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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95615	Ormonds curtain drawn. In a short discourse concerning Ireland; wherein his treasons, and the corruption of his instruments are laid bare to the stroke of justice.	Temple, John, Sir, 1600-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing T631; Thomason E513_14; ESTC R205632	31,448	32

Decius his seeing his good nature in his relation of the misery of the Protestants in Ireland forbore to name the authors of it which if he had done I suppose you Civilis had not run into that error now to prevent the like hereafter my desire is that Decius if while he speaks of the Earle of Ormond the occasion shall draw him upon others that he would not be sparing of their names that we may know and mark such as have walkt disorderedly and not according to a streight and just rule This I suppose is but equall which if Decius assent unto he will oblige us both if he observe it in his following relation Civilis casting the cause upon Marcus his side notwithstanding all that Decius could bring to exempt himselfe from so envious a work he having tyed himselfe to submit to what Civilis should detormine proceeded on as followes You may judge by my readinesse to obey you what power your commands have over me Decius seeing they unavoidably put me upon the remembrance of what I cannot think of without the greatest anger and indignation that is possible with this encouragement however that therein I doubt not but before I have done you will both bear your shares with me and that I may observe some kind of order in what I shall say I will begin with the confidence the Rebels from the beginning reposed in the Earle of Ormond which were argument sufficient to prove him false and then I shall shew you how faithfully if I may misuse that good word he answered that trust of theirs in every particular To prove both which I shall not need to squeeze conclusions out of conjectures or probabilities but shall give you the naked fact which sufficiently discovers it selfe and his own speeches and the results of his owne made Counsell from the mouths of those of his owne party who were not ashamed to publish what they had done in the chamber upon the house top Civilis and Marcus approving of the Division be had made and the way he promised to take in handling of the parts he went on in this manner The first thing that I propounded to cleer to you is the great trust and confidence the Rebels from the beginning reposed in him To make good which though there be many more then probabilities to induce a reasonable man to beleeve he was acquainted with the first designe and plot of the Rebellion and there be some that when time serves can tell what advice and conncell he gave for the execution of it having resolved with my selfe to bring nothing before you but what carries the light of the Sun along with it I shall give you as pregnant a proofe as can be desired In the beginning of November next after the Rebellion brake out the Parliament according to the prorogation met againe at Dublin whither many who were chief plotters and contrivers of that bloody Treason though at that time the Castle of Dublis by Gods great mercy being secured they had not declared thēselves boldly resorted the Lords of the Pale and some others who were all it is well known the first in that transgression in whose heads the businesse was carried long before it came into the others hands had the faces to come and sit in the upper House to advise forsooth for the safety of the English whom before they had voted to destruction Amongst many other good motions it was thought fit by the aforesaid House of Lords the Earle of Ormond concurring that the Lord Costelogh Dillon should be sent to his Majesty into England with such propositions as they thought expedient for the setling of peace againe in that Kingdome and accordingly he was dispatched away with private Instructions how he should carry himselfe and what chiefly he was to insist on and though the honest party at Counsell-board being at that time in power had in their Letters to Court given a large character of the man and his errand and expressed their dislike of both in order to his Majesties honour and the good of the Protestants being taken prisoner here after his escape you may perhaps have heard how he was entertained at Oxford but it being out of our way I passe it by The maine of his Instructions was to work with the King that the quieting of the Rebellion might be left wholly to the Parliament there and that no forces might be sent over out of England to make the breach wider instead of closing of it and to compleat all he was to procure the Earle of Ormond to be made Lord Licutenant of Ireland Behold Sirs the same men that would have no assistance from hence without which the English in all humain probability would have perished as the next thing they thought could worke to the Rebels advantage sue that the Earle of Ormond might be made Governour And least the name of a Parliament held at Dublin may stumble you and make you beleeve these Lords were honest at that time and at the drawing of those Instructions had not engaged themselves to the Rebels party You must know after their going into Rebellion they still owned the Lord Dillon as their Agent and it was ordered at a full Counsell of the Rebels at Kilkenny that the profits of the said Lord Dillons Lands should be secured to him forasmuch as he was employed to his Majesty by them for the good of the Catholick Cause Truly Decius Civilis I think you have put your best strength in the Van for I cannot see what could prove your first poynt more cleerly and in the last place you have fully answered an objection I was then going to propound to you that order of the Counsell of Kilkenny cuts on both sides and like Janus his face looks two severall wayes But I wrong my friend Marcus I pray you therefore say on In January 