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<P>AN APOLOGY FOR THE PROTESTANTS of IRELAND. In a Brief NARRATIVE OF THE LATE REVOLUTIONS In that KINGDOM, AND An Account of the PRESENT STATE Thereof.</P>
<Q><L>&mdash;&mdash;Quaeque ip&s;e mi&s;errima vidi,</L>
<L>Et quorum pars magna fui,&mdash;&mdash;</L></Q>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Ric. Chi&s;wel,</HI> at the <HI>Ro&s;e</HI> and <HI>Crown</HI> in St. <HI>Paul's Church-Yard.</HI> MDCLXXXIX.</P>
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<HEAD>AN APOLOGY FOR THE PROTESTANTS OF IRELAND,</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">In a brief Narrative of the Late Revolutions in that KINGDOM, and an Account of the Pre&s;ent STATE thereof.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I am urged by the incentives of Love and Gratitude for the many obligations you have laid upon me, and by the Con&s;ci|ence of my own promi&s;e, to render you an Account of the late Revolutions in the King|dome of <HI>Ireland;</HI> and to lay before you a true Scheme of the pre&s;ent condition of that mi&s;e|rable and forlorn Country. In the perfor|mance whereof if I be nece&s;&s;itated to utter &s;ome unwelcome Truths; I be&s;peak your Cha|rity to believe, it does not proceed from any de&s;ign of a malicious Reflection, but from that irre&s;i&s;table Force that naturally attends a
<PB N="2" REF="3">faithful Narration. And becau&s;e the mi&s;ery of Exile and De&s;ertion is &s;en&s;ibly aggravated by their cruel and unequal cen&s;ure, who neither under&s;tand the cau&s;e, nor pity the effects of &s;o fatal a dereliction of our E&s;tates and Habita|tions, but &s;everely upbraid us with an uncon|&s;trained, timorous and unnece&s;&s;ary Flight; it will not be po&s;&s;ible to obviate &s;uch ill ground|ed Cavils, or to de&s;cribe the pre&s;ent face of Affairs, without a Retro&s;pect on the counte|nance of things as they formerly appeared.</P>
<P>While <HI>Charles</HI> the Second &s;way'd the Scep|ter; though the Papi&s;ts were too much coun|tenanced and indulg'd; and many hard&s;hips placed on the Prote&s;tants, e&s;pecially in relati|on to the Act of Settlement, yet by the favour of Heaven upon the extraordinary Fertility of the Land, <HI>Ireland</HI> was under very au&s;picious circum&s;tances: The Church Flouri&s;hed, Trade Increa&s;ed, the Cities and Towns were every Year inlarged with new Additions, the Country In|riched and Beautified with Hou&s;es and Planta|tions, the Farms were loaden with Stock, and ready and quick Markets there were to vent them: The Laws had a free and uninterrupt|ed cour&s;e, and a &s;tanding Army was &s;o far
<PB N="5" REF="3">from being a Terrour, that they were the comfort and &s;ecurity of the people: In a Word, Peace, Wealth, and Plenty were become univer&s;al and epidemical, and all things con&s;pired to a generous Emulation with our Mother and Neighbour, <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>But no &s;ooner did this bright Sun &s;et, and a new One appear'd in the Firmament, but Clouds and Vapours, Storms and Tempe&s;ts aro&s;e in our Horizon, which have &s;ince broke out in trouble and confu&s;ion, not like to be &s;ettled and appea&s;|ed but in a general de&s;olation, and depopulati|on of the whole Kingdome. Indeed at fir&s;t we were flatter'd with &s;ome hopes of a calm Sea|&s;on, by the arrival of the Right Honourable the Earl of <HI>Clarendon,</HI> and his e&s;tabli&s;hment in the Supream command; but his Commi&s;&s;ion was &s;tinted, his Authority far &s;hort of what was al|lowed to his Predece&s;&s;ors in that Government, and Colonel <HI>Richard Talbot</HI> (newly advanced to the ominous Title of <HI>Tyrconnel</HI>) openly and impudently appear'd his Comptroller, and &s;uper|vi&s;or; mo&s;t unju&s;tly and pre&s;umptuou&s;ly a&s;&s;u|ming a power to purge the Army, to deve&s;t the Officers of their Commi&s;&s;ions, and to di&s;|band thou&s;ands of Stout, well trained Souldi|ers,
<PB N="4" REF="4">de&s;poiling them of the very Coats they before paid for, and turning them off Naked, and Bare, to beg, and &s;eek their Livelihood, treating them with great Barbarity, and in a jeering and &s;cornful manner, giving out, that he mu&s;t have the whole Army of one Size, <HI>i.e.</HI> to be modelli&s;ed and mea&s;ured by the Stan|dard of <HI>Rome,</HI> and no Man to receive pay from a popi&s;h King, but he that openly gave him|&s;elf up to the avowed profe&s;&s;ion of Popery. Thus was an Army (not to be excell'd, for their Number, by any Army in <HI>Europe</HI>) bro|ken without a Rout, &s;ome hundreds of Gal|land Officers arbitrarily turn'd out, without the &s;atisfaction of a&s;&s;igning any Cau&s;e; and in their Rooms notorious Rebels and Murtherers or the Sons and Off &s;pring of &s;uch, placed; the Troops and Companies filled with Thieves, Tories, Robbers, and Goal-birds By which Act, as the In&s;olency and Inhumanity of the Papi&s;ts was palpably di&s;cover'd; &s;o the mode|&s;ty, &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion, and non-re&s;i&s;tence of the Pro|te&s;tants was evident to the World, by their patient undergoing this Martyrdom in their Fortunes. Soon after that Noble Earl was re|moved, who&s;e Admini&s;tration was much di&s;|reli&s;h'd
<PB N="5" REF="4">by the prevalent party, becau&s;e &s;o grateful to the Prote&s;tants (to accompany who&s;e departure, and to avoid the Tyranny of him that was to follow, 1500 Families de|&s;erted <HI>Dublin</HI>) To him &s;ucceeded the inglori|ous Earl of <HI>Tyrconnel,</HI> in his Morals and Athei&s;t, in his profe&s;&s;ion a Bigot, an egregious Di&s;&s;em|bler, and if not a Coward, one over-careful of his own &s;afety; a lover of him&s;elf without a Rival: From who&s;e entrance we may dare the Calamities and De&s;truction of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and of the Briti&s;h Intere&s;t in <HI>Ireland.</HI> For having at fir&s;t cull'd, and afterward quite changed the Army, metamorpho&s;ing Mantles into Red Coats, Brogues into Jack-Boots, and Cow-Boys into Captains; he di&s;per&s;ed his hel|li&s;h Legions among all the Towns and Garri|&s;ons; where the Name of the Iri&s;h Granadeers became as formidable, as the French Dra|goons. Next he proceeded to reform the Courts and civil Li&s;t; di&s;placing the Privy-Coun&s;ellors, the Judges &s;uper&s;eding the Ju&s;ti|ces of Peace, turning out the Sheriffs, and changeing the Officers imployed in the pub|lick Revenue: Con&s;tituting in their Rooms the mo&s;t incon&s;iderable varlets, Men of no Hone|&s;ty,
