HI> that <HI>Tirrell</HI> has <HI>lately</HI> and <HI>&s;olemnly di&s;avowed his ever having known of any &s;uch Con&s;ults,</HI> and <HI>declared</HI> that what <HI>he</HI> had <HI>informed</HI> concer|ning <HI>them</HI> was a <HI>meer fiction,</HI> which as <HI>TYRRELL</HI> alledges <HI>MORLEY prompted</HI> and <HI>hired him</HI> to make, and to <HI>get others to &s;wear unto for carrying on &s;ome de&s;igns of his own,</HI> and what is yet more <HI>remarkable</HI> &ocirc; <HI>NEAL</HI> (who has lately <HI>hang'd</HI> for a <HI>Robbery</HI> in this <HI>KINGDOM)</HI> did ju&s;t before he was thrown off the Ladder, <HI>Confe&s;s him&s;elf</HI> to be <HI>perjured,</HI> both in what he <HI>deliver'd</HI> as to tho&s;e <HI>CONS&V;LTS,</HI> and in what he had <HI>&s;worn</HI> again&s;t Sir <HI>JOHN DAVIS,</HI> and that <HI>he</HI> was by <HI>MORLEYS de&s;ire led</HI> into the <HI>latter perjury,</HI> which <HI>Confe&s;&s;ion</HI> coming from <HI>one</HI> in the in&s;tant <HI>he</HI> was going to the <HI>dead,</HI> mu&s;t be <HI>convincing</HI> with all but <HI>&s;uch</HI> who will not be <HI>per&s;waded tho one ro&s;e from the dead;</HI> After the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> has thus begun and di&s;pach'd
<PB N="13" REF="9"> this <HI>untruth</HI> of <HI>MORLEY,</HI> who has no rea&s;on to <HI>con him thanks</HI> for it, &s;ince it has <HI>provoked</HI> and produced the repre&s;entation of the&s;e <HI>truths</HI> concerning <HI>him, he</HI> growes upon his own hands, and to &s;hew his proficiency in the <HI>lying-trade, he</HI> proceeds to the <HI>delivery</HI> of a <HI>gro&s;&s;er falcity,</HI> in <HI>a&s;&s;erting, that &s;ix or &s;even witne&s;&s;es have been procured to depo&s;e in this Kingdom, that</HI> MORLEY <HI>was &s;uborned by the Earls of</HI> ESSEX <HI>and</HI> SHAFTS|BURY, <HI>and by Sir</HI> ROBERT CLAYTON, <HI>to &s;wear trea&s;on a|gain&s;t the Duke of</HI> ORMONDE <HI>the Lord</HI> CHANCELLOR BOYLE <HI>and Sir</HI> JOHN DAVIS, whereas upon <HI>&s;earch</HI> in the <HI>Offices</HI> where <HI>things</HI> of that <HI>nature</HI> (if any had been,) wou'd be lodg'd, and upon <HI>inquiry</HI> from the <HI>Officers</HI> who cou'd not but know of <HI>them</HI> if they were <HI>there,</HI> it cannot be <HI>found</HI> that ever any <HI>one &s;uch depo&s;ition</HI> was <HI>taken,</HI> or <HI>&s;o much as as heard</HI> of, but &s;everal <HI>Examinations</HI> (and with <HI>probability</HI> of <HI>truth too</HI> con&s;idering the before mentioned <HI>proceeding</HI> of <HI>MORLEY)</HI> do appear of his <HI>Contrivances</HI> of that kind with <HI>people of infi|nite lower ranks,</HI> and it is to be hoped <HI>of infinite different prin|ciples too,</HI> than it can be thought the <HI>Earls of ESSEX</HI> and <HI>SHAFTSB&V;RY</HI> and Sir <HI>Robet CLAYTON</HI> are of, who the <HI>Lord Duke of ORMONDE</HI> and <HI>tho&s;e</HI> named with <HI>him</HI> do not &s;uppo&s;e wou'd <HI>Imbarque them&s;elves</HI> with &s;uch a <HI>&s;ort of</HI> man as <HI>MORLEY</HI> is, and in <HI>&s;uch manner of De&s;igns</HI> as <HI>he was upon,</HI> &s;o as the &s;etting up of the&s;e <HI>imaginary depo&s;itions,</HI> which never <HI>had being</HI> but in this <HI>LIBELLER</HI>'s <HI>idle brain,</HI> and in his <HI>Idler LIBELL,</HI> mu&s;t have been a piece of <HI>MORLEY</HI>'s <HI>magick,</HI> by &s;uch <HI>Incantations</HI> to charm tho&s;e <HI>per&s;ons</HI> of <HI>Qua|lity</HI> to &s;tand by <HI>him</HI> in this time of <HI>his</HI> de&s;ervedly <HI>Expi|ring Credit,</HI> and to rai&s;e <HI>their Spirits</HI> (th&ocirc; mo&s;t <HI>&V;nde&s;er|vedly)</HI> again&s;t <HI>others</HI> whom <HI>his</HI> and the <HI>LIBELLERS ma|lice</HI> would <HI>point them unto,</HI> and <HI>whom</HI> (though it be <HI>impo|&s;ible</HI> to <HI>find them</HI> out by the <HI>mark</HI> the <HI>LIBELLER puts upon them,)</HI> of having obtain'd tho&s;e <HI>depo&s;itions,</HI> becau&s;e there were <HI>never any &s;uch,</HI> yet by all this <HI>Lurry</HI> about <HI>Morley,</HI> I gue&s;s <HI>them</HI> to be certain <HI>per&s;ons</HI> of &s;uch <HI>uprightne&s;s</HI> and <HI>integrity</HI> as I am certain, <HI>they</HI> will not fear to have <HI>their Actions</HI> pla|c'd
