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A95614	The Irish rebellion: or, An history of the beginnings and first progresse of the general rebellion raised within the kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October, in the year, 1641. Together vvith the barbarous cruelties and bloody massacres which ensued thereupon. / By Sir Iohn Temple Knight. Master of the Rolles, and one of his Majesties most honourable Privie Councell within the kingdom of Ireland.	Temple, John, Sir, 1600-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing T627; Thomason E508_1; ESTC R201974	182,680	207

declination as they could not long continue Seignories and Possessions were setled in a due course of inheritance those most destructive customes of * The Lands belonging to the Irish were divided into severall territories and the Inhabitants in every Irish country were divided into severall Septs or Lineages In every Irish country there was a Lord or Chieftain and a Tanist which was his successor apparent None could be chosen Tanist but one issued out of one of the chief Septs The Seignory and Lands belonging to the chief Lord did not descend from father to sonne or upon default of issue to him that was next of kinne But he that was most active of greatest power and had most followers alwayes caused himself to be chosen Tanist and if he could not compasse his desires by gentle means then he used open force and violence and so being declared as it were heire apparent came into possession upon the death of the chief Lord. Now for the inferior Septs they held their lands at the will of the chief Lord after a sort For after the death of every one of his Tenants which held any land under him he assembled the whole Septs and having put all their possessions together in hotch-potch made a new partition among them not assigning to the son of him that died the land held by his father but altering every mans possession at his own pleasure and according to his own discretion he upon the death of every inferior Tenant made a generall remove and so allotted to every one of the Sept such part as he thought fit And this was the Irish Gavelkind Sir John Davies Rep. fol. 49. Tanestry and Gavelkind began to be depressed The two Presidentiall Courts of Munster and Conaght were then instituted and speciall order taken that Free-schooles might be erected in the severall Diocesses throughout the Kingdom for the better training up of Youth But these acts and other courses tending to the advancement of true Religion and Civility were highly displeasing and most incompatible with the loose humours of the Natives who apprehended even the most gentle means of reformation as sharp corroding medicines And thereupon pretending the burthen of the English government most insupportable began desperately to struggle for their liberty Severall plots were laid Nonnulli ex claris in Lagenia familijs et plerique Anglicae originis partim ex romana religionis studio partim ex odio recentium Anglorum conspirare co●perant ad pro regem cum familia opprimendum castrum Dublinense intercipi●ndum et A●glos in Hib●●●● ad unum ●●●edio tol●●ndos Cambden Eliz. an 22. some even by those who were themselves of the old English by extraction divers Rebellions and petty Revolts raised during Her Majesties most happy reigne That of Shane O Neale the Earl of Desmond Viscount Baltinglas O Rurke and severall others at other times were all set on foot for this very end and all timely suppressed partly by the power of the Queens forces partly by her gracious favour in receiving the Chieftains to mercy And she as most unwearied with their never ceasing provocations still went on with all gentle applications and lenitives for the withdrawing of the people from their barbarous customes As severall of the great Lords who had been out in rebellion were restored to their lands and possessions others she suffered to enjoy their Commands in the country upon others she bestowed new titles of Honour And being very unwilling to put the Kingdome of England to such an excessive charge as the full conquest of Ireland would most necessarily require no faire meanes were left untryed that could minister any hopes of civilizing the people or setling the present distractions of the Kingdome But all was in vain The Irish not to be reclaimed by gentle meanes the matter then wrought upon was not susceptible of any such noble forms those wayes were heterogeneall and had no manner of influence upon the perverse dispositions of the Irish the malignant impressions of irreligion and barbarisme transmitted down whether by infusion from their ancestors or naturall generation had irrefragably stiffned their necks and hardned their hearts against all the most powerfull endeavours of Reformation They continued one and the same in all their wicked customes and inclinations without change in their affections or manners having their eyes inflamed their hearts enraged with malice and hatred against all of the English nation breathing forth nothing but their ruine destruction and utter extirpation And that they might at once dis-impester themselves of their unpleasing company Tyrones rebellion and disburthen the whole Kingdome of them and their posterity they still entertained new thoughts and had now brought unto perfection a designe long meditated in their breasts whereby they resolved at once clearly to rescue deliver themselves from their subjection to the Crown of England And this was that desperate Rebellion raised almost through the whole Kingdome by Hugh Earl of Tyrone who after titles of Honour received a Command given by the Queen unto him both of Horse and Foot in her Pay great proportions of Land and other Princely favours conferred upon him Resolving at once to cancell all those Royall obligations of gratitude and fidelity broke out and drew along with him most of all the Irish Septs and famlies together with many degenerate English throughout the Kingdome into rebellion against his most gracious undoubted Soveraign And these all as being universally actuated with the venemous infusions of his malevolent spirit uniting their whole interests and forces into a firm conjuncture with him raised all their dependants and moved in severall places according to the severall orders and directions they received from him And to fill up the full measure of his iniquity he drew in a foraigne Nation at the same time with considerable Forces to invade the Land The ill effects of the submissions of the Irish So as the Queen now found by wofull experience that Ireland was no longer to be dallied with one Rebellion still begot another and this last was more dangerous then any of the former it being more deeply rooted more generally spread within the Kingdome more powerfully fomented from without She well discerned how much her great clemency had been abused in suffering former rebellions to be smothered over and loosely peeced up with protections and pardons that the receiving of the Irish upon their submissions to avoid the charge of a war did inevitably redouble the charge and perpetuate the miseries of war therefore she now resolved no longer to trifle with them but vigorously to set to the work and making choice of some of her most renowned English Commanders committed to their charge the conduct of an Army royal compleatly armed and well paid wherewith they began the prosecution of that Arch-traitour Tyrone and with great successe in a short time though not without the expence of much English blood and above a million of mony brought

