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A25876 An Account of the publick affairs in Ireland, since the discovery of the late plot 1679 (1679) Wing A376; ESTC R8265 8,159 27

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several Counties who were to take such Arms and give Receipts for what they took and send the same to his Majesties Stores That the Justices of the Peace and Officers of the Army should after the time expired search for and seise the Arms of unlicensed Persons or if they found more Arms than were expressed with those that had License they were to bind the Delinquents over to the next Assizes or Sessions of the County And all Persons of the Popish Religion and all Merchants and others retailers of Powder were required to send in an account of their Stores if the same exceeded one pound and of any Powder which they might afterwards receive Another Proclamation issued forbidding Papists to come into the Castle of Dublin or into any Fort or Citadel of that Kingdom Appointing also that the Fairs and weekly Markets of certain places viz. Drogheda Wexford Cork Limerick Waterford Youghal and Galloway be thenceforth kept without the Walls of the said Garrisons And that Papists be not suffered to continue or reside in the said Towns or in any Corporations where Garrisons were kept unless they had for the greatest part of twelve months past inhabited in such Towns And that no persons of the Popish Religion any ways armed be suffer'd to come into the said Fairs or Markets And also strictly requiring all Papists to forbear any unseasonable or night-Meetings or in great or unusual Numbers in any part of the Kingdom And commanding all Officers Civil and Military to be careful to prevent and dissolve all such Meetings to commit the principal Offenders to Prison till they find good security to answer the same the next Sessions and to return an account of their Proceedings therein with the Names of such as occasioned or countenanced the same unto the Council-Board Another Proclamation issued the same day promising a Reward of 10 l. for every Commission'd Officer 5 l. for every Trooper and 40 s. for every Foot-Souldier to such as should discover any of them to have been perverted to the Romish Religion or heard Mass who had formerly taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy And the like to the Discoverer of any that should afterwards be perverted Besides that It was a Rule begun in the present Lord Lieutenant's first Government after the King's Restauration and ever since continued That the Muster-master should check the Pay of every Officer and Souldier of the Army who does not produce a Certificate from the Bishop or Minister of the Place of his having taken the Sacrament according to the Church of England twice every Year That being Informed That several of the Titular Bishops and Regular Clergy had not obeyed the Proclamation of the 16 th of October last for their Departure there issued a circular Letter from the Lord Lieutenant and Council whereby all Justices of the Peace are commanded to make deligent search after them to commit them to Prisons and to return the Names of their Receivers and Harbourers that they might be proceeded against according to Law Another Proclamation issued highly resenting the slackness of the Justices c. in executing the late Proclamation for searching after and seizing of Arms requiring therefore a further search and proposing a method for preventing of forged Licenses And to look upon all who should be remiss in their Duties as Contemners of the King's Authority and proceeded against as the Abettors of those who disturb the Peace Another Proclamation issued taking notice of a Letter scattered in the Streets of Dublin intimating a Conspiracy against the Life of the Lord Lieutenant promising Protection and 200 l. Reward unto the Discoverer And it afterwards appear'd that one Jephson a young man perverted from his Religion by some Irish Priests was a Party engaged in that Design and two Irish Priests his Abettors therein were taken and put into Custody and their Examinations transmitted to the Council here and from thence sent to the House of Lords There were two great Questions among others under the serious Debate of the Lord Lieutenant and Council from whence much ill grounded Reflection hath arisen The one about securing the principal Heads of the most considerable Clans or Families of the Irish who have lost their Estates some supposing that it might conduce to the safety of the English if such Heads were in restraint and that their Followers would not then presume or adventure to run into Rebellion But upon serious Considerations it was thought That such a proceeding might rather quicken a Rebellion than prevent it For the Numerous Followers who depended wholly upon their Masters Interest and Authority for the support of themselves and Families being angred or afrighted at the ill usage of their Principals and being loosned from all Dependances might rather put themselves upon some unlawful way of Living by turning Tories than intrust themselves to the pleasure of the Government and in the quality of Tories they would be equally mischeivous and especially to the English dispersed in their remote Dwellings as a small Rebellion Besides this further reason did dissuade the taking up these chief men as Hostages For if their Followers were but few they could not do the English much hurt as they are but if strong and numerous it would be easily in their power to surprize so many English Gentlemen living in their remote and scattered