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A87084	A new remonstrance from Ireland, containing an exact declaration of the cruelties, insolencies, outrages, and murders exercised by the bloudthirsty, Popish rebells in that kingdome upon many hundred Protestants in the province of Vlster, and especially of the ministers there, since the beginning of this base, horrid, unnaturall and unparralelled rebellion October 23. 1641 in which is also particularly expressed the names of such ministers and others who have been murthered, imprisoned, famished, and otherwayes cruelly used by those barbarous, and inhumane rebells, by Daniel Harcourt one of the commissioners for the examination of the Protestants Grievances in that Province. As also a true copie of the commission granted to him by the Kings Najesty [sic].	Harcourt, Daniel.	1643 (1643)	Wing H692; Wing L1827; Thomason E61_17; Thomason E61_18; ESTC R19274	20,884	23

The Levites Lamentation IF ever Persecution merited a remembrancer Protestant bloud a condoler or cruell Rebellion a reprover this Irish cruelty and English calamity both which exceed the beliefe of any but the Actors and Sufferers might justly awake the pens of Eusebius Fox or the most famous Martirologers to record Jeremy to bewaile or the sharpest Satyrist to reprove Even now my heart bleeds for the bloud I saw and my inke seems not blacke but sanguine the horrid cries afresh awake affright astonish whilst I see the purple robe and hat wreaking in the bloud of the Lambe offered but Christ crucified to see the Popes Bull goring and men borne blinde cruelly massacre the sonnes of illumination the big-bond sinewy and grisly tyrant trampling on the feeble woman and unborne Embrio It drew tears from holy Elisha to see cruelty character'd in the face of Hazael 2 Kings 8.12 which makes him breake out Because I know the evill that thou shalt doe unto the children of Israel for their strong Cities shalt thou set on fire and their young men shalt thou slay with the sword and shalt dash their infants against the stones and rent in pieces their women with childe This day by the Romish Aramite was this Prophesie fulfilled Now is the greatest murderer held the most valiant as if valour consisted in a bel●…ine horridnesse and fortitude were the eldest son of fury Me thinks Nero the depraver of the Cesarian Monarchy at sight of this bloudy banquet should appeal to all Historians no more to list him for the Monster of men nay the bloudiest of Monsters for indeed the sight of other crimes maketh us often to lessen but not leave our owne The common stature exults at the sight of a Dwarfe as a Dwarfe would doe at Pigmies Satan having infused this poysonous a●…our into the soules of men that our ills are extenuated by the ills of others This I call pharisaicall frensie You shall see the Popes doctrine as dangerous as the Divells Religion must now be the Irish mantle for Rebellion A pretended plot of ours for their conversion or correction is by this counterplot of theirs made both our subversion and destruction This was the cursed pretende of those more accursed pretenders to stick the Ravens plumes in the wings of the Dove To make the mournings of that harmlesse olive-bringer the croaking omens of the Arke-deserting-Raven For such is the deformity of sin that none desires to be the ill he seems Saul at the threshold of his accursednesse begins with a blessing 1 Sam. 15.13 by a J●suiticall policy doe they wear piety like a perriwig trimly curld and combd on the deformed head of Rebellion and murder T is true that once Jacob desired to seem Esau but ever since sin like Rebecca hath taught the Esaus to seem Jacobs Judas learnt this not from so many as he hath taught it Our Saviour tels that under a pretence of long prayers we swallow widows houses O God since I cannot be what I would give me grace not to varnish my ills or cheat my salvation with a seeming sanctity How hardly is my pen drawne to this inundation of bloud I finde in my eyes the same stoppage that Basil the Great did who after he had read his text could not proceed for weeping my minde would gladly deviate from my intentions and they digresse from a more peaceable subject 1643. The Climatericall yeare of the English Nation in Ireland some well affected Christians sent divers abroad with Petitions for subscriptions to supplicate from the honourable Houses of Parliament which are the refiners of Religion and Laws a generall Reformation which was an Apostolicall act This net was not cast out by any save those that were truly Piscatores hominum Satan and Antichrist his first-borne as malitiously suggest that this arrow was shot not only at their spirituall good but temporall goods The man of sin imploying his Sodomiticall Seminaries Papisticall Prelates and Jesuiticall Incendiaries to sow these tares firebrands in the wombe of their Hecuba borne for the destruction or disquiet of their naturall parents and native Country Men borne in antipathy to Prometheus for as he was fained to have stolne fire from heaven to restore life into dead bodies they fetch fire from hell to bring death to the living not only by murdering the Religious but Religion as if the death of the spirituall