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A97166	A brief narration of the plotting, beginning & carrying on of that execrable rebellion and butcherie in Ireland. With the unheard of devilish-cruelties and massacres by the Irish-rebels, exercised upon the Protestants and English there. Faithfully collected out of depositions, taken by commissioners under the Great Seal of Ireland. Hereunto are added observations, discovering the actions of the late King; and manifesting the concernment of the Protestant-army now imployed in Ireland. Published by special authority.	Waring, Thomas, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing W873; Thomason E596_2; ESTC R204016	31,881	70

and others to solicite with his Majesty in their behalf which it seems they did so effectually that they in his Majesties name encouraged the Rebels as may appear by a signal Deposition of Col. Iepson Who saw two Letters of theirs sent to Muskery intimating That though it did not stand with the conveniency of his Majesties affairs to give him publick countenance yet his Majesty was pleased with what he did and would in good time give him thanks for it This though discovered to the Lord Falkland then Secretary and though Colonel Iepson stayed a week after in Oxford was so coldly entertained that neither the Colonel was called to account nor the Lords lessened of their freedom and favour Nay the said Taaff was afterwards imployed with Roch and Brent two active Papists taking with them Colonel Barry one of the same fry to carry the Kings letters from Oxford to Dublin From whence they made away for Kilkeny where there was to be soon after a generall assembly of the Rebels which Errand when they had performed Barry was left Leaguer at Kilkenny Taaff returned to Dublin Taaff with divers of disaffected Privy-Councellours of Ireland meets at Ormonds house to debate the Irish Propositions and Brent returns to Oxford to give an account of the Negotiation By this we may the better conceive what the King meant by that delusory offer to go into Ireland Whether it were under this plausible pretence to get a Guard about him and by that degree a considerable force or when he was once there either to make a Cessation advantageous to himself or else to joyn with them however it was a pretence good enough to decline Signings and Confessions advantagious to his subjects in England and increase Jealousies at home and retard the businesse of the Parliament then in full heat and action whatever it were Certain it is that there lurkt within it somewhat of deep design and very exquisite mischief For even the very Rebels could without Prospective see it and without a Divel foretell it For Tirlogh ô Neal could as appears by Master Stewarts examination taken the eighth day of July 1643. tell that the King was to be soon in Ireland and Sir Phelim ô Neal could give out that the troubles of England would ere long call away Leisley to assist them Nor is it any wonder that these people were so perfect in the Kings designs and so fore-seeing of our troubles when they were part both of the interest and Plot that in deed if you will take their own words the Kings cause and theirs were fundamentally and really one though pollitically and spetiously devided How else should Tirlogh ô Neal and Roger ô Moore as is in Master Stewarts mentioned Deposition say That Religion the Lands escheated and the Kings Prerogative were the prime causes of their rising in Arms That they knew well the best in England would side with them That they had good warrant in black and white for what they did That when he objected the Power of England would he brought against them they replied That there was little feare of that for the troubles in England were but then in beginning and would not end in haste And how else could Rory Maguyre say That they the Parliament invaded the Kings Prerogative in which their greatest security reposed That this great undertaking was never an act of one or two giddy silly fellowes They had their party in England Scotland c. which should soon be as deep in bloud as themselves That the Plot had been of ancient date and many times discontinued and but lately revived and prosecuted from Candelmas last past Note the time of Gormanston and the rest procuring the five Counties before the Rebellion both in England and Scotland All is deposed by that Apostate Awdley Mervin whose sister Maguire married who heard it from many more as himself deposeth of considerable quality Nay Why did they of the Palle declare to joyn with the Irish to recover to his Majesty his Royall Prerogative wrung from him by the Puritan faction Why was the Design called the Queens pious intentions Decl. 9. March 1641. Why did Rossetti the Popes Nuncio enjoyn Fasting and Prayer amongst the Papists Why were the Protestants called Rebells to the Queen How came the Rebells to assume the Kings Authority Nay boldly aver they had his Commission Insomuch that the Major of Kinsale writes That they uttered things concerning the Court of England which he durst not put to Paper And now let any man lay his hand upon his heart and say whether or no he can acquit this man of these things Certainly ignorance in this case could not be pretended even to people that had but the bare use of common sence and to be passive in a businesse of this nature must needs be a sin not much lesse than violent action But to give encouragement and groth to such abominable Monsters as from what has been layd down must needs be clear to every dispassioned Judgment especially since such uncontrolable presumption