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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

LICENS'D May 18. 1689. Ireland's Lamentation BEING A Short but Perfect Full and True Account of the Scituation 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 LONDON Printed by J. D. and sold by Rich. Janeway in Queen's-Head Court in Pater-Noster Row 1689. TO THE READER Courteous Reader BE pleased to accept of a small Epistle to a small Treatise to inform you that though it be short yet the most absolute and true Account hitherto published of the miserable and deplorable Condition and Suffering of the Protestants of Ireland since the Death of King Charles the 2d and that there is nothing Material omitted which the Author could call to memory having nothing else to collect it from being forced to flee for England to secure his Life and leave his Books and very Notes and whatever else he had to the Mercy of the Devourers And be no less assured thou wilt find nothing here but what every one that comes from thence will confirm as far as it may reach their several Abodes And so wishing thee more Comfort in Reading than the Author had in knowing bid thee farewel till such further Account comes to his Hands as he can certify for like Truth with these An Impartial historical Relation of all the most Material Transactions Revolutions and Miserable Sufferings of the Protestants in Ireland from the Death of King Charles the Second to the latter end of April 1689. IRELAND hath been and still is even by some Writers reputed a Barbarous and most Heathenish Place And indeed I believe it was so once and England also but all such as have been there and rightly understood the Country of late must if impartial and unprejudiced own it to be far otherwise and indeed a Place of most excellent Government and Piety and much like that of England Ireland is an Island inviron'd with the Sea and the most Western of Europe lying between the Latitude of 51 and 56 Degrees North and Westward from Holy-Head in Wales about 14 Leagues and from the South-West part of Scotland 8 or 9 Leagues and is much more temperate than England cooler in Summer and warmer in Winter so that when in the late great Frost a Ox was roasted and Coaches frequently went upon the Thames an Horse-man durst not venture over the Liffey a much less River at Dublin and thereby much more pleasant and indeed in the general abundantly more fertile and plentiful than England and free from all venemous Vermin Black Crows Magpies and Spiders are not venomous there In many places the Soil is so excellent that it bears the most devouring Grain many Years successively without manuring and in others it will bear three or four Crops and when it hath lain waste but one Year without further trouble than Plowing and Sowing Barly will again produce as many Crops more and so Time after Time with a continuendo and in all places in general produceth all sorts of Grain England doth as good and in as great plenty with abundance less trouble and pains There are indeed many large Mountains and Bogs but now by the Industry of the English made very good and fertile Land either for Tillage or Feeding every where watered with pleasant Springs Rivers and Loughs or Lakes of Water indued with great plenty of Fish wild and tame Fowl Horses Cows Oxen and Sheep as large and good as any in England and much more numerous till lately destroyed by the incouragement given the new raised Forces and other Irish Papists by the now Duke of Tyrconnel In some parts especially of the West and North a Salmon above two foot long may be bought for a Penny or two Pence Forty five Eggs for one Penny. A fat Goose for three pence A fat Turky for six pence A fat Hen for three half-pence A fat Lamb or Kid for a Groat But in Dublin which is the dearest part they fold in time of peace twelve or fourteen Eggs for a penny A large fair fresh Cod two foot long for three pence Plaice a foot long and seven or eight inches broad two for a penny Large Trouts as long two or three for a penny Oysters five or six inches broad a penny a score A fat Lamb for twelve or fourteen pence A large fat Calf a month or six weeks old for five or six Shillings A large quarter of Beef for three or four Shillings as good as the Markets of London afford and other things proportionably and yet all sorts of Tradesmen had greater Wages and generally better Rates for their Goods than in England And contrary to the general Supposition among the English Scots and other industrious Persons Mony was in Ireland as plentiful and with much more ease obtain'd than in England so that an ordinary Tradesman or Farmer keeps a better House and lives much more plentiful there than those