II?oryof thePuritans, examin'd. 299 But the Lord Mazarine and others, not beingfatisfied to give their Vote in favour of fuch a Criminal, not- withfanding the Inftru tions they had from England ; the Marquifs was oblig'd in his own Defence to produce in the Routeof Commons, a Letterfrom King Charles I. writ with his own Hand, giving him exprefs Orders to take up Arms. Bennet's Memorial, p. 197. And what is all this to the Irk Maffacre? The Letter ('tis plain) related to his joining Montrofs in Scotland, ; the Words of King Charles IId's Let- ter, which he quotes from Ludlow, in the very fame Page, prove as much. 6 The Referrees (he tells them) who had examin'd the Marquifs of Antrim's 6 Cafe, had declar'd to him, that they had feen fe- 6 veral Letters, all of them of the Hand of his Royal Father to the Paid Marquifs ; and feveral Inftruc- 6 tions concerning his treating with the Irifh, in or- 6. der to the King's Service, by reducing them to their Obedience, and by drawing fome Forces ' from them for the Service of Scotland.' The Ac- count of the Irifh Maffacre, by his Author Mr. Bennet, is the molt fpiteful and malicious one I have met with ; and receiv'd an Anfwer, in a Piece, en- titled, Presbyterian Prejudice difplay'd, p. 52. &c. printed in the Year 1722. There is an Aft of Parliament mention'd by Mr. Cart (p. 34.) to our purpofe. 6 And that thefe were the very Inftruftions, and no other (lays he) 6 appears undeniable (to the full Satisfa&ion ofall, that reverence the Royal Martyr's Memory, and the Confufionofthofe,who load it with fuch heavy Calumnies) from KingCharles IId's own Words, deliver'd on this very Subje& of the Letter, in ' the molt authentick manner [Anno 17, 18 Car. 6 II.] in the fecond Aft about the Irifh Forfeited 6 Eftates, and which I think is the fame, with that call'd the "PI of Explanation, pafs'd Dec. 15. 6 1665, in which he declares, 66 That the Tefti- 66 mony
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