may serve in the works of darknesse is such an offence that it must needs lead any sober and searching mind in a clear trace of the Divine vengeance upon it God indeed is secret marvelous in executing his wrath and many times openly punisheth unknown crimes and many times dissembles the seeing of crying offences But in this case both the one and the other were equally visible and we may without uncharitablenesse affirm That for these things was this man rooted out of the Land We have now viewed him on the Divels-side of the Meddal let us now behold him on the Saintside and find out one of the most illustrous dissimulations that ever attested Piety a dissimulation which a Heathen under the crepusculous daies of nature would have started back at and have immagined it either beyond punishment or els meriting Judgments and Torments severer than any he knew A dissimulation by a Protestant King in behalf of Traiterous Papists and that to lull and stupifie his own subjects and of his own Religion into bloud and destruction The minds of men were not yet so exquisitely debauched but they were open to the serious manifestation of their Representatives nor the Kings businesse in such a posture that he might declare and justifie his proceedings nor his Innocencie such as he might vindicate himself And therefore to these Remonstrative objections of the Parliament he had nothing to say but such whole peals of solemn and dire imprecations as if he thought Perjury lawfull and essentiall to his calling Or else Divinity to be a meer Mormo and staring Rodomontade Or else he had utterly forgot what he had designed some moneths before or were asleep to all his present actions or carriages or had been informed with a new soul when he had acted those things which he did afterwards For instances they throng upon us Reader prepare thy horror in his speech to the Committee at Newark

are but foul Symptomes of any care his Lordship took of the safety of the English there but for those I leave you to the examinations themselves I think these instances may satisfie any juditious and impartial man that this plot is not of any late conception or contrivance as the Irish Papists and some others of their faction would wrest it unto Which is That the beginning and occasion of it was but taken from a pretended knowledge or feigned information they had That this present Parliament of England had decreed to destroy all the Papists both of England Scotland and Ireland which was and is a pretence as vain as they shameless in broaching it But it is a custome amongst the Disciples of Sathan no lesse frequent than subtile never to act any thing of high concernment and specially to put nothing in execution without knowing first how to palliate and excuse it by some seeming and more than ordinary necessity And who so fit to contrive a second when the first plot and excuse would rather amaze and deterre the multitude with home they were to deal than engage their faith therein than that old wilie Serpent and lyar from the beginning and the Romish locusts his accomplished Artists who contrived a way and in shew a cause of necessity for a sudden insurrection of the Irish against the English and Protestants as it were for saving of their own throats from a present pretended conspiracy against them made by the English And therefore not to rely solely upon their own or the forreign strength they expected to resist it It was then further resolved and agreed on amongst them That howsoever the ground-work of this Rebellion was laid very many years since Dr. Henry Jones Com. Dublin as they had done the like in several former ages yet would they not have it so to seem But new occasion must be found as the sole cause of their breaking out The fittest means for this as they conceived was to cast Aspersions upon the Sate and present government which if longer tolerated would as they gave out prove extreamly dangerous not onely to their Religion but to their Lives and posterity For effecting where of reports were cast out that in the Parliament of England the cutting off of al the Papists in Ireland of what degree soever was concluded on and the execution of that resolution commited to the Councel of Ireland Who say they appointed a day for this work being the 23 of November then next following 1641. That for the better more sure and secret managing of this pretended plot such of the popish Nobility and gentry of both houses as appeared in Parliament at Dublin should be secured no such thing being so much as thought on by that State and for the drawing together the rest amongst other pretences This is alledged to be one that the Kings-Rents were purposely omitted and not called upon in Easter-Term with that earnestness as formerly And that such as made default should be summoned to appear in Michaelmas Term in Dublin and there surprised Whereby such of them as should then remain in the countries wanting their Heads might be as they said easily cut off They said this present plot was I know not how discovered unto them so that for the safety of their lives and professions they were enforced to stand upon their guard and to counter-work that day of the 23 of November by their declaring and rising themselves in Arms on the 23 of October a moneth before The time drawing near for putting their design in execution there was a great meeting appointed of the heads of the Romish Clergie and other Lay-men of their faction at the Abbey of Multifarnam in the County of Westmeath where was a Covent of Franciscan Friers This meeting happened accordingly not long before the