<PB N="14" REF="10"> in that <HI>approaching light</HI> of a <HI>PARLIAMENT</HI> with <HI>which the</HI> LIBELLER threatens them, and <HI>which</HI> then <HI>&s;hines brighte&s;t</HI> when <HI>MORLEY</HI> and the LIBELLER, and &s;uch other <HI>&s;ons</HI> of <HI>darkne&s;s</HI> are <HI>&s;catter'd</HI> from <HI>before it,</HI> and thanks be to <HI>God,</HI> we have no rea&s;on to <HI>de&s;pair</HI> of a <HI>ble&s;&s;ing of that kind</HI> to attend that time, for the <HI>weather</HI> &s;eems to <HI>clear</HI> very much, and the <HI>aire</HI> to be &s;o well upon <HI>Purifying,</HI> that tho&s;e <HI>infections</HI> cannot <HI>remain.</HI> And as the LIBELLER has thus <HI>ingenuou&s;ly</HI> in this Paragraph repre&s;ented <HI>things that never were,</HI> &s;o <HI>he</HI> will not leave it off untill he has <HI>as ingenuou&s;ly</HI> mi&s;re|pre&s;ented <HI>Matters otherwi&s;e than they were,</HI> according to the &s;ay|ing of <HI>Fame,</HI> the true <HI>Parent</HI> of this <HI>lying Mon&s;ter,</HI> that <HI>pariter fa|cta atque infecta canebat;</HI> thus purpo&s;ely to reflect upon per&s;ons concerned in this <HI>Government</HI> (which the &s;cope of his whole <HI>di&s;|cour&s;e</HI> as to <HI>Ireland</HI> drives at) <HI>he</HI> wou'd from the receiving an <HI>In|formation</HI> which was given in here again&s;t <HI>MORLEY, for &s;uch trea&s;onable expre&s;&s;ions as</HI> are not fit to be repeated, but in a <HI>Judi|cial</HI> way of proceeding again&s;t <HI>him,</HI> and from the <HI>tran&s;mi&s;&s;ion</HI> which was made of it to the <HI>KING</HI> and <HI>CO&V;NCIL</HI> in <HI>ENG|LAND,</HI> infer a <HI>fondne&s;s,</HI> &amp; I do not know <HI>what,</HI> to have been in <HI>them</HI> of it, whereas <HI>they</HI> did but as <HI>they</HI> were <HI>bound,</HI> in taking a <HI>matter</HI> of that <HI>dangerous import</HI> when it was <HI>offer'd,</HI> and as <HI>they</HI> wou'd have done, if it had related to <HI>any one el&s;e</HI> be&s;ides <HI>MORLEY,</HI> and only ob&s;erved their <HI>duty</HI> and the <HI>Cu&s;tome</HI> of their <HI>Predece&s;&s;ors</HI> in tran&s;mitting (as they alwaies did) <HI>things</HI> of &s;uch <HI>a tran&s;cendent nature,</HI> let <HI>them</HI> concern whom&s;oever they wou'd, And why this <HI>ordinary practis'd method</HI> in all other Ca&s;es, &s;hou'd be thus <HI>extraordinarily handled</HI> and <HI>repre|&s;ented</HI> in <HI>MORLEY</HI>'s by the LIBELLER, is what I cannot think of any other <HI>rea&s;on</HI> to be given for, but this, that <HI>he</HI> is a LIBELLER; Be&s;ides, &s;uppo&s;e it were true, as the LIBELLER &s;ays, (and it is the only thing <HI>he</HI> &s;ays of <HI>affairs</HI> in <HI>IRELAND</HI> which &s;uppo&s;ition it &s;elf can help) <HI>That at the time of this tran&s;mi&s;&s;ion as to</HI> MORLEY <HI>it was withal de&s;ir'd he &s;hou'd be &s;ent over hither to be Tried, where his Crime was &s;uppo&s;ed to be done.</HI> (alth&ocirc; really no &s;uch thing
<PB N="15" REF="10"> was de&s;ired) and that the <HI>KING</HI> had granted it, which <HI>He</HI> neither did, nor denyed, becau&s;e no <HI>application</HI> was made for it, do's the <HI>LIBELLER believe</HI> him&s;elf? or can he ima|gin any one el&s;e will <HI>believe</HI> him in, but <HI>laugh</HI> at him for, this his <HI>doctrine</HI> thereupon, <HI>That it were illegal and Arbitrary to &s;end a Malefactor to be Tryed here for a fact committed by him here;</HI> For &s;urely that is as <HI>legal</HI> and looks &s;omething more <HI>rea|&s;onable</HI> than to &s;end for <HI>per&s;ons</HI> from <HI>hence</HI> to be Tryed in <HI>England</HI> for <HI>things they</HI> are only charged to have <HI>Committed here,</HI> as we &s;ee has of late been practi&s;ed, and which th&ocirc; the <HI>Law|yers</HI> &s;ay may be done in this <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> I am &s;ure no <HI>Lawyer</HI> will ever allow what the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> &s;ays in the other <HI>Ca&s;e,</HI> e&s;pecially, if no pertinenter a <HI>rea&s;on</HI> be given than this, which he a&s;&s;igns for it, <HI>becau&s;e the party was born and bred and has an E&s;tate in ENGLAND,</HI> For &s;uch <HI>Circum&s;tances alone,</HI> can never <HI>protect</HI> any <HI>one</HI> in <HI>ENGLAND,</HI> or <HI>IRELAND,</HI> from an|&s;wering for his breach of the <HI>Laws</HI> in either <HI>KINGDOM,</HI> and in that <HI>KINGDOM</HI> too, where <HI>he</HI> &s;o broke <HI>them</HI> if the <HI>KING</HI> plea&s;e to have him &s;ent thither. Nay in this <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> of <HI>MORLEY,</HI> if the <HI>matter</HI> charged upon <HI>him</HI> to be <HI>Committed here</HI> (from <HI>which</HI> I &s;hall not with the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> acquit <HI>him</HI> only be|cau&s;e he is a PROTESTANT, con&s;idering <HI>what kind of one</HI> he &s;hewed <HI>him&s;elf</HI> in the times of <HI>u&s;urpation, thorough-pacedly &s;er|ving</HI> of <HI>them,</HI> and what &s;ort of <HI>one he</HI> manife&s;ts <HI>him&s;elf</HI> in the <HI>pre&s;ent time of faction,</HI> by tho&s;e ba&s;er Offices of <HI>&s;ubornation</HI> and <HI>Perjury</HI> mini&s;tring to it,) were any felony under Trea&s;on, I &s;peak it with reverence, it were <HI>unju&s;t</HI> not to &s;end him <HI>hither</HI> to be tryed, becau&s;e the <HI>Statute of</HI> Hen. <HI>the 8th for Tryal of forreign matters in</HI> England, extends <HI>expre&s;ly</HI> and only to <HI>Trea&s;ons,</HI> &s;o that <HI>le&s;&s;er Offences</HI> done <HI>here</HI> cannot be tryed <HI>there,</HI> and con&s;equent|ly, to have kept <HI>him</HI> in &s;uch <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> on the <HI>other &s;ide</HI> from appear|ing <HI>here,</HI> wou'd be to hinder a <HI>malefactor</HI> from being brought to <HI>Ju&s;tice,</HI> which were not <HI>Ju&s;t;</HI> But as <HI>MORLEYS Ca&s;e</HI> is, being for <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> Committed <HI>here,</HI> which by that <HI>Statute</HI> may be Tryed <HI>there,</HI> the <HI>KING</HI> can <HI>Ju&s;tly</HI> enough (if He Plea&s;es) detain <HI>him</HI> to be Tryed in <HI>ENGLAND,</HI>
<PB N="16" REF="11"> or (if he thinks fit) <HI>as Ju&s;tly</HI> too may &s;end him <HI>hither</HI> for <HI>Tryal,</HI> for by that <HI>Statute</HI> it is in the <HI>KINGS</HI> Choi&s;e, in which of the <HI>KINGDOMS</HI> &s;uch a <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> &s;hall be <HI>Try'd;</HI> But then if the <HI>Tryal</HI> be ordered to be <HI>there</HI> upon a <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> Committed <HI>here,</HI> the <HI>Judges</HI> in <HI>ENGLAND</HI> are therein to <HI>Govern</HI> them&s;elves accor|ding to the <HI>Laws</HI> of <HI>Ireland,</HI> that is, they are not to <HI>adjudge</HI> any thing to be <HI>Trea&s;on,</HI> but what is &s;o by the <HI>Law</HI> of <HI>IRELAND,</HI> or by &s;ome <HI>Act</HI> of <HI>PARLIAMENT</HI> in <HI>ENGLAND</HI> where <HI>IRELAND</HI> is named, or that is Enacted in <HI>IRELAND;</HI> and this Rule holds concerning <HI>Pleas</HI> in di&s;|charge of <HI>Trea&s;on</HI> al&s;o, wherefore though <HI>MORLEY'S charge</HI> con&s;i&s;ts of <HI>Trea&s;onable words</HI> only, and they really <HI>were &s;poken two years ago</HI> as the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> ob&s;erves, whereby <HI>he</HI> was to be di&s;charged by the late <HI>Statute</HI> in <HI>ENGLAND</HI> (if they were alledg'd <HI>there)</HI> yet being laid to be &s;poken <HI>here,</HI> where that <HI>Statute</HI> not naming <HI>IRELAND,</HI> nor being Ena|cted in <HI>IRELAND</HI> do's not extend, <HI>he cannot</HI> reap any <HI>Benefit</HI> by it; From all which though I will not take upon me to con|jecture, what were the <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> MORLEY was not &s;ent <HI>hither,</HI> yet I may rationally conclude, that <HI>they</HI> cou'd not be any of <HI>tho&s;e</HI> which are <HI>given</HI> by the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> for it, &s;o as <HI>he</HI> proves to be as gro&s;ly out in his <HI>Matters of Law as he is notoriou&s;ly mi&s;taken in his matters of fact;</HI> And where, for Conclu&s;ion of this <HI>his</HI> Pa|ragraph, and for the bringing off <HI>Morley</HI> by it, he &s;ays, <HI>it is remarkable that what MORLEY did declare,</HI> (I &s;uppo&s;e he in|tends to the <HI>PARLIAMENT) in relation to the</HI> Duke <HI>of</HI> ORMONDE <HI>the</HI> Lord CHANCELLOR, <HI>and Sir</HI> John Da|vis, <HI>he refer'd him&s;elf for, the truth of it to the</HI> Council <HI>Books or to depo&s;itions before the</HI> Council <HI>of this</HI> Kingdom; it is more <HI>remarkable</HI> that <HI>MORLEY</HI> did declare <HI>nothing there</HI> (what&s;oever he has done <HI>el&s;ewhere)</HI> as to any of tho&s;e <HI>Per&s;ons,</HI> &s;ave only Sir <HI>JOHN DAVIS,</HI> and as to him that <HI>he</HI> refer'd nothing to the <HI>CO&V;NCIL BOOKS,</HI> or <HI>to de|po&s;itions</HI> before the <HI>CO&V;NCIL</HI> to prove, other than a pre|tended Copy <HI>he</HI> produced of the &s;aid &ocirc; <HI>Neal</HI> or <HI>TYRRELLS Examination,</HI> but of <HI>which</HI> there never was any <HI>Original</HI>
<PB N="17" REF="11"> in the <HI>Council books</HI> or at the <HI>Council Board,</HI> or indeed in <HI>be|ing,</HI> &s;o as the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> by his thus <HI>elaborately</HI> attempting to pre&s;erve <HI>MORLEYS</HI> ga&s;ping <HI>reputation,</HI> for &s;upport of his <HI>Scandalous reflections</HI> upon the <HI>Government,</HI> does but de|de&s;troy his own <HI>Credit, and confound</HI> his own <HI>Devices.</HI></P>
<P>There are <HI>two</HI> other <HI>per&s;ons,</HI> whom the LIBELLER brings by head and &s;houlders into this Paragraph for <HI>evidence</HI> of what <HI>he</HI> aims at by it, but he giving only &s;urnames to them as <HI>HANLON,</HI> and <HI>M&V;RPHY,</HI> whereby it is Impo&s;&s;ible without more certainty, out of the <HI>herds</HI> that are of tho&s;e <HI>names,</HI> to gather <HI>whom</HI> he means, and not a&s;&s;igning any par|ticulars to have come from <HI>them,</HI> in proof of his <HI>General a&s;|&s;ertion</HI> which he Cites them for, by means whereof <HI>he</HI> only &s;ets up <HI>Shadows</HI> to be conte&s;ted within them; I will therefore pa&s;s them over and come to that more <HI>&s;olid body</HI> in the LIBEL|LERS &s;ingle opinion of Mr. <HI>HAWKINS,</HI> whom he &s;hews as his <HI>next</HI> and <HI>la&s;t man,</HI> but <HI>who</HI> performed &s;uch a <HI>part</HI> when <HI>he</HI> fir&s;t brought <HI>him&s;elf</HI> upon the <HI>&s;tage,</HI> as I cannot tell whether <HI>folly,</HI> or <HI>&s;omething that is wor&s;e</HI> were his greate&s;t <HI>Vice,</HI> and therefore I will determin on neither &s;ide, but give a <HI>true ac|count</HI> of it, as it has been collected out of the <HI>Original papers</HI> of that <HI>matter,</HI> and then let any <HI>&s;ober</HI> and <HI>impartial man</HI> make his <HI>Judgment</HI> of it, and of <HI>him</HI> upon it, which was thus; Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> (between <HI>whom</HI> and &s;ome of the <HI>mac GEN|NISES his neighbours</HI> there were &s;ome differences) came to my <HI>Lord</HI> LIEUTENANT to the <HI>CASTLE,</HI> having made <HI>his</HI> way as being a &s;tranger by pre&s;enting of a letter from Sir <HI>HANS HAMILTON</HI> a late member of the <HI>Council</HI> unto <HI>his GRACE,</HI> &amp; there acquainted <HI>his Grace</HI> that one <HI>Daniel Hanvy</HI> came to <HI>him</HI> to his hou&s;e in the Country, and told <HI>him</HI> of a meeting which he had a little before with one <HI>Con mac Gennis</HI> at <HI>Down-Patrick,</HI> and that among other things which at that meeting pa&s;&s;ed be|twixt them, <HI>mac GENNIS</HI> engaged <HI>him</HI> to joyn with <HI>him</HI> in &s;wearing <HI>HIS GRACE,</HI> Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> and <HI>others</HI> into the <HI>Plot,</HI> and at the &s;ame time did give <HI>him a little money,</HI> and promi&s;ed him a great deal more when they &s;hou'd afterwards
<PB N="18" REF="12"> meet, as they then agreed to do at <HI>Dublin,</HI> where the de&s;ign was to be carried on betwixt <HI>them,</HI> That with this <HI>Information</HI> Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> repaired to Sir <HI>HANS HAMILTON,</HI> who advi&s;ed him to carry it to my <HI>LORD</HI> LIEUTENANT where he thus brought it, hereupon my <HI>Lord</HI> LIEUTENANT cau&s;ed Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> to bring <HI>HANVY</HI> to <HI>him,</HI> and after <HI>his GRACE</HI> had with great privacy taken his <HI>Examination,</HI> which was much to the purpo&s;e afore&s;aid, he asked Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> if he knew <HI>CON mac GENNIS,</HI> and where he was to be found, which <HI>he</HI> &s;aid <HI>he</HI> did very well, and that as <HI>HANVY</HI> told <HI>him,</HI> he was come to Town in order to their afore&s;aid appointed meeting, which was to be <HI>&s;ometime</HI> on <HI>that</HI> or the <HI>day following,</HI> and though Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> did not know the <HI>certain hou&s;e</HI> where it &s;hou'd be in, yet he would learn it from <HI>HANVY,</HI> and thereupon he propo&s;ed to <HI>his GRACE</HI> that for having <HI>more Witne&s;&s;es</HI> be&s;ides <HI>HANVY</HI> of what &s;hou'd pa&s;s at that intended <HI>meeting, his GRACE</HI> wou'd appoint another <HI>Tru&s;ty per&s;on</HI> to joyn with one NEAL <HI>mac</HI> LAUGHKIN whom Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> de&s;igned to employ, for &s;o di&s;po&s;ing of <HI>them&s;elves</HI> in the Room of the Hou&s;e where the <HI>others</HI> were to meet in, that <HI>they</HI> might (without be|ing ob&s;erved by them) &s;ee <HI>them,</HI> and hear the di&s;cour&s;es be|twixt <HI>them;</HI> Which my LORD LIEUTENANT complied with, and was accordingly done, only with this Variation, that Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> employed <HI>another</HI> in that &s;ervice in the &s;tead of <HI>mac</HI> LAUGHLIN, who cou'd not be found, In the mean time <HI>his GRACE</HI> kept this <HI>matter</HI> as a <HI>&s;ecret</HI> from <HI>all per|&s;ons,</HI> lea&s;t any <HI>di&s;apppointment</HI> &s;hou'd befall &s;uch a promi&s;ed <HI>di&s;covery,</HI> afterwards Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> came to my LORD LIEUTENANT, and acquainted <HI>him</HI> the parties had met, and the per&s;on appointed by <HI>his</HI> GRACE, with the other whom <HI>Haw|kins</HI> did employ in the Over hearing of them, came likewi&s;e, &amp; told <HI>his Grace</HI> that they &s;aw <HI>HANVY</HI> &amp; another <HI>man</HI> whom he call'd CON <HI>mac</HI> GENNIS together, and heard <HI>them</HI> di&s;cour&s;e of &s;uch de&s;igns as were at fir&s;t informed, but withal that <HI>they</HI> ob|&s;erved and heard <HI>mac</HI> GENNIS to &s;ay at their parting to the