life as well as the temporall were in one ballance or line with them that observe neither weight nor measure The Romish Salamander lives not but in fire nor can lesse flames then a Kingdome keep him surviving Now was it that God for our sinnes determined the English prosperity should be like Joshua's Sunne be a day permanent but retrograde like Hezechiahs it being the miraculous expression of his justice in ruining either the forgetters or contemners of his blessings Then began the despised blasts of Irish Rams-hornes to demolish the walls of Brittish Jericho's when by a judgement as terrible as their cruelty armed forts were surprised by unarmed men then ranne the Lion from the Hare the shaking leafe and trembling Partridge now terrifie the Oake and hawke the thistle and beards the cedar the base Lackey not running by but away with his mistris whilst innocencie and chastity become the reprovers of that life they would lose but cannot Judge of that great contestation between honour and life beauty and deformity and resolve me in this blanke list _____ for thy opinion if God ever shew'd or Nation ever suffered a greater judgement Acteon ruined and ravined by his pack of pleasures for indeed we had too much 〈…〉 Diana of Ephesus not the piety but the pomp of a church the silver shrines had too many Advocates most men exclayming but few besides profitable respects either desired a reformation or knew what a one to desire Thus was the golden Calfe prefferred to Moses Barrabas to Christ Garlicke to Manna Nature a prompt master having taught us to advance politick ends before pious As a period to our civill distractions fell these publicke and whilst many were distasting the present government God tooke away all the rejection of Samuel that made his publicke vindication cannot prejudice the election of Saul whom God deserted Thus God makes our curiosity our scourge Midas his wish shall be his famine Phaeton● desire his death and Jupiters diety the consumer of his concubine Them that would not quietly enjoy what they had shall unquietly dispose of what they had or would enjoy Civill dissentions and dislikes being terminated by a martiall or shall I say an impartiall sword The Church like Dianah is ravisht by lustfull Shechem as a punishment of her roving had she kept the tents of Jacob she had been free from his rage had we not like her erred from our paternall protection we had not endured their rapines T is just with God to expose them to all malediction that out of wandring fancie leave the ranges of the

intoxicated more then their bodies with the cuppe of the Whores Fornications Revelat. 17.2 drawe out the poore Captives to death as if the best banquet were the bloudiest The sonne of Hagar now abuses the heire of the Promise now is disoculated Sampson that grindes his abused soule more then their meale brought forth to make pastime to the Philistims I knew one Bel of Muckamore near Antrim whose eyes they stubbed out to make him confesse his money then abused him and lastly murdered him that death which is terrible to our selves afford us delight if inflicted on others With what delight and pleasure can wee reade those cruell persecutions of Nero Domitian Trajan Adrian Marcus Aurelius Severus and the rest nay the bloudiest of our murthering Mary who drew the bloud in stead of milke from the paps of her Nurse having such a Catholicke Spanish heat in her veines that the bloud of many English Martyrs could not allay The cruelties exercised at Merindol and Cabriers wher the craggy mountains exprest more mercy to the hunted martyrs then the flinty soules of their persecuters That damned massacre of Charles the ninth anno 1572. whose bloud issuing from severall parts of his body at his death fully exprest his belluine disposition Not King themselves profusely wasting or unmercifull exhausting the bloud of their Subjects shall finde exemption at that great and just Audit kept by Jehovah The highest deputations have the heaviest cares How soon is Saul lost in his new Monarchy These I say could we peruse with patience and pleasure The Spanish cruelty more heathenish then those on whom it was exercised in the Indies which were till now the grand patterns of abused hostility invasion and victory are so far unfit to parallell with the Irish inhumanity as they have lost our wonder The horse-leeches of Rome bloudily conceiving that Protestant bloud is the marle of their Religion and that nothing produces so rathe a spring to the Catholicke cause as the carcasses of purer professors when as it is the generall assent that the bloud of martyrs is the seed of the Church Sacks of wool are held the best foundations for bridges in the strongest currents as on those were built upon the martyred carcasses of our predecessors the Protestant Religion so surely that all those great inundations from the Apostolicall or rather diabolicall sea could never overwhelme yet then was our profession but like to Mephibosheth who though he was of the seed royall had Sauls possessions and eat bread at the Kings table yet was he lame in his feet 2 Sam. 9.3 and I suppose his cure would have been more needfull and acceptable to him could it have been effected then either