[An] answer to a scandalous letter lately printed and subscribed by Peter Welsh, procurator for the Sec. and Reg. popish priests of Ireland Intituled, A letter desiring a just and merciful regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, given about the end of Octob. 1660. to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond, and the second time Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom. By the right honourable the Earl of Orrery, one of the Lords Justices of the kingdom of Ireland, and L. President of the province of Munster, &c. Being a full discovery of the treachery of the Irish rebels since the beginning of the rebellion there, necessary to be considered by all adventureres and other persons estated in that kingdom.

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[An] answer to a scandalous letter lately printed and subscribed by Peter Welsh, procurator for the Sec. and Reg. popish priests of Ireland Intituled, A letter desiring a just and merciful regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, given about the end of Octob. 1660. to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond, and the second time Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom. By the right honourable the Earl of Orrery, one of the Lords Justices of the kingdom of Ireland, and L. President of the province of Munster, &c. Being a full discovery of the treachery of the Irish rebels since the beginning of the rebellion there, necessary to be considered by all adventureres and other persons estated in that kingdom.

Author

Orrery, Roger Boyle, Earl of, 1621-1679.

Publication

[London] :: Printed at Dublin by J.C. and reprinted at London,

1662.

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Walsh, Peter, 1618?-1688. -- Letter desiring a just and merciful regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland -- Early works to 1800.

Catholics -- Ireland -- Early works to 1800.

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"[An] answer to a scandalous letter lately printed and subscribed by Peter Welsh, procurator for the Sec. and Reg. popish priests of Ireland Intituled, A letter desiring a just and merciful regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, given about the end of Octob. 1660. to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond, and the second time Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom. By the right honourable the Earl of Orrery, one of the Lords Justices of the kingdom of Ireland, and L. President of the province of Munster, &c. Being a full discovery of the treachery of the Irish rebels since the beginning of the rebellion there, necessary to be considered by all adventureres and other persons estated in that kingdom." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53455.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• A Letter desiring a just and merciful regard of the Roman Catholicks of Ireland, given about the end of October 1660 to the then Marquess, now Duke of Ormond, and the se∣cond time Lord Lieutenant of that Kingdom.
• The Answer. &c.
  • The next sort of Arguments respect some special Cases, as (1) of the Transplantation, (2) of the Corporation.
  • The Guilt of the Coporations in part instanced.
  • The Guilt of English Protestants and Irish Papists compared.
  • As to their fighting against the Regicides.
  • The Arguments following plead Justice, and that Ju∣stice grounded on the Articles of 1648. and judged by the sad consequences threatned on the breach thereof, whether we regard men or God.