of four or five Hundred a Year can do in England None need labour long there that will but be Industrious and any thing a reasonable Husband but unless very Unfortunate indeed may soon acquire a Sufficiency to live handsomly and Gentleman-like Scarce any that went only private Souldiers thither in the last Rebellion unless Sots in earnest but were before the beginning of this Rebellion Men of good Fortune and Estates The meer Irish are not really so Wild and Barbarous as generally reputed nor indeed Tame and Civiliz'd in general as the English but are as lusty full well-set comely handsome fair and clear-skin'd as the English Mighty hospitable and kind-hearted to Strangers so that if any comes where they are eating they will take it very unkindly if he do not eat with them and Travellers shall have the best Entertainment they can afford them gratis and better than they will afford themselves For though the Country be thus extream plentiful yet the Commonalty among the Irish fare very hard and live mostly upon Potatoes Parsnips Cabbidg Beans Pease Barley and Oat-Bread sour thick Milk or Butter-milk and unless upon some certain Festival Days as Christmass Shrovetide Easter Whitsuntide or Michaelmass rarely eat a bit of Flesh Butter Eggs or Cheese unless they light upCarrion dead or drown'd They are very nasty and sluttish prefer strong Butter tainted Flesh and sowr Milk before sweet Scarce ever wear Shifts or

Warrant break open his Doors search his House rifle and take away what is liked and if any honest Protestant yet remained in Commission every shabby beggarly Rascal spared not the impudence to revile them to their Faces I have heard a meer Teague that could scarce pronounce a word of true English or sense beard the Lord Mayor of Dublin Sir John Knox when brought before him for Felony who though a Man of Courage did not dare to commit the Criminal Thus the poor Protestants of Ireland continued in this though miserable yet happy Condition in consideration to what they afterwards fell to till the Earl of Clarendon was sent thither Lord-Lieutenant upon whose arrival they began again to flatter themselves with hopes of more Comfort through the Interest and Favour of him that was so near related to the King and an assured Protestant but they to their Sorrow soon found his Wings clipt and Tyrconnel quickly sent after him with the Honour and Title of Earl the Office of Lieutenant-General and Check-master of the Army and Authority and Power to place and displace whom he pleased who accordingly forthwith put his Power in execution and issued out his Orders for modelling the Army which were no sooner given but obeyed and in all places the Army drawn into the Field and about ten or twelve of the oldest Men pick'd out and their Cloaths stript off and their Arms given to Irish papists before their Faces and when those parcels were disciplin'd others were still pick'd out and so from time to time till the whole Army was weeded of its Protestants and replenish'd with Irish Papists When all they could call old were culled then the Excuse was Shortness till the Popish Party was the stronger then they used no further excuse but being Protestants till the whole Protestant standing Army which was raised and at vast Expence both of Men and Mony to England there maintained for many Years to secure the Protestant Religion and English Interest in Ireland was by Popish Craft and Favour and Means of the great God Tyrconnel peaceably in one Year wholly destroyed and inverted into as Popish Power the whole Treasure of the Kingdom Cities and Garisons which were first constituted to keep them out wholly possest and disposed of by the Native Irish and those who of all Men were the greatest haters of the English and their Religion made the only Protectors of both and certainly must needs be in a blessed State when the Fox is set to watch the Geese and the Wolves the Lambs Now all things became bare-fuced and he that had but half an Eye might easily discern what was like to follow and such as had Stooks of Mony began by degrees to transmit it to England and dispose of their Effects and afterwards to steal away themselves while others whose Riches consisted mostly in Stocks which was in others Hands or had not wherewith to transport themselves and for a Livelihood were forced to abide the approaching Storm some to the loss others their Estates and most inevitable Ruin. While these things were doing Darrington a reputed Jesuit was sent over and made first Major and after Lieutenant-Colonel to the Royal Regiment in Dublin to fulfil that part of Dr. Oates's information in his discovery of the Popish Plot and one Barker formerly Page to the late Duke of Monmouth and