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A87084	A new remonstrance from Ireland, containing an exact declaration of the cruelties, insolencies, outrages, and murders exercised by the bloudthirsty, Popish rebells in that kingdome upon many hundred Protestants in the province of Vlster, and especially of the ministers there, since the beginning of this base, horrid, unnaturall and unparralelled rebellion October 23. 1641 in which is also particularly expressed the names of such ministers and others who have been murthered, imprisoned, famished, and otherwayes cruelly used by those barbarous, and inhumane rebells, by Daniel Harcourt one of the commissioners for the examination of the Protestants Grievances in that Province. As also a true copie of the commission granted to him by the Kings Najesty [sic].	Harcourt, Daniel.	1643 (1643)	Wing H692; Wing L1827; Thomason E61_17; Thomason E61_18; ESTC R19274	20,884	23

intoxicated more then their bodies with the cuppe of the Whores Fornications Revelat. 17.2 drawe out the poore Captives to death as if the best banquet were the bloudiest The sonne of Hagar now abuses the heire of the Promise now is disoculated Sampson that grindes his abused soule more then their meale brought forth to make pastime to the Philistims I knew one Bel of Muckamore near Antrim whose eyes they stubbed out to make him confesse his money then abused him and lastly murdered him that death which is terrible to our selves afford us delight if inflicted on others With what delight and pleasure can wee reade those cruell persecutions of Nero Domitian Trajan Adrian Marcus Aurelius Severus and the rest nay the bloudiest of our murthering Mary who drew the bloud in stead of milke from the paps of her Nurse having such a Catholicke Spanish heat in her veines that the bloud of many English Martyrs could not allay The cruelties exercised at Merindol and Cabriers wher the craggy mountains exprest more mercy to the hunted martyrs then the flinty soules of their persecuters That damned massacre of Charles the ninth anno 1572. whose bloud issuing from severall parts of his body at his death fully exprest his belluine disposition Not King themselves profusely wasting or unmercifull exhausting the bloud of their Subjects shall finde exemption at that great and just Audit kept by Jehovah The highest deputations have the heaviest cares How soon is Saul lost in his new Monarchy These I say could we peruse with patience and pleasure The Spanish cruelty more heathenish then those on whom it was exercised in the Indies which were till now the grand patterns of abused hostility invasion and victory are so far unfit to parallell with the Irish inhumanity as they have lost our wonder The horse-leeches of Rome bloudily conceiving that Protestant bloud is the marle of their Religion and that nothing produces so rathe a spring to the Catholicke cause as the carcasses of purer professors when as it is the generall assent that the bloud of martyrs is the seed of the Church Sacks of wool are held the best foundations for bridges in the strongest currents as on those were built upon the martyred carcasses of our predecessors the Protestant Religion so surely that all those great inundations from the Apostolicall or rather diabolicall sea could never overwhelme yet then was our profession but like to Mephibosheth who though he was of the seed royall had Sauls possessions and eat bread at the Kings table yet was he lame in his feet 2 Sam. 9.3 and I suppose his cure would have been more needfull and acceptable to him could it have been effected then either his possessions or honour God alwayes preserved his Church of which the Arke was a type which shall float over the world-drowned-shores to preserve a holy remnant and the earth swallow up those streams of poysonous malice vomited by the serpent against his love his dove his fair one all these persecutions could not so much as startle the English lethargy the evils that we expect are lessened if not prevented when as sudden alarms not only awake but astonish The great battells of Canna Marathon and those two daughtes of Epaminondas Mantinea and Leuctra with those more famous where the Starres fought in their order and Kishon like a besome swept them away even so let thine enemies perish O Lord those great defeats given and received by the Turke and Christian the sword fire famine pestilence and desolation of the Jews with what other horrors have eradicated the Roman and Gretian Empires were by us perused with pleasure and yet now that a destructive insurrecton drawes his daggar at our throats death walking over our owne thresholds famine having entred to cling up our bowels fire