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A80428 Irelands lamentation for the late destructive cessation, or, A trap to catch Protestants. Written by Lieutenant Colonell Chidly Coote. Published according to order. Coote, Chidly. 1644 (1644) Wing C6066; Thomason E35_4; ESTC R19021 6,080 10

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IRELANDS LAMENTATION For the late Destructive Cessation OR A Trap to catch Protestants Written by Lieutenant Colonell Chidly Coote Published according to Order LONDON Printed by R. C. for H. S. 1644. 1643 Irelands Lamentation For the Destructive Cessation ALthough the sad face of Ireland hath appeared often in sable colours to the publique view of the true hearted Protestants of England whose dolefull story by patheticall expressions by men of eminence and others hath been already most amply and lively described Yet I presume though no Mercurialist being a spectator of the prodigious Tragedies acted on the bloody Theater of that Kingdome to present unto your serious thoughts the deplorable condition and present state of the languishing Protestants there which I conceive I am many wayes bound to discover as both in duty to Almighty God so in zeale and faithfulnesse to my Country And because I neither desire nor dare to adventure the inlarging my present Relation with the flourishes of Rhetorick having been bred a Souldier and not verst that way I shall make the most plaine speedy and true Demonstration that I may and shall enter into the particulars And first I shall give a touch of one circumstance that hath been a great occasion of the Protestants misery in that Kingdome and that hath hapned through the false and treacherous government of those who have lately been set as Rulers and Governours over them And in relation of this it will not be necessary for me to use over much prolixity for even since my repaire to this City I well perceive my Lord Marquesse of Ormond and most of his Complices have been truely Characterized unto this whole Kingdom Onely I shall offer this unto the consideration of all men whether or no it can be justly conceived that the Protestants have been or can bee justly dealt withall as long as my Lord of Ormond my Lord Chancellor Boulton my Lord of Roscomon my Lord Lambert Taaffe and Barry obstinate Papists the two Poores kinsmen to my Lord Marquesse and Papists likewise and those by whom he is most led ●nled my Lord Brabazon my Lord Taaffe Sir Morris Eustance Colonell Barrey and the two Poores have had and still have the sway of that Kingdome and I doubt not but that the true consideration of this cannot but induce you to beleeve that the greatest Justice the Protestants can expect is injustice in the very abstract and the greatest mercy most suddain and inevitable cruelty and destruction if not through Gods infinite mercy and care of the Honourable Houses of Parliament timely prevented For truely this I will confidently affirme upon my own knowledge and shall by Gods gratious assistance never bee afraid Witnesse the choosing these above named Papists for Rulers of the kingdome and imprisoning Sir William Parsons Sir Adam Loftus Sir Iohn Temple and Sir Robert Merideth Doctor Harding and divers others that were imprisoned and have beene enforced to flye to seale the Truth of my affirmation with my blood that if countenancing the Papists discountenancing the Protestants bee justice the Protestants have an administration of justice in this kind to the very full If countenancing Jesuites and setting up in the Pulpits pratling Ministers discountenancing and imprisoning honest and zealous Preachers of the sacred Word of God be Justice the Protestants of that Kingdome have no cause of complaint If looking with a gratious aspect on those who are rotten and lukewarme in the service against the Rebels and beholding those who were honest in the service with a threatning and malignant b●ow be a signe of Justice the Protestants need not complaine of the want of Justice In a word to end this circumstance I do hereby declare before God and the whole world that the best justice distributed amongst the Protestants of Ireland hath been most destructive both to Church and Common-wealth and shall heartily wish that the unjust Rulers of that Kingdome may be removed from among the poore languishing soules that lye groaning under their cruelty Now I must turne my discourse from the many miseries the Protestants of Ireland have sustained by those who should have been their best friends and will make as briefe a Relation as I may of the suddain destruction our too too well known enemies would fain bring upon us and what wayes they have prepared to effect the same The first way they fell upon is by this time notifyed to all Nations which was to cut off man woman and childe at one blow without distinction of either descent age or sex and not onely to kill their bodies but their soules also as farre as in them lay forcing many weak Christians to deny their Redeemer and then telling them they were in the state of Grace and that they could never dye in a better time and so hanged them up and their raging malice was not sufficiently shewed as they supposed by killing the Soules of the Protestants and murthering their bodies This kind of death the Relator can the better testifie because one Master Watson a Divine and Chaplaine unto his Father suffered in this kinde but they must aggravate the malignity of their malice by inflicting not onely death but strange kindes of death upon them as stabbing hanging drowning which is known unto all men starving the English untill they forced them to eate pieces of their own flesh cut off and broiled on the coales and many such like horrid deaths as these And because they did not abound enough in malice as yet to the English Protestants the Papists in Ireland must be inforced to kill their own wives The Relater is ready to affirm this upon oath that they had marryed of the English great with childe because they had English blood in them as they said and all those English allyed unto them by their wives Neither did their rage extend onely to the living but most inhumanely conveyed it selfe to the dead for it is a maxime in their diabolicall Divinity that it is unlawfull to say Masse where Hereticks have been buryed upon which ground they have dis-interred the bodies of the innocent Protestants sleeping in their graves and have exposed them to be a prey either to beasts or birds witnesse their practise in this kind at Galway Limerick and in divers other places As Doctor Webbe Bishop of Limerick Master Lee c. Againe their barbarous immanity ends not with the reasonable creature but diffuseth it selfe to the sensitive and vegetable for they revenge themselves on the very English Beasts To wit because they had English bloud in sheepe commonly called by the name of English breede for the same reason before mentioned and would not when they were designed for slaughter kill them as they did the Irish breede but the beasts being alive cut off great peeces of flesh out of them skinne and flesh together and so broyling that flesh upon the coales eate the same and if the beasts chanced either to roare or