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A83674	A declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament concerning the rise and progresse of the grand rebellion in Ireland. Together vvith a multitude of examinations of persons of quality, whereby it may easily appear to all the world, who were, and still are the promoters of that cruell and unheard of rebellion. With some letters and papers of great consequence of the Earl of Antrims, which were intercepted. Also some letters of Mart, which were granted by the Lord Mohun, Sir Ralph Hopton, &c. And likewise another from the rebells in Ireland, who term themselves, the supreme councel for the Catholique-cause. Ordered by the Commons in Parl. that this declaration, examinations, and letters, be forthwith printed and published: H. Elsynge, Cler. Parl. D. Com.; Proceedings. 1643-07	England and Wales. Parliament. House of Commons.; Antrim, Randal MacDonnell, Earl of, 1609-1683.	1643 (1643)	Wing E2557A; ESTC R204348	37,446	63

with some fit instrument there by all their strength to surprize the Isles and the High-Lands and to depopulate and waste so much of this Kingdom as their power could extend unto being assured of the like dealing in the North by the Papists and their assistance there And to have a Magazine at Carlile for twenty thousand men to fall in with an hostility upon the south parts of this Kingdom The Letters sent from Nithisdail and Aboyne all written and subscribed by their hands to the Earle of Antrim and found with him although in some things covertly written do carry thus much expresly that for furtherance of the designe and point resolv'd on there was assistance assured from the Isles and from the North and South of Scotland that Ammunition and Armes without which they think their service uselesse were appointed to be sent to the North and other parts of this Kingdom and that Popish Officers were commanded and had undertaken to goe into Scotland of which we are informed some are already gone to the North for stopping and disappointing so far as may be for the present till the same divine providence make a more full discovery the attempts and devices of this unnaturall and bloody confederacy and conjuration As the Lords of his Majesties Privy Councell have given order that Nithisdail and Aboyne be cited and criminally pursued of high Treason and have made the same as a matter of publike and most high importance known to his Majestie and to the Parliament of England so they and the Commissioners of Peace also for acquitting themselves in their trust and for the safety of the Kingdome doe make the same publikely known to all his Majesties good Subjects that being forewarned of their danger they may be upon their guards and prepared against forraign invasion and intestine plots and insurrection And especially that the Noble men Commissioners of Shires and Borroughs perceiving greater and more apparent necessity of the approaching convention then they could have wished or expected may at the day formerly appointed meet in such celerity and with such publike affection and disposition of heart as the present condition of affairs doth require and call for at their hands and as beseemeth the lovers of their Religion King and Countrey which are in so great danger from Papists Atheists and other degenerated Countrey-men who are no lesse inraged against this Kingdom even since the late Reformation of this Kirk then were their Predecessours at the first reformation of Religion when their negotiating was so restlesse and their attempts so many and malicious against the work of God in this Land nor is it to be past without observation that while His Majesty is making a publike Declaration of His intentions to defend and maintaine the Religion Rights and Liberties of this Kingdome according to the Lawes Civill and Ecclesiastick the Papists are conspiring plotting and practising against the Religion Rights and Liberties established and against the lives of his Majesties good Subjects whereby they doe really manifest to the world what the Kings Majestie against his Declarations and his Subjects against their confidence grounded thereupon may look for from their malice and power if they shall continue in Armes and which God forbid if they shall prevaile in the end And whereas the Lords of Councell are informed That the late Act of Councell for publishing his Majesties Declaration is mistaken by sundry as a Declaration of their owne judgement concerning the proceedings of another Kingdom For preventing of this mistake they think fit to remember and declare according to the act of Councell in January last shewing that their Lordships giving Warrant to print any Paper comming from his Majestie or Parliament of England did not import their approbation of the contents thereof That they did on the first of June both remember the samine and expresse their intention in this publication to be far from taking on them to judge of the proceedings of the Parliament of another Kingdom but onely to thank his Majestie for his gracious expressions towards the preservation of the Rights and Liberties of this Kingdom And ordain this to be printed and published at the Market-Crosse of Edinburgh and all other Burghs within this Kingdom for the information of his Majesties Subjects within the same At Edinburgh the ninth day of June 1643. THe Lords of his Majesties Privy-Councell and Commissioners for conserving the Articles of the Treaty ordain this following Declaration to be printed and published at the Market-Crosse of Edinburgh and other Burghs of this Kingdom for the information of all his Majesties good Subjects within the same Arch. Primrose Cler. S. Cons Commis To the Right Honourable my very Noble friends these On the Irish Committee of the Parliament of England present these with due respect Right Honourable EXpect nothing from your honours reall and faithfull servant in this adverse time but what brings comfort In my last expedition against the Rebels occasioned by sudden intelligence I went forth with two thousand foot and three hundred horse being provided for ten daies at no greater allowance then seven ounces of meale a day for a souldier our scarcity being so great that for want of victuals and shooes we were unable to doe the service we wish or your honours expect from us Neverthelesse our fortune was such that with this small party without Cannon for want of carriage horses we beat Owen M c art Oneale Sir Philome Oneale and Owen M c art the Generall his sonne being all joyned together with their Forces and forced them to returne upon Charlemount