one of King James's Converts Major and so proceeded to disband all Protestant Officers in the Army and first began with Sir William King then Governour of the Castle and City of Limrick Sir George St. George his Brother and such others as they had noted to be the most sober and zealous Protestants and placed Irish Papists in their places till all the Irish Army both Officers and Souldiers were Papists excepting only some few in the Regiments of the Lords Ment joy and Forbes and Col. Russel who were themselves Protestants and in a manner all the Protestant Officers left that first Year in the whole Army and who were kept in only to blind the People till their other work was finished and so have the favour to be devoured last Things being brought to this pass the whole Army Papists and none to oppose them they thought they safely might and accordingly fell to regulate the Civil Part and at one blast removed sive or six of the nine Protestant Judges and left but one upon each Bench for Ciphers to colour the Matter and drag up the rest to their own Justice and likewise the Protestant Chancellor Sir Charles Porter and most of the Protestant Privy Councellors and fill'd up their places with others of their own Party with such prodigious Broagues upon their Tongues that they could scarce pronounce one word of English truly and after these the Protestants which were the Attourneys Solicitors c. to the King were pack'd after the Judges In the mean time they set another Project on foot viz. To disband all the smallest of their own Souldiers as soon as they were well disciplin'd but not before and still took in larger till they had the Flower of the Country in the Army and still sent the Old to exercise the rest of their Breed in the Country So that when they had occasion to raise their fresh Forces they were mostly in a manner disciplin'd to their hand not in expectation of using them to their present purpose but in case King James had continued in the Throne and not answered their desire of restoring them to their Estates that they might be able to restore themselves by destroying all the English there and Darrington made two certain Sizes one for Musqueteers and another for Pikemen and those that were too short or long for his Standard when disciplin'd must trip off All things being now fitted to the purpose Tyrconnel and the new Attorney General Sir Richard Neagle dispatch'd to Whitehall with the Account and to advise about future Matters the Project of compleating their so successfully begun Work and after a short stay returned with Power to displace the Earl of Clarendon from the Government who indeed all discerning Protestants there easily perceived was kept in so long only to deceive the People till the Work could be brought to that secure perfection who eight days after his arrival at Dublin took his place as Lord Deputy-General and General-Governour of Ireland for Lord-Lieutenant he could not be because born in Ireland But the good Earl of Clarendon having an account of his approach and suspecting what might and indeed did follow resolved before his departure to consecrate the Chappel in the New Hospital near Dublin built for the use of old and decrepit Souldiers and is the finest in Europe of its kind and accordingly did before well finished hoping thereby to prevent its falling into the Papists Hands because the King had declared he would maintain the Church of England in all her Rights and Properties as established by Law. But Tyrconnel who though not so near related

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

England with the News of the Prince of Orange's intending for England which no sooner arrived but Tyrconnel prepared to send several Detachments of the then standing Forces for England and accordingly sent away about 3000 of the fairest and likeliest of the Foot who were to be followed by more till they began to fear if they did that the Protestants who they knew they had deserved no better from might rise against them and therefore forbore that part of the Design for the present and forthwith speeded the raising of more Forces and by Christmass had their Army which before consisted of about 5000 Horse and Foot after the others came for England compleat 30000 Men and before the beginning of March without so much as beat of Drum or a Penny Charge to the King Tyrconnel had compleated the following Regiments of Horse Foot and Dragoons as they stood March 15. 