29© Mr. NEA L's lld Vol. ofthe Neal, p. 501. Before his Majefly left Scotland, Advice came to London, Novemb. i. of a general Infurrel'tion of the PapUts in Ireland, and of a moll cruel and bloody Maffacre of the Protefants in that Kingdom; the Projeol of an Infurretlion was form'd in the Months of March and April 16..1, not without the Privity of the Engli(h Court. This Gentleman, like fome of his late Brethren, [viz. Mr. Peirce, Dr. Calamy, andMr. Ben. Bennet,] wouldbe glad (if he could) to fix the frith Maffacre upon the King. P. 503. he tells us, That Letters were wrote in the Queen's Name, andperhaps in the King's, auth: rizing them to take up Arms, and feize the Government. And p. 604.. Though the King gave out no Common, there is reafon to believe, that the Queen and her Popfh Council, and even the King bimfelf was not unacquainted with the Defign of the Infurrettion, before it took place. This horrid Afperfion has been fo often confuted, that if I was capable of being furpriz'd at any thing Mr. Neal could fay, after reading over his Hiftory of the Puritans, I lhould much wonder that an Iliftorian making fuch great Pretences to Impar- tiality and Fair Dealing, could again bring fuch an exploded Forgery upon the Stage. The King immediately upon the News of it, ' wrote to the two Houfes *, that he was fatisfied, it was no rafh InfurreCtion, but a form'd Re- ' bellion, which mutt be profecuted by a (harp War ; the conducting and profecuting whereof, 4 he wholly committed to their Care and Wifdom, ' and depended upon them for carrying it on ; and ' thatfor the prefent, he had caufed a ftrong Regi- ment of 1500 Foot, under good Officers, to be tranfported out of Scotland into Ulfter, for the Relief of thofe Parts.' '" Clarendon, Vol. I. p. 1;8 Dr.
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