<PB N="19" REF="12"> Ma&s;ter of the hou&s;e, who came towards the end of <HI>their</HI> di&s;cour&s;e to <HI>them</HI> The&s;e words, <HI>take notice I never &s;awthis per&s;on</HI> pointing at <HI>HANVY before the la&s;t night,</HI> upon this Report brought to my Lord LIEUTENANT He ordered <HI>CON mac GENNIS</HI> to be &s;ent for, who appeared <HI>and denied his name to be CON mac GENNIS,</HI> affirming it to be <HI>OWEN D&V;FFY,</HI> and proved it to be &s;o by invincible Circum&s;tances; but <HI>he</HI> owned at the &s;ame time <HI>his</HI> having gone under the name of <HI>CON mac GENNIS too,</HI> and his having had the afore&s;aid meeting with <HI>HANVY,</HI> whom withal <HI>he</HI> prote&s;ted <HI>he</HI> never &s;aw until the night before <HI>he</HI> had the meeting with <HI>him,</HI> which with <HI>his</HI> other feigned parts, <HI>he</HI> &s;aid <HI>he</HI> was prevailed upon to Act, by the de&s;ires of one <HI>HENRY FARREL,</HI> who&s;e rea&s;on for the &s;ame <HI>he</HI> knew not, but referr'd it to <HI>FARREL</HI> to declare: At his proceed|ing my Lord LIEUTENANT (as any one wou'd be) was &s;trangly &s;urpri&s;ed, and the more, becau&s;e his <HI>GRACE</HI> was &s;atisfied at <HI>his</HI> fir&s;t &s;ight of the Man, who now is <HI>D&V;FFY,</HI> and before <HI>he</HI> named him&s;elf to be &s;o, that <HI>he</HI> was <HI>not CON mac GENNIS</HI> whom <HI>HANVY</HI> had de&s;cribed, for <HI>him</HI> His <HI>GRACE</HI> had occa&s;ions to &s;ee and know long before, in the quality of a Deputy <HI>Pur&s;uvant</HI> for di&s;patching of <HI>Iri&s;h Witne&s;&s;es,</HI> &s;ent for from <HI>hence</HI> into <HI>ENGLAND,</HI> but what <HI>HIS GRACE</HI> mo&s;t wonder'd at was, that <HI>HANVY</HI> &s;hou'd have affirmed as he did, <HI>his</HI> having had a familiar acquaintance for many years toge|ther with that <HI>CON mac GENNIS</HI> before, and yet that <HI>he</HI> &s;hou'd now take this <HI>D&V;FFY</HI> for <HI>him;</HI> Hereupon my Lord LIEUTENANT had <HI>HAWKINS</HI> and <HI>HANVY</HI> who were attending, called in, where <HI>HANVY</HI> upon the que&s;tion put to him, declared again &s;uch <HI>his long acquaintance with</HI> CON <HI>mac</HI> GENNIS, and all the other matters touching him, and confidently affirmed, that <HI>D&V;FFY</HI> then pre&s;ent before <HI>him</HI> was the Man, and Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> (although at his fir&s;t coming to my Lord LIEUTENANT, and as is before mentioned, <HI>he</HI> told His <HI>GRACE</HI> that <HI>he knew</HI> CON mac GENNIS <HI>very well,</HI> and con&s;equently, cou'd not but at this time know that <HI>D&V;FFY</HI> whom <HI>he &s;aw</HI> thus to per&s;onate <HI>him</HI> was ano|ther
<PB N="20" REF="13"> per&s;on) yet as if <HI>he</HI> wou'd have had my Lord <HI>Lieutenant</HI> deceived, did &s;uffer <HI>Duffy</HI> to pa&s;s upon <HI>His GRACE</HI> for <HI>Con mac</HI> GENNIS, without offering any thing to undeceive <HI>him,</HI> until <HI>my Lord LIE&V;TENANT</HI> did at la&s;t take notice to them, how <HI>that per&s;on</HI> had proved him&s;elf to be <HI>OWEN D&V;FFY,</HI> and how <HI>his Grace</HI> him&s;elf knew that it was not <HI>CON mac GENNIS,</HI> upon which <HI>HANVY</HI> and <HI>HAWKINS</HI> confe&s;&s;ed them&s;elves to be mi&s;taken, and &s;o in great confu&s;ion vani&s;hed; After this &s;cene was thus over, which in the <HI>per&s;ons</HI> and <HI>the parts</HI> of it looked the mo&s;t odd, and was the lea&s;t intelligible, that for a great while has been pre&s;ented, <HI>my Lord</HI> LIEUTE|NANT conducted the whole matter to the <HI>Council,</HI> where it &s;eemed as a perfect <HI>riddle,</HI> and becau&s;e <HI>FARRELL</HI> appeared the able&s;t <HI>to unfold it,</HI> by giving an account how he came to make <HI>D&V;FFY</HI> per&s;onate <HI>CON mac GENNIS</HI> unto <HI>HANVY, he</HI> was order'd to be <HI>examined,</HI> who in <HI>his Examination</HI> and upon <HI>his Oath</HI> declared, that NEAL <HI>mac</HI> LAUGHLIN did &s;ome time before, lodging at <HI>his</HI> hou&s;e, let fall expre&s;&s;ions which gave <HI>him</HI> &s;u&s;picion of HAWKINS <HI>his</HI> being upon &s;ome <HI>evil de|&s;igns,</HI> and that <HI>he</HI> was confirmed therein afterwards, by lighting upon a letter from <HI>HAWKINS</HI> to <HI>mac LA&V;GHLIN</HI> which FARRELL produced, and HAWKINS confe&s;&s;ed, but pretends to be an <HI>innocent</HI> end, and which directed <HI>mac</HI> LAUGHLIN to go to one RAWLINSON in <HI>Dublin</HI> for the fur|ni&s;hing <HI>him</HI> with money, enjoyning him afterwards to repair to <HI>HAWKINS</HI> into the <HI>North</HI> concerning the <HI>bu&s;ine&s;s</HI> which <HI>mac</HI> LAUGHLIN was to do <HI>for him;</HI> That after <HI>mac LA&V;GH|LIN</HI> (who then went to the <HI>North</HI> accordingly) returned unto Town, <HI>he</HI> came to <HI>Farrells</HI> hou&s;e, but told <HI>him</HI> that <HI>he</HI> was to lodge no longer with <HI>him,</HI> for that <HI>he</HI> had a lodging provided in another place hard by the &s;aid RAWLINSON; which with FARRELLS ob&s;erving of <HI>mac</HI> LAUGHLIN to be flu&s;h of money, and under&s;tanding that <HI>HAWKINS</HI> was come to Town, put it out of all doubt with <HI>him</HI> that there was &s;ome mi&s;chief a <HI>contriving,</HI> which <HI>Farrell</HI> re&s;olved to imploy <HI>him|&s;elf</HI> in the finding out, and for that purpo&s;e remembring that
<PB N="21" REF="13"> <HI>mac LA&V;GHLIN</HI> had been very inqui&s;itive of <HI>him</HI> for <HI>CON mac GENNIS,</HI> and perceiving &s;everal me&s;&s;engers to come to <HI>his</HI> hou&s;e at divers times in a day to enquire for <HI>CON mac GENNIS,</HI> as from <HI>per&s;ons</HI> newly come out of the <HI>Country, He</HI> dogg'd &s;ome of <HI>Them</HI> to a certain Hou&s;e whither <HI>he</HI> prevailed with <HI>OWEN D&V;FFY</HI> to go with <HI>him,</HI> and if there &s;hou'd be Occa&s;ion to take upon <HI>him</HI> the name of <HI>CON mac GENNIS,</HI> after <HI>whom</HI> this great in|quiry had been, and when <HI>they</HI> came thither and a little after <HI>they</HI> had talked &s;omething loud, on purpo&s;e to be heard by <HI>an ob&s;cure man</HI> who they were told was in the next Room, that man (who proved to be <HI>DANIEL HANVY)</HI> hearing the name of <HI>CON mac GENNIS,</HI> came in unto <HI>them,</HI> and apply|ing him&s;elf to <HI>D&V;FFY,</HI> whom <HI>he</HI> took or pretended to take for <HI>CON mac GENNIS,</HI> finding <HI>him</HI> to be called &s;o, &s;aid to <HI>him</HI> with much kindne&s;s, <HI>you know we have great bu&s;ine&s;s to do, to which</HI> DUFFY <HI>an&s;wered, yes, yes,</HI> and &s;o after having appoin|ted to meet together the next day, <HI>they</HI> then parted, which was the only occa&s;ion, as <HI>FARREL</HI> &s;aid, of his thus per|&s;wading <HI>D&V;FFY</HI> to per&s;onate <HI>CON mac</HI> GENNIS unto <HI>Han|vy,</HI> and of &s;uch meeting and di&s;cour&s;e had betwixt <HI>them,</HI> and now let any <HI>one</HI> who reads the&s;e <HI>true pa&s;&s;ages</HI> of that affair <HI>Judge,</HI> whether Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> has acquitted <HI>him&s;elf</HI> like that <HI>man of honor, di&s;cretion,</HI> and <HI>ingenuity,</HI> which the LIBELLER wou'd blazon <HI>him;</HI> and whether my Lord <HI>D&V;KE</HI> of <HI>ORMONDE</HI> be not a more <HI>merciful per&s;on</HI> to the DIS|SENTERS, than the LIBELLER wou'd &s;eem before to repre|&s;ent <HI>him,</HI> &s;ince notwith&s;tanding Mr. <HI>HAWKINS</HI> be <HI>one</HI> of the <HI>virulen&s;t</HI> of them, and by &s;uch <HI>his</HI> proceedings appeared a very great <HI>Trifler</HI> with, if not an <HI>Affronter</HI> of <HI>GOVERN|MENT,</HI> yet his <HI>GRACE</HI> let <HI>him</HI> go without inflicting any Puni&s;hment upon <HI>him</HI> for it, alth&ocirc; <HI>he</HI> cou'd not but take more notice of <HI>him</HI> afterwards, when an <HI>Informati|on</HI> amounting as near to <HI>HIGH TREASON</HI> as cou'd be was given into the <HI>Council</HI> again&s;t <HI>him,</HI> and by &s;uch a <HI>Per&s;on</HI> too as Mr. <HI>Florence Weyer</HI> a <HI>Sanctified evidence</HI> in <HI>ENGLAND</HI>