Dwellings in the Country as would soon redeem such Hostages and thereby render all the Charge and Care of such an Undertaking fruitless and only serve to breed ill blood So that the Lord Lieutenant hath in some measure steered a different Course by shewing civility and giving good words to such of the Heads of the Irish as come neer him whereby he finds out early what is doing among their Dependants and hath conceived this method of obviating Dangers more safe than either by Rigors to compel them or their Followers to live always in Conjunction and talk of their misfortunes or by Imprisonment of so many of the Nobility of a Kingdom without Crimes objected or Commands from hence incur the Censure of Arbitrary Proceedings which are neither safe or fit for him to bear Another Point which hath been under Consideration before the Lord Lieutenant and Council was a Proposal for dreyning the Corporations especially those that are Garrison'd from the numbers of Irish Papists that live among them in order to prevent any Surprise or Private Conspiracy But when it was reflected on That notwithstanding the several Orders and Proclamations that have from time to time been issued from the Government for the Expulsion of Irish Inhabitants and Servants from the Towns and Garrisons and that very few in respect of the number complained of were Licensed to return It was manifest that it was the English themselves who did in most places receive them in again for their own advantage not knowing well how to live without them They wanted Servants and Tenants and Tradesmen for of such
are these numbers in the Towns constituted and the Irish Papists supplied them with such and the English did not conceive this sort of People to be so dangerous as beneficial unto them So that the Lord Lieutenant and Council do only forbear their expulsion in whole or in part for convenience and gratification to the English However 't is certain there can never be a true Remedy herein as to the security and improvement of that Kingdom unless by a large accession of English and Protestants there And untill that shall happen all other Trials upon those sort of Irish will be in a manner but to lay some Towns and very much of the Lands of the Protestants quite wast and untenanted And yet it so falls out That many on this side not considering the disproportion of the Irish to the English nor the difference of the Laws there as to Capital and pecuniary Mulcts from what they are in England do think many things are defective because they are not there executed as they are and may be executed in this Kingdom Upon these and other reasons of weight the two Propositions forementioned were thought impracticable But the principal and present security of that Kingdom consisting in the ballancing the Numbers of Irish with a superiority of strength and leaving them naked and the English in Arms The Lord Lieutenant and Council did think fit to revive the Commission of Array so that the Militia of that Kingdom hath been raised in all parts and is now found in a better Condition than ever it was known to be And to supply the defect of Arms for such Militia there were not only appointed some Merchants as publick Undertakers to bring in Arms from abroad but withal not wholly to depend upon their performance the Lord Lieutenant hath procured a supply out of his Majesties Stores here of Powder and Arms to the value of about 13000 l. which are now actually landed in Ireland and for payment of which he himself stands engaged to the Office of Ordnance here until a Parliament do meet in Ireland to make provision for things of this Importance But surely to have proceeded with any Degree of Precipitation while the English were so unfurnished had not been very prudential As to his Majesties Forces in that Kingdom they are well disciplin'd and well paid and it hath pleased his Majesty lately to send over a reinforcement of about 1200 Men. And the Army is so distributed as that the Cities which are the Garrisons of that Kingdom are secured as well as it is possible for the proportion of such a Militia and such an Army to make them There is all the discountenance given to Mass-Houses in all places which the Laws of that Kingdom will bear Nor is there Licence for any Arms given to any but such as need them and for no more than is necessary for their security against Tories in their remote and scattered Habitations and for whose Loyalty and peaceable Demeanour the Lord Lieutenant is first sufficiently certified by some Protestants of Note The Forts are in as good a Condition as the Stores and the Revenue of that Kingdom will allow and perhaps somewhat better But it is manifest that much more is needful in every kind in case of Forreign Attempts And therefore seeing the Charge of the Government and the Income of the Revenue are so exactly ballanced by a setled Establishment that it is not in the Power of the Lord Lieutenant to alter the same and that no Money can be raised from the Subject but by Act of Parliament Therefore the Lord Lieutenant hath been long endeavouring to have a Parliament called and to that end several Bills were transmitted the last Summer from the Lord Lieutenant and Council which now remain at the Council-Board here together with a large Representation of the State of Accounts depending with the Lord Ranelagh and his Partners who were late Undertakers for the Revenue of that Kingdom And until there shall be leisure which since the discovery of this horrid Plot there scarce hath been to send back these things with the mature Considerations they deserve there is no