<PB N="6" REF="5">Under&s;tanding, or E&s;tate, of no skill in the Laws, or Intere&s;t in their Country. It was too &s;oon for him to Attacque the Church, to invade the Bi&s;hopwricks, or eject the Mini|&s;ters; but in every City and great Town, he erected Ma&s;s-hou&s;es, re-edify'd the Frieries, made Popi&s;h coadjutors to the Chaplains of every Regiment, and let loo&s;e a &s;warm of Je|&s;uits and Regulars to infe&s;t the land: And <HI>Pe|ter Manby</HI> Dean of <HI>Derry,</HI> having apo&s;tati&s;ed from the Religion he was bred in, degraded him&s;elf from his Function, and degenerated into a Lay-man, yet obtain'd a Patent to injoy the Revenues of the Deanery; and all vacant Bi&s;hopwricks and other Church Dignities were &s;eque&s;ter'd and apply'd to the maintenace of the Popi&s;h Clergy. To compleat the Cata|&s;trophes, a <HI>Quo Warranto,</HI> or a <HI>Scire facias</HI> was i&s;|&s;ued to every City, and Corporation thro' the Kingdom, whereof &s;ome tamely &s;ubmitted to a &s;urrender, others were condemned upon a <HI>Nihil dicit;</HI> while &s;uch as pleaded, and defend|ed their Right, had no other return for their Toil and Expences, but a &s;cornful publication of a partial and illegal Sentence agreed on and determin'd in the Cabal, before the hearing in
<PB N="7" REF="5">the Court. A new Charter was &s;ent to <HI>London-Derry,</HI> and none made Aldermen or Burge&s;&s;es there, but the Sons and De&s;cendants of notorious rank Rebels. But lea&s;t the Hereticks &s;hould grow &s;turdy, and be in a Capacity to defend them&s;elves again&s;t the next Ma&s;&s;acre, a Proclamation was I&s;|&s;ued, Requiring all the Officers of the Militia, both Hor&s;e and Foot, forthwith to deliver in to the next Magazine all their Arms; and by this knack, all tho&s;e of the Church of <HI>England</HI> (for no other were of the Militia) were left naked and di&s;arm'd: Soon after the Ju&s;tices of the Peace in the &s;everal Coun|ties, were required to take up all Arms from &s;uch as did not come to Church, and to render them in|to the next Stores; (and by this Trick all the Di&s;|&s;enters were left utterly defen&s;ele&s;s.)</P>
<P>And now Popery began to be triumphant, the Lord Deputy and his Privy-Council, (excepting a very few) the Lord Chancellor, and all the Judges, (except three) the Attorney General and the Kings Serjeants, the Ju&s;tices of the Peace, and Sheriffs in each County (except in &s;uch Places where no Pa|pi&s;ts were to be had,) all violent, and eager Pro|moters of the <HI>Romi&s;h</HI> Religion: The Ma&s;s pub|lickly Celebrated in every Town; the Fryers marching in their Habits undi&s;turbed; the Army reform'd to their own Cue, no Man Countenanced,
<PB N="8" REF="6">or made a Candidate for any Preferment, but he that truckled to the See of <HI>rome;</HI> the Charters of all Cities, Towns, and Corporations taken away, or condemn'd, and ignorant, indigent, &s;candalous and mean Per&s;ons obtruded upon them. Titles to E|&s;tates began to be que&s;tion'd, and &s;ome unrighte|ous Judgments given; and what el&s;e could be ex|pected, when Judges, Jurors, and Sheriffs, were all of one Stamp? The Prote&s;tants were daily abu|&s;ed, and per&s;ecuted upon Sham Plots, which ne|ver had an Exi&s;tence or Foundation, but in the Heads of their malicious Accu&s;ers; and &s;everal Gentlemen were Impri&s;on'd, Indicted, and Try'd for their Lives. And <HI>Tyrconnel</HI> was heard to &s;ay to his Countrymen, (and as is reported, by direction from his Lord and Ma&s;ter) You have now the Sword in your Hands, the King has given you your own Country to be the Refuge of Catholicks, keep it now you have it, and never &s;uffer the damn'd Hereticks to po&s;&s;e&s;s it again.</P>
<P>In this Po&s;ture of Affairs, was it not high time for the Prote&s;tants to look about them? to con|&s;ult their &s;afety, and by a timely Removal, to a|void tho&s;e imminent Dangers that threatned them. They began indeed to be under dreadful Apprehen|&s;ions, and &s;uch as wi&s;ely fore&s;aw the approaching Mi&s;eries, and were in a Capacity to do it, with|drew
<PB N="9" REF="6">them&s;elves, their Families and Effects into <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland;</HI> by which means &s;o great an Ob&s;truction was made to the Circulation of Mo|ney, that there follow'd a general decay of Trade through the Kingdom; the Tenants were render'd unable to pay their Rents, and the Landlords to &s;ub&s;i&s;t. Neverthele&s;s, in all the Towns and Coun|ties there were Multitudes, who couragiou&s;ly re&s;ol|ved to abide the Brunt, and with a patient Re&s;ig|nation to expect a Day of Redemption from the Slavery whereunto they were &s;ubjected, re&s;olving to follow the Fate of <HI>England,</HI> or hoping for &s;ea&s;on|able Relief from them. In the mean time the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> having a tender regard to the ga&s;ping Condition of the Prote&s;tant Religion, and conde&s;cending to a&s;&s;i&s;t the Nobility and Gentry of <HI>England</HI> in the their Re&s;cue from Popery, Slavery and Arbitrary Power; the Lord <HI>Tyrconnel</HI> publickly gave out threatning Speeches, that if the Prince did &s;end any Forces thither, he would rai&s;e and arm all the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> from 16. to 60. and leave all the Pro|te&s;tants to their Mercy. This proved a new and amazing Terror to the Prote&s;tants; they plainly &s;aw, that if any Forces came from <HI>England,</HI> to call the Papi&s;ts to Account, or to &s;upport them, their Lives would be made a Sacrifice to the Fury and Revenge of the Enemy; and that if none came to
<PB N="10" REF="7">their A&s;&s;i&s;tance, they remain'd hourly expo&s;ed to Rapine, Ma&s;&s;acre, and Murder: this terrible Two-edged Con&s;ideration took &s;uch Impre&s;&s;ion on them, that abundance of Men Women and Children withdrew them&s;elves, and abandon'd the King|dom.</P>