after quitting the Generals house to be spoyled and burus by us with the whole houses in Lochgall being the best Plantation in Vlster and straitest for defence of the Rebels At the same time Colonell Hoome with a party of five hundred men was busied in beleaguering the Castle of Newcastle the receipt of all the Intelligence comes from England to the Rebels in Vlster where it was my good fortune in time of treaty there to trist a Barke come from the Isle of Man with that treacherous Papist the Earle of Antrim whose brother Alexander was sent before by the Queenes Majesty from Yorke to make way for the Earle in negotiating betwixt her Majesties Army in the North of England and the Papists on the borders of Scotland in the Isles of Scotland and the North parts thereof and with the Rebels in Ireland Their plot being set downe by the Queenes Majesties consent for the ruine of Religion and overthrew of His Majesties loyall Subjects in all the three Dominions as evidently doth appeare by the Letters Characters Passes and Papers found with the Earle directed by me to the Councell of Scotland and the Generall It becommeth me as the servant of the publique intrusted with your Commission under the great Seale of England to enforme truly your honours of the great prejudice the cause in hand suffers by your honours neglect of this Army being

A DECLARATION Of the Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT Concerning the Rise and Progresse of The Grand Rebellion IN IRELAND TOGETHER VVith a multitude of Examinations of Persons of quality whereby it may easily appear to all the World who were and still are the Promoters of that cruell and unheard of REBELLION With some Letters and Papers of great consequence of the Earl of Antrims which were intercepted Also some Letters of MART which were granted by the Lord Mohun Sir Ralph Hopton c. And likewise another from the Rebells in Ireland who term themselves The SUPREME COUNCEL for the Catholique-Cause ORdered by the Commons in Parl. That this Declaration Examinations and Letters be forthwith printed and published H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. London Printed for Edw. Husbands and are to be sold in the Middle-Temple Iuly 1643. Die Martis 25 Julii 1643. IT is this day Ordered by the House of Commons That the Ministers of every Parish within the Kingdom shall read this Declaration in their severall Churches and Chappels on the next Fast day the same shall come to their hands after the ending of the first Sermon and before the beginning of the next H. Elsynge Cler. Parl. D. Com. A Declaration of the Commons assembled in Parliament c. THe COMMONS in Parliament do observe that the grand Designe of altering Religion throughout His Majesties Dominions had a more speciall influence in Ireland as being more remote from view and more propence to receive such impression and therefore they think fit to call to minde as introductive to that which follows some particular footsteps by which Popery hath been advanced and true Religion discountenanced in that Kingdom since the accesse of His Majestie to the Crown of England In the second yeer of His Majesties Raign certain Propositions were set on foot in Ireland the scope whereof was to fautour and indulge Popery in that Kingdom as namely to suspend all proceedings against the Papists for being marryed or for procuring their children to be christned by popish Priests to allow the suing out of Liveries Outre Les-mains by the Papists without taking the Oath of Supremacie with many like Priviledges to the Papists The Designe being to bring in a more publique Tolleration of the popish Religion in that Kingdom for a sum of Money to be paid to His Majestie for the same These Propositions and Designe were so grosse and scandalous that even the then Bishops of Ireland by a writing under their hands bearing date the 26 of November 1626. did make a Protestation setting forth how grievous a sin it was to consent to such Tolleration of Popery and that to grant it in respect of any Money to be given were to set Religion to sale and withall the souls of the people whom Christ hath redeemed with his precious blood And that as it was a great sin so they did conceive it of most dangerous consequence as by the said Protestation herewith printed may appear And although the House of Commons in their Remonstrance made in the third Yeer of His Majesties Raigne did truely informe See Folio 24. that even then the Popish Religion was openly profest in every part of that Kingdome that Monasteries and Nunneries were then newly erected and replenished with men and women of severall Orders that this might prove of evill consequence if not seasonably repressed therefore most humbly besought His Majesty to lay the serious consideration thereof to His Royall and pious heart and that some speedy course might be taken for redresse therein Yet how this faithfull and timely advice of the Bishops of Ireland and the Commons of England was followed and what speedy course was taken for redresse therein will appeare by this which insues For IN the beginning of the Fourth yeer of His Majesties Raigne upon the agreement of certain Agents sent from Ireland to His Majestie all or most part of them being professed Papists these Propositions and Graces with many like Additions were granted and confirmed by His Majestie in consideration of One hundred and twenty thousand pounds to be levyed in three yeers upon the Kingdom in generall as well upon the Protestants as upon the Papists How great an encouragement to the Papists this was and what an insufferable pressure to the Protestants that besides the illegall imposing it upon them without their consent in Parliament they must be compelled to purchase with their money Tollerations and Immunities for the Papists let even those men judge who will be stiled the moderate and honest Protestants whiles with all their faculties of body and minde they strive to advance Popery and to root up the Protestant Religion and the Liberty of the Subject Many potent and notorious Papists have been created Peers by His Majestie whereby the Votes of the Popish party in the Lords House too many before are much encreased and those Papists become more powerfull and more exemplary in their respective countries to the great encouragement and growth of Popery and discouragement to the good people of that Kingdom That when by direction of the Lord Chancellor Loftus and the Earl of Cork then Lords Justices proceedings were begun against the Papists upon the Statute of 2 Eliz. for not coming to Church and the Iudges in their circuits