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A26736	A declaration of the Irish armie in Ulster sent to the Parlament in a letter from William Basill, Esquire, Atturney [sic] General of Ireland, which letter and declaration are ordered by the Parlament to bee [sic] printed, and were referred to the Council of State to see it don[e] accordingly : to which is added som[e] Remarques thereupon, by a private pen.	Basill, William.; Private pen.; Ireland. Army.	1650 (1650)	Wing B1025; ESTC R17302	14,182	26

own And the first apparent Act of their gratitude for giving over the prosecution of that plantation and receiving them into such special intimacie was their Barbarous Murther and Assassination of the English and their endeavor to exstirpate all Monuments not onely of the English name but of every thing of civilitie that was brought thither by them and yet after this the same favors continued to them by that King and all endeavors used by him to keep them from just punishment for their perpetrated nameless matchless wickedness in Comparison whereof the Sicilian Vespers the Parisian Nuptials and the Mattens of the Valtoline have lost much of their fame and must give place in all thoughts of abhorrencie to the infernal actions of these Monsters And the grants after made them in favor of Poperie by Ormond in his first Treatie with them and those additional secret ones by Glamorgan which his own Instructions take notice of as such as were not fit for him publickly to grant by Ormond his Lieutenant as hee called him or as the condition of his affairs then stood openly to own all these things which to open largely were the subject of a Volume and can bee here but touched do evidence beyond contradiction that the Interest to which those loyall souls do with so great candor and integritie adhere is the Interest of Poperie as agreed to bee made subservient to the ultimate Roiall Interest of absolute Tyranny And yet these poor Scots must bee bored through the nose with a bulrush and made believ that this Interest and their Kirk-Interest are verie reconciliable in that Communi tertio of the King 's sacred Majestie And that they might well enough agree if it were not for Ill-affected Members that would caus som misunderstanding between them They would make them believ that at the breaking out of the Rebellion in Ireland which they will needs call a War they had no quarrel against the Scottish Nation but 't was brought on and occasioned by this partie working division Indeed 't is true that for a few of the first daies after the beginning of that horrid Butcherie they did forbear the Scotch Nation knowing their good natures such as they would bee content to sit still and see the English destroied so they might escape there would bee the more room for Colonies of their Nation And it would bee much more easie to deal with one Nation then with both And also for that they knew the Scots had then in Scotland som formed forces standing that might in few hours have been transported beeing once at the water's side that might have much distracted their proceeding till they had made som good progress in their execrable work But when they had destroied the most of the English save those in strong Towns and found that the Scots were onely upon Treatie for sending of forces which were not like to arrive so soon but that they might without danger deal also with them They then let Them as well as the English taste of their humanitie as to all their gudes and gear And that they did not so generally fall upon their lives is not to bee imputed to their Mercie becaus they knew they should die often or bee long a dying and feel themselvs to bee so by beeing compelled to return into Scoland believing that transmigration to bee wors then that into the other world And yet now th●se Scots can bee all one with these Irish against the English for carrying on the Interest of their King according to the Covenant against the Common-wealth of England and present Government of it upon whom they bestow the free expressions of their natural dialect dignifying them with the honorable Epithets of Vpstarts and basest abortive Scum of this Kingdom This dirt of theirs wee shall cast aside and not trouble our selvs to answer onely tell them there are none in the Government of England but are descended from Adam and have no ambition to derive themselvs higher And our envie shall never carrie us against so evident demonstration as their natural disposition and constant manner of life hold's out in all their convers both among themselvs and towards others to denie that they bee derived from a stem of som hours greater antiquitie unless anie could believ notwithstanding their bodies that they are the Children of that Father who according to the opinion of som good Antiquaries was creäted before this visible world Abortive and Scum are fit flowers for their invective notwithstanding the Abortion for the Scum wee shal not touch beeing properly their own there hath been strength enough to chastize them through the assistance of God to whom the crie of blood is asscended and from whose most just and irresistable hand more judgments then one pursue's both them and the whole familie that they pretend to advance