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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34925	The teares of Ireland wherein is lively presented as in a map a list of the unheard off [sic] cruelties and perfidious treacheries of blood-thirsty Jesuits and the popish faction : as a warning piece to her sister nations to prevent the like miseries, as are now acted on the stage of this fresh bleeding nation / reported by gentlemen of good credit living there, but forced to flie for their lives... illustrated by pictures ; fit to be reserved by all true Protestants as a monument of their perpetuall reproach and ignominy, and to animate the spirits of Protestants against such bloody villains.	Cranford, James, d. 1657.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6824; ESTC R32373	25,594	76

looking any further after him conceiving that hee was past care to tell tales wheresoever he was and so fell to their mirth and jollitie again But not long after in the midst of their mirth came some of the Guard belonging to the Lords Justices entred the House where there was little or no resistance apprehended Captain Mack-Mahowne and one Rory Magennis being the chief in that place at the Artichoake and brought them bound before the Lords about five of the clock in the morning being upon the Saturday which was the three and twentieth day of October last At the same time and hour the rest of the Guard apprehended the Lord Mack-Gueere in Cookstreet in the house of Master Cadowgan where they found him under a bed with a case of Pistols charged and a Skeene by his side but did not offer to shoot Captaine Mack-Mahowne upon his examination confessed the whole plot how that morning the Castle of Dublin should have beene surprized by forty Irish Papists desperate Villains in this manner following First they should have gone into the Castle to avoid suspition one by one some at the water-gate and some at the Castle-gate each man with his Skeen and so to have met in the great Court and suddenly to have rushed upon the Warders and to have murthered them and so to have possest themselves of their Halberds and other weapons and then to have stood in the entrance of both Gates to let in the rest being three hundred and sixty more appointed for the execution of that Hel-hatcht Design● they could not have wanted help the ods was so great on their side I mean the bloudy Romish party and I am of opinion there would have been but little or no resistance their party would have beene so strong there being at that time one hundred Papists to five Protestants within the very City of Dublin to my knowledge and so they are generally throughout the whole Kingdome what a combustion had there been in Dublin that day what a distraction had our poore Country-men I meane the English Protestants been in and I my self being then one belonging to the Crowne Office in Dublin and an eye witnesse of their passages amongst the rest I dare be bold to say that if they had taken that Castle being so richly furnished with all manner of Munition as powder shot and Armes being also strengthened with above one hundred pieces of Ordnance of all sorts with their carriages that all Ireland had been before this day an Acheldama or a field of bloud and I am of opinion that of all the English Plantators in Ireland there would not have been living one Family Some of those Villains that should have surprized the Castle to wit Rory Mack Mahowne William O Neale Thady O Duffe and others have been taken and examined before the Councill and upon their examinations have confessed that upon the Sabbath day night after they had surprized the Castle being the day following their intent was to have marked all the Irish houses with a Crosse to have distinguished them from the English and so to have murthered them by entring forcibly and treacherously upon them and also to have seized all the shipping at the Rings end neere Dublin that there had beene no way or meanes left for man woman or child to have escaped their fury nor any place of refuge left to have found mercy Stand and pause a while and consider the depth of this horrid treason to have cut off all the Protestants Oh the cryes the shreeks the teares of poore souls flying this way and that way still into the mouth of these ravenous Lions and this would have beene their Sabbath dayes work a fit sacrifice for him whose servants they were But praysed be the Lord their net is broken and we have escaped What man so blinde as may not herein behold the handy worke of God and how the hands and hearts of those malicious furies and firebrands of Rome are bent to shed inocent bloud that notwithstanding they have so often failed in their wicked bloudy purposed and intents both private and publike which they have secretly attempted in darknesse will not see although they live in the light nor take warning but still run on in their bloud-thirstinesse to extirpate whole States to suppresse the Truth and to shed the bloud of Gods Saints but I trust they shall fall into the pit that they digged for others It was concluded by the Lords Justices and Councell of Ireland that the aforenamed Owen Mack-Connel who had discovered this Treason should be sent with Letters to the Parliament here in England the King being at that time in Scotland who at his comming was rewarded with a gratuity of five hundred pounds in money and an allowance towards the mayntenance of himselfe his wife and children of two hundred pounds a yeere until his Majesty finde out some better gift to bestow upon him I am verily perswaded that his discovery of this Treason hath preserved the lives of a hundred thousand men women and children and many more in the severall Provinces and Counties of Ireland Now to enter into this direfull Tragedy every step being a step in bloud Heere followeth a true description or relation of sundrie sad and lamentable collections taken from the mouthes of verie credible persons and out of Letters sent from Ireland to this Citie of London of the perfidious outrages and barbarous cruelties which the Irish Papists have committed upon the persons of the Protestants both men women and children in that Kingdome Anno Dom. 1641. THe Irish Nation is well knowne to be a people both proud and envious For the Comonaltie they are for the most part ignorant and illiterate poore and lazie and will rather beg or starve then worke therefore fit subjects for the Priests and Jesuits to spur on upon such bloudy actions and murth ' rous Designes Ignorance is their Mother which is devoid of mercy God deliver all good Christians from the cruelty of such a Mother and Children It is too well knowne the more is the pitie and to be lamented that the Irish have murther'd of the Protestant party in the Provinces of Vlster Lempster Connaght and Munster of men women and children the number of fifty thousand as it is credibly reported by Englishmen who have beene over all parts of the Kingdome and doe protest upon their oaths that there are above five thousand Families destroyed The Kingdome of Ireland hath foure Provinces wherein there are contained two and thirty Counties besides Cities and County Townes in all which places the English are planted up and downe in all parts where the Irish have most murtherously and trayterously surprized them upon great advantages and with out respect of persons either of age youth or infancy of yongmen or maids or of old men or babes stript all to their skins naked as ever they were borne into the World so they have gone out of the