1642. Decius when the Rebels were now a formed body and licked into a State upon a Petition of the chiefe Lords and Gentlemen of the Rebels sent to the Earle of Ormond and by him kindly transmitted to his Majesty his Majesty did by his Letters sent by Master Thomas Bourke an arch-papist and a chiefe Rebell require the Lords Justices to give power to the said Earle to give a meeting to the chiefest of the Rebels and to send to his Majesty such grievances and desires as they should think fit to present to him by his Lordships hands Amongst many other grievances and other goodly demands which no doubt you have seen in print though they were kept dose from the Justices and Counsell by the Earle of Ormond for many moneths after they were published by the Rebels in forraigne Kingdomes and when the Book was commonly sold amongst us it was not suffered to be answered but all motions made to that purpose in Parliament slighted by Sir Morice Eustace Speaker of the House of Commons there an Irish man to say no worse of him and one of

received from them and so to disoblige them that for the future they might be drawne to desist from sending any more money or provisions to an army they saw so adverse to them About the beginning of July 1643. Captaine Thomas Bartlet was sent into Ireland with his Ship laden with corne and other provisious and another Ship stored with three hundred barrels of powder and a great proportion of match both which arrived at Dublin about two moneths before the cessation at which time the Earle of Ormond thought the English were reduced to such necessity that it was impossible for them to subsist without the cessation but by the arrivall of this supply finding himselfe disappointed he was not a little troubled but he soon found out a way to piece his work up againe and to empty the stores once more as he had done often before to as little purpose he pretends a journey in all haste towards Castle Jordon and thereupon hurries up to Dublin most of the Forces that were garrisoned in Drogheda alias Tredagh Trym and Dondalke where they remained feeding upon the stores of that place many dayes before his Lordship could be ready to martch out and having at length sent out the Lord Lambert before him with a party of the Army who either through the Earle of Ormonds command or his owne cowardize durst not advance further then twelve miles from the City but kept his men there feeding upon what they carried abroad with them he himselfe at last martched out to him his whole strength consisting of about five thousand besides Horse and a great traine of Artillery and having kept the men abroad till they had consumed their provision he brought them home againe without doing any manner of service against the Rebels onely he took in an ordinary dwelling house unfortified possessed by some fevv of the Rebels yet before his Lordship could be ready to martch out and doe these brave exploits all the money that could be raked from the Excise and what could be torne from the poor English and almost all the provision that Captaine Bartlet had brought in was consumed and of what remained part was privately sold to severall Bakers and others in the City of Dublin and part concealed and removed into private Granaries till after the cessation that it might not appeare to hinder it Sir Philip Percivel was Commissary of the Victuals in Ireland at that time Sir Philip Percivel was imployed as Clarke or Secretary to write all the passages at the making of the cessation on the Lord of Ormonds part and then some of it was sold and the money converted to private uses and the rest instead of being usefull to send out the Army to fight against the Rebels was made into Bisquet to victuall the Regiments sent into England to fight against the Parliament in Captaine Weaks Ships The wayes the Earle of Ormond took to consume our provisions to no purpose were so many and so apparent that the Parliament Commissioners then at Dublin were bold to tell him plainly That were the Parliament Masters of the wealth of the Indies as things were carried there it would be all spent and yet the English not any thing the better for it By this taste that I have already given you you may see how he laboured all that he could to consume what was sent from hence or to dispose of it so that it might not stand in the way between him and his designe for the preservation of his Country-men by necessitating the English to accept of his cessation or peace The next thing which I shall labour to cleere to you is the course the Earle of Ormond took to alienate the Parliament of England from sending any more supplies to us knowing to how little purpose it would be to dry up the water in the streames unlesse he could stop it at the spring-head But I beleeve this will be a work to overcome your patience having I presume wearied it alrerdy Civilis and Marcus protesting they received the greatest contentment and satisfaction in hearing of him he went on in this manner The Earle of Ormond having been very succesfull in the first part of his game and drawne us to the bottome bethinks himselfe at the same time how to free himselfe of the Parliament whom he found more forward to assist us then would stand with the work he had in hand and therefore labours to disoblige them so that the English being left wholly to themselves he might the easier make his hand of them From hence arose those many reviling speeches uttered by himselfe and his instruments upon all occasions against this Parliament and Kingdome himselfe alwayes having a speciall care not onely to equall them with his Country-men but to put the Parliament above them as if the Rebellion and Massacre there were a businesse to be excused in comparison of their proceedings here saying that those fought onely at the worst against his Majesties subjects but these against his person and that the Parliament here was the cause of all the misery of that Kingdom and therefore in the preample