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A93858	A narrative of the late Popish Plot in Ireland, for the subjugating thereof to the French king together with the proceedings against, and tryal of the Earl of Tyrone, and others who were accused for carrying on the same : containing the several examinations of Hubbart Bourke, Edward Ivie, John Macnemarrah, and Thomas Samson, Gent., upon information taken before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland ... / by Tho. Samson, Gent., late steward of the Earl of Tyrone.	Samson, Thomas.	1680 (1680)	Wing S542; ESTC R202423	43,134	40

most humbly acquainted the Lord Lieutenant that the Bill being not found against the Earl most men looked upon us as ruined who were the Witnesses for His Majesty and they that can act most against us account themselves most happy Many persons having said from the first that if we discovered any thing we were ruined in regard all the great Ones of the Nation would be against us And on inquiry it will be proved that seven of the ten of the Jury that found the Bill ignoramus were Kindred Tenants and friends of the Earles prepared for the purpose One of them allyed to Mr. Bradley was brought out of another County to make a body in the County of Waterford And as to several preparations made in Coffee Houses to asperse the Kings Evidence I am ready to make out the persons whom the time when and the places where The Copy of the JURORS Names These were for finding the Bill William Bolton Ar. Andrew Rickard Ar. Thomas Osbourne Kt. John Morris Gent. Robert Whitley Gent. John Stevens Gent. Henry Jaques Gent. These for not finding the Bill Jespr Grant Esq Pierce Welch Esq Thomas Kneal Gent. Robert Cooke Esq Robert Carew Gent. Michael Carew Gent. Roger Carew Gent. Paul Sherlocke Gent. James Oldfield Gent. Alphon O Bryan Gent. Several Queries touching the Earl of Tyrone's and Mr. Bradley's Tryals 1. WHether all the Examinations taken against the said Persons or any of them before the Lord Lieutenant and Council on which the Lord Lieutenant and Council declared the said Earl's to be High Treason should not have been delivered to the Jury 2 Whether the Evidence for the King ought not to be heard by the Jury when sworn thereunto 3. Whether the Kings Witnesses-ought not to have one Counsel as well as the Accused five Counsels and Attorneys 4 Whether the Bill could be found Ignoramus twelve not agreeing thereunto 5. Whether all those Letters mentioned in the Examinations should not be searched for when desired by the Evidences to strengthen the Evidence and told the place where they might be found 6. Whether the same persons were not fit Evidences for the King on their Oaths when proffered to clear the Accused on their bare Word 7. Whether all that was charged should not be examined and disarmed 8. Whether a Person accused for feveral Treasons on Tryal of some can be cleared of all meaning when all Examinations and Witnesses were not heard or known of by the Jury c. The Account and Vindication of the above-mentioned Mr. Hubbart Bourke his Person and Family LEst the unworthiness of my Person and smalness of my Fortune together with the many Lies and Falshoods which do ordinarily attend such as come on the Stage wherein great persons are concerned thereby to weaken or invalidate their Testimony the accused having little else to excuse their fact as will evidently appear in Mr. Sampsons Examination and his Confronting the Jury for fear I say lest the one or the other should lessen the circumspection or care of all Protestants to avoid that fire which through the warning of Dr. Oates and others hath yet been suppressed and which without care may yet break forth into a greater flame we have therefore apart at the end of all our Examinations annexed a short excuse for our presumption and also given a brief description of our selves As to my birth I was born in Tomound Son to Edmond Bourke a man of honest life though not the richest of his name I had my Breeding and Education in the Kingdome of Ireland in the Romish Religion and also under an Atturney which employ since I have been at my own dispose hath maintained me by keeping of Courts in the Country and acting as an Atturney in the same And whereas it hath been generally said by some who make it their business to invalidate my Testimonie out of love to the Impeached that the reason why I informed against the Earl of Tyrone is for that he sent me to Goal for great Misdemeanours what cause he had of sending me to Goal did appear before the Judges of the Assizes to be very unjust there being nothing at the Assizes laid to my Charge or on the Indictment proved