for them What advantage is this against us they arming themselves and we disarming our selves by sending our men and Armes and Artillerie out of that Kingdome to maintaine warre our against our selves how insolent the Irish Nobilitie and Gentrie doe now shew themselves against our English Nobilitie and Gentry at Dublin 't is apparant as in the Case betweene the young Lord Moore and the Lord Tate as also in the Case betweene Sir Thomas Armstrong and Captaine Flowre on one part Protestants and Cornet Mac Gragh and Routh Papists of the other part the Papists taking opportunitie in the streets of Dublin to affront our Protestants Lords and Gentrie they doe well to demonstrate unto us that when their second Plott is to be set in agitation may in Dublin begin upon such like Quarrels in the streets thereby to take occasion for the second cutting of throats and once being past to flourish it over and say 't was some drunken quarrell or other for at this instant Dublin may take it selfe the major part being Irish now in it To Conclude now the Scottish Armie are resolved to depart from the North of Ireland as already appeares three Regiments are wafted over into Scotland which maketh still for the Irish and to bring to a period their Jesuiticall Plott so as the Irish may the better performe their offer to send away tenne thousand of their chiefe Souldiers under the Command of experienced Commanders to keepe the Protestants in Armes in other Kingdomes either in England or Scotland Oh! that we might in some measure use the Pollicies of the Antient Romans or of late Queene Elizabeth of famous Memorie did who when the Spaniards strove to envade England did afford some aide unto the Hollander to keepe the Spaniards on worke at home by which she preserved her Kingdomes under Gods Providence from being a Seat of warre So if timely prevented by England and Scotland to keepe the warre afoote in Ireland to prevent further mischiefe which is like to ensue if the Irish breake forth into other Kingdomes and so turne the Sword into their owne bosomes which that wee may the Lord of Hosts enable us to doe Here now it is manifest that the Irish have obtained not only their first request desired in their Remonstrance which was to have one placed in chiefe Authoritie of Honour and Fortune approved by His Majestie and acceptable to the Rebells which proveth to be the Marquesse of Ormond but also the other to have a free Parliament held there and and an Act of oblivion to be made for their Rebellion and Poynings Act to be repealed and there the Rebells to hold their Parliament which is reported His Majestie hath yeelded unto by granting Pardon to the Irish Rebells Lately at Oxford Confirmed under the Great Seale of England for Pardoning all Murders and Robberies whatsoever and authorizing a new Parliament to be called there according to the Rebells desires so that now we must expect they will performe their promise to his Majestie in sending ten thousand men and Armes into England Yet we know there is a King of Kings that can turne the wisdome of the wise into foolishnesse Published according to Order FINIS A POSTSCRIPT TO THE READER CHristian Reader be pleased in this trackt to consider the depth of an adversary that aimes at the destruction of the true Protestant Religion had the Plott held according to their jesuiticall intent by this time there would have beene few left to observe for future their infernall projects the Almighty who preserved Ioseph from the malicious intent of his brethren to be under him the instrument to preserve them from calamity is the same who will deliver them that trust in him from that which might prove worse then the Egyptian Bondage which every true Christian is bound to endeavour a prevention and to take no exceptions though they are envited by him that hath beene and is a sufferer for Christs cause and his Countreys sake Tho Crant
THE PLOTT AND PROGRESSE OF THE JRISH REBELLION WHEREIN Is discovered the Machavilian Policie of the Earle of Straford Sir George Ratcliffe and others Shewing what Countenance that Rebellion hath had against the Protestants of England which doth now too manifestly appeare by his Majesties granting a free and generall Pardon to the Rebells in Ireland And Authorizing the Calling of a New Parliament in Ireland according to the Rebells desires of late Condiscended unto at Oxford Printed and Publshed according to Order LONDON Printed by I. N. for Henry Twyford at the three Daggers in Fleet-street 1644. THE PLOTT And Progresse of the Irish REBELLION LOoke into all Machavillian Pollicies they first pretend unto a seeming good as may appeare in the Goverment of Ireland under the Lord Lievtenant Straford in his first comming to regulate the sword with an austere hand of Justice over all seeming to befriend and ease the Subjects from a letigious course of Law and Monopolized the major part of Causes and reduced them to an Arbitrary Government 2. The advantage raised unto his Majesty by affording agreater Revenue for the customes of Ireland then formerly was given and so a grant of farming the customes was afforded 't was said to Sir George Ratclife the world may be satisfied for whose use it was then presently customes were enhanced of all forts as Yarne Tallow Hide Butter c. and especially Tobacco from six pence to two shillings in the pound by which increased an estate by any unjust exaction from the Subject 3. In obtaining thirty thousand Arms Ammunition Artillery c. pretending for the security of the Kingdome then the confiscating of the lands of Conaught to bring them to the Crowne as also divers other Estats in that Kingdome by which it might seeme to his Majesty and the state of England good service done to the Crowne it cannot be denied but that the said Lord Lievtenant shewed himselfe very severe against the Natives neither