live KING CHARLES and QVEEN MARY and their Majesties reciprocally and heartily Blessing and Thanking the People with all the Expressions of Satisfaction imaginable Being come to the End of St. Laurence Lane the Passage being narrow neither Horse nor Foot could be planted there so that only the Sheriffs Officers the City Counsel and Officers the Sheriffs Aldermen and the Lord Mayor conducted their Majesties and their Noble Retinue to Guild-Hall At their entrance there divers Honorable Lords and Ladies that had not given their attendance abroad presented themselves to his Majestie and attended Him and the Queen up to the New and Old Councel-Chambers which were appointed for their Repose till Dinner could be served up the Four Comptrollers for the Day and about 80 comely and grave Citizens in Foynes and Liveries standing and making a Lane on both sides their passage to whom their Majesties shewed gracious Respects the City Musick playing all the while to Entertain them during the time of their Repose As soon as their Majesties had a little reposed themselves Command was given to serve up Dinner the Place appointed for it was the Hustings at the East End of the Hall which was raised almost two Yards from the Ground the Floor being covered with Turky Carpets and all the Hall as all the other Rooms were hanged and adorned with rich Tapestry In the middle of the place where their Majesties Dined was hung up a Cloth of Estate and two Chairs of Estate were placed under it before which was a Table of 6 Yards long at the South End whereof at two Yards distance was a Table of Garnish 3 Yards square and at the North End was a Room Erected for Musick of all sorts for the Entertainment of their Majesties while they were at Dinner About 4 or 5 steps under the place prepared for their Majesties was a frame of Timber Erected and Floored with Deals a Yard from the Ground which Extended almost to the Hall Door upon each side whereof was a Table set from the upper to the lower end of it at these two Tables the Lords and Ladies that attended their Majesties were to Dine between which was a spacious Way left covered with Green Bayes whereon their Majesties were to pass where they should dine In the West part of the Hall below the Gate on the South side was a long Table placed for the Gentlemen Pensioners and in all other Rooms that were not for their Majesties Retirement Tables were likewise prepared for several sorts of their Majesties attendants Dinner was served up in this manner From their Majesties Table to the Dresser which was at the West End of the Hall stood the 80 Livery Men before mentioned in two Ranks about 2 yards distance from each other Face to Face one Rank of them receiving from the Dresser the King's Meat and the other the Prince's at one and the same time they never stirred from their places but delivered the several Dishes from one to another till it came to the Sewers who placed them upon the Table Their Majesties Table was furnished with four Courses the first consisting in 50 Dishes of Cold Meats as Brawn Fish and Cold baked Meats planted upon the Garnish or side Table the other three were of all sorts of Fish Fowl and Flesh to the Number of 120 Dishes of the Choicest Kinds that could be procured After which was served up a most Excellent and well ordered Banquet of all sorts of Sweet-meats and Confections wet and dry At the High Table Dined His Majesty his Royal Consort the Queen the Prince the Duke of York the Princess Mary and the Prince Elector Palatine in this Order The King sate under the Cloth of Estate and Her Majesty close to him on his left hand On his right hand about a yard distance sate the Prince and about the same distance from his Highness sate the Prince Elector At Her Majesties left hand about a yard distance was placed the Princess Mary and not far from her the Duke of York The Service for the Tables of the Lords and Ladies was thus ordered The Liveries before mentioned after the Meat was placed on the high Table served up Dinner to those Tables but in a different posture for whereas before they stood in two Ranks Face to Face they now turned Back to Back because the Dishes being served to both Tables together the one Rank of them might face to one Table and the other to the other To these two Tables were appointed 10 Messes consisting of 500 Dishes These two Tables being furnished care was taken for the rest of the Train that were thought fit to be entertained within the Hall who were all served so plentifully that not one person was heard to go discontented away A large Provision was made abroad for the Guard Footmen Coachmen and the like Their Majesties were extreamly pleased as well with the Excellent Management Sir John Pettus Knighted as the Plenty and Splendor of the Entertainment and Dinner being Ended the King sent for Mr. John Pettus a Gentleman of an Ancient Family in the County of Suffolk and bestowed the Honor of Knighthood upon him as a mark of his Favour to the Lord Mayor whose Daughter he had married Their