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A24038 An Abstract of the unnatural rebellion and barbarous massacre of the Protestants in the kingdom of Ireland in the year 1641 collected from the most authentick copies. 1689 (1689) Wing A146; ESTC R5978 17,369 32

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AN ABSTRACT OF THE Unnatural REBELLION AND Barbarous Massacre OF THE PROTESTANTS In the KINGDOM of IRELAND In the Year 1641. Collected from the most Authentick Copies LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Richard Janemay in Queens-head-alley in Pater-noster-Rowe 1689. AN ABSTRACT OF THE Unnatural REBELLION and Barbarous MASSACRE of the PROTESTANTS in the Kingdom of IRELAND in 1641. THE implacable Rancour and restless Attempts of those in Communion with the Church of Rome tho they have in all Ages display'd themselves in the most bloody Characters and have had the barbarous Effects of depopulating Regions Countreys and Kingdoms by Massacres Sword and Fire in order to the setting up and establishing their Religion by destroying the Lives and Properties of those of different perswasions Yet perhaps amongst all their Efforts of that Kind none have deserved greater abhorrence nor given a blacker Testimony of their Inhumanity than the barbarous and bloody Irish Rebellion which brake out in the Year 1641. and was carried on with that Rage and Violence that it laid almost all the parts of that deplorable Countrey in Blood and Confusion depriving by a most horrid Massacre above two hundred thousand Persons of all Ages Sexes and Qualities of their dearest Lives Leaving Children without Parents Wives deprived of their Husbands and Husbands robb'd of their Wives sometimes without distinction burying whole Families in the same Fate And though there be many Histories of large Volumes that have Chronicled this Affair to be still kept alive in the Memories of Posterity yet it must not be accounted a Work improper at this time to remarque some of the most important and best attested Passages relating thereunto This little Collection presents you with nothing but what comes under the Hands of the Great Ministers of State and those which at that time had a share in the management of the publick Affairs and Administration of that unhappy Kingdom The Priests and others of that Communion of the Irish Nation have not been wanting to decrie and as much as in them lies to blast all Evidences of that Kind and have taken all occasions to Remonstrate the Pressures which they pretend to have suffered under the then Government in that Kingdom and spare not to term it Tyrannical They intimate as if their Case were like that of the Israelites in the Land of Egypt and equal to those Persecutions for Religion in the Primitive Times In a Remonstrance of Grievances presented to his then Majesty in behalf of the Catholicks of Ireland and given in to his Majesties Commissioners at Trime the 17 of March 1642. they Express themselves to this purpose THat only some Catholicks considering the deplorable and desperate Condition they were in and apprehending the Plots laid to Extinguish their Religion and Nation did take Arms in the North in Maintenance of their Religion and for the Preservation of Life Liberty and Estate together with his Majesties Rights and that the Lords and Gentlemen dwelling within the English Pale were likewise by the great Rigour and severity used by the State towards them inforced to take up Arms in their own defence This is the language of that Remonstrance whereby they endeavour to cast the Odium of their infamous Treasons and Butcheries upon his then Majesty and the Principal Officers of State within that Kingdom of which there needs no other Confutation than a true and Impartial Relation of the beginning and Progress of that Rebellion The Kingdom of Ireland was brought in subjection to the Crown of England by the victorious Arms of Henry the second the beginning of whose Conquests bear Date from the year of our Lord 1172. The Towns and Villages were contemptible their Buildings so poor that when the King arrived at their chief City of Dublin he set up a Long House made of smoothed Wattles after the manner of their Countrey and therein kept his Christmass finding there no place fit for his Reception and Entertainment The Inhabitants were as uncultivated as their Lands being generally void of all manner of Civility govern'd by no settled Laws but living like beasts of Prey biting and devouring one another without any reasonable Constitutions for determining of their Properties or to fence them against open Force and Violence Murthers Rapes and the most notorious Robberies and other Acts of Inhumanity and Barbarism raging amongst them without Controul or means of Redress For the first Century almost the English kept themselves in Bodies distinct and separate from the Irish not suffering them to inhabit or mix amongst them but in after-times by Degrees they admitted them into a fatal familiarity which polluted them with their beastly Customs and Manners for prevention of which in the times of that most excellent Prince Edward the third many good and wholsome Laws were Enacted Notwithstanding which they have not sail'd at all times to Rise up and imbrue their hands in the Blood of their English Neighbours so that Ireland hath for a long time been a true Aceldama or Field of Blood and a devouring Sepulchre of the English Nation For by the Histories of those times we cannot find that there was any settled Peace or good Establishment from the first coming over of the English until the Reign of Queen Elizabeth which contain'd above three hundred and eighty years during the greatest part of which time they were in Perpetual Troubles and Combustions being extreamly Harass'd and over-worn with Misery whereupon that Blessed Queen even in the beginning of her Reign sent over Prudent and Religious Governours to advance the Work of Reformation and enacted many more wholsome Laws against the Barbarous Customs of the Irish Notwithstanding which Care and all the Circumspection of that wise Princess still there was one Rebellion breaking out upon the Neck of another even amidst their repeated Submissions and pretended Obedience to the English Crown which occasion'd her to send over a Royal Army under the Conduct of her most Renown'd and Choice English Commanders Nevertheless it was not without great difficulty and Effusion of much English Blood and Treasure that that Glorious work of reducing the Traitor Tyrone was accomplished The calamities of that War and the raging of a Famine had reduced that Kingdom to a deplorable Condition in the daies of King James the first who seized the six Counties within the Province of Vlster which had belonged to the Rebels some part of which were reserved to gratifie the well-affected Natives and the rest distributed in certain Proportions amongst the English Undertakers who settled themselves and many of their Families in those parts laying the Foundations of some good Towns incompassed with Stone Walls raising several Castles and Houses of strength in the parts of the Countrey to the great Comfort and security of the Brittish Inhabitants who with great cost and much Industry cultivated the Land and introduced Civility amongst the Natives the whole Kingdom began exceedingly to flourish the People to multiply and increase and the