his possessions or honour God alwayes preserved his Church of which the Arke was a type which shall float over the world-drowned-shores to preserve a holy remnant and the earth swallow up those streams of poysonous malice vomited by the serpent against his love his dove his fair one all these persecutions could not so much as startle the English lethargy the evils that we expect are lessened if not prevented when as sudden alarms not only awake but astonish The great battells of Canna Marathon and those two daughtes of Epaminondas Mantinea and Leuctra with those more famous where the Starres fought in their order and Kishon like a besome swept them away even so let thine enemies perish O Lord those great defeats given and received by the Turke and Christian the sword fire famine pestilence and desolation of the Jews with what other horrors have eradicated the Roman and Gretian Empires were by us perused with pleasure and yet now that a destructive insurrecton drawes his daggar at our throats death walking over our owne thresholds famine having entred to cling up our bowels fire to dissolve our beings and unkinde exile to shoulder us from our abodes poverty rushing like an armed man meager and pin'd visages meeting us at every pace wounded and mangled carcasses peeping out of bushes like ghosts from the grave Christians expos'd naked to unmercifull cold and mountainous wayes with not a fig leafe to hide their nakednesse poore women with childe brought a bed and dead in woods and caves in that unchristian manner that my pen dares not expresse but leaves their miserable condition to the consideration and commiseration of those that expect a happy deliverance heaps of slaughtered Christians to part of which the dogs had given sepulchre many hanged upon trees and boughes part of which we could perceive had been burnt before at these sights and many more horrid how are our resolves amated our courages que●d our resolutions daunted now doth poore Germany and our slight neglect of their calamities deeply possesse us the afflictions of Joseph are afresh bemoaned and the martyrdomes of the Apostles are now lamented and what is more the poverty of our Messias his teares pilgrimages s●ripes spittings contempt revilings agony and bloudy passion which before was read over as an ordinary story of Scripture and if read not remembred if remembred not lamented if lamented t was but a qualme of sorrow now are we sufferers in his sufferings Oh bitter miserie how sweet are thy lectures teaching sorrows are cordiall griefes and t is a blessed maim that heals the soule give me those wounds O God through which as a glorious mirror I may behold the mirror of glory Now began the famine of some to conclude that the violentest death was the best and the lengthned life the only miserable that the shortest way to the grave was the sweetest and that the last gaspe was most comfortable many searching for the pangs of death as the only Elixar to cure all diseases the feared winding sheet and insatiable grave proving now desired which was before horrid That heaven the seat of God under which we regardlessely walked is all the canopy is left the English the humble earth the footstoole of God and mother of us all on which we proudly trampled lets her wofull children lie on her bosome that fain would lye within it the woods and bogs becomming either out shelter or sepulchre the contemned food of the Irish sorrell watergrasse three leaved grasse weeds and water is now made our delicates The tender and loving wife repines at the nourishment eaten by the husband of her bosome whilst the infants complaints begets fresh throws in that breast which used but could not nourish it the mothers tears shewing a compassion but not a redresse happy were the infant could it have been cherished with tears as before with milke for the eye was wet to see the breast so drie fruitfulnesse is now held a greater curse to the forlorne English then sterility was to the Jews Jeremy thou mourning turtle of Sions sorrows I wish not a double portion of thy spirit but thy sorrow that I might be that silver trumpet that should publish to all posterity the calamities of those our brethren that did and do want those succours our

luxury devours She is no Niobe that cannot finde one teare to cast into our Ocean of brine and lend a sigh to those broken hearts that sorrow hath rather made statues then men Suffer not the afflicted of the Lord to tread the winepresse alone lest when thy aloes are given thee to drinke thou findest none of Elishas salt to cure the brackishnesse Partnership in sorrow hath the power of mitigation and thou shalt have the praise if not to have relieved to have eased our pangs But whither am I transported Summons to griefe finde but deafe cares and a dead welcome every man desiring rather to go to a theater then a tribunall mirth having as many assistants too many as tribulation too few Solomon is as little followed in these two Proverbs as in any better is the house of mourning then the house of mirth and the day of death then the day of ones birth but when be comes with an inviting exultation Eccles 11.9 Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thine heart cheare