gave that Statute in charge and Indictments were framed thereupon directions were sent from England to suspend and stay all proceedings upon that Statute when by taking the penalty imposed by that Statute being Nine pence for absenting from Church Sundayes and Holy-dayes the poor Protestants there might have been eased of many heavie payments and Taxes which were after imposed upon them and the Papists either brought to conformity or else kept so under that this Rebellion if not wholly prevented yet could not have proved so Universall and so bloody as now it is That the late Earl of Strafford being the Kings Lieutenant there did by his great Favorite Sir George Ratcliff one of His Majesties Privie-Couneell of that Kingdom hold correspondencie with the Popish Clergie and particularly with Paul Harris a known Priest who had both publique and private accesse to Sir George Ratcliff at all times as well by night as by day That in March 1639. the Earl of Strafford carryed with him into Ireland Sir Toby Matthews a notorious pernicious English Iesuited Priest banished at the beginning of this Parliament upon the importunity of both Houses lodged this Priest over against the Castle of Dublin the house where the Earl did himself reside and from whence this Priest daily rode to the publique Masse-houses in Dublin and negotiated the engaging of the Papists of Ireland in the war against Scotland When the late Lo Chanc Loftus and the E. of Cork were Lords Iustices they endeavoured to suppresse the Masse-houses in Dublin and to convert them to pious uses one which was in the street called the Back-lane they disposed of to the University of Dublin who placed a Rector and Schollars in it

August 1642. shewing the obstructions of the relief of Ireland THe House of Commons having received a Message from His Majesty of the 13 of August last whereby they are required to retract an Order made by them for the borrowing of One hundred thousand pounds of the Adventurers money for Ireland supposing that Order very prejudiciall to the affairs of Ireland and contrary to an Act of Parliament made this present Session Do in the first place Declare That these directions given by His Majesty for the retracting of this Order is an high breach of priviledge of Parliament And they cannot without a deep sense of sorrow call to minde how Popish and Prelaticall Counsells did so far prevail with his Majesty that two Armies were brought within the bowels of this Kingdom and two Protestant Nations ready to welter in each others blood that when both those Armies had been a long time defrayed at the charge of the poor Commons of England and at length by Gods blessing upon the endeavours of the Parliament quietly disbanded the same wicked Counsels prevented of that designe did soon after raise this bloody and barbarous Rebellion in Ireland The suppressing whereof for the better colour was recommended to the care of the Parliament who out of a fellow-feeling of the unspeakable miseries of their Protestant brethren there not suspecting this horrid Plot now too apparent did cheerfully undertake that great work and do really intend and endeavour to settle the Protestant Religion and a permanent Peace in that Realm to the glory of God and the great honour and profit of His Majesty and security of His three Kingdoms But how they have been discouraged retarded and diverted in and from this pious and glorious Work by those Trayterous counsells about His Majesty will appear by many particulars some whereof they shall upon this just occasion call to remembrance That when the Lords and Commons had upon the first breaking out of the Rebellion immediately provided and sent over twenty thousand pounds and engaged themselves and the whole Kingdom for the reducing of the Rebels Yet His Majesty after His return from Scotland to London was not either pleased by Word or Message to take notice of it untill after some in the House of Commons had truely observed how forward those mischievous Counsellors were to incite His Majesty against His Protestant Subjects of Scotland and how slow to recent the proceeding of His Papist Traytors in Ireland That although the Rebells had most impudently stiled themselves The Queens Army and profest that the cause of their rising was To maintain the Kings Prerogative and the Queens Religion against the Puritan Parliament of England And that thereupon both Houses of Parliament did humbly and earnestly advise His Majesty to wipe away this dangerous scandall by proclaiming them Rebels and Traytors to His Majesty and the Crown of England which then would have mated and weakned the Conspirators in the beginning and have encouraged both the Parliament here and good people there the more vigorously to have opposed their proceedings Yet such was the power of those Counsells that no Proclamation was set forth to that purpose till almost three months after the breaking out of this Rebellion and then Command given That but 40 should be Printed nor they published till further directions should be given by His Majesty That after both Houses of Parliament had found out a probable way to reduce the Kingdom of Ireland by the Adventure of private men without any charge to the Subject in generall and which they are very confident would have brought in a Million of money had His Majesty continued in or neer London those malicious whisperers that durst not hinder the passing of the Bill which was so specious in it self and so generally approved Yet have by practise by drawing His Majestie from His Parliament by keeping Him at this distance and advising him to make War upon His People so intimidated and discouraged the Adventurers and others that would have adventured that they have rendred that good Bill in a manner ineffectuall That the Parliament and Adventurers had long since designed five thousand Foot and five hundred Horse for the relief of Munster to be sent as a Brigade under the command of the Lord Wharton had made choice of and listed all the Commanders and prepared Money Arms and other Provision for that Expedition and all to be at the charge of the Adventurers And when nothing was wanting but a Commission to the Lord Wharton to enable him for that service such was the power of those Counsels that no Commission could be obtained from His Majesty by reason whereof Lymbrick was wholly lost and the Province of Munster is now in very great distresse That when divers pious and well-affected persons had prepared twelve Ships and six Pinnaces with a thousand or more Land-forces at their own charge by way of Adventure for the service of Ireland and