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A40776	A faithfull representation of the state of Ireland: whose bleeding eye is on England for help. Or The horrid conspiracy discovered and most humbly presented to the wisdom of Parliament for timely prevention, if not impossible. Wherein it appears the designe is laid at the root of all the Parliaments interest there, the adventurers lands, and the new-English mens lives, (as they call them) as well as at the power of godliness, and of the present government. Published by constant and cordial adherers to the Parliament and Common-wealth, on the behalf of themselves, and of thousands in Ireland.	Constant and cordial adherers to the Parliament and Common-wealth.	1660 (1660)	Wing F284; ESTC R217929	9,126	20

yea in a manner wholly Limbed with as implacable enemies and Cavaleers as any the Parliament has So that the more unintelligibly and inextricably it is held beheld or represented in England the more certain is the hazard and ruine of poor Ireland if the Almighty help not whereof the Well and Bect Affected People are so generally apprehensive as since the Rebellion they never made the like Lamentation mourning like Doves and chattering like Cranes chusing rather to be shipt away together into America if the Parliament will please to shew them that favour then be exposed to the Revenge of the Irish there without favour or mercy For let a Bear robbed of her Whelps meat a man rather than a fool in his folly sayes the wise man They are corupt and speak wickedly Concerning OPRESSION they speak LOFTILY They set their mouth against the heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth Nor are we ignorant of what they have said as others have insinuated and printed in this Nation that the Sectaries as they call them are the very Persons against whom they have drawn up the Blackest if not bloudiest Bills of Indictment touching the Execution of their quondam King and of that Constitution of Government Now albeit we cannot say it is intended by all yet of this we are sure it is designed by some to Remove or Ruine them as an Introduction to Charles Stuart and that Government again which till the Sectaries be down they can never get up with such Facillity as well as Force and Fallacy And we wish this were not the Grand Inducement of others here to destroy them or rather the Parliaments best Friends by that name as well as of those in unhappy Ireland who Contrive and Retrive it with so much heat as the most plausible string to play upon But have respect O Lord unto thy Covenant for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of Cruelty And however it be yet God is good to Israel and to all those who are of an upright heart He shall judge the poor of the people he shall save the children of the needy shall break in pieces the Oppressor For the Lord TRYETH THE RIGHTEOVS but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth Return O Lord Return for thy Servants sake the Tribes of thine Inheritance TO THE READER READER THis faithful Representation was prepared and intended to have been presented to the Parliament or given in to the honourable Members thereof by divers worthy Persons and no Anabaptists who came out of Ireland on purpose to make known her CRY and CASE if possible that the Common Weale might once more emerge and rise above the waves of that Common Wo and Calamity there threatned but since that the last Alterations Force and Guards upon the HOUSE the Irish Declaration for a Free Parliament hath so far opened their Aim and Design all along their CONTEMPT of this Parliament of the Common Wealth their INTENT of Reducing to the old slavery and Constitution as no more need be said but this that this horrid PLOT was laid in Ireland before the unhappy Interruption of Parliament in England October last and is not yet fully executed or discovered For some there be that insist upon a Full and Free Parliament as it was Anno 1642. before the Lords Spiritual were turn'd out and what may be the the next Step or Motion must be left to Time onely this we foresee and so expect at their hands that neither Reason nor Candour must draw us as Men or Christians but Tyranny and Terrour drive us as Beasts to be slain or sold for a company of Slaves for our fidelity to the Parliament and the Cause seeing whiles they pretend a FREE PARLIAMENT they have Forced THIS P. and contrary to all their Faith and Ingagements set up their SWORDS against the VOTES Wisdom and Resolves of this Renowned Parliament and what more Arbitrary delivering up them that have adhered to them since Anno 1648. to utter Ruine and what more Temerary or Vnjust if the God of all our Mercies and DELIVERANCES do not once more SAVE us for his sweet Names-sake FINIS The Plot in Ireland laid 1 For a Free Parliament the King 2 To Arme the Kings party and put them into power 3 To imprison the Parliments friends and turn them out of power 4 To disable disarm and expose them to the Irish revenge 5 To Arme the very Irish Rebels 6 Keep up a feud between the old and the new English planters 8 Listiog Papists after the Parliament sat again 9 Summoning a kinde of Parliament by their Arbitiary power 10 Declaring for themselves and that they will stand upon their own Leggs 11 Striking at the power of godlinesse in all under the Notion of Anal aptists and Sectaries 12 Threatening the Estates of all late Adventurers

