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A95614	The Irish rebellion: or, An history of the beginnings and first progresse of the general rebellion raised within the kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October, in the year, 1641. Together vvith the barbarous cruelties and bloody massacres which ensued thereupon. / By Sir Iohn Temple Knight. Master of the Rolles, and one of his Majesties most honourable Privie Councell within the kingdom of Ireland.	Temple, John, Sir, 1600-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing T627; Thomason E508_1; ESTC R201974	182,680	207

the late Treaty of Peace to have all the indictments legally put in against the principall Rebels and their adherents taken off the file and cancelled they would not be out of hope as these times now are to palliate their Rebellion with such specious pretences as that their barbarous cruelties acted beyond all paralell being forgotten it should with great applause passe down to posterity under the name of a holy and just war for the defence of the Catholick Cause And now in order to this designe they have taken all occasions to proclaime the huge pressures which they pretend to have suffered under the late government in this Kingdome and spare not to tearm it tyrannicall they speak as if their oppressions might be paralelled with the Israelitish envassalage in the Land of Egypt and their persecutions for Religion equalled to those of the Primitive times And then they further say That thereupon only some Catholicks considering the deplorable and desperate condition they were in and apprehending the plots laid to extinguish their Religion and Nation did take armes in the North in maintenance of their Religion and for the preservation of life liberty and estate together with his Majesties rights And that the Lords and Gentlemen dwelling within the English Pale were likewise by the great rigour and severity used by the State towards them enforced to take up armes for their own defence A Remonstrance of grievances presented to his Majesty in behalf of the Catholicks of Ireland and given in to his Majesties Commissioners at Trime March 17. 1642. These are the expressions and the language used in the late Remonstrance given in to his Majesties Commissioners at Trime to be presented to his Majestie in behalf of his Catholick Subjects in Ireland Wherein there are pieced together so many vain inconsiderable fancies many subsequent passages acted in the prosecution of the war and such bold notorious false assertions without any the least ground or colour of truth as without all doubt they absolutely resolved first to raise this Rebellion and then to set their Lawyers and Clergie on work to frame such reasons and motives as might with some colour of justification serve for arguments to defend it And it is indeed to speak plainly a most infamous Pamphlet full fraught with scandalous aspersions cast upon the present government and his Majesties principall Officers of State within this Kingdome It was certainly framed with most virulent intentions not to present their condition and present sufferings to his Majestie but that it might be dispersed to gain belief among foreign States abroad as well as discontented persons at home and so draw assistance and aide to foment and strengthen their rebellious party in Ireland But I do not much wonder they should take thus upon them to abuse the world with such scurrilous discourses and thereby endeavour to raise some ground or belief that they had just cause to enter into so desperate a Rebellion This hath been an ordinary course ever held in all designes of this nature And it is well observed by Polybius that there are commonly to be found in all such great undertakings Causae suasoriae and causae justificae The first such as are the true naturall causes and really first in the intention the other such as are most commonly obtruded to the world by way of cover and justification Now as the nature of water is most clearly seen in the first Fountain where it remains pure and unmixed without any drosse or soil that it afterwards contracts as it passeth along in the streams derived from it So certainly the quality of all humane actions is best understood and most clearly discerned when we look upon them as they appear in their first originall before the inconveniencies and fatall miscarriages which afterwards come to be discovered awake the first Projectors and teach them new artifices wherewith to disguise and colour over their abortive or otherwise unfortunate counsels Now as for the true Suasorian causes if I may so tearm them which enduced the Irish to lay the plot of this Rebellion were indeed really first in their thoughts they will sufficiently appear in this ensuing Story And for the justificall reasons of their rising in armes if any one hath a minde to take them up on trust from themselves let him seek no further then the Remonstrance before mentioned whereof much more is to be said then I shall give my self liberty to speak in this place well knowing that those notorious untruths and wicked impostures contained in it when they come to the test will be quickly discovered and the varnish they have put upon them soon fall away of it self If any one hath been ignorantly deluded hereby and desires to be rectified in his own judgement let him be pleased to turn over this ensuing Story Verum est index sui obliqui There needs certainly no other confutation of their false and virulent suggestions then a true impartiall relation of the first beginnings and progresse of this Rebellion which for what was acted within the space of the first two moneths after the breaking out of it I presume I may say without vanity he shall certainly finde here It is true I have principally applyed my self to give an account of what was done about Dublin the chief City of this Kingdom and the place where the Lords Justices and Councell continued using their utmost power and endeavours to oppose the fury of the Rebels Yet as all other parts of the Kingdom were under their government and their care and counsels as far as their generall distractions would admit extended to the whole what was acted in all other places of the countrey comes properly to be touched upon and the miserable condition of them to be represented in this following Story I shall not here trouble the Reader with any further Apology for my self or with excuses for the multitude of my own imperfections which will here appear in large Characters and will be peradventure looked upon with a Multiplying Glasse by those who are not pleased with what I have here exposed to publick view I do not at all pretend to silence the bitter expressions of malevolent spirits As I shall with great patience compose my self to bear the utmost that their malice can put upon me So I shall be alwayes ready with much meeknesse to submit to be reformed by any person whatsoever who can make it appear that I have either through ignorance or negligence for I am sure wilfull mistakes they will finde none miscarried in the relation of any particular here set down Sinnes of ignorance found a very easie expiation under the Old Law I will not say they had a pardon of course But if I have so carried my self as that no greater transgressions can be laid to my charge I shall be much satisfied and may peradventure be further encouraged to proceed on to a continuation of this Story and therein to transmit

