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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24038	An Abstract of the unnatural rebellion and barbarous massacre of the Protestants in the kingdom of Ireland in the year 1641 collected from the most authentick copies.		1689 (1689)	Wing A146; ESTC R5978	17,369	32

very Irish themselves seemed satisfied with the Tranquility they enjoyed Upon the Accession of Charles the first to the Crown the Affairs of Ireland look with a more calm and benign Face than in Times past many Applications from the Popish Nobility and Gentry for the Redress of their Grievances were with great Clemency received and with great Moderation recommended to the Care of the then two Houses of Parliament sitting at Dublin The Catholicks were permitted to the private Exercise of their Religion with great Freedom they had their Orders of Bishops Vicars Priests and Nuns permitted amongst them and by the Inter-Marriages of the English with some of the better refin'd Natives all things presented as if inclin'd to Amity the advantages they received by the English Improvements and Commerce caused many of the Native Gentry and others to displace their Irish Tenants and set their Lands to the English of which they found the Benefit by a great advance of their Rents and Securities so serene and full of Lenity was the conduct of the Government that the late Irish Army raised for the Invasion of the Kingdom of Scotland were Peaceably disbanded and their Arms and Munition laid up in his Majesties Stores in the Castle of Dublin there seemed to be no more remains of former Disorders nor was there any more noise of War heard In this great calm the English were in a profound Security under the Hopes of a Blessed Peace All sate pleasantly enjoying the Fruits of their Labours without any Apprehensions of the approaching Storm when on the twenty third of October One thousand six hundred forty one brake out that dreadful Rebellion and universal Defection and Revolt wherein not only the Native Irish but almost all the old English that adhered to the Church of Rome were generally concerned It would be a large Task to trace out the Progress of the Rebellion so execrable in its self so odious to God and the whole World as no Age no Kingdom nor People can match the horrid Cruelties the abominable Murders that have been almost numberless as well as without Mercy committed upon the English and Protestant Inhabitants throughout the Land. And this carried on with such a deep reservedness and Secresie as is enough to beget Admiration for it could not be understood that any English man besides the uncertain Presumption which Sir William Cole had of a Commotion to be raised in the Province of Vlster about a fortnight before this dreadful Rebellion broke forth I say that any English man had Notice or the least Apprehensions of it It 's true the said Sir William Cole upon his first conceiving that something was hatching amongst the Irish did write a Letter to the Lords Justices and Council Dated the eleventh of October One thousand six hundred forty one Wherein he gave them Notice of the great resort made to Sir Phelim Oneal in the County of Tyrone and likewise to the House of the Lord Mac-Guire in the County of Fermanagh and that by Persons much suspected to be fit Instruments for Mischief as also that the said Lord Mac Guire had lately made several Journeys into the Pale and other places And had spent much time in writting Letters and sending Dispatches abroad The Lords upon receipt of those Letters from Sir William Cole required him to be very Vigilant and use his utmost Diligence to find out the occasion of those meetings and to give them the most speedy Advertisement thereof or of any other matter that might tend to the service of the State. The twenty third of October was the day appointed for seizing the City and Castle of Dublin and for murdering the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland and the rest of the Protestants and to seize upon all the Castles Forts Sea-Ports and Strengths that were in the hands of the English Notice hereof was brought to the Lord Justice Parsons the Evening before by Owen O Connally a Person of meer Irish Extraction His Lordship gave little credit to it at first as proceeding from an obscure Person and one who at that time seemed disguised with Liquor but however the Lord Parsons gave him order again to go to Mac Mahon and to get out of him as much certainty of the Plot and as many circumstances as he could charging him to return unto him that Evening with an Account of what farther particulars he could get Immediately strict Orders were given to the Constable of the Castle to have the Gates thereof well guarded as also to the Maior and Sheriffs of the City to have strong Watches set upon all the parts of the same and to stop all Strangers About ten that night they found the said Connally seized by the Watch and carried to Prison and from thence they brought him to the Lord Borlaces House where upon Examination upon Oath he declared that finding Col. Hugh Oge Mac-Mahon at the Lord Mac Guire's Lodging the said Hugh told him that there would that Night be great numbers of Noble-men and Gentlemen of the Irish Papists from all the parts of the Kingdom in that Town who with himself had determined to take the Castle of Dublin and possess themselves of all his Majesties Ammunition there to morrow morning being Saturday and that they intended first to batter the Chimnies and if the City would not yield then to batter down the Houses and so cut off all the Protestants that would not joyn with them And that the said Hugh then told him that the Irish had prepared men in all parts of the Kingdom to destroy all the English inhabiting there to morrow Morning by ten a Clock and that the Protestants in all the Sea-Ports and other Towns in the Kingdom should be killed this Night and that all the Posts that could be could not prevent it that he moved the said Hugh to forbear executing of that Business and to discover it for the saving of his own Estate who said he could not help it But said they did owe their Allegiance to the King and would Pay him all his Rights but that they did this for the Tyrannical Government that was over them and to imitate Scotland who got a Priviledge by that course This is the main Scope of the first Examination that was taken before the Lords Justices which occasioned the following Proclamation By the Lords Justices and Council W. Parsons John Borlase THese are to make known and publish to all His Majesties good Subjects in this Kingdom of Ireland that there is a Discovery made by Us the Lords Justices and Council of a most disloyal and detestable Conspiracy intended by some evil-affected Irish Papists against the lives of Us the Lords Justices and Council and many other of His Majesties faithful Subjects universally throughout this Kingdom and for the seizing not only of His Majesties Castle of Dublin His Majesties principal Fort here but also of the other Fortifications in the Kingdom And seeing by the great goodness and abundant

