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A45771	Ireland's lamentation being a short, but perfect, full and true account of the scituation [sic], nature, constitution and product of Ireland : with an impartial historical relation of the most material transactions, revolutions, and miserable sufferings of the Protestants there, from the death of King Charles the second, to the latter end of April, 1689 : the time and manner of the late King's landing there : what men, monies, shipping, arms and ammunition he brought with him : the manner of his going up and into Dublin : his kneeling to the host : displacing all Protestants : the strength and defeat of his Army, and what else is of note : to which is added, a letter from a lieutenant in the Irish army, dated at Dublin, May 7. with an account of affairs to that time / written by an English Protestant that lately narrowly escaped with his life from thence.	English Protestant that lately narrowly escaped with his life from thence.; Fz. Ws., B.	1689 (1689)	Wing I1025; ESTC R10004	25,579	39

Shirts or lodg otherwise than upon Straw or Rushes on the Ground with their Cows Calves Swine or Sheep made fast at the Beds feet or at the best only a little Partition of Wattles between them use no Sheets tumble all together only the Husband between other Men and their Wives and the Wife between other Women and their Husband The Common Women are generally Whorish before Marriage and count it no Disgrace to have a Bastard or two but after Marriage are most constant to their Husbands they say He that did before must not do after They are very lazy and inclin'd to Lice Some of their Gentry are indeed very accomplished and well-bred They are in general the most zealous Roman Catholicks in the World and were always very obedient and respectful to the English and under their Government till King James the Second came to the Throne but after that they began to grow very Insolent infringe the English Prerogative and at length to insult over and destroy their English Masters Naturally in their own Country the greatest Cowards in the World Spaniel-like the more they are beaten the better it used to be common for one English Man to beat nine or ten of them but most Imperious Masters Naturally inclin'd to Theft and Laziness so that though employed by those of their own Country and Religion they will idle away Time and steal what they can so that if a Man employs but one or two of them he must have another to attend and watch them They are from the highest to the lowest a People of the least fore-sight in the World never looking forward or taking care for to Morrow believe it Damnation to disobey the Priests and as all other Papists do meritorious to destroy all Protestants by every sort of Artifice and though they do not live so well under their own Nation yet they have a natural aversion to the English that to destroy them they care not what Miseries they expose themselves to or who comes to govern over them yet have and dread an old Prophesy among them which says The Irish shall weep over the English-mens Graves as they always do over each others many Years after burial And though they have spared no Ruin they durst bring upon the English yet now they dread coming under the Yoke of France who they have often and indeed even now invited to receive that Kingdom At the Death of King Charles the Second his Grace James late Duke of Ormond was Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland when on Saturday February the 14th 1684 5. the News was delivered him there of his Master's Death and Orders from the Privy Council at Whitehal to proclaim his Brother James the Second King of England Scotland France and Ireland Whereupon he forthwith called a Council and provided all things ready against the Munday following then being the 16th of the same accompanied with the Protestant Primate Bishops the Nine Judges a great number of Nobility and Gentry King and Herald at Arms Lord Mayor of the City of Dublin Masters Wardens and Freemen of the several Corporations or Companies and multitudes of others Set out from the Castle of Dublin where he kept his Court and with Tears in his Eyes marched through all the chief Streets of the City through a Guard of Souldiers placed on both sides the Way and the Sword carried before him by his Grandson the now Duke of Ormond Performed that Solemnity with as pleasant a Countenance and as much chearfulness as the loss of his old Master and fears of approaching Misery would permit And the better to repel the thenlike fearful Apprehensions of the discerning Protestants there caused several Hogsheads of Wine to be placed at the Castle-gate Thoulsel and Corn-market for any that pleased to drink the Bells to be rung and Bonfires to be made at Night and all other Testimonies of Joy imaginable to be forthwith made And suddenly after issued Declarations and other Assurances of his Majesty's gracious Intentions and Resolutions for maintaining the Protestant Religion and Interest of Ireland Which coming from him in whom next under God they reposed their greatest Confidence at all Times to be their then Protector against the Abuses they after sustained by the Irish by interceding for them upon all Occasions to the King did in some measure abate those gloomy Fogs for the present and give