this to the Rebels in Irelend; and of what weight to them designed thither?
7 Quere, Whether God wilt not at the last day call men to account for those things
they are unaccountable for here, as great Corquerots are.
Answer, Yes, and before that day, as daily experience shews, & what's this against
going to root out the Murtherers in Ireland, and Murtherers, because they killed
those who had done them no hurt, were not in War against them, and had no weapons
to defend themselves.
8 Quere, Whether the condition of the conquered be not Ireland, and the condition
of the conqueror England, Ireland unjustly termed Rebels, and rather England
then they, and that no conscientious man can engage.
Answer, No, the Rebels in Ireland have conquered the English, and have possession
of the greatest part, if not all Ireland, and so the argument is rather of the
English side, who can not onely prove their right, but that such and such put then out
of that right; as for the Irith claime of hundred or thousands of years since, let them
prove it, and that they have not forfeited it, and that the actions in the memory of men,
after a begged subjection to England, be not a forfeit of what ever they had of old.
9 Quere, Whether it be not the duty of every honest man to divert, what he can,
the intended expedition.
Answer, Though there may be reason to perswade men to put up private wrongs,
if not of very high natures, yet none can give reasons why the oppressed in a Nation
should not be relieved and restored, and the oppressors and murderers punished, it they
who undertake it see a possibility of doing of it, in reason for the time, as in justice for
the act.
10 Queer, Whether those who pretend for freedome (as the English now) shall not
make themselves altogether inexcusable, in intrenching upon others freedoms, and
whether it be not a character of a true Patriot to endeavour the just freedome of all as
well as his own.
Answer. How the Irish came to have the freedom, and that to be just, to kill
men, women, and children, and thrust them out of their Lands and Possessions is the
Question, but that it's character of a true Patriot to endeavour the just freedome of
all, is out of doubt, and upon this score the State sends to Ireland, and they who goe
not as mercenaries, goe upon, viz. to restore the banished to their right, and punish
the banishers.
Thus farat present.
Form Swaben, April 22.
At Kauffrazrn, not only the severall Courts Judicature were seded, as Anno 1624,
but the Jesuits have restored the Lady Church, and are gone from it to Mundelheim:
The Imperiall Commissioners (the Citizens being sworn to their new Magistrate,
and other controversies reconciled) are gone to Ravensburg, and Bibracb, to see things
setled according to the agreement at Munster.
From Cassell, April 10.
Two dayesagoe, Count Lamberg, Plenipotentiary for the Emperour, is arrived
here with a great Train from Munster, was fetched in by Landgrove william with some
Coaches, at whose entring the great Guns were twice discharged, he is very magnisicently
entertained, intends shortly his journey to the Imperiall Court, by Francksord
and Nurnberg.
Hamborongh, Aprill 6.
The 400 rebellious Mariners gathered into a Church yard, by fair promises
that they should have their pay, were perswaded to their respective Ships, Trade and
Commerce with England interrupted: sever all English ships taken by Irish, & others
joyned with them, the Danes it's said, wilendure no trade or commerce with you, & gre[unr]lea