desired nothing but a Commission from His Majesty to enable them thereunto that Commission after twice sending to York for the same and the Ships lying ready to set Sail for three weeks together at the charge of neer three hundred pound a day was likewise denied and those Adventurers rather then to lose their Expedition were constrained to go by vertue of an Ordinance of both Houses of Parliament That although the Lords Justices of Ireland have three moneths since earnestly desired to have two Pieces of Battery sent over as very necessary for that service yet such commands are given to the Officers of the Tower That none of His Majesties Ordnance must be sent to save his Majesties Kingdom That although whilst the Earl of Leicester stayed here in the Service of the Parliament and in providing for his long-expected Voyage into Ireland a Message was sent to the Parliament from His Majesty to hasten him away and Letters were written to the said Earl from His Majesty that he should make no stay at York for his dispatch but that his Instructions should be ready for him against he came And although it is notoriously known That the Affairs of Ireland do exceedingly suffer by wanting the personall assistance of a Commander in chief to give both life and motion to the Army there yet the said Earl hath been stayed with His Majesty in the North a month and more and as yet can get no dispatch That notwithstanding the bleeding condition of Ireland yet divers Commanders and Officers in pay and in actuall employment there against the Rebels have been called away from that important Service by the expresse Command of His Majesty as Charles Floyd Engineer and Quarter-master Generall of the Army in Ireland and divers others That Captain Green Comptroller of the Artillery a man in pay and principally employed and trusted here by the Lord-Lievtenant of Ireland for the providing and odering the Train of Artillery which was to be sent to Dublin and who had received great Sums of money

vertue was invisible when the old families of the English and the major part of us the meere Irish did swim in blood to serve the Crowne of England and when Offices should call for men of worth men without worth or merit obtained them Thirdly the Statute of 2 Eliz. of force in this Kingdome against us and others of our Religion doth not a little disanimate us and the rest Fourthly the avoydance of grants of our Lands and liberties by quirkes and quiddities of law without reflecting upon the King his Royall and reall intention for confirming our estates his broad Seale being the pawne betweene his Majestie and his people Fifthly the restraint of purchase in the meere Irish of lands in the escheated Counties and the taint and blemish of them and their posterities doth more discontent them then that Plantation rule for they are brought to that exigent of povertie in these late times that they must be sellers and not buyers of lands And we conceive and humbly offer to your Lordships consideration Principiis obsta that in the beginning of this Commotion your Lordship as it is hereditarie for you will be a Physitian to cure this disease in us and by our examples it will doubtlesse beget the like auspicious successe in all other parts of the Kingdome for we are of opinion it is one sicknesse and one Pharmack will suffice sublata causa tollitur effectus And it will be recorded that you will doe service unto God King and Countrie and for salving every the forementioned soares your Lordship to bee an humble suiter in our behalfe and of the rest of the Papists that out of the abundance of his Majesties Clemencie there may be an Act of oblivion and generall pardon without restitution or accompt of goods taken in the time of this Commotion a libertie of our Religion a repeale of all Statutes formerly made to the contrary and not by Proclamation but Parliamentary way A Charter of free Denizen in ample manner for the meere Irish which in all succeeding ages will prove an union in all his Majesties Dominions in stead of division a comfort for desolations and a happinesse in perpetuitie for an imminent calamitie and this being granted there will be all things quae sunt Caesaris Caesari and quae sunt Dei Deo And as it was by the Poet written though he be prophane in other matters yet in this Propheticall Divisum Imperium cum love Caesar habet All which for this present we leave to your Honourable care And we will as ever we did and doe remaine Decimo Novembr 1641. Your very humble and assured ever to be commanded Hugh mas Gillernow Farrall Iames Farrall Bryan Farrall Readagh Farrall Edmund mac Cahell Farrall John Farrall in Carbuy Garret Farrall Lisagh mac Conell Farrall Brian mac William Farrall Iohn mac Edmond Farral Iohn Farral Roger mac Bryne Farrall Barnaby Farrall Iames mac Teig Farr his marke Morgan mac Carbry Farral Donagh mac Carbry Farrall Richard mac Conel Farrall VVilliam mac Iames Farrall Iames Farrall Taghna mac Rory Farrall Cormack mac Rory Farrall Conock mac Bryne Farrall Readagh mac Lisagh Farrall Connor Oge mac Conor Farrall Edmond mac Connor Farrall Cahell mac Bryne Farrall To the Honourable William Lenthall Esquire Speaker of the House of Commons present these VVorthy Sir THese Lines are sent to give you this further accompt of our proceedings since my last from Stafford upon Thursday May 30. that God who delivered the Town of Namptwich from three attempts of our Enemies of Whitchurch did notwithstanding upon the first attempt made against Whitchurch deliverd the same into our hands and foure peeces of Ordnance some Powder Armes Horses and much Treasure which was taken but concealed by some of the common Souldiers and others All their Carriages cloaths provisions and some horses taken Two of their Captaines and other persons of worth slaine and one Captaine and some other persons of qualitie taken Prisoners The Lord was pleased much to appeare in this dayes successe and to assist our men with invincible and indefatigable courage so farre as to enable them to make their entrance upon the mouth of their Cannon There were twentie of theirs slaine out right and not above two or three of ours Colonell VVinne Colonell Crow Serjeant Major Generall VVoodhouse and the most of their prime Commanders escaped Their Cannonier was killled by a shot made by our Cannoniere we were not possessed of one Peece of Cannon at our entrance into this Countie yet now God hath pleased plentifully to furnish us with six peeces at Namptwich and two at Stafford so as wee now want Cannoniors to order and manage the same ☞ VVithin a few dayes after this victory there landed