They seem to bee sorrie the Scots have no strong holds in their hands in Vlster but that they are deprived thereof by the subtiltie of the English Indeed when they began to unite with them by the setting on of their Priests at Belfast under that ridiculous stalking hors of the King's Interest it was time to unkennel that vermin And hee should bee verie credulous that could believ that the Irish would have left them in perpetual quiet possession especially if they shall but consider how George Monroe who had contracted a better understood agreement with them and came with his forces from among them used the rest of the Scot's partie But this is too much for opening of their eies who will bee blinde let them go together till they fall together under the ruines which they pretend to support But their next peng of good nature is verie remarkable by the violent working whereof they cannot choos but wondrous tenderly take it sadly to heart and are full of fear that ere long none of the Scottish either Gentrie or Commonaltie will bee suffered to inhabit in that Province bordering upon their native Kingdom of Scotland Poor Scots can yee swallow these Gudgeons do yee think the Irish do so perfectly love your companie for Presbyterie and Covenants sake or for what other good qualitie is it that they would never yet take notice of that yee are becom so dear to them Is there never an one remaining of all their ancients Clan's or Septs that can derive a title to the land in that Province They were wont to keep their pedigree well enough without an Herault's-office And took a cours their families might not bee extinct for want of Progenie which were never used to bee differenced among them by that nice distinction of Natural and Legitimate children 't is hard to bee believed but som of their spawn would at one time or other pretend a Title and notwithstanding this same new dearness upon your Kings account had rather have your room than your companie there and that they will make you believ too had they none els to fear or defend themselvs

A DECLARATION OF THE Irish Armie IN ULSTER Sent to the Parlament in a Letter from WIILLIAM BASILL Esquire Atturney General of IRELAND Which Letter and Declaration are ordered by the Parlament to bee Printed And were referred to the Council of STATE to see it don accordingly To which is added som Remarques thereupon by a private Pen. LONDON Printed by William Du-gard by the Appointment of the Council of State 1650. Die Veneris Junii 28 1650. A Letter from Dublin of the 20 of June 1650. from M r William Basill with a Declaration of the Nobilitie Gentrie and Commanders of his Majesties forces of the Province of Ulster dated 20 of Maie 1650 were this daie read Ordered That the said Letter and Declaration bee forthwith Printed Ordered That it bee referred to the Council of State to take care to see the same printed accordingly and to take such cours touching the Printing thereof as they shall think fit HEN. SCOBELL Cleric Parlament Right Honorable I Have sent your Honor here inclosed a Copie of a Declaration lately put out by the Northern Irish-Armie who are fallen down toward the Legan and have don much mischief in our Quarters there Colonel Venables write's that the Scots there com under the Enemie and contribute to their relief and that hee himself durst not leav those parts where hee is lest they should rise in Arms. Those in Tecrohan sent out on Saturday last to surrender upon terms to march away with bag and baggage and three Pieces of Ordnance but their Conditions were rejected by Ours My Lord Deputie continue's yet about Catherlogh The sickness exceedingly increaseth in the Place Not having els to trouble your Honor at present I humbly crav leave to bee Right Honorable Your Honors most humble Servant William Basill For the right Honorable William Lenthal Speaker of the Parlament of England Dublin 20 Junii 1650 THE DECLARATION OF THE Nobility Gentry and Commanders of His Majesties Forces of the Province of ULSTER WHereas wee are given to understand That som ill-affected Members for private respects of their own and malice to our Partie have endeavored to sow sedition and discord betwixt us and such as are well-affected to his Majestie both of the Scottish Nation and others alluring many of them from time to time to harbor very prejudicial and jealous thoughts of our proceedings by casting the calumnie and asspersion on us That our intention and actions tend rather to our own particular Ends and private Aim then to the advancement and preservation of his sacred Majestie 's Interest Crown and Dignitie in this Land which evill practice can produce nothing but sad destructive and lamentable effects as it is too too well known already by wofull experience For it is most palpably evident that the like unhappie misconstruction enforced the Scots at first to rise in Arms and invade England against his Majestie their own flesh and blood that occasioned the falling out of the Irish and Scots in the beginning of these Wars of Ireland That was onelie and solie the caus of the beheading of his late Majestie of happie memorie all these mischiefs beeing perpetrated by the practice and policie of the Up-starts of England that this day trample under