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A95614	The Irish rebellion: or, An history of the beginnings and first progresse of the general rebellion raised within the kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October, in the year, 1641. Together vvith the barbarous cruelties and bloody massacres which ensued thereupon. / By Sir Iohn Temple Knight. Master of the Rolles, and one of his Majesties most honourable Privie Councell within the kingdom of Ireland.	Temple, John, Sir, 1600-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing T627; Thomason E508_1; ESTC R201974	182,680	207

Parliament then sitting to endeavour the reasonable ease and contentment of the people freely assenting to all such Acts as really tended to a legall reformation They betook themselves wholly to the advice of the Councel and caused all matters as well of the Crown as Popular interest to be handled in His Majesties courts of Justice no wayes admitting the late exorbitancies so bitterly decried in Parliament of Paper-Petitions or Bils in Civil causes to be brought before them at the Councel-board or before any other by their authority They by His Majesties gracious directions gave way to the Parliament to abate the Subsidies there given in the E. of Straffords time and then in collection from 40000 li. each Subsidy to 12000. li. apeece so low did they think fit to reduce them And they were further content because they saw His Majesty most absolutely resolved to give the Irish Agents full satisfaction to draw up two Acts to be passed in the Parliament most impetuously desired by the Natives The one was the Act of Limitations which unquestionably setled all estates of land in the kingdome quietly enjoyed without claim or interruption for the space of sixty years immediately preceding The other was for the relinquishment of the right and title which His Majesty had to the four counties in Conaght legally found for him by severall inquisitions taken in them and ready to be disposed of upon a due survay to British undertakers as also to some territories of good extent in Munster and the county of Clare upon the same title Thus was the present Government most sweetly tempered and carried on with great lenity and modetation the Lords Iustices and Councel wholly departing from the rigour of former courses did gently unbend themselves into a happy and just compliance with the seasonable desires of the people And his Maiesty that he might further testifie his own setled resolution for the continuation thereof with the same tender hand over them having first given full satisfaction in all things to the said Committee of Parliament still attending their dispatch did about the latter end of May 1641. The Earl of Leicester declared Lord Lieutenant of Ireland May 1641. declare Robert Earl of Leicester Lord Lieutenant Generall of the Kingdom of Ireland He was heir to Sir Phillip Sidney his uncle as well as to Sir Hen. Sidney his grandfather who with great honour and much integrity long continued chief Governour of Ireland during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth and being a person of excellent abilities by nature great acquisitions from his own private industry and publique imployment abroad of exceeding great temper and moderation was never engaged in any publique pressures of the common-wealth and therefore most likely to prove a just and gentle Governour most pleasing and acceptable to the people The papists permitted privately to enjoy the free exercise of their religion Moreover the Romish Catholiques now privately enjoyed the free exercise of their religion throughout the whole Kingdom according to the doctrine of the Church of Rome They had by the over great indulgence of the late Governours their titular Archbishops Bishops Vicars generall Provinciall consistories Deans Abbots Priors Nunnes who all lived freely though somewhat covertly among them and without controll exercised a voluntary jurisdiction over them they had their Priests Jesuits and Fryars who were of late years exceedingly multiplyed and in great numbers returned out of Spain Italy and other forraign parts where the children of the natives of Ireland that way devoted were sent usually to receive their education And these without any manner of restraint had quietly setled themselves in all the chief Towns Villages Noblemen and private Gentlemens houses throughout the Kingdom So as the private exercise of all their religious rites and ceremonies was freely enioyed by them without any maner of disturbance and not any of the Laws put in execution whereby heavy penalties were to be inflicted upon transgressours in that kinde The good agreement betwixt the Irish and English in all parts of the Kingdome And for the ancient animosities and hatred which the Irish had been ever observed to bear unto the English Nation they seemed now to be quite deposited and buried in a firm conglutination of their affections and Nationall obligations passed between them The two Nations had now lived together 40 years in peace with great security and comfort which had in a manner consolidated them into one body knit and compacted together with all those bonds and ligatures of friendship alliance and consanguinity as might make up a constant and perpetuall union betwixt them Their intermarriages