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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08461	Ouer-throvv of an Irish rebell, in a late battaile: or The death of Sir Carey Adoughertie who murdred Sir George Paulet in Ireland; and for his rebellion hath his head now standing ouer Newgate in Dublin.		1608 (1608)	STC 18786; ESTC S106353	4,495	12

THE Ouer-throw of an Irish rebell in a late battaile Or The death of Sir Carey Adoughertie who murdred Sir George Paulet in Ireland and for his rebellion hath his head now standing ouer Newgate in Dublin Imprinted at London for I. Wright and are to be sold at his shop neere Christ Church gate 1608. by them Yea to such a habit of Sauage tirany hath Rebellion brought that nation that nothing hath beene or still is pleasing to a great part of them but that which all ciuill kingdomes abhor as beeing their onely plague and that is Ciuill Warre Murders and Massacres and vprores are to them as Musick Banquets bloud as the most delicate cups of wine Thou needest not O gallant country to boast that no venemous beast is bread within thee for the hearts of thy disobedient children are full of rancke poyson Thou hast deserued to bee called not one of the daughters of Britannia but to bee reiected as a bastard and albeit from time to time she hath beene vnto thee as a louing Nurse and Mother thou canst not condemne her of vnkindenesse if shee proue vnto thee a stepdame How many hundreds of thousands of our English nation haue beene drowned in their owne bloud sluc'de out by thy treachery how many of our Nobility haue lost their liues and beene confounded whilst in their duety and allegiance they went about to enduce thee to ciuility or to chastize thee for thy Stubburnnes how many widowes haue bewailed the losse of their husbands butcherd by thy rebellious people how many sonnes and daughters by thy meanes haue been left fatherlesse Yet if thou lookest backe ô Ireland either vpon the fortunate reigne of thy late Queene and mistresse of happy memory or doest but number vp the daies of rest which thy now royall soueraigne our most gracious King hath in his peacefull and blessed gouernment bestowed vpon thee thou canst not choose but confesse that thy ill deseruings beeing so many thou hast beene fauorably dealt withall in being not punished according to the measure of thy offendings thou hast beene worthy to haue beene beaten with rods of Iron for thy vnrulinesse and to haue had fire the sword playe the executioners vppon thee and thy nation for their stiff-necked rebellion But our Princes haue beene vnto thee in their correction as fathers are to children when they punish them yet nothing can win thee to goodnesse or weane thee from thy bloudy and barbarous proceedings But let vs leaue this streame and hoist vp sailes in that sea where our intent was at first to end our voiage And that is to discouer the onset and ouerthrow of a Rebell or rather conductor of Rebells Sir Carey Adougherty You shall therefore vnderstand that Sir Carey Adoughertie hauing with his bloudie assotiate Fallin Reeah Mack Dauy committed that inhumaine murder vpon Sir George Paulet and others the inhabitantes of the towne of Derry thought with the Tragicall Poet Tutum esse sceleribus per scelus itur that the onely buckler to defend villanies was to ioyne the army of more of his Soueraigne Yet did Sir Carey Adoughertie in the heigth of his prowd ouer-weening thinke that like a whirle-winde hee should throw downe all that with-stood his furie and that like a storme at Sea the whole kingdome of Ireland should vaile to him to saue it selfe from shipwrack But God whose Angels are the garde of Princes persons and whose right hand steeres the helme by which Kingdomes are gouerned did arme the Lord Deputie and the Councell of Ireland not onelie with present courage to encounter this Rebell but with wisedome to preuent and to beat backe all stormes that by his boysterous and and turbulent spirits were threatned to disquiet the peaceable state of the country One thousand English are therefore forthwith leuied and those diuided into three regiments vnder the conducts of these Gentlemen and others viz. Sir Thomas Ridgeway Treasurer for Ireland Sir Richard Wingfield Knight Marshall of Ireland Sir Oliuer Lambert Sir Richard Morrison Sir Thomas Roper Sir Francis Rush Sir Toby Cofeild Sir Iosias Bodley And besides these diuerse gentlemen of name all of them vsing their best pollicie to cut off the forces of the enemy And because they would bee sure that hee should not escape out of the nettes prepared for him those three thousand so diuided into three seuerall companies were directed to march three seuerall waies into the countrie and by that meanes the Rebell if hee durst come into the fielde might bee encompassed and set vpon Before I proceede any further it shall not bee amisse to set downe one matter as an argument to expresse the confidence that Sir Cary Adoughertie had in his forces as also to shew the pride and highnesse of his spirit and that was thus The Bishoppe of Derry and of those parts of the country had his wife surprized by Sir Carry his accomplices and by them held prisoner no intreaty of the bishop no nor the ransome of a thousand pound which hee offred could buy her out of their hands wherevpon the bishop who freely passed too fro aswel to Sir Cary as to the English that were his friends without disturbance because he was a church-man entred into speech with the rebell about his vnnaturall proceedings against the peace of his country But Adougherty being careles of his reprehension in the end spake thus I vnderstand quoth he they fought with answerable courage and answerable fortune till at length one of those three companies into which the English troopes were diuided secretly keeping aloofe came vpon the suddaine and vnexpected of the enemy on the back of the Rebell so that hee was roundly be set with death and his officers They were like a heard of lustie Deere encompassed with huntsmen and euery minute looked to heare the knell of their deaths rung forth yet to shew that albeit they scorned life they would not giue it away for nothing they fought couragiouslie because they purposed to sell their bloud deerely But alas what strength of man can hold out when the finger of God is held vp against them God added vigor and knitte the sinews of the loyall Subiect that hoe might bee of power to confound the trayterous rebell And that their pride might bee confounded euen in that person that first made them faithlesse to their countrie and foes to their Soueraigne heauen opened the hand of diuine vengeance and from it shotte a bullet which strooke Sir Carey Adoughertie quite through the head The wound was mortall for with it hee presently fell downe and dyed and so fell downe that his hand laye directly vnder his cheeke his head leaning vpon it and so was found slaine about some three houres after hee was shotte the head beeing afterwards out off from the shoulders by one of Sir Francis Rush his men And from the field sent to Dublin where to standeth fixed on a pole ouer the East-gate of the citey called New-gate In this