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A narrative of the popish plot in Ireland for the murdering the Protestants there, and the introducing of popery : and the assistance they depended upon from England / discovered by me James Carrol, in the year 1672 ; with an account of my sufferings for discovering the same.
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Carol, James.
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the Council said my Lord would not grant them And this Informant further saith that in the Year 1678. there were Proclamations to disarm Papists in Ireland and banish Popish Priests Jesuits and Fryars c. And this Informant hath been credibly informed that several Papists c. having not obeyed the said Proclamations have been seized on but producing Licenses from the Lord Lieutenant have been discharged and set at liberty insomuch that the said City and Country swarms with them and that there are several Irish and French Officers lately come into Ireland Papists and by the names of Collonels Majors Captains c. Nor were any Officers permitted to search the said Earls Castle or seize any Arms to him belonging being prohibited so to do as follows By the Lord Lieutenant-General and General Governour of Ireland Ormond FOR Reasonâ— best known to us We think fit hereby expresly to w 〈…〉 and require all his Majesties Officers and Souldiers whatsoever whom it may concern to forbear searching for or seizing upon any of the Arms belonging to our very good Lord William Earl of Clanrickard Given under our hand this 26th of Novemb. 1678. William Ellis And this Informant further saith That by the unjust Prosecutions which followed his honest discovery he is damnified above 1000. l. ster besides the loss of his Trade and was forced to sell an Estate of 100. l. per annum in defending his innocency and preserving his life and liberty and paying his just Debts contracted by the continual prosecutions of the said Earl or his Agents whereby this Informant and his said Evidence are utterly ruined by the never to be forgotten unkindness or rather apparent injustice of the said Justice Oliver Jones in fuffering the said Venire to be altered as aforesaid and that now this Informant is so much impoverished being forced to leave his Trade and habitation that he hath not wherewithal to help himself neither doth he know any place of safety but has incurred the displeasure of many and being in great danger fears he shall be destroyed as others have been for declaring the truth all which the before-mentioned premises this Informant hath received and endured by and through the means of the said unjust and notorious prosecutions of the Earl of Clanrickard these Eight years past which hath created great discouragements to many and stifles discoveries of Treasons coming to their mind and knowledg since the yeer 1672. Jurat 7th die February Anno Dom. 1680. Coram me Geo. Treby Recorder This Informant further saith that what he did in discovering of the said Treasonable words was out of sense of his duty to God and for the preservation of the Protestants there nor could he then in the least imagine by such a proceeding to be uttterly ruined as appears by the Depositions aforesaid Another Inducement of his discovery was the bloody Massacre that broke forth there in the year 1641. which will never be forgotten by the Protestants nor ever be repented of by the Papists And that notwithstanding the present apprehensions of great danger from the discovered Plot there are in and about the City and Suburbs of Dublin divers Mass-houses publickly frequented by Hundreds and Thousands connived at although several Proclamations have been issued out against them Again Had not this Information been fully and clearly proved to the Lord Lieutenant and Council he this Infoâ—â—â—â—t would certainly have been by them severely and deservedly punished But let all moderate Protestants and true English men consider the calamity that this Informant and his Father have suffered in making the said discovery and the necessity he is reduced to for so doing for all the proccedings have been as you may observe managed against him with that cruelty and injustice the Earl of Clanrickard shewing his implacable wrath and malicious hatred to all English Protestants as he hath in the former Rebellion given sufficient demonstrations of his bloody-mindedness towards the English Protestants in all parts when old Vlick Earl of Clanrickard living in the beginning of the Rebellion in Portumna and sometimes at Loughred did endeavour to save some of the English Protestants and commanded his Nephew the present Earl so to do but the new Earl refused to obey his Unckle old Vlick but went to the Army of the Rebels and instead of being kind to the Protestants and English he most cruelly handled them in all parts wheresoever he found them and was always found to be most cruel and unmerciful in the time of the Massacre and Rebellion and so hath continued ever since upon all occasions as you may see in his late passages concerning this Informant Many other cruel and unjust actions in that County hath he done to many of the English since he was restored especially to a Gentleman of Quality and a Justice of peace in that County because he lived in an Abby which stood upon Land that he bought with his money and refused to give it to Popish Clergy and Fryars they made the Earl to begin a Suit against the said Gentleman to his ruin by hiring Witnesses to testifie for the Earl the said Judg Jones was the Judg for the said Earl who never makes any scruple to give judgment against a Protestant which all English and Protestants have reason to take notice of FINIS
