certainly by the informing Sectaries who were very diligent in springing Game for the Committee and Sub-Committees for Religion the Ministers Remonstrance and for Scandalous Ministers Mr. White 's Mr. Corbet's Sir Robert Harlow's and Sir Edward Deering's Committees And then these Godly Informers must be gratified for their Petitions Informations and such like good Service to the Common-Wealth by the Imprisonment Scorn and Contempt Charges and many times utter Ruine of the truly Loyal and Orthodox Clergy of the Church of England And whoever will take the pains to Rake in that Libel of Mr. White 's called The first Century of Scandalous Malignant Priests will find that the greatest Crimes which many of the Clergy were Accused for and turned they and their Families naked to the wide World were the disobeying this Order For Bowing at the Name of Jesus Examples 33 and 43. For setting up the Name of Jesus in the Church Ex. 72.83 Preaching against Sacriledge Ex. 22. Bowing the Body in God's House Ex. 7. But to return to the House of Commons after the Voting of this Declaration they fell upon the business of the Recess and preparing Instructions for the Committee which was to Sit during the time of the Adjournment And Mr. The standing Committee during the Recess of the Parliament Pym Sir Gilbert Gerrard Sir John Franklin Sir John Culpeper Mr. Wheeler Sir Henry Mildmay Mr. Bridgman Sir Thomas Bowyer Sir Thomas Barrington Sir Edward Hales Sir William Litton Sir Richard Cave Mr. Robert Goodwin Sir Samuel Luke Mr. Wingate Sir Robert Pye Alderman Soams Alderman Pennington Captain Venn Mr. Vassal Lord Falkland Capt. Rainsborough Mr. Bence Sir Peter Wroth Sir John Holland Mr. Winwood Mr. John Goodwin Sir Thomas Dacres Mr. Morley Mr. Henry Martin Mr. Arthur Goodwin Sir John Clotworthy Mr. White Mr. Sollicitor Mr. Spurstow Mr. Laurence Whitacre Serjeant Wild Mr. Strode Sir Henry Vane Mr. Glyn Sir Symon D'Ewes Sir William Drake Mr. Beddingfield Sir Gilbert Pickering Mr. Blakston Mr. Waller were appointed to be a Committee during the Recess This Committee to meet on Saturday next in the Exchequer-Chamber at Nine of the Clock in the Fore-noon Directions for the Committee during the Recess and they are to meet every Tuesday and Saturday in every Week and at such other times as they think fit during the Recess and they or any Six of them have power to meet with the Commissioners of the Lords appointed during their Recess at such times as they shall appoint They have Power to receive open and answer such Letters as come from the Committee in Scotland according to former Instructions and Orders of this House To take Care that the Orders of this House be punctually observed concerning Disbanding the Army Train of Artillery and Garrisons and for the Issuing and sending down of Money to those purposes To Recall the Committee in Scotland if they see Cause To go on in preparation of Proceedings against the Principal of such Delinquents as are already Voted or Complained against and to report Vpon any Informations of Riots or Tumults to have Power to send to all Sheriffs Justices of Peace and other Officers to stir them unto their Duties in repressing them and to report To Examine the Entries of the Clerks Books and that the Committee may not mistake any past Actions of the House a Clerk to be left there with the Books To take Care of the Preparations for his Majesties Revenue and to take into Consideration any Accounts to his Majesty To go on in prosecution of the Consideration of a West-Indian Company To take into Consideration the Fishing upon the Coasts of England Scotland and Ireland To take into Consideration the Resolutions of the Abuses in Exchange and Transporting of Money and the Regulating of the Par between this and other Nations To prepare the Irish Laws depending to be either at the Access transmitted to the Lords or recommended to the Irish Parliament To consider about Sal Petre and Gunpowder To send for any Persons Writings and Records To prepare a Discharge for the Earl of Warwick according to those Acquittances he hath given concerning the Northern Counties After which the Speaker desired he might have leave to go into the Country during the Recess which being granted the House was Adjourned till October 20. at Eight of the Clock in the Morning Happy had it been for England had they never met again to be the Authors of the most Dismal Tragedy that ever was Acted upon the Theatre of England but Providence whose Wisdom is unsearchable had Ordained them to be a Scourge to a People Wanton with Long Peace Ease Plenty and Even Religion it self The day to which the Parliament was Adjourned being now come Wednesday Octob. 20. both Houses met And the Lords being sate in their House and divers of them observing the Palace Yard full of Armed Men it was moved That it might be known upon what Grounds and Reasons the Trained Bands of Westminster were in the Old and New Palaces assembled The Lord Chamberlain being Captain General of the South Parts of this Kingdom during the King's absence in Scotland by Command of the House signified That his Lordship received a Desire from the Committee of the House of Commons which sate during the time of the late Recess that there might be a Guard of Souldiers about the Parliament to prevent the Insolence and Affronts of Souldiers at this time about the Town and to secure the Houses against other Designs which they have reason to suspect untill the Parliament meets and gives further Order therein Hereupon it was Ordered The Parliament takes a Guard of the Trained Bands of Westminster That the Lord Chamberlain shall by virtue of this Order continue a Guard of Souldiers to guard the Parliament Houses until the further Pleasure of the Parliament be known and that the Number of the said Soldiers shall be wholly left unto the discretion and management of the said Lord Chamberlain Captain General After this the Lord Keeper informed the House That he had received a Letter from the Lord Howard in Scotland dated the 14th of October which was read The Conspiracy in Scotland declaring That upon Monday Night then last there fell out a great Interruption in the Business there by reason of an Information given to the Marquiss of Hamilton the Earl of Argyle and the Earl of Lannerick That there was a Design to seize upon their Persons that Night whereupon they removed their Lodgings and stayed in the City all Night and relation being made hereof the next day to the Parliament the Earl of Crawford Colonel Steward and Colonel Cockram were restrained and after a further Examination his Lordship will give this House a further Information The first thing that was done in the House of Commons Mr. Pym's Report of what was done during the Recess Mr. Pym Reports what was done during the Recess THE first thing we had in Charge was
and Deputy-Lieutenants how affected to the Religion and to present their Names to the House and that where there is want that Arms and Ammunition may be supplyed By this Means they got a true account of all those who were their Friends and who their Enemies who were therefore to be displaced as disaffected to Religion and Popishly inclined as all those who were for Episcopacy were vogued to be and besides hereby they gave a General Alarm and Amazement to the Whole Nation to believe that those Fears and Jealousies with which they bewitched the People into Rebellion were grounded upon the foundations of Truth and real Danger which was the Occasion of this Inquiry into the state of the Militia Upon this a Message was sent to the Lords to acquaint them with a dangerous Conspiracy to seduce the Army against the Parliament and to increase the Fears and Jealousies among the People Message to the Lords about the Conspiracy to seduce the Army an Order was sent from the Commons to the Lord Mayor of London to take care of the City Guards The Message to the Lords was in haec verba Mr. Hollis who carried up the Message read it in these words Message about the Conspiracy of the Army That the House of Commons hath received such Information as doth give them just cause to suspect that there have been and still are secret practices to discontent the Army with the proceedings of Parliament and to ingage them in some Design of dangerous Consequence to the State and by some other mischievous ways to prevent the happy success and conclusion of this Parliament And because the timely discovery and prevention of these dangerous Plots doth so nearly concern the safety both of * Yet afterwards they did all that was possible to persuade the People that the King was in this Conspiracy King and Kingdom they desire your Lordships would be pleased to appoint a select Commitee to take the Examinations upon Oath of such persons and Interrogatories as shall be presented unto them by the Directions of the House of Commons and in the presence of such Members of that House as shall be thereunto appointed with Injunction of such Secrecy as a business of this nature doth require They have Ordered That such Members of their House as shall be thought fit shall upon notice be ready to be Examined and they desire your Lordships would be pleased to order the like for the Members and Assistants of your own House And further it is desired That your Lordships will forthwith send to his Majesty to beseech him in the Name of the Parliament upon this great and weighty occasion that no Servants of his Majesties of the Queen or Prince may depart the Kingdom or otherwise absent himself without leave from his Majesty with the humble advice of the Parliament until these Examinations be perfected Whereupon it was Ordered That this House will joyn with the House of Commons in all that they desire and these Lords following were Deputed to take the Examinations Earl of Bath Earl of Essex Earl of Warwick Earl of March Viscount Say and Seal Lord Wharton Lord Paget and Mr. Serjeant Glanvile and Mr. Attorney General to write and set down the Examinations There being never a Bishop in the Committee A Salvo for the Bishops a Memorandum was entered in the Journals MEmorandum Whereas none of the Lords the Bishops are joyned with the aforesaid deputed Lords it was declared by the House that it should be no prejudice to the Lords the Bishops This being done the Lord Great Chamberlain the Lord Steward the Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Dorset and the Earl of Newcastle were appointed to wait on his Majesty with the aforesaid request of the Parliament to which they brought this Answer THat his Majesty hath willingly granted it The Kings Answer concerning his Servants and gave a present Command to the Lord Chamberlain the Earl of Newcastle and the Earl of Dorset to give notice hereof to all under their Charge that none do depart the Kingdom without the King's License but to be forth-coming upon demand which accordingly they have already done After which the Oath of Secrecy was given to Serjeant Glanvile and Mr. Attorney in these words YOV shall Swear The Oath of Secrecy given by the Lords to Serjeant Glanvile and Mr. Attorney assistant to the Committee of Lords to Examine the Conspiracy The Persons accused That in your writing and setting down of the Examination of the Witnesses to be produced before the Lords deputed to take Examinations upon Interrogatories to be produced by the House of Commons concerning the English Army in the North and in all things concerning the same You shall well truly and faithfully behave your selves and not discover the same before the end of this Parliament or Publication granted or leave of this House first obtained The Persons Accused of this Design of seducing the Army against the Parliament were Sir John Suckling Mr. Henry Percy Brother to the Earl of Northumberland Mr. Henry Jermyn Colonel Goring Mr. William Davenant Captain Palmer Captain Billingsley and Sir Edward Wardourn and Warrants were issued out against them to bring them under the Examination of the House of Commons This day there passed little of Moment Thursday May 6. the Commons being taken up with Reading several Bills one for the security of the True Religion the Safety and Honour of his Majesties Person the just Rights of the Subject and the better discovering and punishment of Popish Recusants as also another Bill for Subsidies With which guilded baits they not only Angled for Popular Favour but also endeavoured to hide their Antimonarchical Designs against his Majesty by these specious pretences of endeavouring to study his Safety and Honour The House was this day informed That the Persons against whom the Warrants were Issued upon the Accusation of their endeavouring to seduce the Army were not to be found whereupon at a Conference it was desired that all the Ports might be stopped upon which the Lords made this Order Ordered The Order of the Lords for stopping the Ports That all the Ports of England shall be forthwith stopped until the pleasure of this House be further known and none to depart the Kingdom except Sir Thomas Roe and such as he will be answerable for who is to give in their names to this House And in particular stay is to be made of Henry Percy Esq Henry Jermyn Esq Sir John Suckling Knight William Davenant and Captain Billingsly that they depart not out of this Kingdom but are to be apprehended and safely conducted with all speed unto this House Directed To the Right Honourable Algernon Earl of Northumberland L. High Admiral of England To James Earl of March Lord Warden of the Cinque-Ports To Jerom Earl of Portland Captain and Governour of the Isle of Wight To George Goring Esq Governour of Portsmouth After which Sir Philip Carteret Lieutenant
Governour under Sir Thomas Jermyn of the Isle of Jersey having given an Account of the state of the Isle was Ordered to repair to his Charge there and if Mr. Percy Mr. Jermyn c. were there to apprehend them and cause them to be safely conducted to the House of Lords A Conference was this day appointed to be had with the Lords Fri day May 7. Heads of a Conference about the present dangers of Portsmouth and the French to acquaint them that divers persons who were suspected to have a hand in the Conspiracy and that in order to the discovery of it should have been Examined were gone that new Informations were brought to the Commons of several French Forces lay in Piccardy to be Transported into England probably into Portsmouth and to desire their Lordships to joyn with this House for the Discovery of these Practices and that some Forces may be drawn out of Wiltshire and Barkshire for securing of Portsmouth Sir Walter Erle was also ordered to go down into Dorsetshire to take care of the preservation and safety of that County Sir Hugh Cholmley to go to the Lords to desire them to move his Majesty that the Earl of Essex in this time of danger may be made Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire A Proclamation was drawn to bring in Mr. Percy c. WHereas Henry Percy Esq Henry Jermyn Esq Proclamation to bring in Mr. Percy Sir John Suckling Knight William Davenant and Captain Billingsly being by order of the Lords in Parliament to be Examined concerning designs of great danger to the State and mischievous ways to prevent the happy Success and Conclusion of this Parliament have so absented and withdrawn themselves as they cannot be Examined His Majesty by the advice of the said Lords in Parliament doth strictly charge the said Henry Percy Esq Henry Jermyn Esq Sir John Suckling William Davenant and Captain Billingsly to appear before the said Parliament at Westminster within Ten days after the Date hereof upon pain to undergo such forfeitures and punishments as the said Lords shall order and inflict upon them The Earl of Bristol Reported to the Lords House Earl of Bristols Report about disbanding the Irish Army May 7. That his Majesty had taken a resolution for the disbanding of the new Irish Army to that purpose an estimate hath been given in to the King of the Charges that 10000 l. will now do it Whereupon there is order taken for the speedy Raising and Returning of Moneys to that intent And Sir Adam Loftus Vice-Treasurer of Ireland hath engaged himself to repay in September next those Monies shall be disbursed by the Earl of Cork and others in the interim for that purpose That likewise there is care taken how to dispose and imploy the said Soldiers that they may not be troublesome to that Country to that purpose there are Eight Colonels and Captains Nominated who will take off these Men and Transport them to Forreign Parts which his Majesty will give way unto if it be to a Prince that he is in Amity with provided that these Commanders do give the King and Parliament an Account both of their Persons and their Imployers before they have the Command of the Soldiers Mr. White Chair-man of the Committee for Scandalous Ministers Saturday May 8. Reports the matter of Complaint exhibited against Edward Finch Vicar of Christ-Church London Upon which these Votes passed Resolved c. Votes about Mr. Finch Vicar of Christ-Church London That the said Edward Finch is guilty of practising Innovations in the Church Non-Residency foul Extortion neglect of the Duty of his Function and prophaning the Sacrament a Man of prophane Life scandalous in his Doctrine and Conversation and a hinderer of preaching Resolved c. That the said Edward Finch is a man unfit to hold any Benefice or Promotion in the Church Mr. White is Ordered to transmit this Case to the Lords that the Parish may be eased of him Thus early did they begin to strike at Root and Branch of Episcopacy for all those who were obedient to their Governours in the Church or thought God Almighty ought to have bodily Worship and Adoration in those places where he has put his Name and made them Houses of Prayer all those who thought kneeling at the Receiving the Holy Sacrament necessary or any other decent Postures Gestures or Vestments that might outwardly signifie inward Veneration and Homage Lawful and Expedient were upon the slightest Accusations voted Guilty of Innovation Prophaneness and unworthy of any Promotion in the Church And as Mr. Symmons Vindicat of King Charles p. 73. Symmons in his Vindication of King Charles who was an Eye-witness of this terrible Persecution informs us All Accusations against any though the best Ministers by the most malicious and lewdest persons were invited by Ordinance incouraged and admitted of without any proof at all And it can be no wonder that the Orthodox Clergy suffered so deeply both in their Reputation and Estates when not only their Accusers which mostly were the several Sectaries in their Parishes or such others as went about to defraud them of their just Dues were their most inveterate Enemies but their Judges too were frequently both Parties in promoting and managing those Accusations and by their open favouring their Accusers shewed the partiality of Enemies The Faction saw the absolute necessity of getting the power of the Sword into their hands both to justifie what they had already done and to support them in what they intended by their pretended Reformation which was totally to abolish Episcopacy in the Church and to clip the Wings of Prerogative if not wholly to take away the Government of Monarchy it self Now to the accomplishment of this design upon the Militia Navy Forts Magazines and Strength of the Nation all Arts imaginable were used to gain the People the great pretences were Liberty Property and Religion for as Mr. Hambden one of the principal Grandees of the Faction told a private friend without that they could not draw the People to assist them The great Rubb in their way to the gaining of the People they knew would be the Loyal and Orthodox Bishops and Clergy these therefore were to be removed that so Creatures of their own might be introduced into Corporations and especially into the City of London who might from the Pulpit preach the Oracles of Sedition and Rebellion delude the People animate and incourage them to assist the Parliament in this Glorious Reformation by putting the power of the Sword into their hands That they might effect this they did not only obtrude Lecturers by order of the House upon most Churches of Note in London and elsewhere but by their means and the restless malice of the Sectaries were perpetually Petitioning and Articling against the Episcopal Clergy And to encourage this Trade of Parson-hunting as the factious Sectaries called it and which did extreamly tie them to the Parliament a pretended Order of the