to dissolve our beings and unkinde exile to shoulder us from our abodes poverty rushing like an armed man meager and pin'd visages meeting us at every pace wounded and mangled carcasses peeping out of bushes like ghosts from the grave Christians expos'd naked to unmercifull cold and mountainous wayes with not a fig leafe to hide their nakednesse poore women with childe brought a bed and dead in woods and caves in that unchristian manner that my pen dares not expresse but leaves their miserable condition to the consideration and commiseration of those that expect a happy deliverance heaps of slaughtered Christians to part of which the dogs had given sepulchre many hanged upon trees and boughes part of which we could perceive had been burnt before at these sights and many more horrid how are our resolves amated our courages que●d our resolutions daunted now doth poore Germany and our slight neglect of their calamities deeply possesse us the afflictions of Joseph are afresh bemoaned and the martyrdomes of the Apostles are now lamented and what is more the poverty of our Messias his teares pilgrimages s●ripes spittings contempt revilings agony and bloudy passion which before was read over as an ordinary story of Scripture and if read not remembred if remembred not lamented if lamented t was but a qualme of sorrow now are we sufferers in his sufferings Oh bitter miserie how sweet are thy lectures teaching sorrows are cordiall griefes and t is a blessed maim that heals the soule give me those wounds O God through which as a glorious mirror I may behold the mirror of glory Now began the famine of some to conclude that the violentest death was the best and the lengthned life the only miserable that the shortest way to the grave was the sweetest and that the last gaspe was most comfortable many searching for the pangs of death as the only Elixar to cure all diseases the feared winding sheet and insatiable grave proving now desired which was before horrid That heaven the seat of God under which we regardlessely walked is all the canopy is left the English the humble earth the footstoole of God and mother of us all on which we proudly trampled lets her wofull children lie on her bosome that fain would lye within it the woods and bogs becomming either out shelter or sepulchre the contemned food of the Irish sorrell watergrasse three leaved grasse weeds and water is now made our delicates The tender and loving wife repines at the nourishment eaten by the husband of her bosome whilst the infants complaints begets fresh throws in that breast which used but could not nourish it the mothers tears shewing a compassion but not a redresse happy were the infant could it have been cherished with tears as before with milke for the eye was wet to see the breast so drie fruitfulnesse is now held a greater curse to the forlorne English then sterility was to the Jews Jeremy thou mourning turtle of Sions sorrows I wish not a double portion of thy spirit but thy sorrow that I might be that silver trumpet that should publish to all posterity the calamities of those our brethren that did and do want those succours our

luxury devours She is no Niobe that cannot finde one teare to cast into our Ocean of brine and lend a sigh to those broken hearts that sorrow hath rather made statues then men Suffer not the afflicted of the Lord to tread the winepresse alone lest when thy aloes are given thee to drinke thou findest none of Elishas salt to cure the brackishnesse Partnership in sorrow hath the power of mitigation and thou shalt have the praise if not to have relieved to have eased our pangs But whither am I transported Summons to griefe finde but deafe cares and a dead welcome every man desiring rather to go to a theater then a tribunall mirth having as many assistants too many as tribulation too few Solomon is as little followed in these two Proverbs as in any better is the house of mourning then the house of mirth and the day of death then the day of ones birth but when be comes with an inviting exultation Eccles 11.9 Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thine heart cheare thee in the dayes of thy youth and walke in the wayes of thine heart and in the sight of thine eies he shall have more followers then Darius or Xerxes this gripe of pleasure hath gotten Rome so many Proselites when Religion complies with Nature our corruptions are wooed and wedded to a glowe wormy happinesse The great Belshazzers in their greatest elevations finde their knees knocking and discerne the hand writing of death on their walls and those Nebuchadnezzars that prided themselves in their spacious structures as many there were that built with marble which