were frequent gossipred fostering relations of much dearnesse among the Irish together with all others of tenancy neighbourhood and service interchangeably passed among them Nay they had made as it were a kinde of mutuall transmigration into each others manners many English being strangely degenerated into Irish affections and customes and many Irish especially of the better sort having taken up the English language apparell and decent manner of living in their private houses And so great an advantage did they finde by the English commerce and cohabitation in the profits and high improvements of their lands and native commodities so incomparably beyond what they ever formerly enioyed or could expect to raise by their own proper industry as Sir Phelim O Neale and many others of the prime leaders in this rebellion had not long before turned their Irish tenants of their lands as some of them said to me when I enquired the reason of their so doing even to starve upon the mountains while they took on English who were able to give them much greater rents and more certainly pay the same A matter that was much taken notice of and esteemed by many as most highly conducing to the security of the English interests and plantation among them So as all these circumstances duly weighed together with the removall of the late obstructions the great increase of trade and many other evident Symptomes of a flourishing common-wealth it was believed even by the wisest and best experienced in the affairs of Ireland that the peace and tranquility of the Kingdom was now fully setled and most likely in all humane probability to continue without any considerable interuption in the present felicity and great prosperity it now enioyed under the government of his Maiesty that now raigneth In August 1641. The Parliament adjourned August 1641. the Lords Justices and Councel finding the Popish party in both Houses of Parliament to be grown to so great a heigth as was scarcely compatible with the present Government were very desireous to have an Adjournment made for three moneths which was readily assented unto and performed by the members of both Houses And this was done not many dayes before the return of the Committee formerly mentioned out of England The Irish Commissioners return out of England and land at Dublin They arrived at Dublin about

since the twentieth yeer of King Henry the eight may be repealed 7 That the Bishopricks Deanaries and all other spirituall promotions of this Kingdome and all Frieries and Nunneries may be restored to the Catholick owners and likewise all impropriations of Tythes and that the Scits Ambits and Precincts of the Religious houses of the Monks may be restored to them but as to the rest of their temporall possessions it is not designed to be taken from the present proprietors but to be left to them untill God shall otherwise incline their own hearts 8 That such as are now entitled Catholick Archbishops Bishops Abbots or other dignitaries in this Kingdome by donation of the Pope may during their lives enjoy their spirituall promotions with protestation neverthelesse and other fit clauses to be laid downe for preservation of his Majesties rights of Patronages first Fruits and twentieth parts in manner and quantity as now his Highnesse receives benefit thereby 9 That all inquisitions taken since the yeer 1634. to entitle his Majesty to Conaught Thomond Ormond Eliogartie Kilnemanagh Duheara Wickloe and Idvagh may be vacated and their estates secured according to his Majesties late graces 10 That an Act of Parliament may passe here for the securing the Subjects title to their severall estates against the Crown upon any title accrewed unto it before sixty yeers or under colour or pretext of the present commotions 11 That all Plantations made since the yeer 1610. may be avoyded by Parliament if the Parliament shall hold it just and their possessions restored to them or their Heirs from whom the same were taken they neverthelesse answering to the Crowne the Rents and services proportionable reserved upon the undertakers 12 That the transportation of all native Commodities to all places of the world in peace with his Majesty may be free and lawfull his customes first paid and that the Statutes of 10 11 13. of Queen Elizabeth for restraining the exportation of native Commodities be repealed 13 That all preferments Ecclesiasticall Civill and Martiall in this Kingdome that lye in his Majesties gift may be conferred on Natives of this Kingdome onely such as his Majesty shall think meet without any distinction for Religion Provided alwayes that upon the Princes of his blood of England he may bestow what places he shall think meet 14 That a Marshall and Admirall of this Kingdome may be elected in it to have perpetuall succession therein with the same preheminence authority and jurisdiction as they respectively have in England and that the said places be ever conferred upon Noble-men Natives of this Kingdom 15 That there may be Trained Bands in all Cities Towns Corporate and Counties of this Kingdome armed and provided at the charge of the severall Counties Cities and Townes and commanded by the Natives of the same who shall be named by the Counties Cities and Towns respectively 16 That his Majesty may release all Tenures in Capite and by Knight-service