cum Haereticis whose principles are steept bloud tolerating Rebellion against King and Kingdome murdering of Princes blowing up of Parliament sowing seeds of division betweene Confederate Kingdomes as those two Handfasted and Troth-plighted Nations in a League of love indissoluble blessed be God can testifie blowing up coals of Division hotter then coals of Juniper in the same Kingdome where they live in too much peace Witnesse England who hath had wofull experience of their plottings to breake Union betweene King and people King and Parliament But now behold these bloudy Papists with their Vizard puld off and now acting their plots like incarnate Devils as our Saviour cald their brethren the Scribes and Pharisees For the works of their father they doe I say now acting their Devillish designe on the State of Ireland our sister Nation ayming no lower then the death and ruine of the whole Kingdome at one blow For had their plot on Dublin Castle taken which they had laid with so much subtilty and secrecie as in probability it had had not the keeper of Israel which slumbers not prevented it in a most miraculous manner they had beene by the morning light at work cutting off man woman and child till they had not left one remayning among them that bore the name of a Protestant Blessed be God their snare was broken and that poore City designed to destruction delivered the relation of which Tragedie now begins Oh that our eares may tingle and our bowels yern at the relation of this horrid designe and at the relations of those cruelties and tortures exceeding all parallel unheard off among Pagans Turks or Barbarians except you would enter into the confines of Hell it selfe to see the Devils those Engineers of cruelty acting of their parts I know not where you will find their fellows making it their sport to torture and to vex those poore distressed Protestants he that is most cruell merits most of their bloudy Jesuits Those firebrands of Hell preach to them in their Massings and Conventicles as is truly related by Gentlemen of Ireland of good worth who like Jobs Messengers are escaped their mercilesse hands relating nothing but what they have heard with their eares upon examination of witnesses or seen with their eyes that so men might not be deluded with false and idle Pamphlets but reade and see the truth of things that all men may behold what bloudy Tigres and Vultures these Popish Spirits are how perfidious and basely treacherous to those Nations that succour them never any Kingdom being long at peace where they were tolerated as this fresh bleeding Nation of Ireland can sadly relate you in this ensuing Narration Here begins the bloudie attempts upon the Kingdome of Ireland in the generall and on Dublin in particular UPon the three and twentieth day of October last 1641 the Castle of Dublin should have surprized as at that time it might easily have beene for there was no feare or suspition of Treachery there being at that time foure hundred Irish Papists elected out of most parts of Ireland desperate persons designed and appointed for that bloudy and desperate attempt all lodging and sculking in severall places of the City and Suburbs waiting and expecting the time and watch-word when to give the onset But that God that keepeth Israel saw their bloudy intentions to overthrow and ruinate all the professours of the true Religion disapointed their wicked hopes and to their owne shame and confusion discovered and laid open their hellish plot to succeeding ages that the Lord alone might be admired and they confounded And this he did by moving in the heart of one of their own Countrimen at that time an abhorring of so foule and detestable a Treason and to reveale it to Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronet Master of the Court of Wards and Liveries and Sir John Borlase Knight Master of the Ordnance both Lords Justices of the Kingdome of Ireland The party who discovered the plot had been formerly a servant to Sir John Clotworthy a godly and religious Gentleman but at time when hee revealed their designe hee served one Captaine Mack-Mahowne an Irishman who lodged at the signe of the Artichoake vulgarly called Saint Maries Abbey in the Suburbs of the City of Dublin The servants name was Owen Mack-Connel who being with his Master Captain Mack-Mahown in a house in Cookstreet at the Lodging of the Lord Mack-Gueere also and Irishman in the City of Dublin Upon the two and twentieth of October being the night afore his Master did then and there reveale the whole plot unto him in the presence of the Lord Mack-Gueere and others Owen Macke-onell who discouered the plot of takinge Dublin had a Pistoll Charged with too Bullets the pane primed with powder Brimstone twice offered against him tooke not fire so the Rebells said God will not suffer him to be killed he will be on our side I warrant you Owen Macke-onell leapinge ouer a wall escaped was sent to our Parlament with letters was rewarded 500 lb 200 per Annum At the first the Lord Parsons did seem to slight it but Owen Mack-Counel confidently affirmed the thing to my Lord in the hearing of his servants to be true and withall told him thus viz. My Lord my Lord I have discharged my duty and my conscience look you to it I will goe backe to my Master because neither hee nor the rest shall suspect me Your Lordship shall find my Lord Mack-Gueere at Master Cadowgans house in Cookstreet and Captaine Mack-Mahown at the Artichoke in the aforesaid Maryes Abbey to which place I am going now This Owen Mack-Connel going homewards to his Masters lodging takes up dirt in his hands and besmuts and dirties his face that he might appear to them to have tumbled over and over in the dirt whose approach and entrance into the roome where a great many of them were assembled together drinking and making merry for they intended not to goe to bed was so ridiculous that the company burst out into such a loud and sudden laughter with shouting and hollowing that the place rung of them round about and to welcome him home the company fell to their old course to make him drinke more but at last he told them that he must needs goe down into the yard so they suffered him to goe but commanded two of his companions to attend him and bring him up againe but they let him goe into the yard by himselfe not suspecting what he had done nor what hee meant to doe no sooner was he in the yard but knowing the place leaped over the pale and so escaped from them Great search they made in the yard for him and up and downe the house thinking hee had been crept to bed or hid himself in the barn of stable so that they were amazed to think what should become of him because they generally believed him to be so drunk and in such a pickle they refrained