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A77376	A perfect narrative of the grounds & reasons moving some officers of the Army in Ireland to the securing of the Castle of Dublin for the Parlament, on the 13. of December last; with the particulars of the action, and proceedings therein. Published for general satisfaction, by the comissioners appointed by the Gen: Council of Officers to attend the Parliament.	Bridges, John, Colonel.; Warren, Edward, Member of the army in Ireland.; Warren, Abel.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4479; Thomason E1013_16; ESTC R208083	8,107	20

A PERFECT NARRATIVE OF THE Grounds Reasons MOVING Some Officers of the ARMY in IRELAND TO THE Securing of the Castle of Dublin for the Parlament On the 13. of December last With the Particulars of the Action and Proceedings therein Published for general satisfaction by the Comissioners appointed by the Gen Council of Officers to attend the Parliament LONDON Printed by Tho. Newcomb over-against Bainards-Castle in Thames-street 1660. A perfect Narrative of the Grounds and Reasons moving some Officers of the Army in Ireland to the securing the Castle of Dublin for the Parliament c. AS no Nation in the World hath been exercised in so short a tract of time with more prodigious Revolutions then England so is it as admirable to observe the manifold astonishing Providences that are the Concomitants of such marvellous and frequent Alterations in this State and Commonwealth The Spirit of the living Creature hath moved in this great Wheel This Bush hath been often a fire but hitherto not consumed God doth often threaten and shake his angry rod over yet seems unwilling to ruine these Nations And albeit the first Part is always acted on the English Stage the Irish and Scotish Nations are so far influenced thereby that they become participants more or less in her Peace or War in her prosperity and adversity To demonstrate this truth We having as we hope been set on work by the Lord in the contriving and execution of the late Change in Ireland by the evil reports we have heard of that service since our repair to this City finding it necessary have thought it our duty to expose to publike view this Narrative of the dealings of God with the Irish Nation to prevent and remove those disingenuous Misinformations cast upon that action by sundry disaffected persons to the Parliaments cause and interest and whose malevolent aspects did eminently contribute to their late Interruption or to the continuance of it And waving all former actions shall only reflect upon those that have been immediately previous or attending or succeeding that great Enterprise in Ireland And this we shall do faithfully and succinctly The laying aside the Single Person was the bringing in the Parliament which after some years discontinuance was in May 1659. restored to the exercise of their power by the Army in England and after owned with general acclamations and Addresses from all places and particularly from Ireland The honor of which universal compliance from the Army to the Parliament was snatched away by a sort of people whose affections to the wages of unrighteousness hath characterized them in all the three Nations and did appropriate that to themselves alone blasting as Malignants others really zealous in that great work They who were best affected to the Parliament and most forward in their Addresses being by those men branded as Enemies to the Parliament under the notion of having once adhered to the Single Person although the owning that power in the Single Person had been in them nothing more then what had been in the generality of the three Nations and that after to a general satisfaction obliterated by an Act of Indempnity And notwithstanding that having had preferments and advantages above others by the Single Person none had been more forward in adoring that very power in the Single Person then those very men who after so upbraided it as a crime in others These very men were they who above others rejoiced in the dissolving the Parliament by the Protector in the year 1653. And these were they who were for the Rising Sun and were eminently industrious in framing and carrying on Addresses to it from all places after all which having with the Adulterous woman wiped their mouths they say We have done no wickedness And strange it is even to astonishment how they gained belief with that very Parliament on which they even they had so trampled And that notwithstanding all the evils then and after breaking out upon the Nations flowed from themselves actually or occasionally yet were they esteemed Children of peace nay Sufferers and all those evils charged upon others And it is to be admired these things considered by what artifices they should so winde themselves into almost a Supremacie of power in Ireland kept under them in very vassalage whereby in the after-change England it self might have been hazarded Nor will it be from the purpose to observe in part the Method artificially proceeded in for carrying on their destructive designs almost unobserved until the three Nations had been in the evils thereof well-nigh overwhelmed First they laboured the securing to themselves the Army in Ireland in the modelling thereof in England they having the nomination and presenting all Commission Officers who were such as for the most part were fixed to their Interests in whatsoever Changes so as of more then forty Field-Officers there were but a very few but what carried on their designs In the mean while excluding by misinformations secret and at distance Sir Hardress Waller Sir Charls Coote Colonel Ingoldsby Colonel Theophilus Jones Colonel Flower Colonel Redman Major Eyres Lieutenant Colonel Bret Major Read Major Stanley and others of known integrity and all this by false suggestions of Colonel Axtel Colonel Barrow Colonel Sankey Mr. Roberts Doctor Worsley Doctor Harding c. then in London and most of them after hastening into Ireland for compleating there what remained of the modelling that Army as to inferior Officers Secondly they singled out and gained persons to be entrusted with the Government of the Army and Nation fitted for their turn such were Lieutenant General Ludlow Colonel Jones Mr. Corbet and Colonel Thomlinson by which their Instruments rather then Masters they in effect ruled and thereby fixed in themselves and in the hands of their Confidents the principal places of strength in the Nation victualling each place with three months provision together with the County Militiaes and even the management also of civil things as to Sheriffs Justices of Peace c. By all which 't is most apparent Ireland was intended for their place of refuge in their distress elsewhere and so had it been found to the disturbance of the three Nations had Lieutenant General Ludlow in this juncture been admitted as he hoped into his former command he having been sent for to that end from London by that party in Ireland and sent thence to that purpose by express orders from the Lord Fleetwood Thirdly that part of the Army in England under their apostatized General having contrary to all Faith and Allegiance in October last again disturbed the Parliaments sitting it was then the time for that party in Ireland to put in practice what had been before designed whereunto indeed they seemed to be now necessitated for their new created General had ordered by his Letters to the Commander in cheif of the Parliaments forces in Ireland that subscriptions should be taken throughout the Army for owning the Lord Fleetwood as General and Colonel