thee in the dayes of thy youth and walke in the wayes of thine heart and in the sight of thine eies he shall have more followers then Darius or Xerxes this gripe of pleasure hath gotten Rome so many Proselites when Religion complies with Nature our corruptions are wooed and wedded to a glowe wormy happinesse The great Belshazzers in their greatest elevations finde their knees knocking and discerne the hand writing of death on their walls and those Nebuchadnezzars that prided themselves in their spacious structures as many there were that built with marble which contemned the corner stone are now sent amongst the beasts of the field not only for their abode but sustenance Those holy duties before neglected are now with a compulsive trepidation observed T is a miserable thing for a soule inur'd to sinne to be hurried into his devotions death at the heeles and hell in the eyes seldome produce any but distracted supplications when as he that dies dayly hath wrested the iron scepters out of the power of death and hell having an infallible interest in him that not only got the conquest but sung the comfortable soule-cheering insultation over both these till then indomitable tyrants Oh death where is thy sting Oh grave where is thy victory Therefore Quid retribuam but thankes be unto God which hath given us victory through our Lord Jesus Christ 1. Cor. 15.55.57 Now would those that had consumed a patrimony rejoyce to finde those husks that none shall give them How gladly would the gripple hand receive that almes it hath detayned finding a sad returne of his uncharitable repulses That Dives that would not give a crumme demanded shall find a drop denied O God so inlarge my heart that I may give what I can and so enlarge thy mercies I may receive what I would It was no single arrow God shot in that Nation or us poore English for as if the sword had beene too blunt a sithe or sickle to mow both the wheat and darnell and a single punishment too favourable a scourge God sent the fire and lest that should be too sparing in consuming our sinnes that made us so combustible and not fully refine the oare from the drosse God sent the famine to devour those that had nothing to eat and lest that should leave any gleanings in this Irish Aceldama the Lord sent a pestilent Feaver that swept away innumerable people insomuch that in Colerane there died in fowre moneths by computation six thousand in Carickfergus two thousand and five hundred in Belfast and Melone above two thousand in Lis●ygarvi eight hundred and in Antrym and other places a proportionable number So that heer the chariot of Gods justice was drawne by those fowre horses Rev. 6. a white a red a blacke and a pale horse this disease augmented our miseries the Feavers being so contagious that the living durst not see them sicke nor bury them dead that I have seene the husband carry his dead wife to the Church-yard and borrowing a spade digge a grave for her that living was his life and the same man have I seene the next day die in the same Church-yard the like affection have I seene the wife expresse toward her departed husband the sonne to the father father to the son and the like Heere were the words of our Saviour not onely metaphorically but verbally true for the dead did not only bury the dead but the dying buried the dead also Not any that escaped this Feaver but lost all their hayre I had it in the Newry seven weekes where not only without but contrary to meanes my God preserved mee to whom on my bended knees I give all possible thankes This sicknesse beyond the power of perswasive Divinity shewed me God thwarting Nature preserving in the grave quenching the flames of my sicknesse even with what Physitians say it is inflamed my cordialls and julips were running water in stead of barly and sometimes a little milke salt beefe or porke oaten bread and cheese the allayes to my heat and hunger Thus from the jawes of death and brims of the grave hath God delivered me to lament and publish the death of those of my owne Tribe For on them fell the brunt of this martyrdome they were those appointed to slaughter at the birth of this designe they could expect no quarter others might ransome their lives with their hidden goods but this profession was sure to cope with death in the horridst shape as if Iaacobs curse were renovated for they met with a wrath more fierce a rage more cruell then they used to Shechem and found a division in Iaacob and a scattering in Israel Gen. 49.7 Which I the rather undertake because some ill affected to the condolements of the Irish Clergy heere distressed and by some harsh tongues depraved have lightly run over the miseries of that despised and dispersed Ministry to whom I owe that little I have left as being of the same messe with those sonnes of the Prophets that find More in olla I shall but in two passages digresse from the Martyrology of the Ministry in the Province of Ulster and the one is my engagement that I ought to Mr. Morgan Aubry Esquire my honoured friend and his Man to this I am drawne by my love the other is the unmanly and unchristian asage shewed to Mrs. Smithson a Ministers wife and her mayd that lived within fowre miles of Dublin to this I am drawne by my wonder and these two I shall transfer to the last The first on whom their unsanctified hands were fastned was Master Madder of Donnamoore Rector who in a most cruell and bloudy maner they cut in pieces and left unburied Secondly Mr. Blith Minister of Dungannon whom they hanged whose wife with 3 small children after 8 months miserable captivity I saw in the Newry great with child stripped naked and ready to perish for want of reliefe Then Mr. Fullerton of Loughgall Rector

