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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28891	The information of Hubert Bourk, Gent., touching the popish plot in Ireland, carried on by the conspiracies of the Earl of Tyrone ... delivered first by this informant before the Lord Lieutenant and council in Ireland in March, 1678, and to His Majesty and both Houses of Parliament in November, 1680.	Bourk, Hubert.	1680 (1680)	Wing B3843; ESTC R19524	16,729	34

Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled That Hubart Bourk and John Macnamara have hereby leave given them to Print and Publish their respective Informations or Narratives concerning the Popish Plot formerly by them given in at the Bar of this House JOHN BROWNE Cleric Parlimentorum By Vertue of the Order above mentioned I do appoin Randolph Taylor near Stationers Hall to Print this my Information and that no other person or persons do Print the same Decemb. 14. 1680. HVBERT BOVRK THE INFORMATION OF Hubert Bourk Gent. Touching the POPISH PLOT IN IRELAND Carried on by the Conspiracies of the Earl of Tyrone And others his Confederates To deliver up that Kingdom to the French King and Establish the Popish Religion therein Being all matter of Fact delivered first by this Informant before the Lord Lieutenant and Council in Ireland in March 1678. And to his Majesty and both Houses of Parliament in November 1680. LONDON Printed for Randolph Taylor and are by him sold at his House near Stationers-Hall TO THE High and Mighty MONARCH OF Great Brittain CHARLES THE SECOND c May it please your Majesty I most humbly presume to lay at your Feet this my true and loyal Information of the Earl of Tyrones Treasons against your Sacred Person Some there are who did ill in transgressing against your Majesty but did well in repenting and detecting their own and the foul Crimes of others As to the latter of these in being a Discoverer I account my self happy as to the former doubly that Providence gave me the means to discover without ever being disloyal What I was and what my Progenitors always were I am a true and faithful Subject to my Prince Nor was it any other motive then my Allegiance and disdain of treacherous propositions that urg'd me to a speedy Discovery From whence I hope I shall not offend your Majesty if I claim that advantage to my self of being the first that openly appeared in this detection in Ireland the first that cut the Knot for others to unravel the mistery of this deep Design And I also hope the rude dress of my Information will shew how void it is of subtlety or contrivance I must confess I did not think to meet within your Majesties Dominions with so severe and cruel usage for doing my Duty to my Soveraign But so severe it was that had I been the Guilty person I could not have met with more while the grand Criminal triumph'd over me in those Calamities with which his power had almost overwhelmed me And in this Condition such was the Terror that lay upon our Friends that they of equal Rank durst not afford me the Comfort of their kind Visits nor they of superior quality appear to give me any Countenance However having now made my appeal to the Fountain of Justice Your Royal self I make no question but the great preserver of Kings will for your sake maintain the Innocency of my Proceedings as being only such as tended to the preservation of your Majesty and the detection of your secret Enemies according to the Dictates of my Religion and allegiance Not desiring longer to live then while I may be able to approve my self May it please your Majesty Your Majesties most Loyal most faithful and most obedient Subject HOBERT BOVRK THE INFORMATION OF Hobert Bourk First Discoverer of The Popish PLOT In IRELAND Who saith THAT he is Son and Heir apparent to Redmond Bourk late of Poole-more in the County of Clare Gent That after his said Fathers decease his Mother placed him with an Attorney with whom this Informant lived until he was able to Practice for himself which said Practice the Informant followed until he was hindred and molested as the ensuing passages will declare This Informant going into the County of Waterford about five years ago to visit some Relations of his was by them earnestly courted and invited to stay with them in the said County of Waterford in regard he the said Informant was a single person and for that there was greater employment and business to be had for an Attorney in that County than in the County of Clare by which perswasions and encouragements of his Relations this Informant was prevailed upon to stay with them and after that spent most of his time at one Major John Butlers House at Crebanaugh who was married to a Kinswoman of this Informants This Major Butler living within a Mile and a half of the Earl of Tyrone's was wont always to visit the said Earles House twice a Week and thither I must also bear him Company At length it came to that pass that if he or this Informant failed to go every Week once or twice to the said Earls House then there was a Letter sent for Major Butler if not for this Informant too By which means this Informant grew familiar and well acquainted with the said Earl his Lordship frequently allowing this Informant the Honour of his Company when he went a Hunting or play'd at Tables or sometimes to read Irish sometimes to go a Fishing with him and in such like Exercises and Pastimes wherein his Lordship most delighted Besides this the Informant was appointed Deputy Seneschall to his Lordship in which Employment he continued for the space of two years and a half or thereabouts and so might have done till this time if the Informant had kept his Lordships Sedrets in Relation to the Plot. This Informant further saith That he was seldom or never in the said Earles Company but he and Major Butler would always be talking of high matters praying for the French Kings prosperity and discoursing how little England and Ireland would be in his hands if he would but come amongst them and saying further That the English were good Souldiers in their Tongues over a Cup of Ale with long Pipes of Tobacco in their Mouths but that they were too tender now to lye in the Fields after thirty years rest and that they were so Foggy so Fat and full of Guts that they were not able to fight any better than a company of Swine and that he the said Earl with three hundred French or Irish of his own choosing would undertake to rout and break a thousand of them And this Informant says further That if he should go about to take notice of all the Treasonable passages and words that were spoken by the Earl of Tyrone Major John Butler Father James Power Father John Power Father Robert Power and Father Patrick Ronane the Earl of Tyrone's Parish Priest who were altogether most commonly at the said Earls House contriving of Plots or preaching their Treasonable Lectures relating thereunto he could be able to make up together with what the Informant mentions here a large Volume This Informant further saith That he hath observed that John Power and Dynough Macnemarrah came very often to the Earl of Tyrone's House and went from thence into the Counties of Typperary Limbrick Clare and

