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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

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

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. Mongommery hanged by the Rebells he was of Dunamain 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 sacrifice 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 himselfe 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 fitting 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 Ardmah and murdered by those bloud suckers on the sixt of May. Mr. Bartly All of Ardmah and murdered by those bloud suckers on the sixt of May. Mr. Starkey Curat All of Ardmah 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●r●ge a of Killa●…an Ministers of the same County were sufferers 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 proceed 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 resurrecton 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 Rebells tyranny or my intelligence many more must needs suffer that never came my care for the Inland Countries of whose passages I am not informed so credibly I dare report it must needs afford great slaughters being remote from those garison Townes upon the coast where many God be praised spared their lives Besides these that were thus massacred there dyed of the pestilent feaver who chiefly miscaried through poverty famine and succors in their sicknesse The reverend learned and famous Martyr Bedle Bishop of Kilmore who suppported many distressed English and was kept in restraint at Clowater and died at Mr. S●rednies house after some five monthes imprisonment where like Paul he spent his time in converting his jailors making his prison his pulpit wicked tyrants may barre Gods people from the congregation of the righteous but not God from the habitations of his people M. Peirce Minister of the Lurgan at Carickfargus Mr. Simon Chichester Minister of Belfast Mr. Ducket Curate of Lisnigarvy Mr. Redshaw Minister of Colerane Mr. Collins Minister of Kilrae And three Ministers more whose names I cannot learne but was informed of their deaths by Anne Jackson Francis Barnaby and Wentworth Moulsworth that came from thence and are now all in this City Mr. Tailor of Carlingford All these dyed in Colerane Mr. Chesman of Moninmoore Minister All these dyed in Colerane Mr. Winter of Astra Minister Mr. Luke Astrie Minister of Ballekelly Mr. Farwood Deane of Drummoore Mr. Edward Stanhop Archdeacon Mr. Backster of Kildallon dyed in Castle Crag Mr. Edward Livesly Mr. Erskin of Fermanah who tooke his sicknesse in Derry but dyed in Scotland at Antrim Captaine John Kilner of Jaughen-vale having a Commission from His Majesties Commissioners for a foot Company issued out in Decem. 1641. as also a Commission from the Lords Justices to be Provost Marshall of the City and County of London-Derry in both which his sonne being a Minister became his Lieutenant and Deputy being a preaching Souldier and a military Minister who preacht to his Souldiers when they were not in fight and fought when he could not preach shewing at once his love to Christ and hate to Anti-Christ who having done exceeding good service he being a forward and well qualified Gentleman but striving above nature to shew his zeale in that holy war by many heats colds and other sufferings contracted that sicknesse wich ended his daies having time to apply that Swan-like song of Paul the second of Timothy the 4 5 6 7 8. verses which a legacie to his brethren and cordiall to himselfe was his last antheme But watch thou in all things suffer adversity doe the worke of an Evangelist make thy Ministery fully knowne For now I am ready to be offered and the time of my departing is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith For henceforth is laid up for me the Crown of righteousnesse which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but to all them that love his appearing I have seen a large certificate of his fathers unparalled services in which he ought to be a partner as being an assistant all wich is subscribed under the hands of Sir John Vaughan Knight governour of the City of London-Derry and one of the Privy Councell of that Kingdom Robert Thornton Major of that City Henry Vaughan Simon Pits Henry Finch Henry Osborne Aldermen Mr. Newcomen Minister of Fawne at Fawne Mr. Richard Walker Minister of Lifford at Lifford Now you have seen Steven ston'd you shall see Peter and John Paul and Silas in interiorem carcerem you shall see Jeremiah in the stocks Jer. 20.2 You shall behold Pashur