but I hereby declare that my being in Goal together with the miscarriage of my Letters sent to his Grace the Lord Lieutenant was the only reason why I did not discover the things contained in my Examination sooner and that the discharge of my Conscience to God and Allegiance to my King was the only motive thereunto And to make it more evident seeing the evil of my former Religion and being convinced in my Conscience that no sound Religion can be maintained by the effusion of innocent blood disobedience to Superiours and subverting of Government I therefore have before his Grace the Lord Primate and Chancellour of Ireland and hereby do declare to all others my self to be of the Reformed Church of England and by Gods assistance do intend to live and die in the same and I desire all persons to consider for what I leave my Friends and Relations and Name-sakes denying my self such great proffers and advantages as by my Information you may see I have refused And I do hereby further declare in the presence of Almighty God that I never directlie or indirectlie received any Sum or Sums of Money or to the value of one Meals Meat or ever in the least expect so to do from any of the Gentlemen on whom I was desired to charge that I should be by them hired to Impeach the said Earl and then I should have such large Rewards If the world will but consider the great hardships I have lain under to be imprisoned so long time in a Countrey where I have no Friends or at least that dared to appear for me and on so unjust a cause as the Judges and Jury were sensible it was when I by them was acquitted I know they will conclude I had very hard measure And when I was sent for to give my Testimony for the King being then but one single Testimony that appeared and had onely Truth and Justice to stand by me I was by the malice of the Sheriff or Sub-Sheriff bound with cords under the Horses belly contrary to the Warrant sent for me by the Lord Lieutenant and Councel and after I was brought to Dublin I was falsely Indicted for horse-stealing by the Earl of Tyrones Atturney and by the Judges of the Kings-Bench Acquitted and when I was bound over to Waterford to prosecute the said Earl was therefrom afrighted by Menaces and Threatnings and afterwards made a spectacle of Contempt being carried about with my legs tyed in an egregious manner by the Earls servants under a false pretence of the Lord Lieutenants Warrant who said he granted no such Warrant And when I desired that Mr. Sampson and Mr. Ivie might be sent for knowing that Mr. Ivie could and believing that Mr. Sampson must of necessity know of the

I do appoint Sam. Lee and Dan. Major of London Stationers to print this my Narrative entituled A Narrative of the late Popish Plot in Ireland c. and that no others print the same THO. SAMSON A NARRATIVE OF THE Late Popish Plot IN IRELAND For the Subjugating thereof to the FRENCH KING Together with The Proceedings against and Tryal of the Earl of Tyrone and others who were accused for carrying on the same CONTAINING The several Examinations of Hubbart Bourke Edward Ivie John Macnemarrah and Thomas Samson Gent. upon Information taken before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland The large promises of Rewards and Favours made to the Persons aforesaid in case they would have been induced to desist from prosecuting the said Earl and to affirm that they had been suborned by others to accuse him The many Threats made to all and Punishments inflicted upon one of the said Witnesses after they had peremptorily declared their resolution to discover what they knew concerning the said Plot. The manner of the Proceedings against the said Earl at Waterford-Assizes 1679. with the Names of the Jury and the Discouragements the King's Evidence met with before at and since the said Assizes By Tho. Samson Gent. late Steward to the Earl of Tyrone LONDON Printed for Sam. Lee and Dan. Major at the Feathers in Lumbard-street and Hand and Scepter in Fleet-street 1680. To the Right Honourable ARTHUR EARL of ESSEX MY LORD IT may be thought that the frequent method of Dedications to Persons of Honour now so much used might be the occasion of this my Address to your Lordship but I humbly conceive it most absolutely necessary for my Preservation to flie to your Lordship for Protection and Relief for the very Name of King's Evidence is now by the subtilty of evil and guilty men grown so obnoxious to many that no man who hath the courage to appear for his King and Country against the Papists can receive other Quarter from many men than that usually given to Rogues Barrators or common Disturbers of the Peace of their Neighbours But my