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A93858	A narrative of the late Popish Plot in Ireland, for the subjugating thereof to the French king together with the proceedings against, and tryal of the Earl of Tyrone, and others who were accused for carrying on the same : containing the several examinations of Hubbart Bourke, Edward Ivie, John Macnemarrah, and Thomas Samson, Gent., upon information taken before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland ... / by Tho. Samson, Gent., late steward of the Earl of Tyrone.	Samson, Thomas.	1680 (1680)	Wing S542; ESTC R202423	43,134	40

I do appoint Sam. Lee and Dan. Major of London Stationers to print this my Narrative entituled A Narrative of the late Popish Plot in Ireland c. and that no others print the same THO. SAMSON A NARRATIVE OF THE Late Popish Plot IN IRELAND For the Subjugating thereof to the FRENCH KING Together with The Proceedings against and Tryal of the Earl of Tyrone and others who were accused for carrying on the same CONTAINING The several Examinations of Hubbart Bourke Edward Ivie John Macnemarrah and Thomas Samson Gent. upon Information taken before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland The large promises of Rewards and Favours made to the Persons aforesaid in case they would have been induced to desist from prosecuting the said Earl and to affirm that they had been suborned by others to accuse him The many Threats made to all and Punishments inflicted upon one of the said Witnesses after they had peremptorily declared their resolution to discover what they knew concerning the said Plot. The manner of the Proceedings against the said Earl at Waterford-Assizes 1679. with the Names of the Jury and the Discouragements the King's Evidence met with before at and since the said Assizes By Tho. Samson Gent. late Steward to the Earl of Tyrone LONDON Printed for Sam. Lee and Dan. Major at the Feathers in Lumbard-street and Hand and Scepter in Fleet-street 1680. To the Right Honourable ARTHUR EARL of ESSEX MY LORD IT may be thought that the frequent method of Dedications to Persons of Honour now so much used might be the occasion of this my Address to your Lordship but I humbly conceive it most absolutely necessary for my Preservation to flie to your Lordship for Protection and Relief for the very Name of King's Evidence is now by the subtilty of evil and guilty men grown so obnoxious to many that no man who hath the courage to appear for his King and Country against the Papists can receive other Quarter from many men than that usually given to Rogues Barrators or common Disturbers of the Peace of their Neighbours But my Lord this Discovery now laid at your Lordships feet is of a far different nature and such which every good Christian and Subject is bound in Conscience to make for the good of his King and Country and being no other than what hath been before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of that Kingdom in which your Honour did formerly reside as Chief Ruler under his Majesty I therefore have made bold to dedicate these Papers to your Honour you being acquainted with the Interests and Humours of that People can best judge what Discouragements such as appear for Protestancy and the English Interest lie under in that Kingdom All persons favouring us there are maliciously termed our Promoters I do therefore humbly pray your Lordship to accept of this my poor Endeavour which done I shall not doubt its acceptance from all good men and shall remain My Lord Your Honour 's most humble and most obedient Servant THO. SAMSON An Introductory TO THE READER THE Northern part of the World lying so much in the wa● of the Roman Church that its conversion to the Popish Reli●●on is the Mark that many venture their Allegiance Life and Estate at having nought else but to be Canonized for their good work if they miss their aim therein and I hope good Protestants cannot believe that Sect of men will lay down the Cudgels if their Jesuitical Designes prevail not but will venture on the old way of Blouding if need require Hence it is that their Plotting is not confined to England onely but it must cross the Seas into Ireland also though they land in the bosoms of pretended Protestants And it cannot be imagined but that the Designe was carried on at one and the same time both on this and that side of the Water and the methods used for the carrying on of their Designes the same as by former Nary at 〈◊〉 compared with the following Informations and Examinations will appear viz. By raising of Forces by pretended settlements of Estates to prevent its forfeiture in case of discovery or using the old drudging way of aspersing the Evidence and if all these fail promising Bribes for rewards on 〈◊〉 thereby to shair the Truth Nevertheless a● it pleased God to disappoint their Endeavours in England by some who were intrusted by them whom God plucked from them to pull us as Brands out of the fire so here what knowledge was obtained came from some who were to be Actors in the same Tragedy so that the Wish might be taken in their own Craft and the Hand of God might be seen