contemned the corner stone are now sent amongst the beasts of the field not only for their abode but sustenance Those holy duties before neglected are now with a compulsive trepidation observed T is a miserable thing for a soule inur'd to sinne to be hurried into his devotions death at the heeles and hell in the eyes seldome produce any but distracted supplications when as he that dies dayly hath wrested the iron scepters out of the power of death and hell having an infallible interest in him that not only got the conquest but sung the comfortable soule-cheering insultation over both these till then indomitable tyrants Oh death where is thy sting Oh grave where is thy victory Therefore Quid retribuam but thankes be unto God which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1. Cor. 15.55.57 Now would those that had consumed a patrimony rejoyce to finde those husks that none shall give them How gladly would the gripple hand receive that almes it hath detayned finding a sad returne of his uncharitable repulses That Dives that would not give a crumme demanded shall find a drop denied O God so inlarge my heart that I may give what I can and so enlarge thy mercies I may receive what I would It was no single arrow God shot in that Nation or us poore English for as if the sword had beene too blunt a sithe or sickle to mow both the wheat and darnell and a single punishment too favourable a scourge God sent the fire and lest that should be too sparing in consuming our sinnes that made us so combustible and not fully refine the oare from the drosse God sent the famine to devour those that had nothing to eat and lest that should leave any gleanings in this Irish Aceldama the Lord sent a pestilent Feaver that swept away innumerable people insomuch that in Colerane there died in fowre moneths by computation six thousand in Carickfergus two thousand and five hundred in Belfast and Melone above two thousand in Lis●ygarvi eight hundred and in Antrym and other places a proportionable number So that heer the chariot of Gods justice was drawne by those fowre horses Rev. 6. a white a red a blacke and a pale horse this disease augmented our miseries the Feavers being so contagious that the living durst not see them sicke nor bury them dead that I have seene the husband carry his dead wife to the Church-yard and borrowing a spade digge a grave for her that living was his life and the same man have I seene the next day die in the same Church-yard the like affection have I seene the wife expresse toward her departed husband the sonne to the father father to the son and the like Heere were the words of our Saviour not onely metaphorically but verbally true for the dead did not only bury the dead but the dying buried the dead also Not any that escaped this Feaver but lost all their hayre I had it in the Newry seven weekes where not only without but contrary to meanes my God preserved mee to whom on my bended knees I give all possible thankes This sicknesse beyond the power of perswasive Divinity shewed me God thwarting Nature preserving in the grave quenching the flames of my sicknesse even with what Physitians say it is inflamed my cordialls and julips were running water in stead of barly and sometimes a little milke salt beefe or porke oaten bread and cheese the allayes to my heat and hunger Thus from the jawes of death and brims of the grave hath God delivered me to lament and publish the death of those of my owne Tribe For on them fell the brunt of this martyrdome they were those appointed to slaughter at the birth of this designe they could expect no quarter others might ransome their lives with their hidden goods but this profession was sure to cope with death in the horridst shape as if Iaacobs curse were renovated for they met with a wrath more fierce a rage more cruell then they used to Shechem and found a division in Iaacob and a scattering in Israel Gen. 49.7 Which I the rather undertake because some ill affected to the condolements of the Irish Clergy heere distressed and by some harsh tongues depraved have lightly run over the miseries of that despised and dispersed Ministry to whom I owe that little I have left as being of the same messe with those sonnes of the Prophets that find More in olla I shall but in two passages digresse from the Martyrology of the Ministry in the Province of Ulster and the one is my engagement that I ought to Mr. Morgan Aubry Esquire my honoured friend and his Man to this I am drawne by my love the other is the unmanly and unchristian asage shewed to Mrs. Smithson a Ministers wife and her mayd that lived within fowre miles of Dublin to this I am drawne by my wonder and these two I shall transfer to the last The first on whom their unsanctified hands were fastned was Master Madder of Donnamoore Rector who in a most cruell and bloudy maner they cut in pieces and left unburied Secondly Mr. Blith Minister of Dungannon whom they hanged whose wife with 3 small children after 8 months miserable captivity I saw in the Newry great with child stripped naked and ready to perish for want of reliefe Then Mr. Fullerton of Loughgall Rector