Majesties having reposed themselves some little time after Dinner the Dayes being short command was given for their Departure and about Four of the Clock they drew up and in the same Order with which they were Conducted into the City they were also attended to White-Hall with this only difference that whereas in the Morning the Footmen carried Truncheons in their Hands they now went with lighted Torches or Flambeaux which gave so great a Light as that the Night seemed to be turned into Day As they passed along the Trumpets and City Musick were placed in several Parts Sounding and Playing which together with the continued joyful Acclamations of the People made the Streets ring again the Conduits in Cheapside and Fleet-street all the while running with Wine In their Passage by the South door of St. Paul's Cathedral the Quire with Sackbuts and Cornets sung an Anthem of praise to God with Prayers for their Majesties long Lives that his Majesty was extreamly pleased with it and gave them very particular Thanks as all the way of his Passage He used such Expressions of his high Contentment and Sense of the Affections of his People that there seemed to be a kind of Emulation between him and the City which should most express their kindness to each other The Citizens blessing and praying for their Majesties and their Royal Issue and their Majesties returning the same Blessings upon the Heads of the Citizens The King was in this manner amidst a thousand Prayers and Acclamations Conducted to his Palace at White-Hall where the Lord Major coming humbly to take his leave of his Majesty the King out of the abundance of his excellent good Disposition was graciously pleased to imbrace the Lord Major heartily thanking him
out of their House they revived his Dormant Speech concerning the Attainder of the Earl of Strafford And notwithstanding that tender point of freedom of Speech which he might well plead as a Member of that Body where it is allowed to all Men to speak according to their Conscience yet upon the Debate of it they proceeded to these Votes Resolved c. Votes about the Lord Digby's Speech against the Bill of Attainder of the E. of Strafford That the Lord Digby 's Speech upon the Bill of Attainder of Thomas late Earl of Strafford contains matters Vntrue and Scandalous and that the Printing and Publishing of it is a Crime Resolved c. That Sir Lewis Dives and John Moor and Thomas Parston the Printer are Delinquents for Printing and Publishing the said Speech Ordered to be burnt by the Common Hangman Ordered That the Lord Digby 's Speech be burnt by the hand of the Common Hang-man on Friday in the Palace-Yard Cheapside and Smithfield And that these Votes be transmitted to the Lords for their Concurrence and that the Lords be moved to joyn with this House to Petition His Majesty That he would be pleased to forbear to confer any honour upon the Person of the Lord Digby who hath deserved so ill of the Parliament An Order for the speedy raising the Mony for disbanding the Army according to the Act of Parliament Wednesday July 14. The first Printing of the Orders of the H. of Commons was this day Ordered by the House of Commons to be Printed by the King's Printers The Order following about the Lord Digby's Speech to be presented to their Lordships at a Conference WHereas upon the 21 of April last past Orber about the L. Digby's Speech there was a Speech spoken in the House of Commons at the passing of the Bill of Attainder of Thomas Earl of Strafford by the Lord Digby then a Member of the said House the which Speech contained in it matters Vntrue and Scandalous as they have reference to the Proceedings of the Committees of the Lords House and this and to the Evidence of the Witnesses produced in that Cause And whereas the said Speech was published by the Lord Digby after the said Bill of Attainder was past by Vote in this House and after that great offence was taken to the said Speech and the same questioned in the House to the scandal of the Proceedings of this House and is since come forth in Print to the scandal of the Proceedings of His Majesty and both Houses of Parliament It is therefore this day Ordered by the said House That all the said Books so Printed shall be publickly burnt on Friday next part of them in the New Palace-Yard at Westminster the other part of them in Cheap-side London and the rest in Smithfield by the hands of the Common Hang-man And to that purpose the Bailiff of Westminster and the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex respectively are hereby required to be Assistant to the effectual Execution of this Order and see the said Books burnt accordingly And it is also Ordered by the said House That the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers do their utmost endeavours to collect all the said Books into their hands remaining now dispersed among their Company and others and forthwith deliver them to one of the Sheriffs of London to be burnt according this Order And all others who have any of the said