appeared without all doubt to be universal in all the Northern Parts and it was dangerously to be suspected that this impetuous Torrent would not be contained within those Bounds but that the other Parts of the Kingdom would by their Example and Incouragement break all the Banks of Obedience and Loyalty so that an universal Deluge of Rebellion was hourly expected And to add to the misfortune there was no Mony in the Exchequer to raise Men to oppose the Progress or crush the first beginnings of the Conspiracy the veterane Army which was kept a foot was very inconsiderable and dispersed into several distant Quarters and Garrisons and if they had been together not much above 3000 Foot and Horse as appears by this following List A List of his Majesties Army in Ireland 1641. before the Rebellion A List of the Officers and Army in Ireland when the Rebellion brock out The Foot Companies consisting of 6 Officers viz. Captain Lieutenant Ensign Chyrurgeon Sergeant and Drum and 44 Soldiers each Company were under these following Commanders Lord Lieutenant's Guard 45 Sir Robert Farrar 44 Sir Thomas Wharton 44 Sir George St. George 44 Captain Francis Butler 44 Lord Docwra 44 Sir Robert Steward 44 Lord Viscount Baltinglass 44 Captain George Blunt 44 Sir Frederick Hamilton 44 Sir Lorenzo Cary 44 Sir John Gifford 44 Sir John Nettervile 44 Sir Arthur Tyringham 44 Captain Charles Price 44 Capt. Thomas Games 44 Sir John Borlase 44 Sir Arthur Loftus 44 Lord Esmond 44 Sir George Hamilton 44 Sir William Stewart 44 Sir John Sherlock 44 Captain John Ogle 44 Sir William St. Leger 44 Lord Blaney 44 Lord Viscount Rannelagh 44 Sir John Vaughan 44 Sir Henry Tichbourn 44 Lord Castle Stewart 44 Capt. Chichester Fortescue 44 Captain John Barry 44 Capt. Thomas Rockley 44 Capt. Philip Wenman 44 Sir Charles Coote 44 Sir Francis Willoughby 44 Capt. Robert Bailey 44 Capt. William Billingsley 44 Lord Lambert 44 Lord Folliot 44 Captain Robert Biron 44 Earl of Clanricard 44 These 41 Foot Companies contain Officers 246. In all 2297. Soldiers 2051. In all 2297. The Horse Troops consisting of Captain Lieutenant Cornet and Horsemen The Lord Lieutenants 108. Earl of Straffords 58. Lord Wilmots 58. Lord Viscount Moors 58. L. Viscount Cromwel of Lecale 58. Sir George Wentworths 58. Sir Adam Loftus 58. The Marquess of Ormonds 107. Lord Dillons 58. Sir William St. Legers 58. Lord Viscount Grandisons 58. Captain Arthur Chichesters 58. Lord Viscount Conways 58. These 13 Troops contain Officers 42. In all 943. Horse and Foot 3240. Soldiers 901. In all 943. Horse and Foot 3240. A very inconsiderable Army had they been altogether in a Body The only thing which was of considerable advantage was That the Magazines were well stored with Arms and Ammunition For besides several Pieces of Artillery most of them fit for present Service there was Arms for 10000 Men 1500 Barrels of Powder with Match and Ball proportionable in the Castle of Dublin but this Store was owing to the Care and Prudence of the Wise thô Unfortunate Governor the late Earl of Strafford whose Providence even after his Death became thus Serviceable towards the preservation of that Kingdom However in this Extremity of Affairs the Lords Justices and Council set themselves with all possible application to provide against this threatning Tempest Sir Francis Willough by Governor of the Castle of Dublin And in the first place they Constituted Sir Francis Willoughby Governor of the Castle of Dublin placing such a Number of Men in Garrison there as might be able to defend a Place of so great Importance as that then was by reason of the Stores of Arms and Ammunition there deposited that from the surprizing of it the Rebels had promised themselves the greatest advantages in their Wicked Enterprizes and thô Providence had discovered and disappointed that part of their Design yet it might reasonably be suspected that they would not give over that attempt the accomplishment of which either by force or fraud would of necessity so much facilitate all their other Intentions Letters and Expresses were dispatched unto the Presidents of Munster and Connaght Letters sent to the Nobility and Gentry to inform them of the discovery of the Plot. and to diverse of the Principal Gentlemen in those two Provinces as also to those of the Province of Lemster giving them an Account of the Discovery of the Plot that so they might stand upon their Guard and take the best Measures they could for their own and the Security of those Countries where they Inhabited an Express was sent to the Earl of Ormond then at his House at Carick with Letters to the same Effect and also to desire his Lordship with all possible Expedition to advance with his Troop of Horse to Dublin They sent Commissions to the Lords Viscounts of Clandeboys and of Ardes for Raising and Arming of the Scots in the Northern Parts as also soon after to Sir William Steward and Sir Robert Steward and several other Gentlemen of Quality in the North which they were forced to send by Sea the Rebels having cut off all intercourse to those Parts by Land The Letter to then Earl now his Grace the Duke of Ormond was as followeth AFter Our very hearty Commendations to your Lordship by this Proclamation your Lordship will find the Condition of Affairs here Our haste admits not long Discourse upon this Subject A Letter from the Lords Justices and Council to the Earl of Ormond of the discovery of the Pot Oct. 24. 1641. only we pray and require your Lordship to give Order that it be published there We having also directed this Bearer to leave one Proclamation at every Market-Town in his Way thither for the more speedy Publication of the disappointment of their Design In the weighty Consultations now requisite here your Lordship's Presence with us is so necessary as we must pray and require you to repair speedily hither where your stay shall not be longer than of necessity shall be requisite And so We bid your Lordship very heartily Farewel From his Majestie 's Castle of Dublin 24 October 1641. Your Lordships very loving Friends Will. Parsons John Borlase Rob. Dillon Rob. Digby Ad. Loftus John Temple Fra. Willoughby Ja. Ware Rob. Meredith The Plot was to Surprize all the Forts of the Kingdom yesterday at one Hour and they have taken Castle Blaney and Neury but yet we hear of no more The Lord Macguire Captain Mac-Mahon and several others We have Committed to the Castle Your Lordship is also required to bring your Horse Troop hither To our very good Lord James Earl of Ormond c. Upon which Summons from the Lords Justices and Council his Lordship did with all the haste and diligence imaginable march with his Troop to Dublin there to receive their Commands and give Testimony of that Courage and steady Loyalty which will for ever Record his Name in the Memoires of Time for one of the most
manifestation thereunto subscribeth this 16th day of May 1654. Robert R. Farnam his Mark. This Deposition was taken before Us Commissioners for the Revenue of the Precinct of Cork Robert Phaier Esay Thomas Tho. Woodlif Twelve Depositions in behalf of the Lord and Lady Muskery viz. 1 Sarah Vokely 2 Barbara Moore 3 Mrs. Love 4 Catharine Floyd 5 Mary Thomas 6 Sampson Moor. 7. Eliz. Wharton 8 Ann Field 9 Corporal Biddel in behalf of the said Lord and Lady with Eliz. Lasdoffers in behalf of the said Lady 10 Richard Love 11 Richard Allen and William Baker 12 Eliz. King 13 A Copy of the Certificate of the Lady Muskery's civil carriages since the Rebellion taken before the said Commissioners Dated with the above Depositions the 16th day of May 1654. The Bishop of Ferns also gave this Certificate That he saw a Gibbet upon Carigodrohitt Hill with Two Irish-men hanging on it Executed by the Lord Muskery 's Order for Robbing some English-men coming out from Kerry in the Week before Christmas 1641. Dat. March 28 1682. The Rebels grown now numerous by meeting with little or no opposition and insolent by their Successes began to think of carrying all before them and Sir Phelim O Neal had got together a great Army though but in very ill Equipage insomuch that he divided his Body and with one part marched down towards Lisnagarny near the chief Plantation of the Scots whom hitherto they had professed they would permit quietly to live among them and keep what they were possessed of and the other part advanced towards the English Pale and took in Dondalk Dondalk taken by the Rebels which they did with little difficulty there being only one Company in the Town of the Army commanded by a Lieutenant who having neither Arms nor Ammunition quickly yielded the place which he saw it impossible to defend the Inhabitants being willing to Entertain the Rebels into the Town as they had before into their Hearts and good Affections After the taking of this Town which was about the beginning of November they marched further into the County of Lowth and took in Ardee a little Town within Seven Miles of Tredah The State had present advertisement from the Lord Moor A Garrison opportunely sent to Tredah of their Motions and the Design they had upon Tredah and the ill posture it was in and therefore dispatched away Sir Henry Tichburn with a Regiment wherein several who had been Field-Officers in former Employments voluntarily served as private Captains who going from Dublin the third of November happily arrived there the next day and after them several Troops under the Command of Captain John Slaughter Lieutenant to Sir Thomas Lucas Commissary General Thomas Graham Lieutenant to Sir Adam Loftus and others by which means that important place was preserved from falling into the hands of the Rebels The Lords Justices and Council did also with all diligence apply themselves now to fortifie the City and Suburbs of Dublin Dublin fortified which the Rebels among other Insolencies threat'ned to Attaque Sir Charles Coot was made Governour of the City and had a Commission to raise a Regiment of the poor stripped and dispoiled English who had taken Sanctuary in that City as also the Lord Lambert had to raise another But the greatest difficulty was Money which either was so really scarce or so pretended by the Mayor Aldermen and Citizens that when the Lords Justices sent to borrow Money of them to victual the Castle and carry on the Fortifications The Corporation of Dublin not able to raise above 40 l. they positively affirmed to the Board all they could raise would not amount to above 40 l. and part of that in Cattle too which to Posterity will rather appear an Argument of the little Affection they had to the Government and to keep out the Rebels than of any real Want or Poverty However the Master of the Rolls by a pretty Artifice got the Castle plentifully Victualled for observing the Frights and daily Alarms in which the Protestants in the City were in he laid hold upon this occasion Dublin Castle well Victualled by a pretty Artifice of the Master of the Rolls and sending for some of the best Merchants of the Protestants he represented to them how unsafe their Goods were in the Town and advised them to bring them for security into the Castle where they should be under a strong Guard and withal engaged That if they were made use of for the Publick Service he would become engaged for so much which he would repay out of the first Money consigned from England which promise he exactly afterwards made good by Bills drawn upon the Chamber of London by this means he got 2000 Barrels of Beef 2000 Barrels of Herrings and a large proportion of Wheat into the Stores of the Castle which afterwards proved of excellent Use for the Relief not only of the Castle but of the Army which was quartered in the City a long time after To prevent Dangers which might happen by the great resort of Strangers to the City which raised great apprehensions in the honester Party of the Inhabitants a Proclamation was made commanding all Persons in His Majesties Name not dwelling in the City of Dublin within one hour after the Publication thereof immediately to depart upon pain of Death and this not seeming sufficiently effectual upon the 28th of October a second Proclamation more severe was issued out to the same purpose with the penalty of death to such as should harbour or entertain such suspitious Persons The Proclamations were as follow By the Lords Justices and Council William Parsons Jo. Borlase FOr great and weighty reasons of State A Proclamation commanding all Strangers upon pain of death to depart the City and Suburbs of Dublin 23 Octob. 1641. concerning highly the Peace and Safety of this City and Kingdom We do hereby in His Majesties Name strictly Charge and Command all manner of Persons of what Degree and Condition soever who are not dwellers in this City or Suburbs that within one hour after publishing this Proclamation they depart from the Suburbs of this City and return to their own dwellings and that upon pain of death to be presently executed upon them if any of them be found here after that time And all Housholders in the Suburbs to whom any such may come are to be equally guilty with such Contemners if they Lodge or Entertain any of the said Persons hereby required to depart Given at His Majesties Castle of Dublin 23 October 1641. R. Dillon Ad. Loftus Jo. Temple Fr. Willoughby Ja. Ware Rob. Meredith A second Proclamation for all Strangers upon pain of death to depart out of Dublin c. Octob. 28. 1641. By the Lords Justices and Council William Parsons Jo. Borlase WHereas notwithstanding the late Proclamation published in this City requiring all Stangers to depart from the same upon pain of Death divers Strangers do daily repair to the same and
this House Mr. Cromwell Cromwell an Informer afterwards the infamous Usurper and Mr. Walton two Members of the House informed against a Gentleman of Huntingtonshire for Words of a high and dangerous Consequence whereupon it was Ordered That Mr. Speaker shall grant forth his Warrant to bring the Gentleman in safe Custody that spake the Words and likewise an Order to Summon the Informer their Names being first made known unto him by Mr. Cromwell and Mr. Walton After which by Vote upon the Question the House did adjourn it self till Thursday morning next at 8 of the Clock But leaving the Faction in England for a while driving on towards a Rupture with the King Let us see how the Affairs of their Brethren in Rebellion in Ireland proceeded And first I will present the Reader with a List of the principal Rebels which I found among the Papers in the Clerk of the Commons House of Parliaments Office which was as follows The Names of the Chieftains and Septs of the meer Irish who have taken Arms in Ireland and rebelled against his Majesty and the Crown of England in the Province of Vlster SIr Phelomy O Neil A List of the principal Persons in the Rebellion in Ireland called by the Irish Phelony Roe O Neil Captain General of all the Rebels and Chieftain of the O Neils O Hagaus O Quyus O Mellaus O Hanlous O Corrs Mac Cans Mac Cawells Mac Enallyes O Gormeleyes and the rest of the Irish Sept in the Counties of Tyrone and Ardmagh Tirlagh O Neil Brother of the said Sir Phelomy is his chiefest Councellor and is a very sad Man well seen in the Laws of England which he Studied in Lincoln's-Inn and was of good repute there Both these are extracted from Con More O Neil the Father of Con Bacagh O Neil the first Earl of Tirone whereby Sir Phelomy is reputed by the Irish to be the rightful O Neil with Title and Appellation with the Dignities and Jurisdiction conceived to belong thereunto of Old he hath now assumed Captain Rory Maguire Brother of Conner Lord Maguire Lord Baron of Empkilm and Donoghbane Maguire their Vncle are Chieftains of the Maguires and all other the Irish Septs in the County of Permanagh he is of a Cruel and Bloody Disposition and hath shed much English Blood as is reported Brian Mac Collo Mac Mahon Brian Mantagh Mac Mahon and Neil Mac Kenna of the Trough are Chieftains of the Mac Mahon's Mac Kenna's Mac Ardells O Connellies the O Duffies and all other the Irish Septs in the County of Monoghan the former of those three is a soft elderly Man the two latter are Young and Rude though each of them hath been brought up to Civility and Learning being Wards to the King 〈…〉 Inquire of the Lord Blaney more particularly who are the most Eminent Men of those Rebels of Monoghan Sir Con Magenys Knight and his Brother Daniel Sons of â—ld Sâ—r Arthur Magenys late Lord Viscount Iveagh and Vncles of the now Viscount are Chieftains of the Magenysses Mac Cartans and all the other Irish Septs in the County of Down Philip Mac Hugh Mac Shane O Rely is Chieftain of the O Relyes O Gownes Mac Cabes Mac Echies the Bradies and all the other Irish Septs in the County of Cavan This Philip Mac Hugh Mac Shane O Rely for his Estate and Parts is made Chieftain but Edmond O Rely is the chiefest of the O Relyes and Edmonds Brother Philip Mac Mullmore O Rely is a more active and experienced Man and hath done some Courtesies to the Distressed English for which they say he is made Prisoner by the other Philip but it is more probable there is Emulation between them Mullmore O Rely Son of the said Edmond being Sheriff of the County of Cavan when the Rebellion began and commanded all the Country in the King's Name by vertue of his Office to rise and take Arms and continueth still a Captain of the Rebels Shane Mac Philip Mac Mullmore O Rely Son of the said Philip Mac Mullmore O Rely is a Captain of the Rebels Tirlagh O Neil Grandson of Sir Tirlagh Mac Henry O Neil and the Son of Hugh Boy O Neil whose Name Sir Faithful Fortescue knoweth are Captains of the O Neils of the Fues a Baroni in the County of Ardmagh within six Miles of Dundalk in the County of Louth which Town was never taken by the Rebels in any former Rebellion but now is surprised by the O Neils of the Fues The Lords Justices and Council finding the Storm grow every day Louder and more Threatning dispatched fresh Letters of Advice to England to give an account of their Affairs particularly this following to the Lords of his Majesties Privy Council May it please your most Honourable Lordships SInce our last dispatch to the Lord Lieutenant A Letter from the Lords Justices Council in Ireland to the Lords of the Privy Council in England Nov. 5. 1641. Dated the 25th of October concerning the present Rebellion begun there the Rebells have with great Multitudes proceeded in their out-rages even to great cruelty against the English and Protestants in all places where they came They have Seized the Houses and Estates of almost all the English in the Counties of Monoghan Cavan Fermanagh Armagh Tirone Donegall Letrim Longford and a great part of the County of Downe some of which are Houses of good Strength and dispossessed the English of their Arms and some of the English Gentlemen whose Houses they Seized even without any resistance in regard of the suddenness of their surprise the Rebels most Barbarously not only Murdered but as we are informed hewed some of them to pieces They Surprised the greatest Part of a Horse Troop of his Majesties Army commanded by the Lord Grandison in the County of Armagh and possessed themselves of their Arms. They apprehended the Lord Caulfield and Sir Edward Trevor a Member of this Beard and Sir Charles Pomtes and Mr. Branthwait Agent to the Earl of Essex and a great number of other Gentlemen of good Quality of the English in several Parts whom they still keep Prisoners as also the Lord Blayney's Lady and Children and divers other Ladies and Gentlewomen They have wasted destroyed and spoyled wheresoever they came and now their fury begins to threaten the English Plantations in the Queens County and Kings County and by their Example the Sheriff of the County of Longford a Native and Papist is likewise Risen in Arms and followed by the Irish there where they Rob Spoyl and Destroy the English with great Cruelty In these their Assaults of the English they have Slain many Robbed and Spoyled thousands reduced men of good Estates in Lands who lived Plentifully and well to such a condition as they left them not so much as a Shirt to cover their Nakedness They turned out of their Estates many of considerable Fortunes in Goods and left them in great want and misery and even the Irish Servants and Tenants of