Parliament then sitting to endeavour the reasonable ease and contentment of the people freely assenting to all such Acts as really tended to a legall reformation They betook themselves wholly to the advice of the Councel and caused all matters as well of the Crown as Popular interest to be handled in His Majesties courts of Justice no wayes admitting the late exorbitancies so bitterly decried in Parliament of Paper-Petitions or Bils in Civil causes to be brought before them at the Councel-board or before any other by their authority They by His Majesties gracious directions gave way to the Parliament to abate the Subsidies there given in the E. of Straffords time and then in collection from 40000 li. each Subsidy to 12000. li. apeece so low did they think fit to reduce them And they were further content because they saw His Majesty most absolutely resolved to give the Irish Agents full satisfaction to draw up two Acts to be passed in the Parliament most impetuously desired by the Natives The one was the Act of Limitations which unquestionably setled all estates of land in the kingdome quietly enjoyed without claim or interruption for the space of sixty years immediately preceding The other was for the relinquishment of the right and title which His Majesty had to the four counties in Conaght legally found for him by severall inquisitions taken in them and ready to be disposed of upon a due survay to British undertakers as also to some territories of good extent in Munster and the county of Clare upon the same title Thus was the present Government most sweetly tempered and carried on with great lenity and modetation the Lords Iustices and Councel wholly departing from the rigour of former courses did gently unbend themselves into a happy and just compliance with the seasonable desires of the people And his Maiesty that he might further testifie his own setled resolution for the continuation thereof with the same tender hand over them having first given full satisfaction in all things to the said Committee of Parliament still attending their dispatch did about the latter end of May 1641. The Earl of Leicester declared Lord Lieutenant of Ireland May 1641. declare Robert Earl of Leicester Lord Lieutenant Generall of the Kingdom of Ireland He was heir to Sir Phillip Sidney his uncle as well as to Sir Hen. Sidney his grandfather who with great honour and much integrity long continued chief Governour of Ireland during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth and being a person of excellent abilities by nature great acquisitions from his own private industry and publique imployment abroad of exceeding great temper and moderation was never engaged in any publique pressures of the common-wealth and therefore most likely to prove a just and gentle Governour most pleasing and acceptable to the people The papists permitted privately to enjoy the free exercise of their religion Moreover the Romish Catholiques now privately enjoyed the free exercise of their religion throughout the whole Kingdom according to the doctrine of the Church of Rome They had by the over great indulgence of the late Governours their titular Archbishops Bishops Vicars generall Provinciall consistories Deans Abbots Priors Nunnes who all lived freely though somewhat covertly among them and without controll exercised a voluntary jurisdiction over them they had their Priests Jesuits and Fryars who were of late years exceedingly multiplyed and in great numbers returned out of Spain Italy and other forraign parts where the children of the natives of Ireland that way devoted were sent usually to receive their education And these without any manner of restraint had quietly setled themselves in all the chief Towns Villages Noblemen and private Gentlemens houses throughout the Kingdom So as the private exercise of all their religious rites and ceremonies was freely enioyed by them without any maner of disturbance and not any of the Laws put in execution whereby heavy penalties were to be inflicted upon transgressours in that kinde The good agreement betwixt the Irish and English in all parts of the Kingdome And for the ancient animosities and hatred which the Irish had been ever observed to bear unto the English Nation they seemed now to be quite deposited and buried in a firm conglutination of their affections and Nationall obligations passed between them The two Nations had now lived together 40 years in peace with great security and comfort which had in a manner consolidated them into one body knit and compacted together with all those bonds and ligatures of friendship alliance and consanguinity as might make up a constant and perpetuall union betwixt them Their intermarriages were frequent gossipred fostering relations of much dearnesse among the Irish together with all others of tenancy neighbourhood and service interchangeably passed among them Nay they had made as it were a kinde of mutuall transmigration into each others manners many English being strangely degenerated into Irish affections and customes and many Irish especially of the better sort having taken up the English language apparell and decent manner of living in their private houses And so great an advantage did they finde by the English commerce and cohabitation in the profits and high improvements of their lands and native commodities so incomparably beyond what they ever formerly enioyed or could expect to raise by their own proper industry as Sir Phelim O Neale and many others of the prime leaders in this rebellion had not long before turned their Irish tenants of their lands as some of them said to me when I enquired the reason of their so doing even to starve upon the mountains while they took on English who were able to give them much greater rents and more certainly pay the same A matter that was much taken notice of and esteemed by many as most highly conducing to the security of the English interests and plantation among them So as all these circumstances duly weighed together with the removall of the late obstructions the great increase of trade and many other evident Symptomes of a flourishing common-wealth it was believed even by the wisest and best experienced in the affairs of Ireland that the peace and tranquility of the Kingdom was now fully setled and most likely in all humane probability to continue without any considerable interuption in the present felicity and great prosperity it now enioyed under the government of his Maiesty that now raigneth In August 1641. The Parliament adjourned August 1641. the Lords Justices and Councel finding the Popish party in both Houses of Parliament to be grown to so great a heigth as was scarcely compatible with the present Government were very desireous to have an Adjournment made for three moneths which was readily assented unto and performed by the members of both Houses And this was done not many dayes before the return of the Committee formerly mentioned out of England The Irish Commissioners return out of England and land at Dublin They arrived at Dublin about