hopes the King would in some measure make good his Promises to them But the Papists who always during the two late Kings Reigns at least had their Friends at Whitehal and from them by their Infallible Guides the Priests a certain pre-knowledg of future Designs and the best Intelligence well knew the contrary and forthwith began to prick up their Ears repair their Old and erect several new Mass-houses and every Rascal that could but speak a little English or write and read nothing but Nonsense and had but four or five Sheep or three or four Cows or Horses and never before the Honour to wear any thing but Rags or what was little better forthwith sold what they had to buy new Cloaths and carry them for Dublin with each a Sword at his Brich though scarce knew how to draw or sheath it there set up for Gentlemen and soon worm'd the Protestants out and got themselves into all the beneficial Imployments in the Kingdom the Army and whatever was of any Value or Trust And then without respect to Master or Mistress or such others as had before better fed than taught them and perhaps kept them from starving though the best Church-Protestant in the Kingdom if any Affront hapned to be given these new Gentlemen the first and most friendly Salute was God damn you for a Figish Son of a Bish c. and the second out with the Prick-Frog or Bayonet and if Courage gave Resolution to resist their Violences as often it happened and if alone to disarm and beat them too then the Resister was sure upon the Assaulter's escaping his Hands forthwith to have as many Hands upon one Head and Body as it had Arms and Fingers to resist him or Legs Feet and Toes to flee from them and if happily he escaped that Bout they would certainly break his Windows at Night and as a Cat watches a Mouse watch for another Opportunity and if that fail'd they never did go to a Justice but perhaps to some pretended Protestant creeping Rascal who for lucre of a few Pence and to keep his Employ valued not how many good Protestant Christians he rid and gall'd even to Death to serve the devilish End and Cause for which he had the favour to stay to be the Fop last devoured who must be sure to tie him up to all imaginable hard Meat and perhaps more severely than a Papist would do for being kickt out of Commission and then it was well done by forsooth a Protestant and not by the merciful Roman Catholicks If the poor Creature kept out of reach then out with a

LICENS'D May 18. 1689. Ireland's Lamentation BEING A Short but Perfect Full and True Account of the Scituation Nature Constitution and Product of IRELAND With an Impartial Historical Relation of the most Material Transactions Revolutions and miserable Sufferings of the Protestants there from the Death of King Charles the Second to the latter end of April 1689. The Time and Manner of the late King 's Landing there What Men Monies Shipping Arms and Ammunition he brought with him The Manner of his going up and into Dublin His Kneeling to the Host Displacing all Protestants The Strength and Defeat of his Army and what else is of Note To which is added A Letter from a Lieutenant in the Irish Army dated at Dublin May 7. with an Account of Affairs to that Time. Written by an ENGLISH PROTESTANT that lately narrowly escaped with his Life from thence LONDON Printed by J. D. and sold by Rich. Janeway in Queen's-Head Court in Pater-Noster Row 1689. TO THE READER Courteous Reader BE pleased to accept of a small Epistle to a small Treatise to inform you that though it be short yet the most absolute and true Account hitherto published of the miserable and deplorable Condition and Suffering of the Protestants of Ireland since the Death of King Charles the 2d and that there is nothing Material omitted which the Author could call to memory having nothing else to collect it from being forced to flee for England to secure his Life and leave his Books and very Notes and whatever else he had to the Mercy of the Devourers And be no less assured thou wilt find nothing here but what every one that comes from thence will confirm as far as it may reach their several Abodes And so wishing thee more Comfort in Reading than the Author had in knowing bid thee farewel till such further Account comes to his Hands as he can certify for like Truth with these An Impartial historical Relation of all the most Material Transactions Revolutions and Miserable Sufferings of the Protestants in Ireland from the Death of King Charles the Second to the latter end of April 1689. IRELAND hath been and still is even by some Writers reputed a Barbarous and most Heathenish Place And indeed I believe it was so once and England also but all such as have been there and rightly understood the Country of late must if impartial and unprejudiced own it to be far otherwise and indeed a Place of most excellent Government and Piety and much like that of England Ireland is an Island inviron'd with the Sea and the most Western of Europe lying between the Latitude of 51 and 56 Degrees North and Westward from Holy-Head in Wales about 14 Leagues and from the South-West part of Scotland 8 or 9 Leagues and is much more temperate than England cooler in Summer and warmer in Winter so that when in the late great Frost a Ox was roasted and Coaches frequently went upon the Thames an Horse-man durst not venture over