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A81507	The discourse and sad complaints betwixt the French-man and the Irish-man; evidently declaring, that the King was the only cause of the progresse and continuation of the warres in Ireland, to be brought over into England; and that the Queen was the only occasion of the recruits and monies which have been levied, to be transported over from France. With a true narration of the sad successe that hath followed His Majesties armies and doth still keep them company; not onely in the west, but in divers other places, and the great possibility wherein the Parliaments forces are of putting a speedy period to these long and unnaturall wars. VVith a full account of the severall remarkable victories which it hath pleased God of late in divers places to confer on the army of the Parliament.		1646 (1646)	Wing D1571; Thomason E330_26; ESTC R200729	5,020	8

the English Re●●s … were all permit●● 〈◊〉 take the Oath of Allegeance which the storm being gone would again be forbidden to them so that Religion of Rome and the ●ing looketh onely upon expediency and depends more upon policy then conscience A King as I have heard was the Author of this Verse Religion is the Righ● of Kings And they know best what good it brings At the peace of Sens in France King H. 3. made an Oath with the Protestants and alowed them in some places the free exercise of their Religion but this being but a meer Art of State to draw from them his brother Duke of Alenson the Oath immediatly after was broken And this was done by the counsell of no lesse then three Bishops the B. of Lyons the B. of Valenciennes and the B. of Ambrum and they received this counsell from the Sea and Bishop of Rome who at this time was a favourer to this Prince and afterwards a great Agent in the murder of him and an applauder of it So that we see in these misteries of State-affairs that Popes and Kings do no more regard an Oath then we souldier do And this is one reason why we of the Irish Nation have bin induced to side with his Majesty and although we are Catholicks to adhere to him who is a Protestant For should we have prevailed against the Parliament it were no difficult matter to bring the Religion of Rome into England the King being so much obliged to us for our assistance and in acknowledgment of it having given us in Ireland the free exercise of our Religion so that so much favour being shew'd to us who would not fight for such a Kin● we being induced thereunto by a Nuntio from Rome and that whosoever shall lose his life in this service shall be sure to go to Heaven and be numbred in the Catalogue of the Saints We a●so hear that the Popes Holinesse doth call the King of England his beloved Son and doth always give him his Apostolicall Benediction But alas to the great grief of our Nation and my self I speak it the Parliaments Army do prevail all our hopes are frustrate our Saints grown deafe and our fears grown strong we see the Enemy before us the Sea behind us and on each side Destruction with out-stretched armes ready to receive us the vengeance aswell as the horror of our gu●lt doth pursue us and despair from below doth hallow to us to descend into that Lake French The same great Argument which imbark'd you in this bloody and unfortunate service did at the first encourage me The King perswaded you and the Queen perswaded us The King prevailed in Ireland and the Queen in France And her Agents told us that it was a religious and loyall War religious for the honour of God and loyall for the safety of the Crown I remember our Priests and Iesuits would preach unto us that the late warre with Scotland was Bellum Episcopale but this war against the Parliament was Bellum Papale wherein if the Forces of the Parliament should prevail the ruine of the Roman Religion would ensue for what likelihood was there but that those who were so violent against the seats of Bishops would be more eager against the Chaire of Rome Hereupon by the solicitation and importunity of the Queen of England the Pulpits in France became as Prostitutes all complexions and conditions of men were wrought upon To the young men the pleasures of Beauty were commended which were said to flourish no where more then in this Kingdom To the Covetous treasures of gold To the Ambitious hopes of honor and preferment Had not so many recruits arrived from France and Ireland the war had not continued so long But tell me what shall become of these Recruits Instead of hopes we are now full of despair for riches we enjoy poverty for plunder nakednesse and whatsoever the iron hand of war can inflict we are sure to partake off Our health our strength our joy is turned into sicknesse weaknesse sorrow and confusion of face Having made