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A84507	The Earl of Strafford's ghost complaining, of the cruelties of his countrey-men, in killing one another. And perswading all great men to live honestly, that desire to die honourably. Herein also are his bad practises manifested, and the sad condition of England and Ireland, express'd and commiserated.		1644 (1644)	Wing E84; Thomason E6_33; ESTC R7062	6,778	9

The Earle of STRAFFORDS GHOST Complaining Of the Cruelties of his Countrey-men in Killing one another And perswading all great Men to live honestly that desire to die Honourably Herein also are his bad Practises manifested and the sad Condition of ENGLAND and IRELAND Express'd and Commiserated I am not come againe to amaze the eye But the corrupted soule to terrifie Let not my shape affright you but my crimes For the securitie of future times LONDON Printed according to Order for G. Bishop August 22. 1644. The Earle of STRAFFORDS GHOST Complaining of the crueltie of his Countrey men in killing one another WHat still at it Countrey men Do's your thirst increase with your drunkennes Will nothing cure your dropsie but a generall devastation Are not your veines yet dry enough Is not the earth moist enough with your blood I little thought ye had lov'd me so dearly that for my sake ye would have all bled to death as I did and indeed had I mistrusted any such matter I would for your sakes have beene honest in spight of Honour and have liv'd to give my Soveraigne better counsell O the guilt that sticks upon my sad soule will never be wash'd off with these showers of blood and teares spare them deare Countrey men sheath not your swords in one another bowels till there be none left to punish nor any to perish pray make not me your example Alas I was a mightie Malefactour you are innocent I died because I was guiltie do not you make your selves guiltie by dying Indeed I was made an Instrument i' my life time to set these warres o'foot for which my afflicted Ghost haunted with horrour can take no rest as long as they continue ther 's not a man falls nor a wound given but I am sensible of it I smart for 't so closely am I follow'd by Divine Justice for betraying Innocency Consider O yee Mortalls that live i' the same state I died in what I might have been and what I am how bravely I might have liv'd how wretchedly I died and how justly I am tormented Survay the course I ran and shun it keepe from the Court 't is infectious be not bewitch'd with the vaine hope of greatnes purchase not honour with dishonestie lest your lives and fames perish together and your Ghosts hereafter affright your posteritie with dismall apparitions and the fearefull Relations of these bloodie broiles And O King I must not flatter thee now nor need I I am out of thy power Looke upon thy owne worke and consider how other Kings liv'd and died and what fame follow'd 'em that gave their minde● to Tyrannie to crueltie to murther Hast never an honest man about thee to lay these things before thee none but villaines at thy elbow still that seeke the ruine of thee and all thy Kingdomes why where are all thy Bishops now thou 't heare them they can if they please tell the strange and true Stories of the lives of thy Predecessors they have bin forward enough to bring thee on wher 's now their wisedome and learning their zeale and affection their power and pollicie to bring thee off againe What good have their counsels done thee Poore Ireland's desolate England's desperate and Scotland's in danger and can thy Bishops make thee beleeve that thy person is in safety when thy three Kingdoms are a fire about thy eares or that the Prince may prosper when his people perish Trust 'em no longer King they f●●tter thee for their own ends and feare onely their owne falls and that makes 'em endeavour to perswade thee that the Miter and the Crowne are inseparable They love thee for their owne honours not for thine for the benefit of Rome not of England they desire thou should'st live to be subject to them rather then thy people should live to be subject to thee and therefore according to their owne law and honestie these inhumane Massacres and Murders are cryed up and kept up by their care and counsell as convenient and necessary Wher 's little Land and great Canterbury all this while do's the Tower still keepe that grace and goodnesse together Hath the holy man wrought so many miracles that they cannot all this while be reckon'd up and set downe in a Chronicle I have look'd long for him and wonder he should be so slow to follow mee that was so forward to send me packing O how carefull he was at our first acquaintance to get me into favour at Court and make mee acquainted with a Duke of his owne condition that I might be hansomly handl'd betwixt 'em and screw'd up into a capacitie of furthering Court designes and abusing the Common-wealth He tooke a great deale of paines to make me a great Counceller that he might with the lesse pains bring me and the Kingdom to nothing I must forsooth be conversant with my King and flatter him this he told me would bring me along by the path of preferment to the honour I aim'd at so I follow'd his advice and prosper'd My carriage and my councells were so approv'd of that I was held a fit man to be a Governour Away I went for Ireland where my swelling thoughts appearing in my countenance I soon purchased to the satisfaction of my soul the respect of a Prince What was then to be done Meane actions are not fit for mightie men I must exceed my Predecessors and I must please my Soveraigne all fell out according to mine own heart for I could not doe the one but I must needs doe the other so I presently bent my endeavours to subvert the laws I lik'd not and made for mine own advantage what laws I listed The power of a Prince would no longer content me so that I caus'd many times the best men to be punish'd by the hands of the basest on purpose to have my actions grac'd with the name of tyranie This was the Government I aim'd at and to maintaine this I made bold by His Majesties leave to compell the people by force of Armes to obedience Thus their lives and liberties were at my disposure honour and wealth came flowing in upon me and ambition told mee I had found out the true way to be great and happy But for all this I was not unmindfull of the worke I was put upon I stuck close to my maine busines the rise of the Papists must be the ruine of the Protestant and whether I have not prov'd faithfull in that let the world judge But O monstrous ingratitude how am I rewarded O ye Irish English and Scot'sh Catholike Gentlemen what affront have I given you if your owne plots have wrought your own destructions what 's that to me I spent my life in your quarrell and now for my paines I am tossed from one side to another and not suffered to rest in my grave which way have I deserv'd this Wherein have I been disobedient to his Majestie or crosse to any of your wicked Counsells What have I