A Faithfull REPRESENTATION of the state of IRELAND Whose bleeding Eye is on England for help OR The Horrid Conspiracy Discovered and most humbly presented to the Wisdom of Parliament for timely prevention if not impossible Wherein it appears the Designe is laid at the Root of all the Parliaments Interest there the Adventurers Lands and the New-English mens Lives as they call them as well as at the power of godliness and of the present Government Published by Constant and Cordial Adherers to the Parliament and Common-wealth on the behalf of themselves and of thousands in Ireland Prov. 18. 17. He that is first in his own Cause seemeth just but his Neighbour cometh and searcheth him out Job 22. 30. He shall deliver the Island of the Innocent Or The INNOCENT shall deliver the Island LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1660. A Faithful Representation of the Affairs of Ireland intended for the Parliament February 21. before their new Force put upon them AS no Nation in the World hath gone thorough more stupendious Providences and swifter Revolutions So never any hath passed thorough more iminent Hazards and Menacing Whirl-pits then this poor Island with such amazing and Miraculous Deliverances as the FINGER of the Lord hath written upon them There is none like to THY GOD O England Who rideth upon the heavens in thy help and in his excellency on the skie The ETERNAL God is thy Refuge and underneath the everlasting ARMES HAPPY art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O People SAVED BY THE LORD c. The last whereof was not the Least if not one of the GREATEST SALVATIONS that our eyes have seen from one of the most FATAL STROKES that ever was given to a Magistracy in the Nation by that unhappy and never-enough-dreaded Interruption of Parliament October last Whereby a WICKET was opened at least to that Wide Dangerous Door that the Common Enemy hath taken in the three Nations at this day being never more stirring and acting to Retreive and Prosecute the Horrid Designe of Sr. George Booth then at this instant which like a Dismal Cloud hath overspread us through the heat and benefit of those Distractions and Confusions that came upon us importing the Greatest Calamity and Misery without a Miracle of Mercy that can be imagined or impendent So that had not the Lord been on our side now may Israel say if the Lord had not been on our side to save us when men rose up so fast against us they had swallowed us up QVICK long ere this And particularly in poor Ireland where the face of Affairs at this instant portend and promise all things for it as near yea very near affected if the Parliament by their wonted Wisdom and Courage do not quickly interpose in it Wherefore several of us who like Job's Messengers are escaped at present and more are following to attend upon the Parliaments pleasure for a hearing on the behalfe of our selves and of thousands in that Nation of the Parliaments best and constant friends are ready to make a most true Report of that Land to discover the Conspiracy there afoot to enucleate Irelands Lamentable Case from the Calumnies and most Cunning Sophistications of their late PERFECT NARRATIVE but indeed ERRATIVE and Collusion both in matters of Fact and of Faith being throughout most false put forth on purpose to delude the Parliament and Good people of this Nation and to abuse their judgement and are ready to prove upon our perils sed bona fide every one of the ensuing Particulars and more too very material to the Parliaments service as well as welfare of all Ireland which we shall humbly submit to the judgement of Parliament and to the most accurate scruteny of any or of all whether Friends or Foes in the whole Nation to draw their just Conclusions from and to convince them of the Deplorable Danger thereof First In that they openly and frequently Declared for a Free Parliament that an eminent Leader of them did it at the head of the Souldiers the Souldiers again reciprocally declared it to their Officers that with this voice for a Free Parliament they rode about the streets of Dublin blandishing their swords drinking healths to that purpose at their Bonfires speaking contemptibly of this Parliament making no such signe of joy when the post brought the News of their Return to their great Trust and Authority being many of them struck with a great damp thereat who had rejoyced at their Interruption and many openly declared and avowed for the King as at Youghall Mallowes and other places constantly drinking the Kings health So that pag. 9. of their Narrative they fallaciously represent the Case in saying they declared for the Parliament and were mett with by the Acclamations of All but never tell us for what Parliament Secondly ' That they imediately armed impowered and preferred such as were in open Hostility for the King against the Parliament and such as at Sir George Booths rebellion manifested their eminent dis-affection to this Parliament and divers other Officers who fought under Inchequeen and Ormond against the Parliament are now in command setled by them and such as laid down their Commissions and refused to obey the Parliament against Sir George Booth All these are armed in places of Command and advanced nor is it altogether inconsiderable the over Compliance of the rest and of the Best of them with the single Person upon all occasions and transactions which they can no wayes palliate but with a poor and empty Apology for it p. 23 of their Narrative that it was no more then what was in the Generallity of the three Nations by which they detect themselves sufficiently and what COPY it is that they intend to write after viz. The Generallity of the Nations But O Lord Deliver not the Soul of thy Turtle-dove unto the MVLTITVDE Thirdly That they have imprisoned many hundreds not only Field-Officers and of the Army but others of the best affected English to the Parliament in Cities Towns Countreys Ministers of the Gospell Justices Planters Trades men and pious Christians that have ever given the greatest proof of their most Cordiall adhaerance and faithfulness to the Authority of this Parliament at all times and never Acted any thing to the contrary also in the Militia as well as Army such as declared their adhering to this present Parliament they have put out and placed others in and such onely as suite better with some other Designe yea one of their own lately affirmed it that in their Councell of Officers there is not he was confident five real and absolute for this Parliament or their Interest Fourthly They have also otherwise disabled and disarmed most of all the Parliaments Friends and of the most approved fidelity and constancy that we can hear of in the whole Nation exposing thereby the poor naked English to the most merciless

