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A56171	Hidden workes of darkenes brought to publike light, or, A necessary introdvction to the history of the Archbishop of Canterbvrie's triall discovering to the world the severall secret dangerous plots, practices, proceedings of the Pope and his confederates, both at home and in forraigne parts, to undermine the Protestant religion, usher the whole body of popery into our church, and reduce all our realms to their ancient vassalage to the Sea of Rome, by insensible steps and degrees : from the first marriage treaty with Spain, anno 1617, till this present : together with the true originals of the late Scottish troubles, Irish rebellion and English civill warres: manifested by sundry ... papers, found among Secretary Windebankes, master Thomas Windebankes, the lord Cottingtons and Arch-bishop of Canterburies writings, and some late intercepted letters from forraigne parts / by William Prynne ...	Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1645 (1645)	Wing P3973; ESTC R7996	362,172	332

and honour your Majesty so much that I would have discovered an intended Plot Note which I doubt this next Summer will be put in execution against the State of our Kingdome of Ireland but that I am sworne the contrary I was requested after many deepe Protestations and injunctions not to make it knowne to be an actor in the designe I refused it and tooke time to consider your Majesty with your learned Councell may finde out and prevent the ensuing perills I have this day poysoned my selfe at the Kings Bench Barre to prevent the malice of Iudge loanes and of your Judges whom as I shall Answer at the dreadfull day would unjustly have deprived me of life had not my selfe prevented him he hath done this not for any benefit to the weale publike but upon particular revenge he only aimed at my blood and life I beseech your Majesty to give him my carcase to eare also a corrupter Judge I suppose the Kingdom hath not any Roberies Murthers and all manner of villany shall passe by him● undiscerned let him be but bribed otherwise the Inocents must suffer and so have I. What the party was who writ this Letter I cannot certainly determin but certaine it is he was some Souldier dwelling in Ireland at first who should have been an Actor in the Irish Rebellion was charged under an Oath of Secrecy not to reveal it above a yeare before it brake out this letter being written in 1640. before Windebankes slight and Judge Iones his death The party who writ it was it seemes examined concerning this Plot as appeares by these heades of his examination indorsed in another hand on the backe of the Originall viz. Roch a Priest that lived in Develin a Bishop called Bar●well w●ld commond him to Tyrone in Flanders * This Tyrone was Owen Oneal that had the Regiment and he should be an Actor in the d●signe THAT SHOVLD FREE THE PAPISTS IN IRELAND We may TAKE DEVELIN BY AN ANSLAT as easily as kisse a mans hand The Kingdome is so secure and the Souldiers so base AS IT IS AS EASIE TO TAKE THE KINGDOME The Souldiers are but hirelings for 13. pound a yeare and so they serve all their men and scarce pay them but you shall be better used Goe into England get up your debts AND WEE WILL IMPLOY YOV Stanley and others have beene ill used AND GIVING THEIR SERVICE TO VS HAVE RELEASED THEMSELVES OF THOSE ENEMIES SO MIGH● HEE Doe The Examination and confession indorsed on the Letter informes us of these particulars 1. That the Plotte mentioned in the Letter was to surprise Dublin and the Kingdome of Ireland too The very plot the Rebels intended endeavoured afterwards to put in execution 2ly that the end of it was to free the Papists in Ireland 3ly That they thought this Plot was as easie feasible as to kisse a mans hand 4ly That one Roch a Priest in Divelin and a Bishop called * This Barnwell was a man very Active in this Conspiracy as appeares by Maguires confession following Barnwell were the parties who acquainted him with the Plot under an Oath of secrecy would have engaged him in it 5ly That Tiroen to wit Owen Oneal the man who raised the Regiment of 3500. men desired a Recrute in the former paper was the person to whom he shold be recommended in Flanders to be a principal actor in this Plot being there enabled to raise men Armes and traine up the conspirators to the use of Armes without suspition or noise better then in any other place 6ly That they had then drawne Standley and other Souldiers to their party Seventhly that all this was confessed and discovered in manner aforesaid above a yeare before this Rebellion brake out That this Plot was thus laid and discovered before hand to Owen O Neale in Flanders will appeare by this examination taken upon Oath in Ireland The Examination of Henry Mac Cart taken before Sir Gerrald Lowther Knight Chiefe Iustice of His Majesties Court of Common Pleas and Sir Robert Meredeth Knight Chancellour