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A45771	Ireland's lamentation being a short, but perfect, full and true account of the scituation [sic], nature, constitution and product of Ireland : with an impartial historical relation of the most material transactions, revolutions, and miserable sufferings of the Protestants there, from the death of King Charles the second, to the latter end of April, 1689 : the time and manner of the late King's landing there : what men, monies, shipping, arms and ammunition he brought with him : the manner of his going up and into Dublin : his kneeling to the host : displacing all Protestants : the strength and defeat of his Army, and what else is of note : to which is added, a letter from a lieutenant in the Irish army, dated at Dublin, May 7. with an account of affairs to that time / written by an English Protestant that lately narrowly escaped with his life from thence.	English Protestant that lately narrowly escaped with his life from thence.; Fz. Ws., B.	1689 (1689)	Wing I1025; ESTC R10004	25,579	39

to the King yet knew his Mind much better soon removed that Scruple and forthwith after the Lord Clarendon's departure with the chief of the Popish Clergy in Dublin with Whips and Scourges entred the said Chappel fell to lashing the Walls and Floar to whip out Heresy pulled down the Communion-Table and Seats and erected in it an Altar and took three or four of the old Souldiers Rooms adjoining to it for the Priests and Friars and while they exercised in the Chappel the old Souldiers for whose use and with whose Mony it was built were forced to have their Devotion in the open Hall where they used to eat their Meat and in the mean time a Libel was fixed upon the Doon of Christ-Church in Dublin to publish the Bains of Matrimony betwixt that Church and the See of Rome bidding any that could forthwith to shew cause why they should not be joined together So that now the Protestants expected no less than all their Churches to be taken from them but whether through the murmuring of the People or Orders from the King to the contrary they proceeded no further as yet in that Business only displaced all the Protestant Chaplains in the Army and gave their Places and Benefits to Popish Priests who thereupon began to wear black Cloaks made much like the Ministers Gowns and yet it was a Crime to say the King had broke his Promise and infringed the Rights of the Church of England for it seems taking away Consecrated Chappels and Colledges and giving its Members Livings to Popish Priests was not Infringing the Rights of the Church but maintaining them according to Law and it was so indeed according to the Laws of the Church of Rome for the King never mentioned what Law he therein meant and therefore did not break his Promise But before further progress was made in this Business it was thought fit to Summon all Corporations and Incorporated Bodies in them to surrender their Charters upon which Drogheda and two or three Towns more obeyed and one Thomson Chirurgeon to the Royal Regiment in Dublin being Master and a pretended Protestant to shew his Loyalty readily threw the Charter of the Corporation of Chirurgions in Dublin at Tyrconnel's feet and is lately come for England perhaps to get it renewed by King William or else for that good Service to get to be Chirurgeon to another Regiment here in England for certainly the Man's Loyalty well deserves it and cannot fail of his Brethrens Certificate for saving them the Charges others were exposed to in defending their Charters by Law which all such as did not surrender or were forced to do in the Exchequer where one of those a pretended Protestant sate worthily to Judg and give Sentence against them till all was done and is since likewise come for England to receive his Reward All Charters being thus taken away partly by Fraud partly by Force others were quickly prepar'd and in every of them scarce one Person mention'd in the Body of the Charter but Papists or such as were little better but particularly every Mayor Sheriff Portrief Suffren Bailiff Master Warden and Clerk were meer Papists except one Anth. Sharp a Quaker was made and there named Master of the Corporation of Weavers in Dublin and one Colvert much of the same Stamp of a new Corporation of Hosiers and by these the Common Councils and Councils of the several Companies were either all Papists or Cousin-Germans to Papists All the Protestant Chaplains that belonged to them put out and Popish Priests put in their places Most of the Protestant Justices and all the Protestant Sheriffs of every County except one turn'd out so that in one Year or a little more after Tyrconnel assum'd the Government there was very few down-right honest Protestant Officers either Civil or Military in the whole Kingdom of Ireland except those before named and one Keating who yet