under his command 800 Italians the Spaniard paying the Soldiers Stucley then went to Sebastian King of Portugal to intreat him to be chief Conductor but was perswaded by the said King and the King by Abdalla's Son Mahomet to go first unto the African War where both King Sebastain and himself lost their lives And thus God overthrew their wicked counsels for that time Fitz-Morris his second attempt against Ireland ANno Domini 1579 James Fitz-Morris formerly having fled into France being pardoned for a former Rebellion in Ireland goeth now to the Spaniard and is by him sent unto the Pope to consult with him about his request which was to reduce that Kingdom by force of Arms unto Popery The Pope at the earnest suit of Nicholas Sunders an English and Alan an Irish Priest gave Fitz-Morris some Money to that intent and sendeth him back to the Spaniard from whence with his Priests three Ships and a few Soldiers he arrived at Smerwick in Kerry in Ireland and raiseth a Fort there Thomas Courtney an Englishman presently supriset the Ships John and James Brethren to the Earl of Desmond join themselves to Fitz. Morris who was their Kinsman The Earl of Desmond although he pretended the contrary favoured them drew forces together and by this pretence of Desmond caused the Earl of Clanrickard who came to oppose them to withdraw himself Fitz. Morris seeing few Irish come to his aid under pretence of going in Pilgrimage to the holy Cross of Tipperary went toward Conaught and Vlster to draw Forces together whose Horses being tired he took some Horses from the Plough of William a Burgh his Kinsman and being pursued by the Sons of William a Burgh Fitz-Morris perceiving that told his cousin Theobald a Burgh that it was no time now to fall out about Horses but to join with him in the business of Rebellion for which he was come into Ireland These Brethren had bin in a former Rebellion but now declared unto Fitz-Morris their sorrow for it yet now fighting with Fitz-Morris to recover the Horses both the Brethren and some others were slain Sir William Drury was then Lord Deputy who sent for the Earl of Desmond who made a promise by his Wife to the Dputy that he and his Men would fight against the Rebels He dissembled long but after that Malbey had defeated John his Brothers Forces and had sent for Desmond to come unto him about Rekel a Town of Desmond he plainly discovered his Rebellion That Night the Rebels set upon Malbeys Tents but were disappionted Afterward Desmond was sent for to come in person by the Lord Deputy Pelham who succeeded the deceased Sir William Drury but excuseth himself by a Letter sent by his Wife The Earl of Ormond was sent unto him that he should deliver Sanders the Priest the Castles of Carigofoile and Asketton and to submit himself absolutely The prosecuting of him was committed to the Earl of Ormond who ruined Conilo the Rebels only refuse â—e hanged the Bayliss of Youghall at his Door for refusing to take an English Garrison into the Town besieged the Spaniards in Strangical but they withdrew themselves and after were all killed and so hard he pressed Dismond and his Brethren that madly they intreated the chief Justice to take their parts Afterward the Justice sent for the Nobility of Munster to come to him and would not dismiss them till they had given pleadges that they would assist against the Rebels They made the Baron of Lixenaw yield himself took Carigofoil Castle killed and hanged all the Spaniards in it and the Captain also an Italian San Josephus with 700 Spaniards sent into Ireland THe next Year 1580 700 Spaniards and Italians came to divert the Queens Forces rather than to conquer Ireland they landed at Smerwick under the command of Son Josephus and Italian they fortified it and called it Fort Delor but being followed by the Earl of Ormond they withdrew thence into a Valley called Glammingel Some Prisoners of them were taken who confest they were 700 and that Arms were brought for 5000 and that more were expected from Spain that to conquer Ireland the Spaniard and Pope had resolved and therefore sent into the hands of Sanders Desmond and his Brother John a vast sum of Money That Night the Spaniards and Italians returned to their Fort which so soon as Ordnance could be brought and Winter was returned with the Ships of War from England was on every side besieged and after five days taken The common Soldiers Italians and Spaniards were put to the Sword the Irish hanged only the Captains of the former were preserved Three Years after Desmond wandring like a Vagabond had his Arm almost cut off by a common Soldier before he was known and after was slain Nicholus Sanders was almost famished in the Woods and died stark mad This Year 1580 Priests and Seminaries much increasing in England severe Laws were enacted against them These were for the most part bred in the English Colledg of Doway founded by the procurement of Alan somtimes a Student in Oxford afterward Priest and Cardinal in the Year 1568. Afterward under Requesenius's Government in the Low-Countries when the Wars were between England and Spain the Fugitives were thrust from thence