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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34683	A narrative of the popish plot in Ireland for the murdering the Protestants there, and the introducing of popery : and the assistance they depended upon from England / discovered by me James Carrol, in the year 1672 ; with an account of my sufferings for discovering the same.	Carol, James.	1681 (1681)	Wing C644; ESTC R12089	13,892	16

to prevent that by having an Embargo put on Shipping that none can come from thence to help them so that we shall be twelve to one and leave them neither root nor branch nor spare them as in their former Rising Whereto this Informant and his said Father answered and said This is strange news indeed whereupon the said Allen askt this Informant's said Father thus Why did not you hear what was spoken at Mass yesterday being Easter-Munday And the said Thomas Allen still continued to declare to the effect aforesaid furthermore cursing the English in a most horrid manner declaring their wicked and bloody designs against them And this Informant saith that upon his return from Portumna to Dublin aforesaid through his duty and allegiance to his Majesty and natural affection to his Country-men the Protestants of that Kingdom resolving to reveal and make known such the Treasonable and dangerous words of the said Thomas Allen did immediately repair to one Dr. Topham a Master in Chancery before whom the Informant did upon his corporal Oath declare and make the same known and saith that presently after this Informant was sent for and did accordingly appear before the Lord Berkley his Majesties then Lord Lieftenant and the Council at Dublin and by them examined touching the Premises which this Informant again confirmed upon three several Examinations before the said Lord Lieftenant and Council and after that this Informant was sent for before Sir Robert Booth Lord Chief Justice of the Common-Pleas at Dublin and by him ingaged to prosecute the said Thomas Allen for the said Treasonable and dangerous words And this Informant saith that soon after this Examination aforesaid a certain English man who as this Informant was informed had been an old Souldier or Officer and lived in or about the County of Wicklow in Ireland whose name this Informant hath forgot came also before the said Lord Lieftenant and Council and there upon his corporal Oath declared that there were some certain Irish-men about the time of the said Thomas Allen's Speeches offered him a Commission to raise men and also to impower him to give Commissions for that purpose to whom he should think fit and advised him to get all the assistance he could and told him he should be supplied with money to carry on the business and they should be in a readiness within twelve days then next following for that they expected about that time to rise and be up in Arms against the Protestants in Ireland and saith that about three Weeks or a Month after all the said English-mans Stock Cattle Goods and Substance were taken from him whereby he was ruined and quite undone And although the said English-man Petitioned the Lord Lieftenant and Council for relief in such his distressed condition yet could he not obtain any relief as the said English-man declared and told this Informant who since that time could never see him or hear any thing of him And this Informant saith that being as aforefaid engaged by the said Lord Chief Justice Booth to prosecute the said Thomas Allen a Pursevant was accordingly sent for the said Thomas Allen but he could not be found and immediately after this Informant saw the said Allen and the Earl of Clanrickard together in the said Earls Coach come into Dublin where the said Earl appeared with the said Allen as his assistant and the said Allen together with this Informant presently appeared before the said Lord Lieftenant and Council and by them was examined concerning the said Treasonable words and Speeches so by the said Allen spoken as aforesaid all which the said Allen denied and also denied that this Informant or his said Father was or were at the house of him the said Thomas Allen or in Portumna at the time aforesaid whereupon this Informant being again examined in the said Thomas Allen's presence did again confirm the truth of the Premises and then also proved that this Informant and his said Father were the 12th of April in the house of the said Thomas Allen in the Town of Portumna And this Informant the better remembers it to be on the day and year aforesaid for that he had a Bond which was then and there sealed and delivered to this Informants use where Simon Allen a Brother to the said Thomas Allen had set his name as a witness And upon this Informants then producing the said Bond and shewing the same to the said Thomas Allen he could not deny the hand-writing of his said brother Thereupon the said Lord Lieutenant and Council declaring they were very well satisfied of the truth of this Informants evidence did press and importune the said Thomas Allen to make an open and ingenuous confession of the whole truth of the matter telling him if he did not confess it would be worse for him But the said Thomas Allen notwithstanding obstinately persisting in his said denial was by the Lord Lieutenant and Council ordered to stand committed close prisoner without Bail or Mainprise and so commanded the Gaoler to take him away Nevertheless the said Thomas Allen was the very same day by the prevalency interest means and procurement of the said Earl of Clanrickard or otherwise set at liberty upon his giving his own security of One-hundred pounds penalty personally to appear within ten days next after notice should be given for that purpose to be left at the house of one Thomas Lowe scituate in St. Thomas Street in Dublin before the Lord Lieutenant and Council and not to depart without license And this Informant further saith That some short time after this Informant and his said Father having further occasion to travel in the said County of Galway they came to the River Shannan where the wind being very high it was late before the Ferry-boat could pass them over to the said Town of Portumna where they arrived on a Saturday in the evening but finding the inhabitants there to gaze upon them and draw tumultuously together conceived it altogether unsafe to lodge there and therefore altho' they were both very wet and weary did rather chuse to travel four miles further to a lone house on the road to Loughreak and six miles short of Loughrea whither they intended that night to have gone had they not been prevented by the delay of the Ferry-boat as aforesaid and the next morning being Sunday about eleven a clock in the morning they came to Loughrea wherethey rested that day and night and yet at or by the instigation of the said Earl of Clanrickard and Thomas Allen or others his Accomplices the Constable of Loughrea and several other persons with him came very early the next morning being Monday to the house where this Informant and his said Father lodged that night in Loughrea aforesaid and there very rudely throwing open the Chamber-dore frightned them out of their sleep and there by virtue of a Warrant from one Iames Donnallan then a Steward also to the said Earl of Clanrickard a

