be referred N To which may well be added the forcing of one Duke Wade to drinke unto drunkennesse and then hanging him therein to take a full revenge both on body and soul p Of which their aforesaid many and barbarous cruelties each day doth afford us variety of new instances This City of Dublin being the common receptacle for these miserable sufferers Here are many thousands of poore people sometimes of good respects and estates now in want and sicknesse whereof many daily dye notwithstanding the great care of those tender hearted Christians whom God blesse without whom all of them had before now perished In all which as our sufferings are generall the hatred of the enemy being expressed to the whole Nation and to all the professors of the truth So in chief and above all others O do we finde it with the deadliest venome spit against the persons of us the Ministers of the Gospel towards whom their rage is without bounds Of this we see enough in the miserable condition of Mr George Cottingham a Batchelor in Divinity and a painfull labourer in the Lords Vineyard P The like we see in the cruell murther of Mr Blyth slain with sir Pheliom ô Neals safe conduct in his hands Q it being lift up by him unto heaven as a witnesse of his treachery Q The same we finde in the murther of Mr Thomas Grafford and Mr William Fullerton R Lastly that among a multitude we may content our selves with a few We see it in the cruelty exercised upon Mr Sharpe the Minister of Kells S Of all which the following examinations shall speak morefully Such of us as have best escaped the hands of these Tyrants have been turned out of all We with such other of our brethren ours and their wives and children coming on foot hither through waies tedious and full of perill being every minute assaulted the end of one but leading to the next danger one quite stripping off what others had in pity left So that in nakednesse we have recovered this our City of refuge where we live in all extremity of want not having wherewithall to subsist or to put bread in our mouthes Of those of our brethren who have perished on the way hither some of their wives and children do yet remain The children also of some of them wholly deprived of their parents and left for desserted Orphans All of us being exposed to apparent ruine if not speedily relieved This our most miserable condition therefore and of our Brethren and of this our whole distressed Church of Ireland We do in most humble manner Remonstrate and lay downe at the feet of that your Pious Charitable and Honorable Assembly Praying That we and all of us your Suppliants together with our Brethren may finde a place among others in your tender considerations and never exhausted bounty So and in such manner as to your Wisedomes shall be esteemed most fitting Humbly desiring that we who have borne the burthen and heate of the day may not be cast off not having what to eate or what to put on That the Ministry may not in our wants be rendred despicable to our own as it hath suffered despight from our Adversaries And that the rather we may finde this Admittance into your Charity in that our sufferings are professed by our enemies to proceed which we glory in from that your zeal for the Church of God God Almighty blesse and further those your Honorable and pious desires and designs and Restraiâ—the fury of our Adversaries for which we desire the prayers of our Brethren And He grant that of his goodnesse all of them may be long preserved from knowing what we suffer otherwise then by a Brotherly and compassionate fellow feeling which are the daily prayers of Your Honors Servants and Votaries Henry Iones Roger Puttocke Iohn Watson Iohn Sterne Henry Brereton Randall Adams William Hitchcoke William Aldrich The severall Commissions whereupon the following examinations are grounded out of which the foregoing Remonstrance hath been extracted CHARLES By the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendes of the Faith c. To Our welbeloved Henry Jones Dean of Kilmore Roger Puttock William Hitchcock Randall Adams John Sterne William Aldrich Henry Brereton and John Watson Clerks greeting Whereas divers wicked and disloyall people have lately risen in Arms in severall parts of this Kingdome and have Robbed and spoiled many of our good Subjects Brittish and Protestants who have been seperated from their setled habitations and scattered in most lamentable manner And forasmuch as it is needfull to take due examination concerning the same Know ye that We reposing especiall trust and confidence in your care diligence and provident circumspection have nominated and appointed you to be Our Commissioners And do hereby give unto you or any two or more of you full power and Authoritie from time to time to call before you and examine upon oath on the holy Evangelists which hereby we authorize you or any two or more of you to administer as well all such persons as have been so robbed and spoiled as all the witnesses that can give testimony therein what robberies and spoiles have beene committed on them or any other to