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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.
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1689
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Wing A3556; ESTC R16309
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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
Lord Mayor and Aldermen went this day through the City Commanding all Protestants by four of the Clock to bring in their Arms to their Parish Church and if they left so much as a Bionet not brought in if upon search any were found That House should be exposed to the mercy of the Soldiers Dated Feb. the 25th 1688. The Protestants in Ulster taking notice of these Proceedings and truly judging that their destruction was approaching and that they could only expect Ulysses fate to be last be devoured they began to rouse themselves into some preparations to oppose a sudden surprize and with stour Hearts but weak Hands to assemble and stand upon their Guard and in the Eastern Counties of Down and Antrim to form an Association to raise Troops and Companies to secure the Frontiers and to prevent the Incursions of the Enemy But as their Preparations were hasty and now ay competent to their necessity so their Retreat was as precipitate and dissonant from their Resolutions The Deputy having got together a vast Army the Protestants in Dublin and the adjacent Counties being disarm'd and dismounted those in Munster and Conaght plunder'd and pillag'd of all their Goods Horses Sheep and Cattle he sent down a Body of 15000 Men into Ulster under the Command of rich Hamilton whom he constituted Lieutenant General of the Army and out of a design partly to terrifie and partly to delude the desponding Protestants who hitherto had kept up their Spirits in a daily expectation of Relief from England he made use of a Presbyterian Minister who had a great influence upon those of his Persuasion whose number in the North was very considerable and obliged him to write this following Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Massereen a strenuous Asserter of the Protestant Interest and by it the greatest Sufferer in that Province Copies whereof were immediately dispers'd thro the several Counties Loghbricklan March 9. 1688. My Lord ON the 6th instant I was introduced by my Lord Granard into my Lord Deputy's Presence in the Castle of Dublin I have his Pass to come and go through and back from Ulster and tho I have not his Excellencies direct Commission yet I will assure you I am at least permitted by the Lord Deputy to acquaint the Chief and others of those of the Ulster Association with his Discourse to me which was to the effect following to wit First That his Excellency doth not delight in the Blood and Devastation of the said Province but however highly resents their taking and continuing in Arms the affronts done by them to His Majesty's Government thereby and by some indignities done to the late Proclamation of Clemency issued and dated Secondly Notwithstanding whereof is willing to receive the said Province into Protection provided they immediately deliver up to his Army for His Majesty's use their Arms and serviceable Horses and provided they deliver up to his Excellency these three Persons viz. if they remain in the Kingdom and may be had Thirdly And for further manifestation of his Design to prevent Blood is willing to grant safe Conduct even to the said three Persons or any other of their Party to and from his Excellency and to and from Lieutenant-General Hamilton Commander of part of his Army hereafter mentioned if they intend any peaceable and reasonable Treaty But withal will not upon the said Account or any other stop the March of the said part of his Army no not for one hour and if it shall appear in such Treaty that they took up Arms meerly for Self-preservation then he will pardon even the said three Persons also but is hopeless that any such thing can be made appear seeing that many of them have already accepted and received Commissions from the Prince of Orange and display his Colours in the Field as his Excellency is credibly informed Fourthly If these terms be not immediately agreed to he will with a part of his Army fight them which part he intends shall be at Newry on Monday the 11th of this instant which will from thence march to Belfast and from thence to Colerane and Londonderry as his Excellency intends And that the Countrey Irish not of the Army Men Women and Boys now all Armed with Half-Pikes and Bionets in the Counties of Cavan Monagham Tyrone Londonderry c. will upon the approach of the said part of the Army and Resistance thereto made immediately enter upon a Massacre of the British in the said Counties which Force and Violence of the Rabble his Excellency saith he cannot restrain and fears it may be greater than in 1641. These are the Heads of what I can offer to you from his Excellency's own mouth but I intend to be at Hills-borough to night and there to stay for this night where if you think fit I shall fully discourse with you of all the particulars whereof I hope you will give immediate notice to all chiefly concerned in your County and Neighbourhood for gaining of time I have sent this Express that your Lordship may give Advertisement by Express to all such as your Lordship thinks convenient I shall add no further till I have the Honour to see your Lordship Your Lordship 's Obedient Servant Alex. Osborne Received the same Night at Antrim This Letter was received at Antrim the same Night and immediately the following Answer was returned by the Earl of Mount-Alexander Lord Massareen c. We declare the utter abhorrence of the effusion of Blood and that we will use all proper Means to avoid it but cannot consent to lay down our Arms which we were forced to take up for our own Defence nor to part with our Goods by any other than legal Means and that we are ready to appoint Persons to treat on each Heads as are consistent with the safety of our Religion Lives and Liberty Now to convince all Mankind that this specious Message sent by Mr. Osbourn dated March 9. 1688 who came with all speed from Dublin was only a Sham and Delusion plotted by the Deputy to amuse the poor Protestants and cast a Mist before their Eyes that they might not see their approaching Destruction Behold the Proclamation dated at Dublin March 7. 1688. wherein he had decreed the Ruin of Ulster and the exemption of so many Persons from Mercy By the Lord Deputy and Council March 22. 1688 / 9. TYRCONNELL WHereas several Persons in the Province of Ulster and the Town of Sligo in this His Majesties Kingdom have entred into several Associations containing no less Offence than High-Treason and therupon form'd themselves into several Parties Dividing Marshalling themselves into several Regiments Troops and Companies Marching well armed up and down the Country to the great Terror of the Kings Leige People in manifest breach of the Law and of the Peace of this Realm And having resolved within our selves to prevent the Effusion of Blood as long as it was possible by using all peaceable Means to reduce