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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

to their Estates But others are of Opinion an Irish Parliament cannot do it without the Advice of England and that the Sessions will be soon Prorogued to prevent such Disputes till the King hath got into England which we here seem to promise our selves about the beginning of June but cannot attempt it before for want of Forrage and Shipping which are coming from France to waft them over in the mean time there is 5000 foot ordered forthwith for Scotland to keep the Highlanders and others the King's Friends there from fainting till more can be sent them We conclude we can spare a formidable Army of Horse and Foot for England and the like for Scotland who with greater Supplies we expect at the same time to land in England from France and the King's Friends yet in England who want only our presence to join with us will with the loss of as little Blood as he lost them recover those his Kingdoms again We have as we hear sent you home Herbert by weeping Cross to resit his Shipping We received into this Kingdom since you left it 5 or 6 Regiments of English Scots and Irish Souldiers from France 250000l Sterling Arms for 20000 Men 300 Barrels of Powder several Mortars and a great quantity of Ball and Lead 36 Sail of Men of War 8 Fire-Ships several Tenders and daily expect as many more in all a Fleet of near 50 Sail and doubt not but before Herbert return to have sufficient to send him and the Dutch as fast back as they come to us There has none of the Persons that were Condemned when you went hence yet suffered but the King declares if he have not speedy Exchanges for them he will not spare one of them or any other that shall be found guilty of the like Crimes and if so most of the Protestants in the Kingdom will go to pot for there are but few if duly examined but will be by our Judges brought under the same Preliminaries There are some to be tried now at the King's Bench this Term and it 's thought Mr. Price the late Treasurer and his six Companions will be of the Number unless some Exchanges come suddenly for them There are Indictments already drawn up for them or rather to be preferr'd against them Some few People have had their Houses rifled and among the rest yours but not by Authority tho the King have declared That all such as are not returned shall forthwith have all their Effects seiz'd and converted toward maintaining his Army and such as fled hither from England However great care is taken for civilizing our Army but cannot make them quite forsake their old Trade some Injuries are here and there still continued but not so frequently as formerly the King having declared his Resolution severely to punish all Offenders of that kind and on Saturday last several that belonged to the Army were Indicted for Robberies committed upon Protestants but a good Jury will easily acquit them I have great hopes to retrieve some of your Losses again and not only so but in case you will return absolute Assurance of a Pardon and a Captain 's Commission and this from no less than the Ld Melfort and Bp of Clagher Secretaries of State and therefore considering how Things seem now to us if worthy would advise you not to neglect the Opportunity thus offered you for in our sense here we seem to promise our selves all we can desire and if it please God we succeed it will be too late for either you or others to comply otherwise than to your Ruin. All Friends here are well and many presents their Cordial Respects as doth he that was and ever is Sir your assured Friend and Servant B. Fz. Ws. The Publisher to the Reader REader be pleased to take notice that the Writer of the above Letter tho a Papist is of that sort a very honest ingenuous English-man and I am confident writes nothing but the naked Truth of their sense of Things there to the utmost of his Knowledg and therefore the foregoing Treatise hath been delayed to add this to it FINIS Errata Page 4. line 7. read than barely Plowing and Sowing will c.

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

March were got near 50 mile from Dublin and within five miles of the Protestant Forces who upon no ice of their approach forthwith assembled what they could together which were not 1500 near a place called Drummore but upon the Enemies approach they found them so numerous that the Lord Mount-Alexander thought fit to retire and accordingly did which the Irish perceiving pursued them about five miles and killed about 150 of the Protestants and many of them such as never were in Arms but running away in the hurry The Ld Mount-Alexander and many others got away for England some for Colerain and afterward to London-derry or Scotland In the mean time the Irish proceeded towards Colerain and found no opposition till they came thither but for the first 15 or 16 miles found nothing but ruin'd Houses and the Ditches fuil of Houshold-goods Meal and Corn thrown away by the Protestants to prevent its falling into the hands of their merciless devouring Enemy but afterwards they did not find so much the People having more time to carry it with them and so left the Irish without any Relief but what they brought with them so that both Men and Horses in the Popish Army were in a bad condition for want of Food and Forrage After all this Success King James landed at Kingsale on Tuesday March 12. and for want of Bells was welcomed with the Shouts and Acclamations of the People Bonfires c. and the next day went to Cork and stayed there till Tyrconnel came to him at Major Gen. Mac Carties on Wednesday the 20th set out from thence and lay that Night at the Earl of Cork's House at Lifmore on Thursday Night at Clonmel on Friday Night at Kilkenny in the Duke of Ormond's Castle and on Saturday night at Sir Maurice Eustaces near Kilkullen-Bridg 