6o The HIS T 0 R Y of the PuRITANs. VoL. Ir.. K. Charles!. The neceility of the king's aff.lirs having obliged him to arm the ~~~ papifis, and commiflion the duke of Ormond to agree to a cefl:ltion of King b>·ings arms with the irijb catbolicks, in order to draw off his forces from thence,. overforces his majefiy fell under the fufpicion of favouring that religion, efpeciolly [rom lre~and. when it appeared that not only the protelbnt foldiers, but the irijb rebels klrt,? 1;_ were tranfported with them. Mr. Whitlock fays, leveral of the.ir offi-cers 14r, 144. and foldie·rs came over with the king's army; that a mon th or two after,. ~la,reil'P eight hundred native irijh rebels landed at Weymouth, under the tord lnche1. 0 p. 4 ; 4 ,art qain, and anolher party at Beaumaris, which eomm itted great fpoils, defl:mying with fire what the·y could not carry off. Another party land– ed near Chifler, under the earl of Cork, anq fifteen hundred were cafi:· away at fea: thefe wretches brought hither the fame favage difpolition, which they had difcovered in their o.wn country; they, plLJ;ndered and killed people in cold blood, obferving neither the rules of bonor, nor the– law of arms. The Scots. forces in the north of Ireland, enter'd into a confederacy to fiand by each other againfi the celfation, the parliament of Englandprotefied againfi it, and publilhed a declaration informing the: world, that his majefiy had broke through his royal promi{e, of leaving the irijh war to them; they forbid all mafl:ers of !hips to bring over any– officers or foldiers, on penalty of ~he forfeiture of their velfels, and gave: letters of mart to merchants and others, who would fit out !hips at their own expence, impowering them to take to their own profit all fuch !hips and goods, as they !hould meet coming over with foldiers or war-like !lores for the king. Next year an ordinance was publiilied, that no quarter !hould be given to any irijh papifi taken in arms againfl: tbe parliament; all officers were to except them out of their capitulations, and upon. making them prifoners, were immediately to put them to death. 111 conjcquenThis unhappy management of the king, alieoa~ed the affeCtions of great "'of ' 1 • numbers of his friends who had the protefl:ant religi0n at heart; many ~8"~~w. ~· who wifhed well to his perfon deferted him upon this occafion,: aml made their peace with the parliament, as the earls of Holland, Becijord, Clare, Carlijle, Sir Edw, Deerilzg, and others; this lafi: gentleman publiihed the reafons of his conduct to the w"rld, the principal of which, were the irijh ce!I1tion; his majefry's preferrir.Jg popilh officers to chief plates o f trufl: and honour;. and the language of the Oxford clergy and otbers, that the king foould come 110 other '<l!tl)' t-o his palace but by conquift. There was cer– tainly a very malignant fpirit among thofe gentlemen at this- time, as ap– pears by their form of thankfgiving, or rather imprecation,. for the taking of Brijlol, and the fuccefs of the earl of Newcqjl!e's army in the north; " 0 lord (fay they) though our fins cry aloud, hear them not, but " look to the righteoufnefs of our caufe; fee the feamlefs coat of thy fon " torn ; the throne of thine anointed trampled upon; thy church invadI "ed
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