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A87081	The clergies lamentation: deploring the sad condition of the kingdome of Ireland, by reason of the unparallel'd cruelties and murders exercised by the inhumane popish rebells upon many thousand Protestants in the Province of Ulster, and especially the ministers there, since the beginning of this bloudy rebellion. In which is also particularly expressed the names, and manner of the murthering, imprisoning and famishing of such ministers and others, by those barbarous and blood-thirsty rebells. Published as an incouragement to all true-borne Englishmen, to rise up as one man to resist those rebells, who are (by command from His Majesty) shortly to be brought over into England. By Daniel Harcourt, one of the commissioners for the examination of the Protestants grievances in that province. Published by order.	Harcourt, Daniel.	1644 (1644)	Wing H690; Thomason E49_8; ESTC R2085	24,763	32

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 recieved 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 queld our resolutions daunted now doth poore Germany and our right neglect of their calamities deeply possese 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 stripes 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 On 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 our 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 Nube 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 eares and a dead welcome every man desiring rather to go to a theater then a tribunall 〈◊〉 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 he 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 e●es he shall have more followers then Darius or Xerxes th●● gripe or 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 handwriting 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 deah where is thy sting Oh grave where is thy victory Therefore Quid retrihnam but thankes be unto God which hath given us victory through our Lord Iesus Christ 1. Cor. 15.55 57. Now would those that had consumed a patrimony rejoyce to finde those h●●ks that none shall give them How gladly would the gripple hand receive that almes it hath de●ayned 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

text could not proceed for weeping my minde would gladly 〈◊〉 from my intentions and they digresse from a more peaceable subject 1641. 〈◊〉 Climatericall yeare of the English Nation in Ireland some well affected 〈◊〉 sent divers abroad with Petitions for subscriptions to supplicate from the ●●●●rable Houses of Parliament which are the refiners of Religion and Laws a ●●●●rall Reformation which was an Apostolicall act This net was not cast out by 〈◊〉 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 〈◊〉 temporall goods The man of sin imploying his Sodomiticall Seminaries 〈◊〉 call Prelates and Jesuiticall Incendiaries to fow these tares firebrands in the wombe of their Hecuba borne for the destruction or disquiet of their natural ●●●●rents and native Country Men borne in antipathy to Prometheus for as he 〈◊〉 fained to have stolne fire from heaven to restore life into dead bodies they 〈◊〉 fire from hell to bring death to the living not only by murdering the Religious 〈◊〉 Religion as if the death of the spirituall life as well as the temporall were in 〈◊〉 ballance or line with them that observe neither weight nor measure The 〈◊〉 mish Salamander lives not but in fire nor can lesse flames then a Kingdome 〈◊〉 him surviving Now was it that God for our sinnes determined the English prosperity should be like Ja●shua's Sunne be a day permanent but retrograde like Fle●chiahs it being the miraculous expression of his Justice in ruining either the forgetters or contemners of his blessings Then began the despised blasts of 〈◊〉 Rams-hornes to demolish the walls of Brittish Jericho's when by a judgement a terrible as their cruelty armed forts were surprised by unarmed men then ranne the Lion from the Hare the shaking lease and trembling Partridge now terrifio 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 〈◊〉 ruined and ravined by his pack of pleasures for indeed we had too much ●ied the Diana of Ephesus not the piety but the pomp of a church the silver shrines ●ad toe 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 preferred 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 out ●●rill distructions 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 Mid●● 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 〈◊〉 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 ro●●● 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 The just with God to expose them to all malediction that out of wandring fancie 〈◊〉 the ●anges of the sanctuary Athaliah was there slaine for destroying the 〈◊〉 royall which I spiritually conceive to be the integrity of a Church born and continued without the milke or meat of Canaanltish and adulterous traditions which being spurious slips cannot floursh nor have a longer prosperity then the g●●●d of Jonahs or the infortunate and earthy wombe that gave them conception Sin ripened like the pride of Gath desies the Host of the Lord of Hosts bathing the monstrous spearhead of his rage in the bloud of the chosen how feeble hath the fall of Adam made his haplesle posterity the glorious English long clad in the victorious spoyles of that barbarous people become the rebaters of their ●keins but not of their rage finding now how dearly the Israelites paid for their cruell mercy in not exti●pating the Idolatrous Canaanites those that policy left for hewers of wood and draw ●●s of water hew the flesh and draw the bloud of their masters thus humane policy is punisht by in humane impiety teaching us that all the purposes of flesh and bloud having not godlinesse for their basis have sandy foundations and that policy without piety is a damnable discretion The Dove and the Serpent should like those two kine of Bethshemesh at once be yoked to draw the Ark● of God from the possession of the heathens to the people of God or like Clea●●s and Biton to draw their mother to the Temple where observe the kins and brethren were rewarded by death the kine sacrificed to the true God the brethren to the false O God so blesse my pilgrimage that at my termination my last act may be best that so I may like M●●●hs sacrifice ascend up unto thee by an Angelicall convoy Those that sacrificed up the calves of their lips are now like beasts sacrificed The rude reed runnes through the hand that sustained it whilst the hoofes of untamed and untaught monsters trample on those heads that shod them all 〈◊〉 turning rebell either to civill or legall contracts Those Nationall tyes held sacred and Gordian of gossip or fosterer are denied by the brutish to the Brittish Hazael and Zimri murthering their Masters the act not disavowed but countena●●●● pardoned and applauded by depicted Jezabel that Romish harlot 〈…〉 sacrifice at the Temples dedication was here outvied in number but not 〈…〉 Beast was not offered but preserved for here the Minister was the chiefe sacrifice the Beast the sacrificer The Ram was not offered for Isaac but he for the Ram as if the gold had been more holy then the Temple or sacrifice then 〈◊〉 Eliahs once flew the priests of Baal but now Baals priests slaughter the somes of the Prophets nor place nor person is regarded but the Protestants are murdered in the very Churches as if Protestant bloud were only the hallowed water to sanctifie those places for their Idolatrous prophane damned and accursed Masses Certainly it may be feared that we did something that displeased God which 〈◊〉 called for his exploding Now are the fountaines of living waters the balme of Gilead the holy 〈◊〉 of the Covenant the sacred columnes of Gods word made the derision of the ●●●●ly whilst they are rent in pieces and dasht about the heads of the owners till 〈◊〉 drew bloud on their heads