Papist but yet a Justice of the Peace living near Loughrea seized this Informant and his said Father upon a pretence that they travelled on the Sabbath or Lords day whereas several of the Inhabitants there travelled and came all that Sabbath-day into Loughrea with their Carts and Horses Loaden from Athlone Faire Twenty Miles distant from Loughrea and yet none of these inhabitants were any ways troubled or molested for their so travelling on the same Sabbath day And the said Constable and those persons with him then also seized and took away a Case of Pistols and two Swords belonging to this Informant and his said Father then lying on the Table in their Chambers and said this Informant and his Father intended to kill some body with the Pistols and Swords whenas in truth they only carried the same about with them for their own defence And this Informant nor his said Father could never get their said Pistols or Swords restored again to them And the said Constable and those other persons then with him as aforesaid having seized and forced this Informant and his said Father out of their bed did also then force them to travel six miles to one Dean Peirse a Justice of the Peace and Minister living at that distance from Loughrea and the said Justice of the Peace or Minister reproving this Informant and his said Father for such their travelling on the said Sabbath-day told them withall That he had heard they had given in evidence against the said Earl of Clanrickard and thereupon committed this Informant and his said Father to the Gaol at Loughrea aforesaid whither he commanded the Constable to carry them and gave him private directions as this Informant knows because he overheard him that no bail should be taken for them or either of them altho' he the said Justice or Minister just before pretended to this Informant and his said Father that they might give bail And this Informant further saith That he and his said Father being accordingly carried by the said Constable and those with him into the said Gaol in Loughrea were by the instigation prevalency and directions as aforesaid there kept close prisoners for about five or six days and by the Keepers of the said Gaol denied and not suffered to have any bed to lye on but only the ground in the said Gaol wherein they were so kept nor any clothes to cover them save only their own wearing clothes on their backs and altho' they earnestly requested to have some sheepskins-brought to cover them from the cold yet could they not obtain leave to have the same done neither would the said Keeper having receiv'd such directions as aforesaid suffer any Friend to come into or near the said Gaol or Prison to speak with or do any thing for this Informant or his said Father or to bring them any relief or suffer them to have any victuals or drink neither had they any whilst they continued there but what they could privately get of the poor prisoners in the same prison And altho' this Informant just as he and his said Father were so brought to and going into the said Gaol did employ an English man a person living in Loughrea and gave him money and lent him this Informants Horse to convey or carry a Letter from this Informant and his said Father to Galloway but Fourteen Miles from Loughrea yet within an hour or two after fearing the Earl of Clanrickard's displeasure being as this Informant hath great cause to believe charged by some or other of the Earls Agents or Tenants there at his Perril as he told me not to convey or carry the said Letter did return this Informant his money again and said that the said Constable Christopher Poor by name and a Popish Constable in Loughrea told him the said person that if he should carry the said Letter or any other ways appear to do any thing for this Informant or his said Father that the said Earl of Clanrickard would ruin him and his Family And the better to colour the said malicious and injurious prosecutions against this Informant and his said Father several persons by such instigations and prevalencies as aforesaid were procured to report that this Informant's said Father had a design to burn the said Town of Loughrea and that besides the said Information against this Informant and his said Father for such their travelling as aforesaid on the Sabbath-day there would be seven or eight other Indictments preferred and prosecuted against them at the then Galloway Assizes and in such Condition this Informant and his said Father lay in the said Goal or Prison in Loughrea aforesaid for some considerable time and perhaps might there have layn if not destroy'd or famish't before by their cruel usages had not this Informant through a Window of the said Prison accidentally seeing a stranger riding by conveyed to him a Letter directed to some friends of theirs then living in Galloway where by such means the said Letter was received and understanding thereby such the sad Condition of this Informant and his said Father their said friends did presently make application to the Judges of the Assizes then sitting there at Galloway and of them obtained an Order for the removal of this Informant and his said Father thither And they being by the said Keepers of the said Goal thereupon brought to Galloway at night late were put in the vilest Prison in that Town amongst the condemned Malefactors and without any accommodation at all and the next morning they were brought before the said Judges Baron Heu and Judg Cusack in the Court of Assizes they then sitting where an Indictment was then preferred and read against this Informant and his said Father for such their travelling as aforesaid on the Sabbath-day and another malicious Indictment was then also preferred there and read against this Informant's said Father whereby it was charged That he as before which was most falsly and maliciously reported had a design to burn Loughrea And to the first of the said Indictments this Informant and his said Father upon the Courts demand submitted and to the last this Informants said Father put in his Traverse and altho' no prosecutors or witnesses then appeared against either of them yet were they ordered to give One thousand pounds Security not to depart the said Town of Galloway without leave of the said Court and some time after on the last day of the said Assizes they were ordered by the said Court to give and accordingly did give new Security to appear there again at the next Assizes and to keep the peace and be of good behaviour in the mean time and having given security and the said Assizes being ended they then repaired to Dublin which is about one hundred miles from Galloway and from thence were forced to repair back again at the next Assizes accordingly to Galloway to their great trouble and charge and when they came there none appeared to maintain