of Fingal which was wholly a Stranger to Depredations now lay exposed to the Tools and other Irish wherein they were assisted by John Burnel a Gentleman of good Estate in Fingal who favoured this Rebellion But the City of Dublin could not suffer this without their own Destruction for Fingal was their Granary and most of their Provision came from thence wherefore a Body of the Citizens sallied to intercept a Prey at the Bridge of Kilmainham but in the Skirmish near the Wood of Salcock overpowered either in Number or Valour they were beaten and fourscore of the Citizens killed Fitz-Girald makes the best of this Victory and whilst the Consternation is on the City he sends them word that although he could destroy their City yet he will do them no harm if they will permit him to besiege the Castle The Citizens wisely send one of their Aldermen Francis Herbert to the King to know his Pleasure and another to the Constable of the Castle to have his Advice The Constable made a virtue of Necessity and not thinking it possible to defend the City consented to the Demand provided he were first furnished with Men and Victuals which was done and Alderman John Fitz Symons sent into the Castle twenty Tun of Wine twenty four Tun of Beer two thousand dry Ling sixteen Hogsheads of Beef twenty Chambers and an Iron Chain for the Draw-Bridg But the unfortunate Archbishop afraid of the Success of this Siege got on board a Ship that Night near Dames gate in order to pass for England but the Vessel was stranded at Clantarfe and the Archbishop was forced to a Village hard by called Tartain thither came Thomas Fitz-Girald and his Unkles John and Oliver Sir James Delahide and many others early the next Morning having first had notice of the Archbishops being there The Lord Thomas commands John Teling and Nicholas Wafer to bring out the Archbishop whom they haled out of his Bed naked in his Shirt as he was bare-footed and bare-headed The poor Bishop on his Knees and with a pitiful Voice and Countenance begged Pity for the Love of God on a Christian and an Archbishop The Noble Fitz-Girald was too generous to behold that Spectacle without Compassion and therefore turned aside saying Ber owm a Buddagh which is Take away the Clown intending to imprison him but the Servants wilfully misconstruing their Master's Words knockt out the Bishop's Brains and left a Revenge on themselves which overtook them all for Teling afterwards Died of the Leprosie and Wafer of the French Pox and Fitz Girald and all his Unkles were publickly executed by the Common Hangman Nor is it to be omitted that all the Murderers were excommunicated and in the Excommunication are these strange Passages That no man may be merciful to them but their Memory to be forgotten That God would rain Flames of Fire and Sulphur on them That they may cloath themselves with the Malediction and high Curse as they daily put on their Garments That the Water of Vengeance may be in their inner Parts as Marrow in their Bones Be they girded with the Girdles of Malediction and Partakers with Pharoah Nero Herod and Judas the Proditors of Jesus Christ and with Dathan and Abiram descend into Hell quick Good Lord send them Hunger and Thirst and strike them with Pestilence that they may be consumed and their Generation clear eradicate Strike them with Leprosie Madness Blindness c. And we Interdict all the Places where they go and the Place where the Archbishop was murdered But to proceed The Rebels took Prisoners from their own Houses the Lord of Howth and Luttrel Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and the Castle being furnished the Citizens of Dublin consented to Fitz Girald's former Demands Of Liberty to besiege the Castle Whereupon he sent James Field of Lusk Teling Wafer Broad Rouks and Purcel with one hundred Soldiers each attending on them as their Captains they planted two or three Falcons near Preston's Innes over against the Castle and entrenched themselves with strong Ramparts threatning to place the Youth of the City thereon if they in the Castle should shoot that way In the mean time Fitz-Girald accompanied with O Neal Sir Richard Walsh Parson of Loughsewdy Burnel of Ballygriffin and several others invaded and burnt the County of Kilkenny even to Thomas Town The Earl of Ossory and his Party were at the same time near Jeripont consulting what to do and during their Consultation one of the Butlers stole away with sixteen Horse to make a Bravado Fitz-Girald espying them sent an equal number which were soon followed with one hundred and forty Horse the Butlers retreated to their main Body which was surprized by this unexpected Accident and easily scattered The Lord Butler was hurt but made shift to escape to Dunmore where he was cured In the mean time Alderman Herbert returned with an Answer from the King encouraging the Citizens to a manly Defence and promising Aid immediately Whereupon it was resolved by the Citizens That Faith was not to be kept with Traytors That their League with Fitz-Girald was void And they ordered their Gates to be shut And that the Traytors that besieged the Castle should be apprehended Captain Field and his Companions having Notice hereof began to shift for themselves some swam over the River but the most of them were taken Prisoners Immediately Fitz-Girald leaves Kilkenny and summons the Pale to meet him with all their Power near Dublin And in his way he seized upon several Dublin-Children that were at School in the Country and particularly Fitz-Simons and Stainhurst and sent Doctor Traverse Peter Linch of the Knock and Oliver Grace to the Citizens to expostulate the Breach of the League and to require That it might be renewed or at the least the Prisoners enlarged but they met with a cross Answer to all their Demands Whereupon Fitz-Girald began in Sheep-street to besiege the Castle but was driven thence by the Ordnance and the Houses being thatcht were burnt by Wild-Fire cast in from the Castle he stopt all the Rivers about the Town and removed to Thomas-Court pulled down that Street and made a sort of a Gallery to shelter his Men he also burnt the New Street and planted a Gun against Newgate which pierced that Gate and killed an Apprentice of Alderman Stephens's fetching Water from the high Pipe Richard Stanton Goaler of Newgate being an excellent Marksman did great Damage to the Enemy and particularly perceiving one of the Rebels level his Gun at the Loop-Hole where he stood he was so nimble that he prevented him and shot the Rebel in the Forehad and was so hardy as to issue out at the Wicket and to strip the Varlet and brought in with him his Gun and his Cloaths This enraged the Rebels and excited them to Revenge wherefore they immediately brought Fire and Faggot to the Gate in hopes to burn it The Citizens wisely considered That Expectation of Spoil would encourage the
make them seek Peace yet he was in no wise able to reduce them to the Obedience of Subjects or enlarge the Limits of the Pale however what he did was held so considerable that the Lords and Gentlemen of the Pale made Certificate of this great Service in French to the King Nevertheless the Army was so ill paid in this March that the Subject suffered more from the Cess of the Souldier than they gained by this small and temporary mortification of the Irish and this was the common Calamity from hence forward so that Necessity revived Coyn and Livery again by degrees notwithstanding that it remained Treason by Act of Parliament In August the Parliament met at Dublin 1415. and sate six weeks during which time the Irish followed their usual Course of falling upon the English and killed Thomas Ballymore of Ballyquelan and many others and on the 22th day of October the King obtained a most glorious and entire Victory over the French at the Battel of Agincourt But the Parliament was adjourned to Trym 1416. and there it sate on the 11th of May and continued seven days and gave the King a Subsidy of four hundred Marks in Money and the next year the Prior of Kilmainham with sixteen hundred Irish went to aid the King in France 1417. they Landed at Harslew in Normandy and did the King very good Service But I should have remembred That the King and Parliament at Westminster anno 1413. did Enact That for the Peace and Quietness of England and for the encrease and enstoring of Ireland That all Irishmen Irish Clerks Beggars and Chamberdekins be voided out of England before All-Saints next Lib. M. except Graduates in Schools Sergeants and Apprentices at Law and such as be Inheritors in England and Religious Persons professed and Merchants of good Name and Apprentices now dwelling in England and those whom the King will dispense with and that all Irishmen who have Offices or Benefices in Ireland shall dwell in Ireland for the defence of the Land And now 4 Hen. 5. Lib. M. It was likewise Enacted in England that all Archbishops Bishops Abbots and Priors of the Irish Nation Rebels to the King that shall make any Collation or Presentment to Benefices in Ireland or bring with them any Irish Rebels among the Englishmen to the Parliament Councils or other Assemblies within the same Land to know the Privities or States of the Englishmen their Temporalities shall be seized till they fine to the King and that the Governors of Ireland be defended and restrained to grant such Benefices or Pardons in the case to Irish Persons not English and that such Licenses shall be void There is very little recorded of the Year 1418 1418. and it is scarce worth mentioning That the Lord Lieutenant did spoil the Tenants of Henry Crus and Henry Bethel probably for some Misdemeanor by them committed against the Government But the Year 1419. 