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 complaint 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 School master in Ballis●gart a house belonging to my honoured friend the virtuous Mrs. Clotwo●thy for which deliverance after a grievous thraldome my heart ●●●●yceth Him they caused to swim in the Lough till he was drowned Mr. Dor●h my Lord Canifield Chaplaine killed Mr. Fleming Ministero Clanseekle murdered Mr. Mercer inster of Mulijr●●● murdered Mr. Burns Curate of L●ughgilly murdered Mr. Bradleyes Curate of Artray Mr. New killed Mr. Wilkingson of Clovins killed at the Cavan he cemming to the Crosse-keyes lnne desired a lodging to whom an Irish man tendred himstlfe 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 faies 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-hounds children whose mothers have sore breasts doe sometimes draw bloud as well as milke which makes me beleeve that the breasts of the Church of Rome are sore and full of corruption that her children draw so much bloud amongst their milke if any that they generally during their whole time thirst after it Mr. Thomas Traford killed by the Rebells after quarter was promised Mr. Mongomm●ry hanged by the Rebells he was of Du●amain Parish Mr. Paulmaster that once lived at Carickfergus Minister there was as his wife informed me hanged at his Church doore Mr. Flack of Fermannah a Minister of speciall note was with two of his sons taken out of Castle Crevenish and also offered up to God as a sacrisice Mr. Michart Berket of Salters Towne flying for safety with his wife and seven small children to Carickfergus where his wife and all his poor children died most miserably for want of ordinary nourishment himselse being famished to the point of death finding the pangs strong upon him got leave to goe into the Church of Carickfergus where he had not long stayed sitting himselfe for the reward promised to them that made their long robes white in the bloud of the Lambe to that land of Goshen where they shall hunger no more neither thirst any more neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat Rev. 7.16 did there depart this life Mr. Griffin All of Ardnah and murdered by those bloud suckers on the sixt of May Mr. Bartly All of Ardnah and murdered by those bloud suckers on the sixt of May Mr. Starkey Curat All of Ardnah and murdered by those bloud suckers on the sixt of May For about the fourth of May as I take it we put neare forty of them to death upon the bridge of the Newry amongst which were two of the Popes Pedlers two Seminary Priests in returne of which they slaughtered many prisoners in their custody where of these three were part Mr. Bev●●rage a of Ki●laman Ministers of the same County were sufferrs in this massacre Mr. Robinson of Kilmoore Ministers of the same County were sufferes in this massacre Mr. Lutfoot oof Castle Blany tasted of the same mercy being cruelly murdered Romulus the first founder of that City is faind to be fosterd by a Wolfe and was the murderer of his brother Rhemus a presage of the cruelties should procecd from that foundation certainly there was some bloud which is a great cementer mingled in the morter for I am assured both the Empire and Hierarchy the temporall and anti-spirituall dignity have been supported by cruell massacres or bloudy machinations no act of hostility conspiracie treachery murder symony or what ever is accounted detestable amongst meer moralists but hath beene columns to uphold that grand bawdy-house wherein not only corporall whoredomes but spirituall are tollerated from thence was fined and on the grindstone of Rome was this sacrificing knife ground that cruelly cut off these Martyrs Thus have I shewd the unhappinesse of the Irish who perchance are yet living the happinesse of them that are slaine but yet alive Well did the Jewes call the grave domus viventia from thence did arise that life that assures us of the resurrection to life whereas the wicked man is accursed in his grave Esay 14.19 These are but a remnant of them that could not escape the