I ter here, ·and the agency of Pahz..ani, Con. & ~. I pafs by, left my recital be mifunderllood. The Reader may .fee enough if not too much in Rujh– worth, and in Prin's IntroduCtion, &c. I'onlyadd that this King who was fo Zealous for Concord, and that overcame fo many Tempta:tions to Po– pery diftant and in his Bofom, and was fo firm as not to fear to grant them the audience promifed; yet was fo much againfr all et- uelty to them, that he fuffered very much for his Lenity and Clemen~ cy to them, both from themfelves and from the Protell:ants. But the mofl: odious injUry that ever they did him~ was by pretending his Commiffion for .that moil: inhumane War and Maffacre in Ire"' land; when in time of peace they fuddenly Mur.. dered two hundred thoufand, and told :tv1en -that they had the Kings Oommiffion to rife as for him that was wronged by his Parliament; the very fame of this horri9 Murder, and the words of the many Fugitives that efcaped in Beggery into Eng· land ( aililled by the Charity of the Dutchefs of Ormond and others ) and the Engliih Papi fis going . in to the King was the main caufe that filled the Parliaments Armies: I well remember it call: people into fuch a . fear that England ibould be ufed like Ireland, that all over the Countreys, the people oft fate up, and durfi not go to Bed, for fear left the Papifis· ihould rife and Murder Jhem. And,this is all that the Papifis have yet got by their BlQody Cruelty, to neceffitate peo– ple in fear to take therri for their Mortal Foes. Bi!hopMorley faith in his Letter to the Dutchefs. ofYork p. 6, 7. 'That by raifing and {preading ma- ' licio14s and fcandalous reports againft the Kipg that .'he WaJ a Papift and intended to brmg in Po1ery, on ~that ,.../,
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