have deliberately refused to any Catholic the liberty of receiving the Sacraments !-Amidst the atrocities of Orangemen, during the last rebellion, no such liberty was refused; Catholic Clergymen were even paid by the Government to administer the last consolations of Religion, even to the most guilty of the Rebels; and it seems to have been reserved for the pious malignity of the Castabalas of our times, to make the Sacraments subservient to their passions, by denying them to persons who are not disposed to submit to uncanonical censures, or to violate the Laws of history, in compliance with their desires.*

95. Falsehood is a disgrace to every Religion, and will ultimately turn to the shame, the detriment, and confusion, of every cause in which it is engaged. I loathe and abhor it-not merely as repugnant to my religion, but also from natural aversion; from my observing its fatal effects, in all ages and histories; and, in this instance, from my thorough

See above p. 8, 15, &c.

conviction, that the confusions of 1641 are to be ascribed to the causes which I have assigned in Columbanus No. IV. from page 84 to the end; I mean those maxims of foreign jurisdic-' tion and intrigue, by which the Castabalas arrogated to themselves exclusive power of managing, in private Synods, by uncanonical censures and excommunications, all matters relating to the temporal concerns, falsely called Spiritual, of the Irish Church.-" Hinc illæ lachrymæ," says the pious and Patriotic Lynch.* From this source, as from Pandora's box, flowed an Iliad of calamities to the Irish nation-The Roman Court claimed the sovereignty of Ireland; she suffered many books to be published, with flaming approbations prefixed to them, asserting this claim; and she therefore censured oaths of allegiance to King James, as repugnant to Catholic faith!t

* See his words in the first part of this Address, p. 141, &c. + King James's oath of allegiance, was condemned by four successive Pontiffs, down to the revolution, and no foreigninfluenced Bishop dares approve of it to this day. Nor is there one of them who would dare to condemn the Bull Uni

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A contemporary author observes, that the calamities of Ireland were owing to the knavery of those who instilled into the simple and unsuspecting minds of the Irish, the vilest prejudices against the honour, and integrity, of two of the greatest ornaments that the Irish nation can boast of,-Ormond a Protestant, and Clanricard a Catholic; they misrepresented the former, as if he had sold Dublin to the Parliament, and the latter, as if he had deserved the excommunication which they so impudently denounced against him!*

genitus, or the present Pope's Bull above mentioned, p. 4, 5. For the Pope's pretensions to the sovereignty of Ireland, see the 1st part of this Address, p. 64, 70, 87, 94. 100, 104, 114, 185, 190, 204, 248, to the end, and above, p. 292. * Heath's Chronicle, v, 2, p. 458. "They twice violated "their public faith with Ormond. They broke a peace 66 signed and proclaimed both at Dublin and Kilkenny. They "then raised the standard of rebellion; marched against the . "King's Viceroy, (under the conduct of the Nuncio) be"sieged Dublin, wasted the King's Quarters all round, and "broke the solemn engagement between Clanricard and "Preston, as soon as they found that, upon belief of their "return to their duty, Ormond's treaty with the Parliament was broken off! Could it be expected that after such

As soon as the intelligence of the 1641 rebellion reached Connacht, the Gentry were extremely alarmed, lest the Graces and the Act of limitation, granted by the King and Council, should be rejected by the Parliament. Lord Clanricard, the most popular man then in the Province, assured them that, provided they did their duty, they had nothing to fear; and, impelled by loyalty, he obtained a Declaration to that purpose from the King.*

State of Connacht when the Rebellion broke out.

96. Connacht is by nature the strongest of our Provinces; it then abounded in idle swordsmen, more numerous and dangerous than any in

❝conduct, any man would trust to them any more? They "were not ashamed, at the same time, both to annul the peace, "and yet to acknowledge that Lord Muskerry, Sir R. Talbot, "Sir L. Dillon, Mr. Brown, Mr. Belling, and the rest of their Supreme Council, whom they had imprisoned for making that 66 peace, yet had neither exceeded their instructions, nor done any thing misbecoming honest men!" Ib. p. 459.

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Carte agrees, v. 1, p. 599, and their own solemn Act is decisive of this intriguing contradiction!

Carte, ib. p. 214.

Ireland. Seven thousand idle fellows had been booked down by Officers, and given in a list to the Lord Deputy, who were fit for nothing but arms, and lived upon their friends; and though there were not, at this time, above 140 English Protestants in the whole County of Sligo, nor as many in the large County of Mayo, nor 1000 in the County of Galway, which, next to Cork, is the largest in Ireland, yet, chiefly through Clanricard's exertions, the Catholic population of the Province was universally tranquil.-In an assembly, convened by him at Lochrea, the Gentry of Galway County alone, agreed to raise eight companies for Government, and to maintain them at their own expense; || many of them accompanied him as a body guard, on a tour to inspect the posts and passes of the County; nor did he find one Gentleman ill affected throughout; on

* Ib.

+ Ib. v. 1, p. 48.

Ib, p. 212. Compare Clanricard's Letters of 1641 and 1642 to the Connacht Clergy, in his Memoirs.

Ib. p. 160, &c.

§ Ibid.