<P>But about the beginning of <HI>December</HI> la&s;t a Letter was found, without a Sub&s;cription, directed to the Earl of <HI>Mont-Alexander,</HI> giving him a friendly warning to take heed to him&s;elf, and po&s;itively a|verring a determinate De&s;ign to Ma&s;&s;acre all the Prote&s;tants through the Kingdom, Man, Woman, and Child, and this to be perpetrated preci&s;ely on the Ninth of <HI>December:</HI> Copies of this Letter were immediately tran&s;mitted to <HI>Dublin,</HI> and di&s;per&s;ed in all the adjacent Counties; and it is as incredi|ble to comprehend, as it is impo&s;&s;ible to expre&s;s, what Operation this had on the Minds of all Peo|ple, who being either Eye-witne&s;&s;es of the horrid Cruelties committed by the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> in the la&s;t Rebel|lion, without the lea&s;t relenting Compa&s;&s;ion to Age, or Sex; or having received an indlible Im|pre&s;&s;ion of their Barbarous Actions, from &s;uch as were Sufferers, or Spectators of them; they could by no Con&s;ideration or Arguments be rally'd into any A&s;&s;urance, or be per&s;waded to adventure their &s;afety under an armed Power, or continue among
<PB N="11" REF="7">tho&s;e, who&s;e Principles di&s;po&s;e them to the utter Extirpation of &s;uch as they account Hereticks. Hereupon a va&s;t number of People in great Preci|pitation removed into <HI>England</HI> with their Families, (e&s;pecially from about <HI>Dublin</HI>) leaving their Goods and Hou&s;hold-&s;tuff behind them. With &s;ome it had a contrary Effect, and generally through the Province of <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> the Inhabitants whereof began upon this Alarm to &s;tand upon their Guard, and to keep &s;trong Wards and Watches, re&s;olving nei|ther to fly, nor be &s;urpri&s;ed; though many things (not known in other Parts) contributed to their Conviction of the Reality of the intended Ma&s;&s;acre; as the voluntary Confe&s;&s;ions of certain Prie&s;ts in the County of <HI>Donegal,</HI> who warn'd their Friends &s;ecretly to depart, becau&s;e there was a general Ma&s;&s;acre de&s;ign'd; that the Prie&s;ts were again&s;t it, but had been over-voted by the Fryers. The Evidence given to a Ju&s;tice of the Peace in the County of <HI>London-Derry,</HI> that one of their Ti|tular Deans was buying up Hor&s;es and Arms, and he declared, that within two or three Years pa&s;t he had laid out 500. <HI>l.</HI> in buying Arms, and that he had be&s;poke as many Iron Chains to be Reins for Bridles, as would &s;erve Sixty Hor&s;e. (one of which Chains five yards long was deliver'd to the &s;aid Ju&s;tice by the Smith that made it) The Words
<PB N="12" REF="8">&s;poken by Father <HI>Daly,</HI> Guardian of the Fryery at <HI>Armagh,</HI> who (when he heard that the Prince of <HI>Orange</HI> was to land in <HI>England</HI>) &s;aid publickly, that they might thank their Devil of a King for this, for is he had de&s;troyed all the Prote&s;tants when it was in his Power, they had not now call'd in the <HI>Dutch.</HI> But above all, the Attempt of the Papi&s;ts to po&s;&s;e&s;s <HI>London-Derry,</HI> at that very nick of time, turned the Su&s;picion into a confident Per&s;wa&s;ion of the Truth of what was reported. <HI>London-Derry</HI> was then (by the Mercy of God, and the Impro|vidence of the Deputy) without any Garri&s;on at all in it, the Soldiers being a little before tran&s;por|ted upon the Expedition into <HI>England;</HI> and it falling &s;o out, that upon the very day when a Copy of the above-mention'd Letter was &s;ent to that City, (name|ly the <HI>7th.</HI> of <HI>December</HI>) the Earl of <HI>Antrim,</HI> with a numerous Party of Highlanders and <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> was on his March to Po&s;&s;e&s;s and Command that Place; the Inhabitants looked upon the Advance of &s;o many Papi&s;ts on the <HI>7th.</HI> day, to be the Prologue to the Tragedy, intended to be acted on the <HI>9th.</HI> day, and judging, that if they were once admit|ted, all the <HI>Ul&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Conaght Iri&s;h</HI> might draw thi|ther, and from thence diffu&s;e them&s;elves through the Province, and with great Facility exterminate all the Prote&s;tants, they (by the Advice of a Gen|tleman
<PB N="13" REF="8">in the Neighbourhood) &s;hut their Gates, and kept them out, and by his Conduct defended the Place, till a Prote&s;tant Garri&s;on was &s;ettled in it.</P>
<P>And now the Deputy began to exert his Art, as before he had manife&s;ted his Tyrannical and U|&s;urped Authority; for, con&s;idering that <HI>London-Derry</HI> was out of the Papi&s;ts hands, and that the Pro|te&s;tants in <HI>Ul&s;ter</HI> were very numerous, he began to cajole and flatter them, for he &s;ecretly gave out Commi&s;&s;ions for rai&s;ing of Thirty Regiments; and having Circumvented the Lord <HI>Mountjoy</HI> with &s;pe|cious Pretences of Moderation and Peace, and prevail'd with him to go on a Mock Emba&s;&s;y to King <HI>James,</HI> then in <HI>France,</HI> he conde&s;cended to cer|tain Articles, which carry'd a &s;hew of Mildne&s;s and Equity, but really were only a Mask to cover his De&s;igns, and to amu&s;e the People; and they were to this Effect. <HI>1&s;t.</HI> That no more Forces &s;hould be rai&s;ed, nor more Arms deliver'd out of the Stores. <HI>2dly.</HI> That the new Levies &s;hould be di&s;|mi&s;s'd <HI>3dly.</HI> That no Forces &s;hould be &s;ent into <HI>Ul&s;ter. 4thly.</HI> That no Nobleman, or Gentlemans Hou&s;e &s;hould be made a Garri&s;on, again&s;t his Will: Which Stipulations the Deputy heartily &s;wore to, and a&s;&s;ured by many direful Imprecations. No &s;ooner was the Lord <HI>Mountjoy</HI> gone (who was
