“ We must confess, that such an Intire Establishment of the Roman-Catholick Clergy in England, would perhaps prove very difficult, and provoke the Indignation of the Protestants in a high measure, because it is contrary to the Persuasion generally held by the People there, who though never so different amongst themselves in their Tenets, yet agree together in bearing so implacable an aversion to the Roman-Catholick Religion and Clergy, that it is not to be expected they would ever concur in their Parliaments thereunto: But the Case is quite otherways in this Your Majesty’s Kingdom of Ireland ”

“ It was not only in his own Kingdom, that his most Serene Master did use his utmost Power and Interest to root out Heresie, and to establish the true Ancient, Catholick, and Apostolick Religion; but his Aims and Influence went farther; and unless the late Pope Innocent II. had wilfully obstructed his Designs by an untimous and needless Breach betwixt him and the Crown of France, the state of Christendom, and of the Catholick Church, had been far better than it is at this day. ”

“ For it is reasonably to be apprehended, that the Difficulties to be surmounted in so godly a Design, will rather be increased than diminished, by the continual Suggestions of our Adversaries against us to Your Majesty, when restored to Your Throne in England. ”

“ For we find by Experience, that the People now-a-days, generally speaking, will not much heed or regard the Exhortations or Threatnings of their Ghostly Directors, when they see them reduced to so low an ebb of Indigence, as to depend of themselves for their spiritual Power and Authority. ”

“ So in the last Words of the Period above mentioned, they fall foul upon the Honesty of those Protestants that are upon King James’s side, as if they would not be displeased, or grudg at the re-establishment of the Romish Religion and Clergy in Ireland; but that notwithstanding thereof, they would continue to co-operate to His Restoration. I am not concerned to answer for the Protestant Jacobites in England; here they have a Charge laid to their door by others engaged in the same Bottom with themselves ”

“ And, which was next to giving the [3] final Blow to the Protestant Interest in that Kingdom, King James, in his Irish pretended Parliament, had formally removed the Fundamental Charter, by which the Protestants possest their Estates; I mean, the Act of Parliament of Ireland, called, The Act of Settlement: So it seem’d, there wanted scarce any more to be done, to restore Popery and Papists for good and all in Ireland. ”

“ The Irish Popish Bishops meet together in the Titular Archbishop of Dublin’s Lodgings; and with them, The Provincials of all the Religious Orders: And having unanimously agreed to the following Address or Memorial to be presented to the late King, then in Dublin, they present it to him in a full Body. That King James received this Address very kindly, was visible in his manner of treating the Persons that presented it. He told them, They had never any reason to doubt of his Zeal for the Catholick Religion ”

“ But at the same time, go and enquire the opinion of some among our selves at home, that call themselves Protestants, in this point they will confidently tell you, There was never any such Change designed. These people must either be strangely stupid, or must from some one reason or other find themselves oblig’d to dissemble a thing that cannot, that will not be hid. The Memorial I have before given a particular Copy of, is a proof of such a Design, as to change Religion in [31] Ireland ”

“ What Answer King James returned, we have not yet been able to learn. But the Memorial it self was found in that King’s Closet, after his leaving Dublin; and another Copy of the same, in the Archbishop’s Lodgings. ”