and two Colledges erected for them one at Rhâ—mes the other at Rome the first by the Guises the second by Gregory the 13. From these places rose in England Hanse Nelson Main Sherward Priests who reported Queen Elizabeth to be an Heretick and so ought to be deposed for which they suffered In the aforesaid Year 1580 Robert Parsons a Man of turbulent Spirit and impudent Campian a more modest Man both Jesuits they to serve the Catholicks turns obtained of Pope Gregory an interpretation of Pius his Bull against Queen Elizabeth that it bound the Queen and Hereticks always but not Catholicks till a convenient sâ—ason Compian wrote a Book intituled 10 Reasons in defence of Rome Mr. Chark answered him soberly Parsons wrote against hark virulently but Campian's 10 Reasons were thorowly answered by Dr. Whitaker Campian and others condemned EDmund Campian Ralf Sherwin Luks Kerby Alexander Briant were taken in the year 1581 as Traitors to the Queen and State and condemned for coming into England to stir up Sedition Still more and more Priests came into England and for their dangerons Doctrine That Princes excommunicated were to be thrown out of their Kingdoms that Princes of any other than the Roman Religion had lost their Kingly Dignity that those who had taken Orders were freed from Princes Jurisdiction and not bound by their Laws it was enacted 1582 That it should be Treason to disswade any Subject from his Allegiance and from the Religion established in England c. Somerviles attempt to kill the Queen AN. Dom. 1583 divers Priests and Jesuits wrote dangerous Books against Q. Eliz. and certain other Princes excommunicated which prevailed so far that one Somervile a Gentleman breathing out nothing but Blood against
Tongues of these most base and abominable Traitors and Rebels were boundlessly and extreamly cruel in Intention and Profession So it pleased the Lord for the Sins of his People there to permit power unto these Harbarous Rebels to act with their Hands the most accursed and prophane Perpetration that ever Christian Eyes beheld or Ears ever heard of both for Impiety against God and his holy Gospel and almost unexpressible Inhumanity toward the true Pròfessors thereof among them blaspheming our God stripping his Servants stark naked and then bidding them go to their God to be clothed again breaking into Churches burning Pulpits with extream hatred to our Religion and exceedingly triumphing in all their Impieties Dragging some Professors of the Gospel by the hair of their Heads through the Streets into the Churches and there Stripping and Whipping them and with most cruel and taunting Terms abusing them telling them if they came to Morrow they should hear the like Sermon Yea so excessively impious was their hatred to the Gospel of Christ that they took the Sacred Books of the holy Scriptures and cast them into Kennels and Puddles of Dirt and Mire treading them under foot and Leaping and Skipping on them and O horrid Impiety causing a Bagpipe to play all the while and bidding a Plague upon them saying they were the cause of all Quarrels and Burning some and saying it was Hell fire that was then flaming and wishing they had all the Bibles in Christendom that they might use them so And as for the most Inhumane and more than Scythian Cruelties of those Irish Canibals and most barbarous Blood-sucking Tygres of whom we may most properly say as Jacob did of his bloody Sons Simeon and Levi in their Massacre of the Shechemites Gen. 49. 7. Cursed be their Anger for it was fierce and their Wrath for it was cruel Yea certainly more cruel than ever any Eye did see or Ear did hear yea I say past the most exquisite historical expressions of any Ancient or Modern Relations Witness their stripping stark naked Men Women and Children even Children sucking their poor Mothers Brests whereby multitudes of all sorts Ages and Sexes in the extremities of that oold season of Frost and Snow have most lamentably perished Women being dragged up and down Naked Women in Child-bed drawn out thence and cast into Prison one delivered of a Child while she was hanging one ripped up horesco referens and two Children taken out of her and all cast and eaten up by Swine One stabb'd in the Brest her Child sucking An Infant cruelly murthered whom they found sucking his dead Mother slain by them the day before A Child of fourteen years of Age taken from his Mother in her sight cast into a Bog-pit and held under-water while he was drowned Together with many other yet more horrible hideous and more than Savage or Beast-like Barharities too terrible for me any farther to relise but may be more fully found in that most lamentable Remonstrance of this Irish Rebellion and all there proved by Testimonies on Oath whereunto I refer the Reader Which makes me call to mind that old Observation proverbially spoken of Ireland which is That no poisonous Serpent will live on Irish ground which how true in the Historical meaning I know not but now I am sure 't is most false in the mystical meaning of it for here it seems that Satan's Serpentine seed a brood of most poisonous Native Serpents Adders and Snakes