of His Majesties Court of Exchequer of His Majesties Privie Councell of the Kingdome of Ireland by direction of the Right Honourable the Lords Iustices and Councell the 12th day of February 1641. VVHo being sworne and examined saith that about nine yeares since he this Examinant left the Kingdome of Ireland and went into Flanders under the command of Iames Fitz-Garret of Ballysonan in the County of Kildare and at his said Captaines landing In Flanders he and his company were put into the Regiment of Owen Roe O Neale Colonell under the Cardinall where this examinant served for about two yeares of the said time under the said Captaine Fitz-Garret and then was transferred under the command of Captaine Conn O Neale in the same Regiment and afterwards was preferred by the said Colonell Owen O Neale to be his Major Domo which Office is of the nature of Steward of his House and after was by the said Owen made Quarter-master of his Regiment in which imployment he this examinant remained untill he was sent into this Kingdom by the said Colonell Owen O Neile And this examinant saith that Sir Phelim Roe O Neale had sent a Table with a Character from this Kingdome of Ireland unto Col. Owen O Neale into Flanders the which Table was lost at the siege of Ayre And for the losse of which Character he this examinant heard the said Colonell lament much saying That all the great Townes Ports Provinces and remarkable places and persons in the Kingdome of Ireland had their particular names deciphered in that Table After which time the said Colonell received from Captaine Conn O Neale Nephew unto him the said Owen one other Table of Characters of the like contents And the said Captaine Conn was sent from Flanders into England about Lent last by the said Colonell to obtaine leave for the raising of men in this Kingdome of Ireland under pretence of carrying the said men so to be raised into Flanders Note The true intention of the raysing of those men being to set on foot the Rebellion in Ireland which hath since accordingly been done and the said Conn having spent about six weekes in England retu●ned into Flanders upon pretence of furnishing himselfe with money for the raysing of the said men but before he the said Conn returned backe for England the said Colonell Owen being on a journey unto the siege of Ayre there repaired unto him Hugh Mac Phelim Birne now a Colonell among the Rebells of this Kingdome of Ireland who formerly had been a Captaine in Tirones Regiment in Spaine and the said Hugh remained with the said Colonell Owen about foure and twenty houres most of which time they spent in private conference in which discourse he this Examinant over-heard the said Hugh say We are to adventure our lives for the succouring of a scabbed Towne of the King of Spaines where we may happily

first removed and the matter better disposed to impresse the forme presently by the pec●niary mu●cts would but breed a Monster And let the Cavan Petition b● but perused to see if there be ever a word for or against the Recusants fines whereby without further ado I and all that joyned therein are justified from the imputation of opposing in that ipart●cular touching the monys to be levied upon the Papists Yea but at least I joyned to oppose the applotment of Contributions upon Protestants Nor that neither For it was both applotted and paid But to petition that the Lords Justices and Councell would forbeare any further imposition till they should represent to his Majesty c. herein onely I joyned My Lord as I have never esteemed it to become me or any Subject to take upon and to be the Auditor of the publike Accompts as being a matter to bee left in the wisdome and providence of the Kings Majesty the Father of the publike family so I have yet thought the way ought not to be foreclosed to the subjects to have recourse in humble and dutifull sort to his Majesties goodnesse to declare their grievances this serving to evaporate their discontents a good meane to keep them from fastering inwardly and so to help to cure them How much lesse is this to bee denyed to the dutifull and obedient who had not opposed the applotment made upon them though levyed disorderly by laying on the Souldiers without Commission by an Irish Recusant sub-Sheriffe Note the most odious man to the English in all the County For which cause there was a deliberation of the Assises to have indjcted him of High Treason though as I thinke by the wisdome of the Lord chiefe Justice it was put by The petitioners therefore having before paid the money imposed and harshly imposed this very thing to petition that they might not be charged aga●ne till his Majesty were informed seemes not to bee worthy such blame In wish and hearty desire I rest The day of our deliverance from the Popish Powder-plot Your Lordships in all duty JOHN KILMORE By this Bishops Letter you may clearly discerne the potency and boldnesse of