in two Barkes many Irish Rebels in Worrall in Cheshire some whereof acknowledged in the Presence of divers sufficient men who affirmed the same unto me that they had washed their hands in the blood of divers English and Scots in Ireland and now hoped to wash their hands in the blood of English men in England Which Rebels being brought into Chester were accused by severall of those perons who came to Chester for refuge to be the persons who cut their husbands throats others that they ripped up their childrens bowels The Countrey wherein they first arrived did apprehend so much distaste that they did all rise with their best weapons and apprehended divers of the Irish Rebles but being unarmed not having above seven or 8 Musqueteers they could not make good their Prisoners who were rescued out of their hands by a troope of horse which came from the Commissioners of Array who also seized about 28 of our honest Countrey-men prisoners These Irish acknowledge they came from Strongforth and that there are 1200. some speake of 10000 more to follow after Sir Your most humble servant Will. Brereton Liverpoole Iune 1643. Read in the House of Commons Ianuary 14. We have placed a Garrison in this Towne which I hope may be of great Advantage being the onely Haven Town in these parts of the Kingdome Post SInce I writ the lines above two of our Long Boats which were manned and sent out are returned and have brought in the Boats which carried the Rebels and have taken three or foure of the Rebells who confesse they came from Strangford and that they were sent by one Master Savage they have also seized some Barques laden with Wine part whereof belonges to those who are well affected to you and have suffered in your cause But the greatest part to those who are engaged against you which is reserved here to be disposed of as you shall please to order and direct A letter of Mart Warwicke Lord Mohun Baron of Okehampton Sir Ralph Hopton knight of the Bath Sir Iohn Barkeley knight and William Ashbourneham Esquire or any two of them Commissioners authorized under the great seal of England in the absence of William Marques of Hertford to command all his

and maintained a weekly Lecture there to which Lecture the Lords Iustices and State of Ireland did usually resort to the great countenancing of the Protestant Religion there But after the Earl of Strafford came to the Government the Lecture was put down the Schollars displaced and the house became a Masse-house as formerly it had been That divers Monasteries and Nunneries were newly erected immediately before the Rebellion brake forth in divers parts of that Kingdom That at the Naas where the Earl of Strafford had his chief seat and resort Convents of Friars namely Augustines Franciscans Dominicans were not onely permitted but also an house built there by the said Earl for an other purpose as he pretended soon after the building was converted to a Friery by the connivence of the said Earl That the Popish Irish Army was kept on foot there for a long time after the beginning of this Parliament contrary to the advice and frequent desires of both Houses of Parliament and to the great furtherance of this Rebellion by teaching those barbarous villains the knowledge of Arms under the notion of fighting against Scotland but now made use of to extirpate both English and Scots from the Kingdom of Ireland And that Lead might not be wanting to the compleating of this intended Rebellion as it had bin in the last great Rebellion there to the great disadvantage of the then Rebells the Silver Mines of that Kingdom which do afford great store of Lead and therefore fit onely to be in the hands of Protestants of known integrity were farmed out by His Majestie to most pernicious Papists namely Sir George Hamilton Sir Basil Brook the like and upon the discovery of the Plot for the surprising of the City and Castle of Dublin divers barrels of Musquet-bullet were found upon search in the house of the said Sir George Hamilton in Dublin Before this Rebellion brake forth the Earl of Strafford well knowing the ready way to endear his Prince was to promote his profit had by a violent endeavour entitled His Majestie by Office to the whole counties of Roscommon Mayo Slego Galloway and Clare and to a great part of the counties of Limerick and Tipperary by which means a door was opened not onely to increase His Majesties revenue in a very great proportion but therewith to settle a Plantation of English Protestants to the advancement of Religion and safety of that Kingdom And however the proceedings of the Earl herein were not to be justified in all points yet when the Committee was sent from Ireland at the beginning of this Parliament to complain of divers grievances they had no particular directions to mention this for one neither did that Committee ever attend His Majestie to complain thereof or desire a red resse therein conceiving the mentioning thereof wouldexceedingly distaste His Majestie untill His Majestie freely offered to depart with His Title to the former proprietors But on the contrary the Lords Iustices and Councell of Ireland apprehending the great advantage of this service did by their Letters exceedingly importune His Majestie that he would not part with His Title to those counties and lands and that the Plantation of English Protestants might proceed as was formerly intended But when those mischievous Councells now onely prevalent with His Majestie found that the Parliament had both discovered and interrupted them in some measure and that their Designe could be no longer carryed on by fraud and subtilties as before and had therefore projected this hideous Rebellion then the Lord Gormanstown Sir Donnaugh Mac Carthy Knight now Lord Viscount Muskerry Nicholas Plunket Uncle to the Earl of Fingal Sir Roe-buck Lynch and Jeffery Brown a Lawyer all principall and active Rebels now in Ireland and Thomas Bourke who was named a Commssioner in the late Commission to Treat with the Rebels and whose father brothers and kindred are all now in Rebellion being the chief of the Popish part of that Irish Committee were consulted and caressed at Whitehall and they or some of them without the privity of the rest of that Committee had divers private conferrences with the King in the Queens presence and what Clandestine agreement was made with those Rebels may easily be imagined when upon their private mediation His Majesty was induced to give away these five whole Counties with a great part of the Counties of Limerick and Tipperary after so great an endeavour had bin used for divers yeers together to entitle His