time of the breaking out of their Rebelion where the business then in question was what course should be taken with the English and all others that were found in the whole Kingdom to be Protestants The Councel was therein devided some were for their banishment without attempting on their lives Others urged a necessity of cutting off them and theirs and that a generall Massacre were the safest and readiest way to free the Kingdom of all fears and dangers Others moved a mean way neither to dismisse nor kill yet those that most favoured them concluded that they should be all robbed and stripped and according to this do we find the event and course of their proceedings For in some places they were generally put to the sword some restrained their persons others after a time dismissed their prisoners first having spoyled them of their goods and exposed them to cold and famine they that way perished by the worst death of all And because no necessarie thing fit for so gracious a Common-wealth should be left unsetled These mighty Counsellors consisting for the most part of ancient English Papists discoursed to establish certain rules or laws for the Civil or Martial government of the Land concluding that from thenceforth no Protestant at all should either rule or have any being there They also concluded that when they should have setled the Land they would send thirty thousand men into England to joyn with the Spanish and other forces and then joyntly to fall upon Scotland for reducing both those Lands to the obedience of the Pope which being finished they had engaged themselves to the King of Spain for assisting him against the Hollanders and giving their Rebellion as they tearm it its due correction We find also that after these Priests and Friers had layd their first Plot they committed and communicated the secrets of it to some of the Nobility a good time after to some more of them last of all to the Popish gentry of best value upon oaths of secresy and to live and die with them in the quarrel and for a long time before the Rebellion as well the powerful ones who knew of the plot as the rest of the Papists by command and direction of their Popish Priests and Friers were observed in all parts of the Land to keep many strict Fasts and many of the meaner sort being asked why they fasted so very often their answers were they knew not but their holy Fathers told them there was a good and great work for the prosperity whereof they must use much fasting and prayer One day of their humiliation and praying being the more remarkable because generally performed by them in all places The publick prayer of all their Priests and Friers then being that God would give a blessing to the great design in hand drawing near and that he would vouchsafe ability unto them thorowly to effect the same This drew the Common people into a unanimous expectation strong resolution to prosecute the same when they should discover to what end their said Ghostly-Fathers had engaged their zeal And although the times of their humiliatiō prayer were

A Brief NARRATION OF THE Plotting Beginning Carrying on of that Execrable REBELLION and BUTCHERIE IN IRELAND With the unheard of Devilish-Cruelties and Massacres by the Irish-Rebels exercised upon the PROTESTANTS and English there Faithfully Collected out of Depositions taken by Commissioners under the Great Seal of IRELAND Hereunto are added OBSERVATIONS Discovering the Actions of the late KING and manifesting the Concernment of the PROTESTANT-Army now imployed in IRELAND Published by special Authority LONDON Printed by B. Alsop and T. Dunster And are to be delivered at Bernard Alsop's house in Grub-street MDCL The Preface THe execrable Butchery exercised by the Irish in eight years last past upon the English Protestants hath so filled all good hearts with sorrow and detestation that it is impossible to represent it with greater and more solemn Agravations than the bare recital Now as it was an action so fouly criminal in all both divine and humane considerations so hath there not any complied with the Instruments of it or afforded them the least favour that have not either found their ruine or may not if their eyes be open see they are a hasting towards it Whereas those I means the Parliament of England that ever declared their detestation of it and did ever effectually prosecute a Revenge even in the middest of their danger and cruel oppositions of the prevaricating English Court have found the hand of God so mightily and visibly assisting them that they have triumphed over their Opressors and seen all their own endeavours crowned with successe Now as the comfort they have reapt by their integrity is not small so no doubt will they find it enlarged when they have found that all men are satisfied both with the justnesse of their proceeding and amazed with the horror of such exquisite wickedness Which that it may be known not onely to this Age but to the Children that are yet to be born it is held fit that such discoveries as have been brought to them should clearly and freely be brought to light and laid open that all men might bear witness against those Savages against whom the bloud of so many innocents cries behind the Altar To this end there is publishing a large volume of Depositions though far short of what might have been produced a great part of that Island being ever since in the hands of the Rebels where the Reader may at large satisfie himself of all the circumstances which may stile the Massacre Horrid and Diabolical But because that volume is swoln to a great largeness and therefore