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A97166	A brief narration of the plotting, beginning & carrying on of that execrable rebellion and butcherie in Ireland. With the unheard of devilish-cruelties and massacres by the Irish-rebels, exercised upon the Protestants and English there. Faithfully collected out of depositions, taken by commissioners under the Great Seal of Ireland. Hereunto are added observations, discovering the actions of the late King; and manifesting the concernment of the Protestant-army now imployed in Ireland. Published by special authority.	Waring, Thomas, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing W873; Thomason E596_2; ESTC R204016	31,881	70

the Papists Whereupon though too many were there before yet great swarms of Priests Friers flew into the same three lands out of Spain Italy France Flanders and other places Who were so intent sollicitous close and subtile in their courses as men long bred versed therein That upon their secret and subtile surmises of danger there threatned by the Puritan party as they call them to the Protestant party to their the Romish Religion whose as they pretended subversion was their principall aim much dissention and differences arose and for a long time boiled and burned in the breasts of great numbers some naturally wicked others perhaps onely seduced and surprized ignorantly following the time and their acquaintances that on a sudden after several years spent in broaching and sowing of these jealousies and in preparing of the other provision while the harmelesse Protestant thought least onely hoped to be quiet there were sent out of Spain a strong fleet of ships fully manned with great numbers of Commanders Souldiers and Mariners and as well fraught and furnished with Artilery Arms Amunition Money and all other necessaries for Warre all which were designed for Ireland One half to be landed at Kinsale in the South-west the other half at Killabegges in the North. Howbeit a fierce and strong wind carrying them perforce past the Coast of Ireland into the Narrow Sea the Hollanders fell upon them and as it is well known sunk many took divers yet some escaped This plot thus farre by the great Providence prevented the Rebellion could not then begin in Ireland as indeed it should have done had the fleet as was intended landed there Whereupon afterwards it was further plotted and agreed amongst those Machivillian Factors of Spain and Rome and many other Lay-Papists of England Scotland and Ireland all sworn to secresie and still notwithstanding that their high disaster as much as they could keeping their former plot and resolution on foot That in all those three Lands See the deposition of M. Thomas Crant of the County of Cavan amongst others the Papists should generally rise up in arms upon one set day then to surprise the tower of London in England the Castle of Edenburgh in Scotland and the Castle of Dublin in Ireland with as many more Castles Forts Holds and places of strength as they could possibly feaze upon in all the three Lands And the better to enable themselves to surprise the Castle and City of Dublin it was concluded that twenty Popish Souldiers out of every County of the Land should the night before the time appointed for the taking of Dublin privately make their addresses to that City the Suburbs and other places there about to be in readinesse to assist the taking and spoyling of the same Castle and Citty and to do execution upon the Protestants which numbers of men and many more came thither at the time appointed a great part whereof crept into the City and Suburbs the night before the residue remained about the Ditches Hedges obscure places there as fully appeared on the Greens of that Citty the next morning to the great terror of the honest Citizens And also because they might not want full strength to perform and bear out their design they took occasion to make use of another force raised there upon pretence to be sent to forreign service some of which they practised should be brought up to take shipping at Dublin and thereabout lye in readinesse and the rest to lye in other parts near the Port towns of Ireland all to countenance and back the businesse They taking the advantage of certain Commissions all dated about May 1641 granted by the King to severall Commanders viz. One to Colonell Garret Barrie another to Colonel Tibbot Taaff now Lord Taaff another to Col. Iohn Barrie another to Sir Jeames Dillon all Irish Papists for raising levying for each of these Colonells 1000. menin Ireland out of those men formerly raised in that land by the Earl of Strafford and then lately disbanded The same Commissions purporting that they should be transported for the service of any Forreign Prince in Amitie with the King the rather to free Ireland of them These Commissions were in Iuly afterwards which was about three moneths before the breaking out of the Rebellion brought over and delivered by these Colonels to the Lord Justices and Councel of Ireland whereupon four thousand of the disbanded souldiers aforesaid were raised one Regiment whereof under the comand of the said Colonel Iohn Barrie was brought to the parts near Dublin the rest to other Ports of Ireland and there for a seeming defect of transportation and provision they hanckered and stayed for a good time yet seeming daily to prepare but the Irish Popish Knights and other Burgesses of the Parliament finding the Lord Justices and Councel forward to send them away moved extreamly in the Parliament House that they might not go out of the Land till the Kings pleasure