<PB N="14" REF="9">made the me&s;&s;enger of his own Fate, and carry'd <HI>Bellerophon</HI>'s Letters with him) but the Deputy proceeded to form a new Army, and gave out Commi&s;&s;ions for many Regiments of Hor&s;e, Dra|goons, and Foot, to he number of 40000. Men, without any other Warrant, than a bare Letter from his King; empty'd all the Stores and Ma|gazines, and furni&s;h'd the Soldiers with competent Arms, incouraging the Women and Boys, and the whole Rabble of People to provide Skenes and Half-Pikes, and to live upon the Plunder of the Prote&s;tants; and having no Pay to give among the new Levies, each Captain undertook to give Sub|&s;i&s;tence to his Men in Beef and Meal for three Months; and this they borrow'd from the Prote|&s;tants, daily robbing them at Noon day, and carry|ing away their Sheep and Cattle in Flocks and Droves. And when he had rai&s;ed a formidable Army, and very well knew how naked and de|fen&s;ele&s;s the Prote&s;tants were, (having twice before Di&s;arm'd them) he began palpably to di&s;cover how exact and punctual Ob&s;erver he intended to be of his Oaths and Promi&s;es, and by the following Letters from <HI>Dublin</HI> you may &s;ee how he began to handle tho&s;e that were in his Clutches.</P>
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<P><HI>Dublin</HI> is &s;urrounded for Thirty Miles about, with Popi&s;h Forces newly rai&s;ed, and &s;ome of the &s;tanding Army; all the Avenues to it are &s;topt and Guarded: So that it is not po&s;&s;i|ble to more, or travel Five Miles, without be|ing &s;topt and examin'd, and for the mo&s;t part di&s;arm'd, di&s;mounted, an dpillaged. The City is filled with Soldiers, Troopers, and Dragoons, to the number of 30000. The&s;e are Quartered upon private Hou&s;es, as well as publick, and more expected dayly. Mo&s;t Prote&s;tants within Forty Miles of <HI>Dublin</HI> are pillaged, robbed, and di&s;arm'd; the Trees and Plantations cut down, and them&s;elves expo&s;ed to the Mercy of Tories, Robbers, and Servants, who are now inli&s;ted in the Army. We believe they are &s;o every where el&s;e, but cannot have an accompt, becau&s;e all Letters are opened, examined, and &s;topt, that brings any intelligence (by the Government) that does not plea&s;e the <HI>Papi&s;ts;</HI> only by chance we hear from &s;ome places, and find they are u&s;ed like tho&s;e nearer.</P>
<P>There is no Trade, Bu&s;ine&s;s, or Money &s;tirring in <HI>Dublin,</HI> but every body expo&s;ed to the Mercy and In&s;olence of Soldiers; and when Complaint is made to the Government, there is no redre&s;s
<PB N="16" REF="10">or help; all the Forces rai&s;ed, have no Money, nor a po&s;&s;ibility of being paid, and therefore mu&s;t be left to do as they do all at pre&s;ent, to plunder and pillage whom they plea&s;e; when they have done in the Country, and de&s;troyed all, as they have very near done already, they will then fall a plundering the City, which we dayly fear and expect. By Order of the Lord Deputy, the County of <HI>Meath,</HI> and <HI>We&s;t-Meath,</HI> are di&s;armed, and their Hor&s;es taken from them: they are do|ing the &s;ame in the County of <HI>Dublin.</HI></P>
<P>They have marked all the Stables in <HI>Dublin,</HI> and can take all their Hor&s;es in an hour; and it's hourly expected that they &s;hould di&s;arm every Prote&s;tant, which they will certainly do when they are a little &s;tronger.</P>
<P>They are dayly Baking Bisket in the Ca&s;tle for the March of an Army; they have proveded, as it is &s;aid, Field pieces: As &s;oon as they have di&s;|arm'd <HI>Dublin,</HI> it it like they will March into the <HI>North,</HI> to &s;ubdue the Prote&s;tants there. They in probability intend to &s;urprize them, and in order thereunto take up all Hor&s;es, without regard to whom they belong; nay, they threaten, not to leave &s;o much as a Hackney; by which means they may be able to &s;et 10000 Men on Hor&s;eback, and March as far as <HI>Ardmaugh</HI> or <HI>Newry</HI> in two or
<PB N="17" REF="10">three days. They &s;top all intercour&s;es with the <HI>North,</HI> both by Sea and Land; and hope to come on them unawares. It is therefore nece&s;&s;ary for the Prote&s;tants in the <HI>North,</HI> to be ready at a days warning to receive them; to Guard well all the Pa&s;&s;es of the Mountains, and Fortify them as well as they can; to make ready Provi&s;ion of Meal and Ammunition for the Field; and if no Ammu|nition be come to them, to &s;end Ships immediate|ly, and Money to bring it, otherwi&s;e they may be upon them.</P>
<P>The <HI>Popi&s;h</HI> Army will have the whole Coun|try, from <HI>Ardmaugh</HI> to <HI>Dublin</HI> to &s;upply them; and they can have Ammunition and Provi&s;ion come to them whent hey plea&s;e, and will not &s;tay for them, only &s;o much as may be for pre&s;ent u&s;e.</P>
<P>They are bringing Gentlemen into Plots, and Trying them upon Popi&s;h Oaths, by Popi&s;h Judges and Juries; &s;o they have &s;erved Captain <HI>Philips</HI> of <HI>Mullingar,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Bowen</HI> the Collector, who are to be Tryed next Week at <HI>Mullingar,</HI> and will probably be found Guilty and Executed. This will only be a Leading Example to Try and Con|demn other Gentlemen.</P>
<P>Every body able to remove, is going from hence; there is no body to Head the Prote&s;tants if there &s;hould be occa&s;ion. There are Warrants
<PB N="18" REF="11">again&s;t mo&s;t of the con&s;iderable Men. People are &s;o intermix'd, and &s;o near the Government, that they dare not &s;o much as meet, much le&s;s di&s;|cour&s;e any thing appertaining to the Common &s;afety. If therefore the Prote&s;tants have no help from abroad, their Ruin is unavoidable.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Feb.</HI> 22. 1688.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<LETTER LANG="eng" REND="italic">
<OPENER><SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>ALL the Streets in <HI>Dublin</HI> are be&s;et with <HI>16000</HI> Men, all their Hou&s;es are &s;earched by Dragoons, and all their Hor&s;es taken; the Lord Mayor and Alder|men went this day through the City, Commanding all Pro|te&s;tants, by four of the Clock, to bring in their Arms to their Pari&s;h Church; and if they left &s;o much as a Bionet not brought in, if upon &s;earch any were found, That Hou&s;e &s;hould be expo&s;ed to the mercy of the Sol|diers.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Dated <DATE><HI>Feb.</HI> the 25th. 1688.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>The Prote&s;tants in <HI>Ul&s;ter</HI> taking notice of the&s;e Proceedings, and truly judging, that their de&s;tru|ction was approaching, and that they could only expect <HI>Uly&s;&s;es</HI> fate, to be la&s;t be devoured, they be|gan to rou&s;e them&s;elves into &s;ome preparations to