Majesty to the same and all this for a rent of 2000. l. or thereabouts when as in finding the Offices searching Records and admeasuring these Counties and Lands the King had expended out of His Own Coffers ten thousand pounds and upwards And this service of entitling the King was before that time esteemed such a Master-piece of the said Earle that some persons who came over to complaine against the Earle for the same were imprisoned here and after sent into Ireland to be further dealt with as the said Earle should think fit Neither is it improper to observe upon this occasion the extream difference between this Superlative Indulgence to the Irish Papists by this unusuall bounty and that exquisite piece of injustice offered to the City of London in the case of London Derry and Collerane which shews the Land of Ireland is worth the owning where no greater compensation is proposed for the parting therewith And His Majesty was drawn to tell the Committee for Ireland that now since he was content to part with so much of His Right He expected they would recompence Him some other way Immediately after namely in August before the Rebellion they returned into Ireland where how they bestir'd themselves by seconding their Letters and Messages with their personall sollicitations did appear by the Sequele for that the 23. of October following this Rebellion brake forth in Vlster To these violent presumptions may be added that which is expresly proved by Archdeacon Maxwell a Learned Divine who testifies in his Examinations taken in Ireland that he heard Tirlagh Oge O Neile brother to Sir Phelim O Neale the arch Rebell of Vlster confesse That this businesse meaning the Rebellion was communicated by the Popish Irish Committee to the Papists in England who promised their assistance and that by their advice something formerly resolved on were altered saying it was a good omen and undoubted signe of divine approbation that the Parliament of Ireland should send over a Committee into England the major part whereof were Papists And Mac Mahoun who was to joyn with the Lord MacGuire for the surprizing the Castle of Dublin being taken and examined at the Racke confessed that the originall of that Rebellion was brought to them out of England by the Irish Committee imployed to His Majesty for redresse of Grievances as by the Examination See Fol. 2 of James Piesly Gentleman herewith Printed may appeare And as these Irish Papists did negotiate in both Kingdomes so the Earl of Castlehaven a

are Irish by all which it may appear that the Irish Rebels are not onely esteemed His See the examination of Mr Dod. fol. 62. Majesties good Subjects but even the best of His Subjects when they are thus admitted so neer His Majesties own person Upon the whole matter no man can think that this Rebellion in Ireland so barbarous and bloody that one hundred and fifty four thousand Protestants men women and children English and Scotch were Massacred in that Kingdom between the 23 of October when the Rebellion brake forth and the first of March following by the computation of the Priests themselves that were present and principall Actors in all those Tragedies and were directed by some chief Rebells of Ireland to take this computation lest they should be reported to be more bloody then in truth there was cause all which appears by the examination of the said Arch-deacon Maxwell who lived as a Prisoner a long time with St Phelmi O Neils mother and was there when this Computation was brought in No man can beleeve that this horrid and unparareld Rebellion should be the undertaking of the Rebels alone being set on foot when a Parliament was sitting in England that could not dissolve without its own consent when all Nations professing the Romish Religion were at peace with England and so engaged at home that the Rebells in reason could not expect any considerable assistance from them nor could think themselves able to incounter England or Scotland either much lesse both together being so concerned and engaged by Religion and the common interest of both Kingdoms to suppresse by all means possible so insufferable an insurrection So that to imagine the Nobility Gentry and in a manner the whole Kingdom of Ireland who at that time enjoyed more freedom of Religion then they had done for many yeers before should thus desperately engage their lives and estates in so wicked so rash an enterprise without being encouraged incited nay commanded from England with an assurance both of connivence and assistance too were to deny them to be reasonable Creatures And therefore the House of Commons abundantly satisfied in their own consciences and judgements of the trueth hereof though with deep sorrow and amazement cannot but declare to the world That by all these concurring circumstances and convincing Proofs to which nothing can be added save a witnesse to confesse that he was present at the making of the bargain which no man will expect in a conspiracie of this horrid and high importance that this unheard of and monstrous Rebellion of Ireland was projected incited and assisted by those Councells now onely prevalent with His Majestie That the Queen with her Romish Priests the Papists of all His Majesties three Kingdoms have been principall Actours and Sticklers herein That now those bloody Rebels have in a manner rooted out the Protestant Religion in Ireland there is a Designe to pardon them and to bring them into England to do the like That no earthly power is likely in humane reason to withstand this damnable Plot but the power of the Parliament of England which is now declared by a late Proclamation to be no free Parliament to be null and of none effect and all possible endeavour used by strength and stratagem to destroy the same So that unlesse the Royall blood of King James and the innocent blood of the Protestants of Ireland do lie as a crying and stupendious guilt upon this Nation which God hath determined at this time to revenge and retalliate the House of Commons do conceive it impossible that so many of those which would be thought the honest and moderate English Protestants should any longer be blinded and led on to joyn with German French Wallon English Scotch and Irish Papists and thereby to surrender up at once The Protestant Religion The Parliament Liberties and Lawes of England into the hands of Papists and Strangers that so this Renowned Kingdom may be no more a Nation The Protestation of the Arch-Bishops and Bishops of Ireland against the toleration of Popery agreed upon and subscribed by them at Dublin November 26. 