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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38847	An exact account of the affairs in Ireland, and the present condition of London-Derry with the particulars of the barbarous murder of the Bishop of Waterford / in a letter from a gentleman at Liverpool, to a person of quality in London.	Gentleman at Liverpool.	1689 (1689)	Wing E3564; ESTC R7239	3,727	2

An Exact Account of the Affairs in Ireland And the present Condition of LONDON-DERRY With the Particulars of the Barbarous Murder of the Bishop of Waterford In a Letter from a Gentleman at Liverpool to a Person of Quality in London Licensed July 23. 1689. SInce the state of Ireland in general and the condition of London-Derry in particular is now become the subjects of most Mens Discourse and Conversation I think it not improper to send you the exactest and freshest Account I can of what has been done in that Kingdom which I have gathered from certain Gentlemen lately arrived here some in a small Vessel others in a Wherry They assure us that Major-General Kirk had lately sent in another Messenger into the Town with Orders to cause a White Flag to be set upon the Church-steeple so soon as he got in and to fire a Gun for every Week's Provision they had yet remaining and that accordingly four Guns were fir'd from the Town That Coll. Gourdon O Neale being admitted into the Town had made a very plausible offer to the Besieged That amongst other advantages they should have their Lives Liberties and Estates be permitted to wear their Swords and go whither they pleas'd provided they would surrender But their answer was That they had no reason to trust to any Promise they made neither would they hope or look for the performance of any thing that should be offer'd them since the solemnest Assurances and most formal Capitulations had been violated to their Friends and Neighbours when they came under their power and that those that had Protection granted them by the late King and General Officers had notwithstanding been plundered of all they had and driven away from their Houses and Habitations to starve in the Fields and therefore were resoved to stand it out to the last Man hoping in a few days to be effectually relieved from England That Lieutenant-General Hamilton being out of favour and employment for having as was pretended used the Protestants in the North with too much lenity the French General who was commanded to go to the Siege of Derry had refus'd to march unless he might have a full power to act as he thought fit declaring openly that for his part he was for putting all to the Sword and would have the whole Country depopulated and laid waste as is usually practis'd by the French. But in this he was oppos'd by the English and most of the Irish Nobility as being a piece of unseasonable as well as of unjustifiable Inhumanity in the present juncture of Affairs However the late King condescended so far to his French Importunity as to leave the Town of London-Derry wholly to his discretion not thinking it fit to gratifie him any farther in regard that several Towns Families and Persons in those Parts were under his particular Protection Yet how little this Protection does avail in many places the miserable and deplorable condition of divers Towns and Families does abundantly declare and the remaining British and Protestant Inhabitants being daily threaten'd by their implacable Enemies with a general Massacree and total Extirpation so soon as the English Forces shall set foot in that Kingdom A Tragical Instance of their Cruelty has lately happened to the Bishop of Waterford to whose House several French and Irish being come they were very civilly entertain'd by him till at last some of the Popish Priests that were in their Company began to pick Quarrels and say very provoking things the Bishop admonisht them and exhorted them to Civility and to a Christian temper of mind and expression which they not regarding the good old Bishop being aged about 70 Years was barbarously murdered in his own Parlour the Dean and several of his Servants were much wounded and escaped very narrowly running the same Fate with the Bishop When they had done this Villany they fell presently on rifling and plundering the House and carried with them all they could conveniently bring away setting Fire to the rest which soon laid the whole House in Ashes These Gentlemen do further add That the French and Irish bigotted Papists being daily set on and exasperated by their governing Priests and Jesuits 't is feared they may be soon transported to great acts of Cruelty unless the merciful hand of Providence appear for their deliverance That the late King himself is not very well pleased with the posture of his Affairs there finding that the coyning of and dispersing of so much Copper Money does do him a great deal of Disservice in the Minds of the People who look upon it as a form'd Design to get into his hands what Money Silver and Gold he can to make provision against another storm and it is said that a considerable Sum of Money is already put on Board a Vessel that went off from Kingsale bound for France wherein were also divers Priests and Jesuits who not liking the present condition of their Affairs in Ireland and being afraid to stay until the passages are shut up thought fit to retire again into France That discontent and grumbling do generally prevail amongst the better sort of the Irish insomuch that they begin to be less zealous and concern'd for the Interest of the late King that they are kept together with the hopes they are daily fed with of invading England when every one of their Fortunes is to be made and great Riches to be had being made believe that the English are so far from being in a condition to invade them that there is a considerable Party in England that has declared for the late K. and will be ready to joyn with them upon their first landing that the French are Masters of the Sea and are daily expected to come and transport them over that Scotland for the most part has declared for him Dundee having defeated all those that appeared in opposition to his Interest is become Master of the Field and that Edinborough Castle holds out still these being the Arts wherewith the staggering Minds and Hearts of K. James's Interest in that Kingdom are kept up This Practice became so fashionable that the very Night the News came to Dublin of Dundee's being defeated and of the Castle of Edinborough's being surrendred great Bonfires were ordered to be made and ringing of Bells to express the Joy for the Victory Dundee had obtain'd over his Enemies and that he was marching with his Victorious Army towards the Relief of Edinborough Castle The Wherry that came in hither yesterday left Dublin on Thursday last on pretence of going to Wicklow for Fire-wood and brought over Capt. St. George and five other Gentlemen They say that the News at Dublin was that about 7 or 8000 Protestants were driven to London-Derry Walls who when almost starved the Town took Compassion on them and brought them into the Town and refresh'd them ordering at the same time several Gallowses to be set up on the Wind-Mill-hill and all their Prisoners amongst whom they