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A85531	The plott and progresse of the Irish rebellion. Wherein is discovered the Machavilian policie of the Earle of Straford, Sir George Ratcliffe and others. Shewing what countenance that rebellion hath had against the Protestants of England, (which doth now too manifestly appeare) by his Majesties granting a free and generall pardon to the rebells in Ireland. And authorizing the calling of a new Parliament in Ireland, according to the rebells desires, of late condiscended unto at Oxford. Printed and published according to order.	Crant, Thomas.	1644 (1644)	Wing G1523; Thomason E50_1; ESTC R10644	8,639	17

evidently see what his Plott with others was as I hope to produce such conducing Circumstances as may satisfie the hearts of all good Christians for others that are or may bee of the same faction I leave for who are blinder then they that will not see A Minister who lived in the County of Kildare in Ireland had some Conference with a Popish Priest living not farre from him who informed the Minister of a Plott that was contrived beyond Sea against the Protestants in Ireland relating that the Irish intended to rise shortly and that he had seen Letters to that purpose from beyond sea and that those letters were in such a Closet with such a Jesuite in such a mans house naming every particular this was about Aprill 1639. The Minister finding the Priest serious went along with him to the Earle of Straford to the Castle of Dublin waited his opportunitie in the Gallerie and at last presented this Priest to the said Earle expressing that hee had informed him of a Plott the Papists had against the Protestants the Earle answered 't was some busie-pated knave or other being urged he could say much replyed what could he say the Priest being taken privately by the Earle to the further end of the Gallerie after halfe an houres space was dismist there was given him by his Lordships Command twenty pounds a horse and a suite of clothes to conceale the matter and Commanded never to appeare againe which according to his Commands was obeyed Time began to draw on the Earle of Straford was to returne to England but before hee went was pleased to expresse that if ever hee returned to regulate that honourable Sword againe hee would leave neither roote nor branch of the Scottish Nation in that Kingdome Well over hee goeth to the North of England where hee intended the stroake should be strooke betweene the Armies it pleased God to prevent beyond the Expectation of men The Earle was taken notice of and according to his merit was requited Is this all No as now 't is evident by the relation of some Irish Jesuites and others that as soone as the stroake was strooke by the Armies betweene England and Scotland which was to be about Michaelmasse 1640. the Earle of Straford was to returne for Ireland then was it that the Irish Armie being drawn down to the North as aforesaid was to fall upon all the Inhabitants Scots and English thereabouts and so the Irish to fall upon all the English and Scots Protestants in that Kingdome but not to murther them in such a massacring way they only were to secure their persons and estates till further order and that they were called to an accompt for their religion and then refusing should suffer Their Plott failing in this particular the Irish waited on as amazed to see the issue of their Earle as they after tearm'd him 't was May following before his head was taken off and after that the Irish Armie was disbanded which was no small vexation to the Irish as may further appeare in the Irish Remonstrance to his Majestie that being their sixt grievance they must then another way to worke their agents being in England they waited their return and taking their advantage of the yeare after Harvest the 23. of October 1641. began their bloody massacre Donnagh Mac Guire the Lord of Eneskillings Uncle and Hugh Mac Mahoune the said Lords Secretarie and chiefe Counsellour affirmed that they should have begun that time twelve-moneth had the Lord of Straford returned according to expectation and also they exprest that there were the like distempers in England and that Plott was for the three Kingdomes and had the Castle of Dublin beene taken they would have sent fourtie thousand men to England Being opposed by the hearer that he could not beleeve that the Earle had any hand in such a businesse they affirmed hee had and was to be Lord of Ireland as in former ages they had and that they would not begin when they heard his head was off but forbore till harvest was in and nights long that they might set themselves in a posture of warre For they well knew how easie it was in Summer for England and Scotland to send an Armie to qualifie them Some notice may be