and Craft, in essaying by Promises and Threats, to draw from
him, the said _Read_, in his Torments, a false and impious Accusation
of his Master and Sovereign as being the Author and Promoter of the
then Commotion, so manifestly procured, and by themselves industriously
spread.

And whereas a late eminent Minister of State, for parallel Causes and
Ends, pursuing the Steps of the aforesaid Lords Justices, hath by his
Interest and Power, cherished and supported a Fanatical Republican
Party, which heretofore opposed, put to flight, and chased out of this
your Kingdom of _Ireland_, the Royal Authority lodged in his Person,
and to transfer the calamitous Consequences of his fatal Conduct from
himself, upon your trusty _Roman_ Catholick Subjects, to the Breach of
publick Faith solemnly given and proclaimed in the Name of our late
Sovereign, interposed betwixt them and his late Majesty's general
Indulgence and Pardon, and wrought their Exclusion from that Indemnity
in their Estates, which by the said publick Faith is specially provided
for, and since hath been extended to the most bloody and execrable
Traitors, few only excepted by Name in all your Realms and Dominions.
And further, to exclude from all Relief, and even Access of Admittance
to Justice, to your said _Irish_ Catholick People, and to secure to
himself and his Posterity, his vast Share of their Spoils; he the said
eminent Minister did against your sacred Brother's Royal Promise and
Sanction aforesaid, advise and persuade his late Majesty to give, and
accordingly obtained his Royal Assent to two several Acts. The one
intituled, _An Act for the better Execution of his Majesty's gracious
Declaration for the Settlement of this Kingdom of_ Ireland, _and
Satisfaction of the several Interests of Adventurers, Soldiers, and
other his Majesty's Subjects there_. Which Act was so passed at a
Parliament held in this Kingdom, in the 14th and 15th Years of his
Reign. And the other, An Act intituled, _An Act of Explanation_, etc.

Which Act was passed in a Session of the Parliament held in this
Kingdom, in the 17th and 18th Years of his Reign, most of the Members
thereof being such, as forcibly possessed themselves of the Estates of
your Catholic subjects in this Kingdom, and were convened together for
the sole special Purpose of creating and granting to themselves and
their Heirs, the Estates and Inheritances of this your Kingdom of
_Ireland_, upon a scandalous, false Hypothesis