their knowledge since the two and twentieth of October last or shall hereafter be committed on them or any of them what the particulars were or are whereof they were or shall be so robbed or spoiled to what valew by whom what their names are and where they now or last dwelt that committed those robberies or what day or night the said robberies or spoiles committed or to be committed were done what traiterous or disloyall words speeches or actions were then or at any other time uttered or committed by those Robbers or any of them what violence or other lewd actions were then performed by the sayd Robbers or any of them and how often and all other circumstances touching or concerning the said particulars and euery of them And you Our sayd Commissioners are to reduce to writing all the examinations which you or any two or more of you shall take as aforesaid and the same to return unto Our Iustices and Councell of this our Realm of Ireland under the hands and seales of you or any two or more of you as aforesaid Witnesse Our Right trusty and wel-beloved Councellors Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronet and Sir John Borlase Knight Our Iustices of Our said Realm of Ireland At Dublin the three and twentieth day of December in the seventeenth of our Reigne Carleton CHARLES By the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To Our Wel-beloved Henry Jones Dean of Kilmore Roger Puttock William Hitchcock Randall Adams John Sterne William Aldrich Henry Brereton and John Watson Clerks Greeting Whereas divers wicked and disloyall people have lately risen in Arms in severall parts in this Kingdome and have robbed and spoiled
A REMONSTRANCE OF Divers Remarkeable Passages concerning the Church and Kingdome OF IRELAND Recommended By Letters from the Right Honourable the Lords Justices and Counsell of Jreland And Presented By HENRY JONES Doctor in Divinity and Agent for the Ministers of the Gospel in that Kingdom TO The Honourable House of Commons IN ENGLAND London Printed for Godfrey Emerson and William Bladen and are to be sold at the signe of the Swan in Little-Brittain 1642 To our very assured loving Friend Master Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the Honourable the Commons House of Parliament in the Kingdom of ENGLAND THere hath been presented unto us a Remonstrance of the deplorable estate of this Church of Ireland and the lamentable Condition of the Clergy therein occasioned by the present Rebellion The Remonstrants desiring our Letters in the Representing of the same to the honourable House of Commons in England unto whose grave and wise consideration they do apply themselves We shall not need to say much in a matter so much speaking it self and the experience we have of the true sence they have of this distracted State gives us great assurance that they will take to heart this our miserable Church and Gods servants therein reduced unto unexpressable extremities both Church and State being now involved in one common calamity The bearer hereof Henry Jones Doctor in Divinity is intrusted by the Clergy to negotiate in their behalf and we have intreated him to solicite the cause of the poor robbed English expressed in our Letters to you of the fourth of this moneth We therefore do crave leave to recommend him in this imployment to that Honourable House he being a Person who is able to say much in this businesse having been some while a Prisoner in the hands of the Rebels and observed much of their proceedings and being intrusted with others as a Commissioner to take the examinations out of which the Remonstrance now to be by him offered to that Honourable House is extracted As for himself he hath suffered much in his private fortunes by these troubles and in respect of his Abilities and Learning and Painfulnesse in his Ministry he deserveth favour and encouragement Besides we have found him very diligent and forward in attending all occasions for promoting the publike services here by timely and important intelligence given to us of Occurences during his imprisonment with the Rebels and since especially in his information made to us of the approaches of the enemy to Drogheda when we could not conceive they would rise to that boldnesse by which information amongst others we had the opportunity of sending thither the present Garrison without whom it might have been in danger of surprising And so we remain from His Majesties Castle of Dublin the seventh day of March 1641. Your very assured loving Friends W. Parsons Jo. Borlace R. Dillon Ad. Loftus J. Temple Cha. Coote Tho. Ratherham Fran. Willoughby Rob. Meredith To the Honorable Assembly of the Knights Citizens and Burgesses in the Commons House of Parliament in the Kingdom of ENGLAND The undernamed in the behalf of themselves and their brethren the poore dispoiled and distressed Ministers of the Gospel in Ireland with the Widdowes and Orphans of such Humbly represent their lamentable Condition Shewing THat by the instigation of Popih Priests Friers and Jesuites with other fire-brands and Incendiaries of the State