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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84507	The Earl of Strafford's ghost complaining, of the cruelties of his countrey-men, in killing one another. And perswading all great men to live honestly, that desire to die honourably. Herein also are his bad practises manifested, and the sad condition of England and Ireland, express'd and commiserated.		1644 (1644)	Wing E84; Thomason E6_33; ESTC R7062	6,778	9

done to purchase reproach on your part nay what have I not done to merit your love and favour Did I not in my life time bring on the busines bravely Was it not I that arm'd the Irish Catholikes and disarm'd the Protestants on purpose to make you happie if heaven had had a minde to 't Was it not I that indeavour'd to make the English and Scottish Protestants worke themselves into a weake condition by setting the two Nations together by the eares when Arundell Digby Cottington Windebank ● had made way for the Spanish second Armado to second the busines 1639. Was it not I that laid huge taxes and impos'd great sums upon many Townes and houses in Ireland and forc'd payment by my souldiers in a warlike manner Did not I with my Troopes compell divers great Lords and Gentlemen there to forsake their own possessions and yeeld up their rights i' their livings contrary to Law and Justice Did not I am many other unlawfull and unconscionable enterprises enhaunce the rates of al customarie commodities and make restraint of their transportation at my pleasure and all to bring in money to maintaine the then intended Rebellion and the wars like to follow it Did not I also for the same cause become the onely Merchant of Tobacco in Ireland as his Majestie did of Gunpowder in England The ingrossing of two such commodities by a King and his Vice-ray are worthy the worlds observation Did I not besides restore your Frieries and Masse-Houses and force a new Oath upon the Protestant to tie him to the observation of all Church Ceremonies in use for the present or to be hereafter established by his Majesties authoritie Did not Canterbury and I when we perceiv'd we could not cousin the Parliament of so many Subsidies as we thought would serve our turnes to undoe the Kingdome cause it to be broke up and did I not then promise his Maiestie to bring downe the sturdy stomacks of His people by my Irish Catholike Armie Did I not further perswade his Majestie to reviue the levying of Ship-money and to punish many Sheriffes of the Counties about that and other payments for being obstinate honest men And did I not threaten the Lord Maior and Sheriffes of London at the Councell-Table for not yeelding to a busines of the like nature Was not I the cause of some of the Aldermen of Londons commitments for not discovering the abilities of their neighbou●s And were not all these things done for your sakes Yes yee know they were and yee lik'd 'em well enough and mee too all the vvhile yee prosper'd VVhen the Rebellion in Ireland grew to such a height that yee supposed no power could hinder your conquest when ye were either bloody actors willing spectators or joyfull hearers of the Stories of those horrid massacres and when the men money and Armes sent over by the Parliament his Majestie desiring it against the Rebells were again by your counsells at his Maiesties command made use of by the Rebells against the Protestants then were my actions of high esteem and my Name was famous amongst you O you Romane Catholike Courtiers you that are still mighty men with his Majestie can you not worke your wills in England yet No new project No quaint device to cleere the Kingdome of Protestants Did I begin to work so handsomly and can you not goe forward can you not finish't Have not the lazie Irish done their worke at home yet that they may move with a full body and make an end of their Tragedie here to you● eternall content But oh Eternall did I say Did you with your clamours raise me from my grave to have my counsell Did you in serious sadnesse take it then proceed not in these dangerous and damnable courses except ye have no soules or know no God remember the word Eternall and be confident that such works as you are now in hand with cannot be finished in this world Y' are content for the present to hear of the cruell slaughter of your innocent Countrey-men and think your selves safe under the wings of your Soveraigne but the more security the more danger Take heed ye be not couzen'd of your lives as I was remember the word Eternall and make preparation for a better world before y● leave this that 's the worse for ye and growes weary of ye Be accessary to no more blood y 'ave waded deep already consider my condition that am hurried as in a whirl-wind from one place to another now I am in York straight in London by and by in Ireland and in every place suffer varietie of afflictions according to my crimes Here I am plagu'd for my bad Councells there for my worse actions in one place for my Ambition in another for my luxurie but every where for being accessary to this h●llish Plot of murthering Christians In York I am much tormented in London more in Ireland most of all where many times as in a Theater the bloody Tragedies I made way for in my life time are presented to my view The lamentable cries of my own Countrey-men inhumanely murthered affright me on one side and the damnable oathes and execrations of the perfidious Rebells terrifie me on the other The high wayes and fields are strew'd with mangl'd Carcases some dead o pittifull some dying o miserable but many lame and wounded lie gasping and groaning expos'd to the lingring rage of cold and hunger O intollerable Sometimes I meet with hundreds of men women and children stark naked running from one death to meet another as rather trusting to the fury of frost and snow then to the mercy of the insulting Enemy These are no sooner out of my view but as many more betraid by promise of quarter are rob'd and strip'd in my sight by a crew of periur'd villaines that show they are uncapable of mercy themselves by denying mercy to Innocents that beg it I have bin forc'd to behold with horror as I am now to report with paine the eruelty exercis'd upon Ministers by Monsters some I have seen cut in pieces some whipt some hang'd up cut down quarter'd and their mouthes stop'd with their members others I have seen hang'd and their flesh pull'd from their bones in the sight of their wives and some tyed to tre●s whil'st the basest of the rabble have ravished their wives and daughters before their faces and then hang'd up their parents in the sight of their children I have seen men and women set upon burning hot Gridirons and others tortur'd by clapping hot Tongs to their hands and feet to make 'em discover their hidden Treasure Young virgins have been bound and ravished by the Rebells whereof somo have had their tongues cut out that the cruelty might be conceal'd and others been script and turn'd naked amongst the common Souldiers I have beheld young infants rosted upon spits before their Parents faces whilst they have been tyed in Chaires and forc'd to be wofull spectators of their