I Shall first relate his Actions in England, Scotland and Ireland, when King thereof, and after­wards his present Actions in Ireland, which may serve as parallels to his former Actions.

To begin, He that designs to be a Papist and a Slave, and that all his Posterity should be Papists and Slaves after him, may be supposed to fight for the Restauration of King James the Second, and no o­thers: For he has broken his Oath before God and Man, and the Laws of the Land, and his repeated Promises of keeping them inviolable, by building of Popish Churches and Chappels, erecting of Monaste­ries, setting up Colledges for Jesuits, for corrupting of Youth, and making one of that Order a Privy Councellor and Minister of State; by making of Po­pish Judges and Ecclesiastical Commissioners, one whereof declared himself a Papist, which is against the express Laws, for any Papists to be in any place or places of Trust; by raising Persons to Ecclesi­astical Dignities who have no zeal for the Protestant Religion: Suspending the Bishop of London, turning out the President and Fellows of Magdalen Colledge from their Freeholds, and putting Papists in their Room, by commanding the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, (which was contrary to Law) to be read in Churches, and citing all the Chancellours and Arch-Deacons of England, requiring them to certifie the names of all Clergy-men, who did or did not read the Declaration, though they were not enjoyned by their Bishops who were their Ordinaries, by sub­jecting the Honours and Estates of the Subjects and the Established Religion to a Despotick and Arbitrary Government; seizing of the Charters of Towns, and putting in Popish Magistrates in many of them, by causing a great deal of Blood to be shed in divers places of the Kingdom against all the rules and forms of Law, not suffering the Persons accused to plead in their own defence: By putting the Administration of Justice in Papists hands, arming the Papists, and putting them in the greatest places of Trust both by Sea and Land, as well Strangers and Irish, as English: By imprisoning of the Bishops for their humble and lawful Petition, and afterwards trying of them: By treating of a Peer as Criminal, for speaking the Truth, in saying that the Subjects were not bound to obey the Orders of a Popish Justice of the Peace, and requiring all persons that were in any Imploy­ment or Esteem, to declare that they would concur in the Repeal of the Test and Penal Laws, and give their Vote for such Parliament-men who would be for repealing of them, and turning out all persons in places of Trust, who would not concur in it, and putting those in their places who promised to com­ply, and many of them professed Papists: By sending an Ambassadour to Rome, and receiving one from thence, and admitting of vast numbers of Popish Priests and Jesuits, Dominicans and Fryers, into England: By making of Popish Councellors, Popish Lieutenants of the Counties, High Sheriffs, and un­der Sheriffs, and Popish Justices of the Peace: By keeping up a standing Army, with Popish Officers: By Invading the Fundamental Constitution of Scot­land, and altering it from a legal limited Monarchy, to an Arbitrary Despotick Power, and hath exerci­sed the same, to the subversion of the Protestant Religion, and the violation of the Laws and Liber­ties of that Nation, and perverting all the ends and designs of Government, and declaring of an abso­lute power there, and that all the Subjects were bound to obey him without reserve, and by dis­banding the Protestant Officers and Souldiers in Ire­land, and putting in Papists in all places of Trust, and turning out Protestants, and taking away Prote­stants Estates, because they had them contrary to Justice or Reason, only because the good Catholicks cut a little parcel of about one hundred and fifty thousand Hereticks Throats, and made Candles of their Grease: I had almost forgot one thing not worth speaking of, the Dispencing with the Laws of the Land. These instances may suffice, to shew his desire, (to use his own words) to use no other than Lenity and Mercy, and are very proper to be com­pared with the following Speech which he made to the Council, upon his coming to the Crown, February the 6th 1684, with his after assurances.

In his Speech to the Parliament, May the 30th 1685. he says that he has an English Heart, (if he had said [Page 2]and a Popish Conscience) as much as any Man, and will go as far when there is occasion in defence and support thereof (we should have known what to trust to.) In his Speech to the Parliament after the defeat of Monmouth, November the 9th 1685. speaking of the Popish Officers that were in the Army, (I will neither expose them to disgrace nor my self to the want of them) knowing that without such he could never bring about his Designs, concluding with these words, I will ever make you all returns of Kindness and Pro­tection, with Resolution to venture my own Life in the defence of the true Interest of this Kingdom. And though the Parliament Addrest him the 17th following, desiring him to lay aside those Popish Officers, as be­ing contrary to Law, yet he would by no means hearken to it, but was very angry with them, in his Speech in answer to their Address, concluding with these words; I will be steady in all the Promises I have made you, and be very just to my word in every one of my Speeches.

But in his Speech to Father Clare he said, he would either Convert England, or dye a Martyr; and that he had rather dye to morrow, that Con­version being wrought, than Reign fifty years with­out that, in Happiness and Prosperity.