should be further known The Lord Justices and Councel being thus extreamly importuned by the Parliament then grown strong in Irish were drawn to write into England signifying the Parliaments earnest desire therein yet gave no impediment to the going of those Regiments who in truth were sufficiently retarded by the vehement labour of Priests and Jesuites and some of the Parliament Papists amongst those Commanders so as they continued there for the most part till the Rebellion brake out And then perceiving their plot for surprizing of Dublin to be prevented Many Irish and other stangers hovered in England and London and the Suburbs the same time as I have been credibly informed they and all those before mentioned which came out of all the Counties as aforesaid unto and about Dublin dispersed and afterward became dexterous and ready actors in the insuing rebellion And although by divine providence this Plot were prevented in England and Scotland yet how it began and took effect in Ireland is too well known to those many eye witnesses who were inhumanly turned out of their estates and exposed to all the miseries of cold wet and hunger if not for increase of their miseries sharply wounded and maimed and was too well felt by others whose lives were torn and rent from them in this day of visitation appearing by the numerous examinations And before I make mention of the other things which you shall find in the ensuing tract give me leave to say somewhat of that delivered upon Oath by that Reverend and learned Preacher Henry Iones Doctor in Divinity as he heard it expressed and confessed unto him by two Friers Who relateth See the examination of Dr. Henry Iones Com. Dublin 337. dep that howsoever the first breaking out of the fire of this rebellion into a flame began but the 23 of October 1641. yet was it smoaking many years before God having given many glimpses for the discovery of it had they been duly considered or prosecuted to a discovery For

first about three or four years before the Rebellion began to break out amongst many prohibited books brought into the City of Limerick from forreign parts and seized on by the Reverend man Doctour Web then Bishop there amongst the rest one was framed as an addition to the first part which was printed conteining a discourse of the Friers of the Augustine Order sometime seated in the Town of Armagh in Vlster but by reason of the times at that present resident as the writing imported in the City of Limerick in Munster that whilest that Convent flourished at Armagh it was protected and largely provided for by the then Earl of Tirone since whose expulsion out of Ireland that Convent was also decayed and driven to those distresses it did for the present complain to undergo yet that within three years Ireland should find that the said Earl had a son inheriting his fathers virtues who should restore that Kingdome to its former liberty and that Covent to its first Lustre About the same time a Popish Priest at Limerick aforesaid gave out that within three years there should not be a Protestant in Ireland About the same time also one Walter Newgent of Rathaspick in the County of Meath Gentleman son to Walter Newgent Esquire a man of good fortunes upbraiding an Irish Protestant who was a Parish Clark with his Religion and both speaking Latine the said Newgent uttered these words Infra tres annos veniunt tempus potentiâ in Hibernia quando tu longe likely meaning diu pendebis in cruce propter Diabolicam Vestram Religionem The party to which this was spoken fearing the power of the man durst not speak of it onely in private but being examined judicially deposed the same About the same time near the Naas about 12 miles from Dublin a Papist Priest newly arrived out of Flanders enformed the Lord Deputy Strafford of an intercourse of Letters between the young Earle of Tirone with others in Flanders and the then Popish Primate of Armagh Rely concerning an invasion within a short time intended upon Ireland The Priest offering so his person might be secured to direct such as should be thereunto appointed to the place where the letters lay in the Custody of the said Rely Rely was thereupon sent for together with the Popish Vicar generall of Armagh both were committed to the Castle of Dublin but soon after released and the informer dismissed with ten pounds a suit of clothes and some other reward Thus far Doctor Iones It appeareth also by the examinations that many other informations were given of an intended Rebellion to the said Lord of Strafford and to Sir George Radcliffe Knight severall years before it brake out from severall parts of Ireland For we find it proved that about April See Dr. Maxwells dep Coun. Armagh 1638. one Priest Mac-Casy came from Rome with the Popes Bull for the Parish of Tinon and being kept out by Sir Phelim ô Neal he talked freely of a Rebellion plotted and intended by Sir Phelim and others and told the then Lord Deputy Strafford thereof at Dublin One Mr. Richard Parsons a Minister See Mr. Richard Parsons dep Coun. Cavan was told by four severall persons of credit which he namelth three years and above before the Rebellion that the plot for the intended Rebellion was discovered to the then Lord Deputy which was the Lord of Strafford by one that was servant to Sir Phelim ô Neal and that thereupon the Popish titularie Primate of Ireland was apprehended and imprisoned at Dublin but afterwards procured favour to be enlarged so as he heard no further enquiry made after it untill the fire thereof brake out into a flame which otherwise might have been prevented and thereby