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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

to their Estates But others are of Opinion an Irish Parliament cannot do it without the Advice of England and that the Sessions will be soon Prorogued to prevent such Disputes till the King hath got into England which we here seem to promise our selves about the beginning of June but cannot attempt it before for want of Forrage and Shipping which are coming from France to waft them over in the mean time there is 5000 foot ordered forthwith for Scotland to keep the Highlanders and others the King's Friends there from fainting till more can be sent them We conclude we can spare a formidable Army of Horse and Foot for England and the like for Scotland who with greater Supplies we expect at the same time to land in England from France and the King's Friends yet in England who want only our presence to join with us will with the loss of as little Blood as he lost them recover those his Kingdoms again We have as we hear sent you home Herbert by weeping Cross to resit his Shipping We received into this Kingdom since you left it 5 or 6 Regiments of English Scots and Irish Souldiers from France 250000l Sterling Arms for 20000 Men 300 Barrels of Powder several Mortars and a great quantity of Ball and Lead 36 Sail of Men of War 8 Fire-Ships several Tenders and daily expect as many more in all a Fleet of near 50 Sail and doubt not but before Herbert return to have sufficient to send him and the Dutch as fast back as they come to us There has none of the Persons that were Condemned when you went hence yet suffered but the King declares if he have not speedy Exchanges for them he will not spare one of them or any other that shall be found guilty of the like Crimes and if so most of the Protestants in the Kingdom will go to pot for there are but few if duly examined but will be by our Judges brought under the same Preliminaries There are some to be tried now at the King's Bench this Term and it 's thought Mr. Price the late Treasurer and his six Companions will be of the Number unless some Exchanges come suddenly for them There are Indictments already drawn up for them or rather to be preferr'd against them Some few People have had their Houses rifled and among the rest yours but not by Authority tho the King have declared That all such as are not returned shall forthwith have all their Effects seiz'd and converted toward maintaining his Army and such as fled hither from England However great care is taken for civilizing our Army but cannot make them quite forsake their old Trade some Injuries are here and there still continued but not so frequently as formerly the King having declared his Resolution severely to punish all Offenders of that kind and on Saturday last several that belonged to the Army were Indicted for Robberies committed upon Protestants but a good Jury will easily acquit them I have great hopes to retrieve some of your Losses again and not only so but in case you will return absolute Assurance of a Pardon and a Captain 's Commission and this from no less than the Ld Melfort and Bp of Clagher Secretaries of State and therefore considering how Things seem now to us if worthy would advise you not to neglect the Opportunity thus offered you for in our sense here we seem to promise our selves all we can desire and if it please God we succeed it will be too late for either you or others to comply otherwise than to your Ruin. All Friends here are well and many presents their Cordial Respects as doth he that was and ever is Sir your assured Friend and Servant B. Fz. Ws. The Publisher to the Reader REader be pleased to take notice that the Writer of the above Letter tho a Papist is of that sort a very honest ingenuous English-man and I am confident writes nothing but the naked Truth of their sense of Things there to the utmost of his Knowledg and therefore the foregoing Treatise hath been delayed to add this to it FINIS Errata Page 4. line 7. read than barely Plowing and Sowing will c.

