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A63745 A true representation to the King and people of England how matters were carried on all along in Ireland by the late King James in favor of the Irish papists there from his accession to the crown, to the tenth of April, 1689 / by an impartial eye-witness. Impartial eye-witness. 1689 (1689) Wing T3098; ESTC R24644 12,268 21

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but be sure the Cattle must be far enough from the place searched and sometime when 30 or 40 good fat Bullocks came to be made a Prey that about a 3d or 4th part must be laid aside for the Pot the rest for a Bribe of 5 or 6 l. would be got by some of the Soldiers who would swear lustily they were forced to promise so much to their Spy Yet no sooner on the delivery of the greater part of the Cattle and the money receiv'd but be sure in a night or two the Cattle were again stolen Thus the merry Drovers as they called themselves valued not to joyn about 60 or 80 or 100 in one Party and force away what Cattle they had a mind to so that sometimes 100 Sheep would scarce feed the Drivers with their Families and Friends and a purchace of about 100 was only fit to be divided among them and their Crew into Lots and Parts but they called them Steages And now these new rais'd Forces were most of them half armed out of the Stores the rest were pretty well fitted for Pikes made in the Country and the Priests and Fryars commanded on obedience to the Holy See that no person whatsoever should appear at Mass without his long Skeane and Half-pike which accordingly was performed and one person who had not one foot of Land but what he Farmed from an English Gentleman had 12 dozen of each made for himself and Tenants an account whereof was sent the Government but no notice taken And now was it judged fit that those new rais'd forces should betake themselves to Garrisons which was suddainly done And not only were the Kings Garrisons Forts and Castles well stored with them but many Gentlemens houses that were strengthy or whose ownes were judged disaffected to them were likewise filled with their Numbers and the Proprietors or Possessors turned out and the provision seized and it was an extraordinary favour to get off any Goods that were of any value on pretence that it was for the Kings use and that he would make satisfaction as he thought fit and that it was done by his Command Now was it plain that this Army was not designed to fight with Butterflies and that the Lives of all the Protestants that stayed were in apparent danger On which an humble request was made to one or two persons of greatest Quality and Station to stand up for the Protestant Religion But either through too much Loyalty or judging the scattered and dispersed Protestants too weak to withstand their shock much less to disarm the Party designed was therefore declined and judged unfit to attempt as they proposed seizing the Sword Lord Deputy and Dublin Matters being thus transacted it was judged by the Protestant Gentry of the West of Ireland that in regard Sligoe which is a Sea-port Town and the chief in the County one of the best Posts and strongest being also well situated to pass from the North to Connaght the Irish Company a little before being drawn out of it to a General Rendezvouz and many of their new raised Forces possessing them selves daily of the most considerable strengths in the County as Belahy Moygara which belongs to the L. Kingston and his Tenants Ousted and Ballymoate therefore lest they should likewise possess themselves of Sligo as they intended it was resolved by the Protestants there to enter it and possess themselves of it for their defence and safety and so they did unanimously issue their Declaration on the 4th day of Jan●ar last that they associated themselves in the necessary defence of their Lives and the Protestant Religion as by Law established which to their utmost powers they would maintain and would not prejudice even Roman Catholicks whilst they demeaned themselves according to the Laws The Protestants then chose the Right Honorable Robert L. Baron of Kingstone and the Honor. Chidley Coote Esq their Commanders in chief to whom they promised intire obedience And accordingly all were formed into Troops and Companies and all furnished themselves with the Men under their respective Commands with Horses Arms Ammunition Provisions c. imploying all the Smiths in fixing Arms making Pikes Stars and other Inventions against Horse and to defend Forts buying all the Scythes and fixing them on Poles building up the old and decayed Forts making Draw bridges ordering frontier Garrisons keeping strong Watch and Ward on all Quarters at Grange near Mid-way to Balishannon to hold their Correspondence with Derry at New-town Dromahere and Mannerhamelton to have intelligence with Enniskilling at Dr. Leslies at Coolooni and Marcray to prevent an infal from the Boyle or Ballymoate at Ardinglass Lackan and Cottlestown to awe the new rais'd Army in the County of Mayo part of which had seized the Bishop of Killalla's House And when one Mr. Tremble a Servant of Sir Arthur Gore 's ask'd one Captain Walter Bourke why he would seize the Bishop's House and make it a Garrison the Gate was shut upon him and he set upon and barbarously murthered Likewise an Account of the Protestants who were at Foxford and many other places who were drawing to Sligo on the Orders that issued for disarming all Protestants of the Kingdom as also to take all their Service-Horses which was obeyed with that Secrecy Diligence and Care that not so much as a Plow-Horse was left so that many a Family for want of a Horse to carry their Luggage was forced to stay and submit to their merciless Cruelty but this Garrison relieved and conveyed many a distressed and robbed Protestant to Sligo who soon was recruited and put into Troop or Company at the Officers cost During this time there was a secret Intreague with Secretary Ellis and Mr. Temple As also a sham Letter from the Lord Tyrconel into England about delivering the Sword and had there one been sent to demand the Sword with about a Thousand Soldiers 't is not doubted but it would be delivered though at the same time the Lord Montjoy least he should stand up for the Protestants is Complemented with an Embassy into France And now the Irish getting all this time to strengthen themselves and the Arms and Horses taken from the Protestants they began to encrease to an Army of 90000. strong And all this while there was neither Commission Arms Ammunition or Money sent to the Protestants at Sligo notwithstanding that as they were Informed it was earnestly sollicited by a Person of Quality in England who knew the goodness and strength of that Post they were in and that they daily expected some Succours so that the Protestants there began to be in very great want of Ammunition and notwithstanding all their endeavours wanted many Arms tho' all the fowling Pieces were cut into Carbines and Smiths continually at work And the Sword to which the Supreme Acknowledgment is paid was still undemanded in the Lord Tyrconnel's hand and sure without Command he would not lay it down yet the Protestants at Sligo continued in