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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66995	A true account of the present state of Ireland giving a full relation of the new establishment made by the late King James, as it was presented to the right honble [sic] the Earl of Shrewsbury, His Majesties most honourable Privy Council : with an account of what sums of money, arms, and number of officers arrived there from France : together with the state of Derry and Enniskilling and several other affairs relating to that kingdom, particularly of the proceedings of their Parliament there / by a person that with great difficulty left Dublin, June the 8th 1689.	Walker, George, 1645?-1690.	1689 (1689)	Wing W349; ESTC R18114	11,874	38

Extirpate the English there The Wind no sooner blows Easterly but they are in great dread and fear yet they tell us there is Confusion in England and that there will no Succours come from thence that they will land an Army in England suddenly and that England fears an Invasion from Ireland more than it doth from them Their usual saying is You Whiggish Dogs we will make you know that the Prince of Orange is not come yet and we will do your business before he comes for when we come back from London Derry we will make an end of you all And the Irish Tenants and Neighbours of the English that formerly lived in amity with and chiefly depended on them do continually send the Souldiers to the Protestants Houses telling them that Whiggs live there where they go and eat up their Provisions taking away their Horses from the Plow and whatever else they have a mind to giving them horrid Abuses besides so that many Families who formerly lived very plentifully have not now left them Bread to eat The Popish Clergy appear in Multitudes and are going forward with all their Chappels and Buildings and looking out for Abbeys and Nunneries and do exasperate the King mightily against the Protestants The Lord Melfort is also very violent against them and the Lord Chancellor though an English-man worse than he On Whitson Monday the Town of Drogheda was alarm'd by two Officers who rid thorough it towards Dublin telling them That the Scots were within six Miles and had taken the great Guns Carriages Ammunition and Provisions that were going to Derry and killed the Convoy Whereupon they immediately planted their Guns and shut up the Gates having only two Companies of the new raised Men and a few Horse of the Lord Gilmoys in the Town An Express was sent immediately to Duleek where the Commissioners of Enquiry into the Estates of the Absenters were met who being busied in Swearing and Examining the Tenants of the Earl of Drogheda and others as to w●at Rents they paid and what Arrears of Rent were due requiring them to Repair to the Town and bring with them what Strength they could to fortifie the Town Some being sent out to know the truth of the matter returning told them It was only a false Alarm tho' it was generally said and believed that several Cart loads of their Ammunition Provision and Arms were intercepted and taken by the People of Ballishannon and Enniskilling There has been a Motion in the House of Commons for the Naturalizing all Frenchmen insomuch that some said in the House that they ought to have a Day of Thanksgiving for the coming of the Prince of Orange into England They are preparing for another Court of Claims and reducing the Fees of all Offices throwing all Forseitures into the Stock of Reprisals into which Stock the late King has thrown his private Estate that he had in Ireland The old Proprietors are taking possession daily before the Act that makes void the Settlement of Ireland passeth some of them paying the Quit-Rent to get into possession Eight Protestant Peers four being Spiritual and four Temporal entred their Protest at the Bill passing the Lord's House and Mr. Justice Dayly opposed it to that degree that in his Passion he said many things that were highly resented the substance whereof was That instead of being a Parliament as we pretend we are more like Massanello's confused Rabble every Man making a Noise for an Estate and talking Nonsence when our Lives are in Danger we expect a sudden Invasion from England and a bloody War likely to ensue as Persons altogether unmindful of the Ruine that hangs over our Heads and without taking any Care to prevent it we are dividing the Bears skin before she is taken All the Honour we do His Majesty is by reflecting on His Royal Father and Brother as wicked and unjust Princes charging them with enacting those Laws that were contrary to the Laws of God and Man. Which the House summed up in six Articles against him They would have been contented with a Submission but he refused any saying He would go to Jamaica rather Yet his Friends prevail'd on him at this Juncture to ask the Pardon of the House and yesterday he was to have come into the House of Commons and accordingly the the House being sat the Usher of the Black Rod went in and acquainted the Speaker that Mr. Justice Dayly was at the Door upon which it was put to the question in the House Whether his asking of Pardon should be a sufficient Satisfaction for them to pass by his Miscarriages and it being carried in the Affirmative Mr. Nugent of Carlingstown in West-Meath a Member of the House was ordered to go and acquaint him that the House was resolved to accept of his Submission that so there might be admittance for his coming to receive Pardon of the House Mr. Nugent returning into the House told the Speaker that Mr. Justice Dayly was very thankful and ready to come in to make his Submission and at the same time said Mr. Speaker I have other great News to tell you viz. London-Derry is taken Upon which there was three great Shouts set up in the House and throwing up their Hats cryed out No Submission of Mr. Justice Dayly We Pardon him we Pardon him being transported with joy suffered him not to come in but pardoned him without any Submission at all But afterwards some of the Members none of Mr. Dayly's Friends finding it false thought it was some Trick put on them and threatned Mr. Nugent to bring him on his Knees before the House They are now passing an Act that all Leases above One and Twenty Years of any Corporation in Ireland shall be void and it is doubted whether Dublin will be excepted They are likewise laying fifteen Shillings a Tun Duty upon Sea-Coals And taking away the Poundage Act which in Corporations is the Clergies support The Vlster Act for Tithes and the Act for Impropriations and Augmentation Lands that so by taking from the Clergy their Maintenance the Churches may fall of themselves An Act Attainting all Persons by Name and another granting fifteen thousand Pounds per Month for Supplies to King James There are five new Peers created viz. Justin Maccarty Lord Viscount Mount-Cashel Sir Valentine Brown Lord Viscount Kenmare Thomas Nugent C. J. Lord Baron of Riverstown John Bourk Lord Baron Bouffin Sir Alexander Fitton Lord Baron Gawsworth A CATALOGUE Of all the NOBILITY of Ireland such being Marked who now sit in the Irish Parliament Dr. Michael Boyle Lord Archbishop of Armagh Primate of all Ireland † Alexander Fitton Baron Gawsworth Chancellor Dr. Francis Marsh Lord Archbishop of Dublin Dr John Veasy Lord Archbishop of Tuam Archbishoprick of Cashell void Richard Boyle Earl of Cork Lord-Treasurer Dukes James Buttler Duke of Ormond † Richard Talbot Duke of Tyrconnel Earls John Fitz-Gerrald Earl of Kildare Henry O Brian Earl of Thomond † Richard Bourk Earl