17 miles from Dublin and all along the Roads had the Lanes and Hedges lin'd with the Half-pike Bayonet-Rabble call'd Reparees At Carloe he was slabber'd with the kisses of the rude Country Irish Gentlewomen so that he was forced to beg to have them kept from him and on Saturday the 24th about Noon he entred the City of Dublin where all the Souldiers were placed from St. James's-Gate at his first entrance to the Castle-Gate all along for about a mile of Ground on both sides the Streets which were every where strewed with fresh Cravel And at his first entrance into the Liberty of the City there was a Stage built covered with Tapestry and thereon two playing on Welch-Harps and below a great number of Friers with a large Cross singing and about 40 Oyster-wenches Poultry and Herb-women in White and among them some known to have two or three Bastards yet passing for Maids dancing who thence ran along to the Castle by his side here and there strewing Flowers some hung out of their Balconies Tapestry and Cloath of Arras and others imitating them sewed together the Coverings of Turkey-work Chairs and Bandle-Cloth Blankets and hung them out likewise on each side of the Street He rid along through the whole Country mostly on Horse-back but chiefly through all the Towns and Villages About a mile from Dublin he call'd for a fresh Pad-Nag which turning about to be brought him got loose and forced him to stay which did in some measure vex him so that he said to Tyrconnel I think you are all boder'd but the Pad being soon brought him he mounted and marched forward and at the utmost Limits was met by the Lord Mayor Aldermen Common Council Master Wardens and Brethren of the several Companies in their Formalities the King and Herald at Arms Pursevants and Servants of the Houshold and there received the Sword of State which he gave to Tyrconnel who carried it before him through the City and the Sword and Keys of the City and there had a Speech made to welcome him to that Loyal City and People by Counsellor Dillion who that Morning was sworn Recorder in the room of Counsellor Barnwel From thence he set forward toward the Castle preceded by five or six Coaches with six Horses each two Callashes four or five Bung-Carts and one close Waggon attended by five or six French Troopers next them followed about 200 of the Straglers of the City that went out to meet him and after them the aformentioned Barker Major to the Royal Regiment bareheaded giving Orders to the Souldiers to keep the middle of the Street clear and stand with their Musquets shouldred then 29 Horsemen bare-headed shouting before Mr. Fitz-James who was alone in one of Tyrconnel's Coaches with six Horses close after him followed three Officers of the Guard on Horseback attended by 3 Led-Horses after them 15 or 16 Officers of the Army closely followed by the five Trumpets and Kettle-Drums of State in their Liveries after them about 20 of the Gentlemen at large on Horseback then the Messengers and Pursevants Servants of the Houshold next them the Herald and King at Arms close after them Tyrcounel carrying the Sword of State immediately before the late K. James who rid on the aforesaid Pad-Nag in a plain Cinnamon-colour'd Cloth Suit and black slouching Hat and a George hung over his Shoulder with a blew Ribbon he was attended by the Duke of Berwick Lord Granard and the aforesaid Maids running by him on his left hand the Lord Powis and Melfort on his Right with their Hats on close after him followed a Troop of Dragoons several Gentlemen and Officers two Troops of Horse and many Attendants after them six Lords Coaches with six Horses each then the aforesaid Judg Keating in Scarlet and next after his three other Gentlemens Coaches empty with six Horses each then three Coaches with two Horses each and then last of all the confused Rabble on Foot. As he was riding along in this Order one Flemming a pretended mad Scots-man in Skinner-row the middle of the City suddenly rushed through the Croud flung his Hat over the King's Head crying in French with a loud Voice Let the King live for ever caught suddenly mad-man like fast hold of the King's Hand and kist it and so ran capering after his Hat. As he marched thus along the Pipers of the several Companies played the Tune of The King enjoys his own again and the People shouting and crying God save the King And if any Protestants were observed not to shew their Zeal that way they were immediately revil'd and abused by the rude Papists And being come thus to the Castle alighted from his Horse and was met at the Gate by the Host over-shaded with a Canopy bore up by four Popish Bishops and accompanied with a numerous Train of Friers singing and others of that Clergy and among the rest the Titular Primate with a Triple Crown upon his Head representing the Pope who this unfortunate and by-gotted Prince no sooner saw but he forthwith went down upon his Knees to pray to the Image and for a Blessing from this Irish Pope And from thence