the Liffey a much less River at Dublin and thereby much more pleasant and indeed in the general abundantly more fertile and plentiful than England and free from all venemous Vermin Black Crows Magpies and Spiders are not venomous there In many places the Soil is so excellent that it bears the most devouring Grain many Years successively without manuring and in others it will bear three or four Crops and when it hath lain waste but one Year without further trouble than Plowing and Sowing Barly will again produce as many Crops more and so Time after Time with a continuendo and in all places in general produceth all sorts of Grain England doth as good and in as great plenty with abundance less trouble and pains There are indeed many large Mountains and Bogs but now by the Industry of the English made very good and fertile Land either for Tillage or Feeding every where watered with pleasant Springs Rivers and Loughs or Lakes of Water indued with great plenty of Fish wild and tame Fowl Horses Cows Oxen and Sheep as large and good as any in England and much more numerous till lately destroyed by the incouragement given the new raised Forces and other Irish Papists by the now Duke of Tyrconnel In some parts especially of the West and North a Salmon above two foot long may be bought for a Penny or two Pence Forty five Eggs for one Penny. A fat Goose for three pence A fat Turky for six pence A fat Hen for three half-pence A fat Lamb or Kid for a Groat But in Dublin which is the dearest part they fold in time of peace twelve or fourteen Eggs for a penny A large fair fresh Cod two foot long for three pence Plaice a foot long and seven or eight inches broad two for a penny Large Trouts as long two or three for a penny Oysters five or six inches broad a penny a score A fat Lamb for twelve or fourteen pence A large fat Calf a month or six weeks old for five or six Shillings A large quarter of Beef for three or four Shillings as good as the Markets of London afford and other things proportionably and yet all sorts of Tradesmen had greater Wages and generally better Rates for their Goods than in England And contrary to the general Supposition among the English Scots and other industrious Persons Mony was in Ireland as plentiful and with much more ease obtain'd than in England so that an ordinary Tradesman or Farmer keeps a better House and lives much more plentiful there than those of four or five Hundred a Year can do in England None need labour long there that will but be Industrious and any thing a reasonable Husband but unless very Unfortunate indeed may soon acquire a Sufficiency to live handsomly and Gentleman-like Scarce any that went only private Souldiers thither in the last Rebellion unless Sots in earnest but were before the beginning of this Rebellion Men of good Fortune and Estates The meer Irish are not really so Wild and Barbarous as generally reputed nor indeed Tame and Civiliz'd in general as the English but are as lusty full well-set comely handsome fair and clear-skin'd as the English Mighty hospitable and kind-hearted to Strangers so that if any comes where they are eating they will take it very unkindly if he do not eat with them and Travellers shall have the best Entertainment they can afford them gratis and better than they will afford themselves For though the Country be thus extream plentiful yet the Commonalty among the Irish fare very hard and live mostly upon Potatoes Parsnips Cabbidg Beans Pease Barley and Oat-Bread sour thick Milk or Butter-milk and unless upon some certain Festival Days as Christmass Shrovetide Easter Whitsuntide or Michaelmass rarely eat a bit of Flesh Butter Eggs or Cheese unless they light upCarrion dead or drown'd They are very nasty and sluttish prefer strong Butter tainted Flesh and sowr Milk before sweet Scarce ever wear Shifts or

above 1000000 Head of Cattel besides Corn and Houses and thereby utterly spoiled the most plentiful Country in these parts of Europe so that 20 Years of perfect Peace cannot be thought to restore it to the State in which it was at the Death of King Charles the Second The Protestants of Ireland alarm'd at these Devastations began to Arm and provide themselves against them and first the Citizens of London-derry understanding that two Companies of the new-rais'd Forces were marching to quarter in that City shut their Gates and resolved to stand upon their own Defence and when they came refused them entrance Whereupon the Lord Deputy Tyrconnel and the Privy Council thought it most expedient to send the Lord Mon●joy a Man of great esteem among the Protestants of that County with six Companies of his Regiment which he took from Dublins to reduce them who coming before the place demanded but was refused Entrance for two days In the interim it was concluded to receive him into the Town singly alone and being admitted it was concluded that provided he procured their Pardon within 14 days they would receive two Companies of his Men to he made up all Protestants to Garison in the Town and at the beginning of March as many Papists or as many more of any other Regiment which being perform'd on both hands the Lord Montjoy returned for Dublin and with the Lord Chief Baron Rice was sent for France to know the King's Pleasure but privately an Account was sent with him by Rice that he held