To begin with his present Actions in Ireland, up­on his arrival at Dublin, the few Protestants that re­mained in Employs were turned out, not a Protestant was allowed to sit in Council, or bear Arms, the Lord Granard, Lord Chief-Justice Keating, Sir John Davis, Sir Tho. Newcomen, Collonel Russel, &c. were all turned out, and none permitted to hold any Place but Papists, tho' these Gentlemen were so true to the King, and went so far to serve him, as made them suspected to be of his Religion. See his gratitude to the Bishop of Chester, who coming with him from France, died a Protestant at Dublin, and was so mi­serably poor as to want common necessaries; and being dead, was buried at the charge of a Charitable Prelate there: but to proceed, the Lord Viscount Mazerine hath been plundered in Plate, Money, Household Goods, &c. to the value of near twenty thousand pounds, and others proportionable, not­withstanding several Declarations from Tyrconnel and King James to the Contrary; and upon a modest computation they have plundred already in Money, Plate, Household-Goods, Horses, Corn and Hay, &c. to the value of two hundred thousand pounds. One Mr. Robert Boroughs an Attorney, and Rich, had all his substance taken from him, and turned out of doors, who died for hunger and cold, and they have killed many persons in cold blood without any provocation given; for example, the Lord Galmoy took one Dean Dixies Son, and another young Gentle­man, tho not in Arms, and hanged them upon a Sign-post. Upon King James's arrival in Ireland the Protestants thought they should have had some re­dress for the Robbing and Pillaging of their Cattle and moveable goods, and other inhumanities which the Irish Soldiers daily committed on them, as like­wise for the future; but behold the lenity and mer­cy of this King, who upon several complaints made to him, would answer, that he would do for them what he could, but they never received any further satisfaction or Justice; particularly the Lord Galmoy cut off a Gentlemans head in the North, and made his own Son carry it on a Pike in triumph before his Regiment. Upon Complaint of this to the King, he seemed mightily displeased, yet the Lord Galmoy carried the Sword before him the very next day. If we did relate all the dismal relations we have from thence it would make a Volume. These are mercies fit to be acted by none but Papists, and Popish Kings. An Irish Lord who came with King James from France, speaking to a Clergy-man of Dublin, said, That King James can never expect pos­session of his Kingdoms by the Protestants means, unless tied and settered with Conditions which he cannot, nor shall not observe to them: 'tis by the force of Arms of his good Catholicks, and by assi­stance of France that he designs to regain his Domi­nions, and then he comes in free and boundless, like an absolute Conquerour, and shall afterwards do what he pleases; we have had one taste of the sin­cerity of his Intentions, as well before, as when King; and he that desires another, in God's name let him go to him or to the French King, 'tis much as one: but suppose he's sincere now, and that he repents of all his former illegalities and miscarria­ges, and resolves for the future never to commit the like, what security can he give us that he'll always continue so, to govern us according to the Rights, Priviledges, and Laws of the Land? Certainly he can give us none besides his Oath or Promise, which signifies nothing, for it's impossible for him to keep them without damning his own Soul; and can any man believe he'll damn his Soul to keep his Oath or Promise, when he shall go to Heaven for breaking of them (according to the Doctrine of their Church?) but what signifies it to break two or three Promises when every body breaks them, or an Oath or so, 'tis in fashion now? as for the French King, he has kept his Oaths and Promises in such an extraordinary manner, that all the Histories now extant cannot come near to a Parallel, and our King James has only been there to learn a few of his Morals, and is coming to teach 'em with French and Irish Dragoons, intermixt with a little Liberty, such as we nor our Fathers were able to bear. And now good Folks prepare your selves for this happiness, for he's co­ming with open arms and stretched out hands to make ye happy (that is Papists) whether ye will or no, and I doubt not but that you'll see your own happiness which is coming upon you like a Torrent, and prepare for it accordingly.

I hope all the People in England will make a just judgment of what has been said and consider what they may expect from such a King who is so much Jesuited.

All the World cannot but acknowledge that this great Revolution has been by the miraculous Provi­dence of Almighty God, and we ought (as St. Paul did) to bless God that we are once delivered out of the mouth of the Lyon, and should we not affront that Providence if we should let him into our Bosoms again? would it not be just with God to let him destroy us? but can we be guilty of such a notorious folly or madness, as to maintain the Ambition of the late King James, to the ruine and destruction of our selves, which can be nothing else if we contribute to restore him to the Crown; on the contrary, if we design to be happy, and that our Posterity should be happy after us, in enjoying the Gospel in its purity and its true Religion, and what the Laws of Nature and our Countrey have conferred on us, we ought to oppose the late King James as the common Enemy of our Religion and Liberty, for this is the time to Entail happiness on our selves and our Posterity: Now, and Ever, Now, or Never.