296 Mr. N E A L 'S IId VOL ofthe King's Commiflîon.' Andhis Majefly, 'tis plain from what has been already obferv'd, has fully prav'd, that he had not the leaft knowledge of the Rebellion or Maffacre. And if this will not fatisfy Mr. Neal as to the Broad Seal, that Point is fully clear'd from * Dr. Maxwell's Authority. Neal, p. 505. If we diftinguiA between the Infur- rettion in order to affume the Government into the Hands of the Irifh Papifts, and the Maffacre which attended it; we may conclude, without any breach of Charity, that the Englifh Court admitted of the for- mer, though they might wafh their Hands of the latter. A very charitable Man ! But this is fully an- fwer'd before, in Lord Digby's Letter to the lrifh Catholicks. Neal, Ibid. The Parliament in their Declaration of March 9. fay, That the Rebellion in Ireland was framed and contriv'd in England, and that they had taken feveral Depófitions, proving that the Englifh Papifts were to rife about the fame time. TheKing's Anfwer is as follows : $ ' If the Re- bellion of Ireland (fo odious to all Chriflians) ' feems to have been framed and maintained in Eng ' land, or to have any Countenance from hence, ' we conjure both our Houles of Parliament, and all our loving Subje&ts whatfoever, to ufe all poi ' fible means to difcover, and find fuch out, that ' we may join in the molt exemplary Vengeance upon them, that can be imagin'd : But we muft think ourfelf highly and caufelefly injured in our Reputation, if any Declaration, Action or Ex- ' preiion of the Irifh Rebels, any Letter from ' Count Rofettie to the Paps, for fatting and!, praying, or fromTr ram Whitcomb, of ftrango . * Rufhworth, p. 401. Echard, Vol. II. p. 263. Husbands'c Exa& Colleetions, p. iob. kJasbands's Exa& Collections, p. io6. Speeches
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