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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

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 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

England with the News of the Prince of Orange's intending for England which no sooner arrived but Tyrconnel prepared to send several Detachments of the then standing Forces for England and accordingly sent away about 3000 of the fairest and likeliest of the Foot who were to be followed by more till they began to fear if they did that the Protestants who they knew they had deserved no better from might rise against them and therefore forbore that part of the Design for the present and forthwith speeded the raising of more Forces and by Christmass had their Army which before consisted of about 5000 Horse and Foot after the others came for England compleat 30000 Men and before the beginning of March without so much as beat of Drum or a Penny Charge to the King Tyrconnel had compleated the following Regiments of Horse Foot and Dragoons as they stood March 15. 1688 9. The Old standing Forces 1. Lord Deputy Horse 2. Lord Galmoy Horse 3. Col. Russel Horse 4. Lord Clancarthy 5. Lord Montjoy 6. Lt. Gen. Mac-Carthy 7. Sir Thomas Nucome 8. Royal Regiment New-raised Forces Leinster 9. Lord Deputy's Dragoons 10. Lord Deputy's Foot. 11. Ld Dungan's Dragoons 12. Lord Slane's Foot. 13. Lord Duleeke 14. Lord Clanmalier 15. Col. Moore 16. Col. Kevenah 17. Col. Vxbridge 18. Col. Butler of Ballyraget 19. Col. Butler Lord Galmoy's Brother 20. Col. Nugent 21. Col. Dillion 22. Lord Gormonstown 23. Sir Maurice Eustace Munster 24. Earl of Tyrone 25. Viscount Clare 26. Sir Vallentine Brown. 27. Sir John Fitz-Gerald 28. Sir James Cotter 's Dragoons 29. Col. Mac-Carthymoore 30. Col. Mac-Carthy Reagh 31. Col. John Barret 32. Col. O-Donovane 33. Col. Butler of Killiash 34. Lieut. Col. Fitz-Gerald alias Mac-Thomas 35. Col. Nic. Brown. Ulsser 36. Earl of Antrim 37. Viscount Jveagh 38. Lord Louth 39. Col. Cormick O-Neal 40. Col. Bryan Mac-Mahone 41. Col. Gorden O-Neal Connaught 42. Lord Clanrickard 43. Lord Galmoy 44. Col. John Bourke 45. Col. Iriell Farrell 46. Col. Henry Mac-Toole 47. Col. O-Neale 48. Sir Mich. Creagh Some consisting of 20 22 or 24 Hundred So that the whole amounted to about 80000 compleatly Accoutred and Disciplin'd all rais'd cloath'd and kept till that time at the proper Charge of their several Officers many of which were before but Taylors Coblers and such others as perhaps were scarce able to procure before Bread for their Families but now for managing this Blessed Cause sell all that ever they have and their Friends too to carry on the Holy Design In the mean time while the Men were raising Tyrconnel ordered all the Gun-smiths Carpenters and Joyners to be forthwith imployed for cleansing stocking and locking all the old Fire-Arms and the Cutlers for cleansing and sheathing the Swords which since the last Wars had lain rusting in the Stores and such as refused were sent to Prison till they comply'd who besides the old Locks were promis'd for each Musquet 10s and every Pistol 6s but when they will get it I know not some they were paid all along to keep Life and Soul together So that with the Arms he had the Summer before received from England Tyrconnel had not only Arms for his whole Army but many more and by the Priests had made all the other Papists in the Kingdom the Men to Arm themselves with Half-pikes and Skeins or Bayonets and the Women with Skeins or Bayonets and in case after a certain day any in the Country went to Mass without those Arms they were by the Priests obliged to pay a Shilling and curst by Bell Book and Candle So that in less than five months ** time the whole Body of the Irish Papists were every where Armed to the great terror of the Protestants and as they were naturally inclin'd to Theft so now they were by Authority put into an excellent condition to perform it which with the inability of the new Officers to maintain them upon destroying the Protestants which at first they began moderately by way of stealth in the Night but when the Owners began to grumble and complain to no purpose with much more violence and boldness and by degrees increased their Spoils till at length in open Day they spared not before the Owners Faces to drive away together often from one Man 100 sometimes 1000 Sheep 20 30 40 50 or 60 Cows Oxen and the like and such as would not drive and were not for their purpose they kill'd and carried away the Skin Hide and Tallow and left the dead Carkasses as dirty and useless as they could fit for nothing but Vermin and such as was not for their own purpose they drove or kill'd and carried to Fairs and Markets and sold to others of their own Breed who had not so much Courage and a little more Honesty than to steal a fat Weather which six or seven Months before was worth 9 or 10s for 1s and a fat Ox worth 3 or 4 〈◊〉 for 12 or 〈◊〉 a Cow of 50 s. for 5 or 6. s. But at length they proceeded further even to take away the Corn and Houshold-goods so that he that over-night was worth 9 or 4000l the next day or week had not a Morsel to put in his Head or Rag to hang on his Back but what Charity he received from other Protestants not yet so absolutely ruined At length they were so glutted with these Spoils that they began to be more absolute and fent or went to the Houses of such as their Mercy had not yet destroyed and supposed to have any Mony threatning that if they did not forthwith or within a certain time by them limited deliver to them such Sums as their Moderation thought fit to demand they would and did burn their Houses and Corn kill and leave their Cattel dead upon the Ground Among the rest one Franeis Baker a Merchant in Youghill in particular having in the County of Tipperary a stock of fat Cattel went about the latter end of January last to fetch them home hoping they might be more secure in Barrels and a Town of reasonable strength than in the open Fields but as he was marching a Crew of the new-raised Irish Forces met and demanded of him whither he was driving those Cattel and told him they had more right to them than he and unless he satisfied them must be content to leave them behind him whereupon he was forthwith forced to pay for those his own Cattel 15 or 16l Sterling which was as much as they would have yielded in their Mountain Markets And to be short the Spoil was so general and great that in December and part of January last they had destroyed in the Counties of Cork and Kerry above 4000 Head of black Cattel as Cows and Oxen and there and in the County of Tipperary 2 or 300000 Sheep And so in all other parts especially the Provinces of Minister and Leinster proportionably so that before the beginning of February it was thought they had destroyed in all parts of Kingdom