<PB N="22" REF="14"> and who was <HI>one</HI> of the <HI>Chiefe&s;t</HI> of tho&s;e <HI>Witne&s;&s;es</HI> upon <HI>who&s;e Te&s;timonies</HI> the <HI>Titular Primate PL&V;NKET</HI> was found guilty in the <HI>Kings Bench</HI> there, for which rea&s;on the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> never &s;o much as mentions <HI>WEYER</HI> here, but only takes no|tice of <HI>mac GENNIS</HI> and <HI>mac LA&V;GHLIN who</HI> &s;wore latter in <HI>time,</HI> and much inferior in <HI>matter</HI> again&s;t <HI>HAWKINS</HI> than the <HI>other</HI> did, and as to <HI>mac LA&V;GHLIN</HI> it is ob&s;ervable that though the <HI>LIBELLER</HI> affirms <HI>he</HI> never &s;poke with <HI>HAW|KINS</HI> but <HI>once,</HI> and <HI>then</HI> only to in&s;inuate into <HI>his</HI> acquaintance, yet <HI>HAWKINS him&s;elf</HI> in <HI>his Examination</HI> owns to have known <HI>him</HI> and to have Employed <HI>him</HI> in <HI>his bu&s;ine&s;s</HI> for &s;ome years pa&s;t; And be&s;ides it is manife&s;t by <HI>HAWKINS his</HI> above mentioned Letter to <HI>Mac LA&V;GHLIN</HI> (which <HI>FARRELL</HI> produced upon <HI>his</HI> being <HI>Examined,</HI> and <HI>HAWKINS</HI> Confe&s;&s;ed in <HI>his Examination</HI> to be <HI>his</HI> hand) that there was a familiar acquaintance betwixt <HI>him</HI> and <HI>Mac LAWGHLIN</HI> before, which Letter, looking &s;o <HI>&s;u&s;picious,</HI> and being follow|ed with <HI>WEYERS</HI> and the others <HI>Informations,</HI> which &s;ounded &s;o <HI>dangerous,</HI> my Lord LIEUTENANT and COUNCIL cou'd do no le&s;s than as they did, to Commit <HI>HAWKINS</HI> upon them, and notwith&s;tanding the LIBELLER and <HI>his Party</HI> wou'd now, becau&s;e it &s;eems to thwart <HI>their</HI> de&s;igns, reflect upon the <HI>Government</HI> for doing of it, as too much <HI>countenancing of In|formations,</HI> yet (as has been found by late experience,) <HI>they</HI> wou'd be apt at another time (if it might advance their pur|po&s;es) more &s;everely to fall upon the GOVERNMENT for not doing of it, as too great <HI>di&s;countenancing</HI> of Evidence, &s;o <HI>partial</HI> and &s;o <HI>pa&s;&s;ionate</HI> are the <HI>FACTIO&V;S.</HI></P>
<P>Thus, <HI>(Sir,)</HI> have I run through the &s;everal Parts of this LIBELL, which touch upon this <HI>Kingdom,</HI> and the <HI>Government</HI> of it, and in my an&s;wers to them, I have for the mo&s;t part <HI>mentioned</HI> and <HI>referr'd</HI> unto &s;uch <HI>papers of E&s;tate</HI> &amp; <HI>publick Records,</HI> and be|&s;ides, all the matters of them prove to fall within the knowledges of &s;o many <HI>per&s;ons</HI> living, that if I had not a <HI>&s;ingular regard</HI> to truth (which I hope I &s;hall ever follow) and a <HI>particular</HI> re|&s;pect
<PB N="23" REF="14"> for you (whom I am certain I will never abu&s;e) yet you may be &s;ure I wou'd not dare and therefore that I have not adventur'd to &s;ay any thing, but what contains the greate&s;t veracity, &s;ince in doing otherwi&s;e (which was a &s;ufficient Precaution to me from the beginning unto the end of this work) I knew I &s;hou'd be by <HI>variety</HI> of <HI>Te&s;timonies</HI> di&s;proved, and render'd not only as <HI>Odious,</HI> but as <HI>Ridiculous</HI> and <HI>Contemp|tible</HI> to the World, as our LIBELLER has &s;hewn him&s;elf, who though <HI>he</HI> won'd have it believed, as if he were in his <HI>principles</HI> the farthe&s;t removed from the <HI>Popi&s;h Party,</HI> do's yet expo&s;e his LIBELL (by the gro&s;s <HI>lies</HI> which are di&s;per&s;ed through it) to be the neare&s;t allied unto the <HI>Popi&s;h Legend.</HI> I am with E&s;teem and re&s;pect,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Dublin</HI> <DATE>the <HI>1&s;t.</HI> of <HI>April</HI> 1682.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>Sir</SALUTE>
<SIGNED>Your mo&s;t affectionate and mo&s;t humble Servant.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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