foot in miserie thraldom and slaverie the Nobilitie and Gentrie of England by raising and exalting the basest abortive Scums of that Kingdom to the greatest hight of Honor Power and Command that allured the Scots hitherto to endanger their lives endeavors and fortunes first in England as aforesaid and secondly in this Kingdom against our Nation when wee little exspected ever anie such sedition or quarrel could bee fomented betwixt us and them or that they having once in their hands all the Forts and Garisons in this Province excepting a few should bee so far deceived by the sinister practice of the Parlament of England as that they have not at present the Command of any of them in all Ulster so as consequently it is to bee feared ere long none of the Scottish will bee suffered either Gentrie or Commonalty to inhabit in any part of this Province bordering on their native Kingdom of Scotland All which wee cannot choos but sadly take to heart and that the rather becaus wee see our fellow-subjects so misled and with-drawn from their obedience to his Majestie in not siding with us in the present service mis-constructing by the evil suggestion of others our endeavors and intentions which might sufficientlie give us an occasion of discouragement whereas our Partie and Nation for the clearing and removal of all past mischievous practices of that kinde on our parts and prevention of anie the like jealousie and discord hereafter Wee thought it necessarie and do accordingly declare and avow in the sight of the great God of Heaven and the World That our Intentions and Resolutions are to the last man to endeavor with the loss of our lives estates and fortunes the advancement and preservation of his Majesties service and interest in this Kingdom and of all those whatsoëver that prosecute his quarrel so far forth as wee bee not troubled in the free exercise of our Religion as wee will no way hinder or trouble anie person or persons of what Nation or qualitie soëver adhering to his Majestie to exercise and embrace his or their own profession or Religion All which with Gods assistance our actions shall ere long more expresly manifest in the view of the world Finally It is our intention that wee shall make no distinction or difference between our selvs and so many of the Scottish or other Nation whatsoëver that now shall as wee invite them with Heart and Hand joyn in his Majesties service or anie waie freelie contribute to or countenance the same but as becommeth Brethren and fellow-subjects ingaged in one quarrel for their true and lawfull King Dated at Charlemount the 20 of Maie 1650. Emerus Cloughensis Rich. Farrall J. Lough In. Skillen Ter. O Neale Alexander mac Donnell Shane O Cahant Hugh mac Quire Turt Boyle Br. O Neale Miles Swine Hugh mac Mahoon Owen O Dougherdy Turl O Quin Br. O Neale Ph. O Neale Fer. O Boyle Br. mac Mahoon Cormock Mahellen Cull O Donnell Jo. Mr. Donnell Jo. Mr. Donnell Remarques or Observations upon the fore-going DECLARATION THat Truth is the Daughter of time hath been said of old and is made manifest by everie daies experience What hath been contrived and transacted heretofore in Closets come's now to bee published by the Actors themselvs to the view of the world It hath been long believed by those who took the boldness to examine those Acts of darkness and by those things that did appear and were in motion to judg the things unseen and the Principles of those proceedings that there was a verie good understanding between the late King and the Irish Assassines And though at first they were to bear the Odium of their horrid and ever to bee detested Murthers and endeavor of the exstirpation

of the English Name and Interest there And for that purpose were direfully devoted to destruction and marked out and distinguished for it by Proclamation of which yet a special care was taken by the late Tyrants express Order that onely fourtie Copies and no more should bee printed and none of them delivered out without his like special Order lest too manie should know hee had called them Enemies whom hee intended to make use of as of his good Catholick Subjects of Ireland for special service when the work agreed on between them had once been finished there And accordingly soon after they had acted their Butcherie and made that miserable destruction of the poor unarmed English whom the rare government and policie of that place managed by the Basha's of his Tyrannie had kept unarmed for their better securitie no doubt among inveterate Enemies And that sufficient forces were sent hence by the Parlament of England to chastize with a just retribution those bloodie Murtherers whereby they were like to receiv another reward for their good service to his sacred Majestie then they had agreed for and bee like enough to give eye for eye tooth for tooth and life for life They were then presently taken into his Protection and a Cessation made with them that they might bee reserved for the future sevice they were designed unto namely the Conquest of Scotland To which service som of them were dispatched so soon as by the drawing over of those apostatizing English who beeing sent thither by the Parlament to whom by special Act the managing of that War was committed for reducing