were the British much favoured when they came under his hand This is but a preamble for their intended project Touching matters regulated in the Church it is worth a consideration what innovations were crept in and in the regulating of Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction as the High Commission Court 't is worth observation that what power the Bishop of Derry Bramble in clawing and never ending for 〈◊〉 not onely his fellow Soveraign Bishops but also Arch Bishops to void tennants estats and enhancing rents nigh the double value what formerly they were this may conduce â—o a Romish pollicy to keepe the Subject as poore as may be that when time serves to inact farther and impose on them 〈…〉 they please so the tennants as the Tribe of Jssachar must â—eare what Levi would impose on them in a temporall Government as also the high Commission Court being so prevalent that Hillary Tearme last 1643. at Dublin in which Doctor Harding was censured to be degraded of his ministeriall function and also of his degrees in the Colledge and after to be left to be proceeded against at Common Law the cause alleadged was for maintaining Blasphemy in the Colledge about foure yeares since alleadging he should declare that 't was injustice in God to condemne Adam for eating the apple another charge there was laid against him for causing a booke to be printed in Dub lin though he had the approbation of the Arch-Bishop of Dublin entituled Irelands advocate being none of his owne worke but sent by an acquaintance of his from England in manuscript and he putting it to the presse with an Epistle Dedicated to Sir Iohn Temple of his owne framing in which booke they picke forth treason as they tearme it the first exception is because the Authour is invective against Bishops the other was in an other place of the booke giving the Almighty thankes for the severall deliverances that England hath had from the plots of the Papists as instancing that of 88. and that of the 5. of November and that of the 4. of Ianuary at which of the 4. of Ianuary they storme and inferre to be treason interpreting that was the day his Majesty with his attendance went to demand the five members forth of the house of Parliament and therefore conceived treason for rancking or comparing that day to the known Papisticall plotts and for ought as yet is known he is like to loose his life and the bookes that could be found printed were adjudged by the said high Commission Court to be burnt by the hand of the hangman which accordingly was done This is not the bondage aymed at but one far deeper the spirituall bondage of the soule as looke into that Cozen-jerman to plaine Popery Superstitious and Alter-like Service how it was enforced throughout that Kingdome of Ireland and they that refused how severely they were handled in the high Commission Court 't is two well known that divers Ministers that refused that way were forced to quit that Kingdome especially some in the North. Power being once prevalent both in State and Church then time served to set forward that Diabolicall plot for the ruine and destruction of the Protestant Religion in the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and especially Ireland and the first practice as well 't is observed by the authour of the Booke intituled The Mysterie of iniquitie yet working Scotland not resenting to what the Prelates would have forced in their Church tooke Armes to defend their Religion a Passification was yeâ—lded to by his Majestie till after invited by the Earle of Strafford and others to take armes De nove hee having prepared matters sufficiently in Ireland pretending against the Scots and so drew downe an Armie of eight thousand of which 't is well knowne of Officers and souldiers there were not nigh one thousand Protestants to the Scottish shoare where the inhabitant Scot of that Kingdome of Ireland was by his Commands disarmed and Garrisons planted from Strankford to London-Derrie along the shoare-side Matters then beginning to come to a ripenesse the Earle of Straford brought with him into that Kingdome of Ireland at his last going over one Sir Toby Mathews an arch Jesuite made him his Comrade observed none was more honoured by him then this grand Jesuite Now observe how easie a matter it is for a Jesuite once understanding the intent to state the hearts of other Jesuites Friers Seminaries c. and then how easie a matter 't is for them to state the hearts of all their people and adherents any man may judge that knoweth any thing So then if the Lord Strafford did shew himselfe never so great a Tyrant as certaine hee did not only to the Natives but also to the Brittish the rather to cast a cloud before the State of England then otherwayes how easie it was for the Jesuites Priests c. to informe the Common people that hee was for all their good though hee shewed himselfe otherwayes to them as time hath brought it forth Wee may now
such Acts as they did to stand out in their owne justification for any thing I can see as yet like to carry it so How prevalent the Irish faction is about the Court is sufficiently appâ—rent little question their is to be made of there obtaining a suddaine peace There is one thing to be taken notice of that when the Lord of Ormond marched forth this last Summer 1643. with foure thousand horse and foot kept the randevous at Curr in Kildare when they might have done good execution against the Enemie were kept above a fortnight in the field and Starved above three hundered of them returned though they saw the enemies Coulours flying in the field taking only one poore old Castle not worth a consideration then after that they were disperced by Companies some three thousand of them into smale Garrisons in the pall to secure old Castles a weeke before the Cessation was concluded the Irish forces both of Linster