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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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 the King yet knew his Mind much better soon removed that Scruple and forthwith after the Lord Clarendon's departure with the chief of the Popish Clergy in Dublin with Whips and Scourges entred the said Chappel fell to lashing the Walls and Floar to whip out Heresy pulled down the Communion-Table and Seats and erected in it an Altar and took three or four of the old Souldiers Rooms adjoining to it for the Priests and Friars and while they exercised in the Chappel the old Souldiers for whose use and with whose Mony it was built were forced to have their Devotion in the open Hall where they used to eat their Meat and in the mean time a Libel was fixed upon the Doon of Christ-Church in Dublin to publish the Bains of Matrimony betwixt that Church and the See of Rome bidding any that could forthwith to shew cause why they should not be joined together So that now the Protestants expected no less than all their Churches to be taken from them but whether through the murmuring of the People or Orders from the King to the contrary they proceeded no further as yet in that Business only displaced all the Protestant Chaplains in the Army and gave their Places and Benefits to Popish Priests who thereupon began to wear black Cloaks made much like the Ministers Gowns and yet it was a Crime to say the King had broke his Promise and infringed the Rights of the Church of England for it seems taking away Consecrated Chappels and Colledges and giving its Members Livings to Popish Priests was not Infringing the Rights of the Church but maintaining them according to Law and it was so indeed according to the Laws of the Church of Rome for the King never mentioned what Law he therein meant and therefore did not break his Promise But before further progress was made in this Business it was thought fit to Summon all Corporations and Incorporated Bodies in them to surrender their Charters upon which Drogheda and two or three Towns more obeyed and one Thomson Chirurgeon to the Royal Regiment in Dublin being Master and a pretended Protestant to shew his Loyalty readily threw the Charter of the Corporation of Chirurgions in Dublin at Tyrconnel's feet and is lately come for England perhaps to get it renewed by King William or else for that good Service to get to be Chirurgeon to another Regiment here in England for certainly the Man's Loyalty well deserves it and cannot fail of his Brethrens Certificate for saving them the Charges others were exposed to in defending their Charters by Law which all such as did not surrender or were forced to do in the Exchequer where one of those a pretended Protestant sate worthily to Judg and give Sentence against them till all was done and is since likewise come for England to receive his Reward All Charters being thus taken away partly by Fraud partly by Force others were quickly prepar'd and in every of them scarce one Person mention'd in the Body of the Charter but Papists or such as were little better but particularly every Mayor Sheriff Portrief Suffren Bailiff Master Warden and Clerk were meer Papists except one Anth. Sharp a Quaker was made and there named Master of the Corporation of Weavers in Dublin and one Colvert much of the same Stamp of a new Corporation of Hosiers and by these the Common Councils and Councils of the several Companies were either all Papists or Cousin-Germans to Papists All the Protestant Chaplains that belonged to them put out and Popish Priests put in their places Most of the Protestant Justices and all the Protestant Sheriffs of every County except one turn'd out so that in one Year or a little more after Tyrconnel assum'd the Government there was very few down-right honest Protestant Officers either Civil or Military in the whole Kingdom of Ireland except those before named and one Keating who yet continued Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and one of the Privy Council and indeed was the best Friend the Protestants had there However things were not yet perfected for those named in the Charters were mostly so indigent and poor that they were scarce able with their whole Fortunes to pay three or fourscore Pounds which was the Fees of each Charter and all or most of the Protestants refused to contribute till they were compelled some of them imprisoned and forced to Habeas-Corpus's for their Liberty Tyrconnel disliking these Delays sent for some of the principal of them pressed them to the Business assuring them that if they would join with the Corporations and take out their Charters he would defray all Fees of each Charter above Twenty Pounds which would not amount to above five Shillings each Man at the most besides their Freedom of the City or Town which should be granted them at the same Rate and in case they continued still obstinate he must look upon them as obstinate and stubborn and disaffected to his Majesty's Government This made some for ease and others for fear comply and become again free but others who stood out to this time were hamper'd and had their Shops shut down frequently till the News of the Scale turning in England which then ceas'd But the peaceable Quakers who before would not under a Protestant Government take upon them so much as the Office of a Constable now under a Popish every where readily conform and two of the chief of them are made Aldermen of Dublin viz. Anthony Sharp before mentioned and Samuel Clarrage who are excused from taking Oaths and frequently sat in the Seat of Justice Clarrage is at last come for England and as busy about Whitehal and Westminster as he was with Tyrconnel While these things were thus prosecuted in Publick the Popish Clergy in all parts of the Kingdom were as busy in private Caballing and sending their fittest Messengers to Whitchal Rome France Spain and Germany to advise about and receive Instructions for compleating their Damnable Design of overwhelming and eradicating the Protestant Religion and Interest of Ireland in particular And the better to delude the poor sleeping Protestants Tyrconnel continually fed them with fresh Assurances of the King 's Gracious Resolutions of securing the Religion and Interest of the Protestants and that all this Work was only to have an honest Parliament that would take off the Penal Laws for ease of all Dissenters and that nothing could contribute more to the Advantage Quiet and Riches of any Government However God be praised all were not so stupissed but they did plainly discern to have Popish Parliaments and in Ireland meer Irish and such as should not only have destroyed the Protestants but the whole English Interest of Ireland which nothing but a gracious God and the glorious Instrument he used could have prevented as Affairs then stood but blessed be his Holy Name God was pleased on a sudden to blast all their Cursed Designs and for the present strike them mute there as well as in