A NARRATIVE OF THE Popish PLOT IN IRELAND FOR THE Murdering the PROTESTANTS There AND THE Introducing of POPERY and the Assistance they depended upon from ENGLAND Discovered by me James Carrol in the Year 1672. WITH An Account of my Sufferings for discovering the same LONDON Printed for Richard Janeway in Queens-Head-Ally in Pater-noster-Row 1681. MARCH 25. 1681. ORDERED By Vote of the House of Commons That the Examination of Fitz-Harris and others taken by Sir George Treby be Printed Which accordingly this Informants Examination was taken before the said Sir George Treby as in the Title Page appears To the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of Essex Viscount Malden and Baron Capel of â—â—dham sometime since Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and lately one of His Majesties Privy-Council May it please you Lordship THAT zeal and unwearied diligence which your Honour has on all occasions demonstrated to preserve the Protestant Religion and prevent the still advancing Plots of bloody Papists has most justly rendred all English Protestants your Debtors and fill'd them with veneration for your name and person Were all Noble-men endued with a like prudence and integrity the popish plot had long since lost its Head and England been secured as with a Brazen Wall against all the malicious effects of Rome The Trojans of old had not been destroyed had they not trusted to Sinon's flatteries and admitted the fatal Horse cramb'd with treacherous Greeks within their Walls Nor can England and Ireland become enslaved to the Pope or any other Forrein power unless some of our own intrusted subordinately with the Administration of affairs clandestinely joyn with our open enemies But where Thieves keep the keys well may the house be rifled and if Wolves though in Sheeps-cloathing be once made Shepherds 't is not difficult to imagine what will become of the flock Nor can that Nation but be esteem'd in a condition deplorable and on the very precipice to wilful ruin where 't is a matter of greater hazard to discover Treasons than to contrive them The following Narrative will partly shew the figure which potent Papists have made for some years past in the Kingdom of Ireland and what influence they have had like malevolent Planets to blast and crush all that durst go about to detect their disloyal Hellish designs It will here appear that there hath been for many years a Treasonable Conspiracy carrying on in that Kingdom and that the Popish Irish were in an expecting readiness to give the blow and act over their Butcheries of 41 but with greater barbarity Only one thing there was that hindred viz. the Dutch a powerful Protestant State very powerful till some late Jesuitical designs weakned them must first be ruined So that it seems the project was general to root out and destroy all the Protestants throughout Europe for this declaration to me was made in the year 1672 a time when England and France were so hopefully united and vigorously engaged in a War with Holland and the same juncture when the never tobe forgotten Camp at Blackheath was on foot What Intervening accidents might make the Conspirators defer their rising in Arms or whether my making this discovery might not cause them to be more wary though through some peoples kind connivance it rendred them never the more disabled to have gone on I determine not 't is enough that as I knew it my duty to divulge it so although meerly for the same I have now past through a Nine-years Purgatory and am thereby reduced to poverty debt and great extremity yet were it still to do I would discharge my conscience though a Thousand Popish Lords were concern'd to be angry and I were sure not only to lose my Livelyhood but my Life likewise on that account At your Lordships feet I humbly lay these papers and presume to shelter them into the world under the patronage of your truly Honourable Name as well because your Lordship is so excellently qualified to judg of the truth of them by your great insight into the complexion of affairs and persons in Ireland which had the honour of having your Lordship for some too short time her Lord Lieutenant as in regard of my particular obligation that the same might remain as a publick testimony of my gratitude Your Lordships Most Humble and Fatithful Servant James Carroll ERRATA Pag. 3. l. 45. r. seven p. 5. l. 36. r. Hen. The Information of Mr. James Carroll Junior of the City of Dublin in the Kingdom of Ireland Spanish Leather-dresser and also a Freeman of the City of London an English Protestant born at New Castle upon Tyne the first Discoverer of the Horrible and Bloody Irish Plot against the Protestants of that Kingdom upon the 12th day of April Anno 1672. Taken upon Oath before the Right Worshipful Sir George Treby Knight Recorder of this Honourable City of London by His Majesties Order in Council THIS Informant saith That he together with James Carroll the elder this Informants Father having occasion to travel in the said Kingdom of Ireland to buy Wool Skins and other Commoditie relating to the Trade or Calling of this Informant did on the said 12th day of April Anno Dom. 1672. arrive at Portumna in the County of Gallway a Town belonging to William Burke Earl of Clanrickard and took up their Lodgings at the house of one Thomas Allen an Inn-keeper then living at the Sign of the Black-Spred Eagle in the said Town of Portumna which said Allen then was a Tenant or Steward unto the said Earl of Clanrickard and this Informant saith that the said Thomas Allen then and there falling into discourse with this Informant and his said Father supposing them to be Irish this Informant's said Father speaking the Irish Tongue did enquire of them what News there was abroad whereunto they answered that they had been travelling up and down the Country but heard no strange News whereupon he said to this Informant and his said Father in English as followeth If said he we have news that the Dutch are beaten whom we are in great hopes utterly to destroy for that 's the lâ—ght we must put out we have so good assurance not only from France but England too for there 's one we are sure will stick by us then my Lord Clanrickard will presently sound a Trumpet and I will go along with him and three or four score more of this Town well horsed and armed and every man five pounds in his Pocket and I hope I shall kill an hundred of the Protestants Anabaptists Independents and such like Phanatick Rogues before I am killed for I expect a Quarter-Masters place in the Troop that is here to be raised and I will have some of them upon the point of my Sword before the last of June and as for those that are here in this Country we will soon cut them off they shall have no help to come from the other side of the Brook meaning England for we have taken care