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A44735 Mercurius hibernicus, or, A discourse of the late insurrection in Ireland displaying (1) the true causes of it ..., (2) the course that was taken to suppresse it, (3) the reasons that drew on a cessation of arms, and other compliances since : as also, touching those auxiliaries which are transported thence to serve in the present warre. Howell, James, 1594?-1666. 1644 (1644) Wing H3094; ESTC R5988 10,893 34

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royall assent to any Propositions or acts for raising of men mony and armes to performe the work But hereby no man is so simple as to think His Majesty should absolutely give over his own personall care and protection of that his Kingdome it being a Rule That a King can no more desert the protection of his owne people then they their subjection to him In all his Declarations there was nothing that he endeard and inculcated more often and with greater aggravation and earnestnesse unto them then the care of his poore Subjects their fellow-protestants in Ireland Nay he resented their condition so f●rre and took the businesse so to heart that he offered to passe over in person for their reliefe And who can deny but this was a magnanimous and King-like resolution Which the Scots by publike act of Counsell did highly approve of and declared it to be an argument of care and courage in His Majesty And questionlesse it had done infinite good in the opinion of them that have felt the pulse of the Irish people who are daily ore-heard to groan how they have bin any time these 400. yeeres under the English Crowne and yet never saw but two of their Kings all the while upō Irish ground though there be but a salt ditch of a few hours sail to passe over And much more welcome should His Majesty now regnant be amongst them who by generall tradition They confesse and hold to come on the paternall side from Fergus by legall and lineall descent who was an Irish Prince and after King of Scotland whereas the title of all our former Kings and Queens was stumbled at alwayes by the vulger His Majesty finding that this royall proffer of engaging his owne person was rejected with a kind of scorn coucht in smooth language though the m●ine businesse concerned himselfe neerest and indeed solely himselfe that Kingdome being his owne hereditary Right Understanding also what base sinister use there was made of this insurrection by some trayterous malevolent persons who to cast aspersions upon His Majesty and to poyson the hearts of his people besides publike infamous reports counterfeited certaine commissions in His Majesties name to authorize the businesse as if he were privy to it though I dare pawn my soul His or Her Majesty knew no more of it then the great Mogor did Finding also that the Commissioners imployed hence for the managing and composing matters in that Kingdome though nominated by the Parliament and by their recommendation authorized by His Majesty did not observe their instructions and yet were connived at Understanding also what an inhumane designe there was between them and the Scot in lieu of suppressing an insurrection to eradicat and extinguish a whole Nation to make booty of their l●nds which hopes the London Adventurers did hugge and began to divide the Beares skin before he was taken as His Majesty told them an attempt the Spaniard not any other Christian State ever intended against the worst of Savages The conceit whereof infused such a desperate courage eagernesse and valour into the Irish that it made them turn necessity into a kind of vertue Moreover His Majesty taking notice that those royall Subsidies with other vast contributions whereunto he had given way with the sums of particular Adventurers amongst whom some Aliens Hollanders were taken in besides the Scot to share the Country were misapplyed being visibly imployed rather to feed and English Rebelliō then to suppresse an Irish Nay understanding that those charitable collections which were made for the reliefe of those distressed Protestants who being stripped of all their livelihood in Ireland were forced to fly over to England were converted to other uses and the Charity not dispensed according to the Givers intention Hearing also that those 5000. men which had been levyed and assigned to goe under the Lord Wharton the Lord of Kerry Sir Faithfull Fortescue and others were diverted from going to the west of Ireland and imployed to make up the Earl of Essex Army And having notice besides that the Earl of Warwicke had stayd certaine ships going thither with supplies and that there was an attempt to send for over to England some of those Scottish Forces which were in Vlster without his privity Lastly His Majesty finding himself unfitted and indeed disabled to reach those his distressed Subjects his owne royall arme all his navall strength revenues and magazines being out of his hands and having as hard a game to play still with the Scot and as pernicious a fire to quench in England as any of his Progenitors ever had Receiving intelligence also daily from his Protestant Nobility and Gentry thence in what a desperate case the whole Kingdome stood together with the report of the Committee that attended His Majesty from them expresly for that service who amongst other deplorable passages in their petition represented That all means by which comfort and life should be conveyed unto that gasping Kingdome seemed to be totally obstructed and that unlesse timely reliefe were afforded His loyall Subjects there must yeeld their fortunes for a prey their lives for a sacrifice and their Religion for a scorne to the mercilesse Rebels His Majesty as it was high time for him taking into his Princely thoughts those wofull complaints and cryes of his poore Subjects condescended at last to appoint some persons of honour to heare what the Irish could say for themselves as they had often petitioned and God forbid but the King of Ireland should receive his Subjects petitions as well as the King of Scotland But His Majesty being unsatisfied with what they propounded then the Lord Marquesse of Ormond marched with cōsiderable Forces against them and though he came off with honour yet no reliefe at all cōming thither for many moneths after from the Parliament here who had undertaken the businesse and had received all the summes and subsidies with other unknown contributions to that end matters grew daily worse and worse To sum up all His Majesty receiving expresse and positive advice from his Lord Justices and Counsell of State there that the whole Kingdome was upon poynt of utter perdition which was co-intimated the same time to the Parliament here by a speciall letter to the Speaker I say His Majesty finding that he had neither power of himselfe it being transmitted to others and that those Trustees did misapply that power and trust he had invested in them for the time to make good their undertaking for preservation of that his fruitfull Kingdome being impelled by all these forcible reasons His Majesty sent a commission to the Lord Marquesse of Ormond his Lieutenant Generall a most known sincere Protestant to hearken to a treaty according to their petition and if any thing was amisse in that treaty in poynt of honour as it shall appeare by comparing it with others there was none we know whom to thank For out of these premises also doth result this second conclusion That they who