1419. will afford us more Matter for on the last Day of May the Lord Lieutenant accompanied by the Archbishop and Mayor of Dublin razed the Castle of Kenun having a little before in the same Month taken Prisoner Mac Morough the chief Captain of his Nation and on the 20th of June the Lord William de Burgh took O Kelly and slow five hundred Irish in Connaught but the Lord Lieutenant was sent for to England and substituted his Brother Richard Talbot Archbishop of Dublin Lord Justice or Deputy He held a Royal Council i. e. a Parliament at the Naas which gave a Subsidy of three hundred Marks On Maundy-Thursday O Tool took four hundred Kine from Ballymore and so broke the Peace contrary to his Oath but it fared worse with the Irish at Rodiston where thirty of them were slain by the English under the Command of the Lord Justice but on the 4th day of April Landed at Waterford James 1420. Earl of Ormond Lord Lieutenant His Commission is very large and beareth Date the 10th of Febr. 7 Hen. 5. and is to be seen Pryn 412. He held a Council at Dublin the 23th of April and summoned a Parliament to meet the 7th of June which did accordingly then meet and sate sixteen days and gave the King a Subsidy of seven hundred Marks and adjourned to Monday after S. Andrews Day and at that Session they gave another Subsidy of three hundred Marks and the publick Debts contracted by the Lord Talbot were paid and then they were Adjourned to the Monday after S. Ambrose's Day But it will be convenient to shew the Reader who paid these Subsidies and what their respective Proportions were and thereby he will perceive the vast Alteration for the better that is made in the State of Ireland since those Days This Subsidy was called Tertium Subsidium and was applotted thus Lib. CCC Â Lib. s. d. The Clergy of the County of Wexford 13 06 08 The Commons of Kildare 34 10 05 The Clergy of Kildare 04 02 10 Commons of Typerary 08 11 04 Clergy of Cashel 00 19 04 Commons of Limerick 02 03 00 Clergy of Limerick 00 08 01 Kingsale 01 16 08 Â Mar. s. d. Meath Liberty 83 00 00 Clergy of Meath 40 00 00 Clergy of Dublin 11 11 08 Drogehda 04 03 00 Commons of Carlow 04 01 04 Clergy of Ossory 02 00 11 Commons of Kilkenny 18 05 11 Commons of Louth 25 12 05 Clergy of Ardes 08 08 09 Commons of Dublin 40 10 00 City of Dublin 06 10 00 Clergy Cathedral of Dublin 11 11 08 Cork 02 02 00 On the 28th of October Thomas Fitz-Girald took Colmolin Castle and the Parliament met again according to Adjournment on Monday after S. Ambrose's Day and ordered that the Archbishop of Armagh Sir Christopher Preston and others should go Commissioners to the King to desire a Reformation of the State of the Land At this Parliament John Gese Bishop of Lismore and Waterford accused Richard O Hedian Archbishop of Cashel of Thirty Articles the Principal of which were First Ware de Praesul 170. That he loved none of the English Nation nor gave any Benefice to any Englishman and that he counselled other Bishops to do the like Secondly That he had counterfeited the Great Seal Thirdly That he designed to make himself King of Munster Fourthly That he had taken a Ring from the Image of S. Patrick which the Earl of Desmond had offered and gave it to his Concubine c. There was also a Contest between Adam Pory Bishop of Cloyne and another Bishop but it is probable that the former Accusation was suppressed because we find no farther Proceedings upon them and because the Archbishop seems to have been a more generous sort of Man for he not only repaired the Cathedral of Cashel and a Mansion-House or two for his Successors but also was otherwise a great Benefactor to that See and liberal to Pious Uses and the later Contest was transmitted to Rome But we should return
Rebellion than ever had been in Ireland to that time For the Lord Deputy having sent Proclamations of the King's Succession to all Cities and Burroughs not doubting but that they would be chearfully published in every place to his great amazement received this Account from Cork That Captain Morgan came thither with the Proclamation on the Eleventh of April and immediately Sir George Thornton one of the Commissioners of Munster went with it to Thomas Sarsfeild then Mayor who answered That by their Charter they might take time to consider it Sir George replied That since they knew the King's Right and that he was proclaimed in Dublin it would be taken ill if they delayed it The Mayor answered That Perkin Warbeck was also proclaimed in Dublin and that nevereheless much Damage hapned to the Country by their precipitation therein Whereupon Saxy Chief-Justice of Munster said That they ought to be committed if they refused But William Mead the Recorder told him That no body there had Authority to commit them Hereupon the Mayor and his Brethren c. went to the Court-house to consider of so important a Matter Sir George Thornton in the mean time staying in the Walk to expect their Resolution After an hours stay there he sent to know their Mind they put him off for an hour more and when that was expired they plainly told him They could not give their Answer till the next day Whereupon he said He would proclaim the King without them But they let him understand That he had no Authority within their Liberties to do so neither would they permit him to do it And so they put it off till the Thirteenth of April and then Sir George Thornton and the Lord Roch and about 800 Soldiers and others proclaimed the King in the North Suburbs near Shandon-Castle but the Mayor and Citizens deferr'd it till the Sixteenth and then wrote a sawcy Letter to the Lord Deputy importing That they had receiv'd the Proclamation on the Eleventh of April but had delayed publishing it till the Sixteenth for the greater Solemnity and they desired that Halbowling Fort not being in the Hands of a sufficient Commander to secure it might be put into the Hands of the Mayor and Citizens for whose Defence it was made But the Citizens not expecting an Answer to their minds from the Lord Deputy designed to set up their Religion by force and to that end they kept strong Guards on their Ports and Gates and stopt the King's Boats going with Victuals to Halbowling so that the Commissioners were forced to relieve that Fort with Ammunition and Victuals from Kinsale they also carried the Cross in Procession about the City and forced People to reverence it they also defaced Sentences of Scripture that were written on the Church-walls and painted the places with Pictures they re-consecrated the Churches and went daily in Procession they also took the Sacrament to spend their Lives in defence of the Roman Catholick Religion they disarm'd such Protestants as were in their Power and rejected the mixt Moneys and refus'd to suffer the King's Provisions to be taken out of the Store until they should be assured that the Soldiers should be sent out of the Liberties of the City they also endeavoured to get the South Fort into their Hands so that Sir George Thornton was forced to shelter himself in Shandon Castle Upon notice of these Proceedings Sir Charles Willmot who was besieging Mac-Morris in Ballingary Castle immediately repair'd to Cork and finding that no good was to be done by Treaty he sent 600 Men over the Ford by Gillabby into the South Fort and thô two of them were kill'd in their Passage by Shot from the Walls yet the rest got in safe and secur'd the Fort However the Citizens mounted some Guns and shot at the Bishop's Palace and Shandon Castle thô the Lord President Carew his Wife was in the one and the Commissioners of Munster in the other Nevertheless on the 28th of April the Lord Deputy wrote a kind Letter to the City of Cork and required them to suffer the King's Stores to be issued out to the Army but they excus'd themselves and answered That they did not know but those Stores if delivered out might be made use of against the Town Whereupon the Lord Deputy wrote a smart Letter to them on the First day of May but before it came to their Hands the Citizens under the Conduct of Christopher Murrough had removed the King's Stores into their own Cellars Morison 291. and being taught by a Seditious Priest That he could not be a Lawful King who was not approved by the Pope nor sworn to maintain the Catholick Religion they took a Resolution in Publick Council to excite the other Cities and Towns to Confederate with them for the Preservation of the Catholick Faith and resolved to defend themselves by Force It hapned that some few were slain on either Side and particularly a Minister was kill'd by a Shot from the Town and one of the Bishop's Servants was wounded and taken Prisoner and was told by them That the Traytor his Master should not escape Death if they could get him within their Power But their Insolence will best appear by their own Letter