the Popish party in Ireland at that time who built a new Colledge in Dublin stored with Iesuites and young Students to bee trained up in that pragmaticall dangerous Order I shall adde to this a Certificate of Boetius Egan the Popish Bishop of Elphin in Ireland in the behalfe of one Philip O Conor a young Popish Student the originall whereof was found among Secretary Windebanks papers which will somewhat illustrate the Premises NOs Fr. Boetius Eganus Dei Apostolicae sedis gratia Elphin Episcopus Omnibus ad quos praesentes literae pervenerint Notum facimus praesentium latorem Philippum O Conor Hybernum nostrae antedictae Dioecesis adolescentem esse virum integrum conversationis laud●bilis bonae indolis esse nobilissimis hujus regni Catholicis parentibus legitim● oriundum modò ultra marinos partes proficiscentem studendi causa eo quod in hoc nostro afflicto regno nec ei nec aliis similibus orthodoxae fidei cultoribus incumber● literis permitti●ur ob grassantem apud nos haeresim Quare eundem Philippum omnibus Christi fidelibus potissimum in Ecclesiasticae dignitatis fastigio constitutis nec non Gymnasiorum rectoribus plurimum in visceribus Salvator is commendamus eos obnixe rogantes ut eidem consilio savore auxilio quoties opus ●uerit subvenire non dedignentur mercedem ab eodem recepturi in cujus vinea laborare insudare intendit post suum Deo ●●nuente reditum in ban● suam afflictam patriam In quorum omnium fid●mbis subscripsimus sigillum parvum quo ad talia utimur apponi curavimus Julii 1633. Fr. Boetius Elphyn Episcopus What good use was made of this increase of the Popish Party in Ireland and how they were connived at out of a meere designe to ballance the Protestants there by the Infernall policy of the then Lord Deputy to the end he might compound a lower house of Parliament there so as that neither the Recusant nor the Protestant should appeare considerably one more then the other holding them as much as might ●ee upon an equall ballance that so they might prove the more easie to governe them if e●●●er party were absolute and that by this policy the King might by a packed Parliament without charge in a short time make a more absolute Conquest of that Nation and Kingdome by wisdome then all his Royall Progenitors have been able to accomplish by Armes Note and vast expence of Treasure and blood will most evidently appeare by this Duplicate of the Lord Deputies dispatch to his Majesty 22 Jan. 1633. superscribed For my Lords Grace of Canterbury found in Canterburies private Study and this indorsed with his owne hand Rec. Mar. 2. 1633. Com. Ang. Reasons for the present calling of a Parliament in Ireland Which being a pernicious piece against the freedome and power of Parliaments laying downe most desperate Policies how to over-reach Parliaments and make them instruments to erect a meere Arbitrary Government and enslave themselves to what good use was to bee made of the Popish Party in Irish Parliaments I shall here insert out of the Originall May it please your Sacred MAIESTY Considerations tending to the better Government of the Church and Clergy in this Kingdom I offer in a Letter herewith sent to my Lords Grace of Canterbury The present meane condition of this Army and the necessary course to bee held in the speedy reformation thereof I fully now set forth in my dispatch to Mr. Secretary Coke The state of your Majesties Revenue The annuall Issues of your Treasure and the debt charged upon this Crowne upon my comming to the Government The Propositions humbly offered by mee for the bettering your Majesties affaires in this particular Together with a way of raising a constant great Rent ●orth of the Salt I have at this time als● transmitted to my Lord Treasurer of all which I beseech your Majesty at your best leisure bee pleased to take a summary Accompt Now I trust the importance and weight of this inclosed Discourse will recompence for the length thereof and obtaine my pardon Albeit I presume thus to present it immediately to your Sacred Hands For indeed I take it to bee no lesse then the ground-plot whereupon to set and raise safety and quiet to this Kingdome as it stands in relation within it selfe security and profit as it is in dependance to the Crown of England And therefore I doe most humbly beseech your Majesties quickning Spirit may move upon these Waters That wee may from your directions receive life and from your Wisdome borrow light to guide and conduct us along in the way we are to take towards the accomplishment of so happie a Worke. God Almighty assist you in these and all other your Counsels and long preserve