Hereticks so these poor Creatures had no sooner parted with their Arms but they were all bound and drove like Dogs to the Goal of Galloway and the last Assizes there condemn'd to be Drawn Hang'd and Quartered but upon the second of April got a Reprieve for a month One Brown a Man of considerable Fortune was going with them but fearing to get thorough returned back went to a neighbouring Justice and told him where he had been but disliking the Enterprize was returned in obedience to the Lord Deputy's Proclamation of Pardon to give Security for his future good Behaviour however was forthwith by a strong Guard sent prisoner to Cork and was there afterwards tryed and executed for High-Treason while King James was there And in Phillips-town in the Kings County there are Sir Laurence Parsons and about 50 more under the same condemnation and in Marisborough in the Queen's County 13 or 14 and in several other parts the like numbers whose particulars are not yet come to the Authors hands which were taken much after the same manner Other parts being thus reduced Mac-Carty Forthwith drew all the Forces in Munster against Bandon a Town which till these Times never permitted a Papist to dwell within its Wallt and likewise forced them to Surrender and give five of their Town Hostages for the payment of 1000l for the trouble they had given his Army 500l of which they paid down and the other five was remitted upon a Petition to King James upon his landing at Kingsale During these Hurries in other parts there was not any rising in the County or City of Dublin however all were not idle but several Active Spirits a knot of six or seven in particular whose Names are not convenient to be mentioned here being most still under the Papists Lash promoted as 't was thought principally by one who upon the landing of the now King William in England for his Religion was singled out to taste of Popish Mercy with an Intent to seize the Castle and Guards of Dublin and send Tyrconnel for England And for the better effecting thereof had by Stratagems caused most of the Protestants there to Arm themselves though at the same time they knew not what for further than in case any Attempt were made by the Papists upon their Lives by way of Massacre as they certainly intended till happily discovered by an unknown Hand of their own Party to a Protestant Lord on the 5th of December which so allarm'd all Protestants that it was in vain to attempt it after and especially while the Protestants were any where in Arms for that would have made all desperate and not so easily to be reduced as they were but before the Protestants of Dublin could bring their business to bear and get Ammunition enough to resist such Force as might be brought against them before they could expect Supplies from England Tyrconnel began to suspect them and forthwith call'd such Supplies and Numbers of Horse and Foot thither that with what was there before made up 14 or 15000 Men whose Number and Presence spoil'd that great Project which otherwise was so well laid that it had certainly taken effect if put in execution and brought Tyrconnel for England and so saved the extream Ruin and Devastation the Protestants have since suffered through his Villany For any time before that great Force came to Dublin which was at the beginning of February 5000 Men well Arm'd in that City and commanded had been sufficient with what was ready and might have bin raised there to reduce not only Dublin but all Ireland But the noise of the forementioned designed Massacre and the Sufferings of others put People to the flight for England so fast and made those that stayed so dubious that it was hard to know who to trust there under the Nose of the Government and there was not one Person of Quality then there that would undertake to Head them tho often importuned and assured of 4000 Men well Arm'd at two hours warning and many of them well exercised and so many resolute good Souldiers as would have attempted to seize the Guards About this time a French Man landed at Cork and rid post to Dublin with assurance from King James to Tyrconnel of his speedy coming to his relief and on Friday the 22d of Feb. two of his Officers that had escaped from the Isle of Wight came privately to the Castle of Dublin and continued there in cognito till Sunday following about 10 at night then on a suddain the noyse was spread all over the Kingdom that the King was landed with 5000 Men and that the two forementioned Officers came with the Express to the Lord Deputy which on a sudden put all into hurries and where Bonfires were not immediately made the Souldiers broke the Windows Signs and Doors and rifled the Houses and the next Morning by six of the Clock strong Guards were placed at the end of every Street and every Gate about the City and Suburbs of Dublin and all others of any Note and Strength So that it was generally concluded by the Protestants there were Forces landed from England but they were soon undeceived being all disarm'd and eis'd of their Horses which for the present was judged by every place to be only in it self but was soon known to be general to all parts where their Power could then reach In Dublin they seized all the Churches to put the Arms in which not being brought according to their expectation Tyrconnel issued out a Declaration that all such as had yet detain'd their Arms should forthwith deliver them up upon peril of being left to the mercy of his Souldiers and that Gentlemen might keep their wearing Swords however some broke them to pieces others flung them into Ditches and Rivers where many were afterwards found and some kept them still The two next days they sent Forces to suppress those of Summerhil before-mentioned and one Price who had been Treasurer formerly was with a Party of 4 or 500 Horse and Foot in a Castle in the County of Wicklow 20 miles on the other side of Dublin who took Price and several others and committed them Prisoners to Newgate in Dublin and the rest to Wicklow whither Price and the rest were after four days carried and Indicted for High-Treason but all the Irish being gone for Souldiers and the English fled out of the Country there could not be a Jury got but against whom they made Exceptions for want of Freehold so that their Trial was remitted to the Term now at the writing of this sitting in Dublin in the mean time all but seven were bailed and after with their Bail fled for England where most of them now are to confirm the Tragical Story Tyrconnel having thus easily succeeded so far the same week sent 24000 Men towards the North under the command of Lieutenant General Hamilton who was once a Prisoner here with several Field-pieces and Mortars who upon the first of