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A25876 An Account of the publick affairs in Ireland, since the discovery of the late plot 1679 (1679) Wing A376; ESTC R8265 8,159 27

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several Counties who were to take such Arms and give Receipts for what they took and send the same to his Majesties Stores That the Justices of the Peace and Officers of the Army should after the time expired search for and seise the Arms of unlicensed Persons or if they found more Arms than were expressed with those that had License they were to bind the Delinquents over to the next Assizes or Sessions of the County And all Persons of the Popish Religion and all Merchants and others retailers of Powder were required to send in an account of their Stores if the same exceeded one pound and of any Powder which they might afterwards receive Another Proclamation issued forbidding Papists to come into the Castle of Dublin or into any Fort or Citadel of that Kingdom Appointing also that the Fairs and weekly Markets of certain places viz. Drogheda Wexford Cork Limerick Waterford Youghal and Galloway be thenceforth kept without the Walls of the said Garrisons And that Papists be not suffered to continue or reside in the said Towns or in any Corporations where Garrisons were kept unless they had for the greatest part of twelve months past inhabited in such Towns And that no persons of the Popish Religion any ways armed be suffer'd to come into the said Fairs or Markets And also strictly requiring all Papists to forbear any unseasonable or night-Meetings or in great or unusual Numbers in any part of the Kingdom And commanding all Officers Civil and Military to be careful to prevent and dissolve all such Meetings to commit the principal Offenders to Prison till they find good security to answer the same the next Sessions and to return an account of their Proceedings therein with the Names of such as occasioned or countenanced the same unto the Council-Board Another Proclamation issued the same day promising a Reward of 10 l. for every Commission'd Officer 5 l. for every Trooper and 40 s. for every Foot-Souldier to such as should discover any of them to have been perverted to the Romish Religion or heard Mass who had formerly taken the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy And the like to the Discoverer of any that should afterwards be perverted Besides that It was a Rule begun in the present Lord Lieutenant's first Government after the King's Restauration and ever since continued That the Muster-master should check the Pay of every Officer and Souldier of the Army who does not produce a Certificate from the Bishop or Minister of the Place of his having taken the Sacrament according to the Church of England twice every Year That being Informed That several of the Titular Bishops and Regular Clergy had not obeyed the Proclamation of the 16 th of October last for their Departure there issued a circular Letter from the Lord Lieutenant and Council whereby all Justices of the Peace are commanded to make deligent search after them to commit them to Prisons and to return the Names of their Receivers and Harbourers that they might be proceeded against according to Law Another Proclamation issued highly resenting the slackness of the Justices c. in executing the late Proclamation for searching after and seizing of Arms requiring therefore a further search and proposing a method for preventing of forged Licenses And to look upon all who should be remiss in their Duties as Contemners of the King's Authority and proceeded against as the Abettors of those who disturb the Peace Another Proclamation issued taking notice of a Letter scattered in the Streets of Dublin intimating a Conspiracy against the Life of the Lord Lieutenant promising Protection and 200 l. Reward unto the Discoverer And it afterwards appear'd that one Jephson a young man perverted from his Religion by some Irish Priests was a Party engaged in that Design and two Irish Priests his Abettors therein were taken and put into Custody and their Examinations transmitted to the Council here and from thence sent to the House of Lords There were two great Questions among others under the serious Debate of the Lord Lieutenant and Council from whence much ill grounded Reflection hath arisen The one about securing the principal Heads of the most considerable Clans or Families of the Irish who have lost their Estates some supposing that it might conduce to the safety of the English if such Heads were in restraint and that their Followers would not then presume or adventure to run into Rebellion But upon serious Considerations it was thought That such a proceeding might rather quicken a Rebellion than prevent it For the Numerous Followers who depended wholly upon their Masters Interest and Authority for the support of themselves and Families being angred or afrighted at the ill usage of their Principals and being loosned from all Dependances might rather put themselves upon some unlawful way of Living by turning Tories than intrust themselves to the pleasure of the Government and in the quality of Tories they would be equally mischeivous and especially to the English dispersed in their remote Dwellings as a small Rebellion Besides this further reason did dissuade the taking up these chief men as Hostages For if their Followers were but few they could not do the English much hurt as they are but if strong and numerous it would be easily in their power to surprize so many English Gentlemen living in their remote and scattered Dwellings in the Country as would soon redeem such Hostages and thereby render all the Charge and Care of such an Undertaking fruitless and only serve to breed ill blood So that the Lord Lieutenant hath in some measure steered a different Course by shewing civility and giving good words to such of the Heads of the Irish as come neer him whereby he finds out early what is doing among their Dependants and hath conceived this method of obviating Dangers more safe than either by Rigors to compel them or their Followers to live always in Conjunction and talk of their misfortunes or by Imprisonment of so many of the Nobility of a Kingdom without Crimes objected or Commands from hence incur the Censure of Arbitrary Proceedings which are neither safe or fit for him to bear Another Point which hath been under Consideration before the Lord Lieutenant and Council was a Proposal for dreyning the Corporations especially those that are Garrison'd from the numbers of Irish Papists that live among them in order to prevent any Surprise or Private Conspiracy But when it was reflected on That notwithstanding the several Orders and Proclamations that have from time to time been issued from the Government for the Expulsion of Irish Inhabitants and Servants from the Towns and Garrisons and that very few in respect of the number complained of were Licensed to return It was manifest that it was the English themselves who did in most places receive them in again for their own advantage not knowing well how to live without them They wanted Servants and Tenants and Tradesmen for of such