to the Lord Deputy the Substance of which is to be found here Appendix 1. In the mean time the Commissioners of Munster finding that they wanted Artillery sent for some to Halbowling but the Citizens having notice of that Design Mann'd out some Boats under William Terry to intercept them Nevertheless they arrived safely and thereupon the Citizens being frightned with the noise of the Great Guns agreed to a Cessation until the Lord Deputy should come But the City of Cork was not the only Place that was Rebellious at this Junctuâ—e Waterford was altogether as ill inclined tho' it had not an Opportunity of doing so much Mischief However they did their Share and first they pulled down Sir Nicholas Welsh their Recorder from the Cross where he was reading the Proclamation of the King's Succession They also broke the Doors of the Hospital and admitted Dr. White to preach a Seditious Sermon in St. Patrick's Church wherein amongst other inveterate things he said That Jezebel meaning Queen Elizabeth was dead They also took the Keys of the Cathedral from the Sexton and caused a Priest to celebrate Mass there Nor were the Towns of Clonmell and Wexford free from the like Insolencies but they being the weaker and the less populous Places were sooner sensible of their Faults than were other Towns where Tumult and Noise gave less opportunity of Thinking and Number and Fortification encourag'd to Obstinacy and therefore these Corporations restored the Churches and submitted to the Lord Deputy's Commands before the Army approached their Walls whilst on the contrary Limerick which has seldom been backward in an Irish Rebellion was one of the forwardest in this and gave their Priests the Possession of all their Churches where they erected Altars
Name of ourselves and the rest of our Brethren the Archbishops and Bishops of this Kingdom whereby we avow testify declare and protest before GOD and the World That since our General Meeting at Clanmacnoise or here we have omitted nothing that did occur unto us tending to the advancement of his Majesty's Interest and the Good of the Kingdom generally but have there and then ordered and decreed all to us appertaining or which was in our power necessarily conducing to the publick Conservation of his Majesty and his Subjects Interest And also do and have endeavoured to root out of Mens hearts all Jealousies and sinister Opinions conceived either against your Excellency or the present Governmen as by our Acts there conceived maâ— appear And aster our parting from thence in pursuance of our unanimous Resolution taken in that place we have accordingly declared to our respective Flocks our happy Agreement amongst ourselves and our earnest desire to labour with them to those ends and made use of our best perswasions for the purchasing of their Alacrity and chearful Concurrence to the Advantage of that Service So that if any thing was wanting of due Correspondence sought by your Ezcellency we conceive it cannot be attributed to any want of care or diligence in us And for further intimation of our hearty desires on all occasions to serve our King and Country we declare That we are not yet deterred for want of good Success in the Affairs of the Kingdom but rather animated to give further Onsets and try all other possible Ways Wherefore we most humbly entreat your Excellency to give us some particular Instructions and to prescribe some Remedies for and touching the Grievances presented by us to your Excellency for pacifying of Discontented Minds and put us in a way how to labour further in so good a Cause And we do faithfully promife that no Industry or Care shall be wanting in us to receive and execute your Conditions And in conclusion We leave to all impartial judicious Persons sad and serious Considerations to think how incredible it is that we should fail to oppose to the uttermost of our power the fearful and inceasing Potency of a Rebellious and Malignant Murderer of our late Soveraign King Charles to which Enemy also nothing seemeth more odious than the Names of Kings and Bishops and who aims at nothing so much as the Dethroning of our now Gracious King Charles the Second and the final Extirpation of our Natives in case as God forbid Events and Successes would fall suitable to his most wicked Designs So far we thought necessary to declare to your Excellency from ourselves as the sence likewise and true meaning of the rest of our Brethren other Bishops of this Kingdom Dated at Loghreogh the 28th of March Anno Domini 1650. Jo. Archiepiscopus Tuamensis Wa. Episcopus Confert Fran. Aladensis Rob. Corcagen Cluanensis Fr. Hugo Episcopus Duacensis But notwithstanding the specious pretences and fair promises in this Declaration they verified Cromwell's observation of them That they prefer'd their own Interest before the King 's and that their professions in favour of Protestants were hypocritical For although they desired Instructions so earnestly as if they meant to observe them yet having received Instruction to bring the City of Limerick to a better temper they did nothing effectually in it though they did colourably send Sir Richard Everard and Doctor Fennell to treat with that City and they carried with them Letters from the Commissioners of Trust to the Mayor and from the Bishops to the Archbishop of Cashell and Bishop of Limerick which if sincerely wrote could not in reason fail of producing some effect But the cause of suspecting their sincerity did not proceed barely from the unsuccessfulness of their Endeavours but also from a discovery of the dishonest manner of their proceedings with the Lords of Ormond and Insiquin whilst they were at Limerick for whilst some of the Prelates and leading Men of that City came to his Excellency under shew of Friendship and Respect and informed him That the Waywardness and Dissatisfaction of the People proceeded from their Aversion to Insiquin who had always prosecuted the War against them with Rigour and Animosity and had defiled himself with the Blood of the Religious at Cashel and of whom they could have no Assurance since his Principal Confidents betrayed the Towns of Munster but if his Excellency would dismiss that Lord and disband his Troops that then the whole Nation as one Man would be at his disposal Another party of Popish Bishops and other leading Men addressed themselves to Insiquin and assured him That they expected no Success under the Conduct of Ormond because he was not of their Nation and was so indulgent to English Interest and English-men that he little regarded them or theirs But if his Lordship who was of the most Ancient and Noble Extraction of Ireland had the Supreme Command then all would be well But these two Lords compared Notes and thereby discovered the bottom of the Contrivance which was to create a Quarrel between them that so they might the easier get rid of them both And indeed from that time forward Ormond had so small hopes of the Irish that he employed the Bishop of Derry to treat with some forreign Prince about transporting 5 or 6000 Men into their Service at usual Rates and he designed to go with them himself and having no means to support Insiquin's Army he did at the importunity of the Commissioners of Trust who were as weary of the Engling as the English were of them disband Insiquin's Forces except Collonel Buller's Regiment which was designed to be sent to the King from Galway And on the first of May Dean Boyle now Lord Primate was employed by Ormond and Insiquin to treat with Cromwell Upon what Terms the Protestants of their Party might be received into Protection In the mean time the King by his Letter of the 11th of March from Beauvois informs the Lord-Lieutenant That one Rochfort from Lieutenant-General Farrell and one Daly disguised under the Name of Dominico de Rosario were with his Majesty and represented Ormond as backward in granting Graces and Favours to the Irish But the King advises him to persevere and if need be rather to exceed in Concessions about Civil Matters than in Matters of Religion and that if there must be farther Concessions in Religion that thâ—n they should be made in general Terms with reference to a future Parliament and gives him full power to do as he sees fit and desires to know whether if he fail with the Scots he may conveniently come for Ireland And indeed this had been the proper time for his Majesty to have come thither and the Marquess of Ormond did invite him to do so and the Queen Mother on the 10th of March 1649 sent the Lord Byron on purpose to press him to the Voyage and to get the Scotch Commissioners consent thereunto And it
