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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30388	The life of William Bedell D.D., Lord Bishop of Killmore in Ireland written by Gilbert Burnet. To which are subjoyned certain letters which passed betwixt Spain and England in matter of religion, concerning the general motives to the Roman obedience, between Mr. James Waddesworth ... and the said William Bedell ...	Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Bedell, William, 1571-1642. Copies of certain letters which have passed between Spain & England in matter of religion.; Wadsworth, James, 1604-1656?	1692 (1692)	Wing B5831; ESTC R27239	225,602	545

the affections those things that tended to edification ought only to be used And thought it would be hard otherwise to make stops for upon the same pretence an infinity of Rites might be brought in And the sense he had of the excesses of superstition from what he had observed during his long stay in Italy made him judge it necessary to watch carefully against the beginnings of that disease which is like a green Sickness in Religion He never used the Common Prayer in his Family for he thought it was intended to be the solemn Worship of Christians in their Publick Assemblies and that it was not so proper for private Families He was so exact an observer of Ecclesiastical Rules that he would perform no part of his Function out of his own Diocess without obtaining the Ordinaries leave for it so that being in Dublin when his Wife's Daughter was to be married to Mr. Clogy that is much more the Author of this Book than I am and they both desired to be blest by him he would not do it till he first took out a Licence for it in the Archbishop of Dublin's Consistory So far I have prosecuted the Relation of his most exemplary discharge of his Episcopal Function reserving what is more personal and particular to the end where I shall give his Character I now come to the conclusion of his life which was indeed suitable to all that had gone before But here I must open one of the bloodiest Scenes that the Sun ever shone upon and represent a Nation all covered with Blood that was in full peace under no fears nor apprehensions enjoying great plenty and under an easie yoke under no oppression in Civil matters nor persecution upon the account of Religion For the Bishops and Priests of the Roman Communion enjoyed not only an impunity but were almost as publick in the use of their Religion as others were in that which was established by Law so that they wanted nothing but Empire and a power to destroy all that differed from them And yet on a sudden this happy Land was turned to be a Field of Blood Their Bishops resolved in one particular to fulfil the Obligation of the Oath they took at their Consecration of persecuting all Hereticks to the utmost of their power and their Priests that had their breeding in Spain had brought over from thence the true Spirit of their Religion which is ever breathing cruelty together with a tincture of the Spanish temper that had appeared in the conquest of the West-Indies and so they thought a Massacre was the surest way to work and intended that the Natives of Ireland should vie with the Spaniards for what they had done in America The Conjuncture seemed favourable for the whole Isle of Britain was so imbroiled that they reckoned they should be able to master Ireland before any Forces could be sent over to check the progress of their butchery The Earl of Strafford had left Ireland some considerable time before this The Parliament of England was rising very high against the King and though the King was then gone to Scotland it was rather for a present quieting of things that he gave all up to them than that he gained them to his Service So they laid hold of this conjuncture to infuse it into the people That this was the proper time for them to recover their ancient Liberty and shake off the English Yoke and to possess themselves of those Estates that had belonged to their Ancestors And to such as had some rests of Duty to the King it was given out That what they were about was warranted by his Authority and for his service A Seal was cut from another Charter and put to a forged Commission giving warrant to what they were going about And because the King was then in Scotland they made use of a Scotch Seal They also pretended that the Parliaments of both Kingdoms being either in rebellion against the King or very near it That the English of Ireland would be generally in the interest of the English Parliament so that it was said That they could not serve the King better than by making themselves Masters in Ireland and then declaring for the King against his other rebellious Subjects These things took universally with the whole Nation and the Conspiracy was cemented by many Oaths and Sacraments and in conclusion all things were found to be so ripe that the day was set in which they should every where break out and the Castle of Dublin being then as well stored with a great Magazine which the Earl of Strafford had laid up for the Army that he intended to have carried into Scotland had not the pacification prevented it as it was weakly kept by a few careless Warders who might have been easily surprized it was resolved that they should seize on it which would have furnished them with Arms and Ammunition and have put the Metropolis and very probably the whole Island in their hands But though this was so well laid that the execution could not have mist in all humane appearance and though it was kept so secret that there was not the least suspicion of any design on foot till the Night before and then one that was among the chief of the managers of it out of kindness to an Irishman that was become a Protestant communicated the Project to him The other went and discovered it to the Lords Justices and by this means not only the Castle of Dublin was preserved but in effect Ireland was saved For in Dublin there was both a shelter for such as were stript and turned out of all they had to fly to and a place of rendezvous where they that escaped before the storm had reached to them met to consult about their preservation But though Dublin was thus secured the rest of the English and Scotch in Ireland particularly in Vlster fell into the hands of those merciless Men who reckoned it no small piece of mercy when they stript people naked and let them go with their lives But the vast numbers that were butchered by them which one of their own Writers in a Discourse that he printed some years after in order to the animating them to go on boasts to have exceeded two hundred thousand and the barbarous cruelties they used in murthering them are things of so dreadful a nature that I cannot easily go on with so dismal a Narrative but must leave it to the Historians I shall say no more of it than what concerns our Bishop It may be easily imagined how much he was struck with that fearful storm that was breaking on every hand of him though it did not yet break in upon himself There seemed to be a secret guard set about his House for though there was nothing but Fire Blood and Desolation round about him yet the Irish were so restrained as by some hidden power that they did him no harm for many Weeks His House was in no