of Villany and Cruelty do live yea and thrive there also but I trust but for a season for certainly the Lord the most righteous Judg of all Men and severe Revenger of all Wrongs will not suffer such horrible Impieties and unpattern'd Cruelties to go unpunished but will undoubtedly ruinate such a pestilent Generation of Romish Vipers and Babylonish Blood-suckers as these are which he hath already most blessedly begun First By his most gracious and timely discovery of their main Plot the taking of the City of Dublin which was indeed the Master-piece of their intended Epidemical Mischief but prevented I say by the Lord 's great Mercy and good Providence in a most strange manner by a native Irish Gentleman one Mr. Owen Mack-Connel once Servant to that pious and most worthy Gentleman Sir John Clotworthy and this also by a most remarkable way and work of the Lord 's special Providence as is more particularly and punctually related in the Preamble of Irelands Tears to which I refer the Reader And secondly By the Lord's most Glorious and Victorious over-powering the out-ragious Power and Petulancy of those barbarous Miscreants now in open Rebellion by the hands of a very small remnant of poor Protestants there among them who by reason of the most unhappy Distractions unnatural Civil-discords raised up among us in England by the Popish Faction also and their Pontifician Abettors cannot be by us so sufficiently supplied with Men and Arms as is fit and much desired therefore I say the Lord of Hosts abhorring and abominating such atrocious and hell-fomented Blasphemies Murthers and merciless Cruelties makes his just Indiguation and Wrath to prosecute and pursue them at the heels giving those small and inconsiderable Companies such admirable and even almost miraculous Victories over them as most evidently declare the Hand of the Lord to be against them and his gracious Purpose utterly to supplant and exterminate such devilishly desperate and intolerably barbarous and bloody Rebels and Traitors the lively Limbs and Lineaments of that bloody Strumpet of Rome The most bloody Mossacre at Paris Anno 1572. extracted out of the French History truly and briefly related ANd now good Reader give me leave a little to seem to digress not so much from the Matter as from the Persons and Places at first propounded and to look but a little into our Neighbour Kingdom of France where I say I shall only vary from Personages but the subject Matter the same with the former setting forth the Bloody Plots and Conspiracies of the Popish Faction among them also against those of the reformed Protestant Religion in France and especially in that most butcherly and barbarous Massacre at Paris where it primarily and chiefly began to be cruelly acted and executed on God's innocent Lambs marked out to the slaughter before-hand And thus it was in brief In the years 1571 and 72 Charles the 9th then King of France the said King the then Duke of Guise and others of the Romish Faction bearing a most inveterate hatred which was crastily concealed against those of the Religion and in especial against the then most renowned Admiral of France whose Piety Prudence and Prowess was such and in so high esteem of all both Friends and Foes also that whilst he subsisted and survived the Popish party maugre their malice could do nothing to any purpose to the prejudice of the Cause of Religion At last a Plot was laid most craftily and cruelly under the pretence of a Marriage between the Prince
Lowys who had served the King of Portugal but remained now at Bruxels About Count Fuentes the Letter was very mystical and pretended Merchandise as that the Merchants on the other side did commend his Wares c. assuring him of good return c. and therefore desired him to continue there some time They commended the Jewel he sent and reported how the Ambet and Musk was highly esteemed and spake of Broad-Cloth Scarlet Threads of Pearl Diamond c. which Letter was consessed to be in Answer to that was written by Lopez to take away the Queen's life more Letters there were to the foresaid purpose from Secretary Ibarra to Stephen Ferrera and from the Count Fuontes at Bruxels Stephen Ferrera told Peter Ferrera his Keeper that himself and Lopez had written into Spain and made offer to give the Queen poison Squires Practice to poison the Queens Saddle ANno Dom. 1596 one Edward Squire sometimes a Scrivener at Greenwich afterwards a deputy Purveyor for the Queens Stable in Sir Francis Drake's last Voyage was taken Prisoner and carried into Spain and being set at liberty one Walpole a Jesuite grew acquainted with him and got him into the Inquisition whence he returned a resolved Papist he perswaded Squire to undertake to poison the Pummel of the Queens Saddle and to make him constant made Squire receive the Sacrament upon it he then gave him the Poison shewing that he should take it in a double Bladder and should prick the Bladder full of holes in the upper part when he should use it carrying it within a thick Glove for the safety of his Hand should after turn it downward pressing the Bladder upon the Pummel of the Queens Saddle This