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A97166	A brief narration of the plotting, beginning & carrying on of that execrable rebellion and butcherie in Ireland. With the unheard of devilish-cruelties and massacres by the Irish-rebels, exercised upon the Protestants and English there. Faithfully collected out of depositions, taken by commissioners under the Great Seal of Ireland. Hereunto are added observations, discovering the actions of the late King; and manifesting the concernment of the Protestant-army now imployed in Ireland. Published by special authority.	Waring, Thomas, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing W873; Thomason E596_2; ESTC R204016	31,881	70

and others to solicite with his Majesty in their behalf which it seems they did so effectually that they in his Majesties name encouraged the Rebels as may appear by a signal Deposition of Col. Iepson Who saw two Letters of theirs sent to Muskery intimating That though it did not stand with the conveniency of his Majesties affairs to give him publick countenance yet his Majesty was pleased with what he did and would in good time give him thanks for it This though discovered to the Lord Falkland then Secretary and though Colonel Iepson stayed a week after in Oxford was so coldly entertained that neither the Colonel was called to account nor the Lords lessened of their freedom and favour Nay the said Taaff was afterwards imployed with Roch and Brent two active Papists taking with them Colonel Barry one of the same fry to carry the Kings letters from Oxford to Dublin From whence they made away for Kilkeny where there was to be soon after a generall assembly of the Rebels which Errand when they had performed Barry was left Leaguer at Kilkenny Taaff returned to Dublin Taaff with divers of disaffected Privy-Councellours of Ireland meets at Ormonds house to debate the Irish Propositions and Brent returns to Oxford to give an account of the Negotiation By this we may the better conceive what the King meant by that delusory offer to go into Ireland Whether it were under this plausible pretence to get a Guard about him and by that degree a considerable force or when he was once there either to make a Cessation advantageous to himself or else to joyn with them however it was a pretence good enough to decline Signings and Confessions advantagious to his subjects in England and increase Jealousies at home and retard the businesse of the Parliament then in full heat and action whatever it were Certain it is that there lurkt within it somewhat of deep design and very exquisite mischief For even the very Rebels could without Prospective see it and without a Divel foretell it For Tirlogh ô Neal could as appears by Master Stewarts examination taken the eighth day of July 1643. tell that the King was to be soon in Ireland and Sir Phelim ô Neal could give out that the troubles of England would ere long call away Leisley to assist them Nor is it any wonder that these people were so perfect in the Kings designs and so fore-seeing of our troubles when they were part both of the interest and Plot that in deed if you will take their own words the Kings cause and theirs were fundamentally and really one though pollitically and spetiously devided How else should Tirlogh ô Neal and Roger ô Moore as is in Master Stewarts mentioned Deposition say That Religion the Lands escheated and the Kings Prerogative were the prime causes of their rising in Arms That they knew well the best in England would side with them That they had good warrant in black and white for what they did That when he objected the Power of England would he brought against them they replied That there was little feare of that for the troubles in England were but then in beginning and would not end in haste And how else could Rory Maguyre say That they the Parliament invaded the Kings Prerogative in which their greatest security reposed That this great undertaking was never an act of one or two giddy silly fellowes They had their party in England Scotland c. which should soon be as deep in bloud as themselves That the Plot had been of ancient date and many times discontinued and but lately revived and prosecuted from Candelmas last past Note the time of Gormanston and the rest procuring the five Counties before the Rebellion both in England and Scotland All is deposed by that Apostate Awdley Mervin whose sister Maguire married who heard it from many more as himself deposeth of considerable quality Nay Why did they of the Palle declare to joyn with the Irish to recover to his Majesty his Royall Prerogative wrung from him by the Puritan faction Why was the Design called the Queens pious intentions Decl. 9. March 1641. Why did Rossetti the Popes Nuncio enjoyn Fasting and Prayer amongst the Papists Why were the Protestants called Rebells to the Queen How came the Rebells to assume the Kings Authority Nay boldly aver they had his Commission Insomuch that the Major of Kinsale writes That they uttered things concerning the Court of England which he durst not put to Paper And now let any man lay his hand upon his heart and say whether or no he can acquit this man of these things Certainly ignorance in this case could not be pretended even to people that had but the bare use of common sence and to be passive in a businesse of this nature must needs be a sin not much lesse than violent action But to give encouragement and groth to such abominable Monsters as from what has been layd down must needs be clear to every dispassioned Judgment especially since such uncontrolable presumption may serve in the works of darknesse is such an offence that it must needs lead any sober and searching mind in a clear trace of the Divine vengeance upon it God indeed is secret marvelous in executing his wrath and many times openly punisheth unknown crimes and many times dissembles the seeing of crying offences But in this case both the one and the other were equally visible and we may without uncharitablenesse affirm That for these things was this man rooted out of the Land We have now viewed him on the Divels-side of the Meddal let us now behold him on the Saintside and find out one of the most illustrous dissimulations that ever attested Piety a dissimulation which a Heathen under the crepusculous daies of nature would have started back at and have immagined it either beyond punishment or els meriting Judgments and Torments severer than any he knew A dissimulation by a Protestant King in behalf of Traiterous Papists and that to lull and stupifie his own subjects and of his own Religion into bloud and destruction The minds of men were not yet so exquisitely debauched but they were open to the serious manifestation of their Representatives nor the Kings businesse in such a posture that he might declare and justifie his proceedings nor his Innocencie such as he might vindicate himself And therefore to these Remonstrative objections of the Parliament he had nothing to say but such whole peals of solemn and dire imprecations as if he thought Perjury lawfull and essentiall to his calling Or else Divinity to be a meer Mormo and staring Rodomontade Or else he had utterly forgot what he had designed some moneths before or were asleep to all his present actions or carriages or had been informed with a new soul when he had acted those things which he did afterwards For instances they throng upon us Reader prepare thy horror in his speech to the Committee at Newark