such spoyl in this what other Kingdome will receive us whither shall we cary the burden of our shame is there no hope left Is there no remainder of hope depends on the Lord Hoptons Army French None at all you see the Horse are all disbanded first our owne Brigade and then afterwards the other 8. England is a place too hot for the Caveleires of the King therefore they flie into France not so much for succour as for safety and to be out of the power of these who are to mighty for them In the meane time his Majesties Forces in the North West about Worcester are vtterly routed and the Lord Ashly on whoe 's courage and Experience his Majestie depended so much upon is taken prisoner he was heard to say to the Parliament souldiers as he sat upon a Drum-head and was invirouned with them round about Gentlemen you may now sit downe and fall to play for you this morning have done all your worke meaning that he being beaten the King had no Army in the field You see our owne souldiers with us are ashamed of their owne cowardis and timorous hearts and much magnify the civility the resolution and the temper of their Adversaries and confesse them to be an Army invincible and not to be fought with Irish But are there no Forces that can come to our assistance from Oxford and the Garisons of the Kings in those parts Alas poore ouldiers whither shall we go French Not a man In the last Defeat given to the Lord Astley there were taken The Lord Astley Commander in chief 3 Colonels 3 Majors one Lieut-Colonell 17 Captains 16 Lieutenants The Marshall Generall 5 Cornets 11 Ensigns 3 quarter-masters The Chyrurgeon and Sir William Vaughan Chaplain 2000 Armes All their Ammunition Bag and Baggage Irish In the mean time the recruits expected from France move not at all they are imployed upon another Designe the Numbers that are going into France are many those that are coming out of France into England are very few French This is not all for from Newark it is certain that all things are in preparation for a sudden storm and Sir Thomas Fairfax being marched Eastward as he will lose no opportunity I cannot see how Oxford will be able long to hold out so that of those many Countries Cities Towns and Garisons which the King was master of not long since all now are contracted into a short a weak and a most inconsiderable Number And Scepters devolved from Age to Age which did promise themselves to know no period doe find all strength is vain that fights against GOD. Irish Since this Exceter is summoned and in great hope they are that it is by this time surrendred The onely strength of the Kings Horse in the field is beaten 300 Horse taken and almost as m●ny prisoners 3000 of their horse are commanded Eastward at the news of which Oxford begins to tremble Its time to be gone from thence And so they say the King is for the report is that the King mistrusting himself in England is secretly gone into Wales FINIS

THE DISCOURSE AND SAD COMPLAINTS BETWIXT The FRENCH-MAN and the IRISH-MAN EVIDENTLY Declaring that the KING was the onely cause of the progresse and continuation of the warres in Ireland to be brought over into England And that the Queen was the onely occasion of the Recruits and Monies which have been levied to be transpo●ted over from France With a true Narration of the sad successe that hath followed His Majesties Armies and doth still keep them company not onely in the West but in divers other pl●ces and the great possibility wherein the Parliaments Forces are of putting a speedy period to these long and unnaturall Wars VVith a full Account of the s●v●rall remarkable Victories which it hath pleased God of 〈◊〉 divers places to confer on the Army of the Parliament Aprill 〈◊〉 L●●●●● Pri●ted by ●●nard Alsop 1646. A Discourse betwixt the Frenchman and an Irish-man French STand and give the word Irish 'T is life French Villain thou liest 't is death Irish Then life for life or death for both Take to thy arms give me the lye I le drive that lye through thy heart of what Nation art thou speak French A French-man and Ensigne to the Regiment of Colonell Ian●u●ats Irish The same Regiment that plundered all about Lanceston that lived onely upon Rapine and Ruine whose Religion was prophanenesse whose life intemperance and whose end damnation whose honest recreation was Sodomy and the ravishing of wives and maides It was your common Exercise to force the women from their husbands Arms and before their faces to ravish them to death neither could you be satisfied in this your villany until unto your Lust you added Murder Is not this true French Yes the murder of their husbands and that was mercy for what a grief of heart would it be to them to remember what was done and with a tame patience to look on us that did it have