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154 Vatican AssassinsChapter 9The Jesuits – 1641The Irish Massacre“The good counsellors of great statesmen, that parliaments of bothkingdoms would take from the king’s majesty, are a faction of perjuredPapists, Prelates, Jesuits, Irish cut-throats, Stratford’s, and Apostates;subverters of all laws, divine, human, of God, of church, of state.” {1}Samuel Rutherford, 1644English Presbyterian PreacherLex Rex: The Law and the Prince“Ireland is the most priest-ridden, Jesuitically-governed nation on theface of the earth.” {2} Hector Macpherson, 1914English HistorianThe Jesuits in History“Every Jesuit is outwardly a monk, inwardly a devil, and altogether aserpent.” {3}Ian Paisley, 1968 IrishPresbyterian Preacher Member,House of Commons The JesuitsWhile the Jesuits were busy with the Thirty Years’ War and suppressing theProtestant quest for liberty in the Dutch Republic, they planned the annihilation of theProtestants in Ireland. We read:“The great design was, that a general insurrection should take place at thesame time throughout the kingdom, and that all the Protestants, withoutexception, should be murdered. The day fixed for this horrid massacrewas the 23rd of October, 1641, the feast of Ignatius Loyola, founder ofthe Jesuits; and the chief conspirators in the principal parts of thekingdom made the necessary preparations for the intended conflict.” {4}The Jesuits – 1641