the lives of many poor innocent people saved that were murthered and taken away besides the common calamitie wasting and depopulating of the Land prevented And it is much to be presumed James Stewart Coun. Cavan that the Irish had too much influence from the Lord of Strafford for that some of them divulged that one cause of their insurrection was the cutting off of the Lord Lieutenant protesting that such as were Britanes should pay for it Another instance thereof is Mr. George Creichtoun Coun. Cavan that one Mr. John Bellowe being sent by the house of Commons of Ireland to prosecute the Earl of Strafford in the Parliament of England and telling the business to the Earl of Niddesdale that Earl mightily diswaded him with these words If he be taken away our Ctholique Religion cannot stand for the case is so with us now that if he live we hope to do well if he miscarry we are all undone Another instance hereof we have from one Mirs Champin Alice Champin Coun. Fermanagh who having been robbed of a very great estate and her husband and many others in her house murthered the Rebels tould her that the Earl of Strafford was the Plotter of that their rising and that if the said Earl had been living they should not have had so much trouble in vanquishing of Ireland as they had Another hint we have both of the antiquity of the Plot for the Rebellion and of somewhat concerning the Earl of Strafford and the Lord of Derries knowing of it which is this Roger Holland Coun. Monoghan One Mr. Roger Holland an English Gentleman of good value after he was robbed of a good estate by the Irish fled towards Dublin and comming to the Newry and Carlingford was in both places in company with Colonel Richard Plunket Note that this was in the beginning of the Rebellion 1641. a notable active Rebel who there told him and many others that the said plot had been for seventeen years then past in contriving and that Frier Melone and himself and one of the Lord Trimblestons sons another Frier with many others of the Nobility of the Palle and in the North knew of it a long time but that some others of the Nobles knew not of it till of late and as for Sir Phelim ô Neal he made no account as he said but for all Ireland to be his own and the others of his party for that was their intent and for all Puritans and Protestants they should all suffer but such as should goe to Mass and but few of them should be left but those that knew of the aforesaid plot which was partly the Bishop of Derry for whom they daily wished for he was the onely man of the English which they loved best And that if they had him he should take no hurt And heartily wished that the late Lord Lieutenant were alive for if he had lived they had lived well enough and would have had all the strength in the Kingdome And that he knew very well of their plot which was the cause for removing the pieces of Ordnance out of the North. Some other canses are mentioned for removeing of the Artilerie out of the North and other places which

repressed without great trouble and damage to England and without any return of profit to England except what by the late habitation of the English hath been raised And which is most remarkable you shall find in all the stories of those times That when those unnaturall Rebels could no longer stand out then who more humble and full of submissive flatteries than they but once taken into mercy which from time to time they obtained from the indulgent English expecting their reducement They thereby onely gained breath and more concurrents to invent and act new wayes of supplanting spoiling and extirpating those that had the most pitty of them I speak not this that mercy should be denied to whom may be thought worthy of it yet sure it is that if for the multiplied and itterated Rebellions and inhuman acts of the Irish the long abused English make a great distruction of them which God seems to dictate in the many strange victories lately granted by him against them It will come short of Lex talionis yea it will be nothing so much as the Irish ever resolved to execute against the true undoubted ancient Proprietors of that Land the English which may be the more taken to heart in that it hath been and is evident that there can be no safety in cohabitation with them And there is none into whose hand God puts the sword of vengeance that can without extream contumacy and disobedience deny to execute his divine will And now lest this Proeme seem too long I shall lead the worthy Reader first to the particular Heads and Charges against these Monsters of men and to the Heads of other Occurrences interlaced with them and then to the Examinations themselves Which as is promised before with all possible speed must be Printed T. W. Observations To what hath been said in the precedent leaves as concerning matter of fact and true representation of that incomparable Murther so there is nothing to be added and it were but impertinencie and provocation to abuse the Reader with any further instances and not give him up to his own resentments and inductions To husband therefore this little room which remains I cannot fall upon a Method either more naturall or regular then to take a view of the causes concernments and circumstances of that odious Conjuration and from thence descend to some such observations as cannot without stupidity be passed or impiety neglected FIrst then whosoever will take the Irish at the right view will find them a root of such a profound sloth and lethargick Supinitie that they will say they are meerly a kind of Reptilia things creeping on their bellies