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A25704 An apology for the Protestants of Ireland in a brief narrative of the late revolutions in that kingdom, and an account of the present state thereof. 1689 (1689) Wing A3556; ESTC R16309 15,035 42

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the said Malefactors to their Obedience have of late issued a Proclamation setting forth the said Disorders requiring all the said Parties to disperse and repair to their several Habitations and Callings assuring every of them of His Majesty's Pardon and Protection And whereas we find the said Offenders instead of complying with our said Proclamation still to persist in their Wickedness by continuing in actual Rebellion breaking of Prisons and discharging of Prisoners secured by due course of Law for Robberies Felonies and other heinous Crunes by seizing upon his Majesties Arms and Ammunition imprisoning several of his Majesties Army disarming and dismounting them killing and murdering several of his Majesties Subjects pillaging and plundering the Country and daily committing several other Acts of Hostility and finding no other way left to suppress the said Revellion We the Lord Deputy have caused a Party of his Majesties Army under the Command of Lt. General Richard Hamilton to march into the Province of Ulster to reduce the Rebels there by force of Arms the Consequence whereof cannot but be very fatal to that Country and the Inhabitants thereof and will inevitably occasion the total ruine and destruction of that part of His Majesties Kingdom The Consideration whereof hath given us great disquiet and trouble of Mind that a Country well planted and inhabited should now by the insolency and traiterous wickedness of its own Inhabitants be brought to ruin or desolation which we are still willing to prevent if any spark of Grace be yet remaining in the Hearts of those Conspirators hereby declaring notwithstanding the many Affronts by them put upon his Majesties Government notwithstanding the several Acts of Hostility by them hitherto committed that if they will now submit and become dutiful Subjects His Majesties Mercy shall be extended to them excepting the Persons hereafter excepted and in order thereunto We the Lord-Deputy and Council do strictly charge and command all such Persons in Arms in Ulster or the Town of Sligo forthwith to lay down Arms and that the principal Persons amongst them now in the North do forthwith repair to Lt. General Richard Hamilton and deliver up to him their Arms and serviceable Horses and to give him Hostages as an assurance of their future Loyalty and Obedience to His Majesty and that all their Adherents do deliver up their Arms and serviceable Horses to such Person or Persons as he the said Lt. General Richard Hamilton shall appoint to receive them And we do also further charge and command all the principal Persons of other Commotions and Insurrections in Sligo to repair forthwith either to us the Lord Deputy or to Colonel M c Daniel at the Boyle and deliver up their Arms and serviceable Horses and to give Hostages as Security for their future peaceable Deportment and their Adherents to lay down their Arms to be delivered up together with their serviceable Horses to the said Col. M c Daniel We the Lord-Deputy hereby giving safe Conduct to such of them as will submit according to this our Proclamation And we do hereby further declare That such of the said Persons as shall give Obedience to these our Commands except the Persons hereafter excepted shall have his Majesties Protection and Pardon for all past Offences relating to the said Commotions and Insurrections but in case they shall be to unhappy as to persist in their wicked Designs and treasonable Practises We the Lord-Deputy do hereby command all his Majesties Forces to fall upon them wherever they meet them and to treat them as Rebels and Traitors to his Majesty Yet to the end the Innocent may not suffer for the Crimes of the Nocent and that the Committals of Human Acts may be prevented we do hereby strictly charge and command His Majesties Army now upon their march to the North and all other his Majesties Forces that they or either of them do not presume to use any violence to Women Children aged or decriped Men Labourers Plow-men Tillers of the Ground or to any other who in these Commotions demean themselves inoffensively without joining with the Rebels or aiding or assisting them in their traiterous Actings and Behaviours But in regard Hugh Earl of Mount-Alexander John Lord Viscount Mazareen Robert Lord Baron of Kingston Clotworthy Sherington Esq Son to the Lord Viscount Mazareene Sir Robert Colvil Sir Arthur Rowden Sir John Magill John Hawkins Robert Sanderson and Francis Hamilton Son to Sir Charles Hamilton have been the principal Actors in the said Rebellion and the Persons who advised and fomented the same and inveagled others to be involved therein We think fit to except them out of this our Proclamation as Persons not deserving his Majesties Mercy or Favour Given at the Council-Chamber of Dublin March 7 1688. A. Fytton C. Granard Limerick Bellew Will. Talbot Tho. Newcomen Rich. Hamilton Fran. Plowden The Deputy who till now had never kept Faith Truce or Promise was strict and punctual to his Word for he sent down his Army at the Time and to the Place appointed meeting with no Resistance the Protestants being unprovided of Arms and Ammunition and not able so suddenly to imbody themselves or stem the Torrent that was ready to overwhelm them but what was made by Sir Arthur Rowdon who at the head of 200 Horse gallantly opposed them till finding it impossible to dispute the Passage of so great an Army by so inconsiderable a Force he made a hasty but honourable Retreat with the loss of a very few Men and being met by some Companies of Foot who were marching on but too late and too slowly to second him they also retreated but in some Disorder which being observed by the Inhabitants of Lisburn they began immediately to fly toward Antrim the People of which place being struck with Amazement at so unexpected an Adventure betook themselves to Flight also and so rolling on from one Town to another the Country was universally seised with a panic Fear and Consternation hurrying their Wives and Children toward the Sea-Coast leaving their Goods in their Houses their Stock in the Fields and taking no Care but to preserve their Lives In this Confusion and Fright the poor Souls fled to London-Derry and would have gone further if the Sea had not stopt them To take upon me to Describe the Horror of this Revolution the most Deplorable State of the People the Misery Poverty and Distress of many thousand good Families and the utter Desolation of a most fruitful and well-peopl'd Country would ingage me in a Task which no Pen can sufficiently express nor no Art render credible or intelligible Let it suffice that I tell you in a word there is not this Day a Protestant in the Kingdom of Ireland that has a Gun to defend him a Horse to carry him a House to shelter him or Stock to sustain him except such as have been deluded or missing of a timely Escape necessitated to accept of Protections which will avail the unfortunate Compliers no longer