Chapters 298. about the Palatinate 379. against parting with the Disbanded Soldiers 465. two Speeches of the Lord Newark concerning Bishops 251. of the Lord Say against Bishops Votes 266. of Sir Henry Vane against Episcopaâ—â— Government 276. of William Thomas against Deans and Chapters 282. of Mr. Pury against the same 289. of the Speaker of the House of Commons to the King at passing the Bill for Tonnage and Poundage 307 706. and of the Bill for Poll-money 326. of Sir Simon D'ewes about the Poll-Bill 322. of Sir William Parkins against Bishop Wren 330. of Sir William Pierrepoint at the Impeachment of Sir Robert Berkley 332. of Mr. Hide at delivering the Articles against the Lord Chief Baron c. 343. of Mr. Waller at the Impeachment of Mr. Justice Crawley 349. of Mr. Hollis in behalf of Sir Randal Crew 365. about the Palatinate 378. in justification of the Votes for taking the Protestation 416. of Sir Simon D'ewes about the Palatinate 368. of Sir Thomas Widdrington at delivering the Articles against the Bishop of Ely 395. of Pym at a Conference about Excluding the Bishops Votes in the case of the thirteen impeached 500. of Mr. St. John about the same 501. of Audley Mervin at exhibiting Articles of Treason against Sir Richard Bolton 556. of Pym against Evil Councellors 619. of the Recorder of London to the King upon his return from Scotland 675. of the Lord Kimbolton at his Impeachment 815. of Hamden at his 817. of Mr. Grimstone concerning breach of Priviledge 825. of Glyn about the same 827. of the Earl of Monmouth about fears 849. of Sir Philip Stapleton concerning the Lord Digby and Collonel Lunsford 870. of Mr. White against the Bishops 885. formal Speeches declared unparliamentary by the House of Lords 265. Stanneries for Court Sir Philip Stapleton a Witness in the case of the Earl of Strafford 92. Statute of 〈…〉 cited 97. Star-Chamber a Bill for taking it away 258 324. past 271 327. a Message about the Officers of it 368. a Report about them 389. Earl of Strafford a short account of his rise 2 3 4. inveigh'd against in Parliament by Sir John Clotworthy 5. advised to withdraw 6. Impeach'd by the Commons 7. taken into Custody 8. sent to the Tower 10. his Answer to the Impeachment 20 to 27 brought to his Tryal 29. his several Defences see Defence taken with a fit of the Stone 100. Bill of Attainder against him 103. past by the King 195. he Petitions for his Children 196. his carriage at his Death 198. his Speech upon the Scaffold 199. Epitaphs upon him 204 205. his Wife and Children interceeded for by the House of Lords 237. his Death of what miserable consequence to Ireland 537. Lord Strange his Letter of dangers in Lancashire 650. Strangers by Proclamation commanded to depart Dublin and the Suburbs 637. Sir John Strangeways his motion against Tumults slighted 259. Sir Robert Strickland a Witness in the case of the Earl of Strafford 93. Strode one of the Committee to prepare a Charge against the Earl of Strafford 7. impeach'd of High-Treason 811. Subsidies six the Bill for them past 243 Subsidies granted by the Clergy 391. Summary of Evidence against the Earl of Strafford 104. Superinduction to a Rectory a Case upon it 511. T. COllonel Taaf committed by the House of Commons 785. Mr. Taylor an honest Burgess of Windsor expell'd the House and committed to the Tower 257. discharged 286. Sir John Temple his Letter from Ireland 371. Term abbreviated 238. Thanks ordered to the Queen by the House of Commons 405. to the Earl of Bristol by the House of Lords 430. to the Lord General by the same 496. to Calamy and Marshal by the House of Commons 775. by the same to the Train'd Bands Sheriffs and Major Skippon 838. to the Inhabitants of Bucks 884. to the Scots Commissioners 887. William Thomas his long Speech against the Bishops 211 to 226. another Speech against Deans and Chapters 282. Thorp a Witness against the Earl of Strafford 53. Tobacco two Proclamations of the Earl of Strafford about the Sale of it 66. Toleration of the Popish Religion in Ireland Votes and Debates about it 737 754. Tonnage and Poundage a Bill for it 257. 294 308 381 383 447 687 708. Fower of London a Conference about the Lieutenant there 773 778 Order of the House of Commons about it 775. their Declaration upon it 778. The Constable desired by the House of Commons to reside there 780. a Message to the House of Lords about it 835 844. Trained Bands raised to guard the Parliament 492. those of Westminster their Petition to the House of Commons 839. Earl of Traquair a Witness in the case of the Earl of Strafford 82. Treaty between the Lords c. of the Pale and the Ulster Rebels 907. with the Irish Rebels proposed 917. Tredagh opportunely garrison'd 636. Relief for it unfortunately defeated 905. Mr. Baron Trevor impeach'd by the House of Commons 343. Articles against him 352. Mr. Trevor ordered to be of Council for the Bishops 648. Tryal of the Earl of Strafford the manner agreed by both Houses 36. Tumult about the Spanish Ambassadors House 187. another on a ridiculous occasion 192. a Conference about them 245. Order of the Lords about them 246. Tumults about the Queen Mother 247. disturb people at the Communion 271. Order about them 275 291 393 395. Tumults about the French Ambassador 468. Order about them 476 603 692 856. Judges report the Statutes in force against them 709. But they are favour'd by the House of Commons 709. disavow'd by the Common-Council of London 712. 803. more Tumults 781 788 789 792. a Committee of the Lords to consider upon them 781. still favour'd by the Factious Commons 784 790 792 838. a Proclamation against them 786. Message from the House of Commons about them 789. Tumultuary Petitioning encouraged by the House of Commons 735. Sir Arthur Tyrringham a Witness for the Earl of Strafford repels the Irish Rebels at Lisnegarves 906. V. SIr Henry Vane Enemy to the Earl of Strafford and why 3. a Witness against him 82 83 84. his Speech against Episcopal Government 276. his Letter to the Lords Justices of Ireland 565. Sir Henry Vane junior produces a Paper pernicious to the Earl of Strafford 103. an Account of it 208. Captain Ven a godly Complainant 496. Venetian Ambassador a Priest of his Retinue imprison'd 394. he complains of the breaking open his Pacquet 640. Answer of the House of Lords 1641. his reception of it 643. a Message from him 655. Vintners Case against Alderman Abel and Kilvert 256. Voluntiers come in for Ireland 772. Message from the King about them 787 789 793. Votes of both Houses concerning the Irish Affairs 600 642 643 729 755 762 772 778 791. concerning Breach of Priviledge 741. Votes of the House of Lords upon debating the Bill concerning the Bishops 255. against the New Canons c. 285. concerning the Council at York 388. about
Linnen rather than of Woollen-Cloth which might prejudice that Trade here he bought Flax-seed in the Low-Countries and sold it at the same Rate to such as desired it they making their Cloaths not above a Foot broad and winding 8 or 10 threads from several bottoms together the contrary was twined their Flax formerly not above a Foot became a yard in length and that soil is fit to bear it and the People love such easie Works He hath set up many Looms made much Cloth and sold it to the loss of some Thousands of pounds but when the State saw the Natives would not change their old Courses for new and better the Proclamation was declined What he did was for the Publick Good and had nothing from them that was not fully paid for To the Fourteenth he saith He refers to the Oath and Proclamation which was set forth by the said Earl and Council of State there at the instance of the Farmers of the Customs towards the defrauding of the King's Duties being in France whereof His Majesty had five eight parts He never heard any Complain of the Oath or of any that refused to take it and conceived it to be lawful divers of the Council approving it being Learned Judges of the Law to whose judgment for the legality he submitted as well in that as to other matters of like nature To the Fifteenth He denieth what is in the Article Objected but saith That about the Year 1626. certain Agents authorized in Ireland were sent into England and offered and agreed to pay to His Majesty 120000 l. in Six Years towards the maintenance of his Army and a like payment of 20000 l. per annum was after agreed and continued for Three Years longer the Assessments were made and it was shortly after by them and the Lord Faulkland then Deputy agreed in Ireland that the Money should not be charged upon Record but levied by Captains by Paper-Assignments upon Warrants from the Lord Deputy and this course was held four Years in the Lord Faulkland's time and the four years wherein the Lord Loftus and the Earl of Cork were Lords Justices there and it held for the remaining year only after the Earl of Strafford came thither but the Earl of Cork having spared those Towns for the benefit of himself and Tenants during the time of his being Justice The Earl of Strafford reduced the Assessments to what it was made by the Lord Faulkland and gave way that Sir William St. Lieger Lord President of Munster to take the same Arrerages in satisfaction of a Debt due unto him by His Majesty and he is confident no force was used in levying the same It hath been usual to lay Souldiers to levy that Contribution to send Souldiers to apprehend Contemners of Orders made at Council-Board and the like and when Out-Laws and Rebels have been in the Woods no Souldiers have in his time been laid but by the Advice of the Council there Touching the Castle-Chamber it 's a parcel of the Territory of Ideough whereto the King was Intituled by Inquisition and the Possession established in a Legal way when the said Earl was in England and no Souldiers were sent but only 12 at the intreaty of Mr. Wanesford for security of his Houses and Plantations against Rebels that then were out and burned and spoiled Houses thereabouts and neither Richard Butler's or any other Family were thence expelled by the said Earl from their Estates To the Sixteenth he saith There was such a Proposition which was just to prevent clamorous Complaints here which there might be redressed but conceives that by the Laws there and the Articles known since by the name of the Articles of Grace made about Fourteen Years since none ought to depart that Kingdom without Licence Thereupon the Advice of the State the Proclamations were set forth but not with such intent as in the Article He denied Licence only to Three the Earl of Cork the Lord Mount-Norris and Sir Frederick Hamilton To the two former in regard of Criminal Suits then against them in the Castle-Chamber To the other by special Command from His Majesty but so soon as Sir Frederick said he would Complain of the Earl he made Suit to His Majesty That Sir Frederick might come over which was granted He conceives such restraint to be necessary and if that it be not continued it will prove of Evil Consequence to that Kingdom Parry was questioned at the Council-Board for Misdemeanors and to avoid Sentence secretly went out of the Kingdom and at his return for that and other Offences was Fined and Imprisoned to the Sentence thereof he refers and knows of no other that were Imprisoned as by the Article is Charged To the Seventeenth he saith It 's like he might say for the better encouragement of the Officers and Souldiers of the Old Irish Army in discharge of their several Duties that His Majesty was so well satisfied in the way and pains they took in using and practizing of their Arms that in that Point he would set them as a Pattern to be imitated and conceives it would not be ill if they were so they being in the Opinion of those that have seen them Exercise very Able and Expert Souldiers he spake not other words or to other purpose To the Eighteenth he saith When the Earl of Cork was one of the Lords Justices he seized some Houses in Dublin pretending they belonged to Jesuits and Fryers without Legal Proceedings which upon Suits prosecuted at Council-Board were according to Justice restored to the Owners but how since imployed the Earl of Strafford knoweth not but endeavoured the utmost he could to maintain that Seizure Touching the 8000 men he saith They were raised according to the King's Warrant and that the said Earl left the Care thereof to the Earl of Ormond and others and what number are Protestants what Papists he knoweth not but believeth such a Body cannot be there raised without many Papists the greatest number of the Captains and Officers are Protestants chosen by the said Earl The 1000 man were drawn out of the Old to make Officers for the New Army and believeth the 1000 put to the Old Army are Protestants in regard by his express Order no Papist is to be admitted there a Common Soldier He never preferred any Captain Lieutenant or Ensign to be of that Army that was a Papist and conceives they are duly paid and believes those newly raised exercise the Religion no otherwise than was practised before the Earl's coming thither He was a Commissioner to Compound with the Recusants for their Forfeitures and endeavoured to be informed of the utmost value of their Estates in four years he brought that Revenue from 2300 l. to be between 11 and 12000 l. per annum more than ever was raised formerly in so short a time by which faithful dealings for His Majesty he procured the hard Opinion of the Recusants throughout the Kingdom that out of those
Rectory of which he had been possessed as Tenant to the Crown 35 Years that taking out Writs to arrest Gwyn the Earl bad him recal them or he would clap him in the Castle and that he would not have his Orders disputed by Law nor Lawyers that he desired Gwyn being Poor he might give security which the Earl said was just and that it should be so entred in his Order but that Sir Paul Davis told him that my Lord Strafford found fault with it and struck it out with his own hand that making a Lease to an Incumbent contrary to an Act of State that no Lease should be longer then the Incumbent's Life and being prosecuted for it the Earl told him an Act of State should be as binding as an Act of Parliament John Waldron deposed the same in the Case of a Lease between the Merchants of Galloway and some others John Waldron John Kay Lord Killmallock Sir Pierce Crosby John Kay deposed the same the Lord Killmallock deposed the same and that Sir George Radcliff my Lord Strafford's Eccho an occasion of throwing out a Bill making its Felony to have Powder without licence said the same Sir Pierce Crosby deposed the same To this the Earl answered The Earl's Defence That the Council Board of Ireland was a Court of Record that it was so in favour of the English Protestants and Clergy This he proved by the Lord Dillon in the Lord Chichester's and Lord Grandison's time Lord Dillon that the Acts of State were by the Judges reputed as Laws of the Land for the present and proceeded by Arrest Imprisonment and Fines upon contempt Sir Adam Loftus which Sir Adam Loftus confirmed Then the Order which my Lord of Cork mentioned was read attested and acknowledged to be Sir Paul Davis his hand where it appeared the Clause my Lord Cork said was struck out was standing still only my Lord Cork was limited to prosecute within a Year So what was objected about Gwyn he said he was unknown to him but produced a Certificate from the University of Dublin That he was a Master of Arts of 12 or 14 Years standing adding That my Lord of Cork must be an Excellent Schollar under whom his Groom had so much profited For the Words spoken to the Earl of Cork though he had so quick a memory as to swear them roundly as laid in the charge to a syllable yet they carry their own Contradiction the Order produced referring him to the Law at the highest if the words were spoken they are but indiscreet and it was severe to be punished for being no wiser than God Almighty had made him that my Lord is but a single Witness and he is not prosecuted according to 1 E. 6. cap. 12. That the other Witnesses are Extrajudicial proving words spoken in other places and times then he is charged withal and yet that the words may bear a fair interpretation for that the King being the Law-giver which he hoped none would deny without the Crime of Treason the King's sentence is a Law in matters not determined by Act of Parliament that Prerogative is a part of the Fundamental Law as well as the Property of the Subject That he had alwayes wished for an harmony between them and that they might keep in their wonted Channel if either of them rise above their due heights nothing could be expected but subversion of the Common-wealth either by Tyranny or Rebellion That prerogative was like the First liberty of the subject like the 2d Table either both or neither can be preserved That Prerogative as long as it goes not against the Law of the Land is the Law of the Land and binding being made to prevent a temporary mischief before an Act of Parliament can give Remedy He excepted against the Lord Killmallock 's swearing Sir George Ratcliff to be his Eccho it being impossible to swear his thoughts Against Mr. Hoy and Sir Pierce Crosby as persons concerned against him in point of Interest and to Mr. Waldron 's That the circumstance qualifies the Words it being according to a Statute directing that Leases should not be made without reserving the Moiety of the yearly value After which the Manager replyed That this Article proved the Earl of Strafford's intention to subvert the Government that whereas he saies they are not prosecuted in time the Effects continue to this day and they prosecute him Flagrante Crimine that threatning the Earl of Cork was Arbitrary Government that he hath made it a habit to speake such words as appears by the several times that he himself had confessed the words that when things are rejected in Parliament they are not to be supplied by an Act of State Then they desired to Examin another witness Roger Lotts Witness which the Earl excepting against as not regular the Lords adjourned to their House to consider of it and returning he was admitted and deposed concerning the Bill for Powder without Licence to Felony the Earl told them He would make it an Act of State and that should be as Good To which the Earl replied It was done by Command and for reasons of State not fit to be made publick to keep Powder out of unsafe hands but did not conduce to his acquittal or Condemnation Upon Saturday March 27. Saturday March 27. The 6th day Artic. 5. they proceeded to the Sentencing the Lord Mountnorris at a Council of War thereby Exercising a Tyrannical Power over a Peer of the Realm of Ireland c. First the Sentence was read reciting the King's Letter which commanded a Council of War to sit upon the Lord Mountnorris being a Captain for inciting Revenge against the Lord Deputy-General of his Majesties Army The Lord Mountnorris deposed That he was called to a Council of War Lord Mountnorris Witness charged to have spoken words to this purpose That being told a Kinsman of his had hurt the Lord-Deputies Foot having the Gout he should say Perhaps it was done in Revenge of that publick affront that my Lord Deputy did me formerly but I have a Brother that would not have taken such a Revenge that he was required instantly to confess or deny the Charge that he desired time to answer but was denied as also to produce witnesses to disprove the Lord Moor and Sir Robert Loftus who upon Oath had affirmed it that thereupon in half an Hour Sentence was Pronounced against him by Sir Charles Coot Provost Marshal That the Lord-Deputy in scorn told him That he might proceed to Execution but he would Supplicate his Majestie for his Life and rather lose his Hand then he should lose his Head that he was committed to Prison December the 12th and bailed out the 18th the Physitians making Oath he was in danger of his life the High oppression and Injustice having thrown him into a desperate sickness committed again Apr. the 11th let out May the 2d by reason of Sickness recommitted the 30th of January following