in consideration whereof he shall receive a setled revenue of 12000. li. per annum being double the summe which he casually receives by them Reliefes Seismes Licenses for Alienations Escuage and Aydes neverthelesse to remain 17 That all Monopolies may be for ever taken away by Act of Parliament 18 That such new Corporations as have not the face of Corporate Townes and were erected to give voyces in the Parliament may be dissolved and their Votes taken away and hereafter no such to be admitted to voices in Parliament 11 That there may be Agents chosen in Parliament or otherwise as thought meet to attend continually his Majesty to represent the grievances of this Nation that they may be removable by such as did elect them and in case of death or removance others may be for ever successively substituted in that place and that such Agents may enjoy the freedome of their conscience in Court and every where else These are the means proposed by these Catholick Remonstrants for reducing of the Kingdom to peace these the great obstructions they would have removed the cōstant Counsel they would have followed in setling the tranquility present government of this Land so as we need seek no further evidence nor make any more curious enquiries into the secret causes of their first rising we have here enough out of their owne mouths to resolve the most scrupulous unbeleever of their first motives to this Rebellion The re-establishment of the Romish Religion onely a pretence for the rebellion And now for the matter of Religion howsoever I am very confident they ever really intended the re-establishment of that of the Church of Rome with all the Rites and Ceremonies thereof together with the utter extirpation of all of the reformed profession Yet considering the large indulgence and free liberty they universally enjoyed at that time in the full exercise of that their Religion throughout all the parts of the Kingdome it may be most justly suspected how zealously soever they now obtrude it that this was onely the bare outward couverture made use of by the principall undertakers to draw on a poore ignorant superstitious people to sacrifice their lives in this quarrell Neither can it by any reasonable man be ever presumed that such persons as made no conscience of committing treason so many cruell murders and all other kind of abominable villanies not to be paralleld in any other Country could be drawne meerly out of conscience towards God to act these for the regaining of the free and publike profession of their Religion This certainly was no more the true and main cause of their taking up Armes then the redresse of their pretended grievances All the grievances of the Kingdom redressed before the Rebellion brake out whereunto his Majesty had condiscended and out of his inclinations for their present reliefe had given much more satisfaction to their Agents lately in England then ever they could in any other time expect to receive or hope to enjoy Yet we see how little effect those great graces brought over not above two moneths before this Rebellion brake out took among them for presently after the return of their Agents with them this most detestable conspiracy which had been long in hatching began to work and to be put in execution And if we shall consider their maine designe and chiefe ends therein as they appear in their first principles or will give credit to the severall speeches and passages that we meet with among the Rebels in the very beginning of their breaking out as also to severall other testimonies that have since privately fallen from some particular persons among them we must beleeve that their designe cleerly was to destroy and root out all the British and Protestants planted within this Kingdom to cut off the Soveraignty of the Crowne of England and so to deliver themselves from their long continued subjection to the English Nation But to come to one maine particular taken into debate by the prime Movers

his cheeks to his ears laying a leafe of a Bible before him and bid him preach for his mouth was wide enough and after they had so solaced themselves threw those heads in a hole in Saint James Green jurat Aug. 16. 1643. of Kilkenny a City planted with old English where civility good manners seemed to flourish solace and please themselves in abusing most unchristianly the heads of a Minister and six other Protestants brought in a kind of triumph into that Towne Certainly it is not to be imagined much lesse expressed with what scorne and derision they acted these great cruelties upon al British which they had gotten into their power with what joy and exultation their eyes did behold the sad spectacle of their miseries what 62 Julian Jonson the relict of John Jonson of the County of Gallaway deposeth that after the slaughter of some English she heard one O Moloy a Fryar say in a triumphing manner It was a brave sport to see the young men meaning some of the English then slain defending themselves on every side and their two eyes burning in their heads And further that she heard some of the cruell Souldiers then and there brag and boast of the brave sport they had by putting fire to the straw which a stripped English woman had tyed about her saying how bravely the fire then made the English jade to dance jurat Feb. 8. 1643. 