Part Ili. Reverend Mr. R ichárd Baxter. 8 3 § 173. I had forgottenone paflàge in the former War of greatremark, which put me into an amazement The Duke of Ormond, and Council ,. had the caafe of the Marquefsof Antrim before them, who had been one of the frith Rebel in the beginning of that War, (when in the horrid Maffacre two hundred thoa- fand Proteftants were murthered :) His Eflate being fequeftred, he fought his re- ftitntion of it, when King Charles Ii: was .reftored. Ormond,. and the Conncii judged againft him as one of the Rebels : He brought his Caufe over to the King, andaffirmed that what he did was by his Father's Confent, ann. Authori- ty. The King referred it to fame very worthy Members of his Privy-Council, to examine what he had to thew : Upon Examination they reported that they found that he had the King's Confect, or. Letter of Infhvftions for what he did , which amazed many r Hereupon His Majefty, Charles II. wrote to the Duke of Ormondand Council to rettore his Eftate becaufe it appeared to Chofe ap- pointed to examine it, that what he did was by hisFather's Order or Confent Upon this the Parliament's old Adherents grew more confident than ever of the righteoufnefs of their Wars: And the very deftroyers of the King (whom the firft Parliamentarianscalled Rebels) did prefiime alfo to jnftifie their Caufe, and faid that the Law of Nature did warrant them. But it Pope not here: For the Lord Mazarine, and others of Ireland, did fo far profetate the Caufe, as that the Marquefs of Antrim was forced to produce in the Parliament of England in the Houfe of Commons, a Letter of the King's, (Cha I.) by which be gave him order for his taking upArms : Which being read in the Houfe, did put them into a Silence. But, yet fo egregious was their Loyalty and veneration of Majefty, that it put them not at all onePep out of the way which they had gone in. But the People without Doors talked ftrangely : Some faid, Did you not perfwadees'that the King was againft the . fri(h Rebellion? And that the Rebels belied him when they faid that they had his Warrant or Commiffion? Do we not now fee with what Mind he would have gone himfelf with an Army into Ireland to fight againft them ? A great deal more not here to he mentioned was vended feditioufly among the People, the Sum of which was intimatedin a Pamphlet which was Printed, called, Murder*We are will out ; in which they publilhed the King's Letter, and Animadverfions on it. not meet Some that were Pill Loyal to the King did with, that the King that now is, had dodges of rather declared, that his Father did only give the Marquefs of Antrim Cam- thereafons million to rain an Army as to have helped him againft the Scots, and that his ppfeter ioheurs eu- turning againft the Englifh Proteftants in Ireland, and the murdering of fo many aftions. hundred thoefand there was againft his Will : But quad fcriptum Brat fccriptum erat. And though the old Parliamentarians expounded the Altions and Declarations both of the then King and Parlïameñt; by the Commentaryof this Letter, yet fo did not the Loyal Roÿalifts; or at 'leant thought it no reafon to make any change in their Judgments, or flop in their Proceedings `gainit the Englifh Presbyterians, andother Non- conformableProteftants. § 174. In the beginning of December 1670. The Duke of Ormond, as hewas returning home to Clarendon Houfe in the Night, was feized on by fix Men, who fee him on Horfeback to have carried himaway. Bitt lie was refcued before they could accomplilh it. Shortly after, fount of his Majefty's Life-Guard furprized * Sir 7obn Coven_* ,-im trig, a Member of the Houle of Commons, and cut his Nofe, which occaliotieda greatly great heat in the Houfe, and at lath that Ad which is newly palled for prevent- difpteated ing of the like. Many Murders and outrages ' and cutting of Nofes were coal- the fume nutted aifo on other Perlons. But the greaten Noifewas made by certain Dukes moos. and Lords that. went in a torrent of Jovially to a defamed Houfe in. aStreet, cal- led lVhetftone-Park, and when the wretched Women cryed for help, the Beadle tame in with fomeWatchmen, and they killed him prefently. Wilda fuchthings went on, the Houfe of Commonswas hufie about an Aft to make all forbidden Meetings for God's Worlhip, Preaching and Praying by the filenced Minifters, to be feverelier vet punilbed as Routs and Riots.
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