partly such of them as have been resident here in this Kingdom of Ireland before partly flocking in from Forraign parts of late in multitudes more then ordinary and chiefly by such of them as resorted hither out of the Kingdom of England And out of that ancient and known hatred the Church of Rome heareth to the reformed Religion As also by reason of the surfet of that freedome and indulgence which through Gods forbearance for our tryall they of the Popish faction have hitherto enjoyed in this Kingdom There hath been beyond all paralell of former ages a most bloudy and Antichristian combination and plot hatched by well-nigh the whole Romish sect by way of combination from parts forraign with those at home against this our Church and State thereby intending the utter extirpation of the reformed Religion and the professors of it In the room thereof setting up that idoll of the Masse with all the abominations of that whore of Babylon This also ayming at the pulling down and defacing the present state and government of this Kingdom under his Sacred Majesty theirs and our undoubted Soveraign and introducing another form of rule ordered and moderated by themselves without dependance on his Highnesse or the Kingdom of England whence have proceeded such depredations of of the goods and such cruelties exercised on the persons and lives of the loyall Subject such wasting and defacing of all Minuments of civility with such prophanation of holy places and Religion that by the most barbarous and heathenish Nations the like could not in any age be found to be perpetrated All which doth daily appear unto us your Suppliants appointed to enquire upon oath of the premisses and other particulars depending thereupon by vertue of a Commission to us directed under the great Seal of this Kingdom of Ireland bearing Date the three and twentieth day of December in the seventeenth year of his Majesties Reign and by one other Commission further enlarged concerning the premisses Dated the eighteenth of January in the year aforesaid Copies whereof together with the Copies of such and so much of the Depositions as answer to the particulars of this our Remonstrance we have hereunto annexed that both the validity of our proceedings and the truth of this our sayd Remonstrance may the better appear Vpon view of all which it doth very evidently appear that in the present most dangerous designe against this Kingdom the Popish faction therein hath been confederate with forraign States If we may rely upon the report made therof by the conspirators themselves and their adherents here whereof the following examinations are full IT being confessed that they had their Commission for what they did from beyond the Seas A That from Spain they did expect an Army before Easter next consisting if of none others yet of the Irish Regiments and Commanders serving in Flanders and else where under that King together with a great quantity of Powder Ammunition and Arms for a great number of men to be raised in Ireland This Kingdome as they make up their estimate being able to make up the body of an Army of two hundred thousand or more B From France also they looke for ayd C Being in all this further encouraged by Bulls from Rome some of these Rebels requiring to the Popes use and in his name the yeelding up of such places of strength as they had beleaguered D In all which respects and in allusion to that League in France they terming themselves the Catholike Army E and the ground of their war the Catholike cause And to this purpose hath
County of Monaghan Gent. THis Deponent being duely sworn and examined inter alia deposeth And further saith That when he this Deponent was so robbed by the Rebells they imprisoned him and his brother in law Andrew Lesk Alexander Bailie James Anderson Iohn Mewrhead his son Alexander Ballengall and his son VVilliam and kept them there in Glaslock Castle for 14 dayes or thereabouts in great misery neither suffering their wives or friends to come and bring them relief From thence the Rebells sent them to the Gaole of Monaghan for 14 dayes more where they were in no lesser misery than before From thence they were sent back to Glaslock aforesaid and there Art mac Bryan ô Samogh mac Maghan did gather all the whole British prisoners aswell those afore-named as others to the number of 22 or thereabouts and sent them to Corbridge But in their going another Company by the direction of the said Art mac Bryan way-layd them and slew 16 of them and the next morning murthered 46 more English at Corbridge aforesaid where this Deponent escaping with his life was admitted to go to Sir Phelim ô Neal who gave him a Protection for himself his wife and childe And then this Deponent heard the said Sir Phelim say That he would make no man account for what he did And that he had his Majesties Commission for what he did under the great Seal of England And being asked who did put Master Richard Blany Senescall to the Lord Blany and one of the Knights of the Shire to death because it was reported that one Art mac Bryan ô Samagh mac Maghan put