Wilson of Enver mr John Dunbar mr George Lesly mr Andrew Law mr Craford mr Ogleby mr Laurence Tompson mr Durry of Ballimenah mr James Tracy mr Hardir mr Walter Lamont mr Jorrest of Dumagur mr Robert mc. Neal mr mc. Neale mr Dr. O Neale mr Veazy mr Major mr Backster mr Charles Vaughan mr Cade mr Hollana mr Dean Rhodes mr James Stewart of Garvahir mr David Roven of Redbay mr Nichol●s Todd mr John Michel of Ana Clowen mr Hugh mc. Lecinan late of Leakin-larke mr James Creighton mr James Melvin of Down-Patrick mr Johnson mr Fullerton for distinction sake called red Fullerton mr Monopeny mr James Portus mr Downes mr James Downham mr Lambert mr Brooks mr Patrick Doncan mr Dr. Blare mr Joster mr Hamilton mr Travis mr Thomas Stewart mr Bel mr Wallet mr Woodridge These with some others that escaped like Jobs messengers to bring sad tydings of their brethrens deaths but not intermits and are now on the dunghills of calamity with holy Job finding as ill comfort as comforters and still hangs at the bloudy and dry paps of the Church in Ireland whence they can draw nothing but winde and that may be heard from their full soules though empty bellies in their sighes and groanes the silent interpreters speaking sorrows so that there needs no winde but that to overthrow their houses of clay Now if you please survey with a commiserating eye those whose wearied steps fainting bodies and wounded soules have repaired to the Bethesda of England for cure of their heart-rending sorrowes where in all acknowledgements of gratefull humility some of them have found the Angel stirring the sovereigne balme water of your charities to their reliefe which many of the feebler sort either through weaknesse of friends abilities of expressions or a selfe-killing modesty lye at the brinke unremied to them divine Charity open the doores of thy Physicke and Chyrurgery and into their bleeding wounds poure thy oyle and thy wine Samaritan-like eye the robbed and bleeding Levite pay thy penny for his present harbour and promise for a slender remainder these undertakings Angelicall vertue shall make thee be translated with Enoch or Eliahs in a fiery chariot thy owne immortality will guide thee to the preservation of us mortall men Mr. Mors of Fermanah and Parish of Rammullie after he had beene robbed and stripped was constrained being starke naked to carry his two children twelve miles upon his backe by which time she grew so ●urbated that his uxoriousnesse prevailed beyond his paternall love to his children so in that a great agony of spirit he was forced to leave the fruit to the mercy of the enemies and to preserve the tree carried his wife above eight miles upon his back they being both naked Eneas could not out patern this affection to aged Anchises From that Province are here under thy wings as chickings fearing famine that predatory Kite Mr. Richard Bu●rowes Mr. Baker Mr. George Walker Mr. Bedle Mr. Dr. Bayly of the Cou. Cavan the two Sings of Ahaderick the other of Dundalke mr John Freeman mr Hammond mr Bunburie and as I heare his brother mr Boyle mr Cottingham mr Nathaniel Draiton mr William Green mr Francis Sympson mr Gabreath mr Cohun mr Henry Steel mr Edward Carter mr Clearke mr Sempil mr Anthony mr Harrocks mr Philip Tandy mr Tinly mr Richard Head mr Kean mr Bradley my unworthy selfe mr James Reynolds mr Steere mr Leigh mr Diggery Holman mr Waterhouse These stars shew in the lower orbe of the higher is that famous learned and studious ingrosser of learning the late Lord Primate or Ardamgh Vsher the fluent and elegant Seneca of Rapho the solid and grave Buchworth of Deummoore quicke and Eagle eyed Singe of Cloyne The learned prompt politick and engine headed Bramhal of Derry Lastly one Clergy man more I finde whose names sake promises a sudden termination of all our sorrowes without speedy succors and that is Mr. Death Minister of Seapatrick Thus you finde amongst the distressed Clergy an Vsher and a Voyder but no meat on their tables these with their charges are fit objects for Dorcas to cloath the Sarepthan widow or good Obadiahs to feed and the Shunnamite to lodge the prayers of which will revive thy dying or dead hopes encrease thy decaying store being raine to thine inheritance and restore thy hurt mained or dead issue Lastly