Squire confest Squire is now in Spain and for his safer dispatch into England it was devised that two Spanish Prisoners taken at Calice should be exchanged for Squire and one Rowles that it might not be thought that Squire came over but as a redeemed Captive The Munday sevennight after Squire returned into England he understanding the Horses were in preparing for the Queens riding abroad laid his hand and crushed the poyson upon the Pummel of the Queens Saddle saying God save the Queen Tho Queen rode abroad and as it should seem laid not her hand upon the place or else received no hurt through God's goodness by touching it Walpole counting of it as of a thing done imparted it to some principal Fugitives there but being disappointed of his hope supposing Squire to have been false to be revenged on him sent one hither who should pretend to have stoln from thence with Letters wherein the Plot of Squire was contained this Letter was pretended to be stoln out of one of their Studies Squire being apprehended confessed all without any rigour but after denied that he put it in execution although he acknowledged he consented to it in the Piot at length he confessed the putting it in execution also Earl of Tyrones Rebellion ANno Dom. 1597 Hugh a Bastard made Earl of Tyrone by Queen Elizabeth pardoned also by her for a Murder and usurping the Title of Oneal set on by the Spaniard with whom he had lived a Fugitive assaulted the Fort of Blackwater and at that very time when he wrote to Sir John Norris the English General that he might be dealt mildly withal lest he should run on the Rocks of rebellion wrote also to Kildare to fide with him the Queen desiring to spareshedding of Blood agreed unto a conference with him by her Commissioners but the Rebel not liking the conditions proposed by the Commissioners depisted and spoiled the Country about Black-water and pulled down the Town of Dunganon The Country wasted and no Victuals to be had Tyrone presented to the General a Petition craving pardon upon his Knees at the Foot of the Queens Picture and in the mean time dealt for aid out of Spains the King of Spain promised him aid requiring him to admit of no Articles of Peace with the English Hereupon though there was a cessation of Arms he burneth and spoileth the Country then he put on again his old habit of dissimulation and sues for Pardon Presently by shuffling or neglect Conaught and Vlster revolted then he fell to Rebellion again and about the Black-water overthrew 1500 English then the Earl of Essex coming General into Ireland he cleared Munster thence went into Lemster against the O Conors and O Neales whom he vanquished He sent thence Sir Conyeâ—s Clifford against O Rork himself going another way to distract the Forces of Tyrone but Sir Conyers was slain and his Forces defeated Tyrone coming near to the General declared he desired not to fight but parley of Peace which was denied afterward he obtained conference with the Lord General and then another conference where it was concluded that next day Commissioners should meet to treat of Peace Then was the Lord General sent for into England after whose departure Tyrone takes the Field again In the time of cessation of Arms the Spaniard sent him some Money and Ammunition the Popes Indulgences and a Plume of Peacock-Feathers Anno 1600 the Lord Mountjoy came into Ireland as Lieutenant General and in divers small Skirmishes beat the Rebels The Spaniard to further the Rebellion sent Don John de Aquila with 2000 old trained Soldiers and some Irish Fugitives who landed at Kingsale There were also at that same time 2000 Spaniards more arrived at Been haven Balimore and Castel-haven The Lord Deputy encamped near Kingsale Sir Richard Levison with two of the Queens Ships blockt up the Haven and on both sides the Town was battered Then Sir Richard Levison sunk five of their Ships To these Spaniards O Donel betook himself and presently after Tyrone O Rork Raymund Burk Mac Mahon Randâ—l Mac Surly and Trrel with the chief of the Nobility in all 6000 Foot and 500 Horse Tyrone on a Hill not far from the Camp made a bravado two days together as if he would give the English Battel The Lord Deputy at the foot of the Hill chose a convenient plot to fight with him but Tyrone soundeth a Retreat whom the Lord General followed and forced to make a stand in the midst of a Bog where by the Earl of Claurikard their Horse were routed and defeated Alonse O Campo one of the Spanish Generals and six Ensign-bearers were taken Prisoners and the Ensigns taken by the English and 1200 Spaniards slain Tyrone was forced to fly into Vlster O Donel fled into Spain the rest hid themselves The Lord General returned to King-sale and battered it for six days space the Enemy attempted nothing against him Then Don John offered conditions of surrendring the Town which propounded the Lord General the English being wearied out with a Winters Siege agreeth with the Spaniard on certain Articles and taketh possession of the Town and sendeth away all the Spaniards as well as those in the Town into Spain The next Spring the General pursueth Tyrone into Vlster