to be revenged upon the devouring Irish who having now all will be rich plunder for an Army and cannot hold out against 30000 Men besides what is already there till Michalmass next though now possest of the whole except London-Derry and Inneskillen in Dublin there is not now above 16 or 17 hundred Souldiers and yet at least 20000 Protestants fighting Men but all disarm'd or as good as disarm'd brave brisk curious Lads mad to be at work So that 4 or 5000 Men might take and secure that City and Province and be in one Month 20000 Men if Arms and Ammunition were sent with them in spight of any resistance the Irish could make Among the Irish the most mischievous Person is the Lord Galmoy who upon the late King 's coming to the Throne presum'd to enter in time of Divine Service St. Warborous Church in Dublin and debauchedly offered Abuses to some modest Women for which he was brought upon his Knees But in Revenge upon the first motion to the North he haug'd one Dix and another who belonged to the Colledg upon a Sign-post pretending he found them in Arms. Of Turn-coats there were many pittiful mean-spirited Fellows to keep and creep into Business none worth noting but one Marby Dean of London derry a Papist born but brought up in the Colledg of Dublin and one Turner who in his Time had turn'd through almost all Sects and Opinions and for his last turning got to be Recorder of Limerick However the Popish Clergy have not been wanting by all manner of ways to pervert whoever they could nor the Protestant Ministers to preach against their Heresy and Idolatry among the rest one Wilkinson Minister of Palmers Town near Dublin in Christ-Church briskly decrying their Idolatry was by the Bishop of Dublin silenc'd in the midst of his Sermon Many Persons endeavouring to bring Mony for England had it seiz'd by the Irish and among others one Lindon who all along sate with two Papists second Judg of the King's Bench to try several Protestants and punish them too for no other Crime out being Enemies to Popery and particularly one Whalley there famous for Astrology for publishing and spreading an Account of the Prince of Orange's Landing in England his Declaration and Success was by their worshipful Lordships singled out and made the first publick Sacrifice by their Popish Mercy for his Zeal to the Protestant Religion to the extream hazard of his Life and loss of all he had tho often craved denying him the common Rules of Court a Copy of the Indictment and what else might enable him to make his proper Defence Another proved to be Distracted fined 14l Sterling and others for like Crimes like Cases But whether for these or other good Service to be done here for his Friends there the good Judg got his Monies again while others came off with loss of theirs But what says Pluck About three or four days after King James Arrived at Dublin the few Fellows and others left in the Colledg waited upon him being introduced by the Bp of Chester since dead said to be poison'd by some of the Popish Clergy and received many Assurances of their Safety and Protection A LETTER from a Lieutenant in the late King James's Army in Ireland to the Author of Ireland's Lamentation Dated at Dublin May the 7th 1689. SIR HAving this Opportunity of a Friend of both yours and mine coming to Chester I thought fit not to omit giving you this brief Account of what has happened here since your departure Which is that before the Duke of Berwick got to Colerain it was quietly quitted by the Protestants who no sooner found themselves attaqued on all sides but most of the Men stole away by Night some one way and some another and left their Wives Children and Effects to the discretion of our Army who by the care of their Officers proved more kind and civil to them than their own People who running away pull'd down the Bridg to hinder their being pursued However that Defect was soon repair'd and our Forces having nothing more to hinder them marched directly for London-derry and upon the King 's coming up sate down before it on the 19th of the last Month and thereupon the King sent John Burton a Protestant one of the Trumpeters attending the State here to Summon the Town to Surrender with assurance of Pardon from the King and to let them know he was there in Person to sign and perform whatever was promised them Whereupon the Town returned Answer That they had sworn Allegiance to and kept the Town for King William and Queen Mary and neither owned knew or would obey any other and that if any more such Messengers came thither to frighten and terrify their People from their Allegiance they would hang or shoot them However the King had such Interest within the place as to keep out two Regiments sent thither from England But seeing they refused to submit ordered Batteries to be raised and his Canon and Bombs to be plaid at the Town and though much Mischief is done by the Bombs yet the new preaching Governor viz. the Minister Mr. Walker continues obstinate and in two or three brisk Sallies killed about 4 or 5000 of our Common Souldiers the French General Mamou one Major five Captains and several other Inferior Officers and wounded the Duke of Berwick in the Thigh Colonel Sheldon and some others are said to be mortally wounded but not without considerable loss on their side also In the mean time another Party of our Men commanded by Lieut. Gen. Hamilton took the Castle of Kilmore which will so cut off all hopes of Succour that it 's hoped Derry will also Surrender and receive Mercy for otherwise it 's resolved to put all to the Sword. The King finding them obstinate return'd to Dublin the 29th of April and this day met the Parliament where he made a short but pithy Speech setting forth how much they were obliged first to God and next to the King of France for contributing to that their happy Meeting and hoped they would not be wanting on their parts forthwith to consider of all convenient Measures to unite the Hearts of all his good Subjects of this Kingdom resist the intended Invasion from England and recover his Dominions for the Glory of God and Ease of his Subjects both in Church and State. Sir Richard Neagle the Attorney General is chosen Speaker of the House of Commons who made a Speech to the House telling them how much they were obliged to the French King and the Duke of Tyrconnel for that glorious Meeting and how meet it was to return both their Thanks The Speeches will be printed with a List of the Parliament till then I cannot be certain of the Particulars of either but believe there are not many Protestants among them It 's hoped that the King will consent to take off Poynings Acts dissolve the Act of Settlement and restore the ancient Proprietors

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