to whom Sir Phelsmy ô Neale owed at least six hundred pounds upon mortgages who though he and Mr. Aubry abovesaid had his Passe and Convoy for their safe conduct was payd that debt by his paying his debt to Nature for he at a bogges side was stript murthered and left unburied With this coyne hath that flaming firebrand payd his debts such cancelling of bonds must they all expect that traffique with the progeny of the Babilonish whore Mrs. Fullerton with two children and great with child came to the Newry after eight months imprisonment with sevenscore women and children in her company her selfe having not to hide her nakednesse nor no thing to keepe her feet from the ground but two pieces of a raw cow hide tied upon her feet with pieces of packthred and what was more miserable she was constrayned to leave two of her children upon the mountaines to the mercy of their Fathers murtherers judge now you that tie your lives upon the prosperity of your infants of the agonies of this distressed Gentlewoman which made me call to mind that mination of God Deut. 28 56.57 The tender and delicate woman amongst you which never would venter to set the sole of her foot on the ground for the softnesse and tendernesse shall be grieved at her husband that lieth in her bosome and at her sonne and at her daughter and at her after birth that shall come out between her feet and at her children which she shall beare for when all things lacke she shall eat them secretly during the siege and straitnes where with thine enemies shall besiege thee in thy strong Cities Mr. Matchett Minister of Maharafelt was after long imprisonment and extream hard usage the Lord having given him the bread of teares and ashes to drinke he being an aged and reverend Gentleman was most cruelly murthered at Lievetenant Thurshies in the County of London-Derry the Lievetenant and his wife being both Recusants could not by any meanes or intreaties eyther save or respite him from death such favour found the English Papists amongst the Irish and such finde the English revolters with the Spaniard between whom is as great correspondence as between the Scotch and French Nations Mr. Hudson Minister or Desert Martin after many troubles and calamities was taken from betweene two fetherbeds out of Mr. Chappels house where that vertuous Gentle woman had long fed and concealed him but at length the Rebels gave a date to her charity to him and to his life for the Rebels in a most cruell and most barbarous maner murthered him Mr. Campion of Kilowen being at the battell of Ballemony which the English in regard of the fatability of the day call Blacke-Friday having received a great overthrow which in all possibility had beene the losse of Colerane and a dismall day to all the poore Protestants within it had not God infatuated eyther the wisedome or daunted the courage of those Rebels under the command of Colkittoes sonnes there did this Gentleman seale his love to the Gospel with his bloud like Zuinglius in the head of his Company honourably expiring amongst his slaughtered Brethren In the same cause and maner was slaine a Scottish Minister whose name I cannot remember though I was then in the same County who tooke his leave and shewed his love to the cause in which to their honours that Nation is forwardly zealous under the command of Colonel Archibald Steward late Agent to the Earle of Antrym Mr. Tudge Minister of the Newry after long imprisonment and many perfidious promises from the Lord Magenis Sir Con Magenis Governour of the Newry and the rest was with thirteene more under a pretence to be exchanged for other prisoners at Downe-Patricke cruelly put to death of which none but one Greene a Tapster to Mr. Butterfield of the Newry escaped ransoming his life for forty shillings this Greene brought me this Relation in May 1642. and as they were leading to their slaughter the poore Gentleman called upon Sir Con Magenis for mercy and performance of his promise but the perfidious tyrant stopped his eares to his and their complaints upon which Mr. Tudge in the bitternes of his soul desired God to require his bloud at their hands with these words of the Psalmist Judge and revenge my cause O Lord then he with his fellow Martyrs taking the Communion in a little running water in stead of the bloud and a piece of an oaten strowen in stead of the body of their Saviour commending themselves and their vile bodies into his hands that was able to translate them into glory yeelded their lives to the stroke of the bloudy executioners by whom he was hanged but Lievtenant Trever and his wife with some of the rest which were divers were cut to pieces Soone after as all the English Inhabitants of that place often affirmed Sir Con Magenis was by