as thou hast opened thy bowells of compassion they shall open to thee the gate called beautifull that leads into our elder Brothers Fathers where are many mansions for the poore for Christ and of Christs are janitores Coeli And now I come to the two digressions specified before The first digression is from the subject With Mr. Fullerton was murdered Mr. Morgan Aubrey Esquire and his man who though no Minister I have thought good to mention in regard of those many deare tyes of love and friendship between us to whose disastrous death I dedicate this tragick remembrance as a monument of his sufferings and my sorrow a Gentleman of an active brave and Roman spirit whose breast was not only filled with pleasing flames of learned Poetry but the more heroick fire of resolution sweetly allayed with a modelt and wel tempered disposition a man that had merited as much from that laethe drinker Sir Phelomy O Neal as a Gentleman could having effectually negotiated for him in many particulars of consequence with the late Lord Strafford to whose Countesse he had been Gentleman usher yet was he all ingagements waved betraied by letters of safe conduct to a cruell and mercilesse but chery first stripping him then killing him at a bogs side But en his servant Henry Lawrence whom I have heard to be of a mighty stature and valour a Warwickshire man who by surprising one of the Rebels swords having slaine foure or five before he was seised on was shewed that cruelty which was forborne to ravilliac the parricide of Henry the fourth that Caelar of the the Flower du liz and was only exercised by Cambises upon one of his unjust judges whose skinne he flaied off and nailed it to the tribunall as a terrour to his sonne that succeeded him had but some of ours been made so exemplar unjust votes had not laden our Kingdome with these bloudy contestations The Judges of Israel rid on their white Asses to shew I thinke as well their purity and innocency as their patient undergoing the insupportable weight of their callings but it is feared some of them have not only cast off that integrity but purity and constancy also this Laurence after many wounds received they flead some part of him and so left him cruelly murdered The second digression is from the Province but something adhering to the Subject But above all barbarous inhumane hethenish and unheard of murders was that of Mrs. Smithson a ministers wife living at the Kilne of the Grange within foure miles of Dublin who being perswaded to returne to her house in hope to have the Communion

sanctuary Athaliah was there slaine for destroying the seed ●oyall which I spiritually conceive to be the integrity of a Church born and continued without the milke or meat of Canaanitish and adulterous traditions which being spurious slips cannot flourish nor have a longer prosperity then the gourd of Jonahs or the infortunate and earthy wombe that gave them conception Sin ripened like the pride of Gath defies the Host of the Lord of Hosts bathing the monstrous spearhead of his rage in the bloud of the chosen how feeble hath the fall of Adam made his haplesse posterity the glorious English long clad in the victorious spoyles of that barbarous people become the rebaters of their skeins but not of their rage finding now how dearly the Israelites paid for their cruell mercy in not extirpating the Idolatrous Canaanites those that policy left for hewers of wood and drawers of water hew the flesh and draw the bloud of their masters thus humane policy is punisht by inhumane impiety teaching us that all the purposes of flesh and bloud having not godlinesse for their basis have sandy foundations and that policy without piety is a damnable discretion The Dove and the Serpent should like those two kine of Bethshemesh at once be yoked to draw the Arke of God from the possession of the heathens to the people of God or like Cleobis and Biton to draw their mother to the Temple where observe the kine and brethren were rewarded by death the kine sacrificed to the true God the brethren to the false O God so blesse my pilgrimage that at my termination my last act may be best that so I may like Manoahs sacrifice ascend up unto thee by an Angelicall convoy Those that sacrificed up the calves of their lips are now like beasts sacrificed The rude reed runnes through the hand that sustained it whilst the hoofes of untamed and untaught monsters trample on those heads that shod them all alliance turning rebell either to civill or legall contracts Those Nationall tyes held sacred and Gordian of gossip or fosterer are denied by the brutish to the Brittish Hazael and Zimri murthering their Masters the act not disavowed but countenanced pardoned