till they were paid Henry Dillon affirmed That in my Lord of Cork's Tyrringham and Lord of Ely's time he had Warrants from them and the Council to gather money by laying Soldiers till it was paid Sir Arthur Tyrringham averred That by Warrant from the Lord Faulkland he had laid Soldiers upon a Debtor Lord Ranulagh till the Debt was paid but does not know whether it was the King's Debt Lord Ranulagh attested that it was the practice of the Lord of Cork and Ely to give Acquittances out of the Exchequer to Captains who if the money was not paid assessed Soldiers on the defaulters Then the Earl offered to prove That it was the desire of the Gentry themselves it might be so in the Lord Faulkland 's time but it was by Mr. Palmer agreed him from whence my Lord inferred That it disabled the first part of the Killing Charge That he should Traiterously and wickedly devise to subdue the Subjects of that Realm by levying Money on them The Earl then desired the 2d Article of the Lord Faulkland's Instructions might be read which was in haec verba For the Collecting of our Rents in cases of default that 1. a summoning Process shall Issue 2. The Pursivant sent 3. If this be not sufficient in case the same be not levyed then our Vice-Treasurer by Warrant of our Deputy and Council shall appoint a competent number of Soldiers of the next Garrison to be aiding to collect the Rents at the Charge of the Parties complained of having care that no man be burdened with a greater number of Soldiers than the Service shall necessarily require At Mr. Palmer's desire the first Article was read viz At the humble Request of Our Subjects We are graciously pleased to direct for the better preservation and ease of Our Subjects the Soldiers shall be called in c. and from what had been proved the Earl inferred That it could not be High-Treason for the King's Service to follow the King's direction and the constant practise of his Predecessors that he brought not the Custom in but found it there and that by Proclamation under the hands of the whole Council it was done for the Ease of the Countrey To the Testimony of Berne and Kenedy of the abuse of the Soldiers 1. he was not then in Ireland 2. he denies he ever gave Pigot such a Warrant and there is no proof of it That Pigot 's threatning Clear with a Warrant is no argument men often threaten most when they have least to shew Kennedy sayes he never saw the Warrant Savil 's Warrant is not produced that this great and mighty War on the King and his Subjects is one of the poorest Wars in Christendome for last Summer one sayes he knew Soldiers laid on one man that it was never complained of all the time he was in Ireland that the Warrant was to procure obedience to all the King's Courts Savil. and to secure the King 's Right He desired Savil might be demanded whether the Warrant granted him was not agreeable to former Precedents who affirmed his Predecessor told him he had received such a Warrant from the Lord Faulkland to sess Soldiers on the Land of Sir Thomas Fitzgerrard Henry Dillon attested Dillon that the Serjeant at Arms was an Officer as well to the Exchequer as Chancery and the last process is Attachment by the Serjeant as well between man and man as for the King Here Mr. Palmer speaking something which my Lord looked upon as an Interruption he desired no hasty words might be misinterpreted he speaking for his Life and Family and that the Gentlemen would do well not to put him out of his way but let him speak those few poor things he can for himself He then added that some wayes he is more qualified then an ordinary Person having the Honour to be his Majestie 's Deputy that by his Commission he was to govern according to the Customs of the Realm and this was Customary by all the former Governours that had it been Levying War there is a Statute 10 H. 6. c 17. Enacting That there shall be no War or Peace in the Land without the Deputie's Licence but all War or Peace to be made by the Lieutenant for the time being And as to the Stat. 18 H. 6. c. 3. That no Lord or other shall charge the King's Subjects c. 1. He hath heard it said that the King cannot be concluded in any Statute unless he be particularly named and consequently not his Chief Governour 2. He shall not lead or bring He hath done neither the Serjeant did it though under his Warrant 3. It speaks of bringing English Rebels or Irish Enemies c. But such are not the King's Soldiers sent to apprehend refractory Persons and for the King's Honour and Service 4. Practice is the best interpreter of Laws and notwithstanding this Statute the Governours have alwayes assessed Soldiers That it would be a hard Case that such an Old Law should be started contrary to Practice to destroy him and his Posterity but he believes he shall prove that Statute Repealed First By the 8 Ed. 4. c. 1. which Enacts That from the Sixth of March then next all Acts made within the Kingdom of England shall be in force in Ireland from the said time This therefore ratifies the Statute of 25 Ed. 3. which is the Statute of Treason and the Statute of 1 H. 4. which sayes nothing shall be Treason but what is within the Statute of 25 of Ed. 3. which repeals the 18 of H. 6. Secondly By the 10 H. 7. c. 29. whereby all the Statutes made in England before that time are made Laws in Ireland and all Laws contrary to these Laws are repealed but the Law urged is against 25 Ed. 3. 1 H. 4. and consequently repealed Next he produced a Statute of 11 Eliz. c. 7. for taking away Captains Ships and that none of the Great Men shall make War or Peace c. Sess nor lead the People without the Great Seal or Warrant from the Lord Deputy so that here is a power in the Deputy to assess c. without being a Traytor That to the Clause of 25 Ed. 3. if any man levy War against the King in his Realm or adhere to his Enemies c. he appeals to their Lordships as in their own Case whether 2 or 3 poor Soldiers sent to bring an Offender liable to the King's Justice can by any construction be levying War against the King and his People or rather for the Honour and Authority and Justice of the King and not adhering to his Enemies but this point of Law he desired to refer to his Council to urge for him with more advantage than he could himself being out of his profession To this Mr. Palmer replyed That there can be no Custom or legal usage Managers reply contrary to an Act of Parliament that those usages were by consent but this of my Lord 's against
year of Henry the Sixth which say that the English Statutes shall not be in force in Ireland unless particularly received in Parliament it makes all the Irish Statutes void which say that the English Statutes shall not be in force there It is usual when a Statute sayes that such a thing shall be done or not done to add further that all Statutes to the contrary shall be void No likelihood that this Statute intended to take away any Statute of Treason but when in the Chapter next before this Murder there is made Treason as if done upon the Kings person That this Statute of the Eighteenth year of Henry the Sixth remains on foot and not repealed either by the Statute of the Eighth year of Edward the Fourth or this of the Tenth year of Henry the Seventh appears expresly by two several Acts of Parliament made at the same Parliament of the tenth year of Henry the Seventh By an Act of Parliament of Henry the Sixth's time in Ireland it was made Treason for any Man whatsoever to procure a Privy-Seal or any other Command whatsoever for apprehending any Person in Ireland for Treason done without that Kingdom and to put any such Command in Execution divers had been attainted of Treason for executing such Commands There is a Treason so made by Act of Parliament in Henry the Sixth's time In the third Chapter of this Parliament of the tenth of Henry the Seventh an Act is passed for no other end then to repeal this Statute of Henry the Sixth of Treason If this Statute of Henry the Sixth of Treason had been formerly repealed by the Statute of 8 E 4. or then by the two and twentieth Chapter of this Parliament of the 10th of Henry the Seventh by bringing in the English Statutes the Law-makers were much mistaken now to make a particular Act of Parliament to repeal it it being likewise so unreasonable an Act as it was In the Eighth Chapter of this Parliament of the 10th of Henry the Seventh it is Enacted that the Statutes of Kilkenny and all other Statutes made in Ireland two only excepted whereof this of the Eighteenth of Henry the Sixth is none for the Common-Weal shall be enquired of and executed My Lord of Strafford saith that the bringing in of the English Statute hath repealed this Statute the Act of Parliament made the same time saith no it saith that all the Irish Statutes excepting two whereof this is none shall still be in force Object Oh but however it was in the 10 H. 7. yet it appears by Judgment in Parliament afterwards that this Statute of 18 H. 6. is repealed and that is by the Parliament of the 11th year of Queen Elizabeth the 7th Chapter that by this Parliament it is Enacted That if any Man without Licence from the Lord-Deputy lay any Soldiers upon the Kings Subjects if he be a Peer of the Realm he shall forfeit one hundred pounds if under the degree of a Peer One hundred Marks This Statute as is alleadged declares the Penalty of laying Soldiers on the Subjects to be only one hundred pounds and therefore it s not Treason Answ My Lords if the Offence for which this Penalty of one hundred pounds is laid upon the Offenders be for laying Soldiers or leading them to do any Act Offensive or Invasive upon the Kings People the Argument hath some force but that the Offence is not for laying Soldiers upon the true Subjects that this is not the Offence intended in the Statute will appear to your Lordships Ex absurdo from the words of it The Words are That if any Man shall assemble the People of the County together to conclude of Peace or War or shall carry those People to do any Acts Offensive or Invasive then he shall forfeit One hundred pounds If concluding of War and carrying the people to Acts Invasive be against the Kings Subjects this is High-Treason which are the words of the Statute of 25 E. 3. for if any Subject shall assemble the people and conclude a War and accordingly shall lead them to invade the Subject this is a levying of War within the words of the Statute and then the Statutes of the 25 E. 3. 1 H. 4. 1 of Queen Mary which the Earl of Strafford in his Answers desires to be tryed by are as well repealed in this point as the Statute of the 18th of Henry the Sixth he might then without fear of Treason have done what he pleased with the Irish Army for all the Statutes of levying of War by this Statute of 11 Eliz. were taken out of his way In Ireland a Subject gathers Forces concludes a War against the Kings People actually invades them bloodshed burning of houses depredations ensue two of those that is Murder and burning of Houses are Treason and there the other Felony by the construction the punishment of Treason and Felony is turned only into a fine of One hundred pounds from loss of Life Lands and all his Goods only to loss of part of his Goods The Third Absurdity a War is concluded three several Inrodes are made upon the Subjects in the first a hundred pounds damage in the second five thousand pounds damage in the third ten thousand pounds damage is done to the Subjects the penalty for the last inroade is no more then for the first only one hundred pounds This Statute by this Construction tells any man how to get his living without long labour Two parts of the hundred pounds is given to the King a third part unto the Informer Here 's no damage to the Subject that is robbed and destroyed My Lords The Statute will free it self and the makers from those Absurdities The meaning of the Statute is That if any Captain shall of his own head conclude of Peace or War against the Kings Enemies or Rebels or shall upon his own head invade them without Warrant from the King or Lord Deputy of Ireland that then he shall forfeit a Hundred pounds The offence is not for laying of Soldiers upon the Kings people but making War against the Irish Rebells without Warrant the Offence is not in the Matter but in the Manner for doing a thing lawful but without Mission I. This will appear by the general Scope of the Statute all the parts being put together II. By particular Clauses in the Statute III. By the Condition of that Kingdom at the time of the making of that Statute For the First The Preamble recites that in time of Declination of Justice under pretext of defending the Country and themselves diverse great Men arrogated to themselves Regal Authority under the names of Captains that they acquired to themselves that Government which belonged to the Crown for preventing of this It 's Enacted That no man dwelling within the Shire-Grounds shall thenceforth assume or take to himself the Authority or name of a Captain within these Shire-Grounds without Letters-Patents from the Crown nor shall under colour of his
Captainship make any demand of the people of any Exaction nor as a Captain assemble the people of the Shire-Grounds nor as a Captain shall lead those people to do any acts Offensive or Invasive without Warrant under the Great-Seal of England or of the Lord-Deputy Deputy upon penalty that if he do any thing contrary to that Act that then the Offender shall forfeit a Hundred pounds My Lords the Rebels had been out the Courts of Justice scarce sate for defence of the Country divers usurped the place of Captains concluded of War against the Rebels and invaded them without Warrant Invading the Rebels without Authority is a crime This appears further by particular clauses in the Statute none shall exercise any Captainship within the Shire-grounds nor assemble the men of the Shire-grounds to conclude War or lead them to any Invasion That that had anciently been so continued to this time that is the Irish and the English Pale they within the Shire-grounds were within the English Pale and ad fidem legem Angliae The Irish without the Pale were enemies always either in open act of Hostility or upon Leagues and Hostages given for securing the Peace and therefore as here in England we had our Marches upon the frontiers in Scotland and Wales so were there Marches between the Irish and English Pale where the Inhabitants held their Lands by this tenure to defend the Country against the Irish as appears in the close Roll of the Tower in the 20th year of Edw. 3. membrana 15. on the backside and in an Irish Parliament held the 42 year of Edw. 3. it 's declared That the English Pale was almost destroyed by the Irish enemies and that there was no way to prevent the danger but only that the Owners reside upon their Lands for defence and that absence should be a forfeiture This Act of Parliament in a great Council here was affirmed as appears in the close Roll the 22 year of Edw. 3. Membrana 20 dorso Afterwards as appears in the Statute of 28 Hen. 6th in Ireland this Hostility continued between the English Marches and the Irish Enemies who by reason there was no difference between the English Marches and them in their Apparel did daily not being known to the English destroy the English within the Pale Therefore it is enacted that every English-man shall have the hair of his upper Lip for distinction sake This hostility continued until the 10th year of Henry the 7th as appears by the Statute of 10 H. 7th and 17th so successively downwards till the making of this very Statute of 11 Eliz. as appears fully in the 9th Chap. Nay immediately before and at the time of the making of this Statute there was not only enmity between those of the Shire-ground that is the English and Irish Pale but open War and acts of Hostility as appears by History of no less Authority than that Statute it self for in the first Chapter of that Statute is the Attainder of Shane Oneale who had made open War was slain in open War it 's there declared That he had gotten by force all the North of Ireland for an hundred and twenty miles in length and about a hundred in breadth that he had mastered divers places within the English Pale when the flame of this War by his death immediately before this Statute was spent yet the Firebrands were not all quenched for the Rebellion continued by John Fitz-Gerard called the White Knight and Thomas Gueverford this appears by the Statute of the Thirteenth year of Queen Eliz. in Ireland but two years after this of the Eleventh year of Queen Eliz. where they are attainted of High-Treason for Levying of War this Eleventh year wherein this Statute was made So that my Lords immediately before and at the time of the making of this Statute there being War between those of the Shire-Grounds mentioned in this Statute and the Irish the concluding of War and Acts Offensive and Invasive there mentioned can be intended against no others but the Irish Enemies Again The words of the Statute are No Captain shall assemble the people of the Shire-grounds to conclude of Peace or War Is to presume that those of the Shire-grounds will conclude of War against themselves Nor with the Statute Shall carry those of the Shire-grounds to do any Acts Invasive by the construction which is made on the other side they must be carried to fight against themselves Lastly The words are That as a Captain none shall assume the Name or Authority of a Captain or as a Captain shall gather the people together or as a Captain lead them the offence is not in the matter but in the manner If the Acts offensive were against the Kings good Subjects those that were under Command were punishable as well as the Commanders but in respect the Soldiers knew the service to be good in it self being against the enemies and that it was not for them to dispute the Authority of their Commanders the penalty of 100 l. is laid only upon him That as Captain shall assume this Power without Warrant the People commanded are not within this Statute My Lords The Logick whereupon this Argument is framed stands thus because the Statute of the Eleventh year of Queen Elizabeth inflicts a penalty of 100 l. and no more upon any man that as a Captain without Warrant and upon his own head shall conclude of or make War against the King's Enemies Therefore the Statute of the 18th year of Henry the 6th is repealed which makes it Treason to lay Soldiers upon or to levy War against the Kings good People But My Lords Observation hath been made upon other words of this Statute that is that without Licence of the Deputy these things cannot be done this shews that the Deputy is within none of the Statutes My Lords This Argument stands upon the same reason with the former because he hath the ordering of the Army of Ireland for the defence of the people and may give Warrant to the Officers of the Army upon eminent occasions of Invasion to resist or prosecute the Enemy because of the danger that else might ensue forthwith by staying for a Warrant from His Majesty out of England My Lords The Statute of the 10th year of Henry the 7th Chap. 17. touched upon for this purpose clears the business in both points for there is declared That noâ—e ought to make War upon the Irish Rebels and Enemies without Warrant from the Lieutenant the forfeiture 100 l. as here the Statute is the same with this and might as well have been cited for repealing the Statute of the 18th year of Henry the 6th as this of the 11th year of Queen Elizabeth But if this had been insisted upon it would have expounded the other two clear against him Object My Lords It hath been further said although the Statute be in force and there be a Treason within it yet the Parliament hath no Jurisdiction the
of the same Quiver For Mr. Pym as a Prologue to those Designs acquainted the House That there were Informations of Desperate Designs at home and abroad to bring up the Army against the Parliament to surprize the Tower that the Earl of Strafford might Escape that Portsmouth was to be betrayed the French were drawing down their Army in all hast to the Sea side And to the same Effect was the Petition of the Rabble States men which follows THat whereas your Petitioners did yesterday Petition for the Redress of many Grievances Petition of the Rabble and for the Execution of Justice upon the Earl of Strafford and other Incendiaries and to be secured from some dangerous Plots and Designs on Foot to which your Lordships have this day given Answer that you have the same under Consideration for which your Petitioners do render humble thanks but forasmuch as your Petitioners understand that the Tower of London is presently to receive a Garrison of men not of the Hamblets as usually they were wont to do but consisting of other Persons under the command of a Captain a great Confident of the Earl of Strafford which doth encrease their fears of the suddain Destruction of King and Kingdom wherein your Lordships and Posterity are deeply interested and this is done to make way for the Escape of the Earl of Strafford the Grand Incendiary They therefore pray that instant Course may be taken for the discovery thereof and that speedy Execution of Justice be done upon the Earl of Strafford Hereupon the Lords sent six Peers to the Tower who Examining the Lieutenant he informed them he had a Command from the King to receive a hundred men under Captain Billingsley into the Tower thereby throwing an Odious Reflexion upon the King as if he were of confederacy for the Earl his Escape which his Majesty understanding did himself the Justice to let the Lords know by a Message That upon a Complaint of Sir William Balfour the Lieutenant of the Tower of the great Resort of People thither he Ordered the said Captain and his Company to guard the Munition there but if that occasion Jealousies his Majesty is willing to receive their Lordships advice And for the other fine story of the Earl's Escape is was discovered by the miracle of three good Wives of Wappings peeping in at the Key-hole out of Curiosity to see the Earl and they heard him discourse with his Secretary Mr. Slingsby about his Escape but Mr. Slingsby upon Examination absolutely denyed it as did also the Master of the Ship which was said to be laid for him only Balfour being Examined confessed the Earl had moved some such thing and offered him the King's Warrant for his Indemnity but whoever considers that he was a Scot a Confident of the Party and that all things were managed by Scottish Counsels Measures and Examples of Tumults and withal how unjustly he had traduced the King just before in the matter of Captain Billingsley will not at all admire he should make a little bold with his Conscience to keep his place to oblige his Friends and Countenance a Report which was so advantageous to the Designs that were then caarying on by Tumults and all the Artifices imaginable But that which puts it out of all doubt is the Letter which this noble Lord writ that very day to the King to pass the Bill of Attainder against him a Generosity as it was very uncommon so very inconsistent with the design of this pretended Escape which seemed rather Levelled at his Majesties Reputation among the People then to have any reality in it The Letter was this May it please Your Sacred Majesty IT hath been my greatest grief in all these Troubles The Earl of Strafford's Letter to the King May 4. to be taken as a person which should endeavour to represent and set things amiss between Your Majesty and Your People and to give Counsels tending to the disquiet of the Three Kingdoms Most true it is that this mine own private Condition considered it had been a great madness since through Your Gracious Favour I was so provided as not to expect in any kind to mend my fortune or please my mind more than by resting where Your bounteous Hands had placed me Nay it is most mightily mistaken for unto your Majesty it is well known my poor and humble Advices concluded still in this That Your Majesty and Your People could never be happy till there were a right understanding betwixt You and them and that no other means were left to effect and settle this happiness but by the Counsel and Assent of Your Parliament or to prevent the growing Evils of this State but by intirely putting Your Self in this last resort upon the Loyalty and good Affections of Your English Subjects Yet such is my misfortune that this Truth findeth little credit yea the contrary seemeth generally to be believed and my self reputed as one who endeavoured to make a separation between You and Your People under a heavier censure than this I am perswaded no Gentleman can suffer Now I understand the minds of Men are more and more incensed against me notwithstanding Your Majesty hath declared That in Your Princely opinion I am not Guilty of Treason and that You are not satisfied in Your Conscience to pass the Bill This bringeth me in a very great streight there is before me the ruine of my Children and Family hitherto untouch'd in all the Branches of it with any foul crime Here are before me the many ills which may befal Your Sacred Person and the whole Kingdom should Your Self and Parliament part less satisfied one with the other than is necessary for the preservation both of King and People Here are before me the things most valued most feared by mortal men Life or Death To say Sir that there hath not been a strife in me were to make me less man than God knoweth my Infirmities make me and to call a destruction upon my self and young Children where the intentions of my heart at least have been innocent of this great offence may be believed will find no easy consent from Flesh and Blood But with much sadness I am come to a Resolution of that which I take to be best becoming me and to look upon it as that which is most principal in it self which doubtless is the prosperity of Your Sacred Person and the Common wealth things infinitely before any private mans interest And therefore in few words as I put my self wholly upon the Honor and justice of my Peers so clearly as to wish Your Majesty might please to have spared that Declaration of Yours on Saturday last and intirely to have left me to their Lordships So now to set Your Majesties Conscience at liberty I do most humbly beseech Your Majesty for prevention of evils which may happen by Your refusal to pass this Bill and by this means to remove praised be God I cannot say this accursed