continued Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and one of the Privy Council and indeed was the best Friend the Protestants had there However things were not yet perfected for those named in the Charters were mostly so indigent and poor that they were scarce able with their whole Fortunes to pay three or fourscore Pounds which was the Fees of each Charter and all or most of the Protestants refused to contribute till they were compelled some of them imprisoned and forced to Habeas-Corpus's for their Liberty Tyrconnel disliking these Delays sent for some of the principal of them pressed them to the Business assuring them that if they would join with the Corporations and take out their Charters he would defray all Fees of each Charter above Twenty Pounds which would not amount to above five Shillings each Man at the most besides their Freedom of the City or Town which should be granted them at the same Rate and in case they continued still obstinate he must look upon them as obstinate and stubborn and disaffected to his Majesty's Government This made some for ease and others for fear comply and become again free but others who stood out to this time were hamper'd and had their Shops shut down frequently till the News of the Scale turning in England which then ceas'd But the peaceable Quakers who before would not under a Protestant Government take upon them so much as the Office of a Constable now under a Popish every where readily conform and two of the chief of them are made Aldermen of Dublin viz. Anthony Sharp before mentioned and Samuel Clarrage who are excused from taking Oaths and frequently sat in the Seat of Justice Clarrage is at last come for England and as busy about Whitehal and Westminster as he was with Tyrconnel While these things were thus prosecuted in Publick the Popish Clergy in all parts of the Kingdom were as busy in private Caballing and sending their fittest Messengers to Whitchal Rome France Spain and Germany to advise about and receive Instructions for compleating their Damnable Design of overwhelming and eradicating the Protestant Religion and Interest of Ireland in particular And the better to delude the poor sleeping Protestants Tyrconnel continually fed them with fresh Assurances of the King 's Gracious Resolutions of securing the Religion and Interest of the Protestants and that all this Work was only to have an honest Parliament that would take off the Penal Laws for ease of all Dissenters and that nothing could contribute more to the Advantage Quiet and Riches of any Government However God be praised all were not so stupissed but they did plainly discern to have Popish Parliaments and in Ireland meer Irish and such as should not only have destroyed the Protestants but the whole English Interest of Ireland which nothing but a gracious God and the glorious Instrument he used could have prevented as Affairs then stood but blessed be his Holy Name God was pleased on a sudden to blast all their Cursed Designs and for the present strike them mute there as well as in

Hereticks so these poor Creatures had no sooner parted with their Arms but they were all bound and drove like Dogs to the Goal of Galloway and the last Assizes there condemn'd to be Drawn Hang'd and Quartered but upon the second of April got a Reprieve for a month One Brown a Man of considerable Fortune was going with them but fearing to get thorough returned back went to a neighbouring Justice and told him where he had been but disliking the Enterprize was returned in obedience to the Lord Deputy's Proclamation of Pardon to give Security for his future good Behaviour however was forthwith by a strong Guard sent prisoner to Cork and was there afterwards tryed and executed for High-Treason while King James was there And in Phillips-town in the Kings County there are Sir Laurence Parsons and about 50 more under the same condemnation and in Marisborough in the Queen's County 13 or 14 and in several other parts the like numbers whose particulars are not yet come to the Authors hands which were taken much after the same manner Other parts being thus reduced Mac-Carty Forthwith drew all the Forces in Munster against Bandon a Town which till these Times never permitted a Papist to dwell within its Wallt and likewise forced them to Surrender and give five of their Town Hostages for the payment of 1000l for the trouble they had given his Army 500l of which they paid down and the other five was remitted upon a Petition to King James upon his landing at Kingsale During these Hurries in other parts there was not any rising in the County or City of Dublin however all were not idle but several Active Spirits a knot of six or seven in particular whose Names are not convenient to be mentioned here being most still under the Papists Lash promoted as 't was thought principally by one who upon the landing of the now King William in