Ophaly till he made him consent to accept of worse situated Land in lieu of it He made his Nephew Walter Almain a corrupt beggarly Fellow says Cambrensis Seneschal of Wexford and Waterford who received Bribes from Mac Morough of Kensile to prejudice the Fitz-Geralds and so Mercenary was Fitz-Adelm himself that the Irish flock'd unto him as to a Fair to buy their Demands At last having neither done Honour to the King nor Good to the Country he was revok'd and in his Room the King appointed Hugh de Lacy 1179. Lord Justice of Ireland to whom Robert le Poer the King's Marshal Governour of Waterford and Wexford was made Coadjutor Counsellor or assistant The King Lib. G. Lamb. at a Parliament held at Oxford anno 1177 had given the Kingdom of Cork The Patent from the River next Lismore running between that and Cork i.e. the River Bride to Knock-Brandon near the Shenin and so to the Sea unto Cogan and Fitz-Stephens Tenendum of him and his Son John per sexaginta feoda militaria except the City of Cork and the Cantred adjoyning which was the Eastmens He also gave the Kingdom of Limerick to the Brothers and Nephew of Richard Earl of Cornwal but they finding they could not get Possession in a little Time surrendred their unprofitable Grant Whereupon the King bestowed it upon Philip de Broase to be held of the King and his Son John by sixty Knights Fees and the City and a Cantred adjoyning were likewise excepted out of this Grant These three Adventurers joyned their Forces together and came to Waterford in November and so coasted it to Cork where they were kindly received by Richard de Londres the Governour Cogan and Fitz-Stephens agreed with Mac Carthy and the Irish Gentry That they should hold four and twenty Cantreds paying a small yearly Rent and of the seven Cantreds near Cork Cogan had the four Southern and Fitz-Stephens the three that were on the East-side of the City The Kingdom of Cork being thus setled they marched with Broase to Limerick with sixty Gentlemen one hundred and fifty Horse and a smart Party of Foot As soon as the Citizens perceived them they set the Town on Fire at which desperate Barbarity Broase was so offended that he could not be prevailed upon by any Arguments to settle there or to have any thing to do with such Rash and Heathenish People and therefore they returned to Cork which for some Time after Cogan and Fitz-Stephens joyntly and happily governed This Kingdom of Cork descended to Daughters Hooker 46. Hanmer 158. Brady 369. and so came by Marriage to Robert de Carew and Patrick de Courcy about the twentieth Year of the Reign of Henry III. Courcy's part of it was afterwards subdvided among many Daughters who were Heirs General of that Family so that a very small Proportion of it remains with the Heir-Male of that Name who was anciently Baron of Ringrone but now has the Title of Lord Baron of Kingsale As for the Carews they were Marquesses of Cork and built the Castles of Ardtully Dunkeran and Down Marque but they removed out of Ireland in the Time of the Civil Wars between York and Lancaster and others intruded into their Possessions and Estate and keep them to this Day except what they have sold or forfeited About this Time Sir Thomas de Clare obtained a Grant of Thomond Davis 122. as Otho de Grandison did of Typerary and Robert le Poer of Waterford and William Fitz-Adelm also got a large Proportion of Connaugh But it is time to return to the valiant John de Courcy Brady 368. who was engaged in Vriel on this Occasion he had sent into England for Victuals Ammunition and other Necessaries the Ship by Stress of Weather was driven into a Creek called Torshead O Hanlon and his Followers immediately came on Board the Vessel and murdered all that were in it and seized on the Cargo As soon as Courcy had Notice of this Misfortune he drew his Men together being above a thousand and marched towards the Newry on the Way he received Advice That the Irish were encamped near Dundalk in a great Body to the Number of seven thousand Courcy sent a Fryer to them and instructed him to tell them That there were great Forces arrived at Drogheda from England and that they were very near them and to justifie this Story the English did march with the greatest Shew and Appearance they could make and made a great Shout wherewith the Enemy was so daunted that they fled towards the River in great Confusion but the Tide being in many were drowned and more were slain However O Hanlon and the greatest part of his Army got over the River but the Frier guided the English over a Ford so that they came to a second Encounter wherein the Irish were so desperate That the English Foot were forced to retire but the Valiant Sir Armorick came in seasonably to their Rescue and persuaded them to rally and to make another Charge which they performed so briskly that the Irish were obliged to withdraw to the Fews as the English also did to Dundalk neither Party much boasting of the Victory because the Slaughter was great on both sides About this time two Cardinals come to England to invite the English and Irish Bishops to the Council of Lateran There went from hence Lawrence Archbishop of Dublin Catholicus Archbishop of Tuam and others but all of them first swore Not to procure any Damage to the King or his Dominions Sullevan Which Oath Lawrence did not very religiously observe for he not only spoke vehemently in the Council against the King's Administration of Affairs in Ireland but as the Irish say he obtained a Bull of Revocation from the Pope annulling the former Bulls granted to the King But this is not probable because no such Bull is extant and if there were it would be void but it is certain he was an inveterate Enemy to the English and gave them all the Opposition and Disquiet he could However he was reputed a very Holy Man being zealously addicted to the Superstitious Devotion Hanmer 163. so that he was canonized by Pope Honorius III. This is recorded of him That he was so grateful to the See of Rome for his Pall or so great an abhorrer of Immodesty that he refused to absolve the Priests convicted of that Sin insomuch that he sent one hundred and forty of them to Rome to pay for their Absolution there But it is time to return to the Lord Justice Lacy who govern'd very well and built many Castles in convenient Places and particularly Castle-Dermond Leighlin Leix Delvin 1180. Carlow Tullaghphelim and Kilka and Courcy was no less diligent in raising that kind of Fortification in Vlster However Lacy had given just Cause of Jealousie by marrying the Daughter of Rotherick King of Connaught whereupon his Enemis impeached him suggesting that he confederated with the Irish
to raise a Monarchy for himself Whereupon he was recalled and the Government committed unto John Constable of Cheshire May 1181. Baron of Halton-Castle and Richard de Peach Lord Bishop of Coventry Lords Justices of Ireland But they continued in that Dignity but three Months for Lacy behaved himself with that Discretion and Modesty and gave the King such Satisfaction in all Matters objected against him That Hugh de Lacy August 1181. Lord Justice was again sent over with Robert of Shrewsbury a Clergy-man his Assistant and about the same time the famous Courcy also returned being Dignified with the Titles of Lord of Connaught and Earl of Vlster and accompanied with his Brother S. Laurence There were some who reported That these two fought a successful Battle with the Irish Brady 367. at the Bridge of Ivora near the Hill of Hoath where the Valour of S. Laurence was so conspicuous that it got him both the Land and Title of Hoath which last continues to this Day in his Name and Family We left Cogan and Fitz-Stephens in the peaceable Enjoyment of their Kingdom of Cork but we shall not find them so for Cogan and young Fitz-Stephens at the Persuasion and Invitation of one Mac Tirid made a Journey to Lismore to treat with the Men of Waterford about some Controversies that were between them they were to lodge at Mac Tirid's House but he perfidiously took his Opportunity and unexpectedly fell upon them and murdered them and five of their Company Immediately the whole Country was up in Arms and conspired a general Rebellion Donald More in Curraugh Mac Carthy whom the Irish still called King of Cork got his Forces together and laid Siege to the City not doubting but that he had now a favourable Opportunity to expel the English thence The Poor Old Fitz-Stephens was in a sad Condition distressed by Enemies without and Suspicions of Traytors within he had no Hopes of Relief or Assistance saving only from Reymond le Gross who lay at Wexford to him a Messenger was sent and without Delay put to Sea with twenty Gentlemen and one hundred Archers and entred the River of Cork whereupon the Enemy dispersed and all was set at Rights again Nevertheless as soon as the King heard of the aforesaid Treachery he sent Richard Cogan Philip Barry Giraldus Cambrensis and a Good Party of Horse and Foot to help Fitz-Stephens by their Assistance the City and Kingdom of Cork were kept in Quiet for some Time but the Old Fitz-Stephens had but little Benefit of it for being much broken with Age and Misfortunes he first lost his Senses and not long afterwards his Life But Lacy the Lord Justice was again become suspected for as he grew Great his Enemies grew Envious and the King Jealous so that he was once more sent for and Philip of Worcester September 1184. Lord Justice or Governour of Ireland came over with a smart Party of Horse and Foot he also brought with him Hugh Tirrel a Man of ill Report He was not long in the Government before he seized on the Lands of O Cathesie to the King's Use though Lacy had formerly sold them He also went a Circuit to visit the Garisons and in March came to Armagh where he exacted from the Clergy a great Sum of Mony thence he went to Down and so to Dublin loaden both with