of Aid and Supply to your Lordships in the Ancient and due Form But perhaps your Lordships will say you question not that general right we have of granting Subsidies that it is to receive its Birth and Being from the House of Commons but that in this particular case of Poll-money you expect a particular satisfaction and much more to see it proved that the Peerage of England were ever before rated in such a Bill For the first my Lords this way is an Ancient and a known way it began in the time of that Wise and Victorious Prince King Ed. 3. as appears upon Record in Rotulo Parliamenti de Anno 51. Ed. 3. Numero 19. And I assure my self neer upon three hundred years continuance is able to challenge both allowance and imitation from this present Age. During the Reign of R. 2. his Grand-child this course of raising money by the Poll was again put in practice as an advantagious and a speedy way Your Lordships shall find one example of it in the Parliament Roll de Anno 4. Rich. 2. n. 15. being almost the same with that rate and proportion granted in the time of Edward the Third But that Record which comes home to this case and is an identical president in the very particular before your Lordships to give you full satisfaction is found in Rotulo Parliamenti in Parliamento 2. for the miseries at home and the calamities abroad caused in one year sometimes two sometimes three Parliaments in those elder times de An. 2. Rich. 2. n. 14. where the Dukes Earls and Barons are all particularly rated and the Duke of Britain is there assessed as a Duke though he were a Free Prince and had only the Title of Earl of Richmond in England Nay my Lords the House of Commons at this time hath come far short of the same president in favour of the Noble Ladies for whereas the Countesses Dowagers were rated at the same proportions with Earls and the Widows of Barons at as high a rate as the Barons themselves we have now eased them of two parts of that and only charged them with the third I hope now your Lordships have seen both reason and president for our proceedings at this time you will be pleased to believe that the House of Commons will be as careful and tender of your Lordships Rights and Priviledges as of their own We know my Lords that this is the way to preserve peace and unity between us which as it is always expedient so is it at this time most necessary For the two Houses are as the two Arms of the Kingdom if we hold fast together we shall be able to Accomplish great things worthy to be transmitted to after-Ages but if we dissever and disunite we may end in ruin and calamity So much of the said Record as concerns the rating of the Nobility and Gentry is here added it being presented thus ready written at the said Conference Rot. Parliamen in Parliamento 2. de An. 2. Rich. 2. N. 14. Le Duc de Lancastre le Duc de Bretaigne chescun a x. Markes chescun Conte D'engleterre iiii l. Chescun Countesses veoves en Engleterre a tant come les Count iiiii l. Chescun Baron Baneret ou Chivaler qui poet a tant dispendere xl s. Chescun Baronesse veove paiera come Baron Banresse come le Baneret xl s. Chescun Bachiler chescun Esquier qui per Le statute deveroit estre Chivaler xx s. Chescun veove Dame feme de Bachiler on Esquier al afferant xx s. Chescun Esquire de meindre estate vi s. viii d. Chescun feme veoxe de tiel Esquire ou Marchant suffisant vi s. viii d. Chescun Esquier nient possession de terres ne chateux quest en service ou ad este armes iii. s. iiii d Captain Pollard this day Petitioned the House Captain Hugh Pollard Bailed that he might have liberty to go into the Country to visit his Father who lay very sick and was so far displeased with him upon the misfortune of his Accusation that he was afraid he would dis-inherit him and the Earl of Essex and another Lord offering to be Bail for him it was Ordered That by Warrant from the Speaker he should be delivered from the Gate-House to the Serjeant at Arms who was to take Bail of 1000 l. from himself and 500 l. apiece from his Bail Thursday July 1. Stannery Bill passed the Commons The Articles against the Judges Voted for his appearing upon Monday three weeks The Bill for Regulating the Court of Stanneries was this day read a third time and passed the Commons Mr. Hide reports the Articles against Judge Crawley Sir Humphrey Davenport Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer Sir Thomas Trevor Baron of the Exchequer Sir Richard Weston Baron of the Exchequer which were singly Voted and ordered to be Engrossed and a Conference to be desired with the Lords and that Sir Randal Crew 's Case be then recommended to their Lordships to move his Majesty to recompence him with Honour for his Sufferings for the Publick Upon Mr. Peard's reporting of the Case of Mr. Faunt Mr. Peard Reports Mr. Faunt's Case it was Resolved c. That the Sentence in the Star-Chamber against Sir William Faunt was without ground of any thing that appears either in answer or proof Resolved c. That the said Mr. Faunt and his Father as Co-executors ought to be restored to all that was paid either by Sir William Faunt or them Resolved c. That the Cause be represented to the Lords to the end the Sentence may be reversed and the Parties restored to all that they and their Testators have paid Resolved A Vote against the Council Board c. That neither the Body of the Lords of the Council nor any one of them in particular as a Privy-Councellor hath any power to imprison any Free-born Subject except in such Cases as they are warranted by the Statutes of the Realm Engrossed Articles against Lord Chief Justice Bramston Friday July 2. Lord Chief Baron Davenport the Judges Crawley Weston Trevor and Berkley voted to be carried up to the Lords The Bills against the Court of Star-Chamber and High-Commission Court Bills against Star-Chamber c. Carried up to the Lords with the amendments passed and carried up to the Lords by Mr. Capel as also the Bill for raising Mony for the speedy disbanding the Armies and to move their Lordships to desire of his Majesty his Royal Assent to them with all convenient Expedition The Bill for the Poll-mony with the Amendments were twice read in the House of Lords and agreed to with this Memorandum Memorandum A Salvo entered by the Lords about the Poll Money That a Salvo be entred for the preserving the Priviledges of Peers of this Realm for Rating and Taxing themselves in Subsidies by Members of this House in time of Parliament This day was read a third
That Mr. Hugh Benson shall be forthwith sent for as a Delinquent by the Serjeant at Arms attending on this House After which it was Ordered Captain of Hurst Castle Summoned That the Lord Gorge who is Governor of Hurst Castle be forthwith Summoned to appear here to give an Account why he suffered that Castle to go to decay A Complaint was exhibited by the Resident of Florence Resident of Florence complains of his House being broken c. against May and Newton two Persons imployed to apprehend Priests for violently contrary to the Law of Nations breaking open his Doors and taking and committing his Domestick Servants to Prison Whereupon it was Ordered That the said May and Newton be Summoned to give an Account of that Action and that the said Persons Imprisoned be set at Liberty the Resident passing his Word for their forth-coming Then certain Interrogatories to be administred to Owen O Connelly Interrogatories for the further Examination of Connelly were read as follows 1 What ground had you to Suspect that the Papists had any Design upon the State of Ireland 2 What have you heard any Priests or others say concerning the promoting of the Romish Religion 3 What Discourse have you had with Hugh Ogh Mac-Mohan concerning any such Design in Ireland 4 Have you heard of any Design in England or Scotland of the like Nature what is it you have heard Declare your whole Knowledg The Design of which Questions as plainly appears by the very Words of them were purposely to draw out something from him which might give color to the pretended Calumnies against the King or Queen or both of them as being some way or other concerned in promoting Popery and the Rebellion in Ireland as they had upon all Occasions insinuated the King to have been privy and Consenting to the Design of bringing up the Army and the Conspiracy in Scotland pretended against Hamilton Argyle and others And indeed the Faction laid hold upon all Occasions which were in the least capable of an Improvement to the Defamation of his Majesty and to rob him of the Affections of his People by whispering such Surmises as might beget and confirm those useful Fears and Jealousies of Popery and Arbitrary Power which were to be the Engines by which their wicked and mischievous Designs were to be effected and accomplished After this Sir Thomas Widdrington Reports further of the Conference The Report of the Conferrence about the Prince and Queen concerning the Prince and Queen That the Earl of Holland said he had according to the Commands of both Houses waited upon her Majesty and presented her with the Reasons of both Houses why they desired that the Prince should reside at Richmond 1. Because that he lost much opportunity in improving himself in his Learning and Study by being at Oatlands 2. Next though the Parliament doth not think her Majesty would intimate any thing to him concerning her Religion yet there were many about her which might prepare him with those impressions in his Religion which mightsit upon him many Years after 3. That in this time so full of danger for we hear of new Treasons every day that the Prince might be more Secure and yet his Lordship said he acquainted the Queen That it was not the Intentions of the Two Houses of Parliament that the Prince should not at all wait upon her Majesty but might come when her Majesty was desirous to see him but yet that his place of Residence might be at Richmond for otherwise his Governor could not take that Charge over Him as was required by the Parliament nor be answerable for such Servants as were about him His Lordship was pleased further to say That Her Majesty gave this Answer THat She gave the Parliament Thanks for their Care of her Son The Queens Answer the Occasion wherefore Her Majesty sent for him was to Celebrate the Birth-Day of one of his Sisters but that the Prince should be presently sent back to Richmond And Her Majesty said She did make no doubt but upon the King's Return the Parliament will Express the like Care both of the Kings Honor and Safety Mr. Whitlock further Reported That the Lord Chamberlain said at the Conference That he had taken care for a Guard That many of them complained of standing upon their Guard 24 Hours without Relief and some of the Captains neglect to come and that therefore Order should be taken therein A Message was brought from the House of Commons by Arthur Goodwin Esquire to let their Lordships know Wednesday Novemb. 3. A Message from the Commons about Phillips the Priest That he was Commanded to give their Lordships Thanks from the House of Commons for their Care and Honour of Religion in committing Robert Phillips the Priest unto the Tower desiring that he may not be released from his Imprisonment without they be made acquainted with it and that their Lordships would give Directions that none may speak with him at the Tower but in the presence of some of the Keepers Whereupon the Lords made an Order accordingly The Lord Privy Seal Reported The Report about Borrowing 50000 l. of the City That Yesterday the Committees of both Houses in the Name of the Parliament went to the City to propound the Borrowing of 50000 l. for the Irish Affairs He said They gave the City a full relation of the State and Condition of Ireland now is in it being the Case of Religion That they were much moved at the Relation and the Committees then told the Three Wants which the Council of Ireland desires to be speedily furnished with or else that Kingdom will be in danger to be lost which are Men Arms and Money His Lordship said the Committee told them the Parliament required nothing of them but the Loan of Money which should be Secured to them by Act of Parliament with advantage to themselves with Interest Vpon this the Major and Aldermen with the Common Council presently retired to consult among themselves till it was very late and so the Committees left them The next Morning the Recorder came to the Lords of the Councel at Whitehall and declared That he had Command from the Major and Aldermen and Common Council of the City to inform their Lordships first by way of Protestation That so great Sums of Money were drawn from them lately that they were hardly able to Supply this Occasion Yet such is their Zeal to this Cause that they will do their best Endeavours therein 2. He delivered by way of Plea from the City That Protections were so frequent that unless the Parliament did take some Course therein they shall not be able to do the Parliament that Service they desire in this kind because it decayes their Trading Mr. Recorder further declared That the City had formerly lent 50000 l. upon the Request of the Great Council at York which was due the 22d. of October last which yet is not paid
a Convenient time to be declared by the Lord Lieutenant Lord Deputy or Lords Justices and Councel of that Kingdom shall return to their due Obedience the greatest part whereof they conceive have been seduced upon false Grounds by cunning and subtile Practices of some of the most malignant Rebels Enemies to this State and to the Reformed Religion and likewise to bestow such Rewards as shall be thought fit and published by the Lord Lieutenant Lord Deputy or Lords Justices and Council upon all those who shall arrest the persons or bring in the Heads of such Traytors as shall be personally named in any Proclamation published by the State there And they do hereby Exhort and Require all his Majesties loving Subjects both in this and that Kingdom to remember their Duty and Conscience to God and his Religion and the great and Eminent Danger which will involve this whole Kingdom in General and themselves in Particular if this abominable Treason be not timely suppressed and therefore with all Readiness Bounty and Chearfulness to confer their Assistance in their Persons or Estates to this so important and necessary a Service for the Common Good of all The Letter to be sent along with this Declaration was in these words MY Lords Justices The Letter from the Speakers of both Houses to the Lords Justices of Ireland and the rest of his Majesties Council of his Majesties Kingdom of Ireland I have received a Command from the Lords House in this present Parliament to send unto you this inclosed Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament for the better Encouragement of his Majesties Faithful Subjects to unite and imploy themselves in opposing and suppressing the Rebels of this and that Kingdom the publishing whereof I am to commend to your Care and Wisdom and rest c. The Resolutions being again read over the House consented to them and ordered the Lord Keeper to take Care to see them sent to Ireland as also to send Copies of them to his Majesty that he may see the Care of his Parliament in his absence concerning the Affairs of Ireland The Lord Admiral was also Ordered to give Command for the stoping of the Posts towards Ireland Order to stop the Posts towards Ireland upon such as are now going from Flanders into the Kingdom of Ireland It was also Ordered Order to take Care to guard the City against Tumults That the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesties Household Captain General of the South Parts of this Kingdom during his Majesties being out of this Kingdom shall give Order to the Lord Mayor of the City of London to safe guard the said City as there shall be Cause against all Tumults and Disorders that shall happen in or about the said City and the Liberties of the same upon any occasion whatsoever In the Commons House it was upon the Question Resolved That the Conference with the Lords shall be renewed concerning the securing of the Persons of Papists It was also Ordered That a Warrant be drawn to pass both Houses to the Master of the Ordnance for the delivery of the Arms and Powder and Ammunition at Carlisle to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland or such as he shall appoint This day the Lord Keeper signified to the House of Lords Friday Novemb. 5. That he had received a Letter from the Lord Howard at Edenburgh dated the 30th of October 1641 which was commanded to be read the Effect whereof was THat meeting with the Instructions of the Parliament beyond Anwick in his return to London his Lordship and Mr. Fiennes returned back again to Edenburgh to present them to his Majesty which having done his Majesty told them That for the Business of Barwick be hoped by this time the Parliament had received Satisfaction Concerning the Rebellion in Ireland his Majesty upon the first Notice thereof moved the Parliament of Scotland to take this business into Consideration which accordingly they did and appointed a Committee for this very purpose which made Report whereof a Copy is Enclosed together with a Ratification thereof in Parliament wherein they have testified their Affection and respect to this Kingdom The Report of the Committee in the Parliament of Scotland Rege praesente 28 Octobris 1641. HIS Majesty produced a Letter written to him by the Lord Viscount Chichester anent some Commotions in Ireland The Resolutions of Scottish Parliament concerning the Irish Rebellion which was publiquely read in Audience of the Kings Majesty and Parliament And his Majesty desired that some may be appointed to think upon the Business so far as may concern his Majesty and the Kingdom And the Estates nominated the Lord Chancellor Lord General Lord Lothian Lord Amond the Lardis of Wedderburn Kinhault and Murthill the Commissioners of Edinburgh Glascow and Aire to think upon some Course necessary to be done anent the said Letters and what is incumbent to be done by this Kingdom thereupon and Report again to the Parliament To meet in the General his House this Afternoon at two Hours 28 Octobris 1641. This Day in the Afternoon the Committee above nominated appointed for taking into Consideration the Report of the Commotions in Ireland being met in the Lord Generals House and having read the Letter directed to the King's Majesty from the Lord Chichester Dated at Belfast the 24th of October 1641 hath Considered That his Majesty out of His Wisdom and Royal Care of the Peace of His Kingdoms hath already acquainted the Parliament of England with the Intelligence from Ireland and has sent to Ireland to know the certainty of the Commotions and of the Affairs of that Combination which till it be perfectly known there can be no particular Course taken for Suppressing thereof and the Kingdom of Ireland being dependant upon the Crown and Kingdom of England the English may conceive Jealousies and mistake our Forwardness when they shall hear of our Preparations without thair Knowledg in this whairin they are first and more properly concerned And if the Insurrections be of that Importaince as the British within Ireland are not Powerful enough to Suppress it without Assistance of greater Forces * * Scotish for than nor thair Allies and that his Majesty and Parliament of England shall think our Aid necessary to joyn with thaim We conceive That the Assistance which we can contribute may be in readiness as soon as England and if after Resolution taken by his Majesty with Advice of both Parliaments it shall be found necessary that we give our present Assistance we shall go about it with that speed which may Witness our dutiful Respects to his Majesties Service and our Affections to our Brethren his Majesties Loyal Subjects of England and Ireland 29 Die Octob. 1641. Read in Audience of his Majesty and Estates of Parliament ad futuram rei memoriam as ane Testimony of their Affections to his Majesties Service and the Good of the Neighbor Kingdoms and appoints thrie of the Baronis