1688 9. The Old standing Forces 1. Lord Deputy Horse 2. Lord Galmoy Horse 3. Col. Russel Horse 4. Lord Clancarthy 5. Lord Montjoy 6. Lt. Gen. Mac-Carthy 7. Sir Thomas Nucome 8. Royal Regiment New-raised Forces Leinster 9. Lord Deputy's Dragoons 10. Lord Deputy's Foot. 11. Ld Dungan's Dragoons 12. Lord Slane's Foot. 13. Lord Duleeke 14. Lord Clanmalier 15. Col. Moore 16. Col. Kevenah 17. Col. Vxbridge 18. Col. Butler of Ballyraget 19. Col. Butler Lord Galmoy's Brother 20. Col. Nugent 21. Col. Dillion 22. Lord Gormonstown 23. Sir Maurice Eustace Munster 24. Earl of Tyrone 25. Viscount Clare 26. Sir Vallentine Brown. 27. Sir John Fitz-Gerald 28. Sir James Cotter 's Dragoons 29. Col. Mac-Carthymoore 30. Col. Mac-Carthy Reagh 31. Col. John Barret 32. Col. O-Donovane 33. Col. Butler of Killiash 34. Lieut. Col. Fitz-Gerald alias Mac-Thomas 35. Col. Nic. Brown. Ulsser 36. Earl of Antrim 37. Viscount Jveagh 38. Lord Louth 39. Col. Cormick O-Neal 40. Col. Bryan Mac-Mahone 41. Col. Gorden O-Neal Connaught 42. Lord Clanrickard 43. Lord Galmoy 44. Col. John Bourke 45. Col. Iriell Farrell 46. Col. Henry Mac-Toole 47. Col. O-Neale 48. Sir Mich. Creagh Some consisting of 20 22 or 24 Hundred So that the whole amounted to about 80000 compleatly Accoutred and Disciplin'd all rais'd cloath'd and kept till that time at the proper Charge of their several Officers many of which were before but Taylors Coblers and such others as perhaps were scarce able to procure before Bread for their Families but now for managing this Blessed Cause sell all that ever they have and their Friends too to carry on the Holy Design In the mean time while the Men were raising Tyrconnel ordered all the Gun-smiths Carpenters and Joyners to be forthwith imployed for cleansing stocking and locking all the old Fire-Arms and the Cutlers for cleansing and sheathing the Swords which since the last Wars had lain rusting in the Stores and such as refused were sent to Prison till they comply'd who besides the old Locks were promis'd for each Musquet 10s and every Pistol 6s but when they will get it I know not some they were paid all along to keep Life and Soul together So that with the Arms he had the Summer before received from England Tyrconnel had not only Arms for his whole Army but many more and by the Priests had made all the other Papists in the Kingdom the Men to Arm themselves with Half-pikes and Skeins or Bayonets and the Women with Skeins or Bayonets and in case after a certain day any in the Country went to Mass without those Arms they were by the Priests obliged to pay a Shilling and curst by Bell Book and Candle So that in less than five months ** time the whole Body of the Irish Papists were every where Armed to the great terror of the Protestants and as they were naturally inclin'd to Theft so now they were by Authority put into an excellent condition to perform it which with the inability of the new Officers to maintain them upon destroying the Protestants which at first they began moderately by way of stealth in the Night but when the Owners began to grumble and complain to no purpose with much more violence and boldness and by degrees increased their Spoils till at length in open Day they spared not before the Owners Faces to drive away together often from one Man 100 sometimes 1000 Sheep 20 30 40 50 or 60 Cows Oxen and the like and such as would not drive and were not for their purpose they kill'd and carried away the Skin Hide and Tallow and left the dead Carkasses as dirty and useless as they could fit for nothing but Vermin and such as was not for their own purpose they drove or kill'd and carried to Fairs and Markets and sold to others of their own Breed who had not so much Courage and a little more Honesty than to steal a fat Weather which six or seven Months before was worth 9 or 10s for 1s and a fat Ox worth 3 or 4 〈◊〉 for 12 or 〈◊〉 a Cow of 50 s. for 5 or 6. s. But at length they proceeded further even to take away the Corn and Houshold-goods so that he that over-night was worth 9 or 4000l the next day or week had not a Morsel to put in his Head or Rag to hang on his Back but what Charity he received from other Protestants not yet so absolutely ruined At length they were so glutted with these Spoils that they began to be more absolute and fent or went to the Houses of such as their Mercy had not yet destroyed and supposed to have any Mony threatning that if they did not forthwith or within a certain time by them limited deliver to them such Sums as their Moderation thought fit to demand they would and did burn their Houses and Corn kill and leave their Cattel dead upon the Ground Among the rest one Franeis Baker a Merchant in Youghill in particular having in the County of Tipperary a stock of fat Cattel went about the latter end of January last to fetch them home hoping they might be more secure in Barrels and a Town of reasonable strength than in the open Fields but as he was marching a Crew of the new-raised Irish Forces