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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40776	A faithfull representation of the state of Ireland: whose bleeding eye is on England for help. Or The horrid conspiracy discovered and most humbly presented to the wisdom of Parliament for timely prevention, if not impossible. Wherein it appears the designe is laid at the root of all the Parliaments interest there, the adventurers lands, and the new-English mens lives, (as they call them) as well as at the power of godliness, and of the present government. Published by constant and cordial adherers to the Parliament and Common-wealth, on the behalf of themselves, and of thousands in Ireland.	Constant and cordial adherers to the Parliament and Common-wealth.	1660 (1660)	Wing F284; ESTC R217929	9,126	20

Rage of the Native Irish not having wherewithall to defend themselves from them who watch but an opportunity to slay them as in the case of Captain Cornick an honest peaceable man lately set upon in his own house but himselfe escaping they fell to fiering burned up his out houses and all his Corn in stacks took away his Cattel to the value of five hundred pounds in all So that from thence and some late execrable Murthers the Irish rebellion may feare de novo by it and that it will be but translated by an English Alphabet of Characters if not speedily prevented for Fifthly Whiles they thus use the English plunder and disarme the best Parliament friends in the whole Nation they suffer all the Parliaments professed Enemies to keep their armes as well Irish rebells as others and not only so but deliver them more out of the Parliaments store with Amunition in abundance preferring Inchequeens Officers amongst them and all that ever were for the King and never served the Parliament are permitted not onely to keep their Armes but to furnish themselves with what more they will Sixthly To make it a deadly feud between the English themselves as well as the Irish and the English they have newly distingished them into Names of the old Protestants and the New the old bandying themselves against the other the new English as they call them wishing their throats were cut saying they came to eat the bread out of their mouthes that planted there c. And the Irish Papists say they will rather subject to the old Protestants then to the new for the Common prayer book is the masse they hear Englished under them they shal have more liberty But notwithstanding this promising compliance with the old English they will quickly give them proof of an insatiable revenge upon all the English when they have sufficiently weakened them with their divisions and that their Hydropick thirst cannot be so easily quenched but the more they drink the more they wil desire until they exhaust all into their own hands Albeit at present much of the Armies conduct is put into the hands of old English Episcopall men yet such they are as ever have been and yet are most bitter enemies to the Parliament and our present English Interest there And so may serve to Act the first part of the intended Tragedy in that Island The wicked watcheth the Righteous and seeketh to slay him but the Lord will not leave him in his hands nor condemn him when he is judged Seventhly To make it yet more obvious Many commissioned Officers and Souldiers that declared with them at the first when they pretended for this present Parliament and that justified the Authority of this Parliament against that force and Interruption that was put upon them are dismounted and displaced as not fit for their designe but demurring their recession from the first Declaration wherein they owned L. G. L. their Commander in Chief and yet in their Narrative p. 10 11 12 have they the confidence to front or face it for the service of the Parliament and p. 12. That they laid aside onely such as opposed the Parliament or else of whose not acting against the Parliament they could not be satisfied that is as to perpetrate their Designe to Act with them upon a hazard or at an Adventure as to what they would have done For the Honourable Commissioners of Parliament themselves might have had their Liberty after all if they would have engaged to them and acted with them in their Designs which they declining set some on fire upon an unjust impeaching and devising a charge against them according to that dangerous Maxime That bad Actions must be ever seconded with worse and better never begin then not carry on what ever it cost them the truth is as the prophet complained he that departeth from iniquity maketh himself a PREY whilest the vilest of men and of the most debauched practises are promoted by them both Officers and Souldiers who serve their turns best and the wicked will walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted Eighthly This will yet appear more evidently or suspitiously by their raising of men anew in listing the very Papists and other Forces after they knew the Parliament were sitting without regarding their direction posting up Papers in publick places at Dublin to invite all that would to come in and list and they should have pay but that none who were listed by L. G. L. should have pay with the rest of the Souldiers without further Orders And not onely in receiving Irish Rebels and PAPISTS and listing them but in casheering those that would not own a Free Parliament All this too when all things were in a very quiet serene and peaceable posture in Ireland Ninthly Their summoning a Convention to doe the work of a Parliament to raise them monies in a way of Loan Preparing the Elections with Persons most propense and responsable to their ends who are Elected and in a readinesse to sit when they please nor hath their present Council or Committee of Safety whereof Sr. J. Barry holds the Chair a much better Aspect witnesse his speech so full of asperity and reflection upon this present Parliament But that the Interruption of the Parliament might be no longer a cover upon this Conspiracy some are ready to prove the Plot was laid before the Parliament was interrupted though executed after and with more applause Tenthly They have a many of them openly declared that if their application to this Parliament prove not propitious to their desires and designes they will as they are a distinct Island keep up an Interest distinct from England and stand upon their own Legs as they say deeming themselves able to subsist without a dependance upon this Nation and seeing the Ports are all their own they the less fear or value England who can have no landing place but by their permission and leave Eleventhly This conspiracy strikes at the very Power of Godliness in all judgements whom they brand with the name of Anabaptists is too notorious dismounting Officers and Souldiers meerly for their Religion The people of God whether Presbyterians Independants or others are generally threatened some with Death and others with Exile Godly Ministers some imprisoned and yet no Anabaptists some put out of the Publick and exploded Episcopalians placed in their roomes A Souldier coming to the Ministers house of Castle Dermond ran his pike at him and called him Anabaptist told him that he would have his coat off his back shortly and had he not withdrawn himselfe says the Souldier had killed him at that present and yet that Minister is no Anabaptist but Godly and Orthodox So that night the Castle was surprised they made their Bonfires and threatning to fire divers habitations of Godly men cast up their sticks with fire upon their houses threatening to burn them to the very ground and at