and applauded by depicted Jezabel that Romish harlot Solomons great sacrifice at the Temples dedication was here outvied in number but not nature the Beast was not offered but preserved for here the Minister was the chiefe sacrifice the Beast the sacrificer The Ram was not offered for Isaac but he for the Ram as if the gold had been more holy then the Temple or sacrifice then Altar Eliahs once slew the priests of Baal but now Baals priests slaughter the sonnes of the Prophets nor place nor person is regarded but the Protestants are murdered in the very Churches as if Protestant bloud were only the hallowed water to sanctifie those places for their Idolatrous prophane damned and accursed Masses Certainly it may be feared that we did something that displeased God which justly called for his exploding Now are the fountaines of living waters the balme of Gilead the holy seales of the Covenant the sacred columnes of Gods word made the derision of the ungodly whilst they are rent in pieces and dasht about the heads of the owners till they drew bloud on their heads and faces with these and the like opprobrious and impious speeches here you English dogs and hereticks you shall have Bibles enough Surely had not those holy legacies or the blessed Spirit been first by our selves undervalued it had not been in the power of those reprobates thus to have prophaned the holy food or the feeders thereon Their first expressions began in the ruine of our estates having first publisht all correspondence with the Scottish our brethren whether out of an intent not to awaken their dislikes of these new insolencies or perchance conceiving they had not forgot our hostil preparations against them the foregoing years and therefore might hope to make them Newters at all which conceits I admire had they but conceived the irreconciliable distance between their Religions yet their divelish pretence and disguised affection too much wrought in those dismall dayes in which every head was perplext if not darkened with distractions on that valia●… Nation insomuch that one Barhome by title but by name John Mac. Culloh Captaine of a foot company with others advised me when I had kept my house seven weeks after the Rebellion began to fly for my life adding they were reasonably well secured by a Proclamation publisht by the Rebells by direction of their chiefe for the Scottish protection in returne of a favour done him in his infancy by a Scottish Gentlewoman who either saved his life or liberty in his swathing bands And but that God determined they should mingle with us in that great confusion and effusion of estates and bloud I admire so wise a people and perspicuous in the darkest aenigmas should be so deluded but where God intends an infatuation all humane wisdome is emerged The deepest reaches of earthly knowledge have had as deep precipices none had a fearfuller fall then him the Scripture stiles as an oracle of God we the defeats of those great projects of Pharaoh and Herod that neither of their designes or wise intendments could suffocate the type or substance the penner of the law or publisher of the Gospel the Scribe of the sacrifices or him sacrificed by the Scribes But this Romish Machiavilian plot tooke effect so the prevention of bloudy and helborne projects are seldome prevented nay nor suspected by those of a holy an upright conversation T is for the sonnes of darknesse to bring those things to light But our brethren paid dearly for the cruell mercy of the Irish for they staying after the English of which some were slain some stript and sent away were most of them man woman and child cruelly massacred The English are now left as God left his when they had first left him some flying when none pursued sin addes to the stature of our feares for nothing makes men terrible even to themselves but their transgressions whilst the greedy pursuers seem like Mercury with winged feet to fly with a devouring sword to kill them already near death with the expectation of death whilst the enemies swords are as drunke with our bloud as they with our drink of both which they seem insatiable the thirsty earth not more greedily receives the early and latter raine then they of both liquors insomuch that one _____ O Mallon was heard to boast inhumanely that he with his owne hands had murdered sixe and twenty English and Scotch in two dayes whereof there were twenty five Scottish O unheard of cruelty it is a wonder to me that this man should be borne by the common course of generation for certainly his sire or dam must needs be an Irish wolfe in whose bosome was harboured so little humanity Now doe these like those Philistims inflamed with rage and drinke their soules