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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59377	The several informations of John Mac-Namarra, Maurice Fitzgerrald, and James Nash [brace] gent. relating to the horrid Popish plot in Ireland together with the resolutions of the Commons in Parliament upon the said informations, and message from the Lords spiritual and temporal in Parliament : Thursday the 6th of January.	Macnamara, John, Gent.; Fitzgerrald, Maurice.; Nash, James.	1681 (1681)	Wing S2767; ESTC R33872	9,769	16

house of Entertainment three Miles Westward of Waterford And that in the same year 1676. This Informant took extraordinary notice of it being not a thing so usual But being in company with several of the said Priests in the said house and that at several times and especially with Dean Power aforesaid who was next in power to the said Brenan This Informant began to enquire the reason of their publick meetings so often it being in time of Prosecution The said Power made answer that he would satisfie him as to that effect Patron day at Kesk which on our Lady following being within few days after the said time which accordingly he did as followeth The Congregation being gathered together to confess and receive the Sacrament after the Popish way one Edmond Power a Jesuit preached a Sermon which was to let the Congregation understand that they had Indulgences from the Pope of Rome granted them and liberty to eat Flesh on Wednesdays But in the Conclusion told them there was some consideration whereupon this was granted which the Priest of every Parish was to give in charge to his Parishioners at the time of Confession and proceeded no farther On which the Priests fell to their Offices which was to confess the Congregation And this Informant being then one of that Religion this Informant confessed to the aforesaid Dean Power but in his Confession the said Dean gave this Informant in charge as followeth That he should not divulge to any person whatsoever on pain of mortal Sin and Damnation what he would impart to this Informant which this Informant promised he would not with that he proceeded thus That the consideration of the aforesaid Indulgence and Liberty was that whoever was in a capacity to help assist the holy cause designed and in hand for a long time was to have great preferments together with the benefit of the aforesaid Indulgences which was a pardon of Sins for many years and also that the Clergy of Ireland were to have the benefits and profits of the Tithes accruing out of each Parish with the Gleabes and Monks lands and Appurtenances belonging unto them which the Hereticks did wrongfully possess for a long time And that the French King and the rest of the Popish Confederates together with the assistance of his Holiness the Pope did intend imediately to Invade the Kingdoms of England and Ireland and doubted not but by the assistance of God to fulfil it ere it be long and to wash the hands of Hereticks out of the Estates of our Ancestors for the Duke of York gives full consent and is of our side together with the assistance of the Earl of Anglesea and several other Persons of Quality in that Kingdom whom we are ordered to celebrate several hundreds of Masses which he the said Dean had accordingly ordered all the Popish Priests within his Jurisdiction After which time this Informant observ'd that there were several Masses celebrated in the Honour of the Earl of Anglesea through the said County of Waterford And also the said Dean said that the Earl of Anglesea did endeavour that the Parliament should not Sit with the assistance of the Duke of York to prevent the Persecution of Roman Catholicks In October 1679 this Informant being then imployed by the Earl of Tyrone to Tamper with Mr. Bourke as is set forth in this Informants former Informations the said Earl shewed him a letter from his Father-in-Law the Earl of Anglesea wherein he read that the said Earl made so many Friends both in England and in Ireland that he need not fear what was laid to his Charge And that he spoke to the Duke of York about the same which the Duke promised he would John Mac-Namarra THE INFORMATION OF MAURICE FITZ GERALD Gent. TAKEN BEFORE US John Odel and Nicholas Mounckton and George Aylmer Esqs Three of His Majesties Justices of the Peace for the County of Lymerick THe Informant being duly Sworn on the Holy Evangelist saith That on or about Winter 1676. after Captain Thomas Mac Inerina return'd out of Flanders and France whither he had been imploy'd as Agent from the Irish Gentry there was a very great Meeting at Collonel Pierce Lacy's House at Curroe where met besides the said Collonel the Lord of Brittas Molowny the Popish Titular Bishop of Killalow Brenane the Popish Bishop of Waterford Duly the Popish Bishop of Lymerick Two Jesuits whose Names this Informant knows not Sir John Fitz Gerrald John Power Son to David Power late of Killalow John Hurley Eustace White John Bourke of Cahirmoyhill William Bourke his Brother Captain John Purdon Captain Thomas Mac Inerina Captain Richard Stephenson Mr. David Fitz Gerrald this Informant and several others whose Names he remembers not Where and at which time the said Captain Mac Inerina gave an Account of the Effects of his Agency and what Force the French King had promised to send over into this Kingdom of Ireland which to the best of this Informants remembrance was to be about Twenty Thousand Men and Artillery Arms and Ammunition for Twenty Thousand Men more which were to be raised in Munster And they then and there consulted how the Twenty Thousand Men should be raised and resolved it should be by their Clergy made Computation and Appointed how many each Priest should raise in his Parish And likewise appointed the Officers that should Command and says that the Lord of Brittas Colonel Peirce Lacy Sir John Fitz Gerrald John Mac-Namarra of Cratelagh John Power Captain Suillivane of Beerhaven one Carty and several others were to be Colonels That John Bourke of Cahirmohill was to be Lieutenant Colonel and that Captain Thomas Mac-Inerina was to be Lieutenant Colonel or Major to Captain Suilivanes Regiment and that Captain John Pardon Captain Richard Stephenson Mr. John Hurley and Eustace White were to be Field-Officers And he hath heard that Mr. John Anketill was to be Lieutenant Colonel And that Mr William Bourke Mr. Theobald Dowdall Mr. Oliver Stephenson Mr David Fitz Gerrald now in London this Informant and several others were then appointed Captains And that John Bourke of Ardagh and several others were appointed Lieutenants and that John Dury and Thady Quin were to be Captains and that Nicholas Bourke and many others of Lymerick were then pitched on for the surprize of Lynd whose Names at present he remembers not And saith that on notice from Captain Suilivane of Beerhaven of the French's Landing there was a Massacre of all the English 〈◊〉 in one Night and persons particularly assigned to the Massacre or Murther of every Family And saith that the Popish Servants in each Family were to betray and open the Doors or some other way let in those Irish and so Murther the English in their Beds and after if they could not surprize they were immediately to Besiege Lynd and saith that by reason of the Emperour the King of Spain and other the Confederates joyning and assisting the Dutch the French King was hindered from