visible means left for the raising and augmenting the Publick Revenue to such a proportion as may put that Kingdom in a sufficient posture of defence as to Army Fortifications and Stores in case of any powerful Invasion But for the present all things are there in full Peace and Quietness And for further account of the present State of that Kingdom and of what hath there been done or further reason of the particulars here mentioned or of any other thing which may have been left undone There is no doubt but full satisfaction will be given by the Lord Lieutenant and Council when such particular Enquiries and Demands are made as shall be thought convenient All which is humbly submitted A Continuation of the former Account from such faithful Relations as have since come to several Hands from Ireland ORders having been issued forth to the Commissioners of Array for viewing the Militia and they certifying by several Returns that many Arms were wanting both in the Troops and Foot-Companies the Lord Lieutenant made application to his Majesty to have Arms Ammunition sent from England And some Merchants in this Kingdom viz. John Rogerson and John Castleton of Dublin and George Mac Cartney of Bellfast did propose to bring in several quantities of Arms and Ammunition and to place the same in his Majesties Magazins or to sell or dispose of them in such manner as the Lord Lieutenant and Council should appoint at reasonable rates And accordingly Licences were granted and signed for them and the said Mac Cartney took out his Licence But the Officers of the Ordnance in Ireland proposing to bring Arms and Ammunition out of his Majesties Magazine in the Tower of London and to furnish the Kingdom with such proportions as the Lord Lieutenant should think fit at as reasonable Rates as any others could do for as good and servicable Arms The other Licences were stayed having not been call'd for by the said Merchants before these Proposals of the Officers of the Ordnance Letters from the Council-board issued to the Commissioners of Array in the several Counties giving them notice of the expectation of the suddain arrival of Arms and Ammunition out of England and that they should certifie to the Board the quantity and quality of the Arms they would have occasion to buy for the use of the Militia and to have the money ready to be paid upon delivery of the Arms. Letters were sent to several persons at Galway and Buffin to be diligent in searching and seizing on any Arms that might be brought in there upon intimation that at Brest Arms were put on board two Fly-boats belonging to Galway the Masters whereof were Papists And Directions were given to the Farmers of the Revenue to write to the Officers of the several Ports in the Kingdom to be very diligent in searching for and securing all Arms and Ammunition which should be brought into the Kingdom A Proclamation issued out against Tories and Robbers And for the reasons therein expressed for seizing their nearest Relations that is to say their Wives Fathers Mothers Brothers and Sisters of such of them as shall be out upon their keeping that is not ameaneable to Law and committing them to close Prison until such Tories shall be kill'd or taken And also for seizing and committing to Prison the respective Popish pretended Parish-Priests transporting them thence beyond the Seas unless within fourteen dayes after any Robbery Burglary or Murder committed the Persons who are guilty shall be Kill'd or Taken or Discovery made within that time so that such Offenders may be apprehended and brought to Justice A Proclamation issued forth for Reward to such Persons as shall apprehend any of the popish regular Clergy who have not transported themselves according to a former Proclamation Viz. For every Titular Arch-Bishop or Bishop and every Jesuit ten pounds and for every other person commanded by the said Proclamation to depart five pounds An Order of the Lord Lieutenant and Council was sent to the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of Dublin for Dissolving and Dispersing the Meetings in several Mass-houses in the City and Suburbs of Dublin And not to permit any Popish Services to be celebrated in the said Houses or other Publick places within the said City or Suburbs And to apprehend and commit to Prison such as shall offend until they find security to answer at the Quarter Sessions Letters sent from the Council-Board in order to the removing of all Papists Inhabitants out of Galway Lymrick Waterford Kilkenny Clonmel and Drogheda except some few Trading Merchants Artificers and others necessary for the said Towns and Garrisons those being the principal in the Kingdom where the Papists are most numerous Letters sent from the Council-Board to the Chief Magistrates of the several Corporations of Cork Lymerick Waterford Youghal Clonmel Galway Kilkenny Drogheda Kinsale Wexford Athlone and Ross for suppressing the Assemblies of the Papists and prohibiting the celebration of their Popish Services within and without the Walls of the said Corporations An Order issued out from the Lord Lieutenant commanding Colonel Fitz-Patrick immediately to depart from the City of Dublin and not to come within twenty miles thereof or of any other place where his Lordship should at any time reside as he should answer the contrary at his utmost peril FINIS October 14. 1678 October 16. 1678. Novemb. 6. 1678. Novemb. 2. 1678. Novemb. 20. 1678. Novemb. 20. 1678. December 2. 1678. December 12. 1678. December 13. 1678. March 3. 1678. March 11. 1678. March 26. 1679. March 16. 1679 Mar. 31. 1679. April 7. 1679.