done to purchase reproach on your part nay what have I not done to merit your love and favour Did I not in my life time bring on the busines bravely Was it not I that arm'd the Irish Catholikes and disarm'd the Protestants on purpose to make you happie if heaven had had a minde to 't Was it not I that indeavour'd to make the English and Scottish Protestants worke themselves into a weake condition by setting the two Nations together by the eares when Arundell Digby Cottington Windebank ● had made way for the Spanish second Armado to second the busines 1639. Was it not I that laid huge taxes and impos'd great sums upon many Townes and houses in Ireland and forc'd payment by my souldiers in a warlike manner Did not I with my Troopes compell divers great Lords and Gentlemen there to forsake their own possessions and yeeld up their rights i' their livings contrary to Law and Justice Did not I am many other unlawfull and unconscionable enterprises enhaunce the rates of al customarie commodities and make restraint of their transportation at my pleasure and all to bring in money to maintaine the then intended Rebellion and the wars like to follow it Did not I also for the same cause become the onely Merchant of Tobacco in Ireland as his Majestie did of Gunpowder in England The ingrossing of two such commodities by a King and his Vice-ray are worthy the worlds observation Did I not besides restore your Frieries and Masse-Houses and force a new Oath upon the Protestant to tie him to the observation of all Church Ceremonies in use for the present or to be hereafter established by his Majesties authoritie Did not Canterbury and I when we perceiv'd we could not cousin the Parliament of so many Subsidies as we thought would serve our turnes to undoe the Kingdome cause it to be broke up and did I not then promise his Maiestie to bring downe the sturdy stomacks of His people by my Irish Catholike Armie Did I not further perswade his Majestie to reviue the levying of Ship-money and to punish many Sheriffes of the Counties about that and other payments for being obstinate honest men And did I not threaten the Lord Maior and Sheriffes of London at the Councell-Table for not yeelding to a busines of the like nature Was not I the cause of some of the Aldermen of Londons commitments for not discovering the abilities of their neighbou●s And were not all these things done for your sakes Yes yee know they were and yee lik'd 'em well enough and mee too all the vvhile yee prosper'd VVhen the Rebellion in Ireland grew to such a height that yee supposed no power could hinder your conquest when ye were either bloody actors willing spectators or joyfull hearers of the Stories of those horrid massacres and when the men money and Armes sent over by the Parliament his Majestie desiring it against the Rebells were again by your counsells at his Maiesties command made use of by the Rebells against the Protestants then were my actions of high esteem and my Name was famous amongst you O you Romane Catholike Courtiers you that are still mighty men with his Majestie can you not worke your wills in England yet No new project No quaint device to cleere the Kingdome of Protestants Did I begin to work so handsomly and can you not goe forward can you not finish't Have not the lazie Irish done their worke at home yet that they may move with a full body and make an end of their Tragedie here to you● eternall content But oh Eternall did I say Did you with your clamours raise me from my grave to have my counsell Did you in serious sadnesse take it then proceed not in these dangerous and damnable courses except ye have no soules or know no God remember the word Eternall and be confident that such works as you are now in hand with cannot be finished in this world Y' are content for the present to hear of the cruell slaughter of your innocent Countrey-men and think your selves safe under the wings of your Soveraigne but the more security the more danger Take heed ye be not couzen'd of your lives as I was remember the word Eternall and make preparation for a better world before y● leave this that 's the worse for ye and growes weary of ye Be accessary to no more blood y 'ave waded deep already consider my condition that am hurried as in a whirl-wind from one place to another now I am in York straight in London by and by in Ireland and in every place suffer varietie of afflictions according to my crimes Here I am plagu'd for my bad Councells there for my worse actions in one place for my Ambition in another for my luxurie but every where for being accessary to this h●llish Plot of murthering Christians In York I am much tormented in London more in Ireland most of all where many times as in a Theater the bloody Tragedies I made way for in my life time are presented to my view The lamentable cries of my own Countrey-men inhumanely murthered affright me on one side and the damnable oathes and execrations of the perfidious Rebells terrifie me on the other The high wayes and fields are strew'd with mangl'd Carcases some dead o pittifull some dying o miserable but many lame and wounded lie gasping and groaning expos'd to the lingring rage of cold and hunger O intollerable Sometimes I meet with hundreds of men women and children stark naked running from one death to meet another as rather trusting to the fury of frost and snow then to the mercy of the insulting Enemy These are no sooner out of my view but as many more betraid by promise of quarter are rob'd and strip'd in my sight by a crew of periur'd villaines that show they are uncapable of mercy themselves by denying mercy to Innocents that beg it I have bin forc'd to behold with horror as I am now to report with paine the eruelty exercis'd upon Ministers by Monsters some I have seen cut in pieces some whipt some hang'd up cut down quarter'd and their mouthes stop'd with their members others I have seen hang'd and their flesh pull'd from their bones in the sight of their wives and some tyed to tre●s whil'st the basest of the rabble have ravished their wives and daughters before their faces and then hang'd up their parents in the sight of their children I have seen men and women set upon burning hot Gridirons and others tortur'd by clapping hot Tongs to their hands and feet to make 'em discover their hidden Treasure Young virgins have been bound and ravished by the Rebells whereof somo have had their tongues cut out that the cruelty might be conceal'd and others been script and turn'd naked amongst the common Souldiers I have beheld young infants rosted upon spits before their Parents faces whilst they have been tyed in Chaires and forc'd to be wofull spectators of their