Mercy of Almighty God to His Majesty and this State and Kingdom those wicked Conspiracies are brought to Light and some of the Conspirators committed to the Castle of Dublin by Us by His Majesties Authority so as those wicked and damnable Plots are now disappointed in the chief parts thereof We therefore have thought fit hereby not only to make it publickly known for the comfort of His Majesties good and loyal Subjects in all parts of the Kingdom but also hereby to require them that they do with all confidence and chearfulness betake themselves to their own Defence and stand upon their Guard so to render the more safety to themselves and all the Kingdom besides and that they advertise Us with all possible speed of all Occurrents which may concern the Peace and Safety of the Kingdom and now to shew fully that Faith and Loyalty which they have always shown for the publick services of the Crown and Kingdom which We will value to His Majesty accordingly and a special memory thereof will be retained for their advantage in due time And We require that great care be taken that no Levies of men be made for Forreign Service nor any men suffered to March upon any such pretence Given at His Majesties Castle of Dublin Octob. 23. 1641. R. Dillon Ro. Digby Ad. Loftus J. Temple Tho. Rotheram Fr. Willoughby Ja. Ware. Ro. Meridith God save the King. Before we come to the Particulars of this bloody Execution it will not be amiss to recite a passage from the Excellent Pen of that great Peer and Statesman the Earl of Orrery in his Answer to P. Welsh The Wifest of men thought the Irish Papists fastened to his Majesty in the Year 1641. by the best of Governments and to the English Protestants by the strictest tyes of Interest and Friendship Marriage and which is more in their Esteem Gossiping and Feasting to the publick 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 to Ask and have Yet all this Honey was turn'd 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 Rebellions the worst Extensive Exulcerating generally and Intensive breaking forth with more Perfidy Barbarisme and Cruelty than can be parallel'd in any History So far that extraordinary Person But whilst by the great Care and Conduct of the Lords Justices and Council the intended surprize of the Castle of Dublin was defeated divers of the Chief Ring-Leaders seized and in Custody their other Confederates brake forth in the North of Ireland with an uninterrupted and Tragick Execution of their Hellish Purposes and dividing their Forces into several Parties according as they had determined amongst themselves at one time surprized by Treachery the Town and Castle of the Newry the Fort of Don-Gannon the Fort Mont-Joy Charl … Ton-Rages Carick Mac-Rosse Clough-Cutter Castle … ley Castle of Monagham being all of them considerable … es of strength and in divers of them Companies of Ho●se and Foot belonging to the standing Army They likewise m●de themselves Masters of a multitude of other Castles Houses of strength Towns and Villages well Peopled with English Inhabitants who had much inriched the Country as well as themselves by their painful Labours The English thought themselves secare in the friendship of their Irish Tenants Servants or Land-Lords and the surrounding Neighbourhood whom they had endeavoured to oblige by all the kindnesses of Friendship So that when the Fire first began to break out and the whole Country began to rise about them some had their recourse to those they esteemed their Friends for Protection relying on their Tenants Neighbours or Land-lords for Preservation or at least present safety and with great confidence put their Lives their Wives their Children and all they had into their Power But Oh Inhumane and Perfidious these confiding Innocents were by these their Irish Friends either betrayed into the hands of other Rebels or most inhumanely Butcher'd by their own hands such Maxims had their bloody Priests instilled into them that they held it mortal sin to give any manner of relief or Protection to the English No tyes of Faith or Friendship could restrain their Rage Irish Landlords devoured their English Tenants Irish Tenants and Servants made a Sacrifice of their English Landlords and Masters one Neighbour cruelly Butchered and destroyed another the Venom descended in the Veins of their Children those of the Irish Nation in the very beginning fell to Strip and Kill the Children of the English 'T was thought meritorious in them that could by any means bring the English to Destruction Servants were killed as they were Plowing in the Fields Husbands cut to peices in the presence of their Wives the Childrens Brains dashed out in the Presence of their Parents and in a moment their Goods and Cattel were seized their Houses burnt the Places of their Habitation laid desolate and those that had their Lives exposed to the greatest miseries of Nakedness and Famine Where the English stood upon their Defence and in small Parties endeavoured to oppose the violence of the Rebels there they entrapt them with promises of safety of Pass-ports of Protections for themselves and Goods This they confirmed to them sometimes by Oaths and deepest Protestations sometimes under Hand and Seal but no sooner were they in their Power but they took themselves to be discharged from the Sacred Obligations of Faith and Justice and with more than Pagan Barbarism cut in peices those whom they had taken into their Protection Permitting their Soldiers after all the forementioned securities to destroy and Butcher them at their Pleasures Nor were the sacred Walls of the Cathedral Church at Armagh any defence against the Sacrilegious Violences of Sir Phelim Oneal and his Brother Turner Besides many others by the same Artifices inveigled and betrayed out of Churches Castles and Places to which they had fled for security The Rebels were embodied and dispersed in Parties through all the Neighbourhoods so that the English durst not draw out of their own Houses to form a Body to oppose them whereas if they had left their Houses upon the first rising of the Irish and in several Counties put themselves into a Posture of Defence they might have undoubtedly prevented the effusion of much of that Blood which for want of some such Conduct was so barborously spilt Other Policies they made use of to heighten and Protract the Calamities of the Innocent Of some they took Plate Money or whatever other moveables could be produced promising them under such consideration to convey them safe to Dublin notwithstanding which by an unpresidented perfidy they either exposed them into such unsufferable Calamities upon the way under which they could not subsist or else dispatcht them by an immediate