cannot readily expect to pass the Press it hath been thought fit in the mean time to publish this small Tract as an Introduction or fore-runner or call it what you please of the other And seeing the other is meerly composed of particular Relations and brings not any thing to direct the recollection of the affairs of England there are added some Observations by which it may appear with what Sympathie the affairs of the English Court and Irish Rebels were carried on And with what impiety Great ones warp from their true and publick Interest to sacrifice to their private Ambition by unlawfull compliances and bloudy permissions This is that Reader which in Limine I was to tell you and I doubt not but this small piece will heighten thy expectation of the greater volume which with all diligence shall be hastened to thee THE HISTORY of the IRISH REBELLION THe Rebellion in Ireland which brake forth in the year 1641. was in its design so divellisn in its attempt so sudden and in its execution so Sanguinary That neither that evening which to this day infames Sicilly nor the vast profusion of bloud about a Centry of years since made at Paris do by many degrees come near the inhumanity and deaths by this one action which is therefore so necessary to be known as well to those who are not well versed in the Irish affairs as also those that are hurried away in the torrent of false asseverations or drawn aside by reason of the spetious pretences of the Irish Party and their Complices that wee can not think we discharge our duty if we let not all sober Christians understand by this extract taken from several depositions upon oath before the Commissioners in that behalf authorized by Commission under the great Seal of Ireland What a meek Religion it is how constant to that sweet simplicity and innocence taught and practised by Iesus Christ and followed in the primitive ages I say what a meek Religion it is that from its own principles can naturally and without force draw such fierce and bloudy conclusions and how fit they are to be Members of mankind much lesse to receive protectionall favor that implicitly resign themselves to the perpetration of that which the sowers of such wicked seed shall propose unto them Yet are we not to suppose that that fatall eruption was so sudden as it appeared or so unpremeditated as not to have been the obstinate and restlesse design of many yeares Nor yet that the Irish though a people changeable and susceptable of commotion had so much either courage discretion and industry as to have attempted this without strong influences serious debates and constant quickenings See all the depositions under the head for the antiquity of the Plot being the first head of all No it is now 25 or 26 years since Hell first breathed out by means of the Romish Clergy this cruel machination and inspired them with an expedient how to destroy Protestantism first within England Ireland and Scotland and afterwards in what ends of the world soever it That is to say the sincere word of Salvation should bee taught and professed But because in the three lands of England Scotland This was confessed by a Frier to one M. George Stocdale in the County of Dublin for which see M. Stoedales second examination in the book of Dublin he being the 165. depon and Ireland it was most generally and principally observed It was first projected and resolved amongst these of the Roman Party that with the least noise and suspition possible much Arms Ammunition Artillery Shipping and great sums of mony the very sinews of War with strong numbers of Commanders and Souldiers should be raised and had in readinesse in Spain and Italy for the assaulting and surprising of Ireland To the promoting whereof great sums of mony were levied at Rome and divers other parts both of Italy and Spain especially amongst their Convents Colledges and Religious houses And because that forreign power and provision might be the more prevalent See also the dep of M. Roger Holland Coun. Monoghan both taken about eight years since transported with the least opposition It was further projected and agreed amongst these confederates That all commotions sedition possible should be raised by the Priests Friers too numerous and powerfull at that time both in England Scotland and Ireland between the Protestants and

the Papists Whereupon though too many were there before yet great swarms of Priests Friers flew into the same three lands out of Spain Italy France Flanders and other places Who were so intent sollicitous close and subtile in their courses as men long bred versed therein That upon their secret and subtile surmises of danger there threatned by the Puritan party as they call them to the Protestant party to their the Romish Religion whose as they pretended subversion was their principall aim much dissention and differences arose and for a long time boiled and burned in the breasts of great numbers some naturally wicked others perhaps onely seduced and surprized ignorantly following the time and their acquaintances that on a sudden after several years spent in broaching and sowing of these jealousies and in preparing of the other provision while the harmelesse Protestant thought least onely hoped to be quiet there were sent out of Spain a strong fleet of ships fully manned with great numbers of Commanders Souldiers and Mariners and as well fraught and furnished with Artilery Arms Amunition Money and all other necessaries for Warre all which were designed for Ireland One half to be landed at Kinsale in the South-west the other half at Killabegges in the