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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74755	The Irish massacre; or A true narrative of the unparallel'd cruelties exercised in Ireland upon the Brittish Protestants, &c.	Parker, Henry, 1604-1652.	1646 (1646)	Thomason E353_15; ESTC R201081	20,678	25

what degrees of cruelty they did at last arrive These particulars being truely and cleerely laid open together with some other additionall evidences of the like authority conclusions will issue of themselves acquainting us with the causes of all our miseries and amounting to no lesse then what I have already premised and presumed 1. First therefore we see here a difference is to be noted betweene the most eminent plotters and the most violent executours of this mischeife the Lord Macquir gives a good relation of the executours but not being acquainted with the conspiracy it selfe till it had beene matured by others and was communicated to him by Roger Moore about nine moneths before the generall eruption He saies nothing thereof but t is plaine that these Councells were laid long before by the Popish Clergy for by the connivence of our Governours in Ireland that Countrey had its Titular Arch-bishops Bishops Vicar-generals Provincial Consistories Ecclesiasticall Deanes Abbotts Priors Monkes Nunns Jesuits Preists and Fryars without number besides all Hierarchicall Officers and as well in Townes as in the Countrey had free use of the Masse Dr. Jones had it from the mouth of a Fransciscan that before the dismall day of October there was a great meeting at a religious house in Westmeath of the Romish Clergy and some others whereat the question was debated what course should be taken with the English and how the government of the State should be new moulded And in May 1642. there was a generall congregation held at Kilkenney wherein the Church of Ireland was annexed to the Sea of Rome and the State made no lesse in effect then purely Democraticall and one Act was passed for sending Embassadours in behalfe of the whole Kingdome to the Pope the Emperour the King of France and Spayne and those to be of the Church Prelates with one of the Nobility and a Lawyer Moreover all the acts of Kilkenney were onely subscribed by three Archbishops sixe Bishops and twenty others either of the Clergy or some holy orders or officers belonging to the Hierarchy whereby it appeares that the Nobility Gentry and Commonalty of Ireland though the adventurous and active part of the warre be left to them have as yet but very little or no share in the directive or gubernative part much lesse had they whilst the matter was but in consultation Besides we know the Ecclesiasticks were ranged into fit stations and as there was a just number appointed to attend at home for managing of businesse in Ireland so there was as vast a proportion distributed abroade into the Court of Rome and all other Courts of Europe for forraigne Agency and correspondency Wherefore if the Apostolick sea ever did lively represent the bottomles pit reeking forth thick fumes or darkening the skye with swarmes of odious Locusts doubtlesse at this time by the emission of so many Regulars and Seculars upon such confounding messages it did verify and explaine that dimme prediction Well but after the Jesuits and Preists had beene long in conjuration about this woefull tragedy at last the troubles of Scotland have occasioned a Parliament in England and raised an Army of Papists in Ireland and now all advantages concurring such of the Lords Gentry as are most apt for innovation are to be sollicited and rightly instructed how to draw in other concurrent partyes in all the foure severall Provinces The common people are not to be trusted with the knowledge of any thing till the very night it selfe approaches nay the very Gentry themselves except some few chosen ones are not to receive this secret till all things are ready for execution the Sacraments of the Masse and of Confession which are made Vmbrages to draw the multitude together and mysterious attractives to engage in this hellish sacrifice are not to be solemnized before the day appointed There was feare that the multitude could not be prepared without discovery but there was no feare that the multitude would not consent without preparation At a meeting therefore in Dublin 8 monthes at least before this infamous October when one of the Conspiratours advised to imploy time in speaking to and trying the Gentry of Ireland till advertisement could be received from the other undertakers beyond the seas Master Moore replyed that it was to no purpose to spende much time in speaking to the Gentry for there was no doubt to be made of the Irish that they would be ready at any time but all the doubt was in the Gentry of the Pale Howsoever for his part his affirmation was that he was really assured when the Irish were up the Pale Gentry would not stay long after He further proceeded also to intreate that the Lord of Maye who was very powerfull in command of men in those parts of Connaught wherein he lived had beene spoken to by himselfe