Connaught and Vlster they well knowing when to conclude the Cessation joyned together and fell on the said small Garrisons and destroyed many and tooke divers prisoners possest themselves of a great part of Meath which still they inioy Oh let all Protestants either now open their eyes or else resolve to undergoe the yoake that they are not or will not be willing to beare when it will be to late for them then to wish I had done this or that c. May we not now observe in what a Cloud still we are under though faire shaddows are cast before our eyes As that the new Lord Lievtenant Marquesse of Ormond hath commanded that no Papist shall be either of his retinnue or of his Companies in his regiment and Guard when it may be well observed how forward he is to give way to Papists to be transported into England to serve against the Protestants as also t is worth a consideration that since the Lord of Stratfords time and the time that Iames the Pedlar songe downe derry the second or Alter-like Service hath beene omitted at Christ-Church in Dublin in the Lord Justices time yet now newly revived since the Marquesse of Ormond received the sword how neare still they presume to declare themselves not what they would be at that bewitched druncken cup of fornication let notice bee taken likewise of the second Ratclife alias Sir Morris Eustace the chiefe Counsellour of that Kingdome that in some measure declared himselfe one may see daylight at a little hole there was one that had an estate in houses in Dublin and set them to tennant the Landlord that set them hath beene in Rebellion at this time untill the Cessation of armes then repaired to Dublin demanded his rents from the tennant and arrerages for two years past the tennant answered that it had beene lesse charge to him to have paid his rent then to have borne that cease and presse and billiting of Souldiers as he did and so declared he was unable to pay his rent the Landlord threatned to destraine for he observed there was household stuffe left that would discharge the rent and arrerages the tennant being thus threatned desired the oppinion of Sir Morris Eustace and informed him his case who declared that he was bound to pay his rent otherwise by the Law of the Land he might be distrained on This is a hard case that Rebells shall have their rents paid them and that many hundreds of us Protestants ruin'd with their wives and children in their estates by the Rebels and are daily begging and starving in Dublin and other parts of that Kingdome besides those that are forced to flie for succour into other Kingdomes and no reparation can be thought of for the keeping them alive out of their owne estates enioyed now by the Rebells whilst our army was on foote God so blessed our poore handfull of men that still they had the better of the enemy and spoyle was gained to relieve them and others now we all suffer and that iustly for dispairing of Gods providence to us let the authors of the Cessation looke to it t is but in us to observe and morne to see that a Cessation of armes must be yeelded unto such Antichristian infernall Locusts as they are and no understanding for the Protestant reformed Religion can be hearkened unto in England our own men brought from Ireland to be made instruments against our selves Is not this the depth of a Machavillian mistery we may observe the providence of the Almighty on the officers and Souldiers that did doe gallant Service against the Irish Rebells which were sent into England how soone it pleased the Lord to declare he was not well pleased with theit comming shewing his hand on them at Nantwitch Now faire oppertunity may the Irish have to playe their after gaine as they have sufficiently envited and set forth in print from Waterford Entituled Admonissions by the supreame Counsell of the confederate Catholicks of Ireland To all his Majesties faithfull loyall Subjects of the three Kingdomes of England Ireland and Scotland against a solemne League and Covenant framed by the Malignant party in the Parliament of England as also a Declaration of the English Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament wherein they ensite not only their owne Nation to stand to their Arms offensive and Defensive but envite them to a timely and a fit prevention as also envite all Romish Catholicke Kings to take notice how far they are engaged in it as much as if they should say to their Countrimen play your after game take a fit time to cutt all the rest of the Protestants throats and to envite other Princes to fall upon the Massacring of all the Protestants within their verdge Thus we find how active they are at the pen let us looke a little further conclude what their intentions are as doth evedently appeare by their diligence in slacking no time to set forward their intended project how busie they the Irish have beene in procuring Armes and Ammunition since the Cessation Sir Pierce Crosbie who about the time of Concluding the Cessation brought over with him to Waterford for the Rebels five thousand Armes and Ammunition Againe the Popes Nuntio who is there frequent with them brought over Treasure to maintaine the warre as is said fiftie thousand pounds And now lastly about Candlemas there landed two Agents from Forraign parts who brought over with them to Waterford store both of Armes and Amunition and much more is brought daily though we cannot discover every particular Doth not this demonstrate unto us their intent and how cautious they were in the concluding of the Cessation that proviso to have liberty to buy Armes and Ammunition where they pleased either in that Kingdome or from Forraigne parts how frequent they are at Dublin in buying Armes from the Cutlers at what rate soever without ay interruption that a good Sword no Cutler can keepe by him the Irish Gentrie buy them so fast and give any rates