met and demanded of him whither he was driving those Cattel and told him they had more right to them than he and unless he satisfied them must be content to leave them behind him whereupon he was forthwith forced to pay for those his own Cattel 15 or 16l Sterling which was as much as they would have yielded in their Mountain Markets And to be short the Spoil was so general and great that in December and part of January last they had destroyed in the Counties of Cork and Kerry above 4000 Head of black Cattel as Cows and Oxen and there and in the County of Tipperary 2 or 300000 Sheep And so in all other parts especially the Provinces of Minister and Leinster proportionably so that before the beginning of February it was thought they had destroyed in all parts of Kingdom

conducted into the Chappel there made by Tyrconnel of Hen. Cromwel's Riding-house where Te Deum was sung for his happy Arrival thence he retired into an Appartment prepared in a new House built before in the Castle by Tyrconnel and there din'd and refresh'd himself The next Morning he call'd a Council and having turn'd out the Earl of Granard Chairman Judg Keating c. and taken in their rooms M. D' Avaux the Bp of Chister and Lieut. Col. Darrington he ordered five several Proclamations to be published one for raising such Monies as passed there viz. a Guiny to 24s an English Shilling to 13d a Duccatoon which was 6s to 6s 3d. a Cob of 4s 9d to 5s a Cob of 4s 6d to 4s 9d a French Lewis of Gold to 19s and all others proportionably Another for a Parliament to meet at Dublin the 7th of May for regulating Matters Ecclesiastical A third to require all his Subjects of that Kingdom that had lately left the same upon any Pretence whatever to return Home with assurance of his Protection but no Penalty or Forfeiture for not returning or Pardon for any Offender that did and requiring all his Subjects of what Degree or Perswasion soever to join with him against the Prince of Orange A fourth commending all his Roman-Catholick Subjects for their Vigilancy and Care in arming themselves yet whereas it had incouraged some certain Robberies required all but such as were actually under Command and Pay in the Army to lay up their Arms in their several Abodes The fifth to invite the Country to carry Provision to his Army in the North requiring all Officers and Souldiers not to take any from them but what they made good pay for From thence went into the Field to see the Forces drawn out and there made Darrington Colonel of the Royal Regiment in the room of the Duke of Ormond and returning to the Castle created Tyrconnel Duke of Tyrconnel The next day he received an Express that his Forces in the North having sate down before Colerain were destroyed for want of Meat and Forrage and by a great Snow that then fell among them were beaten off with the loss of 5 or 600 Men one Morter and 3 Field-peices whereupon he call'd another Council and ordered 14000 Men more forthwith to be sent to reinforce the remainder of the 24000 that went before and on the first of April sent after them the Duke of Berwick and the two French Liutenant-Generals Roos and Mamoon and the Munday following about 8 in the Morning set out from Dublin towards the North himself but those of Coleraine knowing their infussiciency to resist so powerful a Force quitted the Town and got some for London-Derry some for Scotland and others for England so that all being clear there was nothing to hinder their Progress to London-Derry where being arrived the late King sent in a Letter to the Governor Col. Lundee who before they left Dublin they reported to be their own Creature to require him peaceably to surrender and that all with him should have free Pardon and Protection and not be molested or spoyl'd of any thing they had which being shown to the Mayor Aldermen and other Officers some inclin'd to surrender others not so that time was desired and granted to consider of it in the interim Col. Richards and Col. Cunningham with their Regiments arrived before the place and being inform'd that it was upon surrendering to King James returned back with 14 or 1500 persons that fled from the Town to them intending for Leverpool for which both the Colonels were turn'd out of Commission yet their Regiments with three others were forthwith ordered back and it s hoped have since entred the place which is in a good Condition for Defence and therein 20000 Men but not above 9000 Arm'd with Provision for three months resolved to defend it to the last having before their arrival committed the Governor and several others to Prison on pretence for endeavouring to betray it to their Enemies and made Mr. Walker a Minister their Governour The late King perceiving