in the preservation of our King Country and Religion Such our Deliverers having changed their Bulls Pardons and Absolutions of the Pope and a horrid bloudy Act to be committed for fear of God peace of Conscience loyalty to their King and praise of good men And as in the Ganponden-Treason a Letter from one privie thereto did discover the same so likewise in the Kingdom of Ireland in 1641 it was a Letter from one Irishman to another which made the English to secure the City and Castle of Dublin which otherwise might have followed the fate of the whole Nation or greatest part of that Kingdom And why might not persons as much question the truth of that being so discovered and prevented as the truth of all those Plottings now in question and the rather it being now a Crime in Ireland to call those late murthering bloudy times Rebellion but a now name is taken up for it namely A Civil War In this present Discovery it was also a Letter that gave notice of the things declared to be designed which concurring with other testimony did convince one of the Witnesses of the reality of their Designes And indeed it 's not to be questioned but most of the good Protestants of that Kingdom I mean such as are not got into Preferments or married into Papist Families and thereby become any thing as to Religion such I say are fully satisfied of their Plottings and the rather considering the infolency of the Papists and the many of them the power the Priests and Romish Clergie have over them And were it not for fear of firing their houses and massacring their person and families and the scandal of discovering though the truth and the greatest bindrance of all is knowing that their Tryals if impeached nust be by some of their own Faction and it may be as much concerned is themselves and so consequently would be cleared Many Papists in Ireland valuing more to swear by a piece of Iron Wood or Stone a pretended Relick of St. Peter's Chair Chappel or Bell than on the holy Bible which I have my self known that after they have for sworn themselves on the Bible have confessed to their damage the truth when sworn on that Relick But I do not question but that God may open the eyes of some of the best of

done in the presence of many Witnesses This was Charged against the said Finch before the foregoing Judges at the Assizes The Indges were Chief Justice Keeling and Judge Reinolls but never prosecuted though I told their Lordship that the said Finch was in the house where they lay waiting on the said Earl his Master The next day after the said Finch spoke the aforementioned words the said Earl laughing at me told me that the said words were not Treason and did not as much as check the said Finch for the same On which having my Bible in my hand I swore the words before the said Earl telling him that if it was Treason I would not be guilty of concealing of it Shortly after the said Finch laughed at me and told me before several Witnesses that he now cared not for what he had said against the Parliament for that now the King had turned them out of doors I also observed that the Earl was imploying one Major Butler a Papist to perswade Mr. Bourk to deny his information and to say that Collonel Viliars and others did bribe him the said Bourk falsly to impeach the said Earl I farther took notice of the Earls allowing all his Papist Servants to go to Mass who when it was forbidden went at midnight and of his seeming displeasure to them But in the conclusion he turned away or sent to Prison all his Protestant Servants as long as he had any And when I denied his Labourers to work on the Fifth of November he the said Earl commanded them to work calling that day A Protestant Cheat And the day of Humiliation for our late Soveraign of Blessed Memory The Parliaments Fast saying that he would take the sin upon him if I would not keep it I observed also the great Concourse of the Officers that came out of France and were disbanded at his house and his Papist Servants private receiving of Papists Arms to secure them for their Owners or other uses And when Madam Mortamore was reading of Coleman's Tryal and in particular the long Letter the Earl said that what Coleman had done was just and that if he had been in Colemans place he would have done as Coleman did I answered that suppose I was in Spain was it law ful for me to endeavour to subvert the Government there established To which the said Earl answered that it was my duty so to do and that there was no Law against Colemans doing of it in England or for taking away the Kings Life for endeavouring the subverting the Religion and that Coleman suffered unjustly And as for Colemans endeavouring to Murther the King said the Earl that was proved only by two Rogues And here he shewed me a Letter which as I remember came from one Robert Power aforesaid in which was instanced a Knight whose Name I do not remember that begged the Kings Pardon to speak who after it was granted told the King He verily believed that there was no Plot and that the Witnesses were two Rogues who if encouraged would take away all their Lives Madam Mortamor having ended Saint in