taken of the Earles words before hee parted with his head speaking of a Reformation in Charracters of blood and that there was a Cloud impending which since hath proved too true to our wofull experience What will not ambitious Machavilians attempt to make them and their posterity great Most certaine it is by relation of those that were about the Lord Ambassadour to Spaine that about Michaelmasse 1640. the Jesuites Priests and Friers in Spaine expected to heare newes of the distempers in Ireland the Rebellion I meane upon which the Lord Ambassadour sent to the Court in England to know the certaintie returne was made all well and quiet yet the said Lord Ambassadour stayed in Spaine till about Michaelmasse 1641. all that whole yeare the Jesuits Priests c. expected daily to heare of disturbance in Ireland Each particular seriously considered and compared one with another I beleeve may satisfie any reasonable man that the said Earle must needs have a hand in the Plott of Ireland Sir George Ratclife may be so farre taken notice of that he stormed very much against the Church warden of Saint Warbres Parish in Dublin for presenting a Masse-house that was newly erected within foure or five houses of the Castle gate in which Masse was frequently said and he Commanded the presentment to be cast forth of the Court and never could further endure the said Churchwarden There is no wonder in this for all men that knew him might quickly discerne his inclination to that Idolatrous Babilonian whore Now since this massacring act it hath been frequently spoken by the Rebells that what they did was by Commission which still they justifie Let all Christians stand here amazed to behold the cessation of Armes to be granted to such Butcherly Hell-hounds who have wallowed and embrewed their hands in the destruction of at least two hundred thousand Protestants of men women and children which will be particularly proved if occasion be offered Yet it is reported that there is Brian mac Neale the Ferry-mans sonne of Strangford in Ireland who hath assumed the name of O Neale one of those that at first should have surprized the Castle of Dublin and who is now made Knight and Barronet called Sir Brian O Neale that doth justifie to his Majestie that there was not above tenne persons destroyed in all Vlster Againe their Remonstrance set forth intituled A Remonstrance of Grievances presented to his most Excellent Majestie in the behalfe of the Catholicks of Ireland wherein the Rebels doe declare and turne the whole Rebellion on the Protestants and stand on their own iustification that what Massacries were committed were done by the English Are not these a people to be had in high estimation committing

THE PLOTT AND PROGRESSE OF THE JRISH REBELLION WHEREIN Is discovered the Machavilian Policie of the Earle of Straford Sir George Ratcliffe and others Shewing what Countenance that Rebellion hath had against the Protestants of England which doth now too manifestly appeare by his Majesties granting a free and generall Pardon to the Rebells in Ireland And Authorizing the Calling of a New Parliament in Ireland according to the Rebells desires of late Condiscended unto at Oxford Printed and Publshed according to Order LONDON Printed by I. N. for Henry Twyford at the three Daggers in Fleet-street 1644. THE PLOTT And Progresse of the Irish REBELLION LOoke into all Machavillian Pollicies they first pretend unto a seeming good as may appeare in the Goverment of Ireland under the Lord Lievtenant Straford in his first comming to regulate the sword with an austere hand of Justice over all seeming to befriend and ease the Subjects from a letigious course of Law and Monopolized the major part of Causes and reduced them to an Arbitrary Government 2. The advantage raised unto his Majesty by affording agreater Revenue for the customes of Ireland then formerly was given and so a grant of farming the customes was afforded 't was said to Sir George Ratclife the world may be satisfied for whose use it was then presently customes were enhanced of all forts as Yarne Tallow Hide Butter c. and especially Tobacco from six pence to two shillings in the pound by which increased an estate by any unjust exaction from the Subject 3. In obtaining thirty thousand Arms Ammunition Artillery c. pretending for the security of the Kingdome then the confiscating of the lands of Conaught to bring them to the Crowne as also divers other Estats in that Kingdome by which it might seeme to his Majesty and the state of England good service done to the Crowne it cannot be denied but that the said Lord Lievtenant shewed himselfe very severe against the Natives neither were the British much favoured when they came under his hand This is but a preamble for their intended project