Curses and Extortions Tirrel took a Brewing-Pan from the poor Priests at Armagh and carried it to Down but the House where he lay was burnt and so were also the Horses in the Stable so that he was fain to leave the Pan for want of Carriage and Philip had a severe fit of the Gripes like to cost him his Life both which Punishments they say were miraculously inflicted upon them for their Sacrilege In July came over John Comin Archbishop of Dublin to prepare for the King 's youngest Son John Earl of Moreton to whom the Kingdom of Ireland was assigned towards his Portion Brady 369. Some say that he was made King of Ireland at the Parliament held at Oxford 4 Inst 360. anno 1177. his Father having obtained Licence from the Pope to make which of his Sons he pleased King thereof saving to the See of Rome the Peter-pence and the rest of its Rights And it seems Pope Vrban the Third sent Cardinal Octavianus and Hugo de Nunant his Legates to crown John King of Ireland and by them sent him a Crown of Peacocks Feathers But King Henry better considered of that matter and either because he would not seem to derive his Son's Title from the Pope or because he was loath to trust his Son with that Royal Stile having already suffered by the like Indulgence to his eldest Son or because he saw it Inconvenient and Illegal to separate Ireland from the Crown of England It is certain he found means to carry the Legates with him into Normandy and thereby prevented that once designed Coronation So that the Impression of the Great Seal of Ireland was no more than this Johannes Filius Regis Angliae Speed 478. Domini Hiberniae Earl John was then about twelve Years old when on Wednesday in Easter-week 1185. anno 1185 with about four hundred Gentlemen most Normans some Clerks and particularly Giraldus Cambrensis and a great Company of others he took Shipping at Milford-Haven being accompanied to the very Ship by Randulph Glanvile principal Counseller of the King and Kingdom and Justiciary of England The Irish Potentates flock'd to their new Prince but their Trouses and Mantles their Glibbs and Behaviour were derided by the Normans who used them scurrilously one pats the Irish Prince on the Pate another pulls him by the Mantle a third pricks him in the Breech with a Pin a fourth shuts the Door upon his Heels every Body abuses them Wherefore away they get as fast as they can and every-where publish'd the Ill Usage they received at Court Rotherick O Conner Mac Carthy and O Bryan were then preparing for their Journey but upon this News they better considered it and confederated to raise a general Rebellion There were many Reasons why Earl John's Voyage to Ireland was not successful The Superstitious People observ'd That he had not pay'd his Devotions at S. Davids before he imbarqued and attributed it to that Others blamed him and his Followers more for their Rude and Ungenteel Abuse of the Irish Lords and Gentlemen Others imputed all to the Debauchery of the Soldiers who by the example of their Captains were grown Idle and Insolent Wherein they were the more indulged because they were ill paid To these may be added the Litigiousness of the Natives in Towns and Cities who were perpetually wrangling with and suing such new Inhabitants as came to settle among them But there was a greater Cause than all these which arose from the different Interests then in Ireland which inâ—luenced the Normans English Welch and the Natives The Normans were most in
to defend the Realm against the Scots was sent for to England and Sir Theobald de Verdon was made Lord Constable or Justice of Ireland Prin 259. 31 Dec. 1314. In whose time the King sent John de Hothum Clerk into Ireland to treat with the great Men there about the Kings Affairs and by him sent Writs in the Nature of Letters of Credence to Richard Earl of Vlster and all the rest of the Nobility by Name and a general Writ or Letter to the Lord Justice and the great Officers of State to the same effect Ibid. 260. and another Writ to assist him and to summon the Nobility to a general Meeting that Hothum might communicate the Kings Pleasure unto them He also sent Writs to the Lord Justice the Earl of Vlster and several other great Men to attend his Parliament in England and to appoint a sufficient Deputy or Keeper of Ireland till their Return Prin 261. And because the Words Vestrumque Concilium impensuri are omitted Mr. Prin observes rightly that these Irish Lords went as Commissioners or Agents from Ireland to inform the King and Parliament of the state of Affairs there and did not go to serve in Parliament as my Lord Cooke would have it 4 Inst 350. I do not find whether the Lord Justice went or not nor if he did what Deputy or Keeper of Ireland was appointed in his room but whoever had it did not keep the Office long for on the 27th of Febr. Sir Edmond Butler Frag. 5. 1315. Lord Justice returned and soon after viz. on the 25th of May 1315 Edward Bruce and six thousand Scots Landed near Carigfergus in Vlster with them joyned several of the Irish and together they marcht to Dundalk which they took and burnt on the 29th of June they also spoil'd Vrgile and drove most of the English out of Vlster To oppose them an Army was rais'd which rendezvouz'd at Dundalk July 22. But whether it were that the Scots were retired or that the English Commanders could not agree the Lord Justice return'd to Dublin and left the Earl of Vlster to pursue the Scots with whom that Earl had a Battel near Colrain Camb. 169. on the 10th of September and was defeated and many of the English slain and William Burk John Stanton and others were taken Prisoners This great Loss could not be recompensed with the slaughter of forty Scots which was performed by some English Mariners and therefore Bruce to follow his Blow caused his Army to besiege Carigfergus Septem 15. and sends his Brother William Bruce into Scotland for a Supply 1315. In the mean time the Irish every where insult over the unfortunate English and generally rebel throughout Vlster and Connaught they burnt Athloan October and Randan and Cathol Roe O Connor razed three Castles of the Earl of Vlster's in Connaught In November following the English under Roger Mortimer 1315. had another Battel with the Scots at Kenlis in Meath and were routed with great Slaughter by the Treachery of the Lacies Hereupon Bruce burnt Kenlis Granard Finagh and Newcastle and came to Loghsendy where he kept his Christmas and afterwards also burnt it thence he marched through the County of Kildare unto Rathingan Kildare Castle-Dermond Athy Raban and Sketheris where the Lord Justice accompanied by the Lord John Fitz-Thomas and many others encountred him on the 26th of January and was defeated by reason of some unhappy Fewds and Misunderstandings in the English Army Hereupon the Irish of Munster and Leinster rose in Rebellion and the Birns Tools and Moors burnt the Countrey from Arclow to Leix but the Lord Justice gave them a Rebuke and brought fourscore of their Heads to the Castle of Dublin Ireland being in so tottering a condition the King sent Sir John Hotham over again to take the Oaths and Hostages of the Nobility and Gentry that still remained loyal which was accordingly performed by the Lord John Fitz-Thomas afterwards Earl of Kildare Cambd. 171. Richard de Clare Maurice afterwards Earl of Desmond Thomas Fitz-John Poer Arnold le Poer Febr. 4. Maurice Rochford David and Miles de la Roch and many others 1315. And now both Armies were early abroad The Scots having burnt the Castle and Church of Ley did on the 14th of February rendezvouz at Geashil as the English did the same day at Kildare But the Scots for want of Provision were forced to return to Vlster nevertheless in their way they took Northburgh Castle and then sate down in their Quarters to that degree of quietness that Bruce kept Court and held Pleas there as if it were in times of the most profound Peace For the English Army had work enough nearer home and therefore the Lord Justice on the Scots retreat did likewise return to Dublin and there summoned a Parliament or general Assembly which reconciled some great Men then at odds cleared Walter Lacy of the Treachery imputed to him and established the Measures of carrying on the War And it was wisely done to begin with the Moroughs Tools and other Mountaineers of the County of Wicklow because they daily infested the City of Dublin and had destroyed both the Town and Country of Wicklow and because the Army was not strong enough to secure the City and at the same time to pursue the Scots 1316. the Success justified their Conduct for in April the Tories were defeated However the Scots were not so much neglected but that the Lord Thomas Mandevil was appointed to have an eye to them but he could but skirmish with them which he did valiantly Camb. 172. and kill'd Thirty Scots in one Encounter and was himself slain in another But Bruce came over with fresh Supplies from Scotland and so despised the small force of the English that in May he caused himself to be Crowned King at Dundalk 1316. and thereupon grew so insolent that he spared neither Churches nor Abbeys Women or Children found no Mercy at his hands but on the contrary he destroyed all that opposed him or that belonged to the English and he burnt great part of the Countrey as the Irish did the Church of Athird It was high time to encourage the English to their defence and the defence of the Kingdom and therefore as well to reward for Services past 1316. as to engage them for the time to come Selden 838. says Kildare's Patent is the ancientest Form of Creation he had seen the Lord Justice was made Earl of Carrick and John Fitz-Thomas was made Earl of Kildare May 14. 9 Ed. 2. and others received other Favours from the King The Burks and Geraldines were reconciled and every one in his station set himself manfully to the preservation of the Kingdom Richard de Clare and Bremingham had the better of the Irish in Connaught and slew many of them and about Whitsontide made a Sally into Munster and kill'd three hundred Irish there and the