Books are hereby required forthwith to deliver them to one of the Sheriffs of London or Bailiff of Westminster as they will undergo the displeasure of this House in doing the contrary to be burnt according to this Order The ingrossed Articles against the Bishop of Ely were read Upon his Petition and Submission to the House Mr. Mr. Whittacre released from the Tower Pym Reports the Conference about the Q. Journey to the Spaw Whittacre was this day discharged from his Imprisonment in the Tower Mr. Pym Reports the Conference with the Lords about the Queen's Journey That the Lords had agreed to the Propositions and had resolved to send a number of their House to desire His Majesty to be pleased to appoint some time when such a certain number of both Houses as he shall think fit may attend him touching this business and that if he please the Queen to be prefent The Lords appointed to wait upon the King to know his pleasure herein were Lord Steward Lord Chamberlain Earl of Bath Earl of Bedford and Earl of Essex An Act for the Confirmation of the Subsidies granted by the Clergy was this day read the Bill was once read the Preamble and Confirmation was read 3 times And afterwards being put to the Question Bill of Subsidies granted by the Clergy passed the Lords and carried down to the Commons Thursday July 15. it was consented to pass Nemine Contradicente Then the Confirmation being Subscribed by the Clerk of the Parliament Soit baille aux Comuns it was sent down to the House of Commons by Serjeant Whitfield and Serjeant Finch to pass there A Message from His Majesty by the Lord Chamberlain to acquaint the Lords that he appoints to meet both Houses at Four of the Clock this day in the Banquetting-House about the Queen's Journey which was at a Conference communicated to the Commons Heads of the Address to stop the Queens Journey YOur Majesties Loyal Subjects the Lords and Commons taking notice of an Intention of the Queen's Majesty to pass beyond the Seas whereby the Kingdom will be deprived of the comfort of Her Majesties presence they have thought good to express their humble Duties and Affections to Your Majesty and to the Royal Person of the Queen in some Considerations which they do now present unto You as they conceive very important for the good of this Kingdom and the safety and contentment of Her Majesty whose Honour and Happiness shall always have a chief place in their Estimation which Considerations are these following I. First there is great Cause to doubt lest the Papists have some Design upon Her Majesties Journey because the House hath been informed that divers of them have sold off their Lands to a great value and used other means to get ready mony 2. It is observed some of them have been very diligent gathering great quantities of Gold 3. It is informed that more then ordinary numbers of Papists are gone beyond Sea already and those of the better sort II. The great number of English Fugitives now beyond the Seas who by their late Designs and Practices are known to be full of Malice to the State and will no doubt seek all opportunities of access to Her Majesty and as much as they can labour to infuse into her such evil Counsels as may trouble the Peace of the Kingdom whereof at this time there is more danger because the Affairs of the Kingdom are not yet fully setled and upon the Disbanding the Army all Parts are like to
Court 2. That if they come without License they may be punished severely and the Laws be put in Execution 3. That if any English woman that is a Papist be about the Court she may not reside 4. That no Pension be paid to any lying beyond the Seas which are of dangerous Condition And further That English Ladies Papists be removed from the Court and his Majesty moved for his Assent That the Persons of the most Active Papists be so restrained as shall be necessary for the Safety of the Kingdom even Lords as well as others The Seventh Head concerning the Nuncio's Seventh Head That it may be declared by an Act of Parliament That if any man shall presume to come to this Kingdom with Instructions from the Pope or Court of Rome that he shall be in Case of High Treason and out of the Protection of the King and Laws The Eighth Head concerning the Security and Peace of the Kingdom Eighth Head consisted of Four Branches 1. That men of Honour and Trust be placed Lord Lieutenants in every County and that direction be given to the Lieutenants to be Careful in the Choice of their Deputies 2. That the Trained Bands be furnished with Arms Powder and Bullet and that they be Exercised and made ready for Service also that an Oath be prepared to pass both the Houses of Parliament or else where Oaths cannot be Enjoyned to be taken by the Lord Lieutenants Deputy-Lieutenants and other Officers of Trained-Bands and to secure their Fidelity in these Dangerous Times 3. That the Cinque-Ports and other Parts of the Kingdom may be put into good Hands and a List of those who Govern them may be presented to the Parliament and that those Persons may be