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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41955	A brief account of Mr. Valentine Greatraks, and divers of the strange cures by him lately performed written by himself in a letter addressed to the Honourable Robert Boyle, Esq. ; whereunto are annexed the testimonials of several eminent and worthy persons of the chief matters of fact therein related.	Greatrakes, Valentine, 1629-1683.; Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691.	1666 (1666)	Wing G1789; ESTC R6820	52,956	98

Devon where I spent some years in studying Humanity and Divinity and found from his hands much favour and love for which kindness I pray God to recompence him and his Afterwards sumptâ virili Togâ I considered with my self that the fortune which my Mother enjoyed in England was very small to maintain her self and so many Children as she had who grew daily more expensive as we grew in years and thereupon I addressed my self to her resolving to lose my life with my fortune in Ireland or re-gain it who gave me her blessing and consent and so after some 5 or 6 years absence I returned to my native Country which at that time was in a most miserable and deplorable state as you may well remember for then it was not as formerly a National Quarrel Irish against English and Protestants against Papists but there were high and strange divisions throughout the Kingdom English against English and Irish against Irish and Protestants and Papists joyning hands in one Province against the Protestants of another which differences to me seemed so unnatural that I resolved not to intermeddle therein till the mist of confusion was over and so for refuge retired my self to the Castle of Caperquin where I spent a years time in contemplation and saw so much of the madness and wickedness of the world that my life became a burthen to me and my Soul was as weary of this habitation of clay as ever the Gally-slave was of the Oar which brought my life even to the threshold of death so that my Legs had hardly strength to carry my enfeebled body about All company seemed irksome and distasteful to me so epidemically lewd blasphemous and sottish were many become that I saw the many and great Judgments of the Lord that the Kingdom groaned under had not reclaimed but Pharaoh-like hardned our Egyptian hearts which caused me seldom during that time to go from my Cell In the Year 49. as I take it some small time after the Rout at Dublin Oliver Cromwell then General of the Army after the taking of Tredagh sent part of his Army into Munster under the conduct of Colonel Robert Phaire but before his landing at Youghall Cork and Youghall had revolted from their obedience to their General the Earl of Inchequin then Lord President of Munster under the Command of his Majesty who is ever to be honoured by all English for the eminent and faithful services done to the Protestants in the beginning of the late Rebellion there So that all or most of the English and Protestants joyned with the said Colonel Phaire against the Irish and Papists their Interests as well as Judgments being opposite so that in a small time most of the Towns in Munster were reduced to Obedience and the Command of the Horse in the said Province was given to that Renowned and Worthy Person your Brother the Earl of Orrery in whose Regiment I was made a Lieutenant during all which time which was 6 years I will boldly say I never suffered Quarter to be broken nor violence offered to any that were in protection nor did I suffer any one under my Command to oppress or injure any that were in Quarter without bringing them to condigne punishment nor did I permit any Women or Children to be killed though out of Protection where I had a power to restrain the fury of the Souldier In the Year 56. great part of the Army was disbanded and I among the rest and then I betook my self to a Country life and lived at Affane the habitation of my Ancestors where I have continued ever since and got by my Industry a livelihood out of the bowels of the Earth and daily employed many poor people to work and improved that little Estate which I had so that I bless God I lived as comfortably as he that had Thousands and daily relieved those that were in want and gave my Friends and Strangers a hearty welcome to what God in mercy had bestowed upon me who never coveted much nor denyed my self and others the enjoyment of what I had But by the way Assoon as I was retired into the Country I was by the kindness and respect of the then Governour made Clerk of the Peace of the County of Cork and Register for Transplantation and Justice of the Peace In which Employment I studied so to acquit my self before God and Man in singleness and integrity of heart that to the comfort of my Soul and praise of God that directed me I can with confidence say I never took Bribe nor Reward from any man though I have had many and great ones offered me when I was Register for Transplantation nor did I ever connive at or suffer a Malefactor to go unpunished if the person were guilty of any notorious crime where I had a Power nor did I ever take the Fee belonging to my Office if I found the Person were injured or in want Nor did I ever commit any one for his Judgment or Conscience barely so it led him not to do any thing to the disturbance of the civil Peace of the Nation Nor did I take any thing for my Fee when he was discharged for I bless God he has taken away a persecuting Spirit from me who would perswade all men to be Protestants those Principles being most consonant to Truth and the Word of God in my Judgment and that Profession which I ever have been of and still am But Truth it is That when I was Justice of the Peace I endeavoured to convert as many Papists to Protestantism as I could and prevailed with many hundreds to go to Church for these two Reasons 1. For the good of their souls who lived in ignorance having no Priests in those days and being little the better for them now I conceive the Common People understanding little Latine 2. For the preservation of our own Bodies and Estates which I found by sad Experience as well as the rest of the poor Protestants of Ireland could never be secure whilest such dangerous Principles were instilled into them as these That there was no Faith to be had with Hereticks and so it is lawful to make a prey of our lives and fortunes The Papists may deny that this is one of their Tenents but I am sure it was the practice of my Country-men for whom I have this Charity That if they were not strangers to the word of God they would not run into such violent courses as they did Yet though there was Orders from the Power that then was to all Justices of the Peace for Transplanting all Papists that would not go to Church I never molested any one that was known or esteemed to be innocent but suffered them to continue in the English Quarters and that without prejudice So that I can truly say I never injured any man for his Conscience conceiving that ought to be informed and not enforced Besides Sir I have so far observed the immoderate courses