1626. THe Religion of the Papists is Superstitious and Idolatrous their Faith and Doctrine erroneous and Hereticall Their Church in respect of both Apostaticall To give them therefore a Toleration or to consent that they may freely exercise their Religion and confesse their Faith and Doctrine is a grievous sin and that in two respects First It is to make our selves accessary not onely to their Superstitions Idolatries Heresies and in a word to all the abominations of Popery but also which is a consequence of the former to the Perdition of the seduced people which perish in the deluge of their Catholique Apostasie Secondly To grant them a Toleration in respect of any Money to be given or contribution to be made by them is to set Religion to sale and withall the souls of the people whom Christ our Saviour hath redeemed with his most precious blood And as it is a great Sin so it is a matter of most dangerous consequence the consideration whereof we leave to the wise and judicious beseeching the jealous God of Trueth to make all those who are in Authority zealous of Gods glory and the advancement of true Religion and resolute and couragious against all Popery Superstition and Idolatry The Examination of James Peisley late of Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland Saith THat about the moneth of March 1641. it was his fortune to be present when Mackmaghon one of the grand Rebels of Ireland was Wracked and his Examination taken by Sir Charles Coot senior in the presence of Sir Francis Willowby Sir Arthur Losters the Constable of the Castle and some others the said Mackmohon confessed that the Originall of that Rebellion was brought over to them by their Committee who were imployed by the Irish Parliament to His Majestie for redresse of their Grievances in that Kingdom and that they having often solicited His Majestie for that purpose was answered That he was willing to grant them their desire and that he did confesse they were His good Subjects but that He was so opprest by his Parliament in England that he knew not how to relieve them wishing he knew how to be revenged on them or words to that purpose which occasioned Sir Charles Coot to take him up calling him Rogue and Raskall for offering to lay such a charge upon the King whom he said would assist them in things honest and just but not give them Commission to cut our Throats This Narration was not incerted in the Examination read to Mackmaghon after Sr Charles Coot had finished it The Reason as this Examinate then conceived was That it being a matter of great consequence they would take some other time to examine that point more privately which whether they did or no this Examinae knows not A Declaration of the Commons assembled in PARLIAMENT In Answer to His Majesties Message of the 13 of

can your friends in the Isles and Hilands be usefull for you So doe your best to have it quickly sent away and be confident you shall have assistance though it must take a longer time of the which I shall give your Lordship notice So let no alteration be thought upon though a little it must be deferred And be confident of the respects of Your Lordships faithfull servant Nithisdail Carlile the 8. of May. 1643. I entreat these may present my bounden service to my Lady Dutchesse your Lady Till I get advertisement from your Lordship I shall have a Boat ready at your service For my Noble Lord the Earle of Antrim at Yorke My Lord THis Gentleman can so well informe you of the particulars you expected from Scotland as I must onely assure your Lordship I dare not conclude with him therefore if it please you to expect a second advertisement it shall certainly bee sent to you by the first occasion For I should be sorry that what may so concerne your service should be subject to any scruple And I assure your Lordship their future shall ratifie this opinion of Your Lordships most humble servant Aboyne Burroughbridge in haste the 3. of May. 1643. For the Right Honourable the Earle of Antrim these My Lord BEing certainly informed by Nithisdails servant That there is ☞ a new Order since we parted for stopping of the Ammunition I have taken occasion to intreat your Lordship by this bearer that I may know the particulars of it I must confesse it surpriseth me that any distance should alter so reasonable a conclusion And certainly I shall never deserve to be made the instrument of frustrating the hopes of these parts which should have bin enabled by this supply I am confident there is scarce another mean to make our fidelitie uselesse for her Majesties service And if it please your Lordship to acquaint the Queene with these effects of my ingenuitie you will thereby multiply your favours you have already conferred upon My Lord Your Lordships most affectionate and obliged servant Aboyne Carlile the 8. of May. 1643. To the Right Honourable the Earle of Antrim these WIlliam Earle of Neweastle Governour of the Towne and County of Newcastle and Generall of all His Majesties Forces raised in the Northerne parts of this Kingdome for defence of the same To all Colonels Lieutenant-Colonels Serjeant-Majors Captains and all other his Majesties loving Subjects of England and Ireland For as much as the Right Honourable the Earle of Antrim is to travell to Dublyn in Ireland and other parts of that Kingdom these are therefore to desire and require you and every of you to whom this shall come to be seen to permit and suffer him and his servants quietly and peaceably to passe and repasse into these parts and backe againe without any molestation or interruption And further I doe hereby require all Post-masters Constables and other Officers to furnish the said Earle and his servants with so many Post-horses as they shall have neede of from place to place and Stage to Stage for all the said journey he and they paying the usuall rates for the same And hereof you or any of you may not faile at your perill Given under my hand and seal the fourth day of May. 1643. signed Will. Neweastle June 9. 