altered upon Reason and that Especial Care be taken for Reparation and Provision of the Forts 4. That my Lord Admiral that Noble Lord of whose Honour the House of Commons stand secure be desired to inform the Parliament in what Case the Navy is that if there be any defect it may be provided for out of the Money which is to come upon the Bill of Tonnage and Poundage And that if any suspected person have any Command in any of his Majesties Ships that he may be removed The Ninth Head was Ninth Head That his Majestie will be pleased to give Directions to his Learned Counsel to draw a General Pardon in such a Large and Beneficial manner as may be for the Security of his Subjects The Tenth Head was Tenth Head That a Select Committee of the Lords may joyn with a proportionable Number of the House of Commons from time to time to confer about the particular Courses as may be most Effectual for the Reducing these Propositions to Effect for the Publique Good See here the Sketch or rough Draught of the Ensuing Rebellion and Revolution which had been so long hatching by these Popular and Pretended Patriots For that they might either totally Abrogate or at least Reduce the Imperial Monarchy of these Nations to a Venetian Dukedom or as afterwards to an Oligarchical State it was necessary they should possess themselves of the Power of the Militia the Forts Garrisons and Strength of the Nation and to put out all those who were the King 's most Loyal Subjects and true to Monarchy and Parliaments upon the Old Foundation of the Three Estates out of all Power and Trust as Evil Counsellors and to put into their places such persons as the Parliament might confide in which were those of the Puritanical Faction And because the King would not subject himself to the Tyranny and Arbitrary Government of these his Subjects they therefore endeavoured to persuade the People that the King by the Suggestion of his Evil Counsellors intended to do so Himself and set up Arbitrary Power over them upon this point of the Militia it was that the matter came to the Fatal Umpirage and Decision of the Sword And lest the King should to prevent this Imposition upon his Royal Prerogative have gotten into the Affections both of the English and Scottish Army whose Mercenary Temper from Experience they very well knew they were now so sollicitous for the present Disbanding which if it could not be accomplished so soon as they desired yet the setting a Guard upon the Queen was to have a Pawn which they knew was very dear to his Majesty to secure themselves against all Events However it was a high point of Wisdom in them to procure a Full and General Pardon for what they had already done and attempted which was only to be Beneficial to themselves and their own Party all the Incendiaries and Malignants and such as they had put the Brand of Impeachment or Accusation upon being to be Excepted as was afterwards Urged in the House upon Mr. Selden's pressing it in Favour of Sir John Suckling Commissary Wilmot and some others A Message was brought to the House from his Majesty Friday June 25. Message from his Majesty about Disbanding to let them know That his Majesty gives Consent to the Disbanding of the Army and wishes it may be done with Honour and Safety to the Nation His Majesty also acquainted them That the Pope 's Nuncio should be presently sent away out of the Kingdom This Day in the Lords House The 1 2 3. of the 10 Propositions Agreed to by the Lords the First Second and Third Heads of the Ten Propositions delivered by Mr. Pym at a late Conference were publickly read and for the Freer Debate of the same the House was adjourned into a Committee during Pleasure and after a long Consideration of them they were agreed to After which the House was reassumed Order concerning the Northern Counties to take their Accounts and it was moved That the Inhabitants of the Counties of Northumberland Bishoprick of Durham and Town of Newcastle do desire That a Commission may Issue to certain Gentlemen of the said Counties joyned with such Scottish Gentlemen as shall be named by the Scottish Commissioners at Newcastle whereby they may be authorized where there are differences of Account between the Scots and the said Inhabitants 1. To Examine Witnesses upon Oath what Moneys have been paid by the said Inhabitants or any of them for or towards the Relief of the Scottish Army since the 28. of August last 2. To Examine upon Oath what Hay Corn or other Goods have since the said time been taken from the Inhabitants or any of them by any Officer or Officers or other person of the said Scottish Army and for which no Payment or Satisfaction hath been made to the said Inhabitants 3. To Examine upon Oath what Sum or Sums of Money are justly due and in arrear by the said Army to the said Counties or any Inhabitants thereof for Billetting any Horse or Foot of the said Army Ordered That the Clerk of the Crown do issue out a Commission accordingly A Message was brought from the House of Commons by