Monasterpheoris in the King's County And this Year began the Lateran Council under Julius II which ended under Leo X anno 1518. Kildare having the last Year put himself into a Condition of appearing early and formidably abroad this Spring 1512. undertook an Expedition into Vlster the Castle of Belfast which he had demolished nine Years since was now again repaired but unable to resist the Power of the Deputy it was again the second time taken and destroyed It is not recorded that Kildare met with much opposition so that he had little to do but to burn and waste the Country and to gather the Preys together most part whereof he divided among his Soldiers Rokeby Archbishop of Dublin held a provincial Synod at Dublin but what they did non constat for the Canons are lost And the Lord Deputy built the new Chappel in the Choir of Christ Church Dublin where himself was afterward buried About this time the Citizens of Dublin did assault the Earl of Ormond in S. Patrick's Church and shooting at random defaced Images c. For which Sacrilege they were enjoyned this Penance by a Legate sent on purpose viz. That the Mayor should go barefoot through the City before the Eucharist on Corpus Christi Day which was performed accordingly But because of the manner of Expression used in those Days and some other Curiosities in the Story I will insert it at large in the Words of Holingshead Between Gerald Earl of Kildare and James Butler Hâ—â—ingshead 82. Earl of Ormond their own Jealousies â—ed with Envy and Ambition kindled with certain lewd factious Abetters on either side as generally to all Noblemen so especially to both those Houses very incident ever since the ninth Year of Henry the Seventh bred some trouble in Ireland The Plot of which mutual Grudge was grounded upon the factious Dissention which was in England between the Houses of York and Lancaster Kildare cleaving to York and Ormond relying to Lancaster to the upholding of which Discord both these Noblemen laboured with Tooth and Nail to overcrow and consequently to overthrow one the other And for so much as they were in Honour Peers they wrought by Hook and by Crook to be in Authority Superiors The Government therefore in the Reign of Henry the Seventh being cast on the House of Kildare James Earl of Ormond a deep and far reaching Man giving back like a butting Ram to strike the harder Push devised to inveagle his Adversary by Submission and Courtesie being not then able to over-match him with Stoutness or Preheminence Whereupon Ormond addressed his Letters to the Deputy specifying a Slander raised on him and his That he purposed to deface his Government and to withstand his Authority And for the clearing of himself and his Adherent so it stood with the Deputy his Pleasure he would make his speedy Repair to Dublin and there in an open Audience would purge himself of all such odious Crimes of which he was wrongfully Suspected To this reasonable Request had the Lord Deputy no sooner condescended than Ormond with a puissant Army marched towards Dublin incamping in an Abby in the Suburbs of the City named S. Thomas Court The approaching of so great an Army of the Citizens suspected and also of Kildare's Counsellors greatly disliked Lastly the Extortion that the lawless Soldiers used in the Pale by several Complaints detected These three Points with divers other suspicious Circumstances laid and put together did minister occasion rather of further Discord than of any present Agreement Ormond persisting still in his humble Suit sent his Messenger to the Lord Deputy declaring That he was prest and ready to accomplish the Tenor of his Letters and there did attend as became him his Lordship his Pleasure and as for the Company he brought with him from Munster albeit suspicious Brains did rather of a malicious craftiness surmise the worst than of charitable Wisdom did judge the best yet notwithstanding upon Conference had with his Lordship he would not doubt to satisfie him at full in all Points wherewith he could be with any Colour charged and so to stop up the Spring from whence all the envious Suspicions gushed Kildare with this mild Message intreated appointed the Meeting to be at S. Patrick his Church where they were ripping up one to another their Mutual Quarrels rather recounting the Damages they sustained than acknowledging the Injuries they offered The Citizens and Ormond his Army fell at some jar for the Oppression and Exaction with which the Soldiers surcharged them with whom as part of the Citizens bickered so a round knot of Archers rushed into the Church meaning to have murthered Ormond as the Captain and Bell-Wether of all this lawless Rabble The Earl of Ormond suspecting that he had been betraied fled to the Chapter-House put too the Door sparring it with Might and Main The Citizens in their Rage imagining That every Post in the Church had been one of the Soldiers shot hab nab at random up to the Rood-Loft and to the Chancel leaving some of their Arrows sticking in the Images Kildare pursuing Ormond to the Chapiter-House-door undertook on his Honour That he should receive no Villany Whereupon the recluse craving his Lordships Hand to assure him his Life there was a Clift in the Chapiter-House-Door pierced at a trice to the end both the Earls should have shaken Hands and be reconciled But Ormond surmising that this Drift was intended for some further Treachery that if he would stretch out his Hand it had been percase chopt off refused that Profer vntil Kildare stretch'd in his Hand to him and so the Door was opened they both embraced the Storm appeased and all their Quarrels for that present rather discontinued than ended In this Garboil one of the Citizens surnamed Blanchfield was slain This latter Quarrel being like a green Wound rather bungerly botcht than soundly cured in that Kildare suspected That so great an Army which the other alledged to be brought for the Guard of his Person to have been of purpose assembled to outface him and his Power in his own Country and Ormond mistrusted That this tracherous Practice of the Dublinians was by Kildare devised These and the like Surmises lightly by both the Noblemen misdeemed and by the continual twatling of Fliring Clawbacks in their Ears whispered bred and fostered a Malice betwixt them and their Posterity many Years incurable which caused much Stir and Unquietness in the Realm until the Confusion of the one House and the nonage of the other ended and buried their mutual Quarrels Ormond was nothing inferior to the other in Stomach and in reach of Policy far beyond him Kildare was in Government mild to his Enemies stern to the Irish such a Scourge that rather for despite of him than for Favour of any part they relyed for a time to Ormond came under his Protection served at his Call performed by Starts as their manner is the Duty of good Subjects Ormond was
flight The Establishment for this year from Feb. 1599. to February 1600. came to 222961 l. 4s 8d ½ and on the 24th of March 1599. the Army consisted of 1200 Horse and 14000 Foot But the Strength of the Rebels lying in their Fastnesses the Lord Lieutenant resolved to make War upon them with Garisons and small flying Army and accordingly he placed in Dundalk 100 Horse and 650 Foot in Ardee 50 Horse and 700 Foot in Kells 50 Horse and 400 Foot in Newry 50 Horse and 1000 Foot in Carlingford 100 Foot and 100 Horse and 1000 Foot were appointed for Leinster to invade Leix and Offaly and victual Philipstown which Sir Oliver Lambert with much Gallantry performed about the 15th of April though he met with brisk Attacks from Owen mac Rory In the mean time the Rebels being disheartened with this manner of proceeding and Tyrone's flight from Munster grew every day in worse condition and suffered many Losses the Garison of the Naas took a Prey and kill'd many Rebels and Sir Francis Shane defeated 140 of them whereof 45 were slain on the place of which number fourteen were kill'd by himself so that many of the Rebels offered to submit which was the less regarded because it was known that even those that had not yet entered into Rebellion were hindered more by a sense of their Danger than their Duty and that they waited only for a safe opportunity to declare themselves insomuch that O Sullevan assures us Sullevan 177. that before the Battel of Kingsale the Papists in the Queen's Army had promised to revolt and that many did so by two or three