1643. A Declaration of the Lords of His MAIESTIES Privie-Councell in SCOTLAND THe Lords of his Majesties most honourable Privy-Councel and the Commissioners for conserving of the Peace according to the great trust reposed on them by his Majestie and the Estates of Parliament whereof they are to make account to God and his Majestie the next ensuing Parliament taking to their deepest and most serious consideration the the best wayes of preserving the peace of this Kingdom That all his Majesties good and dutifull Subjects may enjoy their Religion Liberties and Laws which God in a singular and wonderfull providence in the time of his Majesties raign hath vouchsafed them and of the peace betwixt the two Kingdomes so unanimously and happily established in the late Treaty of peace and in the Parliaments of both Kingdoms Have faithfully endeavoured by all good means to reduce Ireland to his Majesties obedience which through the unnaturall barbarous and Antichristian cruelty of Papists is from a peaceable Kingdome turned into a stage of unexampled and unexpressible miseries to be looked upon as an horrid and dangerous example by this Kingdom and by their nearest supplications to his Majestie and their Declarations to the Parliament of England but especially by their earnest desires for establishing Unity of Religion and Uniformity of Kirk-government and for disbanding all Papists in Arms within their Dominions and by the humble offer of their meditation to remove the unhappy differences and quench the fire of a wasting Warre begun betwixt his Majestie and his Subjects of England wherein his Majesties sacred Person is exposed to so great danger and so many thousands of his Subjects have already perished But finding to their great griefe the successe no way answerable to their endeavours and expectation and the trouble of the neighbouring Kingdoms and the dangers of this Kingdome daily arising to a greater height then they by their care counsell and diligence were able to remeid or obviate they did resolve for this and other causes which exercise and heavily presse the Kingdome at this time to call a covention of the Estates as the onely meane his Majestie not thinking fit to hearken unto their motion of calling a Parliament which might by common Counsell consent and resolution take the best course for representing yet more sensibly these manifold evils and dangers and for overcomming by greater wisdom the difficulties which were above their power In the meane while which they cannot but attribute to the mercifull and marvellous providence of God and which is a confirmation to them of their resolution in calling a convention and layeth the greater necessity upon the Estates to meet the more willingly and frequently A treacherous and damnable Plot of the Irish English and Scottish Papists is begun to be discovered by the unexpected apprehending of the Earl of Antrim comming from Yorke where he had kept his meetings and correspondence by Letters with certaine Popish Lords his Confederates and amongst others with the Earle of Nithisdail and Viscount of Aloyne their devillish designes and devices are come to light and brought to our knowledge partly by Letters from Ireland shewing the deposition and confession of a servant of the Earle of Antrims and partly by Letters which were found in the Earle his own pockets all sent to them from Ireland His servant who was hanged at Carrick-Fergus the day of May deponed as the Letters bear before and at the time of his death That the designe was to reconcile the English and Irish in Ireland that they by their joynt power having expelled the Scots the Irish Forces there might be sent against the Parliament of England to deal

unable to doe service as might be expected from them if they received the halfe of the allowance your Souldiers receive at Dublyn and had allowance for some horses for carriage in my opinion in six weekes time we could settle Garrisons in Vlster and thereafter oversway your enemies elsewhere in any part within his Majesties Dominions where your enemies prevailed most Therefore my weake opinion is this Army not be neglected wherein consists so much of your peace and safety having no friends you can repose into more then in us who are desirous to see Religion flourish Rebels subjected to obedience and his Majesties Throne established in despight of Papists and of wicked Councell mis-leading his Majesty to the ruine of his Dominions who would be the happiest Prince in the World if the Lord would moue his heart to hearken to the Counsell of those sheds their blood for his honour The Earle of Antrim shall God willing be kept close in the Castle of Carrickfergus till I be acquainted from your honours concerning him what course shall be taken with him and the Traytor conveyed him last away is to be executed since we can extort no discovery from him then is contained in the Papers sent to Scotland so recommending your honours and your weighty affaires to the direction and protection of the Almighty desirous to heare from you I remaine Yourr most humble truly affectionate and reall servant ROBERT MONRO Generall Major Carrikfergus May 23 1642. The Examination of John Dod Clerke taken by a select Committee of the House of Commons July 8. 1643. SAith that after he had suffered many miseries i● this rebellion of Ireland he repayred into this Kingdome and some occasions carrying him to Oxford he stayed there seven weekes and came out of Oxford June 13. 1643. That during his stay there he saw a great number of Irish rebels whom he very well knew to have had an hand in the most barbarous actions of that rebellion as the dashing of small infants in pieces the ripping up of women with child and the like among whom was one Thomas Brady who at Turbet in the County of Cavan in the Province of Vlster in Ireland within seven miles where this said examinat lived as 36 old men women and children not able to flie were passing over a bridge caused them all to be thrown into the water where they were all drowned That this Brady is now at Oxford in great favour and Serjeant-major to Colonell Percy his Regiment That he saw there three Franciscan Fryers namely Bryan ô Gormuti Anthony mac Geoghagan and Thomas Nuegent and three Jesuits namely Laurence Sutton Philip Roche and Edmund ô Rely who were all very earnest for the cause and daily encouraging the souldiers to fight against the Round-heads and for that purpose have lysted themselves in the Lord Dillons Troupe as was affirmed by divers they goe very brave and are called Cornets That there are daily and publique meetings at Masse in almost every street there and verily beleeves in his conscience that for one Sermon preached there are foure Masses said now at Oxford That he saw Sir Iohn Dungan there a man accused of high treason in Ireland for partaking in that rebellion and fled into England who had a Commission for a Troop of horse The Lord Barnewall of Trimlettstowne and his sonne who hath a Commission for a Troope of horse and is now gone into Wales to raise them a sonne of the Lord Neutervills who hath gotten a command likewise That as neere as he can possibly compute there was then at Oxford about 3000 Irish rebels and that most of the Kings life-guard are Irish. John Dod. FINIS