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A new remonstrance from Ireland declaring the barbarous cruelty and inhumanity of the Irish rebels against the Protestants there : also an exact discoverie of the manners and behaviour of the Irish renegadoes here in
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Emitie, Thomas.
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1642
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on a bed sleeping and the skene in his chamber which the man was kild withall and they caried him to prison and this innocent man was executed for the Irish mans fact as afterward the villain confessed This Irish man travelled toward Waterford and went into an English mans house on the way side not foure miles from Waterford and staid there two dayes his manner was to sleep all day and drink all night it being market day on the Saturday at Waterford it happened that a Tanner rode by which knew the man of the house and he called to him asking him how he did the Host answered he thanked God very well and made him drink so away went the Tanner towards the market promising to caâ—l there again at his return all this while the murderous villain lay listening on his bed supposing that the Tanner would receive money at Waterford and come there with it thinking if he could get him to drink with him by any wile he should pay deerly for it before they parted Now it came to passe as he returned that he drank with him and they were merry and the Irish man kept him there till night so that he was fain to lodge with him towards midnight the Tanner being soundly asleep this villain cut off his head and wrapped straw about his body and it and having a candle and every body asleep in the house he set the straw on fire and away he went and took the Tanners money cloke and horse in the field and rode to Waterford towards the morning and harboured himselfe in an Irish Ale-house all this while the house burnt the host his wife and daughter slept untill the straw in the beds burnt their feet and did not know how to help themselves but all the house being burnt they thought that the Tanner and their murderous guest had been likewise burnt but when they searcht there was nothing to be found but the Tanners bones and his head severed from his body then they suspected this villain who took away the Tanners horse and were confident of the trechery Now some Irish neighbours and a Constable came and apprehended the Host and his daughter and said that they had robbed the Tanner of great store of money and burnt the house of purpose and so led them away to Waterford and put them in prison by the command of the Maior but by great friendship they got liberty for their daughter to beg food for them and to seek for this villain and it happened that as the maid was at the kay prying to finde him out that he came with the Tanners cloke on his back unto a Master of an English Bark to agree for his passage for England and the maid knowing him by the cloke cryed out alowd and said This is the man that hath burnt my Fathers house and this is the Tanners cloke the villain hearing this ran through a long street with his sword drawn and no Irish man would stirre to take him but a souldier ran on him and threw him down and other souldiers did help to aid him and being brought before Sir George Flowre he confest the burning of the house and on the gallowes the other murder at Dublin and he was hanged and quartered for this petty treason The rebels lately took an English Minister and put him to wonderfull torments First they did saw his legs off in the middle and then after about the middle of the thighs and then his arms above the wrists and also above the elbow and then cut two slices from his brests alwayes charging him to alter his Religion which he would not do for all their tortures then they took a hot iron and pierc'd it to his heart and so he died The late Bishop of Limrick Doctor Web a Wiltshire man a great Scholler and a worthy house-keeper being in the Castle of Limrick as long as the Castle held out unto foure dayes for he being buried in linnen as fit as the time and place required after the yeelding up of the said Castle when it was in the Rebels hands they took him out of his grave and unstript him out of his linnen and abused his body very basely in a most barbarous manner without all Christianity or humanity My Lord Esmond who commands the Fort of Dungarvan and hath done worthily in these late wars in Ireland having one onely son who before the wars was thought to be a good Protestant but is now quite revolted and sides with the Rebels and sent his father word that if he could at any time come within reach of him he would sheath his sword in his bowels his father receiving this answer was much grieved at it having no more sons Since this his message to his father he being then and always among the Rebels who know not well what to judge of him sent word to his Father that if he would not yeeld up the Fort of Dungarvan unto them they would hang up his son well said my Lord and I pray you do it for if you do it not if ever I take him I will This is according to the Scripture for in the latter age shal be the father against the son and the son against the father I pray GOD be mercifull to us all There was at S. JAMES tide last an Irish man which came newly from Ireland and went into Bristoll and a Warder that kept the gate with some others took notice of him and followed him the Irish man went boldly where the Maior was in the Tolsie and delivered him his landing briefe hoping for a reward it happened that at the instant that there was an English Gentleman in the Tolsie which came newly from Ireland also who beholding well this Irish mans countenance at length took hold of him and said Gentlemen this is the man which rifled me in Ireland and took from me any money and my cloaths and thereupon I will take my oath and so he did and they committed him to prison till the Sessions Many of the Irish that are lately come over into England and have robbed and undone many good English men deny themselves to be Irish and say they are Scots that ye may the better discover them observe these directions following 1. Cause them to pronounce any word which hath the letter H In it as Smith Faith c. which they cannot do not one among an hundred but pronounce Smith Smit and Faith Fait 2. To know their Religion cause them to say their prayers as the Pater Noster and the Creed in English which they cannot well do 3. Vncover their bosomes most of them weare Crucifixes especially the women 4. Concerning their false passes separate them asunder and so examine them Captain George Courtney a man of great discent son unto Sir William Courtney of the house of Pawdra in Devonshire dwelling at Newcastle in Munster in Ireland a man of great authority there and chiefe Constable of Limrick Castle and Askeiton with many other Castles under his command being a man of other great revenues and a noble house-keeper and one that delighted to see his tenants thrive hath lately had a sharp and bitter time of his being in the Castle of Limrick for he held out long after the city was in the enemies hands and though there was a great want of victuals and ammunition so that many were starved yet had it not beene more for their sakes which were ready to starve then otherwise he would never have come thence upon any condition or quarter he is a man of an undaunted spirit and nobly minded and religiously affected in the true way of a Protestant the shallownesse of my capacity is not able to give him the least part of his well-deservings but being a Warder formerly to the Castle of Limrick I presumed to write part of his worth not forgetting the valiant minde of his eldest son Sir William Courtney who lately hath adventured himselfe with a few in battell against a multitude and had a great victory of the Rebels Of the barbarous cruelty of the Irish ye heare daily being people of no Religion but as heathens and cannot yeeld any account of their faith therefore let us think of them as they are and so I leave them villanous and faithlesse for the most part There are two or three towns in Ireland Waterford Washford and Dungarvan very perillous for the advantage of the Rebels there for of late the Dunkerks have brought thither great store of powder and other ammunition especially at Dungarvan and those Dunkerks arrive daily out of those parts and take Barks both of the English and Scots and bring in there and the poore men of those Barks are prisoners and in great misery These things here inserted being of truth and not false are the better worth observing wherefore Gentle Reader affoord me your good opinion and I shal be beholden unto you THOMAS EMITIE