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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80428	Irelands lamentation for the late destructive cessation, or, A trap to catch Protestants. Written by Lieutenant Colonell Chidly Coote. Published according to order.	Coote, Chidly.	1644 (1644)	Wing C6066; Thomason E35_4; ESTC R19021	6,080	10

groan for misery and paine they would in detestation and mockery of the English cry out that they understood not their English language But hitherto they have not launced out farre enough into the Sea of their malice and cruelty but they must proceed further yet They must be revenged of all manner of things that either pleased or belonged unto the English Trees that the English planted must be cut up roote and branch there was too much of an English man in them All herbes plants odoriferous flowers set and planted by the English and pleasing to them must therefore no longer grow but be pluckt up All stately houses and all manner of costly Ornaments and furniture belonging to the English must be out of the raging heat of their malice consumed by the fire So that it may clearely appeare by the cruelty of these devouring Woolfes that their malice was so inveterate to the English that they fully intended to make such a destruction of them as there should not appeare so much as one Monument of an English man in the whole kingdom of Ireland nor any one thing that should ever be a signe unto the succeeding Posterity of the Rebells there that ever there was an English man in that Kingdome and this likely had come to passe had their hellish Plot taken effect had not God in his infinite mercy goodnesse prevented the same The Treachery of the Governors Officers And although they have by their more then heathenish Cruelty with other unexpected and unlawfull helps which they had very much advanced their devilish defignes yet it hath pleased the All-powerfull God in some measure to frustrate their long expected hopes and to shew them they neither can nor shall so farre prevaile over us by force but that we shall be able to enjoy the Inheritance which God Almighty hath beene pleased to bestow upon us in that Kingdome mangre all their power and malice And therefore now what they see they are not able to doe by force they will strive to doe by devilish subtilty and craft An inherent quality of that Nation The meanes to effect this is by a stratagem called by the name of a Cessation which some selfe-ended Counsellors have obtained by their insinuation into his Majesty and by these false Informations that the onely way to save the Kingdome of Ireland was by making a Cessation with the Rebels there which indeede may easily appeare unto every wise man is and shall prove if not timely prevented the very high way to lose it For how can it otherwise be for before the Cessation was made what foode had the English to subsist on but what they forced from the Rebels Now the Cessation being concluded and the Rebels having all the estates and livelihood of the Protestants and all the food of the Kingdome in their own hands and suffering none of the food to be sold for any rates whatsoever to the English of purpose to starve them out of the Kingdome and so to get possession of it themselves how can it be thought but that this cessation was brought to passe by evil Counsellors to the end the Papists should get possession of the whole kingdome as they have already the greatest part thereof From all these places following the Rebels have for the most part starved out the English since this Cessation and that meerely by stopping provisions and suffering none to be sold unto them The names of the places are these and all these places in the chiefest province of the kingdome the province of Lemster viz. Carloe Athy the Fort of Lease Nease Trymm and Dundalk with many more Castles and Garrisons And the certainty of this plot they have in hand will prove the more apparent by a Declaration of grievances signed and attested by all the Protestant Officers of the whole province of Conought sent unto my Lord Marquesse of Ormond some five weeks since Wherein amongst sundry grievances they exprest that there was an absolute plot amongst the Rebels to starve them out of that province for that the Papists would have no manner of commerce or buying or selling with them either victuals or any thing else And moreover the Protestants complained in that Declaration that they found that the County Councels which were the head rebels of those Counties had issued out Warrants to seize on all mens goods and estates of their own devilish Confederacy that should offer to have any manner of buying or selling with the English And therefore what other terme can rightly be given to this Cessation then a trap for Protestants which indeed all the Protestants of Ireland are most sensible of and how great a yoake of tyranny they are inforced to lie under And in that part of the kingdome as in Ulster where they were so powerfull as not to feare the shewing their true sense of what swist destruction was plotted to bee brought upon them they have to the number of 30000. men united themselves to resolutions of falling upon the Irish againe as soone as ever supplies of victualls commeth unto them which I doubt not through the mercies of God will redound much to the service of that kingdome and of this for I hope the united forces will bee stronger ere long and will give the Rebels so much to do in Ireland as they shall have either little time or mind of imbrewing their wicked hands in the innocent blood of the Inhabitants of England which truely otherwise they will bee most eager to doe and I shall ever wish that this kingdome in generall may truly discerne how pleasing it will bee to Almightie God that there may bee assistance by them given unto the Protestants of Ireland to prosecute the warre in that kingdome and to take a just revenge of the heathenish Canibals there for the many thousands of Innocents they have murthered And likewise how advantagious it will bee for the service of this kingdome since I dare confidently affirme that the malice of the Irish Rebels pointeth at all the Protestants nay at all the English in this kingdome likewise And that doth appeare by the great preparations there made both by Sea and Land for the sending over a rebellious Army into this Kingdom upon hopes and conjectures that the Protestants here are in no condition of any wayes enabling the Protestants of that Kingdome to withstand them For I beseech you judge if the Protestants there should for indigence and want bee enforced to desert that Kingdome and that the Irish should swarme here what mercy could the English here expect from them who have beene so bloody upon us that had so many ties of friendship and gratitude upon them truly I know not how people may flatter themselves but I am perswaded murthering and massacres without mercy rapes and rapines burnings devastations and all manner of spoyles will be the greatest mercy received from them And by sufficient testimonies I am perswaded that if the Papists may once have a concourse into this Kingdome the very person of his Majestie would not bee free from the danger of being murthered by them if their fuccesses here should not meet with their hopes or if his Majestie should any way decline at any time which I hope in Gods due time hee will from an eager pursuit of the mischievous designes they shall at all times seeke to bring his Majestie unto And indeed I have a strong argument to inforce me to this beliefe for not long before my departure from Dublin certaine newes came to the Citie of my Lord Duke Hammiltons flying out of Scotland to his Majestie which newes did not a little deject some there for that they did conjecture that there was no partie to bee raifed in Scotland for the hindering the advance of the Scotch Army into this Kingdome many whispers and constructions were concerning his comming away at that time and in that manner among many others this was the construction my Lord Taaffe made of it who freely ript up his minde to those of so unblemished reputations whom although for some causes I will not name at this time yet in due time I shall both name them and prove by them that hee exprest himself in these words My Lord Duke Hammilton is reported to bee fled out of Scotland to the King and pretends hee fled from thence because hee could not raise a partie for his Majestie But truely for my part I take him to bee as notorious a Traytor as ever hee was and that hee is fled to the King meerely to trie whether or no with his great power hee can perswade the King to a peace and by that meanes destroy the good cause his Majestie hath in hand But for my part I ingenuously declare my selfe that if the King bee so weake as to bee prevailed upon by him I thinke it is pitie hee should bee suffered to live So that by this you may well perceive what a high esteeme such traytorous Papists as these have of the cause disputed for by the Kings evill Counsellors And by consequence how little reason the Protestants have to conjecture that this good cause the Papists so much adore is the Protestant Religion though 6. or 700. of those who joyning with the Protestants that came over to serve the King made oath in my hearing to maintaine the Protestant Religion with their lives and estates As likewise how much reason all honest men have to grieve and mourne at the great danger his Majestie is in when such threatners of his life as these shall so neerely approach unto him The truth of all which I doe hereby engage my selfe to prove whensoever called upon and no sufferance or death whatsoever by Gods powerfull assistance shall ever make me deny any one tittle of what I have here declared 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