to the next Garrison which was Carrickmashure One Thomas Powre the Earl of Tyrones Gentleman who was at the apprehending of this Informant and one of his Guard riding before to a place called Crehanough where dwelt the forementioned Major John Butler His business was to desire the said Butler to meet this Informant in the way to Carrickmashure which he accordingly did When he came he asked the Informant what was the matter As though he had not known before who answered him that for his part he did not know The said Major Butler then asked the Informant whether he could be spoken to in private This Informant made answer that that place was no place for this Informant to talk in being wet and durty with riding so far in foul ways without Boots and his Legs tyed under the Horses Belly With that the said Butler followed this Informant to Carrickmashure and brought with him Mr. John Ronan before mentioned and Quartermaster Ely Upon their coming into this Informants Company at his Lodging in Carrickmashure aforesaid the said Quartermaster Ely's first Complement was That he knew the rest of the Company but the Informant he knew not To which this Informant answered that he knew this Informant well enough too if he pleased but this Informant told him he was indifferent whether he did or no. Upon which he the said Ely said he knew him this Inofrmant so well and that one Rope was too little for him Then Major Butler and Mr. Ronan fell to their old way of tampering with this Informant by turns to which purpose the said Major Butler promised that if the Informant would do as he the said Butler would have had him do before he would follow the Informant next Morning to Kilkenny and get him quit of all his Troubles for the future that is to say if he would take their former profers and excuse the forementioned Gentlemen And the said Major farther told this Informant that there were some People gone before him to Kilkenny that would be very glad to bring in those Gentlemen aforesaid to the saving of the Earl of Tyrone But this Informant refused and scorned their offers notwithstanding the great shame and pain they put him to Then Major Butler took this Informant by the hand and said old friend farewell now for evermore Then Quarter-Master Elie began an Health to the Prosperity of the Earl of Tyrone and to the confounding and utter subversion of all his Enemies and forced the Health to go round This Ely is Quarter-Master to the Lord Lieutenant of Irelands Troop and charged by the aforesaid Mr. Macnamara in his Information for being in the Conspiracy with the Earl of Tyrone and one that was to have been a Major under the said Earl for the French and confessed he was a Papist heretofore From Kilkenny this Informant was carried to Dublin and then committed to the Messengers hands under a Guard of Musquetiers both night and day without the Liberty of Pen Ink or Paper or so much as to speak to any body but what the Guard should understand and in their presence to wich end they watched in the Informants Room all night Under which restraint this Informant was closely kept for several days until he was examined by hi good friend the Lord-Chief-Justice Keating Then he Petitioned the Lord Lieutenant and Council to send a Summons for the bringing in of Mr. Sampson and Mr Ivy c. to the end they might give in their Evidences which the Informant alleaged were material Within a fortnight after those Gentlemen came to Dublin but none of them could be admitted to come to see the Infotmant until they all had delivered their several Informations and then this Informant had his Liberty This Informant further faith that he and the rest of the Witnesses were then bound in Recognizance to appear at Waterford Assizes next ensuing which was to be held the tenth day of March last past The Judges for that Circuit were Sir Richard Reynolds and Sir William Davis When the Assizes came to be held the Informant and the rest of the Witnesses appeared and after the usual Ceremonies of the Court the Grand Jury was called and then one Mr. Porter of the Earls Council a Papist stood up and made a short motion to this effect My Lords here is a Peer of this Nation in Question for his Life and then he prayed leave to appear for the Earl which was granted for him and Councellour Long another Papist When the Jury was called and going to be sworn Mr. Long stood up and said I am for the party Impeached and then both the Counsel and the Atturnies of which there were three craved liberty to accept against some of the Jury which exceptions were made against none but Protestants As for the Informant he had neither Counsel nor Atturnies allowed him though often demanded the priviledge and though the Informant and the rest of the witnesses excepted against some of the Jury as being of kindred and Tennants and in particuagainst Paul Sherlack Peirce Walch and one Cary yet upon their bare words denying themselves to be kindred or Tennants they were admitted of the Jury notwithstanding that this Informant knew they were either Related to the Plotters or concerned in the Conspiracy After Dinner the Informant went to the Judges Chambers where the said Judges swore this Informant and the rest of the Witnesses to attend the Grand Jury In order whereunto this Informant went and after a tedious attendance at the Door of the Grand-Jury-Room he prayed admittance and desired to be heard But the Jury told this Informant they had seen all the Informations already and had no Orders to hear any more new thing or matter The next morning this Informant being in the Judges Chamber in came Major Richards and Captain Grant two of the Jury who declared to Judg Reynolds that the Bill against the Earl of Tyrone was found Ignoramus Whereupon Judg Reynolds ask'd Major Richards whether they were all agreed to it To which he answered that seven were for finding the Bill and ren against it and so they were out-Voted However some of the Jury were pleased to say after that they durst not but agree with the rest and that the Papists that were there threatned them in such a manner that the Protestants durst not agree to what they would have them do And so the next day the Jury brought in the Bill Ignoramus Upon that this Informant desired that the Jury might be sent for into Court and called over one by one that enquiry might be made concerning the persons and which were of most Value as to the Kings Interest and the Protestant Religion whether they that were for finding the Bill or they that voted against it Upon which the Judges sent for the Jury and ordered them to be called over one by one but there were no other questions put to them but only whether they were all agreed in their