first about three or four years before the Rebellion began to break out amongst many prohibited books brought into the City of Limerick from forreign parts and seized on by the Reverend man Doctour Web then Bishop there amongst the rest one was framed as an addition to the first part which was printed conteining a discourse of the Friers of the Augustine Order sometime seated in the Town of Armagh in Vlster but by reason of the times at that present resident as the writing imported in the City of Limerick in Munster that whilest that Convent flourished at Armagh it was protected and largely provided for by the then Earl of Tirone since whose expulsion out of Ireland that Convent was also decayed and driven to those distresses it did for the present complain to undergo yet that within three years Ireland should find that the said Earl had a son inheriting his fathers virtues who should restore that Kingdome to its former liberty and that Covent to its first Lustre About the same time a Popish Priest at Limerick aforesaid gave out that within three years there should not be a Protestant in Ireland About the same time also one Walter Newgent of Rathaspick in the County of Meath Gentleman son to Walter Newgent Esquire a man of good fortunes upbraiding an Irish Protestant who was a Parish Clark with his Religion and both speaking Latine the said Newgent uttered these words Infra tres annos veniunt tempus potentiâ in Hibernia quando tu longe likely meaning diu pendebis in cruce propter Diabolicam Vestram Religionem The party to which this was spoken fearing the power of the man durst not speak of it onely in private but being examined judicially deposed the same About the same time near the Naas about 12 miles from Dublin a Papist Priest newly arrived out of Flanders enformed the Lord Deputy Strafford of an intercourse of Letters between the young Earle of Tirone with others in Flanders and the then Popish Primate of Armagh Rely concerning an invasion within a short time intended upon Ireland The Priest offering so his person might be secured to direct such as should be thereunto appointed to the place where the letters lay in the Custody of the said Rely Rely was thereupon sent for together with the Popish Vicar generall of Armagh both were committed to the Castle of Dublin but soon after released and the informer dismissed with ten pounds a suit of clothes and some other reward Thus far Doctor Iones It appeareth also by the examinations that many other informations were given of an intended Rebellion to the said Lord of Strafford and to Sir George Radcliffe Knight severall years before it brake out from severall parts of Ireland For we find it proved that about April See Dr. Maxwells dep Coun. Armagh 1638. one Priest Mac-Casy came from Rome with the Popes Bull for the Parish of Tinon and being kept out by Sir Phelim ô Neal he talked freely of a Rebellion plotted and intended by Sir Phelim and others and told the then Lord Deputy Strafford thereof at Dublin One Mr. Richard Parsons a Minister See Mr. Richard Parsons dep Coun. Cavan was told by four severall persons of credit which he namelth three years and above before the Rebellion that the plot for the intended Rebellion was discovered to the then Lord Deputy which was the Lord of Strafford by one that was servant to Sir Phelim ô Neal and that thereupon the Popish titularie Primate of Ireland was apprehended and imprisoned at Dublin but afterwards procured favour to be enlarged so as he heard no further enquiry made after it untill the fire thereof brake out into a flame which otherwise might have been prevented and thereby the lives of many poor innocent people saved that were murthered and taken away besides the common calamitie wasting and depopulating of the Land prevented And it is much to be presumed James Stewart Coun. Cavan that the Irish had too much influence from the Lord of Strafford for that some of them divulged that one cause of their insurrection was the cutting off of the Lord Lieutenant protesting that such as were Britanes should pay for it Another instance thereof is Mr. George Creichtoun Coun. Cavan that one Mr. John Bellowe being sent by the house of Commons of Ireland to prosecute the Earl of Strafford in the Parliament of England and telling the business to the Earl of Niddesdale that Earl mightily diswaded him with these words If he be taken away our Ctholique Religion cannot stand for the case is so with us now that if he live we hope to do well if he miscarry we are all undone Another instance hereof we have from one Mirs Champin Alice Champin Coun. Fermanagh who having been robbed of a very great estate and her husband and many others in her house murthered the Rebels tould her that the Earl of Strafford was the Plotter of that their rising and that if the said Earl had been living they should not have had so much trouble in vanquishing of Ireland as they had Another hint we have both of the antiquity of the Plot for the Rebellion and of somewhat concerning the Earl of Strafford and the Lord of Derries knowing of it which is this Roger Holland Coun. Monoghan One Mr. Roger Holland an English Gentleman of good value after he was robbed of a good estate by the Irish fled towards Dublin and comming to the Newry and Carlingford was in both places in company with Colonel Richard Plunket Note that this was in the beginning of the Rebellion 1641. a notable active Rebel who there told him and many others that the said plot had been for seventeen years then past in contriving and that Frier Melone and himself and one of the Lord Trimblestons sons another Frier with many others of the Nobility of the Palle and in the North knew of it a long time but that some others of the Nobles knew not of it till of late and as for Sir Phelim ô Neal he made no account as he said but for all Ireland to be his own and the others of his party for that was their intent and for all Puritans and Protestants they should all suffer but such as should goe to Mass and but few of them should be left but those that knew of the aforesaid plot which was partly the Bishop of Derry for whom they daily wished for he was the onely man of the English which they loved best And that if they had him he should take no hurt And heartily wished that the late Lord Lieutenant were alive for if he had lived they had lived well enough and would have had all the strength in the Kingdome And that he knew very well of their plot which was the cause for removing the pieces of Ordnance out of the North. Some other canses are mentioned for removeing of the Artilerie out of the North and other places which