Celebrated Persons of his Age and indeed had the Lords Justices been willing and able to have hearkned to his Lordships Motion at the Council Board to put him immediately at the Head of any considerable Strength he would in probability by God's assistance have made a short dispatch of that Rebellion for it was some considerable time before the Rebellion became Universal or otherwise Captain Byron with a single Company of 50 Men could not as he did have by command from the Lord Justices and Council have marched Safe and without disturbance from Youghall to Dublin which is above 80 Miles nor was there any rising about Kilkenny till two Months after the first Eruption but it is too evident that as the supine carelessness of some did encourage the Irish to Rebel so there were others in Power who were so taken up with the Contemplation of Forfeitures that they rather increased the Fuel than took Care to suppress the Flame so that it is no wonder if his Lordships Motion was rejected till it was too late However several Commissions were given out to diverse Gentlemen even of the Romish Religion to raise Men to suppress the Rebellion The Commissions then given out run in the Stile of Martial Law which was thought no more than Requisite as appears by this following which was given to the Lord Gormanstone By the Lords Justices and Council W. Parsons John Borlase RIght Trusty and Well-beloved A Copy of the Commissions for suppressing the Rebellion in Ireland Nov. 1641. We greet you well Whereas divers most Disloyal and Malignant Persons within this Kingdom have Traiterously conspired against His Majesty His Peace Crown and Dignity and many of them in Execution of their Conspiracy are Traiterously Assembled together in a warlike Manner and have most inhumanly made Destruction and Devastation of the Persons and Estates of divers of his Majesties Good and Loyal Subjects of this Kingdom and Taken Slain and Imprisoned great Numbers of them We out of Our Care and Zeal for the Common Good being desirous by all means to suppress the said Treasons and Traitors and to conserve the Persons and Fortunes of His Majesties Loving Subjects here in Safety and to prevent the further Spoil and Devastation of his Majesties Good People here Do therefore hereby Require and Authorize you to Levy Raise and Assemble all every or any the Forces as well Footmen as Horsemen within the County of Meath giving you hereby the Command in Chief of all the said Forces and hereby further Requiring and Authorizing you as Commander of them in Chief to Arm Array Divide Distribute Dispose Conduct Lead and Govern in Chief the said Forces according to your best Discretion and with the said Forces to Resist Pursue Follow Apprehend and put to Death Slay and Kill as well by Battel as other ways all and singular the said Conspirators Traitors and their Adherents according to your Discretion and according to your Conscience and Discretion to proceed against them or any of them by Martial Law by Hanging them or any of them till they be dead according as it hath been accustomed in time of open Rebellion and also to Take Waste and Spoil their or any of their Castles Holds Forts Houses Goods and Territories or otherwise to Preserve the Lives of them or any of them and to receive them into his Majesties Favor and Mercy and to forbear the Devastation of their or any of their Castles Forts Houses Holds Goods and Territories aforementioned acccording to your Discretion Further hereby Requiring and Authorizing you to Do Execute and Perform all and singular such other things for Examination of Persons suspected discovery of Traitors and their Adherents parlying with and granting Protections to them or any of them taking up of Carts Carriages and other Conveniences sending and retaining Espials Victualling the said Forces and other things whatsoever conducing to the purpose aforementioned as you in your Discretion shall think fit and the necessity of the Service require further hereby Requiring and Authorizing you as Commander in Chief to Constitute and Appoint such Officers and Ministers respectively for the better Performance and Execution of all and singular the Premises as you in your Discretion shall think fit And We do hereby require and command all and singular His Majesties Sheriffs Officers and Ministers and Loving Subjects of and within the County of Meath and the Borders thereof upon their Faith and Allegiance to His Majesty and to his Crown to be Aiding Helping and Assisting to you in the Doing and Executing of all and singular the Premises This Our Commission to continue during Our Pleasure only and for the so doing this shall be your sufficient Warrant Given at His Majesties Castle of Dublin Novemb. 1641. R. Dillon Ja. Ware Jo. Temple Rob. Meredith To Our very good Lo. Nicholas Vic. Com. Gormanstone Immediately upon the setting out of the Proclamation of the 23 of October divers Lords of the English Pale came to Dublin and there declared to the Lords Justices and the Board with severe Protestations their great Loyalty and Affection to his Majesty and that they would with all readiness assist their Lordships in the suppressing of this Rebellion but within two or three days they returned with a Petition wherein they offered they said the deep Sense they had of an Expression in that Proclamation as if by the Words evil affected Irish Papists there being no Distinction they might be misinterpreted so as to reflect upon them as comprehended under those general Terms Whereupon the Lords Justices and Council that they might clear this Point and thereby secure themselves of the Loyalty and Services of these Gentlemen who as well as their Ancestors had upon former Occasions manifested great Loyalty to the Crown of England therefore to remove all Scruples put out this following Explanatory Proclamation By the Lords Justices and Council W. Parsons John Borlase WHereas a Petition hath been preferred unto Vs A Proclamation for the Satisfaction of the Lords and Gentlemen of the English Pale Oct. 28. 1641. by divers Lords and Gentlemen of the English Pale in behalf of themselves and the rest of the Pale and other the old English of this Kingdom shewing That whereas a late Conspiracy of Treason is discovered of ill-affected Persons of the old Irish and that thereupon a Proclamation was published by Vs wherein among other things it is declared That the said Conspiracy was perpetrated by Irish Papists without distinction of any and they doubting that by those general Words of Irish Papists they might seem to be involved though they declare themselves confident that We did not intend to conclude them therein in regard they are none of the Old Irish nor of their Faction or Confederacy but are altogether averse and opposite to all their Designs and all other of like Condition We do therefore to give them full satisfaction hereby declare and publish to all his Majesties Good Subjects in this Kingdom
to support you to our powers in all that shall be just Then some cryed out But what shall they do for the Brethren that were Committed by my Lord Major and at Westminster before they shall suffer we will spend all our lives The Captain made answer That for those that were Committed at Westminster he and another was appointed by the House to release them all and we did so the same night before we came from Westminster And if my Lord Major hath committed any I will warrant you if you will be quiet and take my word they shall be released every one And as soon as I have refreshed my self I will go to my Lord Major and have them discharged but do you by no means go but return home So they cryed Home Home Home with a mighty noise Then the Major part went away but some of them remained there which would not be satisfied but went down to the Counter in Woodstreet where they were withstood by the Officers thereto belonging with Swords and half Pikes but some rusht in upon them and got away one of the half Pikes from one of them and then went up into Cheap-side again but could not rest satisfied but down they went again and the door being shut against them they brake it and brake the Windows After this the Keeper of the Counter let some of them come in and search for them in every Ward and questioned the Prisoners whether there was any or no but they found none there And therefore went away There are many Voluntiers agoing out but it is to be feared that there are many of them Papists who will be more ready to help the Papists against the King then the King against the Papists But I hope the Lord will defeat their designs and bring their evil ways upon their own heads if there be any that seeks the distruction of the Land Ireland is in a very bad estate and in much fear and trouble of the loss of Dublin but there is yet hopes if there be but present help and aid against the Rebels which is the desire of all true Subjects the going forward of the happy design Thus Courteous Reader you have had the full occurrant of the passages and in what a miserable estate we are brought unto by Papists and Atheists who swarm like the Frogs of Egypt over the whole Land and not likely to be swept away till the Lord in Mercy to his People sweep them into the Red-Sea of their own Blood into the depth of which the Lord bring all the Enemies of his Gospel And so I salute you with kind farewel The Lewdness and Licence of the times was certainly great and among all the Arts which wrought upon the inferior sorts of People none did more mischief then the Liberty of the Press from whence whole swarms of Venomous Pamphlets Calculated exactly to the low and sordid Capacities of the Vulgar flew about the City and Country and did strangely exasperate them especially against the Bishops and the King for favouring of them I do not intend to trouble the Reader with many of these foolish but mischievous Papers but I hope I shall be pardoned if among such a heap of useful Collections there happen to be gathered a little Chaff and yet I cannot think even some such Papers wholly unuseful which will contribute to give the World a true Character of all the little Arts as well as great ones of those Men and Times and to shew what an Excellent Talent some People who affected to be thought the truest of Protestants the Godly and Well-affected Party had in lying and slandering I will therefore present the Reader with a choice piece of Poetry made for a New-years-Gift for the Bishops upon their misfortune of being committed to the Tower It wears a Title which has been tied to many a lewd Libel and is Yâ—leped Vox Populi in plain English I. IN City and Country throughout the whole Land A Lewd Ballad against the Bishops and Common-Prayer The minds of the multitude divers ways stand There 's some that endeavour with might and with main To set the proud Prelates on Horse-back again That they may make Canons and send out their Oath To stablish their Power and dish out their * * So the Sectaries call the Liturgy by way of derision Broth. II. Of this Rank there 's many in every place The which were created by little Laud 's Grace Who since are grown lofty and now like to fall Which makes them through anguish aloud for to call To Papists and Atheists and all such as doth Love lazy proud Prelates and Luke-warm Broth. III. Those Fat-belly'd Priests that have Livings great store If Bishops go down they shall never have more Their Journey-men Readers likewise are afraid That they must be forc'd to give over their Trade And wear Leather Garments instead of black Cloth Which makes them love Bishops and Luke-warm Broth. IV. And great Men would never be counted such fools As to send their Children for learning to Schools But that they hoped in process of time That they to the Throne of a Bishop might climb And there Domineer which fills them with wroth Against such as love neither Bishops nor Broth. V. Another sort likewise must not be forgotten Who in their main Principles seems to be rotten Supposing that Heaven stands open to all That tend on their Pray'rs when the Saints Bell doth call Where instead of substance there 's nothing but froth Much like the proud Prelates so is this their Broth. VI. All these do indeavour as much as they may To back the base Bishops from day unto day The Papists assist them and rather then fail The Devil will help them that he may prevail It makes for his Kingdom to stand for them both I mean the proud Prelates and their Common Broth. VII Against this rude Regiment there doth appear Some Troops of couragious hearts that will not fear T' incounter this Rabble in mischief profound * * The Streets rung again with these Gries Hark how they cry down with them down to the Ground The Papists and Prelates away with them both For we will have none of them nor of their Broth. VIII And these are no base ones as some do suggest But of the King's Subjects indeed are the best Endeavouring the good both of Kingdom and State Whatever Baal 's Priests and proud Prelates do prate Who for the love which they bear unto sloth Do labour to hold up their Luke-warm Broth. IX Then let all good People take Courage indeed So that they from Anti-Christs Yoak may be freed And seeing that Libertie's gain'd by the Scots Let English-men seek for 't it may be their Lotts Then joyn hands together and fear not their wrath But cry down the Prelates and spew out their Broth. X. Their pride and presumption must needs have a fall Their wicked devices for Judgment doth call Their hatred of
Sir Arthur Haslerig Mr. Pym Mr. Hampden and Mr. Strode by Sir William Killigrew Sir William Flemen and others in the Innes of Court and elsewhere in the Kings Name was a high Breach of the priviledge of Parliament a great scandal to his Majesty and His Government A seditious Act manifestly tending to the subversion of the peace of the Kingdom and an injury and dishonour to the said Members there being no legal charge or accusation against them The priviledges of Parliament and the liberties of the Subject so violated and broken cannot be fully and sufficiently vindicated unless His Majesty will be graciously pleased to discover the names of those persons who advised his Majesty to issue out Warrants for the Sealing of the Chambers and Studies of the said Members to send a Serjeant at Arms to the House of Commons to demand their said Members to issue out several Warrants under His Majesties own hand to apprehend the said Members His Majesties coming thither in his own Royal person The publishing of the said Articles and printed paper in the form of a Proclamation against the said Members in such manner as is before declared To the end that such persons may receive condign punishment And this House doth further declare Voted Jan. 17th 1641. That all such persons as have given any Counsel or endeavoured to set or maintain division or dislike between the King and Parliament or have listed their names or otherwise entred into any combination or agreement to be aiding or assisting to any such councel or endeavour or have perswaded any other so to do or that shall do any the things above mentioned And shall not forthwith discover the same to either House of Parliament Or the Speaker of either of the said Houses respectively and disclaim it are declared publick enemies of the State and peace of this Kingdom and shall be inquired of and proceeded against accordingly But to proceed This Morning Sir Henry Vane Sir Walter Erle Sir Sam. Rolls and Sir Simon D'Ewes were appointed to examine the Pacquet from France directed to Mr. Crofts which they did and Reported That they found nothing in those Letters of any Consequence Mr. Whittacre also Reported That he had searched the Lodgings of Sir James Hamilton according to the Order yesterday but found no Arms there as was informed Committee to Try Frivolous Informations Whereupon Mr. Long Mr. Whittaker Mr. Strode Sir Arthur Haslerig Mr. Cary Mr. Arthur Goodwin Sir John Franklyn Mr. Whitehead Sir John Evelyn Mr. Wheeler Sir John Holland Sir Robert Pye Mr. Glyn Mr. Brown Mr. Reynolds and the Citizens for London were appointed to be a Committee and they or any three of them to have Power when Informations come to be given to the House to examine them and if they find them worth the knowledg of the House to acquaint the House therewith and if they find them not of any consequence to dismiss the Business and the Parties and they have power to send for Parties Witnesses and Writings and to make searches as they see Cause and to open Doors Chests or Trunks There is nothing can make it more evident then the appointing this Committee that these People were abundantly satisfied and sensible that they were horribly imposed upon by frivolous Informations and yet they were so void either of Honor Honesty or Conscience without due Examination to impose those false Informations upon the Nation as great Truths as particularly the Lord Digbie's being at Kingston with 500 armed Men which made such a noise that the Trained Bands and Posse Comitatus were raised to disperse a Rebellious Assembly of a Coach and six Horses and the ordinary Retinue of a Nobleman but this was their Way and they were not concerned to search for the truth of their Informations but the Consequences of them and whether they would turn to Account to blacken the King and inflame the People His Majesty had sent down Captain Legg to take Charge of the Town of Hull and the Ammunition there whereupon the Commons who had before Ordered Sir John Hotham to be Governor a Committee was appointed to consider of the Bail given to the Serjeant for any Person committed by the House to the Custody of a Serjeant and to report their Opinion to the House both concerning the Bail and Persons bailed and upon their Report It was Ordered That those Lords that are Bail for Captain Legg shall be moved to bring in Captain Legg forthwith and the Serjeant is to move those Lords accordingly The Officers and Gunners of the Tower having been Summoned to attend the House Gunners of the Tower examined by the Commons and accordingly appearing it was Ordered That Sir Gilbert Gerrard Mr. Hampden Sir Robert Pye and Sir Henry Mildmay do Examine the Officers of the Tower now at the Door what Persons suspected have been lately put into the Tower and to ask them if they will all take the Protestation and to acquaint them That this House sent for them in respect that they have a good Opinion of them thinking they might have had occasion to use them but at this time they have not and so to dismiss them The House was then informed Lieutenant of the Tower at the Commons Bar. That the Lieutenant of the Tower Sir John Byron was at the Door who was called in to the Bar and kneeled there a while and then rising again delivered an humble Petition to the House which was read and it was Ordered That the Serjeant should acquaint him that the House hath read his Petition and in due time will take it into Consideration The Commons having desired the Lords to joyn with them Friday January 14. in an Order for several Counties to raise Force to Suppress the pretended Army of the Lord Digby assembled at Kingston the Lords this Day made a general Order for suppressing all Tumults and unlawful Assemblies throughout this whole Kingdom as follows WHereas Information hath been given to the Parliament Order for suppressing Tumults That the Lord Digby Son to the Earl of Bristol and Colonel Lunsford with others have gathered Troops of Horse and have appeared in warlike Manner at Kingston upon Thames in the County of Surrey where the Magazine of Arms for that part of the County lies to the Terror and Affright of his Majesties good Subjects and disturbance of the Publick Weal of the Kingdom It is this Day ordered by the Lords and Commons in Parliament That the Sheriffs of the several Counties of England and Wales calling to their Assistance the Justices of the Peace and the Trained Bands of the several Counties or so many of them as shall be necessary for the Service shall suppress all unlawful Assemblies gathered together to the Disturbance of the Publick Peace of the Kingdom in their several Counties respectively and that they take Care to secure the said Counties and all the Magazins in them And it was Ordered to be Printed and