mercy but I declare good People before God and his Holy Angels and all of you that hear me that I never had any Commission from the King for what I have done in Levying or Prosecution of this War and do heartily beg your Prayers all good Catholicks and Christians that God may be merciful unto me and forgive me my sins More of his Speech I could not hear which continued not long the Guards beating off those that stood near the place of Execution All that I have written as above I declare to be true and am ready if thereunto required upon my Corporal Oath to attest the truth of every particular of it And in Testimony thereof do hereunto Subscribe my Hand and affix my Seal this 28th day of February 1681. John Ker Locus Sigilli Nor will it appear at all strange to Posterity that those Infamous Usurpers of the Presbyterian and Indepenent Faction of the Parliament who afterwards Murthered his Sacred Person should attempt to Assasinate the Fame and Honour of that Royal Martyr but when under the Just and Easie Government of the Son of that Father persons who seem extremely solicitous for the Truth and to deliver the most impartial account of those Affairs to Posterity shall adventure to dip their Pens in the same Ink and revive the old sleeping Calumnies and Insinuations it will be absolutely necessary by way of precaution to future Ages to set some Mark upon them and to do Justice to the Memory especially of that Injured and Oppressed Prince by clearing it from these false and unjust Aspersions lest otherwise he should again suffer a Martyrdom in his Innocent Memory and after times come to entertain suspicions that the Crimes objected against him were not altogether Groundless since they find them supported by those who seem to have espoused his Interest and who make such fair pretensions to exact Truth in the Relation of this Horrid Rebellion I will not insist upon a late Paper which hath already received the marks of His Majesties just displeasure for insinuating a Scandalous Reflexion upon his Royal Father in affirming That the Committees of the Parliament of Ireland were in at the Intrigues of the Popish Faction at Court which words however endeavoured to be palliated with a Restriction only to the Papists who without employes of Ministers or Privy Councellors followed the Court contrary to Law yet in the Natural import must signifie a Managing Plotting and Designing People to whom for their Interest and Power the Committees made this Application and what ever Construction Loyal Subjects may make of such Words the Turbulent and Factious always by Faction at Court understand those Ministers of State and Privy Councellors whom they according to the Liberty they take are wont to call also Evil Councellors Popish Councils of which it is easie to give a Thousand Instances and how dangerous such Reflexions are to the Government his late Majesty sufficiently felt and his Son our Royal Sovereign hath had just ground to fear and the more when they are propagated by persons whose Station gives them a Popular Credit and evil disposed persons will be apt to draw inferences from such Authorities to support the dangerous Calumny against the Court of the Son of which the Fathers is how falsely soever Accused But though I insist not upon this Books of that bigness being not long lived in the World especially when so marked by publick reprehension yet I cannot pass by what a late Historian whose Works are more likely to survive the present and some future Ages has upon this subject interspersed to the Scandal of his late Majesty and one of his most Faithful and Loyal Subjects his Lord Lieutenant of Ireland the then Marquess now Duke of Ormond whose generous fidelity to the Crown of England and constant services to the Church and State the Protestant Religion and Interest and his wise conduct of the Affairs of Ireland with which he hath been so successfully entrusted by his Royal Master might have expected a far better treatment then now when the signal hand of Providence hath as a Recompence of his Loyalty and Sufferings conducted his Grace to an Age of Glory to raise new storms of Detraction against his Reputation and Honour even when he seems to have come to an Anchor in the Favour of his Prince and the esteem of all good and faithful Subjects to the Crown The History though his name is not affixed to the Title Some Animadversions upon Dr. Borlase's History of the Execrable Irish Rebellion goes generally under the name of Dr. Borlase's and if it be so Dr. Borlase must excuse me if I take the liberty to affirm that he has not followed Old Tully's Honourable Character of an honest Historian Ne quid falsi audeat dicere of which I think he hath not only failed in many particulars but again raised up the Spirit of Detraction Of the Good Old Cause to persecute the Ashes of the Illustrious Martyr and wound the future Honour of his most faithful Ministers I do not intend to write a solemn Confutation of his Book and more then that I do think it in many things true and so useful that I shall