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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10723	A true and a kinde excuse vvritten in defence of that booke, intituled A newe description of Irelande Wherein is freely confessed 1 The cause of the writing of that booke. 2 How that booke was brought into obloquy and slander 3 A reuocation of all ouersightes that through ignorance were published in that booke. 4 A bulwarke or defence of all truthes contayned in that booke. Pleasant and pleasing both to English, and Irish. By Barnabe Rych, Gent. Seruant to the Kinges most excellent Maiestie.	Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617.	1612 (1612)	STC 21003; ESTC S115925	41,531	58

Dubline that would take exceptions at this and these thinges were better to be buried with silence then to bee discoursed with diligence but if it bee a fault to speake against the entertaining of popish priests in Dubline that are wel knowne to be his Maiesties protested enemies I haue committed that fault through ignorance for I had thought that the Cittizens of Dubline in generall that haue receiued so many liberall giftes such gracious grants and large liberties from diuers and sundry Princes of England and that are so bountifully cōfirmed by our most gracious King that now is I had thought the Cittizens of Dubline in respect of their loue and duty to so good and gracious a King shoulde at the least haue restrayned though not punished that brood of vipers that doth practise nothing but treason and contempt both against his Maiestie his proceedinges And I perswaded my selfe againe that the Mayor of Dubline that is so great a magistrate within his owne precinct that hath the managing of all affayres within the Citty and that standeth vpon his prerogatiue within his liberties and will haue no more to medle but himselfe that may hang that may draw that may punish and hath his Maiesties sword committed vnto him for the same purpose if all this be not sufficient warrāt for the Maior of Dubline to hunt out of his iurisdictions those sowers of sedition those peruerters of his Maiesties good subiectes and those malitious enemies to their king it is pitty that he hath not a new Charter wherein these seruices might be better warranted vnto him I doe not speake of the Mayor that is now of the time present but I speake of all that are past and of the rest that are to come for if euery Mayor within his liberties and euery Bishop within his diocesse throughout Ireland would doe their duties God would be more honoured the King better obeyed and the people vnited in that loue and amitie that now is dissipated by this contrarietie in Religion In the 16. chap. speaking of some defects in the gouernmēt of Dublin the greatest fault that is ther armed at is the prophanatiō of the Sabboth day that day which God hath cōmanded to bee kept holy should be dedicated to his honor that day is most polluted in Dublin euery alehouse frō morning till night is pestered with drunkards with blasphemers I will not speake of whore-hunters but indeede with all kinde of disordered people It is truth that in England and else where that I know in Christendome there are drunkards there are blasphemers there are whore-hunters too many but the rate penal lawes to restrain them but especially on the Sabboth day and in England there is not any one permitted to keepe a tippling house but hee must from yeere to yeere enter into bond and good sureties with him to keepe good rule and order and I thinke there is no man that professeth to bee a Christian be he Protestant or Papist that will thinke I haue offended in this and therefore I shal not neede to make any Reuocation in the matter because I hope there is no man agreiued at it I would be sorry to reitterate the occasion that bred offence betweene the two Sheriues and my selfe because my desire is rather to qualifie then to reuiue matter of vnkindnes but what soeuer hath formerly past betweene vs I protest I am so free from malice towardes them that I doe not know them frō other men when I meete them in the streets what meaning they haue towardes mee I know not if it be good I would be glad if it be ill I care not the worst I doe wishe vnto them is that it would please God to inspire them with his spirite of truth and as I wish it from my heart so helpe me God And although I must confesse I haue euer hated Popery yet I protest I neuer hated papist for his religion but pitted him especially he or they that I know to be ignorantly led and seduced by others for I hate not the man though I hate his religion And let me now craue pardon of the Cittizens of Dubline in generall but to lament that calamity pittifull to bee spoken of that in the Citty of Dubline where the word of God hath beene so plentifully preached in such continuance that should giue light example to all the rest both of citties and towns through out all Ireland and are not able to make a yearely choyce of a Mayor and two Sheriues that will either goe to Church or willingly take the oath of alleadgeance to his Maiesty that they haue no other to imploy for his Maiesties seruice but such as will impugne his Maiesties lawes But they will say a Papist may bee a sound subiect I will not denie but hee may bee so but I will aske our Papistes of Dubline or else where but this question what they doe thinke whither at Rome or at Remes or where soeuer otherwise where popopery beareth sway whither they would put a knowne protestant in comission for the seruice of the Pope they would sooner put out both his eyes and carry him to a stake but what a gracious King is this that seeketh but an oath for his securitie And of whom marry of those that haue such cunning to equiuocate and haue so many dispensatiōs in a readines that what they sweare to day they may reuoke to morrow y ● are taught by their priests that when they are brought before such as they account for hereticks they may both sophistically sweare sophistically answere This I hope may suffice for a Reuocation of all ouersightes that I haue cōmited against the Cittizens of Dublin in the 16. Chap. of my booke And now to speake somthing for the credit of that city to deliuer truely but what I haue receiued from some of the Cittizens themselues not of the inferiour sort but from some of the best Aldermen of the citty of Dubline who foreseeing the partialitie that is vsed by officers of all sortes that bee papistes that doe execute there places not only to the great detriment of his Maiesties seruice but also when any of his Maiesties best affected subiectes that are knowne to be religious haue conformed themselues to his Maiesties proceedings if any of these shal light into the laps either of a Sergeant a cōstable or a Iayler that is a papist he shall bee afflicted and exacted on with more rigour cruelty then if hee were amongst Turkes or Iewes where contrary wise if a papist be brought in question although it be sometimes for his disobedience towardes his Prince there is scarce an officer that wil do his duty to aprehend him or being aprehēded there will hardly befound a Iayler that will scantle him with any short alowance belonging to an offender but will rather entertaine him as a friend And the more repugnant he sheweth himselfe against his Maiesties proceedings so