Heaven and that all that had a hand in his Death were or would be damn'd in Hell At another time the said Earl being appointed by Authority to settle the Militia with the High Sheriff William Dobbins Esq and others Mr. Fith Gerrald of Waterford sent to him to act in it and I my self carried the Message from the said Fith Gerrald to him telling him the said Earl that by his appearing and shewing himself active for the King he might again redeem the Kings Favour and do himself and Servants good To which the Earl replied That if the French were at Coole-sin meaning a place a mile from his house he would not draw his Sword against them And at another time when he wanted Oats for his Horses the Earl laid That he had rather want Bread for his Table than Oats for his Horses not knowing how soon he might be called on Service Now having denied the serving of his own King before I might well wonder whom he intended to serve having made such Great Provision of Horses And afterwards when perswaded to go and meet the Sheriff about the Militia he went to a place called the Three Miles Bridge in the County of Waterford where the meeting was appointed but just met them and made haste back and disheartned those he met from going and jeared at the Troop calling it the Buttermilk-Troop saying that his Great Horse would beat a Troop of them At his return several of the Officers that came out of France were come to the said Earl's House where he met them And at another time having had some Trial-gone against him in the Courts at Dublin and receiving a Letter from his Attorney or Sollicitor of something which the King had done concerning it in England he fell into a great Passion against the King and said That if the King was pulled out of his Throne he would not draw his Sword to defend him And upon getting one Owen Whelan an Old Tory and making him his Sergeant or Bayliff I telling him that the Country would take notice of it he wished that he had ten thousand such Torys for there is a time coming said he that I could make use of them Observing all those things it made me use all possible means to get my self free from the said Earl's Service and in order thereunto got one Mr. Power of Clasmore being the Earl's Kinsman to speak to the Earl who was thereupon appointed to audit my Accompts which accordingly he did After which they used all means and endeavours to take away my good Name or Life viz. Garret M. Teege alias Wall the Earls Fowler who threatned my life lying in wait for me with one of the Earls beff Guns as he hath confessed And at a Fair at Clonagan he lent one Martha M. Shehan a Knife which the said Shehan had ready to kill me withal had not one espying of it prevented him by taking the Knife from him as he was giving the Stab and secured it Hereupon I acquainted the Earl therewith who desired to see the Knife and taking it into his hands broke it and then bid me to prosecute the Offenders At the fame time the aforesaid Owen Whelan the Old Tory and others lay in wait for me with Clubs which was also discovered and prevented by my presenting a Pistol at them and so made my escape from them Also John Power who as the Servants told me killed the Lord Mohan threatned my Life he was carried to Dublin in the Earls Coach and there kept private at the Earls Charge Lieutenant Thomas Power the Earl's Kinsman now of Captain Congrose's Company also threatned my life at the Assizes in the Judges Chamber He also got me to be sued by one Porter a Papist for Wine which the said Earl had many years before I came unto him the said Power wishing that he had broke

me to Major Butler then took me by the hand and said Old Friend farewel now for evermore Then Quarter-master Ely began a Health to the Prosperity of the Earl of Tyrone and to the confounding and utter Subversion of all his Enemies and forced the Health to go round This Ely is the Lord Lieutenant his Quarter-master and charged by the aforesaid Mac Namara in his after Examination of being in the Plot and to be a Major under the Earl of Tyrone for the French King and confessed that he was a Papist heretofore when questioned by the Lord Lieutenant upon the aforesaid Mr. Samson's telling him before the Lord Lieutenant and Council that he had a Crucifix about his Neck and afterwards was committed to the Marshal for abusing the said Samson where he continued for one week and then returned to his Command The Examination which follows is Mr. Ivie's touching the knowledge he had of Mr. Mac Namara which was before spoken of to be concerned with the Earl of Tyrone in the Plot and who afterwards in his Examination confesseth he was to be an Officer under the said Earl who promised me before the said Mr Ivie to discover the same at the Assizes but through Bribes did not appear but managed the Earls Designs with me to bribe me to desist my prosecuting the said Earl and offered me large Bribes to throw the Accusation on others But on Mr. Ivies confronting him before the Lord Lieutenant and Council and petitioning the Board to have him kept from the said Earl of Tyrone's Friends and Agents and from Quarter-master Ely who furnished him