Lambert as Major General c. though in direct opposition to the Parliament who enacted and declared to the contrary it being further by such subscriptions intended that the Army in Ireland should be engaged for the Army in England against the Parliament The Lord Fleetwood had then required as aforesaid an Election of Agents out of each Regiment to be sent into England for assisting with others in framing proposeing and imposing a new Model of Government for the three Nations c. to the subvertion of the fundamental Laws and the very being of Parliaments and the Liberties of the good people of these Nations in Parliament Herein is Lieutenant General Ludlow active in London by his Letters to his substitute Colonel Jones and to others in Ireland herein are Colonel Jones Mr. Corbet and Colonel Thomlinson concurring and acting vigorously therein falsifying their Faith to the Parliament contrary to the high trust as Commissioners of Parliament reposed in them which their former Title of Commissioners of Parliament they cast off assuming another of Commissioners of the Commonwealth that their Guilt be not read in their Forehead and in the Front of publick Declarations c. And by all of them orders transmitted into the several Quarters for hasting the subscriptions and Elections mentioned For prevention whereof or giving at least some stop to such their pernicious actings against the Parliament and for preserving if it might be the Parliaments interest in Ireland about October last it was from the Lord on the Spirits of his Servants some dissenting Officers about Dublin to consider of some probable meanes to that purpose But the Danger being evident that there should be meetings of such who declared dissatisfactions and dissented from such acting and protested publickly against such designes against the Parliament therefore the said dissenting Officers for giving some colour to their waies with less jealousie pretended the carrying on a Petition to the Commander in chief Colonel Jones for a generall Councel of Officers to meet at Dublin to consider of those great and weighty affairs wherein three Nations were so highly concerned by which general Councel if meeting it was hoped that a check might be given to the other party and that the hands of the dissenters might be strengthned for the Parliament or if such a general meeting of Officers on such an occasion should have bin denyed by the Commander in Chief it would probably returne on him and his wayes with greater disadvantage and in the mean time it was conceived that the private meetings of the said Dissenting Officers might be with less suspition supposed to be in order to the matter only of their Petition mentioned And for giving yet more countenance to this their designe it was by them concluded that Sir Hardress Waller the Major General should be moved to appeare in the head of them before the Commander in chief and the Commissioners of Parliament for setting forward that desire for a general Councel of Officers which he freely promised to do And for gaining to themselves a party abroad under the same covert of a Petition for a general Councel of Officers the said Dissenting Officers sent out into the several Quarters a Petition to be subscribed to that purpose whereby they gained as to so much with their friends with whom they else where Corresponded they also thereby hindred in a great measure those Subscriptions p●omoted by the Lord Fleetwood and his Instruments in Ireland Thereupon Colonel Iones the deputed Commander in chief well foreseeing what might be the Issue and Sequel of such Actings and understanding the Inconvenienc●●s of not Assenting to that Councel of Officers desired which had bin on the first motion rejected taking new Co●●cels he resolveth on a Complying with that therein proposed by the Dissenting Officers before the Petition was delivered Yet to make it insignificant to their ends he had fixed for that purpose on the meeting of those new elected Officers appointed for the meeting in England who within few dayes were expected in Dublin and were supposed persons made for that purpose and that by this meanes also his so yielding to the Petitioners might prove an expedient for stopping their further prosecution of that their Petition in other places that hereby the said Dissenting Officers might be rendered secure until they should be surprised and laid up safe which he intended at the coming in of his Juncto of Officers whom he expected for he the said Colonel Jones had to that end advised with General Fleetwood who by his Letters intercepted ordered the securing them the Dissenting Officers and the disarming all others in the Nation not of their party The said Dissenting Officers being now awakened and sensible of the danger to themselves but principally of that threatned to the three Nations and the Parliaments Interest therein they thereupon found it necessary to put speedily in Execution although but with few hands what had bin before resolved in order whereunto on the 12. of December last they fixed their Resolution for acting the very next day to the seizing and securing the Castle of Dublin and of those the Parliaments Commissioners so Perfidiously acting against their trust Some difficulties interposed in the manner particularly that of five Companies of Foot Quartered in Dublin four being of Colonel Lawrences Regiment and three Troops of Horse brought in by Collonel Jones for the security of the Castle and those of his party not any one of them had bin hitherto prepared for the work The persons also managing that work to Execution were but few viz Colonel Bridges Major Edward Warren Leivtenant Colonel John Warren Captain Abel Warren Leivtenant John Thompson Colonel Theophilus Jones Captain Jeonar Captain Daniel Lisle Colonel Warden and Captain Bond by whose Foot Company then upon an outgard the Castle was surprised notwithstanding which and many other difficulties the Persons mentioned committing the Parliaments Cause in their hands to the Lord and willingly offering up themselves and all deare unto them for a reasonable Sacrifice to the publick according to former resolutions on the 13 December about five of the Clock in the afternoon they first Surprised the Castle wherein but the very day before was laid up 500. Barrels of Powder newly landed besides the former store and intended for other ends they afterward secured Colonel Jones Cheif Baron Corbet and Colonel Thomlinson the Commissioners before mentioned and having declared for the Parliament throughout the City of Dublin they were met with general Acclamations from the highest to the lowest both Army and others expressing all joy except such as were of the Adverse party and all this through mercy without one drop of Blood or so much as Tumult This whole work was begun and perfected within less then two houres and within less then so many weeks in like manner almost throughout the whole Nation And the very same night Colonel Edmond Temple received Orders for imbodying of five Troops of Horse with which