62 Joane Constable the relict of Gabriel Constable deposeth that the outcries lamentations and speeches of the poore Protestants burned in a thatcht house in the Parish of Kilmore in the County of Armagh were exceeding loud and pittifull yet did nothing prevaile to mollifie the hardned hearts of their murderers but they most boldly made brags thereof and tooke pride and glory in imitating those cries and in telling the Deponent and others how the children gaped when the fire began to burne them and threatned and told her this Deponent that before it were long she and the rest of the Protestants should suffer the like deaths And further saith that the Rebels within the County of Armagh did act and commit divers other bloody barbarous cruelties betwixt the time of the beginning of the Rebellion and her escape from imprisonment out of the said County by burning drowning hanging the sword starving and other fearfull deaths That they did drowne at one time betwixt Tinon and Kinard sixty British women and children their respective husbands and fathers all their male friends that were men being murdered before And that they did in the same water at another time drowne one Mistris Maxwell the wife of Master James Maxwell when she was in labour and so forward therein as some of those bloody actors told and brag'd to her this Deponent that the very childs arme appeared and waved in the water the child being halfe borne when the mother was drowned jurat ut supra greedy delight and pleasure they took in their bloody executions what 63 Henry Brinkhurst of the County of Mayo deposeth that after the Massacre of Shreul one of the Rebels that had acted his part there came into a house with his hands and cloaths all bloody saying it was English blood that he hoped to have more of it and that his skeine had pincked the cleane white skins of many at Shreul even to the hilt thereof and that amongst others it had been in the body of a faire complexioned man whose name was Jones At which time of his discourse the wife of the said Jones with four of her small children sate by and durst not cry out but striving to suppresse her extreame griefe fell into a swoon and was conveyed out of the room for feare he should have done the like by her and her poor children Hen. Brinkhurst jurat Mar. 11. 1643. malice and hatred they expressed towards them many with the last stroke of death giving them in their last agony 64 This particular deposed in the Examination of Doctor Maxwell and Mistresse Price that fearfull valediction in Irish Anima duel thy soule to the Devil But it is no wonder that they carried themselves after this barbarous maner to these poore innocent Christians when they spared not most fearfully to belch out their rage against their maker What open 65 Margaret Stokes the wife of Hugh Stokes duly sworne and examined deposeth inter alia That when the Rebels or any of them had killed an English man in the Country many others of them would come one after another and every of them in most cruell manner stab wound and cut him and almost mangle him and to shew their further malice would not suffer or permit any to bury them but would have them to lye naked for the dogs beasts and fowles of the ayre to devour them And further saith when they had so killed the English they would reckon up and account the number of them and in rejoycing and boasting manner would say that they had made the Devil beholding to them in sending so many soules to him to hell jurat coram Sir Gerard Lowther 65 Edward Deane of Ocram in the County of Wickloe Tanner deposeth that the Irish Rebels made Proclamation that all English men and women that did not depart the Country within 24. hours should be hanged drawne and quartered and that the Irish houses that kept any of the English children should be burned And further saith that the said Rebels burned two Protestant Bibles and then said that it was hell fire that burnt jurat Jan. 7. 1641. hellish blasphemies were uttered by these wicked miscreants 66 Joh. Kerdiffe Clerk of the County of Tyrone deposeth inter alia that Fryar Malone of Skerries did take the poore mens Bibles which he found in the boat and cut them in pieces and cast them into the fire with these words That he would deale in like manner with all Protestant and Puritan Bibles jurat Feb. 28. 1641. 66 Henry Fisher of Powerscourt in the County of Wickloe deposeth that the Rebels entred the Parish Church at Powerscourt and burnt up the Pues Pulpits Chests and Bibles belonging to the said Church with extreame violence and triumph and expressing of hatred to Religion jurat Jan. 25. 1641. 66 Adam Clover of Slonosie in the County of Cavan duly sworne deposeth that James O Rely Hugh Brady and other Rebels did often take into their hands the Protestant Bibles and wetting them in the dirty water did five or six severall times dash the same on the face of this Deponent and other Protestants saying Come I know you love a good lesson here is an excellent one for you come to morrow and you shall have as good as Sermon as this and used other scornfull and disgracefull words unto them And further saith that dragging divers Protestants by the haire of the head and in other cruell manner into the Church there stripped robbed whipped and most cruelly used them saying If you come to morrow you shall heare the like Sermon