England for his Religion was singled out to taste of Popish Mercy with an Intent to seize the Castle and Guards of Dublin and send Tyrconnel for England And for the better effecting thereof had by Stratagems caused most of the Protestants there to Arm themselves though at the same time they knew not what for further than in case any Attempt were made by the Papists upon their Lives by way of Massacre as they certainly intended till happily discovered by an unknown Hand of their own Party to a Protestant Lord on the 5th of December which so allarm'd all Protestants that it was in vain to attempt it after and especially while the Protestants were any where in Arms for that would have made all desperate and not so easily to be reduced as they were but before the Protestants of Dublin could bring their business to bear and get Ammunition enough to resist such Force as might be brought against them before they could expect Supplies from England Tyrconnel began to suspect them and forthwith call'd such Supplies and Numbers of Horse and Foot thither that with what was there before made up 14 or 15000 Men whose Number and Presence spoil'd that great Project which otherwise was so well laid that it had certainly taken effect if put in execution and brought Tyrconnel for England and so saved the extream Ruin and Devastation the Protestants have since suffered through his Villany For any time before that great Force came to Dublin which was at the beginning of February 5000 Men well Arm'd in that City and commanded had been sufficient with what was ready and might have bin raised there to reduce not only Dublin but all Ireland But the noise of the forementioned designed Massacre and the Sufferings of others put People to the flight for England so fast and made those that stayed so dubious that it was hard to know who to trust there under the Nose of the Government and there was not one Person of Quality then there that would undertake to Head them tho often importuned and assured of 4000 Men well Arm'd at two hours warning and many of them well exercised and so many resolute good Souldiers as would have attempted to seize the Guards About this time a French Man landed at Cork and rid post to Dublin with assurance from King James to Tyrconnel of his speedy coming to his relief and on Friday the 22d of Feb. two of his Officers that had escaped from the Isle of Wight came privately to the Castle of Dublin and continued there in cognito till Sunday following about 10 at night then on a suddain the noyse was spread all over the Kingdom that the King was landed with 5000 Men and that the two forementioned Officers came with the Express to the Lord Deputy which on a sudden put all into hurries and where Bonfires were not immediately made the Souldiers broke the Windows Signs and Doors and rifled the Houses and the next Morning by six of the Clock strong Guards were placed at the end of every Street and every Gate about the City and Suburbs of Dublin and all others of any Note and Strength So that it was generally concluded by the Protestants there were Forces landed from England but they were soon undeceived being all disarm'd and eis'd of their Horses which for the present was judged by every place to be only in it self but was soon known to be general to all parts where their Power could then reach In Dublin they seized all the Churches to put the Arms in which not being brought according to their expectation Tyrconnel issued out a Declaration that all such as had yet detain'd their Arms should forthwith deliver them up upon peril of being left to the mercy of his Souldiers and that Gentlemen might keep their wearing Swords however some broke them to pieces others flung them into Ditches and Rivers where many were afterwards found and some kept them still The two next days they sent Forces to suppress those of Summerhil before-mentioned and one Price who had been Treasurer formerly was with a Party of 4 or 500 Horse and Foot in a Castle in the County of Wicklow 20 miles on the other side of Dublin who took Price and several others and committed them Prisoners to Newgate in Dublin and the rest to Wicklow whither Price and the rest were after four days carried and Indicted for High-Treason but all the Irish being gone for Souldiers and the English fled out of the Country there could not be a Jury got but against whom they made Exceptions for want of Freehold so that their Trial was remitted to the Term now at the writing of this sitting in Dublin in the mean time all but seven were bailed and after with their Bail fled for England where most of them now are to confirm the Tragical Story Tyrconnel having thus easily succeeded so far the same week sent 24000 Men towards the North under the command of Lieutenant General Hamilton who was once a Prisoner here with several Field-pieces and Mortars who upon the first of