two or three instances here omitted in my Popish Royall Favourite to wit the Lord chiefe Iustice Richardsons Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown in the Kings-Bench for stay of an Inditement against the Lady Parkins and Iohn Gibbons for sending her Daughter beyond sea to be a Nunne the Copy whereof was sent to Windebanke who procured it Mr. Fanshaw and Mr. Keeling ACcording to his Majesties gracious command to me NOTE signified by Master Secretary Windebanke that no further proceedings shall be had upon an inditement against Dame Mary Parkins and Iohn Gibbons in Michaelmas Terme last for sending or carrying Mistresse Penelope Parkins the said Dame Mary Parkins Daughter beyond seas to be a Nunne contrary to the Statute These are to will and require you to make the Roll of the Record thereof and to enter a Cesset processus thereupon that no further proceedings be had upon the said Inditement accordingly for which this shall be your warrant and so I rest Your loving friend Thomas 〈◊〉 From 〈◊〉 Inne this 13. of May To this I shall adde the same chiefe Iustice his letter to Secretary Windebanke concerning his staying of Processe against one Lovet May it please your Honour IT is most true that the businesse concerning Lovet was recommended to my care NOTE I have done therin whatsoever was in my power to performe and there hath not been wanting in me the lest duty to either of their Majesties commands but he being indited of felony for receiving and harbouring of a Priest and the Priest himselfe of treason in the same inditement I cannot discharge him thereof but in a legall way which is either by exception to the inditement for insufficiency or by a legall tryall or by his Majesties gracious pardon that which was in my power being onely to stay Processe and proceedings I have done and all his goods which were seized and taken from him I have long since caused to be restored unto him againe but nothing will please him unles●e he may be actually freed and discharged of the inditement which is not in my power to doe I have directed him the best course I can but he will take no way but his owne and that is to overthrow his inditement by exception to the sufficiency of it in poynt of law to which end he hath moved me to have a copy of it which I have been willing and ready with all my heart to grant him but I could not do it without the consent of master Atturney Generall it being in a cause neerly concerning the King for felony and treason I mooved master Atturney Generall for him in his owne presence who vvished him to attend him at his Chamber but whether he hath done so or no I knovv not for he never comes at me but as it seems deales maliciously vvith me under hand I being as desirous to doe him all the good I honestly and justly may as ever I vvas to doe any man in my life for besides my humble duty and service to both their Majestyes he is a man for some reasons I doe particularly love and affect This is all that I can write and therefore vvith most humble thanks to your Honour for your favour NOTE vvhich I shall never cease to acknowledge and vvith remembrance of my most humble duty and service I humbly take my leave and rest Your Honours most humble and faithfull Servant to becommanded Thomas Richard●●● Ba●king 30. May 1634. Mich. xiij Caroli Regis Brownlow Ordinat ●st per Cur. Farrington querens c. versus Ant. Ingle●ield Ar. quatuordecem die Octobris quod cesset omnis prosecutio inter dictas partes super omnibus Informationibus actionibus debiti quibuscunque concernentibus Recusantiam ●psius Ant. per Cur. This yeere we began to have more intimate publike correspondency and trading with Rome then formerly and on Aug. 7. Bishop Laud being nominated Archbishop of Canterbury by the King upon the death of Dr. George Abbot had a serious offer made to him by one who avowed ability to performe it and therefore doubtlesse a speciall Agent from the Pope to be A CARDINALL and a second serious offer of this dignity August 17. as appeares by his own a See the Breviate of life p. 1● Diary About which time Master Walter Mountague under pretence of some disgust taken at Court departed hence privately into France and from thence towards Rome by the way he professed himselfe a Papist and let fall some words that his designe was for Rome to reconcile us to it upon the best and fairest termes As soone as he entred Italy he was most honourably entertained presented feasted and brought on his way towards Rome in very great state and solemnity by all the Italian Princes States neer whom he passed and arriving at Rome was there magnificently received by the Pope and his Cardinals with whom he had private conferences sundry houres together taking place of all the English then in Rome as a kind of extraordinary Ambassadour sent from hence he was daily courted visited feasted with much respect by the Pope and Cardinals and having dispatched his negotiation there he was sent for thence to the Court under pretence of being Vicechamberlin to the Queen which place was then voyd by death but soon after he went into France and there entred into a Monastery for a time as did then Sir Kenelm Digby to make himself more capable of a Cardinals Cap of which it was then voyced he had a promise The Pope upon his Negotiation at Rome Oct. 10. 