and that his consent was granted yet not without an oath for concealement of the same But I will goe on with the Lord Macquir to mention the principal Lay-conjuratours who were not onely taken in by the Ecclesiasticks for meere action but were also admitted to some part of the contrivance at least nine monthes before and we shall see some use may be made of the same The first instanced in is Roger Moore alias Roei Morace of the family of the Moraces of Leix in Lemster which County together with the Territories of Offali were escheated to the Crown by Act of Parliament and were planted with English in the Raigne of Queen Mary Neverthelesse also the father of this Roei being civill and of peaceable disposition though a Papist was by Queene Elizabeth cherisht and sufficiently provided for by a grant of faire and large possessions in the County of Keldare and Meath to him and his heires in fee and the same did descend to this Roei Here was Justice done long since by a Popish Queene to his dammage here is grace shewed lately by a Protestant Queene to his advantage what pretence of quarrell therefore can this afford to R. Moore for Papists against Protestants or for former times against latter The Lord Macqueir himselfe and his family may next take place and we must take knowledge that Sir Conor Ro. Macqueir his Grandfather was divested of the dignity of Macqueir and the County of Termanagh and unable to right himselfe was reinstated by the aide of the English after which also he had not onely the Barony of Maghere staffana but also a yearely pension for life granted out of the Exchequer by King James And not long since Bryan the Sonne of Sir Connor and father of this Lord obtained a Patent from King Charles of the Barony of Eviskillim if these offices be accounted disobligations or provoke the Irish against the English or stirre up Papists against Protestants certainely either the Irish differ from other Nations and Popery differs from other Religions or else the nature of ingratitude must needs be changed from what it was Philip O Rely comes now in view and his Father Captaine Hugh Mac-shane O Rely had from King James a grant and confirmation in fee of a faire estate in Lands lying within the County of Oavan one of the escheated Counties of Vlster Of all the Rebels none scarse ever did pursue the English and the Reformed Religion more perfidiously and desperately then this Philip and his family yet here is to be seene what it cost King James to incense him so deeply against us Sir Phelim O Neale and his brother Torilah may present themselves after the O Relies and these in their minority being left Orphans by Oge O Neal their father were liberally bred up in learning and carefully recommended by our State to the tuition of the Lord Calfield and when they had attained to full yeares their fathers inheritance with some additions was settled upon them Yet 't is conjecturable that for as much as the Province of Vlster did escheat by the severall treasons and attaindors of the Earles Tyrone Tyrconell and others if Tyrone had againe restored himselfe according to the designe of these O Neales the titles and possessions of this Family in Vlster would have been shrewdly shaken or at least their power ecclipsd Neverthelesse the O Neales now for such offences as these butcher a thousand of English and for their first sacrifice slay the yong Lord Calfield their old Guardians son and yet it must passe by the laws of Popery for a very faire equitable and gratefull retaliation Colonell Mac-Mahon and his Family next in order never could complaine of any molestation or disinherison by English plantations but all the Mac-Mahons of Farny and their chiefe had been extirpated by the O Neales if the power of the English had not supported and preserved them Sure such meritorious obligations upon any other then either Irish or Catholicks would have procured some other acknowledgement We may now conclude with Sir Con. Mageniis and his brethren and Sir Arthur his Father and 't is apparant that upon the settlement of Vlster though he was in actuall rebellion with the Earle of Tyrone whose daughter he had married yet he obtained from King Iames a grant and confirmation of the territory of Ireagle in the County of Doune to himselfe and his heires in fee. Had an Indian or Mahometan been so treated we may well expect he would have studied some other requitall then the totall extirpation of those which so treated him or he would have thought something else had appertained to gratitude besides murther and revenge I thus ranke these conspiratours by themselves because their taske was domesticall and most of them were of Vlster and therefore policy required that where the greatest difficulty was most industry was to be used For 't is to be noted that in Munster and in Conaght where the English were thinner planted and lesse fortified there was not that feare of opposition as in Vlster and Lemster where the Scots and English were closer embodied and surer garrisond but especially neare Dublin where the Seate of Justice was and the five adjacent Counties