<PB N="19" REF="11">oppo&s;e a &s;udden &s;urprize, and with &s;tour Hearts (but weak Hands) to a&s;&s;emble, and &s;tand upon their Guard, and in the Ea&s;tern Counties of <HI>Down</HI> and <HI>An|trim</HI> to form an A&s;&s;ociation to rai&s;e Troops and Companies to &s;ecure the Frontiers, and to prevent the Incur&s;ions of the Enemy. But as their Prepara|tions were ha&s;ty, and now ay competent to their nece&s;&s;ity; &s;o their Retreat was as precipitate, and di&s;&s;onant from their Re&s;olutions. The Deputy ha|ving got together a va&s;t Army, the Prote&s;tants in <HI>Dublin</HI> and the adjacent Counties, being di&s;arm'd and di&s;mounted; tho&s;e in <HI>Mun&s;ter</HI> and <HI>Conaght</HI> plun|der'd and pillag'd of all their Goods, Hor&s;es, Sheep, and Cattle: he &s;ent down a Body of 15000 Men into <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> under the Command of <HI>rich. Hamilton,</HI> whom he con&s;tituted Lieutenant General of the Army; and (out of a de&s;ign, partly to terrifie, and partly to delude the de&s;ponding Prote&s;tants, who hitherto had kept up their Spirits in a daily expe|ctation of Relief from <HI>England</HI>) he made u&s;e of a <HI>Presbyterian Mini&s;ter,</HI> who had a great influence upon tho&s;e of his Per&s;ua&s;ion (who&s;e number in the <HI>North</HI> was very con&s;iderable) and obliged him to write this following Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Ma&s;&s;ereen,</HI> a &s;trenuous A&s;&s;erter of the Prote&s;tant Intere&s;t, and by it the greate&s;t Sufferer in that Province; Copies whereof were immedi|ately di&s;pers'd thro the &s;everal Counties.</P>
<LETTER LANG="eng" REND="margQuotes">
<PB N="20" REF="12">
<OPENER><DATELINE><HI>Loghbricklan,</HI> <DATE><HI>March</HI> 9. 1688.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>My Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>ON the 6th in&s;tant I was introduced by my Lord <HI>Granard</HI> into my Lord Deputy's Pre&s;ence in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin:</HI> I have his Pa&s;s to come and go through and back from <HI>Ul&s;ter;</HI> and tho I have not his Excellencies direct Com|mi&s;&s;ion, yet I will a&s;&s;ure you I am at lea&s;t per|mitted by the Lord Deputy to acquaint the Chief, and others of tho&s;e of the <HI>Ul&s;ter</HI> A&s;&s;ociati|on with his Di&s;cour&s;e to me, which was to the effect following, to wit,</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t,</HI> That his Excellency doth not delight in the Blood and Deva&s;tation of the &s;aid Province: but however highly re&s;ents their taking and con|tinuing in Arms, the affronts done by them to His Maje&s;ty's Government thereby, and by &s;ome in|dignities done to the late Proclamation of Cle|mency i&s;&s;ued and dated &mdash;</P>
<P><HI>Secondly,</HI> Notwith&s;tanding whereof, is willing to receive the &s;aid Province into Protection, pro|vided they immediately deliver up to his Army, for His Maje&s;ty's u&s;e, their Arms and &s;erviceable Hor&s;es, and provided they deliver up to his Ex|cellency the&s;e three Per&s;ons, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P>if they remain in the Kingdom, and may be had.</P>
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<P><HI>Thirdly,</HI> And for further manife&s;tation of his De&s;ign to prevent Blood, is willing to grant &s;afe Conduct even to the &s;aid three Per&s;ons, or any other of their Party, to and from his Excellency, and to and from Lieutenant-General <HI>Hamilton,</HI> Commander of part of his Army, hereafter men|tioned, if they intend any peaceable and rea&s;o|nable Treaty: But withal will not, upon the &s;aid Account, or any other, &s;top the March of the &s;aid part of his Army, no not for one hour; and if it &s;hall appear in &s;uch Treaty, that they took up Arms meerly for Self-pre&s;ervation, then he will pardon even the &s;aid three Per&s;ons al&s;o; but is hopele&s;s that any &s;uch thing can be made ap|pear, &s;eeing that many of them have already ac|cepted and received Commi&s;&s;ions from the Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> and di&s;play his Colours in the Field, as his Excellency is credibly informed.</P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> If the&s;e terms be not immediately a|greed to, he will with a part of his Army fight them; which part he intends &s;hall be at <HI>Newry</HI> on <HI>Monday</HI> the 11th of this in&s;tant; which will from thence march to <HI>Belfa&s;t,</HI> and from thence to <HI>Colerane</HI> and <HI>Londonderry,</HI> as his Excellency in|tends: And that the Countrey <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> not of the Army, Men, Women, and Boys, now all Arm|ed with Half-Pikes and Bionets, in the Counties
<PB N="22" REF="13">of <HI>Cavan, Monagham, Tyrone, Londonderry, &amp;c.</HI> will, upon the approach of the &s;aid part of the Army, and Re&s;i&s;tance thereto made, immediately enter upon a Ma&s;&s;acre of the <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> in the &s;aid Coun|ties; which Force and Violence of the Rabble his Excellency &s;aith he cannot re&s;train, <HI>and fears it may be greater than in</HI> 1641. The&s;e are the Heads of what I can offer to you from his Excel|lency's own mouth: but I intend to be at <HI>Hills-borough</HI> to night, and there to &s;tay for this night; where, if you think fit, I &s;hall fully di&s;cour&s;e with you of all the particulars; whereof, I hope, you will give immediate notice to all chiefly concerned in your County and Neighbourhood, for gaining of time. I have &s;ent this Expre&s;s, that your Lord&s;hip may give Adverti&s;ement by Ex|pre&s;s to all &s;uch as your Lord&s;hip thinks conve|nient. I &s;hall add no further, till I have the Ho|nour to &s;ee your Lord&s;hip.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your Lord&s;hip's Obedient Servant, <HI>Alex. Osborne.</HI></SIGNED> Received the &s;ame Night at <HI>Antrim.</HI></CLOSER>
</LETTER>
