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A69862 The Distressed estate of the City of Dublin in Ireland at this present which is besieged by many thousands of the rebels, who commit most barbarous and bloody outrages and murders against the Protestants inhabiting about the city : with the copie of a wicked and bloody letter which was sent from one of the chiefe of the rebels in Ireland to an English merchant of London and a papist : full of bitternesse and cruelty. P.T. 1641 (1641) Wing D1702; ESTC R1527 2,643 8

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The Distressed Estate of the City of DVBLIN IN IRELAND at this present VVhich is besieged by many thousands of the Rebels who commit most Barbarous and bloody outrages and Murders against the Protestants inhabiting about the City VVith the Copie of a wicked and bloody Letter which was sent from one of the chiefe of the Rebels in Ireland to an English Merchant of London and a Papist Full of bitternesse and cruelty LONDON Printed for Iohn Thomas 1641. A True Relation of the Estate of Ireland DIvers strange Reports and Rumours have beene spread and diffus'd about this Kingdome few of which Reports have beene true but false suggestions fomented by idle fellowes who for some small fragments of Silver thinke it no crime to abuse the Eares of the world with strange and unheard of untruth therefore J have thought good to giue to the world a true and reall Satisfaction of the estate of the Kingdome of Ireland which J confesse is very deplorable and deserves our pitty for great is their calamities their enemies encreasing daily as touching the City of Dublin whereas it was reported that it was taken it was vntrue for since the first Conspiracy against the Lord chiefe Justices and the surprisall of the Castle they never attempted any thing against the City it being but a vaine attempt by reason that the Castle can command the City in despight of their resistance and for all the old Irish that went into Dublin as soone as the Plot was discovered they left the City and joyn'd with Mackqueres for Tyrone arrived not till above 3. weekes after the Conspiracy was discovered and they had gathered to a head and plundered many places and done divers outrages and murthers being animated on by Macqueres who is of a bloody disposition but after Tyrones arrivall being made Generall he restrained them from such bloody enterprizes making Policy his chiefe engine to vsher mischiefe and where Policy prevailes not force makes a passage for great men he will intreate with courtesie but if that be not of force to draw them to his party then doth he seaze of their estates and learne them to seeke a grave of rest rather then a life so despiacble many places have they surprized many murthers have they committed great are the outrages that are daily done by them many slight skirmishes there hath been between the Irish parties and the Protestants Captain Digby on the 4. day of December happened to meet with Captaine Oneale marching towards a little Village in the County of Monno betwixt whom was a bloody salutation but Oneales forces being greater then Digbies the Protestants retreated with the losse of some men many other times there hath been skirmishes too tedious at this time to be related great are the feares of the Protestants which causes many to leave the Kingdome and many have been shipwrackt by reason of the late tempestuous stormes divers women and children drown'd at Sea in the same ship that the Gentleman came in that made this Relation who was miraculously preserved by Gods omnipotence and all commanding power thus leaving all true Protestants to pray for their deliverance and with their Prayer good Lord deliver them and preserve us and though our troubles be great yet the Lord will deliver us out of all Saue us good Lord we beseech thee The true Copy of a wicked and bloody Letter which was sent from Ireland to an English Merchant of London Decem. 19. 1641 Worthy Sir I Can do no lesse but let you vnderstand the affaires that we have now vndertaken by reason that wee were suppressed in the exercise of our Religion which we alwaies have professed and there is no alteration of it to be had by force but by the will of God if it doth please the Almighty God to alter our hearts then no doubt but we shall be changed As yet we doe stand to maintaine the Roman Catholique Church to be our true Church whom we doe now sight vnder Therefore we doe not any thing but what our consciences is bound to doe I pray you doe but consider how stiffely the Protestants did stand to maintaine their Religion in Q. Maries dayes when she prosecuted them to their lives and did put so many to death both by fire and other torments yet they would not alter their Religion that formerly they professed because it was grounded in them by faith in Christ as they did believe therefore no force could prevaile with them but they had rather suffer all the afflictions that possibly could be invented against them then to alter their Religion the which they had beene formerly grounded in Worthy Sr. Consider our Estates for the same is our Case at this time you cannot but know how that we are deprived of all our Liberty and some of our Religion which are in England is so Persecuted euen to the Banishment of their Estates and others of their lives the which doth moue us to consider of their Sufferings and to make us to prevent the same occasion to our selues in time and whilst that we have opportunity for feare their distressed cases should be ours the which doth moue and stirre us up to maintain and defend that which we have begun and to goe on freely to Redeeme our selves from that Bondage For J dare be bold to say if we could but enjoy the same Liberty of conscience as formerly we have done that neither I nor any other would have taken up Armes against the King for it hath beene our desire to have lived in peace and to have hazarded our Lives and Estates to have done him service if his Majesty had Commanded vs therevnto But seeing it otherwise we must maintaine that which is already on foot for better had we dye in the field then to endure the miseries that would have happened to us for professing that Religion which our Predecessors from antiquity hath lived and dyed in the defence thereof But as we are now in the field for the freedome of our conscience so will we undantedly proceed on for the perfecting of that good worke we have begun neither are we possessed with the terrour or feare of our enemies the Heretickes who threaten our distruction for out of a little strength at first have we increased to many Thousands and doe dayly still increase both of our owne Country men and divers others of our Brethren in England France Spaine and the Low Countreyes which continually come to assist us there is a great sight of English and I doe beleive most of them are Protestants which doth side with us and that doth encourage us the more for we doe march on boldly without feare as a man may say for there is but a few which doth oppose us and we are to march into Dublin as wee suppose on the 21. of this Instant Moneth for the major part o● the best of them which lives in the City will assist us therein and they have sent to us to bid us not be dismaied but to come on freely and with coragious Spirits for the Towne shall be delivered vp to us as soone as we come to it and the City Gates should be Opened at our approach vnto the Walles for there is but few to oppose with stand us onely some certaine number of English would put us hard to it at the first entrance but they made no doubt but they should subdue them and then the Towne should be theirs Vale Your freind P. T. From our Campe neere Dublin Decemb. 17. 1641. FINIS