to be revenged upon the devouring Irish who having now all will be rich plunder for an Army and cannot hold out against 30000 Men besides what is already there till Michalmass next though now possest of the whole except London-Derry and Inneskillen in Dublin there is not now above 16 or 17 hundred Souldiers and yet at least 20000 Protestants fighting Men but all disarm'd or as good as disarm'd brave brisk curious Lads mad to be at work So that 4 or 5000 Men might take and secure that City and Province and be in one Month 20000 Men if Arms and Ammunition were sent with them in spight of any resistance the Irish could make Among the Irish the most mischievous Person is the Lord Galmoy who upon the late King 's coming to the Throne presum'd to enter in time of Divine Service St. Warborous Church in Dublin and debauchedly offered Abuses to some modest Women for which he was brought upon his Knees But in Revenge upon the first motion to the North he haug'd one Dix and another who belonged to the Colledg upon a Sign-post pretending he found them in Arms. Of Turn-coats there were many pittiful mean-spirited Fellows to keep and creep into Business none worth noting but one Marby Dean of London derry a Papist born but brought up in the Colledg of Dublin and one Turner who in his Time had turn'd through almost all Sects and Opinions and for his last turning got to be Recorder of Limerick However the Popish Clergy have not been wanting by all manner of ways to pervert whoever they could nor the Protestant Ministers to preach against their Heresy and Idolatry among the rest one Wilkinson Minister of Palmers Town near Dublin in Christ-Church briskly decrying their Idolatry was by the Bishop of Dublin silenc'd in the midst of his Sermon Many Persons endeavouring to bring Mony for England had it seiz'd by the Irish and among others one Lindon who all along sate with two Papists second Judg of the King's Bench to try several Protestants and punish them too for no other Crime out being Enemies to Popery and particularly one Whalley there famous for Astrology for publishing and spreading an Account of the Prince of Orange's Landing in England his Declaration and Success was by their worshipful Lordships singled out and made the first publick Sacrifice by their Popish Mercy for his Zeal to the Protestant Religion to the extream hazard of his Life and loss of all he had tho often craved denying him the common Rules of Court a Copy of the Indictment and what else might enable him to make his proper Defence Another proved to be Distracted fined 14l Sterling and others for like Crimes like Cases But whether for these or other good Service to be done here for his Friends there the good Judg got his Monies again while others came off with loss of theirs But what says Pluck About three or four days after King James Arrived at Dublin the few Fellows and others left in the Colledg waited upon him being introduced by the Bp of Chester since dead said to be poison'd by some of the Popish Clergy and received many Assurances of their Safety and Protection A LETTER from a Lieutenant in the late King James's Army in Ireland to the Author of Ireland's Lamentation Dated at Dublin May the 7th 1689. SIR HAving this Opportunity of a Friend of both yours and mine coming to Chester I thought fit not to omit giving you this brief Account of what has happened here since your departure Which is that before the Duke of Berwick got to Colerain it was quietly quitted by the Protestants who no sooner found themselves attaqued on all sides but most of the Men stole away by Night some one way and some another and left their Wives Children and Effects to the discretion of our Army who by the care of their Officers proved more kind and civil to them than their own People who running away pull'd down the Bridg to hinder their being pursued However that Defect was soon repair'd and our Forces having nothing more to hinder them marched directly for London-derry and upon the King 's coming up sate down before it on the 19th of the last Month and thereupon the King sent John Burton a Protestant one of the Trumpeters attending the State here to Summon the Town to Surrender with assurance of Pardon from the King and to let them know he was there in Person to sign and perform whatever was promised them Whereupon the Town returned Answer That they had sworn Allegiance to and kept the Town for King William and Queen Mary and neither owned knew or would obey any other and that if any more such Messengers came thither to frighten and terrify their People from their Allegiance they would hang or shoot them However the King had such Interest within the place as to keep out two Regiments sent thither from England But seeing they refused to submit ordered Batteries to be raised and his Canon and Bombs to be plaid at the Town and though much Mischief is done by the Bombs yet the new preaching Governor viz. the Minister Mr. Walker continues obstinate and in two or three brisk Sallies killed about 4 or 5000 of our Common Souldiers the French General Mamou one Major five Captains and several other Inferior Officers and wounded the Duke of Berwick in the Thigh Colonel Sheldon and some others are said to be mortally wounded but not without considerable loss on their side also In the mean time another Party of our Men commanded by Lieut. Gen. Hamilton took the Castle of Kilmore which will so cut off all hopes of Succour that it 's hoped Derry will also Surrender and receive Mercy for otherwise it 's resolved to put all to the Sword. The King finding them obstinate return'd to Dublin the 29th of April and this day met the Parliament where he made a short but pithy Speech setting forth how much they were obliged first to God and next to the King of France for contributing to that their happy Meeting and hoped they would not be wanting on their parts forthwith to consider of all convenient Measures to unite the Hearts of all his good Subjects of this Kingdom resist the intended Invasion from England and recover his Dominions for the Glory of God and Ease of his Subjects both in Church and State. Sir Richard Neagle the Attorney General is chosen Speaker of the House of Commons who made a Speech to the House telling them how much they were obliged to the French King and the Duke of Tyrconnel for that glorious Meeting and how meet it was to return both their Thanks The Speeches will be printed with a List of the Parliament till then I cannot be certain of the Particulars of either but believe there are not many Protestants among them It 's hoped that the King will consent to take off Poynings Acts dissolve the Act of Settlement and restore the ancient Proprietors