1634. sent over a special Nuncio into England called Signior Gregorio Panzani to labour a reduction of us to the vassalage of the Church of Rome who b As the Book entituled The Popes Nuntio wri● by the Ve●tian Emb●ssadou● rel●tes p. 7. arrived here at London Dec. 25. 1634. He saluted first the Queen after that the King who received and treated him with much kindnesse telling him that he was very welcome his Majesty remaining uncovered during all the discourse and entertainment he was entertained treated with under the Notion of a Nuncio residing in and about London he had frequent accesse to the Court and great persons to seduce and worke them to his ends how farre he preceeded in this designe you may read in the late printed Books intituled The Popes Nuncio and The English Pope what recourse he had to Secretary Windebanke and what favours he obtained from him in behalfe of the Roman Catholikes will best appeare by his owne gratulatory letter sent to this Secretary from Rome after his departure hence the originall whereof written by the Nuncio himselfe in Italian thus indorsed with Windebanke owne hand ●1 May 1637. Seignior Gregorio Panzani from Rome rec 22 Iune our stile I found among his papers and have here faithfully exhibited to publike view in English as worthy to be known as it was afterwards englished and given in evidence upon Oath at

Roles 2000. l. Sir Edward Leech 2000. l. The six Clearks 6000. l. The Lady Cambden 5000. l. Baron Westo● 500. l. Baron Trevor 4000. l. Baron Hendon 3000. l. Sir Thomas Fanshew 1000. l. Sir Peter Osborne 1000. l. Sir Robert Pye 2000. l. Sir Edward Sawyer 500. l. Sir Charles Herbert 1000. l. Sir Edward Powell 2000. l. Sir Sidney Mountague 2000. l. Sir Ralph Freema● 2000. l Mr. Iohn Packer 1000. l. Morley 2000. l. Massam 4000. l. Surveyor of the Works 1000. l. Sir Richard Wynne 3000. l. Iames Maxwell 2000. l. Patrick Mall 20●0 l. Iames Leviston 1000. l. George Kirk 2000. l. William Murrey 1000. l. Henry Murrey 2000. l. E●dymion Porter 1000. l. Sir Henry Mildmay 2000. l. Sir William Vdall 1000. l. Sir Edward Varne 1000. l. Sir Richard Younge 1000. l. Mr. Audley 4000. l. Sir Miles Fleetwood 1000. l. Sir Benjamin Rudiard 500. l. The Attorny of the Wards 1000. l. Mr. Chamberlin 1000. l. The Attorny of the Dutchy 500. l. Mr. Cofferor 3000. l. Sir Thomas Merry 2000. l. Mr. Fenner 1000. l. Sir Richard Manley 500. l. Mr. Comptroler of the Works 500. l. Lord Chief Iustice Branst●n 500. l. Mr. Iustice Barkley 1000. l. Mr. Iustice Crook 1000. l. Sir Thomas Hatten 1000. l. Sir Iohn Winter 1000. l. Mr. Attorny Ball 500. l. Mr. Sollicitor Winne 500. l. Serjeant Whitfield 500. l. Mr. Iustice Iones 500. l. Mr. Henly 5000. l. Lord Chief Iustice Litleton 1000. l. Sollicitor Lane 500. l. In this Schedule there we●● divers names of Noblemen and others inserted with blanks left for the sums they were to lend And the Officers of Star-chamber Chancery other Courts here omitted were likewise therein ordered to be sent for under which the Archbishop with his own hand writ these directions To cal upon the Lord Keeper for these Names Call for Names Which cleerly manifests this sending for all these to lend the sums here specified to be his project and that he was the chief Actor in these Assessments of them The most of whom were enforced to lend 38000. l. being subscribed before the Lords of the Councell by some of these persons in one day and 10000. l. another day as appears by a Note under Windebanks hand Moreover I found this ensuing List of Names and Sums under Windebanks hand 6. March 1639. Kings Servants to be warned on Friday These in this Paper now absent to be sent for against Wednesday to Mr. Solicitor Herbert gr Sir Gdward Griffin 1000. l. gr Sir Edward Savage 500. respect ●Sir Iohn Trevor 1000. Mr. Iohn Frecheville 500. gr ●Sir Iohn Maynard 500. Sir Henry Herbert 1000. Sir Francis Vincent 500. Sir Iohn Smith 500. Sir Thomas Walsingham 500. Mr. Solicitor 500. Sir Lionel Palmage 2000. gr Mr. Thomas Fotherley 500. refus Sir William Ashton 500. Sir Thomas Richardson 1000. gr Mr. Edmund Windham 500. gr Mr. Pye 3000. Mr. Ioh Mannors of Hadden 2000. Massam 2000. He will give his own Bond the Lords will bring it down to 1000. l. Mr. William Walter 500. Mr. Edmund Dunch 500. gr Capt. Richard Crane 500. Sir Thomas Ashton 500. Mr. William Coryt●n 500. gr Sir Iames Thynne 3000. gr Sir Henry Newton 1000. resp ●Mr Henry Frederick Thynne 2000. Sir Ralph Hopton 500. Sir William Savile 1000. gr Mr. Iames Maxwell 2000. Mr. Patrick Mawle 2000. He is to do what he can gr Mr. Iames Levingston ●000 gr Mr. George Kirk 2000. gr Mr. William Murray 1000. gr Mr. Henry Murray 1000. gr Mr. Endymion Porter 1000. How much of these sums were lent or contributed I cannot certainly define but on April 13. 