and feeding on the dust of the earth overborn with their naturall frigidity and impossible to be excited into any heat unlesse it be that fevorish distemper which sometimes stirs up the most unworthy minds to violent executions Adde to this their Innate and Epidemick Lasinesse which for many ages hath been so inherent to them that they could never be stirred neither by their own necessities or discomdities of life to that requisite industry which even the most barbarous and the best seated people are forced to make use of Nor yet by the conversation and culture of the more polite English could be shap't into any adumbration of Civility and tersnesse but still remain a people so exquisitely savage so barbarously lothsom so monstrously enclyn'd that they were as uncapable of any impressions of virtue and honour as they have shewed themselves susceptible of the most bestial lewdnesse and consumate impiety With these qualifications they are a people we may suppose not so fit to bid defiance to a King entirely possessed with the strength of three kingdoms and without visible enemy although there cannot be denied them so much of a punick lightnesse and rash prevarication as to have staggared into more defections than any people ever yet heard of Yet were these defections but flashy transportations of weak abject minds which having once spent their first vigor immediately quit them into their former languor and left thus meerly in a condition of despair and deprecation Where as this last what by the strength of it's first impressions and heat of it 's after influences what by the want of resistance bloudily deteined from it hath rather appeared a formall regular War then a Spartacryot and in stead of a short and momentary continuance hath extended it self to the duration of many years besides the irremediable Cowardize of that people never durst break out into any open effort unlesse it were backt by some strong Forreign assurances or assistances or flattered by our divisions and diversions or promoted by their own misconceived oppressions and feigned burthens But in that posture of affairs at their Rebellion there was no such matter for from Spain which partly out of their own ambition partly out of that detestable zeale to the See of Rome was commonly wont to lend them fuel to every petulant insurrection was not now in a condition to do it For both the fleet under Oquendo which was more than conjecturally supposed to have been designed for Ireland was discipated in the Downs and Spain her self was at that time so beset and assaulted that it was visible to any eye that she could not afterwards drive any considerable assistance to the holy cause of Antichrist and innocent conventions of Cannibals And for other nations the Irish were too much disinteressed and disreputed and we too strong in friends and repute for them to expect thence any valuable advantage For the second we at home were not then onely of one piece but were as powerful as we had been for many ages before Nay and what was more we had a Parliament at that time sitting such a one as daily satisfied the expectations and needs of the people by pious reformations and just compliances so that it was not to be thought but that they who were effectively a whole people could not be as powerfull in their punishments as they were serious and earnest in their resentments of such an execrable attempt For the third they were certainly very peevish if they were discontented for they had not onely a Lord Lieuetennant according to their own hearts Strafford but the severity of the Laws against them as disarmed or at least a sleep they were equally capable of immunities and honours with the English And that superstitious and Antick garb of worship was so publick that not onely the severity of the late Lord Chancellour Loftus and the Earl of Cork in that matter was eluded But Paul Harris Sir Toby Mathews c. many Sticklers of the See of Room were in sight and favour nay some who have had the best reason and longest time to observe it have affirmed there have been three Mass Houses one at Naas a new built seat for Strafford open for one Protestant Church All this set together must necessarily yield us this result that there must be

he means by the word Rebellions Tyrants Will you have any more for never were falsities so closely and nicely couched as in that deceitfull Peace Many wise men thought that preposterous rigour and unreasonable severity blew up those sparks of discontent How divelishly is the pious care of Religion in the Parliament made a cause of so much bloud and mise ries But hark what he hath to say for the Rebels Fear of utter exterpation continuance of oppression some Principles of their Religion Naturall desire of liberty made them endeavour to exempt themselves from after rigour threatned by the covetous zeal and uncharitable fury of some men See how Satyricall he is on the one side whilst for the other he brings arguments so passionate and emphaticall as the greatest Advocate might make use of Nor see I indeed how stronger can be brought then those he falsly brings in this place which he makes use of for the Irish to go on he sais Next to the sin of those is theirs who hindered the speedy suppressing of it by Domestick disentions diverting aids which we shall prove he did Onely you may know whom they would have us mean and exasperated the Rebels to desperate resolutions by threatning extremity on their heads Obdurate man given up to thine own blindnesse and hardnesse of heart thou couldst not have said any thing fuller of Atheisticall spleen