his Presence could not procure this Important Place at the easy rate he expected was forced to wave his speedy Design for Scotland and leaving his Army to prosecute the most convenient measures for its Recovery returned back towards Dublin to meet his Parliament where he was expected the last of April and where upon his first arrival he gave orders to disband Col. Russell Sir Thomas Newcome and such others Protestants as till then continued in that Army except Drums and Trumpets who are still continued per force There came with the late King to Kingsale 22 Ships great and small all with Guns of which 12 were Capital Ships and with them 4 Fireships and in them not above 50 persons of all sorts of which were the Kings two Sons the Bishop of Chester Lord Powis Lord Melfort Col. Darrington Sarsfeild 9 or 10 French-men 1 Footman and other Scoundrels that followed him from France That day week after his Arrival and before he left Cork the late King gave orders for the Fleet to return to Brest to joyn a Fleet of 13 Sail more which they left fitting out there and expected to bring them 5 or 6000 English Scots and Irish raised in France for that purpose but not yet come He brought with him a considerable quantity of Powder Ball and Lead and Arms for 15000 Men and 120000l Sterling and nothing more all which is said to be disposed of by one sent with him by the French King and who hath promised four Times as much more if that be well imployed The giving Ireland to the French is not certain but most sure that it is the Interest of France to give King James all the Assistance he can both by Sea and Land to keep England out of his own Bowels which without that Diversion he expects forthwith to make a violent Eruption therein and as certain that if any reasonable Force be in reasonable Time sent for Ireland its conquest will be both speedy and easy for tho the Irish Forces are with much pains and beating reasonably disciplin'd and numerous yet all that know the nature of them know they will not sight but upon great Advantage and if once broken all the Art of Man will never bring them together again And those of their present Army both Officers and Souldiers are mostly the very scum of the Country Cow-boys and such trash as tremble at the fireing a Musquet much more will at many and what one English Man used formerly to make nothing to beat 9 or 10 of and now are only like so many tied Dogs let loose which with a little Correction will soon be reduced to Obedience There are Protestants enow yet in Ireland to do the Work alone if they could but get together have Arms and good Officers to head them and will as fast as even they can join with the Army that comes to their relief

Hereticks so these poor Creatures had no sooner parted with their Arms but they were all bound and drove like Dogs to the Goal of Galloway and the last Assizes there condemn'd to be Drawn Hang'd and Quartered but upon the second of April got a Reprieve for a month One Brown a Man of considerable Fortune was going with them but fearing to get thorough returned back went to a neighbouring Justice and told him where he had been but disliking the Enterprize was returned in obedience to the Lord Deputy's Proclamation of Pardon to give Security for his future good Behaviour however was forthwith by a strong Guard sent prisoner to Cork and was there afterwards tryed and executed for High-Treason while King James was there And in Phillips-town in the Kings County there are Sir Laurence Parsons and about 50 more under the same condemnation and in Marisborough in the Queen's County 13 or 14 and in several other parts the like numbers whose particulars are not yet come to the Authors hands which were taken much after the same manner Other parts being thus reduced Mac-Carty Forthwith drew all the Forces in Munster against Bandon a Town which till these Times never permitted a Papist to dwell within its Wallt and likewise forced them to Surrender and give five of their Town Hostages for the payment of 1000l for the trouble they had given his Army 500l of which they paid down and the other five was remitted upon a Petition to King James upon his landing at Kingsale During these Hurries in other parts there was not any rising in the County or City of Dublin however all were not idle but several Active Spirits a knot of six or seven in particular whose Names are not convenient to be mentioned here being most still under the Papists Lash promoted as 't was thought principally by one who upon the landing of the now King William in England for his Religion was singled out to taste of Popish Mercy with an Intent to seize the Castle and Guards of Dublin and send Tyrconnel for England And for the