North. Howbeit a fierce and strong wind carrying them perforce past the Coast of Ireland into the Narrow Sea the Hollanders fell upon them and as it is well known sunk many took divers yet some escaped This plot thus farre by the great Providence prevented the Rebellion could not then begin in Ireland as indeed it should have done had the fleet as was intended landed there Whereupon afterwards it was further plotted and agreed amongst those Machivillian Factors of Spain and Rome and many other Lay-Papists of England Scotland and Ireland all sworn to secresie and still notwithstanding that their high disaster as much as they could keeping their former plot and resolution on foot That in all those three Lands See the deposition of M. Thomas Crant of the County of Cavan amongst others the Papists should generally rise up in arms upon one set day then to surprise the tower of London in England the Castle of Edenburgh in Scotland and the Castle of Dublin in Ireland with as many more Castles Forts Holds and places of strength as they could possibly feaze upon in all the three Lands And the better to enable themselves to surprise the Castle and City of Dublin it was concluded that twenty Popish Souldiers out of every County of the Land should the night before the time appointed for the taking of Dublin privately make their addresses to that City the Suburbs and other places there about to be in readinesse to assist the taking and spoyling of the same Castle and Citty and to do execution upon the Protestants which numbers of men and many more came thither at the time appointed a great part whereof crept into the City and Suburbs the night before the residue remained about the Ditches Hedges obscure places there as fully appeared on the Greens of that Citty the next morning to the great terror of the honest Citizens And also because they might not want full strength to perform and bear out their design they took occasion to make use of another force raised there upon pretence to be sent to forreign service some of which they practised should be brought up to take shipping at Dublin and thereabout lye in readinesse and the rest to lye in other parts near the Port towns of Ireland all to countenance and back the businesse They taking the advantage of certain Commissions all dated about May 1641 granted by the King to severall Commanders viz. One to Colonell Garret Barrie another to Colonel Tibbot Taaff now Lord Taaff another to Col. Iohn Barrie another to Sir Jeames Dillon all Irish Papists for raising levying for each of these Colonells 1000. menin Ireland out of those men formerly raised in that land by the Earl of Strafford and then lately disbanded The same Commissions purporting that they should be transported for the service of any Forreign Prince in Amitie with the King the rather to free Ireland of them These Commissions were in Iuly afterwards which was about three moneths before the breaking out of the Rebellion brought over and delivered by these Colonels to the Lord Justices and Councel of Ireland whereupon four thousand of the disbanded souldiers aforesaid were raised one Regiment whereof under the comand of the said Colonel Iohn Barrie was brought to the parts near Dublin the rest to other Ports of Ireland and there for a seeming defect of transportation and provision they hanckered and stayed for a good time yet seeming daily to prepare but the Irish Popish Knights and other Burgesses of the Parliament finding the Lord Justices and Councel forward to send them away moved extreamly in the Parliament House that they might not go out of the Land till the Kings pleasure should be further known The Lord Justices and Councel being thus extreamly importuned by the Parliament then grown strong in Irish were drawn to write into England signifying the Parliaments earnest desire therein yet gave no impediment to the going of those Regiments who in truth were sufficiently retarded by the vehement labour of Priests and Jesuites and some of the Parliament Papists amongst those Commanders so as they continued there for the most part till the Rebellion brake out And then perceiving their plot for surprizing of Dublin to be prevented Many Irish and other stangers hovered in England and London and the Suburbs the same time as I have been credibly informed they and all those before mentioned which came out of all the Counties as aforesaid unto and about Dublin dispersed and afterward became dexterous and ready actors in the insuing rebellion And although by divine providence this Plot were prevented in England and Scotland yet how it began and took effect in Ireland is too well known to those many eye witnesses who were inhumanly turned out of their estates and exposed to all the miseries of cold wet and hunger if not for increase of their miseries sharply wounded and maimed and was too well felt by others whose lives were torn and rent from them in this day of visitation appearing by the numerous examinations And before I make mention of the other things which you shall find in the ensuing tract give me leave to say somewhat of that delivered upon Oath by that Reverend and learned Preacher Henry Iones Doctor in Divinity as he heard it expressed and confessed unto him by two Friers Who relateth See the examination of Dr. Henry Iones Com. Dublin 337. dep that howsoever the first breaking out of the fire of this rebellion into a flame began but the 23 of October 1641. yet was it smoaking many years before God having given many glimpses for the discovery of it had they been duly considered or prosecuted to a discovery For