Transcriber’s Note: Original spelling has been preserved.
AN
ADDRESS
Given in to the
Late King James,
BY THE
Titular Archbishop
OF
DUBLIN:
FROM
The General Meeting of the Romish Bishops andClergy of Ireland, held in May last, by that King’sOrder.
Wherein several Things relating to the Popish Designsupon these Three Kingdoms, are discovered.
The Original whereof was found in the late KingJames’s Closet, in the Castle of Dublin, at hisleaving that City: And the Copy whereof wasfound in the Titular Archbishop’s Lodgings.
Now Publish’d with Reflections on each Paragraph.
LONDON:
Printed for Ric. Baldwin, in the Old Baily, 1690.
THE
MEMORIAL
GIVEN IN
To the Late King JAMES,
BY THE
Titular Archbishop of Dublin, &c.
That the late KingJames was induc’d by theEmissaries of Rome, totrample upon the Lawsand Liberties of the Subjectsof these Three Kingdoms,there is no bodywho enjoys the use of their Reason, can deny.But tho we felt every day new Invasionsmade upon our Religion by the sameParty of men under the Covert of the RoyalPower and Prerogative (as they call’d it); yet[2]there are to this very day, a certain increduloussort of men, who have the folly to tellus, That King James had never the least Designto alter the Religion of these Kingdoms, or to introducePopery.
Among a Thousand Instances to prove thatKing James’s great Design was the utter extirpationof the Protestant Religion, and the Restitution(as the Papists call it) of the Catholick one,There has of late one come to light, whichsets the Affair in a Meridian light, beyondall possibility of doubting; which Instance,and the occasion of its coming to be known,is as follows.
The Late King upon his arrival in Irelandfrom France, did make as considerableSteps to overturn the Protestant Religionand Interest in that Kingdom, as the shorttime he was there, and the Decorum he wasto carry towards the few Protestants who adher’dto him, could possibly admit of. Agreat many Laws made for the safety of theEnglish Protestants, and for keeping out theIrish from the possessions they had by so manyRebellions justly forfaulted, were rescinded:And, which was next to giving the[3]final Blow to the Protestant Interest in thatKingdom, King James, in his Irish pretendedParliament, had formally removed the FundamentalCharter, by which the Protestantspossest their Estates; I mean, the Act ofParliament of Ireland, called, The Act of Settlement:So it seem’d, there wanted scarceany more to be done, to restore Popery andPapists for good and all in Ireland.
But all this was not able to satisfie thefiery Zealots of the Church of Rome, whomnothing could please, but