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A96048	A letter from the Earl of Warwick relating the taking of all the forts, and 16 pieces of ordnance from the malignant Cornishmen that had before besieged the city of Exeter : together with an apologie made by an English officer of qualitie for leaving the Irish wars : declaring the designe at this time now on foot to reconcile the English and Irish together, and by their joynt power having expelled the Scotch and Irish Protestants, to bring their popish forces against the Parliament.	Warwick, Robert Rich, Earl of, 1587-1658.; English officer of qualitie. Apologie for leaving the Irish Wars.	1643 (1643)	Wing W1002A; ESTC R42768	6,028	17

go By whom 11. The Irish Papists though they have been often caught sending Letters and Ammunition to the Rebells and to harbour them permitted to live amongst us yea suffered to escape with little or no cesse and presse our English are intollerably burthened and many of them forced thereby to break and depart for England 12. Such are protected under pretence of sending relief to our Garrisons as are known to murther our English when they finde opportunity 13. After divers of our men have been shot and slain in besieging Castles the Rebells have fled by night not a man of them hurt our men have sometimes been charged under pain of death not to discharge at them 14. Many prisoners have broken prison and escaped as hath been reported by some but by others it hath been said They have opened the door with a silver key 15. An English Serjeant about Whitsontide last hearing there was a Priest in Bridge-street saying Masse went according to an Order of the Board to take him but the Priest having notice was gone the Officer and his Souldiers seized only upon his Vestments and trumperies left behinde their friend the L. Lambert hearing thereof imprisons the souldiers swore some of them should be hangd for it 16. Our best Ministers as D. Harding and M. Yates are silenced that we have hardly any left to keep a fast with any life 17. An English Papist called James Room in S. Patricks street Dublin being Plundered by the Souldiers for suffering songs in his house made by the Irish women wherein they cursed our Armies triumphed for the losse of Ballanakell and prayed for the Rebels prosperity whereto he said Amen and bade them to sing it again had his liberty and goods restored him by the L. Lambert and the Souldiers were committed 18. Ballanckell the very key of our Garrisons in Leinster wherein were 300 valiant men who did as much as men could do were neglected 5 whole weeks together and no help sent them till they were inforced to yeeld to the utter disheartning of the rest of our Garrisons 19. Our Armies are usually sent forth sometimes on Sundayes sometimes on Fast-dayes after this sin hath been openly Preached against in the hearing of the Lord Generall and other Commanders 20. All the Pillage seized on by the Officers and the famished Souldiers when great preys have been taken were not permitted to kill a beast to relieve their hunger 21. The generall abounding of all open sins without any restraint 22. The L. Taffe hath been suffered to come and go to the Rebels with directions which few of the Privy Counsell have been acquainted with 23. Some of our Preachers have declaimed against the bloody Rebels cruelties thereby to excite the Souldiers to resolution in prosecution of the wars against them have been declaimed against by others for bloody Preaching and Praying and charged to desist from such extravaganeies 24. Some have directly and professedly Preached for mercy to be shewed to these mercilesse Rebels as Arch-Deacon Buckley and the Bishop of Meath who said in a Sermon before the State That four sorts of them should be saved viz. 1. Children 2. Women 3. Labourers 4. All that resist not Yet women are worse then men 25. A faction is fomented among our selves to take off our Souldiers from the Rebells and to turn their edge against the Parliament and to this end tend many of the Sermons that have been Preached many a day before the State containing nothing but most bitter Invectives against the Schismatiques as they call them and hardly a word is to be heard to proceed from any of them against the Rebels except the Bishop of Down who glanced against them at the first and yet in the end affirmed The Schismatiques to be worse then them 26. Likewise M. Yates being called before the Arch-Bishop for a Sermon he Preached after some conference he taxing the Arch-Bishop for taking a Lecture from him and giving it to a common Drunkard reply was made by the Arch-Deacon Buckley his son that was there present That Lecturers had more disturb'd the peace of the Church and Common-wealth then ever they did good and it had been well if never none had been The Bishop likewise said That so long as he had power there should be none in his Jurisdiction 27. Also Captain Lucas coming to Dublin to convey some corn by sea thither having been often at the Councell to demand relief for him and his men it being often by them promised was demanded If whether he was able as also whether he was willing to fetch in Captain Plunket He answered He was able he thought but Captain Plunket