Justitia Britannica

fled into transmarine parts. A hero from the noble Westmoreland family, a soft catamite, and a disgraceful spendthrift throughout his whole life, he was struck down first at the very inception of his crime by the most just judgment of God, his children taken away who might have maintained the name and honor of his family. Likewise, his body is now wasted by ulcers, as his own acquaintances report, corrupted and vitiated, so that there is no one left, even among his enemies, who would wish a more bitter plague or vengeance upon him. It is a great blot on the Republic that so noble a family, which had never before defected from its Princes, should fall to such a shameful end. Thomas Stukley original: "Stuklius" escapes from Ireland, an infamous prodigy to the whole world, a treacherous beast rather than a man, and a most unworthy plague to his own fatherland; he first fled from England because he had frequently engaged in piracy. Then he left Ireland because he had undertaken certain things so inexpiable that they should not even be named to modest ears. Both were authors of sedition: one at home, the other in Ireland. Since these things are so plain and are marked with such distinct signs of truth that nothing of them can be denied—that is, that not only did those whom I have named live in such filth of morals and life, but also that the rest of the associates of these crimes and rebellion did so—it has nonetheless pleased the Roman Pontiff,

The Earl of Westmoreland and Thomas Stukley.