correspondence with the Prince of Orange for which he was committed and still remains close Prisoner in the Bastile of Paris This Lord was no sooner gone for France but his two Companies left in London-derry with the City again revolted and John Hawkins Esq a young brisk zealous Protestant Gentleman of good Fortune and Interest in that Province accompanied with about 100 others well Armed and Mounted pursued the Example of the Lord Delamere in England and march'd from place to place to stir up the Protestants to Arm and Assemble together for their own Defence against the common Enemy and Abuses and in a short time was so succesful as to induce the whole Province of Vlster so to do except the Towns of Carigfergus and Ardmagh and among them the Lord Mount-Alexander Lord Blaney Sir Arthur Roden and several other Persons of Note and Quality And by their Example the Town and County of Sleigo in the Province of Connaught was moved to rise in like manner by the Lord Kingston and Chidly Coote Esq And soon after the Town of Ardmagh seized and disarmed a Troop of Dragoons that was quartered there and sent them away naked and several other Towns did the like And so and with Supplies they procured from Scotland armed themselves indifferently and formed themselves into Troops and Companies under the Command of the Persons of Quality afore-mentioned and began to take Reprizals for their Losses but Garrigfergus held out for the Irish all along In the mean time the Irish made it their Business to stop all Passages thither however many got to them some one way and some another and a little after Christmas about fifty Protestants that belonged to several Companies in Dublin about five at Night met and with their Arms marched toward the North all Night long and the next day till they had got about 40 Miles but being discovered Forces were sent to pursue them so that being over-powered they were taken and carryed Prisoners bound into Dublin Castle and thence commited to Goals where some of them still remain without tryal others were enlarged upon giving security for their good Behaviour and never to take up Arms against King James The next Day after they were brought in all the Protestants among the Horse were disbanded and their Horses Arms and Cloaths taken from them for which some of them had afterwards 5l for what cost them 20l. but many nothing to this day And Tyrconnel had all the Foot drawn out and at the head of them told them that such as pleased might lay down their Arms and Commissions upon which all the Protestant Officers and Souldiers that appear'd the next day did which much surprized his greatness but the Drums and Trumpets he would not permit not having any that were Papists to supply their places so that much against their wills they are forced yet to stay under them The Protestants in other parts being more intermingled with Irish than those of the North could not put themselves into so sudden a defensive posture however were not idle but as opportunity gave leave so that they might not be suspected provided such Arms and Ammunition as they could most conveniently procure till they were reasonably well Arm'd throughout the Kingdom and at the beginning of February at a place called Summerhill within 20 miles of Dublin there was got together about 300 Protestants and near the King's County under Sir Laurance Parsons such another Number At Charlevile the Seat of the Earl of Orrery within 12 miles of Limrick under Sir Thomas Southwell and Sir William King before mentioned 250 Horse and 160 Foot. At Mallow within 12 miles of Cork 300 Horse and 200 Foot under Esq Jephson and Captain C●llenger at Castlelions within 10 miles of Cork Under the Earl of Barrymore 200 Horse and 240 Foot. At Castle-Marter under Esq Boyle 60 or 80. And in most other Towns and Castles thereabouts the like numbers In Bandon 7 or 8000 Horse and foot all forming themselves into Troops and Companies and Exercising intending to put themselves under the Command of the Lord Inchiqueen and the aforesaid Boyle and had resolved and agreed that if any place were attacqued notice should be forthwith dispatch'd to all the rest and all were to join and march to its relief within 24 hours which Tyrconnel having notice of sent Express forthwith to Major General Mac-Carty then in Cork to draw out with three Pieces of Cannon against Castle-martyr who no sooner came before it but they received an express from those who intended to head them that it was thought fit and adviseable for them to surrender which they did upon Discretion and Boyle was taken and carried Prisoner to Cork and upon the surrender the like advice was given it is not convenient to tell here by who to all the rest thereabouts to depart to their respective Homes but Sir Thomas Southwell with 245 Horse marched directly towards the North but the Journey being-near 200 miles compleat and all through an Enemies Country and Expresses sent before to raise the whole Country and Forces every-where as they went which the poor Gentlemen pushed through till both they and their Horses being thoroughly spent for want of Meat and no longer able to hold were forced to submit and surrender up their Horses and Arms upon condition to have leave for themselves to return to their several Habitations But as there is no Faith to be kept with