or uncharitable loosness Those men must march on the left-hand of such Divels for professing their zeal and uprightnesse to the cause of God which to have handled luke-warmly had been sin of a crying nature to have deserted had been to share in the vengeance of those wicked wretches and to have brought on their own heads that shame ard vengeance which for the cause fell on them These are his latest and dying reflections of that businesse which we shall now return into from the necessary digressions Thus there was a predisposition in the Court of England for such designs as these we shall need onely to remember that in the second year of his reign To indulge Popery by Christning Marrying Suspending proceedings against Papists To alow sueing out Liveries and Ousterlemains by the Papists without taking the oath of Allegiance This design which for a sum of money was to bring in further tolleration of Religion was protested against by the Irish Bishops by writing under their hands of the 26. of November 1626. and the Commons of England in their Remonstrance the thrird of Carolus did inform that Popery was professed and Monastries replenished every where desiring him to take the advice of themselvs and Bishops into consideration Yet In the fourth year of his Reign those Propositions and Graces with additions did he grant in consideration of one hundred and twenty thousand pounds to be levied upon the Kingdom in generall so that the poor Protestants were illegally oppressed to gain the Papists Immunities Many notorious Papists were created Peers whereby the Popish votes in the Lords house encreased and the Papists became more powerfull and exemplary in their Counties When the Lord Chancellour Loftus and the Earl of Cork were Lords-Justices and endeavoured to put down Mass-houses and amongst the rest converted one in Backlane in Dublin to a Colledge where Lectures were read which the Lords-Justices did to the encouragement of Protestants yet when Strafford came the Schollars were displaced and it became a Mass-house again The Popish Irish Army was kept on foot long after the beginning of the Parliament and contrary to their desires whereby those execrable villains learned the knowledge of Arms under the pretence of fighting against Scotland And that Lead might not be wanting to the compleating of this intended Rebellion I use the very words of that excellent Declaration of the 25. of July 1643. as it had been in the last great Rebellion there the Silver-mynes of that Kingdom which afforded great store of Lead were farmed out by his Majesty to two most pernitious Papists Sir Bazill Brooke and Sir George Hamilton In whose houses upon search divers barrels of Musquet-bullets were found Before the Rebellion Strafford had by violent endeavour entituled his Majesty by office to five whole Counties and a great part of two other whereby a way was made to increase Religion Plantations and Safetie Which the Committee sent over for complaint of Grievances did never complain of as conceiving it distastfull yet when the King had offered to restore it to the Proprietors and the Lords-Justices importuned him to the contrary and the then Parliament had discovered much of the Irish Counsels then subtilties no longer serving them was new projected and allowed this hideous Rebellion that after fell out by Gormondston Muskery Plunket Linch and Browne who were consulted with and carrased at Whitehall had private conference with the King in the Queens presence And what agreement was made may easily be imagined for witnesses are not to be expected at a conspiracy of such importance by the Kings giving away five whole Counties after so great an endeavour of many years to entitle him to them accounting it a Master-piece of Strafford and that for the yearly rent of two thousand pounds When in searching Records and measuring the land it had cost the King more than ten thousand pounds out of his Coffers Let any compare the Iudulgence with the Injustice to the Londoners in Derry and Colrain which shews land in Ireland worth owning when there is no recompence for parting with it For the King told the Committee of Ireland That since he had parted with so much of his right he must be recompenced some other way And he would soon infer that so large a Donative especially considering the bountiful nature of that King was not sown upon the sand And that these blades might not be awanting in the requitall of so considerable a favour they returned into Ireland in August after where how that they bestirred themselves may appear For in the three and twentieth of October following the Rebelion brake forth in Vlster To these violent presumptions must be added the concurrence of the English Papists to this businesse as is copiously proved by the Depositions forementioned and the repair of Castlehaven Young Porter Endimions own sonne Sir Bazill Brooke and Browne the Lawyer into Ireland where they were main sticklers in that hainous Rebellion Nay in that moneth of October fatall for that deluge of bloud the Lord Dillon Costiloghe an Irish Rebel went from Scotland from the King into Ireland with his Majesties letters by the Queens means to be sworn Privie Councellor which was no sooner done but he presents to the Lords Justices Councel an insolent letter of Remonstrance of some inhabitants of the County of Longford wherein they unreasonably demand Tolleration repealing of Laws c. Nay this Lord might by his motion testifie that he was alive For in the following December he with the new Lord Taaff came into England with instructions in writing from Gormonston