the strange judgement of God strucken with a strong frenzy running home to his owne house on foot the Lord taught him by the way as Gideon taught the men of Succoth and Penuel his clothes and skin being justly torne by the bushes and briers in those uncouth wayes his madnesse made choyce of raving on his death bed Take away Tudge take away Tudge doe you not see how hee pursues me for his bloud in which desperate condition he died Thus God made this Rebell and mercilesse beast by the lash of his Divine Justice acknowledge his transgression in taking away the lives of the innocent The same Sir Con having besides innumerable other murthers at one time betweene Greene Castle and Carlingford drowned sixty and eight Protestants to which he had promised quarter affirmed by Mr. Holland who with some others in a boat miraculously escaped to Dublin at that time by which meanes he and the rest escaped from tasting Sir Cons holy water Mr. Hastings Minister endowed into a living of Mr. Fairfax being Schoolmaster in Ballisegart a house belonging to my honoured friend the virtuous Mrs. Clotworthy for which deliverance after a grievous thraldome my heart rejoyceth Him they caused to swim in the Lough till he was drowned Mr. Dorrah my Lord Canlfields Chaplaine killed Mr. Fleming Minister of Clanfeckle murdered Mr. Mercer ●inster of Mulifr●…k murdered Mr. Burns Curate of Loughgilly murdered Mr. Bradlyes Curate of Artray Mr. New killed Mr. Wilkingson of Clovins killed at the Cavan he comming to the Crosse-keyes Inne desired a lodging to whom an Irish mantendred himselfe telling if he walked into the garden he would provide him one the innocent Gentleman was no sooner in the garden but the Serpent betrayed him asking him doe you want a lodging yes replied he I have saies Judas provided you one and with that drew his Skeane and stroke him so violently on the head that his braines fell out this lodging was intended for the whole Clergy had not God miraculously defeated the purposes of these bloudy hel-bounds children whose mothers have sore breasts doe sometimes draw bloud as well

putting him downe into the dungeon with cords where the poore Prophet is not only fast in prison but in mire Jer. 38.6 for as they held the Ministers the basest of men so they provided for them the basest of prisons should we returne their cruelties we should put their Priests and Jesuits into our common shoares ' Dignum pattella operculum those not marked with the letter T for destruction or on the lintells of whose doors the Angel had sprinkled the marks of deliverance found the protraction of life a death the taskmasters of Ireland being more cruell then those of Egypt and enjoyning more cruell conditions for what can be more horrid then for an Apostle to be urged to be an Apostate to be constrained to leave the way the truth and the life to walke in the labyrinths of falshood and death I shall shew you some of the Lords captives in that Province Mr. Archdeacon Price of Drumlane Mr. Adam Watson of Kilshanar both of the County of Cavan besieged in Castle Crag eight months getting off by quarter Mr. Creighton of Virginia kept in misery eleven months Mr. Fitzgarret Minister in hard and cruell restraint till the sixt of May 1642. who though a native and next to the Primate of Armagh a man of the greatest splendor for Urim and Thummim of that Nation Mr. Boyle of Carickmaharosse Minister in bondage five months Mr. Gil Minister of Killally of the County of Monahan imprisoned five months Mr. Edward How Curate of Dartrie in bonds six weeks Mr. Ferchar Parson of C●…nish County Fermanah two months Mr. Francis Sympson of Kilmore County Monahan imprisoned eight months Mr. James Fethie Minister kept in restraint eight months having been preserved from famine by M. Fitzgarrets goodnesse who for his County take found a little more cruell favour then other of his brethren Mr. Bradly Minister of Artra imprisoned eight months being often brought out to be hanged but next unto God preserved by the unmatchable goodnesse of Mrs. Chappel now in the City finding save from one friend raised up for her by Almighty God a small returne of that talent of charity which she in those dayes of bloud and famine extended to many especially the Ministery which sometimes brought her owne life in hazard Mr. Archdeacon Maxfield of Glaslough or if you will Buchamon junior for his elegant and smooth expressions in divine posies kept in restraint by the Ovendens halfe bothers to Nero junior Sir Philomy ô Neal nine months A Scotch Minister that after long imprisonment made a miraculous escape with Lievtenant Smith Lievtenant to Captaine George Blunt of Montjoy and some others in a small boat and oares hackled out with their knives over Lough Neaugh to Antrym it being above twenty miles by water in the Winter season a dengerous passage whose name I have forgotten yet I heard him preach in Belfast upon this portion of Scripture Jer. 4.4 Thus we see as Antichrist strives to drownd kill and famish the elect even so Christ by a Divine providence sowes up the mouths of these ravening elements and preserves his owne Paul in spite of the whistling Euroclydon and angry Adriaticke hee shall have his Angell aboord to bring him