Rage of the Native Irish not having wherewithall to defend themselves from them who watch but an opportunity to slay them as in the case of Captain Cornick an honest peaceable man lately set upon in his own house but himselfe escaping they fell to fiering burned up his out houses and all his Corn in stacks took away his Cattel to the value of five hundred pounds in all So that from thence and some late execrable Murthers the Irish rebellion may feare de novo by it and that it will be but translated by an English Alphabet of Characters if not speedily prevented for Fifthly Whiles they thus use the English plunder and disarme the best Parliament friends in the whole Nation they suffer all the Parliaments professed Enemies to keep their armes as well Irish rebells as others and not only so but deliver them more out of the Parliaments store with Amunition in abundance preferring Inchequeens Officers amongst them and all that ever were for the King and never served the Parliament are permitted not onely to keep their Armes but to furnish themselves with what more they will Sixthly To make it a deadly feud between the English themselves as well as the Irish and the English they have newly distingished them into Names of the old Protestants and the New the old bandying themselves against the other the new English as they call them wishing their throats were cut saying they came to eat the bread out of their mouthes that planted there c. And the Irish Papists say they will rather subject to the old Protestants then to the new for the Common prayer book is the masse they hear Englished under them they shal have more liberty But notwithstanding this promising compliance with the old English they will quickly give them proof of an insatiable revenge upon all the English when they have sufficiently weakened them with their divisions and that their Hydropick thirst cannot be so easily quenched but the more they drink the more they wil desire until they exhaust all into their own hands Albeit at present much of the Armies conduct is put into the hands of old English Episcopall men yet such they are as ever have been and yet are most bitter enemies to the Parliament and our present English Interest there And so may serve to Act the first part of the intended Tragedy in that Island The wicked watcheth the Righteous and seeketh to slay him but the Lord will not leave him in his hands nor condemn him when he is judged Seventhly To make it yet more obvious Many commissioned Officers and Souldiers that declared with them at the first when they pretended for this present Parliament and that justified the Authority of this Parliament against that force and Interruption that was put upon them are dismounted and displaced as not fit for their designe but demurring their recession from the first Declaration wherein they owned L. G. L. their Commander in Chief and yet in their Narrative p. 10 11 12 have they the confidence to front or face it for the service of the Parliament and p. 12. That they laid aside onely such as opposed the Parliament or else of whose not acting against the Parliament they could not be satisfied that is as to perpetrate their Designe to Act with them upon a hazard or at an Adventure as to what they would have done For the Honourable Commissioners of Parliament themselves might have had their Liberty after all if they would have engaged to them and acted with them in their Designs which they declining set some on fire upon an unjust impeaching and devising a charge against them according to that dangerous Maxime That bad Actions must be ever seconded with worse and better never begin then not carry on what ever it cost them the truth is as the prophet complained he that departeth from iniquity maketh himself a PREY whilest the vilest of men and of the most debauched practises are promoted by them both Officers and Souldiers who serve their turns best and the wicked will walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted Eighthly This will yet appear more evidently or suspitiously by their raising of men anew in listing the very Papists and other Forces after they knew the Parliament were sitting without regarding their direction posting up Papers in publick places at Dublin to invite all that would to come in and list and they should have pay but that none who were listed by L. G. L. should have pay with the rest of the Souldiers without further Orders And not onely in receiving Irish Rebels and PAPISTS and listing them but in casheering those that would not own a Free Parliament All this too when all things were in a very quiet serene and peaceable posture in Ireland Ninthly Their summoning a Convention to doe the work of a Parliament to raise them monies in a way of Loan Preparing the Elections with Persons most propense and responsable to their ends who are Elected and in a readinesse to sit when they please nor hath their present Council or Committee of Safety whereof Sr. J. Barry holds the Chair a much better Aspect witnesse his speech so full of asperity and reflection upon this present Parliament But that the Interruption of the Parliament might be no longer a cover upon this Conspiracy some are ready to prove the Plot was laid before the Parliament was interrupted though executed after and with more applause Tenthly They have a many of them openly declared that if their application to this Parliament prove not propitious to their desires and designes they will as they are a distinct Island keep up an Interest distinct from England and stand upon their own Legs as they say deeming themselves able to subsist without a dependance upon this Nation and seeing the Ports are all their own they the less fear or value England who can have no landing place but by their permission and leave Eleventhly This conspiracy strikes at the very Power of Godliness in all judgements whom they brand with the name of Anabaptists is too notorious dismounting Officers and Souldiers meerly for their Religion The people of God whether Presbyterians Independants or others are generally threatened some with Death and others with Exile Godly Ministers some imprisoned and yet no Anabaptists some put out of the Publick and exploded Episcopalians placed in their roomes A Souldier coming to the Ministers house of Castle Dermond ran his pike at him and called him Anabaptist told him that he would have his coat off his back shortly and had he not withdrawn himselfe says the Souldier had killed him at that present and yet that Minister is no Anabaptist but Godly and Orthodox So that night the Castle was surprised they made their Bonfires and threatning to fire divers habitations of Godly men cast up their sticks with fire upon their houses threatening to burn them to the very ground and at