make use my self of such Authorities in it as are fortified by Truth but I must still have freedom to dissent from him wherever hereafter I find him discrepant from Truth I shall only in this place in short take notice of some few passages wherein he seems not only to swim down the Popular Torrent of the Calumnies of the late times of Usurpation but to bring the Stream of his own Sentiments and Reasonings to supply that Channel which was so near dry as to be almost Fordable by the most indifferent Understandings in the Transactions of the late Troubles and in my Opinion are of so dangerous Consequence to the raising of new ones that nothing but an ingenuous Confession of not attending to the Consequences of reviving and promoting such insinuations can make any tolerable excuse for the mischiefs they may do and an indeavour to prevent them by making the acknowledgment of the mistakes as publick as the mistakes are dangerous But since as I lately am informed the Author is by his Death put out of the possibility of making that Reparation to the Government I think it of absolute necessity to shew the World those mistakes which surviving in his Writings if not detected may do more mischief after his Death then his publick Recanting and Retracting of them could have done Justice to the injured Memory of his late Majesty his Ministers and Government had he lived and been so ingenuous as to do it And first He seems to stumble at the very Threshold of his Work in matter of Fact which is but an Ominous setting out for an Historian and must be either out of Ignorance or Design either of which are very ill Ingredients towards the composing a History An instance of which in the very first Page
hear my Lord Orrery's Account of it in his forementioned Book p. 10 11. where he saith E. of Orrery's Answer to Peter Walsh The Wisest of Men thought the Irish Papists fastned to his Majestie in the Year 1641 by the best of Governments and to the English Protestants by the strictest ties of Interest Friendship Marriage and which is more in their Esteem Gossipping and Fostering to the Publique Peace by their as flourishing so free Condition and to all by those Royal Graces which his Sacred Majesty at that time indulged their Commissioners such as themselves desired 't was but then ask and have Yet all this Honey was turned into Gall for at that very time wherein the King was Exercising such high Acts of Grace to them the Irish Papists plotted and soon after perpetrated the Worst of Rebellion the Worst Extensivè Exulcerating generally and Intensivè breaking forth with more Persidie Barbarism and Cruelty than can be parallel'd in any History The great motive at least in pretence was Religion For whereas Dr. Borlase in his Preface saith It is Evident they never had so free Exercise of their Religion as when the Rebellion began It is Evident that he is mistaken even by the Testimony of the Person of whose Book he saith p. 7th of his Hist Sir John Temple Irish Reb. P. 26.27 in the Margin It was a Piece of that Integrity few can Equal none Exceed who could have informed him that this free Exercise of Religion was only clancular and in private But they evidently saw that the Calumnies cast upon the late King as a Favourer of Popery was one of the principal Engines by which the Factious part of the Parliament of England alienated the affections of all his Majesties English and Scotch Protestant Subjects from him besides the Severities which the Parliament provoked the King upon his peril to inflict upon the Papists in England and Scotland was made Use of by the Popish Clergy to drive them into a Rebellion by insinuating That if the Parliament could bring the King under their Government there was nothing to be Expected but the total suppression of their Religion and the Eradication of their Nation In confirmation whereof it was confidently averr'd to them That a * Sir John Clotworthy Member of Parliament concern'd in Ireland did in the House of Commons declare in a Speech That the Conversion of the Papists in Ireland was only to be Effected by the Bible in one hand and the Sword in the other And I have been told by a Person of Honour and Worth that Mr. Pym gave out That they would not leave a Priest in Ireland Nor could their Committees who were here be ignorant of these Passages or being many of them Papists not communicate it to the Irish Papists Another Encouragement to this Rebellion was the Example of Scotland as appears plainly by Connelly's Deposition who was told by Mac-Mahon that they did this to imitate Scotland who got a Priviledg by that Course And the Confession of the Lord Mac-guire which the Reader shall presently see does not obscurely hint That the Earl of Argyle the Head of the Covenanting Rebellious Scotch Presbyterians was under-hand working the Irish into some Conspiracy against the King probably that his hands being full they might procure better Terms for themselves and divert the Storm of the English Arms which then were impending upon them Nor was the