or ten at a time and that if they had all done so then there had been an end of the English for ever The Lord Lieutenant march'd toward Vlster the fifth of May he passed the Moyry on Whitsunday Morning and came to Newry where he was inform'd that O Neal had raz'd Blackwater Fort burnt Armagh and was retired into the Fastness of Logh lurken whereupon Montjoy on the 15th of May drew out towards Armagh with 1500 Foot and 200 Horse but hearing that the Earl of Southampton and Sir Oliver Lambert were coming to him with recruits on the 17th of May he sent Captain Blany with 500 Foot and 50 Horse to conduct them who accordingly came to Faghard near Dundalk and thence all together marched toward the Newry but were attacked briskly at the Pass of the Moyry by Tyrone and 1200 Foot and 220 Horse but Montjoy who foresaw this design came seasonably to their Relief so that they passed the Moyry in spight of the Rebels with a small Loss to themselves and very considerable Loss to the Enemy in a brisk Fight they had there In the mean time a Garison was planted at Loghfoile by Sir Henry Dokwra and they took Newcastle and spoil'd all O Dogharty's Countrey took a good Prey of Cows and killed many Rebels they also fortified at Derry which frightened many of the Irish into the Islands of Scotland and forced some of them to Submission About the middle of June Montjoy return'd to Dublin by the way of Carlingford O Neal being retired into his Fastnesses At Dublin the Lord Lieutenant met many and great Clamours that in his absence the Rebels had invaded preyed and burnt the Pale but the Loss was not half so great as the Noise As to Munster The President with 900 Foot and 100 Horse came to Youghall the 21st of April where he receiv'd an account that Florence Mac Carty and others of Carbry on Tyrone's encouragements were in actual Rebellion wherefore Captain Flower was sent into Carbry with 1200 Foot and 100 Horse Pacata Hib. 30. and burnt and preyed as far as Ross but in their return at Awnebuy they fell into an Ambush of 2000 men which Florence Mac Carty and Dermond O Connor had laid there for them however the English behaved themselves so well that they slew Carbry O Connor and 100 Rebels and wounded as many more without the loss of any Person of note on their side and about the same time the Garison of Killmallock took a good Prey from the Brough On April the 24th the President came to Cork where he had an account of the miserable condition of the Province which was all in Rebellion except some few Lords and Gentlemen whose followers and near relations were likewise in Action so that there could be no great confidence placed in themselves the very Cities and Towns were staggering and so frighted by the Threats and Excommunications of the Clergy that there could be no Trust reposed in them But all this did not discourage the President On the 25th of April John Mac Thomas took a Prey of 300 Cows and 10 Horses from Castlelions and the next day Redmond Burk invaded O Dwyres's Countrey to his loss of 120 Men to revenge which Redmond soon after return'd thither and on the Sixth of May slew all the Men Women and Children and took all their Cattel and burnt all that Country On the 29th of April the Garison of Killmallock took the Prey of Loghgwir and soon after Banet Condon and the White Knight submitted to the President On the Third of May Florence Mac Carty on promise of safe return came to Cork and submitted to the President and promised Neutrality and Dermond O Connor was dealt with for a considerable reward to sieze upon the Sugan Earl of Desmond and one Nugent a relapsed Rebel for Pardon and reward promised to find means to ruine John Fitz Thomas Desmond's brother which he attempted to doe by pistolling him but was prevented in the very nick and the next day was hanged Likewise Redmond Burk who commanded 500 Banaughs was wheedled by the President in hopes of the Barony of Letrim to withdraw out of Munster and was soon followed by Tyrrel Hempon Peirce Laâ—y finding himself unable to defend his Castle of Brough burnt it and in July after â—â—ed to Vlster The President had given out that he design'd to march to Lymerick the Sixth of May whereupon the Rebels met in great numbers at Ballyhawra and continued together ten days and then partly for want of Victuals and partly because they believed the President would not or durst not come that way they separated The same day Sir Richard Piercy Governour of Kingsale slew 10 Bonaughs in Kynalmeky and had surprized them effectually but that Florence Mac Carty gave them intelligence of the Design On the 21st of May the President marcht from Cork to near Mallow and the next night near Killmallock the 24th to Brough where he left a Garison and the 25th he came to Lymerick On the 23d James Galdy Brother to the Lord Cahir and with his privity by the Treachery of an Irish Centinel surprised the Castle of Cahir but in lieu of that the Governour of Loghguir-Castle Owen Grone delivered it up to the President for a Summe of money not exceeding 60 l. On the 28th of May the President
through disability occasioned by the distempers of those Times the considerations of Equity to be alike unto both Parties 25. It is Concluded Accorded and Agreed by and between the said Parties and His Majesty is graciously pleased that the said Richard Lord Viscount Mountgarret c. shall be immediately upon conclusion of these Articles Authorized by Act of State to proceed in Hear Determine and Execute within the Cities corporate Towns Counties and parts of Counties now or late within the Quarters of the said confederate Catholicks the ensuing particulars and all matters thereupon depending and that the said Act of State and other the Authorities hereafter mentioned shall remain of Force without Revocation Alteration or Dimunition until Acts of Parliament be passed according to the Purport and Intent of these present Articles only in case of Death of any of the said Persons so to be Authorized the Lord Lieutenat or other Chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the time being shall by the Advice and Consent of the Persons so to be Authorized then Living or any Five or more of them name others in the place of such who shall be so Dead and the Persons so to be named to be Authorized as the former and that the Persons to be Authorized as aforesaid or any Five or more of them be permitted without interruption to Applot Raise and Levy Means with Indifferency and Equality upon all His Majesties Roman Catholick Subjects of this Kingdom for the Raising Clothing and bringing to Sea-Ports and Maintaining there until they be Shipped Ten thousand Men promised by the confederate Catholicks of this Kingdom to assist His Majesty and to Levy the Arrears of all Excises and other Publick Taxes already Imposed by them and yet unpaid and to call all Receivers and other Accomptants of all former Taxes and Publick Dues to a just and strict Accompt either by themselves or by such as they or any Five or more of them shall Name and Appoint And that the said Persons to be Authorized as aforesaid or any Five or more of them shall have power to Applot Raise and Levy means with Indifferency and Equality by way of Excises otherwise in the several Cities Corporate Towns Conties and parts of Counties now within the Quarters of the said Confederate Catholicks towards the maintenance of such Army or Armies as shall be thought fit to continue and be in Pay for the defence of the Kingdom and towards the maintenace of all the Forts Castles and Garrisons within both or either of the now Quarters of either Party other than such of the said Garrisons Forts and Castles as from time to time until there be a settlement in Parliament shall be thought fit by His Majesty's chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the time being by and with the Advice and Consent of the said Persons so to be Authorized or any Five or more of them not to be maintained at the charge of the Publick Provided that His Majesties Lieutenant or other chief Governors for the time being be first made acquainted with such Taxes Levies and Excises as shall be made and the manner of Levying thereof and that he approve the same and that the Persons to be Authorized as aforesaid or any Five or more of them shall be Authorized to appoint Receivers Collectors and all other Officers for such Monies as shall be so Assessed and for the Arrears of all former Applotments Taxes and other Publick Dues yet unpaid and that the Persons so to be Authorized or any Five or more of them in case of Refractoriness or Delinquency may Distrain and Imprison and cause such Delinquents to be Distrained or Imprisoned and that the profits of the Estates within the now Quarters of the confederate Catholicks of such as shall adhere to the Parliament and not submit to the Peace be accompted as Publick Dues and be converted to the maintenance of the Kings Army and that the said Persons to be Authorized as aforesaid or any Five or more of them shall have Power to Applot Raise and Levy means with Indifferency and Equality for the buying of Arms and Ammunition and for entertaining of Frigats in such proportion and manner as shall be thought fit by His