blest tidings of his life and his companions Act. 27.23 That passage of Esay 43.2 Feare not for I have redeemed thee I have called thee by thy name thou art mine when thou passest thorow the waters I will be with thee and thorow the flouds that they doe not overflow thee was fulfilled on these distressed escapers Mr. George Cottingham Rector of Monahan was put into a close dungeon where his frankiscense was the excrements of men in heaps it being the dungeon belonging to the goale where five dayes he was detained obscured living himselfe unrelieved with any kinde of nourishment having his wife and foure children in the same misery Mr. Beale prisoner at Clowater and in restraint nine months Mr. Dennis Serreduie an Irish man but a minister still in restraint Mr. Henry Steel minister of Clautubeit was the space of nine weekes sometimes in the dungeon and sometimes in the gaole having a young childe to keep not above a quarter old which he cherisht sometimes with milke and sometimes with water out of a sucking bottle that now those that wanted tongues or language to call for gengeance on these homicides make their bloud louder orators to implore justice he was at last deprived of his childe himselfe being stripped escaped to Dublin where and here he hath indured by the flux and other sicknesse extream misery Mr. Dennison minister of Tedawnet was stript naked and beaten worse the a Turkish gallyslave lying naked in a ditch all night and brought from thence to Monahan Castle where he lay long halfe dead and benumed Thus is poore Joseph because he will not lye with Potiphars wife unjustly condemned to a miserable bondage because we were betrothed to the Spouse of Christ and would not mingle our selves with the harlot of Rome therefore is the lap of our garment our profession made our destruction But these resolved martyrs though tempted with the beauty of that Romish Thais upon a holy consideration ponder Josephs consultation and with that armed themselves against their temptations and their owne persecutions saying with him Gen. 39.89 Behold my master knoweth not what he hath in the house with me but hath committed that he hath to mine hand there is no man greater in this house then I neither hath he kept any thing from me but only thee because thou art his wife how then can I doe this great wickednesse and so sin against God mistake me not I intend not to have that application hold in all the particulars for I dare not derogate from Gods presence so will I not arrogate to our Ministery giving them any thing that may more honour them then that which will be onerous to them the weightinesse of their charge so great that he is like unto Issacar or so made Thus far of the slaughters deaths by the feaver and cruell thraldomes of the Ministery I come now to render an account of such as I left in Carickfergus Belfast Newry Lisnygarvy and the neighbouring parts in so unfathomed a misery as my plum and line is to light and short to expresse their indigencies Mr. Cloggir of Dean Parish Co. Cavan Mr. Doctor Tate of Ballihaire In Cavan Mr. White of Kilmore In Cavan Mr. Mosse of Newtowene in Fermanah Mr. Commin of Clankee in the Co. of Cavan Mr. Jenton senior Cou. Down Mr. Jenton junior Coun. Antrim Mr. Slack of Callee hill Cou. Cavan Mr. Hudson of Belturbutt Co. Cavan Mr. Henry Fethy mr James Fethy mr Lutefoot of Strangford mr Patrick Gar thee thre Watsons the father son and nephew mr Massy mr Jones mr Jues and mr Paul Read of Blackstaffe both which were compelled to lead a horse and a carre with either hay or wood for a groat or six pence a day to keep themselves from famishing mr

Wilson of Enver mr John Dunbar mr George Lesly mr Andrew Law mr Craford mr Ogleby mr Laurence Tompson mr Durry of Ballimenah mr James Tracy mr Hardir mr Walter Lamont mr Jorrest of Dumagur mr Robert mc. Neal mr mc. Neale mr Dr. O Neale mr Veazy mr Major mr Backster mr Charles Vaughan mr Cade mr Hollana mr Dean Rhodes mr James Stewart of Garvahir mr David Roven of Redbay mr Nichol●s Todd mr John Michel of Ana Clowen mr Hugh mc. Lecinan late of Leakin-larke mr James Creighton mr James Melvin of Down-Patrick mr Johnson mr Fullerton for distinction sake called red Fullerton mr Monopeny mr James Portus mr Downes mr James Downham mr Lambert mr Brooks mr Patrick Doncan mr Dr. Blare mr Joster mr Hamilton mr Travis mr Thomas Stewart mr Bel mr Wallet mr Woodridge These with some others that escaped like Jobs messengers to bring sad tydings of their brethrens deaths but not intermits and are now on the dunghills of calamity with holy Job finding as ill comfort as comforters and still hangs at the bloudy and dry paps of the Church in Ireland whence they can draw nothing but winde and that may be heard from their full soules though empty bellies in their sighes and groanes the silent interpreters speaking sorrows so that there needs no winde but that to overthrow their houses of clay Now if you please survey with a commiserating eye those whose wearied steps fainting bodies and wounded soules have repaired to the Bethesda of England for cure of their heart-rending sorrowes where in all acknowledgements of gratefull humility some of them have found the Angel stirring the sovereigne