302 Mr. N E A LAS Iii col. 'qt. the Neal, p. 508, ,I have been more particular in ac- counting for this Infurreelion, becaufe whoever were the Authors of it, were, in the Judgment of Lord Cla- rendon, anfwerable for all the Calamities ofthe Civil U'ar. At wbofe door then the Guilt of all this Blood mull be laid, I freely leave with the Reader. And fo may any one elfe, without the leaft Pre- judice to the Memory of the Royal Martyr; but to the eternal Infamyof Mr. Neal's Friends ofthat Rebel Houfe of Commons. I beg leave tomake ufe of Mr. Cart's Words upon this occafion : ' What pretence to Reafon (fays he) can Mr. Baxter e make to fuggeft, that the Rebels did not belye " the King, when they faid they had his Warrant 4 or Commifïion ? Were not all the Intereft of the Irifh, and all the Malice and Power of the Eng- lifh Rebels, too weak to fhow that any Commif- fion was given them ? Did not Sir Phelim 0-Neal, the Head of that Rebellion, under the greateft Trials, and with his dyingWords, clear him from this Charge? Did not the Rebels in general own, that their Pretence to it was a Lye ? Did they not in a Body wave all Pretenfions to a Commiffion, and acknowledge theKing's Abhorrence of their Rebellion ? Does not the Marquifs of Antrim al-. fo exprefly clear him ; and declare that he knew not of any Commiffion ever given to the 'rift)? Was ever Innocence better prov'd ? Can any thing be added to fet it in a better Light, or to expofe more fhamefully the Malice of thdfe vhró revive the Calumny ?' Neal, p. 50g. His Majefly had feeomraended the fiepprefìng of the Irifh Rebellion to the Scots Repre- fentatives, and by Leiter bad committed the Care of it alto to the Englifh Parliament ; whereupon the Houle of Commons, in the King's abfence, authorized theEarl ofLeicefter by an Ordinance of their own to rail ,Faces, But
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