taking off the Earl of Strafford that Great Wise and Valiant Man a little contributing to this Irish Tragedy for besides that it is visible that the Irish Committees who were many of them Papists were highly instrumental in furnishing the English Parliament with matters of Complaint and Accusation against that Noble Lord for which they were mightily at that time thô known Papists caressed by the Earl's Enemies in the Commons House so it is no less Visible that this Design of theirs though it had been long contriving advanced more in half a Year after his Vigilant Eye was taken off their Actions and his Hand from the Reins of the Government then it had in all the time before as will plainly appear by Mac-guire's Confession And in Confirmation of this I think it a Debt due to the Illustrious Memory of that Great Man the Earl of Strafford whom I cannot name without and Pity Wonder to insert part of a Letter of his to his Dear and Intimate Friend Mr. Wandesford then Master of the Rolls and one of the Lords Justices in 1636 wherein he acquaints him with the account which he had given in to the King and Council of the state of Affairs in Ireland which he doth in these Words I Informed them That the Army was well Clad reasonably well Armed The State of the Army in the Earl of Strafford's Time 1636. but should be better well Exercised and well Paid which they had never been before That I had visited the whole Army seen every single man my self as well in his own person as in his Exercising where other Generals that had continued that Charge longer then my self had not taken a view so much as of one Company that in the Removes and Marches of the Army they pay'd justly for what they took and passed along with Civility and Modesty as other Subjects without Burden to the Country through which they went whereas formerly they took the Victuals and paid nothing for it as if it had been in an Enemies Country whence it was that the Soldier was now welcom in every place where before they were in abomination to the Inhabitants That by this means the Army in true account might be said to be double the Strength as it had been That this was so apprehended by the ill-disposed as there is neither Courage nor Hope left for opposition the good Subjects secured the bad kept in humility and fear by it That they were worthy of the Kings Entertainment and when they shall be seen will appear with a Company of gallant Gentlemen their Officers fit to serve a Great and Wise King whereas not much of this before but rather quite the Contrary That for my self I had a dead Stock in Horses Furniture and Arms for my Troop that stood me in 6000 l that so I was in readiness upon an hours warning to march nor did I this out of Vanity but really in regard I did conceive it became me not to represent so great a Monarch as his Majesty meanly in the sight of that People and that it was of mighty Reputation to the Service of the Crown when they saw me in such a Posture that I was upon an hours Warning able to put my self on Horseback and that the Soldiers should see I would not Exact so much duty from any private Captain as I did impose upon my self being their General Lastly it was my humble Advice That the Army as of absolute Necessity to the Government was rather to be reinforced then at all diminished as being an
to give Sir Henry Tichbourn notice of the approach of this intended Relief and the Design of the Rebels and to order him to take all possible Care of securing their Passage Which Sir Henry by the same Messenger gave his Lordship assurance he would not fail to do and accordingly that very Day he marched out with a considerable Party to meet them but these loose and ill disciplined Men not used to Military Affairs took up their Quarters at Batruby eight Miles short of Tredagh by which means he missed of joyning them that Night The next Day they continued their March but in a disorderly way The English going to relieve Tredagh defeated till they came to Julian's Town where the Rebels having notice from the Lord Gormanston as Sir John Temple from Mr. Creightston's Examination affirms were drawn up to intercept them and by reason of a Mist which then fell and through the negligence of the Scouts who were sent out to give Intelligence they were got within Musket Shot of the Enemy before they discovered them The Major however drew them up presently into what Order he could and they were in a Place of great advantage but a Lieutenant unfortunately giving out the Word Counter-march and thereupon the Men facing about in some Disorder the Rebels gave a hideous Shout and immediately charged them Which with their own fear unaccustomed to the dreadful Face of War put them into such Confusion that they could not be persuaded to make one Charge but throwing down their Arms they every Man fled and gave the Rebels an Easy though considering the Number a bloody Victory for of the whole Party only Sir Patrick Weames with the Horse the Major and 2 Captains with about 100 Men escaped to Tredagh the