you done Irish The same French you are whose sear'd consciences will admit of any impiety and entertaine it with delight and greedinesse whose di●course is altogether oaths and lyes oaths as high as Heaven and lyes as deep as Hell who after you have sworn a prayer for the King at the next word with a curse will damn your selves into Hell and like a Legion of Divels and not a Regiment of Men turn all t●e houses you come to into Stowes and the Churches into Stables French Have you done yet Irish The same French you are one of whose Officers being quartered lately at a Widowes house in Torrington had all the Dainties provided for him that the countrey could afford but this bold and unruly Mounsier would not be satisfied but so tormented the miserable poor woman that she was altogether weary of her life and having endeavoured to the utmost of her power to content him in all things she came one day unto him beseeching him to be more patient assuring him that any viands that could be had for mony shold be prepared for him The French-man fuming and swearing in great choller did fling away she came unto him again with a chi●d in her arms and with tears in her eyes and with much importunity desired to know what his pleasure was promising him that if it lay within the compasse of her ability and complyed either with reason or with honesty that he should have it The inhumane Monster commanded her to ro●st her child and said that it was onely that that would please him for his supper The miserable mother amazed at the horror of the injunction did fall down dead at his foot and could never again be awakened or recovered unto life French T is like enough it shews how true a Cannibal is warre where one devours another but say of what country art thou Ir●sh Ask my sword see how the Crimson-die dwels on the blade I am a naturall Irish French Naturall unnaturall Irish the shame of Heaven the scourge and plague of Nature T was you that first let war and fury loose where at the foot of peace they sate on arms on cruell armes their hands bound behind them fast with a thousand brazen chaines and roaring forth with bloudy mouths destruction 'T was you who as inhumane as you are blind make no distinction at all betwixt things sacred and prophane but as if you would fight with Heaven as well as Man with most impious hands have broke open the Temples of God and tore to pieces the Records of his sacred Truth have flung them in the charnels and sca●●●red them before the wind who have heard your blasphemies and carryed the sound thereof into every corner of the world Irish It was a zeale that did become us for which our Priests have praised us the Pope hath sent us many ben●●●●● 〈◊〉 French T was you that spared neither Sex nor person the old the infants and the middle aged must all dy together Irish An act of Iustice on the Heretikes French The woman great with child you have ript up ●nd thrown their off-springs in the fire before their faces There is not such another Legend to be read in Hell as what you have acted Irish Yours is much like it French It is And since we are so near of kin in sin we will agree in affection put up your sword and give me your hand For Vice in friendship shall with Vice do●● dwell And Divels amongst themselves agree in Hell What Spell brought you hither Irish The desire of Honour and the hope of Gain that which courts all the world pleasure you may adde to this the conscience of my Allegeance and the ambition which I nourish'd to stand high and faire at Court in the eye of Majesty French How can that be and you so strong a Catholick the King hath often made imprecation upon imprecations that God to deal with Him and His Posterity if He will not maintaine the Protestant Religion how can He countenance and imploy us Catholicks yet swear to his last to defend the Religion of Geneva Irish Friend you are not so ignorant but you know that ●●te is no conscience to be made in keeping oaths with Hereticks especially for the promotion of the Church of Rome and how easily pardons are not only granted but promotions gained from his Holinesse for such who in this nature shall adventure to advance the Catholick Faith is most apparent And this hath not only bin practised by Kings and Prelates and divers others of all Degrees but the Pope himselfe hath given an Example for it For the Pope who hath taken his oath for the advancement of the Church of Rome hath given a speciall prohibition to the Catholicks in England not to take the Oath of Allegeance And yet on the beginning of the Parliament it being found that this Oath would conduce much to the good of the Catholicks in England the Pope himself dispenced with his former Orders and with his Bulls that were sent 〈◊〉 to give 〈◊〉 right unto th●m And