1640. the Parliament called about the Scots assembled wherein many Subsidies were demanded to be presently granted and levied before any grievances redressed in conclusion after much debate the Parliament on the 5. of May was suddenly dissolved and no Subsidies given but then the Convocation was continued by the Archbishops means who granted the King a large Benevolence to continue for 3. whole years in nature of 3. intire Subsidies to maintain this war against all Law to be paid in and levied under severest penalties of which more in due place and made 17. Canons exceeding prejudiciall to the Kings Prerogative the Parliaments Subjects Liberties in justifying and establishing divers Popish Innovations in Religion in affront of the Parliament upon whose dissolution divers illegall means were set on foot by Canterbury and his Confederates to raise moneyes to support this war as forced Loans divers Aldermen of London being imprisoned in the Tower for refusing to certifie names of Persons within their severall Wards for to lend by enforcing Shipmoney Coat and Conduct money in the Countries more then ever By Commanding by a speciall Proclamation Aug. 20. 1640. all the Nobility Knights Gentlemen and those who held Lands of the King to attend him at the Army with horses men and arms in this service according to their abilities and estates Hereupon a great Army was raised in the North and a bloody war likely to have ensued but that God by his overruling Providence happily appeased it without bloodshed by a Treaty first and then by an Act of Pacification and Oblivion passed in the Parliaments of both Kingdoms What Tumults and Libels the Archbishops breaking the first Pacification with the Scots and after that the Parliament occasioned to the endangering of his Person you may read out of his own Diary in the Breviate of his life pag. 22 23 which I will not repeat That he had the principall hand in exciting and directing these wars will appear by the Lord Conwayes Letters to him who had then the Command of the Northern forces the extracts of some whereof out of the very Originalls I shall here present you with The first is thus Endorsed with the Archbishops own hand Received Iunij 12. 1640. my Lord Conway his Iudgement concerning popular Tumults now in England May it please Your Grace I Have received two Letters from you Note the one by Mr. Tre●orers conveyance wherein you were pleased to let me know what the disorder at Lamb●eth was the mutinies of the base multitude are not to be feard nor to be neglected the chief inciters are to be castigated and that quickly if there were persons fitting to be Heads to a discontented multitude there were some danger if those men could not be secured but he that feares any Head that can be given to any discontented Body here in England will be afraid like boyes and women of a Turnep cut like a deaths head with a candle in it All these accidents must be overcome with patience dexterity and courage If the end whither one would go cannot be attained with that speed is desired learn of Seamen to lye by a wind and gain ground by boarding I do assure my self that if wise thoughts be with courage put in execution all difficulties will be overcome there must not be any fainting by the way if the heart fail the legs will never leap over the d●●ch

above one hundred fifty two thousand Protestants there destroyed in the first four months of the Rebellion as the Rebells themselves certified the Pope upon inquisitions of their number taken upon Oath But notwithstanding those their successefull proceedings in other parts yet through the admirable Providence of God they were prevented of the main part of their design the surprising of Dublin Castle the chief strength and Magazine of that Realm which had they gotten they had in very few dayes been Master of the whole Kingdom For the very night before the Castle should have been surprised the Plot was discovered to the Lords Iustices of Ireland by O●en Connelly whereupon that design was frustrated and the Lord Maguire and Hugh Macmahone two principall men in the Conspiracy who came purposely to surprise it with other their Confederates taken Prisoners whose Examinations and Confessions together with the Lords Iustices Letter to the Earl of Leicester discovering the manner and proceedings of this Conspiracy I shall here insert I shall begin with the Relation of the Lord Maguire himself written with his own hand in the Tower and delivered by him to Sir Iohn Conyers then Lieutenant to present to the Lords in Parliament because it is the fullest BEing in Dublin Candlemas Term last was 12. moneths the Parliament then sitting Mr. Roger Moore did write to me desiring me that if I could in that spare time I would come to his house for then the Parliament did nothing but sit and adjourn expecting a Commission for the continuance thereof their former Commission being expired and that some things he had to say to me that did meerly