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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	kingdom_n	law_n	parliament_n	3,975	5	6.2994	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Warrant break open his Doors search his House rifle and take away what is liked and if any honest Protestant yet remained in Commission every shabby beggarly Rascal spared not the impudence to revile them to their Faces I have heard a meer Teague that could scarce pronounce a word of true English or sense beard the Lord Mayor of Dublin Sir John Knox when brought before him for Felony who though a Man of Courage did not dare to commit the Criminal Thus the poor Protestants of Ireland continued in this though miserable yet happy Condition in consideration to what they afterwards fell to till the Earl of Clarendon was sent thither Lord-Lieutenant upon whose arrival they began again to flatter themselves with hopes of more Comfort through the Interest and Favour of him that was so near related to the King and an assured Protestant but they to their Sorrow soon found his Wings clipt and Tyrconnel quickly sent after him with the Honour and Title of Earl the Office of Lieutenant-General and Check-master of the Army and Authority and Power to place and displace whom he pleased who accordingly forthwith put his Power in execution and issued out his Orders for modelling the Army which were no sooner given but obeyed and in all places the Army drawn into the Field and about ten or twelve of the oldest Men pick'd out and their Cloaths stript off and their Arms given to Irish papists before their Faces and when those parcels were disciplin'd others were still pick'd out and so from time to time till the whole Army was weeded of its Protestants and replenish'd with Irish Papists When all they could call old were culled then the Excuse was Shortness till the Popish Party was the stronger then they used no further excuse but being Protestants till the whole Protestant standing Army which was raised and at vast Expence both of Men and Mony to England there maintained for many Years to secure the Protestant Religion and English Interest in Ireland was by Popish Craft and Favour and Means of the great God Tyrconnel peaceably in one Year wholly destroyed and inverted into as Popish Power the whole Treasure of the Kingdom Cities and Garisons which were first constituted to keep them out wholly possest and disposed of by the Native Irish and those who of all Men were the greatest haters of the English and their Religion made the only Protectors of both and certainly must needs be in a blessed State when the Fox is set to watch the Geese and the Wolves the Lambs Now all things became bare-fuced and he that had but half an Eye might easily discern what was like to follow and such as had Stooks of Mony began by degrees to transmit it to England and dispose of their Effects and afterwards to steal away themselves while others whose Riches consisted mostly in Stocks which was in others Hands or had not wherewith to transport themselves and for a Livelihood were forced to abide the approaching Storm some to the loss others their Estates and most inevitable Ruin. While these things were doing Darrington a reputed Jesuit was sent over and made first Major and after Lieutenant-Colonel to the Royal Regiment in Dublin to fulfil that part of Dr. Oates's information in his discovery of the Popish Plot and one Barker formerly Page to the late Duke of Monmouth and one of King James's Converts Major and so proceeded to disband all Protestant Officers in the Army and first began with Sir William King then Governour of the Castle and City of Limrick Sir George St. George his Brother and such others as they had noted to be the most sober and zealous Protestants and placed Irish Papists in their places till all the Irish Army both Officers and Souldiers were Papists excepting only some few in the Regiments of the Lords Ment joy and Forbes and Col. Russel who were themselves Protestants and in a manner all the Protestant Officers left that first Year in the whole Army and who were kept in only to blind the People till their other work was finished and so have the favour to be devoured last Things being brought to this pass the whole Army Papists and none to oppose them they thought they safely might and accordingly fell to regulate the Civil Part and at one blast removed sive or six of the nine Protestant Judges and left but one upon each Bench for Ciphers to colour the Matter and drag up the rest to their own Justice and likewise the Protestant Chancellor Sir Charles Porter and most of the Protestant Privy Councellors and fill'd up their places with others of their own Party with such prodigious Broagues upon their Tongues that they could scarce pronounce one word of English truly and after these the Protestants which were the Attourneys Solicitors c. to the King were pack'd after the Judges In the mean time they set another Project on foot viz. To disband all the smallest of their own Souldiers as soon as they were well disciplin'd but not before and still took in larger till they had the Flower of the Country in the Army and still sent the Old to exercise the rest of their Breed in the Country So that when they had occasion to raise their fresh Forces they were mostly in a manner disciplin'd to their hand not in expectation of using them to their present purpose but in case King James had continued in the Throne and not answered their desire of restoring them to their Estates that they might be able to restore themselves by destroying all the English there and Darrington made two certain Sizes one for Musqueteers and another for Pikemen and those that were too short or long for his Standard when disciplin'd must trip off All things being now fitted to the purpose Tyrconnel and the new Attorney General Sir Richard Neagle dispatch'd to Whitehall with the Account and to advise about future Matters the Project of compleating their so successfully begun Work and after a short stay returned with Power to displace the Earl of Clarendon from the Government who indeed all discerning Protestants there easily perceived was kept in so long only to deceive the People till the Work could be brought to that secure perfection who eight days after his arrival at Dublin took his place as Lord Deputy-General and General-Governour of Ireland for Lord-Lieutenant he could not be because born in Ireland But the good Earl of Clarendon having an account of his approach and suspecting what might and indeed did follow resolved before his departure to consecrate the Chappel in the New Hospital near Dublin built for the use of old and decrepit Souldiers and is the finest in Europe of its kind and accordingly did before well finished hoping thereby to prevent its falling into the Papists Hands because the King had declared he would maintain the Church of England in all her Rights and Properties as established by Law. But Tyrconnel who though not so near related