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From His GRACE
J A M E S
DUKE OF
ORMOND,
In Anfwer to the Right Honourable
ARTHUR
ANGLESEY
H02& |§>eal
H I S
OBSERVATIONS and REFLECTIONS
Upon the EARL of
Caftlcljahcivs gemote
Concerning the
REBELLION of IRELAND.
Printed from the Original, with an Arifwer to it, by the Right Ho¬
nourable the Earl of Anglefey-
LONDON,
Printed for R. Baldwin, MDCLXXXIL
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From His GRACE
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DUKE OF
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My Loref)
T is now, I think, more than a year fince I firft law a little
BOOK written by way of Letter, called,
anD Inflection# on ttt£ JUtfd Of Caltle-HavenV Mz*
tttoftes $ Wherein, though there arefome thingsthat mights lead
the Reader to believe that your Lordihip was the AU TH O R
yet there were many more I thought impolfible lhould come from
you: For it affirms many Matters of Fa& pofitively, which are eafily
and authentically to be difproved: Ana from thole Matters of
"Fafr, grofly miftaken, it deduces Confequences, raifes Inferences,
and fcatters Glances injurious to the memory of the Dead, and
the Honours of fome Living: Among thofe that by the Blefiing
of-God are yet living, I find my felf worll Treated; Twenty years
after the Kings Reftauration, and Forty after the beginning of the
Irijb Rebellion, as if it had been all that while referved tor me,
and for fuch Times as thefe we are fallen into, when Calumny, (though
the Matter of it be never fo groundlefs and improbable,) meets with
Credulity ; and when Liberty is taken to afperfe Men, and Repre-
fentthem to the World under the monftrous and odious Figures of
Papifts, or Popilhly affefted Not becaufe they are fo thought by
thofe thatemploy the Reprefenters, but, becaufe they are known
to be too good Proteftants, and too Loyal Subje&s, to joyn in the
Deilrudrion of the Crown and Church: Befides, the Treatife came
forth, and muft have been written, when I had but newly received
Repeated Affiurances of the continuance of your Friendlhip to me,
wherein, as in one of your Letters, you are pleafed to fay, you had
never made a falfe ftep; for thefe Reafons I was not willing to believe
that Book to be your Lordlhips Compofing, and hoped fome of the
■Suborned Libellers of the Age had endeavoured to Imitate your Lord-
ffiip, and not you them; but I was in a while after, firit by my Son
t : - ^ Arran,
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Arran, arid afterwards by the Bearer, Sir Robert Reading, allured your
Lordihip had owned to them that the Piece was yours, but profeft the
Publication to be without your Order, and that you did not intend to
do, or think that you had done me any injury or prejudice: If your Lord-
fhip really thought fo, the Publication might have been owned as well
as what was Publilhed: But then let the World Judge, whether Pen, Ink,
and Paper are not dangerous Tools in your Hands .J When I was thus
allured your Lordihip was the Author, it coft me fome thoughts how
to vindicate Truth, my Mailer the late King, my felf, my A&ions
and Family, all Reflected on, and traduced by that Pamphlet; I found
my lelf ingaged in the Service of our prefertt King, and that in a Time
of difficulty and danger, and in fuch Times for the molt part it has
been my lot to be Employedin Publick Affairs;-and though I had not
been fo taken Up, yet I well knew that Writing upon fuch Occafions
is no more my Talent, than it is my Delight; And to fay truth, my in-
difpofition to the exercife might help to perfwade me, that the Book,
though honoured with your Lordfhips Name, would, after it had per¬
formed its Office in Coffee-Houfes, and ferved your Lordfhips Defign
in that Conjuncture, expire; as Writings of that nature and force ulually
do: And herein I relied, without troubling my felf, or any body elle,
with Animad verfions upon your Lordfhips miftakes, which are lo many,
and fo obvious, that I wonder how you could fall into them. I will
add to this, that I have been in expe&ation that by this time your
Compleat Hiftory would have come forth, wherein, if I may judge by
the Pattern, I have juft caufe to fufpeCt that neither the Subject or
my felf will be more juftly dealt with, than in that occafional Effay,
and I would have been glad to have feen all my Work before me, ill
cafe I ihould think fit to make a Work of it. The delay of your Publilhing
that Hiftory, and the confideration of your Lordfhips Age and mine,
are the occafions of this Letter, whereby I inform you, that as no man
now alive is better able than I am to give an account of the Principal
TranfaCtions during the Rebellion in Ireland; fo no man is poflefled
of more Authentick Commiflions, Inftruments, and Papers; all which,
or Tranfcripts of them, you might have Commanded, before you fet
forth your Reflections: But poflibly to have flayed for them, might
have loft you a feafonable opportunity of Publilhing your abhorrence
of the Irijh Rebellion, and your Zeal againft Popery: What your Lord¬
ihip might then have had, you may yet have, becaufe I had rather
help to prevent than deteft Errours, but then I muft firft know to
what particular part of your Hiftory you defire Information, and how
you deliver thofe parts to the World and to Pofterity. If after this Of¬
fer your Lordihip lhall proceed to the Conelufion and Publication of
your Hiftory, and not accept of it, I muft before-hand Appeal from
you, as from an Incompetent Judge of my A&ions, and a partially en¬
gaged and an unfaithful Hiftorian.
My Lord,
Dublin, 12.
Nov. i6%i. Your Lordfhips moft
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