from Westminster to London or any other Place his Majesty saith he will take further time to consider of it 2. That his Majesty hath Signed a Warrant to the Earl of Newport Master of the Ordnance for issuing out of Arms and Ammunition and Transporting them for Ulster as is desired 3. And as touching the securing of the Town and Magazine of Hull His Majesty conceiveth he hath formerly given a satisfactory Answer After which the Lord Keeper signified That the King had Commanded him to deliver this Message to both Houses of Parliament to let them know that there hath been much Powder Arms and Ammunition issued out of the Stores for the Supply of the occasions of Ireland and his Majesty hopes that both Houses will take care the Stores be replenished for the security and defence of this Kingdom Which was Communicated to the House of Commons A Message was brought up from the Commons by Sir John Evelyn to desire That the Army and Ordnance at Fox-Hall at Lambeth-House at the Arch-Bishop of Yorks and at the Bishop of Winton 's Houses may be removed to London and kept there in safe Custody Also the House of Commons presented their Lordships with an Order for Guards which they desired their Lordships to join with them in The Order was read as followeth An Order and Declaration of the Lords and Commons in Parliament for the providing of Guards and other necessary Defence for the Safety of his Majesty the Parliament and Kingdom FOrasmuch as the necessity of providing Monies and other supplies for the present relief of Ireland An Order for Guards c. and for defence of this Kingdom requireth the speedy Care and Consideration of both Houses of Parliament and for that it appears by many wicked Practises and Designs that have been lately discovered that the said Houses cannot sit in safety without strong and sufficient Guards from the City of London and parts adjacent It is therefore Ordered and Declared by the Lords and Commons Assembled in Parliament That there be necessary Guards raised out of the City and Parts Adjacent and the same to be in Order for the Defence and Safety of the King Parliament and Kingdom And it is declared by the said Lords and Commons That for the providing of Guards and other necessary Defence for the purpose aforesaid as well the Sheriffs of the City of London and Middlesex as of all other Counties of this Realm may and ought to raise the Posse Comitatus and in case they fail of their Duties herein which they are accountable for to God the King and the Parliament then every good Subject may and ought in their Duties to God their King and Country * * Now they made the Design of that wicked and insnaring Oath appear by their Solemn Oath of their late Protestation to maintain and defend to the uttermost of their Power the Person of his Majesty and of every Member of each House of Parliament being the Persons whom they have intrusted with their Lives Liberties and Fortunes from all Force and Violence whatsoever And the said Lords and Commons do farther declare That the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex as well within the City as without and that for the Safety of the King Kingdom and Parliament which is now in imminent and apparent Danger the Commission of the Lord Mayor being but a Commission of Lieutenancy and Illegal the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council or the greater number of them ought to make use of the Train'd Bands or any other Forces of the City for the preserving of the Peace of the Kingdom Person of his Majesty and all the Members of Parliament from violence and dangers both within their Limits and without And that there being yet no declaratory Law for the Regulating of the Militia of the Kingdom though in Agitation in Parliament the said Lords and Commons do declare That in this pressing and extraordinary Occasion the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Council of the City of London or the greater number of them ought to appoint such Officers that the necessary Guards and Forces aforesaid may be governed in a due and orderly manner and that the Officers aforesaid may beat up their Drums for the safety of his Majesty the Kingdom and Parliament and that the performance of the Premisses shall be taken for a good and acceptable piece of Service to both Houses of Parliament And it is further Ordered and Declared by the said Lords and Commons That Captain Skippon shall be Sergeant Major General of the City Forces until the City resolve to the Contrary and not to depart from this Service upon any Command or Counter-mand until Order be taken by the Parliament and he shall have Power if violence be offered to make defence or offend and that all the Train'd Bands both of London and Westminster and the Parts Adjacent and all the Captains and Officers of the said Bands shall be Commanded by him and receive Orders from him from time to time for beating the Drums or Service and all Soldiers thereupon under his Command shall resort to their Colours in Arms without expecting further Order from the Lord Mayor And that all Citizens or others that will mount themselves on Horseback shall be under the Command of the said Sergeant Major Skippon and that Ammunition of all sorts shall be issued out of the Chamber of London in such a proportion as he shall think fit and direct And it is further Ordered and Declared by the said Lords and Commons That whereas there is a Committee chosen of the Common-Council of the City of London to Treat and Confer with a Committee of the House of Commons touching the safety of the King and Parliament City and Kingdom That the Persons of the said Committee of the Common-Council shall not be apprehended or otherwise restrained without the leave of the Commons House of Parliament first obtained during the time that they shall be Committees for the business aforesaid for any thing done or to be done in pursuance thereof and that none of the said Committee of the said Common-Council presume to depart out of the said City to any place upon any Intimation whatsoever without leave first obtained from the said Committee of the Common-Council or the greater part of them And lastly it is Declared and Ordered by the said Lords and Commons That all Actions of the said Citizens of London or of any other Person whatsoever for the Defence of the Parliament or the Privileges thereof or for the preservation of the Members thereof are according to their Duty and their Protestation and the Laws of this Kingdom and if any Person shall Arrest or Trouble any for so doing he is declared to be a violater of the Liberty of the Subject and of the Rights and Priviledges of Parliament and a Publick Enemy of the Common-wealth To this Message and Declaration this Answer was given That their Lordships will take it into Consideration
to give Sir Henry Tichbourn notice of the approach of this intended Relief and the Design of the Rebels and to order him to take all possible Care of securing their Passage Which Sir Henry by the same Messenger gave his Lordship assurance he would not fail to do and accordingly that very Day he marched out with a considerable Party to meet them but these loose and ill disciplined Men not used to Military Affairs took up their Quarters at Batruby eight Miles short of Tredagh by which means he missed of joyning them that Night The next Day they continued their March but in a disorderly way The English going to relieve Tredagh defeated till they came to Julian's Town where the Rebels having notice from the Lord Gormanston as Sir John Temple from Mr. Creightston's Examination affirms were drawn up to intercept them and by reason of a Mist which then fell and through the negligence of the Scouts who were sent out to give Intelligence they were got within Musket Shot of the Enemy before they discovered them The Major however drew them up presently into what Order he could and they were in a Place of great advantage but a Lieutenant unfortunately giving out the Word Counter-march and thereupon the Men facing about in some Disorder the Rebels gave a hideous Shout and immediately charged them Which with their own fear unaccustomed to the dreadful Face of War put them into such Confusion that they could not be persuaded to make one Charge but throwing down their Arms they every Man fled and gave the Rebels an Easy though considering the Number a bloody Victory for of the whole Party only Sir Patrick Weames with the Horse the Major and 2 Captains with about 100 Men escaped to Tredagh the other three Captains with all the rest of the Soldiers except such as were Irish being there cut off and all the Arms Ammunition and Carriages being also taken by the Rebels This unfortunate Blow as it gave great incouragement to the Rebels so it did extremely deject the Spirits of the English and Protestants but to inliven them a little Sir Charles Coot who with a commanded Party was sent out into the County of Wicklow to repress the Insolencies of the Brins and Tooles who ravaged that Country committing many Depredations and Murthers upon the Protestants meeting with Luke Toole with a thousand Irish under his Command he set upon him and quickly routed them obliging him and his Men to take the Sanctuary of an Irish Bogg for his Security At Wicklow he caused some of those who were accused of the Spoiles and Robberies there to be Executed which the Rebels took for a Pretence to Revenge by the Murder of many Protestants which fell into their Hands About this time there arrived 20000 l. in pieces of Eight 20000 l. arrives out of England which went currant for 4d more in a piece then in England which was a very seasonable Supply and gave some Life and Spirit to the drooping Affairs of the Protestants and enabled the Government to carry on the Levies The King sends Mony and Arms to Ireland from Scotland with which they were now in Hand his Majesty also assisted by the Duke of Richmond had caused such Proportions of Arms and Ammunition with all the Money he could spare to be conveyed out of Scotland with Commissions to Sir Robert Steward and other Persons of Quality in the North of Ireland to give the Rebels a diversion on that side But the Rebels had set their Rest upon the taking of Tredagh and therefore quitting the North with the greatest of their Forces they drew down towards that Place But in their March thither Sir Phelim O Neil and Sir Con Mac-gennis made an Attempt upon Lisnegaruy where Sir Arthur Terringham who commanded a small Party of 400 Foot and was assisted by the Lord Conwayes and part of Captain St. John's Troop to the number of 380 Horse The Rebels repulsed at Lisnegaruy by Sir Arthur Tirringham gave them such warm Entertainment that they were repulsed with considerable loss both of Men and Reputation leaving six of their Colours and many of their Rebellious Adherents slain upon the Place without any considerable loss on the Protestants Side more then of Captain Boid and Captain St. John who fell in the Field of Honor with some private Soldiers and some few others who were wounded in the Incounter And before they sate down before Tredagh a Party of 1300 Foot besieged Mellifont the Lord Moore 's House where were only 24 Musketeers and 15 Horse who bravely defended the Place till their Ammunition was spent and then the Horse setting open the Gate made their way through the Enemy in despight of their Opposition and came safe to Tredagh and the Foot yielded upon Promise of fair Quarter which was but ill kept by the Rebels who killed some of them in cold Blood stripped the rest and Plundered the House carrying away whatsoever was of any Use or Value And now the Lords and Gentlemen of the Pale seeing the Success of the Northern Rebels and the little Force that was raised in Ireland or brought over from England to oppose them began to falter in their Loyalty also and under the pretence of Fears and Jealousies the Common Ingredients of Rebellious Designs to stand upon their Guard and to give too just Suspitions to the Government that they would rather joyn with the Rebels then assist to the Suppressing them The Lords Justices and Council therefore resolving to try them sent this Letter to them AFter our very hearty Commendations to your Lordship A Letter from the Lords Justices and Council to the Irish Lords of the Pale for as much as we have present occasion to confer with you concerning the present State of the Kingdom and the safety thereof in these times of danger We Pray and require your Lordship to be with us here on the 8th day of this Month at which time others of the Peers are also to be here And this being to no other end we bid your Lordship very heartily farewell From his Majesties Castle of Dublin the third day of December 1641. Your very Loving Friends Will. Parsons Jon. Borlase Ormond Ossery Ant. Midensis R. Dillon Ad. Loftus Ge. Shirley J. Temple Rob. Meredith To our very good Lord George Earl of Kildare The like Letters were the same day dispatched to the Earl of Antrim Earl of Fingale Viscount Gormanston Viscount Netervile Viscount Fitz-William Lord Trimblestone Lord Dunsany Lord Slane Lord of Hoath Lord Lowth Lord Lambert But the Lords of the Pale who had been already Treating with the Northern Rebels and therefore looked upon this as an artifice to ensnare them durst not adventure themselves to Dublin but Summoning an Assembly at the Hill of Tarah the Lord Gormanston brought thither an Answer ready drawn which being read and approved of was Signed by the Lords present and sent away the Copy whereof was as followeth
May it please your Lordships WE have received your Letters of the third of this Instant The Answer of the Lords of the Pale to the Lords Justices Dec. 7. 1641. intimating that you had present occasions to confer with us concerning the present State of the Kingdom and the safety thereof in these times of danger and requiring us to be with you there on the eighth day of this Instant we give your Lordships to understand that we have heretofore presented our selves before your Lordships and freely offered our advice and furtherance towards the particulars aforesaid which was by you neglected which gave us cause to conceive that our Loyalty was suspected by you We give your Lordships further to understand that we have received certain Advertisement that Sir Charles Coot Knight at the Council Board hath uttered some Speeches tending to a purpose and resolution to Execute upon those of our Religion a general Massacre by which we are all deterred to wait on your Lordships not having any security for our safety from these threatned Evils or the safety of our Lives but do rather think it fit to stand upon our best guard until we hear from your Lordships how we shall be secured from these Perils Nevertheless we all protest that we are and will continue both Faithful Advisers and resolute furtherers of his Majesties service concerning the present State of the Kingdom and the safety thereof to our best Abilities and so with the said tender of our humble service we remain Your Lordships humble Servants Fingale Slaine Netterville Lowth Gormanston Dunsany Oliver Trimbleston Decemb. 7. Received 11. 1641. To the Right Honourable our very good Lords the Lords Justices and Council of Ireland For much about this time the Lords of the Pale had entered into a Combination with the Vlster Rebels as appears by the Deposition of Edward Dowdall Esq a Gentleman of the Pale who was present at the whole Management of this Affair and deeply concerned in all their Councels and Actions who Deposed before Sir Rob. Meredith Chancellour of the Exchequer as followeth HE Deposeth The Deposition of Mr. Dowdall concerning the Treaty between the Lords and Gentlemen of the Pale and the Ulster Rebels That some four or five days after the defeat of the English Souldiers at the Bridge of Gellianstown there Issued a Warrant from the Lord of Gormanston to the Sheriff of the County for a general Meeting of all the County of Dulick But the Place of Meeting was afterwards changed to the Hill of Crofty where all the Lords and Gentry of the Country met viz. The Earl of Fingale the Lord Viscount Gormanston the Lord of Slaine the Lord of Lowth the Lord of Dunsany the Lord of Trimblestone the Lord Nettervile And of the Gentry Sir Patrick Barnwall Sir Christopher Bellow Patrick Barnwall of Kilbrew Nicholas Darcy of Plattin James Bath of Acharn Garret Ailmer the Lawyer Cusake of Gormanston William Mallone of Lesmullin Sedgrave of Kileglan Linch of the Knos Lynam of Adamstown Laurence Doudal of Athlumney Nicholas Doudal of Brownstown this Examinates Brother and him this Examinate with a Multitude of others to the number of 1000. Persons at the least whose names he this Examinate cannot for the present call to mind And after about two or three hours spent upon the said Hill of Crofty by the Lords and Gentry aforesaid There came towards them Collonel Mahowne Philip O Rely Hugh Boy Rely Roger Moore Hugh Birne and Captain Fox attended on with a Guard of Musqueteers And this Examinate saith That as soon as the Parties drew near unto the said Hill the Lords and Gentry of the Pale rode towards them and the Lord of Gormanstone being one of the first spake unto them and demanded of them Why and for what reason they came Armed into the Pale Vnto which Roger Moore made present Answer That the Ground of their coming thither and taking up Arms was for the Freedom and Liberty of their Consciences the maintenance of his Majesties Prerogative in which they understood he was Abridged and the making the Subjects in this Kingdom as free as those in England were Whereupon the said Lord of Gormonston desired to understand from them truly and faithfully whether those were not pretences and not the true ground indeed of their so doing and likewise whether they had not some other private ends of their own which being by all denyed upon profession of their sincerity his Lordship the Lord Gormanston then told them Seeing these be your true ends we will likewise joyn with you therein unto which course all agreed And thereupon it was publickly and generally declared that whosoever should deny to joyn with them or refuse to assist them therein they would account him as an Enemy and to the utmost of their Power labour his Destruction And this Examinate saith That after the agreement so made as aforesaid There issued another Warrant to the Sheriff of the County of Meath to Summon all the Lords and Gentry of the County of Meath to be at the Hill of Taragh about a week after and accordingly there met at the same place the Earl of Fingale the Lord of Gormanston and the rest of the Lords and Gentlemen aforenamed together with Sir Thomas Nugent and Nicholas Plunket the Lawyer Birford the Lawyer and a multitude of others and the work of that day was first to make Answer to a Summons made by the State for the calling of the Lords unto Dublin which Answer was brought ready drawn by the Lord of Gormanston and presented by his Lordship and being perused by the said Council at Law was Signed by the Lords The Board having Information that Luke Netterville Esquire George Blackney of Richenhore Esquire George King of Clantarf and others were Assembled at Swoords they sent to charge them upon their Allegiance forthwith to depart and not to unite any more in such a manner as by the following Order from the Board appears By the Lords Justices and Council William Parsons John Borlase WHereas we have received Information An Order of the Lords Justices and Council to dissolve an unlawful Assembly at Swoords Dec. 9. 1641. that Luke Nettervile Esq George Blackney of Rickenhore Esq and George King of Clantarfe Gentleman and other Gentlemen of the County of Dublin with great numbers of Men are Assembled together in a Body at Swoords and thereabouts within six Miles of this City for what intent we know not but apparently to the Terror of his Majesties good Subjects and though considering the unseasonableness of this time chosen for such an act without our privity whatsoever their pretence is a construction might be made thereof to their disadvantage yet we being willing to make an Indulgent Interpretation of their Actions in regard of the good opinion we have of the Loyalty of those Gentlemen who it seems are principals amongst them in that Assembly and conceiving there may be some mistaking in that enterprise we have