<P>This Letter was received at <HI>Antrim</HI> the &s;ame Night; and immediately the following An&s;wer was returned, by the Earl of <HI>Mount-Alexander,</HI> Lord <HI>Ma&s;&s;areen,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<PB N="23" REF="13">
<P><Q REND="margQuotes">We declare the utter abhorrence of the effu|&s;ion of Blood, and that we will u&s;e all proper Means to avoid it, but cannot con&s;ent to lay down our Arms, which we were forced to take up for our own Defence; nor to part with our Goods by any other than legal Means; and that we are ready to appoint Per&s;ons to treat on each Heads, as are con&s;i&s;tent with the &s;afety of our Religion, Lives, and Liberty.</Q></P>
<P>Now to convince all Mankind, that this &s;peci|ous Me&s;&s;age &s;ent by Mr. <HI>Osbourn,</HI> dated <HI>March</HI> 9. 1688 (who came with all &s;peed from <HI>Dublin</HI>) was only a Sham and Delu&s;ion plotted by the De|puty to amu&s;e the poor Prote&s;tants, and ca&s;t a Mi&s;t before their Eyes, that they might not &s;ee their approaching De&s;truction. Behold the Procla|mation dated at <HI>Dublin, March</HI> 7. 1688. wherein he had decreed the Ruin of <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> and the exemp|tion of &s;o many Per&s;ons from Mercy.</P>
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<HEAD REND="roman">By the Lord Deputy and Council, <HI>March</HI> 22. 1688/9.</HEAD>
<OPENER REND="roman"><SALUTE>TYRCONNELL.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>WHereas &s;everal Per&s;ons in the Pro|vince of <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> and the Town of <HI>Sligo,</HI> in this His Maje&s;ties King|dom, have entred into &s;everal A&s;&s;ociations, containing no le&s;s Offence than High-Trea&s;on; and therupon form'd them&s;elves into &s;everal Parties, Dividing &amp; Mar&s;hal|ling them&s;elves into &s;everal Regiments, Troops, and Companies, Marching well armed up and down the Country, to the great Terror of the Kings Leige People, in manife&s;t breach of the Law, and of the Peace of this Realm: And having re&s;olv|ed within our &s;elves to prevent the Effu&s;i|on of Blood, as long as it was po&s;&s;ible, by u&s;ing all peaceable Means to reduce the &s;aid Malefactors to their Obedience, have of late i&s;&s;ued a Proclamation, &s;etting forth
<PB N="25" REF="14">the &s;aid Di&s;orders, requiring all the &s;aid Parties to di&s;per&s;e, and repair to their &s;e|veral Habitations and Callings, a&s;&s;uring every of them of His Maje&s;ty's Pardon and Protection. And whereas we find the &s;aid Offenders, in&s;tead of complying with our &s;aid Proclamation, &s;till to per&s;i&s;t in their Wickedne&s;s, by continuing in actual Rebellion, breaking of Pri&s;ons, and di&s;|charging of Pri&s;oners, &s;ecured by due cour&s;e of Law, for Robberies, Felonies, and other heinous Crunes; by &s;eizing up|on his Maje&s;ties Arms and Ammunition, impri&s;oning &s;everal of his Maje&s;ties Army, di&s;arming and di&s;mounting them, killing and murdering &s;everal of his Maje&s;ties Subjects, pillaging and plundering the Country, and daily committing &s;everal o|ther Acts of Ho&s;tility; and finding no other way left to &s;uppre&s;s the &s;aid Revellion, We the Lord Deputy have cau&s;ed a Party of his Maje&s;ties Army, under the Command of Lt. General <HI>Richard Hamilton,</HI> to march into the Province of <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> to reduce the Rebels there by force of Arms; the Con&s;e|quence whereof cannot but be very fatal to that Country, and the Inhabitants there|of,
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<PB N="26" REF="16">and will inevitably occa&s;ion the total ruine and de&s;truction of that part of His Maje&s;ties Kingdom: The Con&s;ideration whereof hath given us great di&s;quiet and trouble of Mind; that a Country well planted and inhabited, &s;hould now, by the in&s;olency and traiterous wickedne&s;s of its own Inhabitants, be brought to ruin or de&s;olation, which we are &s;till willing to prevent, if any &s;park of Grace be yet re|maining in the Hearts of tho&s;e Con&s;pira|tors, hereby declaring, notwith&s;tanding the many Affronts by them put upon his Maje&s;ties Government, notwith&s;tanding the &s;everal Acts of Ho&s;tility by them hi|therto committed, that if they will now &s;ubmit and become dutiful Subjects, His Maje&s;ties Mercy &s;hall be extended to them, excepting the Per&s;ons hereafter excepted; and in order thereunto, We the Lord-De|puty and Council, do &s;trictly charge and command all &s;uch Per&s;ons in Arms in <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> or the Town of <HI>Sligo,</HI> forthwith to lay down Arms, and that the principal Per&s;ons among&s;t them now in the North, do forthwith repair to Lt. General <HI>Richard Hamilton,</HI> and deliver up to him their Arms,
<PB N="27" REF="16">and &s;erviceable Hor&s;es, and to give him Ho&s;tages as an a&s;&s;urance of their future Loyalty and Obedience to His Maje&s;ty, and that all their Adherents do deliver up their Arms and &s;erviceable Hor&s;es to &s;uch Per&s;on or Per&s;ons as he the &s;aid Lt. Ge|neral <HI>Richard Hamilton</HI> &s;hall appoint to re|ceive them. And we do al&s;o further charge and command all the principal Per&s;ons of other Commotions and In&s;urrections in <HI>Sligo,</HI> to repair forthwith either to us the Lord Deputy, or to Colonel <HI>M^c Daniel</HI> at the <HI>Boyle,</HI> and deliver up their Arms and &s;erviceable Hor&s;es, and to give Ho&s;tages, as Security, for their future peaceable Deportment, and their Adherents to lay down their Arms to be delivered up, toge|ther with their &s;erviceable Hor&s;es, to the &s;aid Col. <HI>M^c Daniel.</HI> We the Lord-Deputy hereby giving &s;afe Conduct to &s;uch of them as will &s;ubmit according to this our Pro|clamation. And we do hereby further de|clare, That &s;uch of the &s;aid Per&s;ons as &s;hall give Obedience to the&s;e our Com|mands, except the Per&s;ons hereafter ex|cepted, &s;hall have his Maje&s;ties Protection and Pardon, for all pa&s;t Offences relating