that Kingdom to the obedience of this the rest of these good Irish could be left in a condition of securitie against those few English that remained faithful to their Trust and Interest And how fairly they attempted and how neerly effected that conquest under the leading of Montross joined with his Northern and Western Mountaineers is very well known when after several bloodie skirmishes beyond the Forth at last by the total rout of all their forces at Kilsyth there was no place of safetie left for any persons of qualitie that were Covenanteers but they were forced to seek it in England But all this is now dissembled and must bee forgotten And their good souls beeing now as full of Love and Candor as they were once of Blood and Murther are extremely afflicted with a pang of Ingenuitie to think there should bee some ill-affected Members they say not of what bodie that should goe about to sow sedition and discord they mean sure for their Declaration is not guiltie of proper expression everie where to beget some mis-understanding between them who have but one End Namely the Scots-Kings sacred Majesties Interest And they think it a foul Calumnie that they should bee said to have any particular ends or private aim but onely are carried with a single intention to the preservation of the said Interest Wee should not much dispute what they affirm if they would tell us what this Interest is whether the true Interest of the late King or an assumed one for of the present Interests Wee shall say nothing The true one all rationall men that are acquainted with affairs of State can judg as well as hee could or as they can and do believe that it was not for that Interest that so many people of the English Nation were Murthered and destroied and that the Popish Religion should bee onely permitted there But 't is very probable the Interest that Tyrant propounded was a perfectly Arbitrarie and Despotical rule which hee could finde none but they so base as to bee subservient to settle The reward of their service should therefore bee to settle the Popish Religion in Ireland and to tolerate the practice of that worship in England And to com certainly to the End viz. Tyrannie hee would balk no way War Murther Poperie all acceptable all lawfull onely the nearest was best and ruled his election But that they should bee such true and loyal Subjects as they thus publickly pretend is a little hard to beleev Wee must therefore examine upon what grounds they became so Old quarrels and inveterate feu'ds are not usually exstinct but upon verie evident advantages and signal obligations 'T is well known when King James had a design to make a nova Scotia in Ireland hee was not verie daintie of oppressing the Irish to make way to gratifie his unblushing begging Nation whose deep sens of their beggerie made them insensible of what ever they received and the obversation of the dreadful and hated Images of their former state of life kept them in continual fear that nothing could bee sufficient to assure them they should not again bee as they were And therefore with a wilde profusenes which onely the Scots call liberalitie hee introduced multitudes of them into the Province of Vlster into those lands which the Irish then beleeved they might have deserved as well if an Act of grace had restored them to the possession of that which 't was their ill hap their Ancestor's former Rebellion had forfeited And indeed by reason of his known weakness and impotencie in giving that whole Province was alreadie possessed in their hopes and a design was laid in time to have in realitie by finding some or other to forfeit also the English Plantations there and accordingly they began with that belonging to London that the strong Town of Derrie and also that of Coleraine coming into the dispose of the Royal bountie bestowed for the rewards of an unknown virtue might also bee made Scottish for the better securitie of all the rest during all the time the Irish were full of Complaints and there was no such affection in them to the Royal Interest which was then to enrich his own flesh and bloud with the donations and distributions of the large Patrimonie of their Predecessors And after the late Tyrant came to rule while his covetousness was yet chiefly in his eie the whole Province of Connaght must bee planted for satisfying of it That is it must bee taken from the Irish and old English now becom also Irish upon the account of som forseitures by former Rebellions and in order thereto a survey was made of the whole Province and there wanted nothing but distribution But upon the coming hither of the Commissioners from the Parlament of Ireland in the year whereof the most part were Papists and who by the Queens mediation were received with special favor that whole business was laid aside and there was no more speech of the Plantation of Connaght but after manie secret conferences with the Popish part of those Commissioners with the effect whereof their fellows were never acquainted they were received into the Tyrants special favor and went home with great satisfaction of him And it must bee beleeved that it was som special service they were to do for which hee would give a whole Province which hee alreadie accounted his