balme water of your charities to their reliefe which many of the feebler sort either through weaknesse of friends abilities of expressions or a selfe-killing modesty lye at the brinke unremied to them divine Charity open the doores of thy Physicke and Chyrurgery and into their bleeding wounds poure thy oyle and thy wine Samaritan-like eye the robbed and bleeding Levite pay thy penny for his present harbour and promise for a slender remainder these undertakings Angelicall vertue shall make thee be translated with Enoch or Eliahs in a fiery chariot thy owne immortality will guide thee to the preservation of us mortall men Mr. Mors of Fermanah and Parish of Rammullie after he had beene robbed and stripped was constrained being starke naked to carry his two children twelve miles upon his backe by which time she grew so ●urbated that his uxoriousnesse prevailed beyond his paternall love to his children so in that a great agony of spirit he was forced to leave the fruit to the mercy of the enemies and to preserve the tree carried his wife above eight miles upon his back they being both naked Eneas could not out patern this affection to aged Anchises From that Province are here under thy wings as chickings fearing famine that predatory Kite Mr. Richard Bu●rowes Mr. Baker Mr. George Walker Mr. Bedle Mr. Dr. Bayly of the Cou. Cavan the two Sings of Ahaderick the other of Dundalke mr John Freeman mr Hammond mr Bunburie and as I heare his brother mr Boyle mr Cottingham mr Nathaniel Draiton mr William Green mr Francis Sympson mr Gabreath mr Cohun mr Henry Steel mr Edward Carter mr Clearke mr Sempil mr Anthony mr Harrocks mr Philip Tandy mr Tinly mr Richard Head mr Kean mr Bradley my unworthy selfe mr James Reynolds mr Steere mr Leigh mr Diggery Holman mr Waterhouse These stars shew in the lower orbe of the higher is that famous learned and studious ingrosser of learning the late Lord Primate or Ardamgh Vsher the fluent and elegant Seneca of Rapho the solid and grave Buchworth of Deummoore quicke and Eagle eyed Singe of Cloyne The learned prompt politick and engine headed Bramhal of Derry Lastly one Clergy man more I finde whose names sake promises a sudden termination of all our sorrowes without speedy succors and that is Mr. Death Minister of Seapatrick Thus you finde amongst the distressed Clergy an Vsher and a Voyder but no meat on their tables these with their charges are fit objects for Dorcas to cloath the Sarepthan widow or good Obadiahs to feed and the Shunnamite to lodge the prayers of which will revive thy dying or dead hopes encrease thy decaying store being raine to thine inheritance and restore thy hurt mained or dead issue Lastly as thou hast opened thy bowells of compassion they shall open to thee the gate called beautifull that leads into our elder Brothers Fathers where are many mansions for the poore for Christ and of Christs are janitores Coeli And now I come to the two digressions specified before The first digression is from the subject With Mr. Fullerton was murdered Mr. Morgan Aubrey Esquire and his man who though no Minister I have thought good to mention in regard of those many deare tyes of love and friendship between us to whose disastrous death I dedicate this tragick remembrance as a monument of his sufferings and my sorrow a Gentleman of an active brave and Roman spirit whose breast was not only filled with pleasing flames of learned Poetry but the more heroick fire of resolution sweetly allayed with a modelt and wel tempered disposition a man that had merited as much from that laethe drinker Sir Phelomy O Neal as a Gentleman could having effectually negotiated for him in many particulars of consequence with the late Lord Strafford to whose Countesse he had been Gentleman usher yet was he all ingagements waved betraied by letters of safe conduct to a cruell and mercilesse but chery first stripping him then killing him at a bogs side But en his servant Henry Lawrence whom I have heard to be of a mighty stature and valour a Warwickshire man who by surprising one of the Rebels swords having slaine foure or five before he was seised on was shewed that cruelty which was forborne to ravilliac the parricide of Henry the fourth that Caelar of the the Flower du liz and was only exercised by Cambises upon one of his unjust judges whose skinne he flaied off and nailed it to the tribunall as a terrour to his sonne that succeeded him had but some of ours been made so exemplar unjust votes had not laden our Kingdome with these bloudy contestations The Judges of Israel rid on their white Asses to shew I thinke as well their purity and innocency as their patient undergoing the insupportable weight of their callings but it is feared some of them have not only cast off that integrity but purity and constancy also this Laurence after many wounds received they flead some part of him and so left him cruelly murdered The second digression is from the Province but something adhering to the Subject But above all barbarous inhumane hethenish and unheard of murders was that of Mrs. Smithson a ministers wife living at the Kilne of the Grange within foure miles of Dublin who being perswaded to returne to her house in hope to have the Communion