being imployed by the Parliament as well as he he could by no means betray that trust in him reposed and he demanded what would be if h-e should sinke him They answered They were able to secure him But he answered If they were able to secure him here yet they could no An England where his wife and children and estate is As also he was forced to discharge 30 of his men for want of means and thereby unable for that service 28. Our last Army going forth in May continuing forth 50 weeks when we expected great service to be done there was done nothing It was so ordered that the Battering pieces which should have gone with them came not to them till a fortnight after Then we expected that Ballashanan Castle that hath cut off so many of our men should have been taken but it was protected by whom not known though Captain Armstrong at the same time had like to have been slain by some of them And likewise Allens Castle which hath done much mischief to our men In it all the Rebels wealth thereabout was when the men and pieces were drawn up to it they shewed a Paper Protection by Sir Arthur Loftus Governour of the Naas Likewise the same night our men Quartering neer the said Castle their Horses were stollen by them and fetcht from them by violence by the Souldiers who with the Officers also were ready to run mad for anger that they might not take it 29. The day before the Earl of Ormond went to the Treaty being the 22 of June the chief Protestants of the City were called before the Councell to know if they would give 10000. or have a Cessation They answered They were utterly unabled and were grieved to hear the Officers complain and to see the Souldiers go bare-foot and bare-legg'd and the City undone and would be loath to see them that had kill'd their friends and kinsfolks walks Dublin streets yet durst not call them Rebels Whereupon they were dismist and the next day they went to treat 30. The Parliament with all those that are employed by them for the good of the Kingdom are notoriously abused to the great grief of all good people as may appear by the base usage of Capt. Smith captain of the Swallow by captain Flower a profest enemy to the Parliament giving him many opprobrious speeches calling him Traytor and Round-head c. urging him to draw so that he was fain to withdraw himself fearing further danger 31. But a more inhumane carriage was shewed to the Master of the Swallow a faithfull and honest man in his place who coming to the Globe Tavern in Castle-street Dublin to see some of his friends who there called for some Sack and was answered by the master of the Tavern That he had none for such Rebels and Traytors c. as he was and threatned if he would not be gone he would fetch a Guard of Muskettiers to bring him thence Thence going to the Fleece Tavern and there demanding a bed for his money was answered as at the Globe and a Guard of Muskettiers was sent for by the Vintner master of the house with a Corporall who by force brought him to the Guard of which Lievtenant Congreave was captain a deadly enemy to the Parliament who presently in most hase manner reviled him an honest neighbour who being there before having sent for some Beer for the Souldiers the said Lievtenant drank a Health to the confusion of the Parliament whom he called Rogues and Traytors and would have forced the Master to have drank it but he answered They were honest men and he would rather die then drink it whereupon the Lievtenant answered He would make him confesse that either the Parliament or Lords Justices were Rogues and Traytors before the morning or he would hang him the Master replyed They might do with him what they pleased he being in their hands and that they were but boyes and he an ancient man Whereupon they with Match drew his neck and his heels together in so violent a manner as though they would have killed him but by the intreaty of the honest man there present he was unbound and caused to lie upon the boards all night from whence he was the next morning by the Serjeant of the Guard releast The Councell have likewise given order for the apprehending of the captain of the Swallow if by any means they can come by him 32. A Treaty of Peace or cessation of Arms is in agitation now the Rebels are driven to such exigencies as that they see now they cannot longer subsist otherwise are likely to perish for want if our Souldiers might be suffered to pillage them and now it is well known they want Powder The intent of it is so far as all honest loyall and religious Subjects conjecture The ruine of all the British Nation as appears by the relation of Mistris Dillon who is a good Protestant and her husband a Papist among the Rebels both of them she heard them amongst themselves to say That their intent is After this Treaty they will draw down their Forces to the Scots and cut them off then that being finished they would cut off the English And also a most execrable Oath after this is concluded on to be administred to all the Protestants that are well affected to the Parliament which if they refuse to take they shall be all pillaged The premises considered I conceive that this may suffice to make mine excuse The Lord look down upon his poor Church in Ireland FINIS