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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44735	Mercurius hibernicus, or, A discourse of the late insurrection in Ireland displaying (1) the true causes of it ..., (2) the course that was taken to suppresse it, (3) the reasons that drew on a cessation of arms, and other compliances since : as also, touching those auxiliaries which are transported thence to serve in the present warre.	Howell, James, 1594?-1666.	1644 (1644)	Wing H3094; ESTC R5988	10,893	34

royall assent to any Propositions or acts for raising of men mony and armes to performe the work But hereby no man is so simple as to think His Majesty should absolutely give over his own personall care and protection of that his Kingdome it being a Rule That a King can no more desert the protection of his owne people then they their subjection to him In all his Declarations there was nothing that he endeard and inculcated more often and with greater aggravation and earnestnesse unto them then the care of his poore Subjects their fellow-protestants in Ireland Nay he resented their condition so f●rre and took the businesse so to heart that he offered to passe over in person for their reliefe And who can deny but this was a magnanimous and King-like resolution Which the Scots by publike act of Counsell did highly approve of and declared it to be an argument of care and courage in His Majesty And questionlesse it had done infinite good in the opinion of them that have felt the pulse of the Irish people who are daily ore-heard to groan how they have bin any time these 400. yeeres under the English Crowne and yet never saw but two of their Kings all the while upō Irish ground though there be but a salt ditch of a few hours sail to passe over And much more welcome should His Majesty now regnant be amongst them who by generall tradition They confesse and hold to come on the paternall side from Fergus by legall and lineall descent who was an Irish Prince and after King of Scotland whereas the title of all our former Kings and Queens was stumbled at alwayes by the vulger His Majesty finding that this royall proffer of engaging his owne person was rejected with a kind of scorn coucht in smooth language though the m●ine businesse concerned himselfe neerest and indeed solely himselfe that Kingdome being his owne hereditary Right Understanding also what base sinister use there was made of this insurrection by some trayterous malevolent persons who to cast aspersions upon His Majesty and to poyson the hearts of his people besides publike infamous reports counterfeited certaine commissions in His Majesties name to authorize the businesse as if he were privy to it though I dare pawn my soul His or Her Majesty knew no more of it then the great Mogor did Finding also that the Commissioners imployed hence for the managing and composing matters in that Kingdome though nominated by the Parliament and by their recommendation authorized by His Majesty did not observe their instructions and yet were connived at Understanding also what an inhumane designe there was between them and the Scot in lieu of suppressing an insurrection to eradicat and extinguish a whole Nation to make booty of their l●nds which hopes the London Adventurers did hugge and began to divide the Beares skin before he was taken as His Majesty told them an attempt the Spaniard not any other Christian State ever intended against the worst of Savages The conceit whereof infused such a desperate courage eagernesse and valour into the Irish that it made them turn necessity into a kind of vertue Moreover His Majesty taking notice that those royall Subsidies with other vast contributions whereunto he had given way with the sums of particular Adventurers amongst whom some Aliens Hollanders were taken in besides the Scot to share the Country were misapplyed being visibly imployed rather to feed and English Rebelliō then to suppresse an Irish Nay understanding that those charitable collections which were made for the reliefe of those distressed Protestants who being stripped of all their livelihood in Ireland were forced to fly over to England were converted to other uses and the Charity not dispensed according to the Givers intention Hearing also that those 5000. men which had been levyed and assigned to goe under the Lord Wharton the Lord of Kerry Sir Faithfull Fortescue and others were diverted from going to the west of Ireland and imployed to make up the Earl of Essex Army And having notice besides that the Earl of Warwicke had stayd certaine ships going thither with supplies and that there was an attempt to send for over to England some of those Scottish Forces which were in Vlster without his privity Lastly His Majesty finding himself unfitted and indeed disabled to reach those his distressed Subjects his owne royall arme all his navall strength revenues and magazines being out of his hands and having as hard a game to play still with the Scot and as pernicious a fire to quench in England as any of his Progenitors ever had Receiving intelligence also daily from his Protestant Nobility and Gentry thence in what a desperate case the whole Kingdome stood together with the report of the Committee that attended His Majesty from them expresly for that service who amongst other deplorable passages in their petition represented That all means by which comfort and life should be conveyed unto that gasping Kingdome seemed to be totally obstructed and that unlesse timely reliefe were afforded His loyall Subjects there must yeeld their fortunes for a prey their lives for a sacrifice and their Religion for a scorne to the mercilesse Rebels His Majesty as it was high time for him taking into his Princely thoughts those wofull complaints and cryes of his poore Subjects condescended at last to appoint some persons of honour to heare what the Irish could say for themselves as they had often petitioned and God forbid but the King of Ireland should receive his Subjects petitions as well as the King of Scotland But His Majesty being unsatisfied with what they propounded then the Lord Marquesse of Ormond marched with cōsiderable Forces against them and though he came off with honour yet no reliefe at all cōming thither for many moneths after from the Parliament here who had undertaken the businesse and had received all the summes and subsidies with other unknown contributions to that end matters grew daily worse and worse To sum up all His Majesty receiving expresse and positive advice from his Lord Justices and Counsell of State there that the whole Kingdome was upon poynt of utter perdition which was co-intimated the same time to the Parliament here by a speciall letter to the Speaker I say His Majesty finding that he had neither power of himselfe it being transmitted to others and that those Trustees did misapply that power and trust he had invested in them for the time to make good their undertaking for preservation of that his fruitfull Kingdome being impelled by all these forcible reasons His Majesty sent a commission to the Lord Marquesse of Ormond his Lieutenant Generall a most known sincere Protestant to hearken to a treaty according to their petition and if any thing was amisse in that treaty in poynt of honour as it shall appeare by comparing it with others there was none we know whom to thank For out of these premises also doth result this second conclusion That they who