chosen the rather hereby to charge the said Luke Nettervile Blackney King and all the Persons there Assembled with them upon their duties of Allegiance to his Majesty immediately upon sight hereof to separate and not to unite any more in that manner without direction from us and that the said Netervile Blackney King and six others of the Principal Persons of those who are so Assembled at Swoords or thereabouts as aforesaid do appear before us to morrow morning at ten of the Clock to shew the cause of their Assembling in that manner whereof they may not fail at their extream Perils Given at his Majesties Castle of Dublin 9. Decemb. 1641. Ormond Ossery Rob. Dillon Cha. Lambart J. Temple Charles Coot But instead of Obedience to the Commands of their Lawful Superiors they returned this Answer That they were constrained to meet there together for the safety of their Lives That they were put into so great a Terror by the rising out of some Horse Troops and Foot Companies at Dublin who Killed four Catholicks for no other reason than that they bore the name of that Religion as they durst not stay in their Houses and therefore they resolved to continue together till they were assured by their Lordships of the safety of their Lives before they ran the hazard thereof by manifesting their due obedience to their Lordships And there they began to form a kind of an Army Constituting Richard Golding Thomas Russell Francis Russâ—ll Robert Travers Christopher Hollywood and others to be Captains over such Men as they had and intended to Raise Hereupon the Lords Justices and Council Published a Proclamation the 13th of December Declaring their Innocency and that those four they alledged were Killed as Papists one of which was a Protestant were such as were found actually Guilty of Rebellious Courses commanding them upon their Allegiance to his Majesty to separate upon sight of their Warrant and that the said Luke Netterville and his Accomplices should appear before the Board on the 18th of the said Month to the end they may be fully heard by the Lords Justices and Council to which end their Lordships thereby gave them and every of them the Word of the State that they might then securely and safely repair thither without danger of any trouble or stay whatsoever But they took little notice of these Commands or Promises but continued still at Swoords and their Numbers increasing they threatned to come and Incamp at Clantarfe a little Village Situate upon the very Harbor of Dublin where some of their Party had already at low Water Seized and Plundred a Barque lying there carrying a great part of the Goods they took from Aboard her to the dwelling House of Mr. King who was owner of that Village This insolent and daring Villany put the Board upon a very quick and severe Resolution fearing that if they should in good earnest Seize upon that Village and make any Fortifications there by the Assistance of the Rebels Ships at Wexford they might stop up the Haven of Dublin and prevent all Relief from coming to them from England which was the only Remainder of hopes which they had left And therefore the said King continuing in his Contumacy with the other Gentlemen at Swoords an Order of Councel was Issued to Prosecute the Rebels at Clantarf and their Relievers as follows By the Lords Justices and Council William Parsons John Borlase FOrasmuch as divers of the Inhabitants of Clantarfe Order of the Lords Justices and Council for prosecuting the Rebels at Clantarf c. 14th Dec. 1641. Raheny and Kilbarrock have declared themselves Rebels and having Robbed and Spoiled some of his Majesties good Subjects are now assembled thereabouts in Arms in great Numbers Mustering and Training of their Rebellious Multitudes to the Terror and Danger of his Majesties good Subjects as well at Land as at Sea which their boldness is acted in such a manner as to put scorns and Affronts upon this State and Government they acting such Depredations even before our Faces and in our own View as it were in despight of us It is therefore Ordered that our very good Lord the Earl of Ormond and Ossery Lieutenant General of the Army do forthwith send out a Party of Souldiers of Horse and Foot to fall upon those Rebels at Clantarfe and thereabout who in such disdainful manner stand to out-face and dare us and to endeavour to cut them off as well for Punishment of them as Terror to others and to Burn and Spoyl the Rebels Houses and Goods and to prevent their further annoying of the Shipping going out and coming in and lying in Harbour those Souldiers are to bring up or cause to be brought up to the new Crane at Dublin such of the Boats and Vessels now lying there as they can upon the sudden and to Burn Spoyl Sink and make unserviceable the rest Given at his Majesties Castle of Dublin 14th December 1641. Ormond Ossery Rob. Dillon Cha. Lambart Ad. Loftus J. Temple Cha. Coote Fr. Willoughby Also the same day an Order was Issued from the Board for Prosecuting the Rebels at Swoords as followeth By the Lords Justices and Council William Parsons John Borlase WHereas divers Rebels lately Assembled at Swoords and other Places An Order of the Lords Justices Council for prosecuting the Rebels and their Relievers at Swoords Dec. 14th 1641. where they continued in Warlike manner braving this State and Robing and Spoyling his Majesties Good Subjects thereabouts in Scorn and Contempt of this Government and Terror of his Majesties well affected Subjects thereabouts And whereas those Rebels have been harboured and relieved by the Inhabitants of Swoords and other Places who have shewed so much readiness to comply with them and good affection towards them as they did not in all the time they continued there send us any Advertisement thereof or of the Number or Strength of the Rebels whereby we might take a course to Vindicate his Majesties Honour in this State and Government from the Scorn and Affront of the Rebels and render deliverance and safety to his Majesties good Subjects It is therefore Ordered That our very good Lord the Earl of Ormond and Ossery Lieutenant General of his Majesties Army do forthwith send out a Party of his Majesties Forces Horse and Foot to fall upon those Rebels and their said Relievers and Harbourers and to cut them off and as well for Punishment of those their Relievers as for Terror to others to Burn Spoyl and Destroy the Houses Corn and all other Goods of the said Relievers at Swoords or other Places where the Rebels have been or are Relieved Given at his Majesties Castle of Dublin the 20th day of December 1641. Ormond Ossery Cha. Lambart Ad. Loftus Jo. Temple Cha. Coote Fr. Willoughby Ja. Ware Rob. Meredith And accordingly the next day Sir Charles Coot with a Commanded Party went to Clantarfe and set the Village on Fire Burning their Boats and Houses so that they
Moneys by reason of these Troublesome Times but on the receipt of your Secretaries Letter to the Commissary we shall receive the Over-plus of the Monies which was appointed for the Horse which is 240 l. which will help us a little but if there is not some Monies now on the Way for us I doubt the Soldiers will disband suddenly I shall beseech your Lordship to put the Irish Committee in mind of their promise for Coats and Caps Shoes and Stockins for the Soldiers it is very needful and will be very advantagious for the Service if the Soldiers have them and by promise from us are expected by the Soldiers The Officers that are wanting at this present of your Lordships Regiment besides those that are wanting with their Companies is Capt. Snelling Lieutenant Palmer Captain Bois 's Lieutenant and Ensign Smith Captain Turvil 's Ensign I understand by my Lord Lisle that one Mr. Morrison is to be your Lordships Ensign who came this day to Chester I shall desire with your Lordships next Commands I may understand what quantity of Ammunition we shall carry from hence with us into Ireland or if we should be stayed here by contrary Wind what Ammunition you will be pleased to allow us weekly for Exercising desiring your Lordships pardon for being so tedious I humbly take my leave Your Lordships most humble Servant to be Commanded George Monck Chester 21 Jan. To his Excellency the Earl of Leicester L. Lieutenant of Ireland these present at Leicester-House in St. Martin's-Fields In this distressed Estate stood the Affairs of these miserable Kingdoms Scotland recovered from those Rebellious Commotions raised by the Presbyterian Faction by Remedies that proved more Fatal to the King then the Disease Ireland all in a Flame and England by the prevalency of the same Faction which had raised the disturbances in Scotland ready to follow their Example and to pursue their Model of Reformation by the same wicked Courses of Religious Dis-obedience and Rebellion in which Condition I must at present leave them till such time as it shall please God to give me ability and opportunity I may after some little necessary Refreshment pursue this Laborious work in perfecting the Remainder of these Historical Collections FINIS A TABLE Of the principal Matters in this Second Volume A. ANswer of the King to the Commons request about his Servants 231. Concerning the Irish Acts 421. About disbanding the Horse 429. To the reasons for staying his Journey to Scotland 434. To the Speech of the Recorder of London 676. To the Petition of both Houses about Guards for the Parliament 685 833. To the Petition of the Aldermen c. at Hampton Court 712. To the Petition accompanying the Remonstrance 744. To the Petition about Breach of Priviledge 762. To the Petition concerning the Kensington business 796. To the Message of the House of Commons for a Guard 803. To the Petition from Buckinghamshire 841. To the Petition of the Lord Mayor c. 842. To the Message concerning the three Bills 848. To the Commons demand of stores 860 To the Message concerning the Bill for Adjournment 877. Alderman Abel a Patentee a Bill Ordered against him 256. Bailed 475. Accompt of the Armies 292 410. Act of State about the Oath in Ireland 79. Act of Parliament for reversing the Attainder of the Earl of Strafford 23. Act of Scotch Parliament part of one making it Treason to Levy Forces without the Kings consent 682. Act of Common-Council of London against Tumults 803. See Bill Adjournment Bill past by both Houses that it be in the power of the Houses respectively 834. The Kings Answer to it 877. Earl of St. Albans his Letter from Ireland concerning Affairs there 686. Aldermen Sheriffs c. of London attend the King at Hampton Court 711. Many of them Knighted 712. America Petition of some Merchants that parts of it be seiz'd 467. Mr. Anderton a Member of the House of Commons receives a Letter about a Plot 836. Anslow a Witness against the Earl of Strafford 60. Answer of the Earl of Strafford to the Articles of Impeachment 20 to 27. To Pym 's Speech against the Preamble of his Answer 39. Of the House of Commons to the Lords Reasons for the Bishops Voting in Parliament 260. Of the Judges to certain Queries about Matters in Parliament 374. Of the Scotch Commissioners to the two Propositions 406. Their Answer about disbanding the Army 412. Of the English Commissioners to the Propositions of the Scots Commissioners 423. Of the Scots Commissioners to the reasons for staying the Kings Journey 435. Of the House of Lords to the Propositions of the Scots Commissioners about difficulty of Marching their Army home 538. Of the House of Lords to a Petition of the Lord Mayor concerning the Londoners denying subjection to the Common Council 460. Of the House of Lords to the House of Commons Propositions concerning Ireland 525. Of the Judges in Ireland to Queries of the Parliament there 575. Of the City of London to the Parliaments desire of lending Money 598 644. Of the Queen concerning Father Philips 605. Of the House of Commons to the House of Lords two Propositions about the Scotch relief of Ireland 771. Of the several Impeached Bishops 797. Of the Lords of the Pale to the Lords Justices 906. Of the same to the Vindication of the severity of Sir Charles Coot 917. Apology of the Lord Digby 863. Apprentices of London their Petition concerning Church Government c. 775. An account of a Tumult of them 805. Nicholas Ardagh a Witness against the Earl of Strafford 70. Argiers a Vote about the Captives there 254. Act for them past 861. Argument of Mr. Lane in behalf of the Earl of Strafford 153. Of Recorder Gardner for the same 156. Of Mr. St. John for the Bill of Attainder 162. Arch-Bishop of Armagh his Testimony in the Case of the Earl of Strafford 83 See Usher Arms search'd for at Lambeth 236. Supplied to the Lords of the English Pâ—â—â— 632. Sent from the Tower for Ireland 710. search for Arms at Mr. Ropers at Eltham 847. At Sir James Hamilton 's Lodgings ibid. At Sir James Hanham 's in Somersetshire 848. At the Lady Rivers and at Oxon 859. Army pretended to be in danger of being seduced 231. Several Lords Examined about it 258. An Account of it 272. Army in Ireland a Report for disbanding it 233. The State of it in the Earl of Strafford 's time 537. State of the same when the Rebellion first broke out 627. Articles of Impeachment against the Earl of Strafford 8. Of further Impeachment against the same 11. Against the Judges 324. Against Sir Robert Berkley 337. Against Lord Chief Baron Davenport 347. Against Baron Trevor 352. Against Baron Weston 356. Against Justice Crawley 362. Against Lord Chief Justice Bramstone 363. Against the Bishop of Ely 398. Against the Lord Chancellor of Ireland c. 570. Against Lord Kimbolton and the five Members 811. Arundel Debate about the
meant 447. Information against the Bishop of Bath and Wells 413. of Arms in the Marquess of Winchester 's House 453. of two Irish men from Chester 604. of Collonel Hunks against two Irish men for Listing Soldiers 612. of dangers in Lancashire 650. of a Ship of Frenchmen in Milford-Haven 710. of a Barrel of Gunpowder sent into the Country for a Barrel of Soap 719. that Members of Parliament were the occasion of the Tumults 790. against the Lord Digby and Collonel Lunsford 845. against Serjeant Dendy 888. of O. Cromwell against a Gentleman of Huntingdonshire ibid. of one Wishert that Cardinal Richelieu fomented the Irish Rebellion 897. frivolous Informations a Committee for them 855. Sir Thomas and Sir William Ingram Witnesses in the Case of the Earl of Strafford 83 94. Instructions for the Commissioners for Scotland 451 455. to the Commissioners for disarming Popish Recusants 473. additional Instructions for the Commissioners in Scotland 494 616. debated by the House of Lords 623. Instructions for the Commssioners to treat with the Scotch Commissioners about assisting Ireland 720. approved by the King 723. Interrogatories for further Examination of O Connelly 596. Inigo Jones a Declaration of the House of Commons against him 728. Ordered by the House of Lords to answer 729. his Answer 771. Irish Affairs a grand Committee about them 5. Irish Remonstrance 36 555 561. the condition of the Irish Army in the Earl of Strafford 's time 537. the sad State of affairs there at the time of the Rebellion 627. Irish Nobility and Gentery some kind to the English 634 635. Irish Rebellion the News of it communicated to the House of Commons by the Lords of the Council 513. a Letter about it from the Council in Ireland to the Lord Lieutenant General 514. Proclamation of the Lords Justices to stop it 522. Report of a Conference of both Houses about it 524. an account of some occasions of it 526. c. Words of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon it 540. Relation of it by the Lord Macguire 543. the Rebels their Remonstrance 555. a Manuscript of the Earl of Clarendon 's concerning it 590. Votes and Orders of Parliament relating to it 600 601 603 651 642. Judges their Opinion upon an Exception of the Earl of Strafford 101. upon the Bill of Attainder 192. Articles against them 324. not to Travel on the Lords day 325. their resolution to certain Quaeries about matters in Parliament 374. a Conference about their Impeachment 420. their Opinion concerning a Custos Regni 430. their Report of the Statutes in Force against Riots c. 709. Judges in Ireland their Answer to Quaeries of the Parliament there 575. Dr. Juxon disswades the Kings passing the Bill against the Earl of Strafford 192. K. JOhn Kay a Witness against the Earl of Strafford 58. Lord Keeper craves some time to retire 712. his Letters see Letters Robert Kennyday a Witness against the Earl of Strafford 55. 70. Dr. Ker Dean of Ardagh his Deposition concerning the Calumny thrown upon the King of giving Commission to the Irish Rebels 528. Lord Kilmallock a Witness against the Earl of Strafford 56 57. Kilvert a Patentee 256. Bail'd 475. Lord Kimbolton Impeach'd of High Treason 811. his Speech thereupon 815. moves to be Tryed 835. a Message from the King concerning him and the five Members 848. The King present incognito at the Tryal of the Earl of Strafford 29. his Speech to both Houses concerning the Earl of Strafford 186. his Message to the House of Commons about the Tumults disregarded 189. in great doubt about passing the Bill against the Earl of Strafford 192. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereupon 193. he passes it by Commission 195. his Letter to the House of Lords concerning the Earl of Strafford 197. his Answer to the Parliament concerning his Servants 231. passes three Bills 243. his Speech in answer to the Speaker about the Bill for Tonnage and Poundage 308. his Speech at Passing the Bills against Star-Chamber and High-Commission 327. his Manifesto about the Palatinate 383. his answer to the Proposition about Evil Councellors 387. assents to the five Propositions 404. takes leave of his Parliament 438. sets forward for Scotland 439. arrives there 453. his Speech to the Parliament there ibid. his Letter denying to Sign a Commission to the Parliaments Commissioners 468. his reasons for so doing 469. his Letter to the Lord Keeper 497. clear'd of Phanatick Calumnies concerning the Irish Rebellion 528 638. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thereupon 540. acquaints the Parliament with it 600. his diligence to suppress the Irish Rebellion attested by the Parliaments Commissioners 612. returns from Scotland 675. his Reception in London 675. c. his Speech in answer to the Recorder 676. his Letter shewing his firmness to the Established Religion 683. his Speech to both Houses after his return from Scotland 708. after what manner he receives the Remonstrance of the House of Commons 709. promises to keep his Christmas at White-Hall 712. approves the Instructions of the Commissioners to Treat with the Scotch Commissioners about assistance for Ireland 723. his Speech to both Houses concerning Ireland 738. his answer to the Petition accompanying the Remonstrance 745. his Declaration in answer to the Remonstrance 746. his answer to the Petition about Breach of Priviledge 762. to the Message of the House of Commons about a Guard 803. demands the five Members by a Serjeant at Arms 814. comes in Person to the House of Commons for them 820. his Speech then there ibid. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 upon that matter 821. a lewd Pamphlet upon the same 830. Sir Robert King a Witness in the Case of the Earl of Strafford 83. Knighthood a Bill to prevent Vexatious Suits about it 309. past the House of Lords 424. Kynaston 's Case 258. L. LAmbeth House Searched for Arms 236. Mr. Lane appointed Council for the Earl of Strafford 10. his Argument in his behalf 153. appointed for Judge Berkley 499. for the twelve Impeach'd Bishops 812. Arch-Bishop Laud takes his leave of the Earl of Strafford 198. a Committee to expedite the Charge against him 265. Lay-Preachers complain'd of 265. reprehended 270. Lecturers the Tools of the Factions 234. an Order for them 477. Captain Legg sent for as a Delinquent 726. Bail'd 775. 780. design'd for Hull by the King stopt by the House of Commons 856. Earl of Leicester Lord Lieutenant of Ireland enabled by Ordinance of Parliament to Raise Men 606. scruples it without the Kings Command 615. 652. Order concerning him 543. 754. Sir Thomas Leighton a Witness against the Earl of Strafford 54. Dr. Leighton a Turbulent Preacher Enlarged 309. Lenthal Speaker of the House of Commons his Letter to Sir Edward Nicholas to get quit of the Chair 713 another 714. See Speaker General Leshly made Earl of Leven 683. Letters of the King to the Earl of Strafford commanding a Proclamation to prohibit the Irish going beyond Seas 75. to the same about the Oath 80. to