other three Captains with all the rest of the Soldiers except such as were Irish being there cut off and all the Arms Ammunition and Carriages being also taken by the Rebels This unfortunate Blow as it gave great incouragement to the Rebels so it did extremely deject the Spirits of the English and Protestants but to inliven them a little Sir Charles Coot who with a commanded Party was sent out into the County of Wicklow to repress the Insolencies of the Brins and Tooles who ravaged that Country committing many Depredations and Murthers upon the Protestants meeting with Luke Toole with a thousand Irish under his Command he set upon him and quickly routed them obliging him and his Men to take the Sanctuary of an Irish Bogg for his Security At Wicklow he caused some of those who were accused of the Spoiles and Robberies there to be Executed which the Rebels took for a Pretence to Revenge by the Murder of many Protestants which fell into their Hands About this time there arrived 20000 l. in pieces of Eight 20000 l. arrives out of England which went currant for 4d more in a piece then in England which was a very seasonable Supply and gave some Life and Spirit to the drooping Affairs of the Protestants and enabled the Government to carry on the Levies The King sends Mony and Arms to Ireland from Scotland with which they were now in Hand his Majesty also assisted by the Duke of Richmond had caused such Proportions of Arms and Ammunition with all the Money he could spare to be conveyed out of Scotland with Commissions to Sir Robert Steward and other Persons of Quality in the North of Ireland to give the Rebels a diversion on that side But the Rebels had set their Rest upon the taking of Tredagh and therefore quitting the North with the greatest of their Forces they drew down towards that Place But in their March thither Sir Phelim O Neil and Sir Con Mac-gennis made an Attempt upon Lisnegaruy where Sir Arthur Terringham who commanded a small Party of 400 Foot and was assisted by the Lord Conwayes and part of Captain St. John's Troop to the number of 380 Horse The Rebels repulsed at Lisnegaruy by Sir Arthur Tirringham gave them such warm Entertainment that they were repulsed with considerable loss both of Men and Reputation leaving six of their Colours and many of their Rebellious Adherents slain upon the Place without any considerable loss on the Protestants Side more then of Captain Boid and Captain St. John who fell in the Field of Honor with some private Soldiers and some few others who were wounded in the Incounter And before they sate down before Tredagh a Party of 1300 Foot besieged Mellifont the Lord Moore 's House where were only 24 Musketeers and 15 Horse who bravely defended the Place till their Ammunition was spent and then the Horse setting open the Gate made their way through the Enemy in despight of their Opposition and came safe to Tredagh and the Foot yielded upon Promise of fair Quarter which was but ill kept by the Rebels who killed some of them in cold Blood stripped the rest and Plundered the House carrying away whatsoever was of any Use or Value And now the Lords and Gentlemen of the Pale seeing the Success of the Northern Rebels and the little Force that was raised in Ireland or brought over from England to oppose them began to falter in their Loyalty also and under the pretence of Fears and Jealousies the Common Ingredients of Rebellious Designs to stand upon their Guard and to give too just Suspitions to the Government that they would rather joyn with the Rebels then assist to the Suppressing them The Lords Justices and Council therefore resolving to try them sent this Letter to them AFter our very hearty Commendations to your Lordship A Letter from the Lords Justices and Council to the Irish Lords of the Pale for as much as we have present occasion to confer with you concerning the present State of the Kingdom and the safety thereof in these times of danger We Pray and require your Lordship to be with us here on the 8th day of this Month at which time others of the Peers are also to be here And this being to no other end we bid your Lordship very heartily farewell From his Majesties Castle of Dublin the third day of December 1641. Your very Loving Friends Will. Parsons Jon. Borlase Ormond Ossery Ant. Midensis R. Dillon Ad. Loftus Ge. Shirley J. Temple Rob. Meredith To our very good Lord George Earl of Kildare The like Letters were the same day dispatched to the Earl of Antrim Earl of Fingale Viscount Gormanston Viscount Netervile Viscount Fitz-William Lord Trimblestone Lord Dunsany Lord Slane Lord of Hoath Lord Lowth Lord Lambert But the Lords of the Pale who had been already Treating with the Northern Rebels and therefore looked upon this as an artifice to ensnare them durst not adventure themselves to Dublin but Summoning an Assembly at the Hill of Tarah the Lord Gormanston brought thither an Answer ready drawn which being read and approved of was Signed by the Lords present and sent away the Copy whereof was as followeth