one Tooly Conley parish Priest to Master Moore to Colonel O Neale in the Low-Countries who within few moneths after arrived with this answer from the said Colonel desiring them not to delay any time in rising out but to let him know of the day when they intended it and that he would not faile to be with them within fourteen dayes of that day with good ayd also desiring them by any means to seize on the Castle of Dublin if they could And further he saith that during the time of these their private meetings there landed at Dublin Colonel Birne Colonel Plunket Captain Brien O Neale and others who came with directions to carry men away and that these were acquainted with the Plot and did offer their service to bring it on and that they would raise their men under colour to carry them into Spain and then seize on the Castle of Dublin and with the arms found there arme their Souldiers and have them ready for any action that should be commanded them He further also saith that they had divers private consultations about the carrying on of this conspiracy not onely at Dublin but in severall other places in the Province of Vlster and that they had set down severall days for the putting of it in execution but meeting with some obstacles did not come to conclude of the certain time till about the beginning of September and that then they peremptorily resolved on the 23. of October for the day to execute this long designed plot in and that they had respect unto the day of the week which did fall on Saturday being the Market-day on which there would be the lesse notice taken of people up and down the streets that they then setled what numbers of men should be brought up out of the severall Provinces for the surprize of the Castle and what Commanders should lead them on that seeing the Castle had two Gates that the Lemster men should undertake to seize upon the little Gate which lay neerest to the place where the arms and munition was placed and that the great gate should be undertaken by those of Vlster and that Sir Phelim O Neale should be there in person but that he excused himself because he resolved at the same time to seize upon London Derry and that thereupon by the impottunity of the undertakers it was imposed upon him the said Lord Mac Guire to be there in person at the taking of the Castle of Dublin That it was further resolved what number of Forces should be brought up out of the other Provinces to make good those places if possessed by them and that Sir James Dillon did undertake to be there with 1000. men within four dayes after the taking of the Castle as also that it was resolved that every one privy to that matter in every part of the Kingdome should rise out that day and seize on all the Forts and Arms in the severall Counties as likewise on all the Gentry and make them prisoners the more to assure themselves against any adverse fortune and not to kill any but where of necessity they should be forced thereunto by opposition These particulars together with many other circumstances very considerable are set down in the relation given in by the Lord Mac Guire while he remained prisoner in the Tower of London but I have thought fit to forbear to relate them at large because I find that relation published by authority and so presented to the common view We shall find also that Mac Mahone in his examination taken when he was first apprehended by the Lords Justices and Counsel here doth testifie that all the chief of the Nobility and Gentry in this Kingdom were acquainted with the first plot and particularly that all the popish party in the Committee sent into England as likewise in both houses of Parliament knew of it In the Examnation of William Fitz Gerald it is there affirmed that Sir Phelim O Neale sending for him five days after his rising in Arms told him what he did was by directions and consent of the prime Nobility and Gentry of the whole Kingdom and that what he had done in the Northern parts the same was executed at Dublin and in all other Forts and Towns throughout Ireland As being a course resolved upon among the Lords and Gentry for the preservation of his Majesties Prerogative their own Religion and Liberties against the Puritan faction in England Scotland and Ireland and that the Lord of Gormanstone knew of this plot while he was in England is testified by Lieutenant Colonel Read in his Examination as also by the Lord Mac Guire in his relation who saith that Colonel Plunket told him that he being at London had acquainted some of the Irish Committee and particularly the Lord of Gormanstone with this plot and that they approved it well Colonel Plunket in his Letter to Father Patrick Barnwal Lord Abbot of Mellifont as he stiles him doth seem much to glory in the means he had used to incite the Lords and Gentry of the Pale to appear in that blessed cause as he tearms it and assures him that the Lord of Gormanstone whom he there cals Lord General will goe bravely on And now it will be no difficult matter to resolve what were the secondary steps and motions of this great plot as well as by what persons it was wrought out in Ireland and carried on to the very point of execution And first it is to be observed that howsoever Sir Phelim O Neale the Lord Mac Guire Philip O Rely Colonel Mac Brian The first contrivers of the Rebellion did not first openly appear in it Hugh Mac Mahone and their adherents chief of the Irish Septs in Vlster and other counties neer adjacent did first appeare upon the stage and by their bloody execution notoriously declare themselves chief actors in this horrid tragedy Yet this Rebellion was either altogether nor originally plotted by them most of them had but subordinate notions of it and they as other of the chief Nobility and Gentry throughout the Kingdom had severall parts assigned them to act at severall times in severall places and did but move according to the first resolutions taken and such directions as they had received from the first Conspirators I take it to be most probable after the generall plot came to be reduced into form that as the Lord of Gormanstone was one of the first and chief movers in it so he and the chief of the Pale joyned together to draw in as they had done in all former Rebellions the principall septs of the old Irish to engage themselves and to appear first in the businesse That the Lord of Gormanston and some others of the Engl. Pale were engaged in the first Plot is very probable And after they had joyned together and so finely ordered the matter as they had made it a generall rising as Sir Phelim O Neale tearms it of all the Catholicks throughout the