concern me and on receipt of his Letter the new Commission for continuing the Parliament Landed and I did returne him an answer that I could not fulfill his request for that present and thereupon he himself came to Town presently after and sending to me I went to see him at his Lodging and after some little time spent in salutations he began to discourse of the many afflictions and sufferings Note of the Natives of that Kingdom and particularly in those latter times of my Lord of Straffords Government which gave distaste to the whole Kingdom and then he began to particularize the suffering of them that were the more ancient Natives as were the Irish how that on the severall Plantations they were all put out of their Ancestors Estates all which sufferings he said did beget a generall discontent over all the whole Kingdom in both the Natives to wit the Old and New Irish and that if the Gent. of the Kingdom were disposed to free themselves furtherly from the like inconvenience and get good conditions for themselves for regaining their Ancestors or at least a good part thereof Estates they could never desire a more convenient time then that time the distempers of Scotland being then on foot and did ask me what I thought of it I made him answer that I could not tell what to thinke of it such matters being altogether out of my Element then he would needs have an oath from me of secrecy which I gave him and thereupon he told me that he spoke to the best Gentlemen of Quality in Lemster and a great part of Conaght Note touching that matter and he found all of them willing thereunto if so be they could draw to them the Gent. of Vlster for which cause said he I come to speak to you then he began to lay down to me the case that I was in then overwhelmed in Debt the smalnesse of my Estate and the greatnesse of the Estate my Ancestors had and how I should be sure to get it again or at least a good part thereof and moreover how the welfare and maintaining of the Catholique Religion Note which he said undoubtedly the Parliament now in England will suppresse doth depend on it for said he it is to be feared and so much I hear from every understanding man the Parliament intends the utter subversion of our Religon by which perswasions he obtained my consent and so demanded whether any more of Vlster Gent. were in Town I told him that Philip Relly Mr. Torrilagh ô Neal Brother to Sir Phillim ô Neale and Mr. Cosloe Macmahone were in Town so for that time we parted The next day he invited Mr. Relly and I to dine with him and after dinner he sent for those other Gent. Mr. Neale and Mr. Macmaehone and when they were come he began the discourse formerly used to me to them and with the same perswasions formerly used to me he obtained their consent And then he began to discourse of the manner how it ought to be done Of the feazebility and easiness of the attempt considering matters as they then stood in England the troubles of Scotland the great number of able men in the Kingdom meaning Ireland what succours they were more then to hope for from abroad Note and the Army then raised all Irishmen and well armed meaning the Army raised by my Lord of Strafford against Scotland First that every one should endeavor to draw his own friends into that act and at least those that did live in one Country with them and when they had so done they send to the Irish in the Low-Countries and Spain Note to let them know of the day and resolution so that they be over with them by that day or soon after with supply of Armes and Munition as they could that there should be a set day appointed and every one in his own quarters should rise out that day and seize on all Armes he could get in his County and this day to be near winter so that England could not be able to send Forces into Ireland before May and by that time there was no doubt to be made but that they themselves would be supplyed by the Irish beyond Seas who he said could not misse of help from either Spain or the Pope but that his resolution was not in all things allowed For first it was resolved nothing should be done untill first they had sent to the Irish over Seas to know their advice and what hope of successe they could give for in them as they said all their hope of reliefe was and they would have both their advise and resolution before any further proceedings more then to speak to and try Gent. of the Kingdom every one as they could conveniently to see in case they would at any time grow to a resolution what to be and strength they might trust to Then Mr. Moor told them that it was to no purpose to spend much time in speaking to the Gent. for there was no doubt to be made of the Ir●sh that they would be ready at any time And that all the doubt was in the Gent. of the Pale but he said that for his own part he was really assured when they had risen out the Pale Gent. would not stay long after at least that they would