<PB N="28" REF="17">to the &s;aid Commotions and In&s;urrecti|ons: but in ca&s;e they &s;hall be to unhappy as to per&s;i&s;t in their wicked De&s;igns and trea&s;onable Practi&s;es, We the Lord-De|puty do hereby command all his Maje&s;ties Forces to fall upon them wherever they meet them, and to treat them as Rebels and Traitors to his Maje&s;ty. Yet to the end the Innocent may not &s;uffer for the Crimes of the Nocent, and that the Com|mittals of Human Acts may be prevented, we do hereby &s;trictly charge and command His Maje&s;ties Army, now upon their march to the <HI>North,</HI> and all other his Ma|je&s;ties Forces, that they, or either of them do not pre&s;ume to u&s;e any violence to Wo|men, Children, aged or decriped Men, La|bourers, Plow-men, Tillers of the Ground, or to any other who in the&s;e Com|motions demean them&s;elves inoffen&s;ive|ly, without joining with the Rebels, or aiding or a&s;&s;i&s;ting them in their traiterous Actings and Behaviours. But in regard <HI>Hugh</HI> Earl of <HI>Mount-Alexander, John</HI> Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Mazareen, Robert</HI> Lord Baron of <HI>King&s;ton, Clotworthy Sherington</HI> E&s;q; Son to the Lord Vi&s;count <HI>Mazareene,</HI> Sir <HI>Robert
<PB N="29" REF="17">Colvil,</HI> Sir <HI>Arthur Rowden,</HI> Sir <HI>John Magill, John Hawkins, Robert Sander&s;on,</HI> and <HI>Francis Hamilton</HI> Son to Sir <HI>Charles Hamilton,</HI> have been the principal Actors in the &s;aid Rebel|lion, and the Per&s;ons who advi&s;ed and fo|mented the &s;ame, and inveagled others to be involved therein: We think fit to except them out of this our Proclamation, as Per&s;ons not de&s;erving his Maje&s;ties Mer|cy or Favour.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given at the Council-Chamber of <HI>Dublin,</HI> <DATE><HI>March</HI> 7, 1688.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>A. Fytton, C. Granard; Limerick, Bellew, Will. Talbot, Tho. Newcomen, Rich. Hamilton, Fran. Plowden.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</FLOATEXT>
<P>The Deputy (who till now had never kept Faith, Truce, or Promi&s;e) was &s;trict and pun|ctual to his Word; for he &s;ent down his Army at the Time, and to the Place appointed, meeting with no Re&s;i&s;tance (the Prote&s;tants being unpro|vided of Arms and Ammunition, and not able &s;o &s;uddenly to imbody them&s;elves, or &s;tem the Torrent that was ready to overwhelm them) but what was made by Sir <HI>Arthur Rowdon,</HI> who at the
<PB N="30" REF="18">head of 200 Hor&s;e, gallantly oppo&s;ed them; till finding it impo&s;&s;ible to di&s;pute the Pa&s;&s;age of &s;o great an Army by &s;o incon&s;iderable a Force, he made a ha&s;ty, but honourable Retreat, with the lo&s;s of a very few Men: and being met by &s;ome Companies of Foot, who were marching on, (but too late, and too &s;lowly) to &s;econd him, they al&s;o retreated, but in &s;ome Di&s;order; which be|ing ob&s;erved by the Inhabitants of <HI>Lisburn,</HI> they began immediately to fly toward <HI>Antrim,</HI> the Peo|ple of which place being &s;truck with Amazement at &s;o unexpected an Adventure, betook them&s;elves to Flight al&s;o, and &s;o rolling on from one Town to another, the Country was univer&s;ally &s;ei&s;ed with a panic Fear and Con&s;ternation, hurrying their Wives and Children toward the Sea-Coa&s;t, leaving their Goods in their Hou&s;es, their Stock in the Fields, and taking no Care, but to pre&s;erve their Lives. In this Confu&s;ion and Fright the poor Souls fled to <HI>London-Derry,</HI> and would have gone further, if the Sea had not &s;topt them. To take upon me to De&s;cribe the Horror of this Revoluti|on, the mo&s;t Deplorable State of the People, the Mi&s;ery, Poverty, and Di&s;tre&s;s of many thou&s;and good Families, and the utter De&s;olation of a mo&s;t fruitful and well-peopl'd Country, would ingage me in a Task, which no Pen can &s;ufficiently expre&s;s,
<PB N="31" REF="18">nor no Art render credible, or intelligible. Let it &s;uffice, that I tell you in a word, there is not this Day a Prote&s;tant in the Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> that has a Gun to defend him, a Hor&s;e to car|ry him, a Hou&s;e to &s;helter him, or Stock to &s;u&s;tain him; except &s;uch as have been deluded, or (mi&s;&s;ing of a timely E&s;cape) nece&s;&s;itated to accept of Protections (which will avail the un|fortunate Compliers no longer, than till the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> become Ma&s;ters of the whole) or el&s;e &s;uch as are confined within the Walls of <HI>London-Derry,</HI> who by extraordinary Courage, whetted by De&s;pair, have re&s;i&s;ted a powerful Army (grown in&s;olent by an un-interrupted Succe&s;s) to the A&s;toni&s;hment of the Be&s;iegers, and the &s;hame of tho&s;e that de&s;erted them. And le&s;t any Prote&s;tant &s;hould continue Ma&s;ter of his own Hou&s;e, or evade an open Compliance with the Papi&s;ts, they found a Device to reduce them to the misfortune of this Dilemma, either to &s;urren|der all they had to the mercile&s;s Invaders, or be Pro&s;ecuted as Rebels for making Re&s;i&s;tance (which un-Chri&s;tian cour&s;e they had before practi&s;ed through the Province of <HI>Mun&s;ter</HI>) to which purpo&s;e they &s;ent Summonitory Letters to the Proprietors, in one Line threat|ning, and in another wheedling, and &s;o
<PB N="32" REF="19">puzzling them with a fatal irre&s;olution, till either by open A&s;&s;ault, or by the clo&s;e Mine of a Pro|tection, they became Ma&s;ters of their Wi&s;hes: I will give you only one for an In&s;tance, &s;ent by Colonel <HI>Gordon O Neil,</HI> Son of that Arch-Rebel Sir <HI>Phelim O Neil.</HI></P>
<LETTER LANG="eng" REND="blackletterType">
<P>BY vertue of an Order granted to me by <HI>Richard Hamilton,</HI> E&s;q; Lieutenant General of His Ma|je&s;ty's Forces in the Province of <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> to grant Protedions to all &s;uch as will &s;ubmit them&s;elves, and lay down their Arms, and peaceably live in their own Dwellings.</P>
<P>The&s;e are therefore, in His Maje&s;ties Name, to Require all Per&s;ons, &s;o inclined, to come in to me, and they &s;hall be Proteued in Body and Goods.</P>
<P>I do hereby &s;ummon the Gari&s;on of <HI>Dau&s;on's-Bridge</HI> and <HI>Maghrefelt</HI> to lay down their Arms, or then to be proceeded again&s;t as Rebels to His Ma|je&s;ty, and to be Pro&s;ecuted accordingly.</P>