Religion Now there is no Nation upon earth that the Irish hate in that perfectiō with a greater Antipathy than the Scot or from whom they conceive greater danger For whereas they have an old prophesie amongst them which one shall heare up and downe in every mouth That the day will come when the Irish shall weep upon English mens graves They feare that this prophesie will be verified and fulfilled in the Scot above any other Nation Moreover the Irish entred into consideration that They also had sundry grievances and grounds of complaint both touching their estates and consciences which they pretended to be farre greater than those of the Scots For they fell to think that if the Scot was suffered to introduce a new Religion it was reason they should not be so pinched in the exercise of their old which they glory never to have altered And for temporall matters wherein the Scot had no grievance at all to speak of the new plantations which had been lately afoot to be made in Conaught and other places the concealed lands and defective titles which were daily found out the new customes which were imposed and the incapacity they had to any preferment or office in Church and State with o●her things they cōceived these to be grievances of a farre greater nature and that deserved redresse much more than any the Scot had To this end they sent over Commissioners to attend this Parliament in England with certaine Propositions but those Commissioners were dismissed hence with a short and unsavoury answer which bred worse blood in the Nation than was formerly gathered and this with that leading case of the Scot may be said to be the first incitements that made them rise In the course of humane actions we daily find it to be a true rule Exempla movent Examples move and make strong impressions upon the fancy precepts are not so powerfull as precedents The said example of Scotland wrought wonderfully upon the imagination of the Irish and filled them as I touched before with thoughts of emulation that They deserved altogether to have as good usage as the Scot their Country being farre more beneficiall and consequently more importing the English Nation But these were but confused imperfect notions which began to receive more vigour and forme after the death of the Earle of Strafford who had kept them under so exact an obedience though some censure him to have screwed up the strings of the Harp too high insomuch that the taking off of the Earl of Straffords head may be said to be the second incitement to the heads of that insurrection to stirre Adde hereunto that the Irish understanding with what acrimony the Roman Catholicks in England were proceeded against since the sitting of our Parliament and what further designes were afoot against them and not onely against them but for ranversing the Protestant Religion it selfe as it is now practised which some shallow-braind Scismaticks doe throw into the same scales with Popery They thought it was high time for them to forecast what should become of Them how they should be handled in poynt of conscience when a new Deputy of the Parliaments election approbation at least should come over Therefore they fell to consult of some meanes of timely prevention And this was another motive and it was a shrewd one which pusht on the Irish to take up Armes Lastly that Army of 8000. men which the Earle of Strafford had raised to be transported to England for suppressing the Scot being by the advice of our Parliament here disbanded the Country was annoyed by some of those stragling Souldiers as not one in twenty of the Irish will from the sword to the spade or from the pike to the plough againe Therefore the two Marquesses that were Ambassadours here then for Spaine having propounded to have some numbers of those disbanded forces for the service of their Master His Majesty by the mature advice of his privy Counsell to occurre the mischiefs that might arise to his Kingdom of Ireland by those loose casheered Souldiers yeelded to the Ambassadours motion who sent notice here of to Spaine accordingly and so provided shipping for their transport and impressed mony to advance the businesse but as they were in the heat of that work His Majesty being then in Scotland there was a suddē stop made of those promised troops who had depended long upon the Spaniards service as the Spaniard had done on theirs And this was the last though not the least fatall cause of that horrid insurrection All which particulars well considered it had been no hard matter to have been a Prophet and standing upon the top of Holy-Head to have foreseen those black clouds engendring in the Irish aire which broke out afterwards into such fearfull tempests of blood Out of these premises it is easie for any common understanding not transported with passion and private interest to draw this conclusion That They who complied with the Scot in his insurrection They who dismissed the Irish Commissioners with such a short unpolitick answer They who took off the Earle of Straffords head and delayed afterwards the dispatching of the Earle of Leicester They who hindered those disbanded troops in Ireland to goe for Spaine may be justly said to have bin the true causes of the late insurrection of the Irish and consequently it is easie to know upon the account of whose soules must be laid the blood of those hundred and odde thousands poore Christians who perished in that war so that had it been possible to have brought over their bodies unputrified to England and to have cast them at the doores and in the presence of some men I beleeve they would have gushed out afresh into blood for discovery of the true murtherers The grounds of this insurrection being thus discovered let us examine what meanes His Majesty used for the suppression of it He made his addresse presently to his great Counsell the English Parliament then assembled which Queen Elizabeth and her progenitors did seldome use to doe but onely to their Privy Counsell in such cases who had the discussing and transacting of all forreigne affaires for in mannaging matters of State specially those of war which must be carried with all the secrecy that may be Trop grand nombre est encombre as the Frenchman saith too great a number of Counsellours may be an incumber and expose their results and resolutions to discovery and other disadvantages whereas in military proceedings the work should be afoot before the Counsels be blazed abroad Well His Majesty transmitted this businesse to the Parliament of England who totally undertaking it and wedding as it were the quarrell as I remember they did that of the Palatinate a little before by solemne vote the like was done by the Parliament of Scotland also by a publike joynt Declaration which in regard there came nothing of it tended little to the honour of either Nation abroad His Majesty gave his