him to death He answered Let not that Gentleman be blamed for my hand signed the Warrant for his hanging for the persecuring of my cousen ô Rely And further saith That there were killed by the name or Sept of the ô Hughes 12 Families of men women and children of English and Scotish protestants and that Edmond Boy ô Hugh Foster-brother to the said Sir Phelim ô Neal did at Kinard at the entry of the said Sir Phelims gate shoot to death with a brace of Bullers behinde his back the Lord Cawlfeild And that night after killed seven Families of English men women and children that lived on the Land of the said Sir Phelim And as this Deponent hath heard there were above twenty Families slain betwixt Kinnard and Armagh by the Rebells And after the repulse given at Lisnegarvy Shane oge mac Canna and a Company of Rebells under his command marched thorow all the Barony of Trough in the County of Monaghan and murthered a great number of Brittish protestants amongst others Ensigne Peirce Gentleman Ambrose Blany Gentleman William Challengwood Gentleman and William his sonne David Draynan Gentleman Andrew Carr Weaver John Lasley Labourer and his wife And this Deponent heard it credibly reported amongst the Rebells at Glaslogh aforesaid That Hugh mac ô Degan mac Guire a priest had done a most meritorious act in the parish of Glanally and County of Fermanagh in drawing betwixt 40 or 50 of the English and Scottish there to reconciliation with the Church of Rome and after giving them the Sacrament demanded of them whether Christs Body was really in the Sacrament or no and they said Yea. And that he demanded of them further Whether they held the Pope to be supreme Head of the Church they likewise answered he was And that thereupon he presently told them they were in a good faith and for fear they should fall from it and turn hereticks he and the rest that were with him cut all their throats And this Deponent further saith That the wife of Master Luke Ward told him That the Rebells had forced her husband to be drunk in drinking of his part of 3s in drink and that they when he was so drunk hanged him And she shewed this Deponent the place where he was executed And saith also That the Rebells pulled up and took away the 〈◊〉 in the Church of Monaghan up to the Quire and carried them â—â— the Goal and made fires with them for the Friers And that the â—…ls did at Glaslock aforesaid burn two or three Bibles or Serâ—â—â— Books And heard them say they would never lay down arms till their Church were put into its due place and that all the plantation lands were given to the right owners and that if they had once gotten the City of Dublin taken they would hold it no rebellion to follow the Kings sword in doing any act they pleased And this Deponent heard Brian ô Hugh Priest to the said Phelim ô Neale say That they had fifteen hundred thousand of the Irish bloud to maintain their wars begun And the said Alexander further deposeth That about the beginning of Feb. last one Ensigne William Pew of Glaslogh in the County of Monaghan being stripped robbed and expulsed by the Rebels was seven times in one day taken up and hanged on a tree and taken down again for dead every time by Patrick Duff Mac Hugh Mac Rosse a Captain of the Rebels near Monaghan which cruelty was practised by the instigation of Patrick Mother mac Wade who had informed that the said William Pew had monies the confession and knowledge whereof was intended to be extracted by the foresaid hard usage Iur. primo Martii 1641. Alexander Creichton Iohn Sterne William Hitchcock The Examination of Roger Holland of Glaslogh in the County of Monaghan THis Examinate duly sworn deposeth inter alia That during his imprisonment he was credibly informed that there were 38 persons men women and children drown'd being thrown over into the river of Corr-bridge in the County of Armagh and also saith That Sir Phelim ô Neale under pretence of sending a Convoy with many of the English of Loghgall and thereabouts the said Convoy did drown at the Bridge of Pontie-Down 68 persons as he is credibly informed And likewise that he did see 14 or 15 kill'd by the Irish as he passed in the country And further saith That Friar Malone when this Examinate arrived at Skerries that his Company shot one shot at the Vessel and that the said Company asked whether we had a Passe or not which we told them we had whereupon they replyed That if we had not we should all suffer But so soon as we shewed them our Passe they made much of us told us that we should take no hurt which they performed the next day being Christmas-day The said Friar took a boat to go to the boat to see whether there were a leak in our Vessell or not and searching for the leak he found some Bibles and other Prayer-Books which said Books he cast into the fire and wished that he had all the Bibles in Christendom and he would serve them all so and demanding of him what was the reason he answered That it was fitting for every man to have the Bible by rote and not to misinstruct them which should have it by rote and the said Roger sitting by