with Money and Horse and promised him Bail on occasion He then being kept close according to the said Ivie's Petition he then confessed the Truth and discovered the whole Plot as you may see in his Examination following Mr. Ivie's HVBART BOVRKE The EXAMINATION of Edward Ivie Gent. Taken at several Times before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of IRELAND in the beginning of November 1679 touching the Earl of TYRONE WHo saith That about Michaelmass last was Twelve-month John Mac Namara of the County of Waterford Gentleman brought unto me James Power the Father and his three Sons Richard William and James Power the said Mac Namara desiring me to take them as Tenants on the Lands of Dunhill in the said County of Waterford which accordingly I did the said Mac Namara assuring me that they were honest men who after that they had been there some time I observed together with my Servants and Neighbours a great recourse to them of persons being private in the said Power 's house by day and going away at night having several strange horses at day and gone away at night I also observed the said Powers and the aforesaid John Mac Namara providing Bridles Saddles Swords and other Arms. In the mean time a Warrant was sent from his Grace the Lord Lieutenant to apprehend the said Powers and Mac Namara The Powers being apprehended made their Escape out of the Constables hands which the Countrey took much notice of Mac Namara being also taken was committed to Waterford Gaol and in few days bailed out on which he returned home and some days after told me that he had made his application to the Earl of Tyrone to assist him in this his trouble And finding the said Earl in fear on Bourke's charging him for Treason so that he did not answer the said Mac Namara's expectation he the said Mac Namara returned home in great passion and concluded that his Father-in-law and Brother-in-law should go to Dublin to get his Pardon which accordingly they did and applied themselves to Sir John Cole for their Assistance And as they told me they met at Sir John Cole's the Lord Chief Justice Keeting on which they concluded to get no Pardon for that the Lord Chief Justice had promised to be kind to the said Mac Namara and would stand his Friend at the Assizes Upon which they returned home and acquainted the said Mac Namara with what they had done But the said Mac Namara concluded himself not safe in their not bringing his Pardon and therefore broke out into a great passion and told me that seeing the said Earl had drawn him into such dangerous Designs and had now left him he would no more look after Pardons nor trust no more to promises but he would discover the whole Truth which the Earl of Tyrone was carrying on against the King and further said That Bourke was but a Fool and knew nothing of the Plot in comparison of what he knew and that at the Assizes he would make a full Discovery thereof The said Mac Namara further told me that the said Earl was privy to all the Horses and Arms provided for the Plot which when the said Bourke came into the Countrey I acquainted him with and thereupon the said Bourke wrote a Letter to the Judges wherein he mentioned that the said Mac Namara and others were concerned in the Plot and therefore he could not appear till they appeared The said Mac Namara hiding himself until he had received an Account of Mr. Bourk's Proceedings and of the return of the Letter sent to the Judges in order to his coming in to discover that he might be secured To which purpose the said Mac Namara received a Letter from a Friend of his That Bourke had not yet spoke with the Judges and therefore advised the said Mac Namara to continue private where he was until he heard further from him At this time Mac Namara had promised Bourke to confess but desisted on the Earls Promises of Rewards The said Earl of Tyrone hearing of the said Mac Namara's Intentions several Letters was posted after the said Mac Namara in order to get him to Waterford with promises of being prorected from all things which was lain to his Charge Upon which promises the said Mac Namara came to Waterford and there was privately secured in the house of Mr. Fitz Gerrald a Papist and Merchant and the same night or the night after was conveyed up to the Earl of Tyrone's Lodgings where he the said Mac Namara told me being before the said Earl he the said Earl told him That he little thought his Fathers Son would serve him so as to betray him and that if he would desist discovering what he knew of the Plot he the said Earl would excuse him as to his troubles and save him from appearing at the Court and that he had so ordered Matters with the Judges that the same Bail should stand till the next Assizes without his appearing which accordingly was done to the admiration of all that heard it And assured him that he the said Earl would against the next Assizes write to or speak with Mr. Morris who said the Earl is my Friend and your Prosecutor and order the Matter so that against the next Assizes he the said Mac Namara should be freed After the Assizes Mac Namara returned home and Bourke being gone away sent