better effecting thereof had by Stratagems caused most of the Protestants there to Arm themselves though at the same time they knew not what for further than in case any Attempt were made by the Papists upon their Lives by way of Massacre as they certainly intended till happily discovered by an unknown Hand of their own Party to a Protestant Lord on the 5th of December which so allarm'd all Protestants that it was in vain to attempt it after and especially while the Protestants were any where in Arms for that would have made all desperate and not so easily to be reduced as they were but before the Protestants of Dublin could bring their business to bear and get Ammunition enough to resist such Force as might be brought against them before they could expect Supplies from England Tyrconnel began to suspect them and forthwith call'd such Supplies and Numbers of Horse and Foot thither that with what was there before made up 14 or 15000 Men whose Number and Presence spoil'd that great Project which otherwise was so well laid that it had certainly taken effect if put in execution and brought Tyrconnel for England and so saved the extream Ruin and Devastation the Protestants have since suffered through his Villany For any time before that great Force came to Dublin which was at the beginning of February 5000 Men well Arm'd in that City and commanded had been sufficient with what was ready and might have bin raised there to reduce not only Dublin but all Ireland But the noise of the forementioned designed Massacre and the Sufferings of others put People to the flight for England so fast and made those that stayed so dubious that it was hard to know who to trust there under the Nose of the Government and there was not one Person of Quality then there that would undertake to Head them tho often importuned and assured of 4000 Men well Arm'd at two hours warning and many of them well exercised and so many resolute good Souldiers as would have attempted to seize the Guards About this time a French Man landed at Cork and rid post to Dublin with assurance from King James to Tyrconnel of his speedy coming to his relief and on Friday the 22d of Feb. two of his Officers that had escaped from the Isle of Wight came privately to the Castle of Dublin and continued there in cognito till Sunday following about 10 at night then on a suddain the noyse was spread all over the Kingdom that the King was landed with 5000 Men and that the two forementioned Officers came with the Express to the Lord Deputy which on a sudden put all into hurries and where Bonfires were not immediately made the Souldiers broke the Windows Signs and Doors and rifled the Houses and the next Morning by six of the Clock strong Guards were placed at the end of every Street and every Gate about the City and Suburbs of Dublin and all others of any Note and Strength So that it was generally concluded by the Protestants there were Forces landed from England but they were soon undeceived being all disarm'd and eis'd of their Horses which for the present was judged by every place to be only in it self but was soon known to be general to all parts where their Power could then reach In Dublin they seized all the Churches to put the Arms in which not being brought according to their expectation Tyrconnel issued out a Declaration that all such as had yet detain'd their Arms should forthwith deliver them up upon peril of being left to the mercy of his Souldiers and that Gentlemen might keep their wearing Swords however some broke them to pieces others flung them into Ditches and Rivers where many were afterwards found and some kept them still The two next days they sent Forces to suppress those of Summerhil before-mentioned and one Price who had been Treasurer formerly was with a Party of 4 or 500 Horse and Foot in a Castle in the County of Wicklow 20 miles on the other side of Dublin who took Price and several others and committed them Prisoners to Newgate in Dublin and the rest to Wicklow whither Price and the rest were after four days carried and Indicted for High-Treason but all the Irish being gone for Souldiers and the English fled out of the Country there could not be a Jury got but against whom they made Exceptions for want of Freehold so that their Trial was remitted to the Term now at the writing of this sitting in Dublin in the mean time all but seven were bailed and after with their Bail fled for England where most of them now are to confirm the Tragical Story Tyrconnel having thus easily succeeded so far the same week sent 24000 Men towards the North under the command of Lieutenant General Hamilton who was once a Prisoner here with several Field-pieces and Mortars who upon the first of