Majesties Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors for the time being by and with the Advice and Consent of the said Richard Lord Viscount Mountgarret c. or any Five or more of them the said Arms and Ammunition to be laid up in such Magazines and under the charge of such Persons as shall be agreed by the said Lord Lieutenant and the said Persons to be authorised as aforesaid or any Five or more of them and to be issued and the said Frigats to be employed by the Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors for the time being for the safety of the Kingdom by the advice and consent of the said Richard Lord Viscount Mountgarret c. or any Five or more of them and that the said Persons so to be authorised as aforesaid or any Five or more of them shall have power to Applot Raise and Levy Means with indifferency and equality by way of Excises or otherwise in the several Cities Corporate Towns Counties and parts of Counties now within the Quarters and upon the Estates of the said Confederate Catholicks all such Sum and Sums as shall appear unto the said Persons to be authorised as aforesaid or any Five or more of them to be really due for and in discharge of the publick ingagements of the said Confederate Catholicks incurred or grown due before the Conclusion of these Articles and that the said Persons to be authorised as aforesaid or any Five or more of them shall have power to Applot Raise and Levy Means with indifferency and equality by way of Excise or otherwise in the several Cities Corporate Towns Counties and parts of Counties now within the Quarters of the said Confederate Catholicks as well for the Persons to be authorised as aforesaid and also for such other Person and Persons as shall be imployed in publick Affairs within the several Cities Corporate Towns Counties and parts of Counties within the now Quarters of the said Confederate Catholicks from time to time until a settlement by Parliament and that the said Persons to be authorised as aforesaid or any Five or more of them make perfect Books of all such Monies as shall be Applotted Raised and Levied out of which Books they are to make several and respective Abstracts to be delivered unto their Hands or the Hands of any Five or more of them to the several and respective Collectors who shall be appointed to Levy and Receive the same and that a duplicate of the said Books under the Hands of the said Persons to be authorised as aforesaid be delivered unto his Majesties Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Govenors for the time being whereby a perfect accompt might be given 26. It is further concluded accorded and
directions which shall issue to any such County for the applotting subdividing and levying of the said publick Assessements some of the said Protestant party shall be joyned with others of the Roman Catholick party to that purpose and for effecting that service and the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them shall have power to levy the arrears of all excises and other publick taxes imposed by the Confederate Roman Catholicks and yet unpaid and to call Receivers and other Accomptants of all former taxes and all publick dues to a just and strict account either by themselves or by such as they or any seven or more of them shall name or appoint and that the said Lord Lieutenant or any other chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom for the time being shall from time to time issue Commissions to such person and persons as shall be named and appointed by the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them for letting setting and improving the Estates of all such person or persons as shall adhere to any party opposing his Majesties Authority and not submitting to the Peace and that the profits of such estates shall be converted by the said Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governour or Governours of this Kingdom for the time being to the maintenance of the Kings Army and other necessary charges until settlement by Parliament and that the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them shall have power to applot raise and levy means with indifferency and equality for the buying of Arms and Ammunition and for the entertaining of Frigots in such proportion as shall be thought fit by his Majesties Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governours of this Kingdom for the time being by and with the advice and consent of the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them the said Arms and Ammunition to be laid up in such Magazines and under the charge of such persons as shall be agreed on by the said Lord Lieutenant and the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them and to be disposed of and the said Frigots to be imployed for his Majesties service and the publick use and benefit of this Kingdom of Ireland and that the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them shall have power to applot raise and levy means with indifferency and equality by way of Excise or otherwise in the several Cities Corporate Towns Counties and part of the Counties now within the Quarters and only upon the Estates of the said Confederate Roman Catholicks all such sum and sums of mony as shall appear to the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them to be really due for and in the discharge of the publick ingagements of the said Confederate Catholicks incurred or grown due before the conconclusion of these Artieles and that the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them shall be authorized to appoint Receivers Collectors and all other Officers for such monies as shall be assessed taxed or applotted in pursuance of the authorities mentioned in this Article and for the Arrears of all former applotments Taxes and other publick dues yet unpaid and that the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them in case of refractoriness or delinquency may distrain and imprison and cause such Delinquents to be distrained and imprisoned And the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them make perfect books of all such monies as shall be applotted raised or levied out of which books they are to make several and respective abstracts to be delivered under their hands or the hands of any seven or more of them to the several and respective Collectors which shall be appointed to levy and receive the same And that a duplicate of the said books under the hands of the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them be delivered unto his Majesties Lord Lieutenant or other chief Governor or Governors of this Kingdom for the time being whereby a perfect account may be given and that the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of therâ—s shall have power to call the Councel and Congregation and the respective supream Councels and Commissioners General appointed hitherto from time to time by the said Confederate Roman Catholicks to manage their publick affairs and all other persons accountable to an account for all their Receipts and Disbursments since the beginning of their respective imployments under the Confederate Roman Catholicks 28. Item It is concluded accorded and agreed by and between the said parties and his Majesty is graciously pleased that for the preservation of the peace and tranquility of the Kingdom the said Lord Lieutenant and the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them shall for the present agree upon such persons who are to be authorized by Commission under the great Seal to be Commissioners of the Peace Oyer and Terminer Assises and Goal Delivery in and throughout the Kingdom to continue during pleasure with such power as Justices of the Peace Oyer and Terminer Assizes and Goal delivery in former time of Peace have usually had which is not to extend unto any crime or offence committed before the first of May last past and to be qualified with power to hear and determine all civil causes coming before them not exceeding ten pounds Provided that they shall not intermeddle with Titles of Lands provided likewise the authority of such Commissioners shall not extend to question any person or persons for any Shipping Cattle or Goods heretofore taken by either party from the other or other injuries done contrary to the Articles of Cessation concluded by and with the said Roman Catholick party in or since May last but that the same shall be determined by such indifferent persons as the Lord Lieutenant by the advice and consent of the said Thomas Lord Viscount Dillon c. or any seven or more of them shall think fit to the end that speedy and equal Justice may be done to all parties grieved And the said Commissioners are to make their Estreats as accustomed of peace and shall take the ensuing Oath viz. You shall swear that as Justice of the Peace Oyer and Terminer Assizes and Goal delivery in the Counties of A. B. in all Articles of the Commission to you directed You shall do equal right to the Poor and to the Rich after your Cunning and Wit and Power and after the Laws and Customs of the Realm and in pursuance of these Articles and you shall not be of Councel of any quarrel hanging before you and the Issues Fines and Amercements which shall happen to be made and all