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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54704	The interest of England in the preservation of Ireland humbly presented to the Parliament of England / by G.P., Esq.	Philips, George, 1599?-1696.	1689 (1689)	Wing P2027; ESTC R1613	18,021	38

barren Land as is to be found in two Shires only in England and not far from London Berkshire and Surrey The Seas are plentifully stor'd with Fish of all Kinds and the Markets supply'd with such Plenty and Variety as might satiate the Luxury and Prodigality of Lucullus the Loughs are fill'd with Pike Breme Pearch Roach and Trouts but the Fresh Rivers swarm with stupendious Quantities If men as justly they may shall become doubtful scrupulous and incredulous when I make mention of the extraordinary Pilchard-Fishings in the South and the Herring-Fishings in the North my Credit will certainly run a great Risque and my Veracity be suspected when I relate the Wonders of the Deep and come to speak of the Prodigious Fishings for Salmon and Eels in the Rivers of Lough-foyl and the Bann If men will startle at the Report of six thousand Barrels of Pilchards made in one year upon the Coast of the County of Cork or to hear that in some Parts of Conaught they take so great Draughts of them that not being provided of Salt to cure them they lay them in heaps and manure the Land with them that beside the plentiful Fishing of Herrings in and about the Bay of Dublin the Skerryes Carlingford and all the Northern Coast they have usually made and sent away in one year two thousand Tuns of Herrings from the single Fishing at Dunfanaghan then undoubtedly they will smile and ridicule me when I tell them That there is made commonly five hundred Tuns of Salmon in a year in Loghfoyl and the Bann and other Rivers in the County of Londonderry that besides the Royal Piscary of the Bann there are between Colrane and Loghneagh seventy Salmon-Fishings that there are the same round about that Lough which is sixty Miles in Compass that at the Leap of Colrane ten Tuns of Salmon have been taken at one Draught of a Net That the last year at the Grebbin twelve Miles beyond Londonderry two and thirty Hogsheads of Salmon were taken at once and for want of room in their Boats a great part of them thrown again into the River That in the Eel-weres in the River of Bann fourscore thousand Eels have been catcht in one Night But I have spoken modestly and within compass and there are too many Witnesses much against their wills now in England and Scotland who can confirm the Truth of what I have declared I am loth to pass by the Salmon-Pound commonly call'd the Cutt near Colrane because as I conceive such another thing is not in the World It is a great Trough made like a Tanner's Vat about fifty foot long twenty foot wide and six deep a Stream of the River of Bann runs through it and at the Place where the Water enters a row of Stakes are placed very near together like a Rack in a Stable at the other end of the Cutt a parcel of sharp Spikes are clustered together very close at the Point and wide at the Head so that the Salmons who always swim against the Stream and other Fish may get in at pleasure but can neither return the way they went in nor get out at the other end whereby it happens that on Monday morning there being a respite to Fishing all Sunday and none taken out of the Cutt with their Loops a Stranger would be astonish'd to see an innumerable company of Fish riding on the backs of one another even to the top of the Water and with great ease and pleasant Divertisement taken up in Loops All these prodigious Quantities of Fish are but collected for the Use of England to whose Ports or to whose Order they are yearly consigned and distributed III. The NVMBER Having had no Business or Imployment which might administer an Opportunity to inspect the Catalogues and Returns of Parishes and Counties or to view the Poll-Books it will not be possible for me to make any other than a conjectural Calculation of the Number of Protestant Inhabitants in Ireland But by a modest Computation I may adventure to aver That at the beginning of the Reign of the Late King there were in the City of Dublin and the Four Provinces above a Million of British Protestants I am confirm'd in this Supposition by a sad Reflection upon the Passages in the Year 1641. at which time the Number of the Protestants was very inconsiderable in comparison with the Natives and possibly did not amount to the Half of what they were in 1681. yet even then above two hundred thousand naked and defenceless People were massacred in cold Blood and barbarously murther'd without Provocation or Resistance I reckon that when the late Revolution hapned there were two hundred thousand men fit to carry Arms bound to the Interest of England by the Obligations of Religion Love Loyalty and Blood who may be beneficial in their Service and Aid when it shall be required though of late by the apparent Judgment of God they have been terrified by them on whom they alway had an awe routed by such whose Strength they d●●●…ed and dispossest of their Estates without strugling for their Property IV. The RELIGION Among all the pressing Motives that recommend the Care and Conservation of Ireland there is no one more cogent than the Consideration of the Religion there establish'd by Law which reasonably ought to interess all good Christians in a feeling-Sympathy and Concernment for them and thereby the People of England have a fit Opportunity at once equally to exert their Duty to God and Charity to their Brethren It is true the Protestant Religion was not universally profess'd through the Kingdom neither were all who were distinguish'd by that Character perfectly cemented the Papists were numerous in every County tho least of all in Vlster yet Popery seemed to be rather Hereditary than Elective to be more the Result of Education than Judgment insomuch as it became like a Logical Property to the Natives and Papist and Irish man were Terms convertible So great an Influence has Custom over all the Faculties of Mind and Body they put on Religion as a fashionable Garment the Dictate of the Priest warranting the mode and thick Ignorance inflames their Devotion Nevertheless the Protestant Religion was predominant Popery sneak'd to the Mountains and squatted behind the Bushes the Mass was not known nor a Fryar seen till by the Influence of the Late King and the furious Zeal of his Deputy things were changed as it were in a moment and all Commands Civil and Military committed to the Hands of Papists But when by the Blessing of God and the Assistance of England that poor harassed Country shall be restored to its former State and Condition it will be a joyful Reflection for their Brethren and Benefactors to hear of so many Thousand Persons united with them in the same Religion as in all other Respects and Concernments V. The Consanguinity and Assinity The Inhabitants of Ireland excluding the Natives of the Land who always were and ever