Lord this Discovery now laid at your Lordships feet is of a far different nature and such which every good Christian and Subject is bound in Conscience to make for the good of his King and Country and being no other than what hath been before the Lord Lieutenant and Council of that Kingdom in which your Honour did formerly reside as Chief Ruler under his Majesty I therefore have made bold to dedicate these Papers to your Honour you being acquainted with the Interests and Humours of that People can best judge what Discouragements such as appear for Protestancy and the English Interest lie under in that Kingdom All persons favouring us there are maliciously termed our Promoters I do therefore humbly pray your Lordship to accept of this my poor Endeavour which done I shall not doubt its acceptance from all good men and shall remain My Lord Your Honour 's most humble and most obedient Servant THO. SAMSON An Introductory TO THE READER THE Northern part of the World lying so much in the wa● of the Roman Church that its conversion to the Popish Reli●●on is the Mark that many venture their Allegiance Life and Estate at having nought else but to be Canonized for their good work if they miss their aim therein and I hope good Protestants cannot believe that Sect of men will lay down the Cudgels if their Jesuitical Designes prevail not but will venture on the old way of Blouding if need require Hence it is that their Plotting is not confined to England onely but it must cross the Seas into Ireland also though they land in the bosoms of pretended Protestants And it cannot be imagined but that the Designe was carried on at one and the same time both on this and that side of the Water and the methods used for the carrying on of their Designes the same as by former Nary at 〈◊〉 compared with the following Informations and Examinations will appear viz. By raising of Forces by pretended settlements of Estates to prevent its forfeiture in case of discovery or using the old drudging way of aspersing the Evidence and if all these fail promising Bribes for rewards on 〈◊〉 thereby to shair the Truth Nevertheless a● it pleased God to disappoint their Endeavours in England by some who were intrusted by them whom God plucked from them to pull us as Brands out of the fire so here what knowledge was obtained came from some who were to be Actors in the same Tragedy so that the Wish might be taken in their own Craft and the Hand of God might be seen in the preservation of our King Country and Religion Such our Deliverers having changed their Bulls Pardons and Absolutions of the Pope and a horrid bloudy Act to be committed for fear of God peace of Conscience loyalty to their King and praise of good men And as in the Ganponden-Treason a Letter from one privie thereto did discover the same so likewise in the Kingdom of Ireland in 1641 it was a Letter from one Irishman to another which made the English to secure the City and Castle of Dublin which otherwise might have followed the fate of the whole Nation or greatest part of that Kingdom And why might not persons as much question the truth of that being so discovered and prevented as the truth of all those Plottings now in question and the rather it being now a Crime in Ireland to call those late murthering bloudy times Rebellion but a now name is taken up for it namely A Civil War In this present Discovery it was also a Letter that gave notice of the things declared to be designed which concurring with other testimony did convince one of the Witnesses of the reality of their Designes And indeed it 's not to be questioned but most of the good Protestants of that Kingdom I mean such as are not got into Preferments or married into Papist Families and thereby become any thing as to Religion such I say are fully satisfied of their Plottings and the rather considering the infolency of the Papists and the many of them the power the Priests and Romish Clergie have over them And were it not for fear of firing their houses and massacring their person and families and the scandal of discovering though the truth and the greatest bindrance of all is knowing that their Tryals if impeached nust be by some of their own Faction and it may be as much concerned is themselves and so consequently would be cleared Many Papists in Ireland valuing more to swear by a piece of Iron Wood or Stone a pretended Relick of St. Peter's Chair Chappel or Bell than on the holy Bible which I have my self known that after they have for sworn themselves on the Bible have confessed to their damage the truth when sworn on that Relick But I do not question but that God may open the eyes of some of the best of