Touching matters regulated in the Church it is worth a consideration what innovations were crept in and in the regulating of Ecclesiasticall iurisdiction as the High Commission Court 't is worth observation that what power the Bishop of Derry Bramble in clawing and never ending for 〈◊〉 not onely his fellow Soveraign Bishops but also Arch Bishops to void tennants estats and enhancing rents nigh the double value what formerly they were this may conduce ●o a Romish pollicy to keepe the Subject as poore as may be that when time serves to inact farther and impose on them 〈…〉 they please so the tennants as the Tribe of Jssachar must ●eare what Levi would impose on them in a temporall Government as also the high Commission Court being so prevalent that Hillary Tearme last 1643. at Dublin in which Doctor Harding was censured to be degraded of his ministeriall function and also of his degrees in the Colledge and after to be left to be proceeded against at Common Law the cause alleadged was for maintaining Blasphemy in the Colledge about foure yeares since alleadging he should declare that 't was injustice in God to condemne Adam for eating the apple another charge there was laid against him for causing a booke to be printed in Dub lin though he had the approbation of the Arch-Bishop of Dublin entituled Irelands advocate being none of his owne worke but sent by an acquaintance of his from England in manuscript and he putting it to the presse with an Epistle Dedicated to Sir Iohn Temple of his owne framing in which booke they picke forth treason as they tearme it the first exception is because the Authour is invective against Bishops the other was in an other place of the booke giving the Almighty thankes for the severall deliverances that England hath had from the plots of the Papists as instancing that of 88. and that of the 5. of November and that of the 4. of Ianuary at which of the 4. of Ianuary they storme and inferre to be treason interpreting that was the day his Majesty with his attendance went to demand the five members forth of the house of Parliament and therefore conceived treason for rancking or comparing that day to the known Papisticall plotts and for ought as yet is known he is like to loose his life and the bookes that could be found printed were adjudged by the said high Commission Court to be burnt by the hand of the hangman which accordingly was done This is not the bondage aymed at but one far deeper the spirituall bondage of the soule as looke into that Cozen-jerman to plaine Popery Superstitious and Alter-like Service how it was enforced throughout that Kingdome of Ireland and they that refused how severely they were handled in the high Commission Court 't is two well known that divers Ministers that refused that way were forced to quit that Kingdome especially some in the North. Power being once prevalent both in State and Church then time served to set forward that Diabolicall plot for the ruine and destruction of the Protestant Religion in the three Kingdomes of England Scotland and especially Ireland and the first practice as well 't is observed by the authour of the Booke intituled The Mysterie of iniquitie yet working Scotland not resenting to what the Prelates would have forced in their Church tooke Armes to defend their Religion a Passification was ye●lded to by his Majestie till after invited by the Earle of Strafford and others to take armes De nove hee having prepared matters sufficiently in Ireland pretending against the Scots and so drew downe an Armie of eight thousand of which 't is well knowne of Officers and souldiers there were not nigh one thousand Protestants to the Scottish shoare where the inhabitant Scot of that Kingdome of Ireland was by his Commands disarmed and Garrisons planted from Strankford to London-Derrie along the shoare-side Matters then beginning to come to a ripenesse the Earle of Straford brought with him into that Kingdome of Ireland at his last going over one Sir Toby Mathews an arch Jesuite made him his Comrade observed none was more honoured by him then this grand Jesuite Now observe how easie a matter it is for a Jesuite once understanding the intent to state the hearts of other Jesuites Friers Seminaries c. and then how easie a matter 't is for them to state the hearts of all their people and adherents any man may judge that knoweth any thing So then if the Lord Strafford did shew himselfe never so great a Tyrant as certaine hee did not only to the Natives but also to the Brittish the rather to cast a cloud before the State of England then otherwayes how easie it was for the Jesuites Priests c. to informe the Common people that hee was for all their good though hee shewed himselfe otherwayes to them as time hath brought it forth Wee may now