<CLOSER REND="roman"><DATELINE>Given under my hand, at <HI>Duneen,</HI> <DATE>this Twenty fir&s;t of <HI>March,</HI> 1688.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Gordon O Neil.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>I had almo&s;t forgot to take notice to you how craftily and treacherou&s;ly the Lord <HI>Tyrconnel</HI> proceeded during the&s;e Tran&s;actions. For pre|tending to &s;tand in dread of an Inva&s;ion from <HI>England,</HI> (though by the Sequel it is more than probable he had better Intelligence from thence) he over-awed and con&s;trained &s;ome con&s;iderable Per&s;ons to abu&s;e the Mini&s;ters of State with a fal&s;e Repre&s;entation; others he plainly threatned, That if they did not write to their Friends in <HI>England,</HI> to di&s;&s;wade them from &s;ending over any Forces, he would expo&s;e the Prote&s;tants, without Mercy, or Di&s;tinction, to the Fury of the Soldiers, and the Mercy of the Rabble. And as for the ingenious Conceit of the Pro|tections, it has proved a meer Cheat, and a Trap to in&s;nare credulous People; I will give you one for a Precedent.</P>
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<P>I <HI>Richard Hamilton,</HI> Lieutenant General of His Maje&s;ty's Forces in <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> do onely receive into His Maje&s;ty's Protection, the Body and Goods of <HI>James Hunter,</HI> of <HI>Bally menag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> in the County of <HI>Antrim,</HI> Yeoman; and promi&s;e and oblige my &s;elf, That none of the Army &s;hall mole&s;t, or hurt him, or take any thing from him.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Given under my hand, at the Camp, <DATE><HI>March</HI> Twenty &s;eventh, 1689.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Richard Hamilton.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<P>The poor protected Man being thus noos'd, returns to his Hou&s;e, and follows his Labour; but anon down comes the Rabble, like an In|undation of <HI>Goths</HI> and <HI>Vandals,</HI> &s;weep all be|fore them, and leave nothing behind them, but a naked &s;tarved Family: The wretched Man makes his Addre&s;s to his Protector, and receives only this cold comfort, <HI>I did promi&s;e to protect you from the Army, that none of them &s;hould offer you any Violence; but I have no power to re&s;train the Rabble.</HI></P>
<P>Let us now reflect upon what has been &s;aid, and briefly re-capitulate the pre&s;&s;ing Exigencies, the imminent Extremities, and unavoidable Dangers, to which the poor Prote&s;tants were &s;ubjected: and then I will appeal to any Man of Sen&s;e, that is not a bigotted Papi&s;t, Whether they had not ju&s;t and undeniable rea&s;ons to &s;eek their E&s;cape from the impending Per&s;ecutions, and to take Sanctuary in <HI>England, Scotland,</HI> and the <HI>I&s;le of Man.</HI></P>
<P>When the Sword was taken from the Earl of <HI>Clarendon,</HI> becau&s;e he favoured the Prote&s;tants; and put into the Hands of <HI>Tyrconnel,</HI> becau&s;e he was a furious Patron of the Papi&s;ts, was it not high time for con&s;iderate Men to fore&s;ee the di&s;|mal con&s;equences: and to avoid them by a
<PB N="35" REF="20">lei&s;urely Rece&s;s? when the Officers of the Army were turned out, and the Souldiers disbanded, merely becau&s;e they were Prote&s;tants: when the Majority of the Privy-Council, the Judges, Ju&s;tices of the Peace, Sheriffs, and all other civil Officers, were avowed, and profe&s;t Papi&s;ts: when &s;uttle Je&s;uits, mercenary Prie&s;ts, and beg|ing Friers &s;warmed through the Land, and crept into all Hou&s;es and Families, and the Idolatrous <HI>Ma&s;s</HI> allow'd to be &s;et up in every Town: when the Corporations were &s;uper&s;eded, and none admit|ted to Magi&s;tracy, or Freedom, but the &s;cum of the Vulgar, and the Spawn of Rebels: when the Act of &s;ettlement began to be can|va&s;&s;ed, and Mens Titles to E&s;tates and Proper|ties were pro&s;tituted to the prejudicate Verdict of &s;uch Jurors, packt by &s;uch Sheriffs, and the partial &s;entence of &s;uch Judges, who all concur in accounting it a meritorious Service to weaken and de&s;troy the Hereticks; was it not a ra&s;h Madne&s;s, for any who had opportunity and Ability to remove them&s;elves, to continue un|der the licentious and Arbitrary humors of &s;uch a Government? But when Men began to &s;ee how they were reduced to a Nece&s;&s;ity of &s;uffering, whether any &s;uccours arrived to them from <HI>Eng|land,</HI> or whether they were delay'd; they had
<PB N="36" REF="21">no Election to make, but to contrive an e&s;cape from their cruelty, or their Revenge. When Men were every where alarm'd with a De&s;ign of a ge|neral In&s;urrection, and univer&s;al Ma&s;&s;acre, he that was &s;o hardy as to over-look this without a concernment, mu&s;t have an unu&s;ual Portion of wit, to conduct his Courage; for my Part, I am &s;o far from wondring that &s;o many affrighted Per&s;ons &s;hould prefer an incommodious and in&s;e|cure Pa&s;&s;age by Sea, to &s;o hazardous and terrible an abiding upon Land, that I do admire the in|&s;en&s;ible &s;tupidity of tho&s;e who &s;tay'd behind. And now the Deputy having added 40000 new|rais'd Men to the &s;tanding Army, 50000 of the Rabble being furni&s;hed with Skenes and half-Pikes, animated and &s;ecretly &s;worn by the Prie&s;ts to extirpate all Prote&s;tants, making it a national, as well as a religious Quarrel (as appears by the Motto in their Standard &s;et up in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin, Now or never, Now, and for ever</HI>) the Prote&s;tants in <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> and <HI>Conaght,</HI> turned out of their Hou&s;es, de&s;poil'd of their Goods, and plundered of their Cattle, all Armes and Hor&s;es taken from tho&s;e in <HI>Dublin</HI> and <HI>Lem&s;tor:</HI> a power|ful and inraged Army falling into the Bowels of <HI>Ul&s;ter,</HI> ravaging without Check, or Controll, the naked, &s;tript, and un-armed people flying
<PB N="37" REF="21">before them, to &s;eek a &s;helter in <HI>London-Derry,</HI> which could not contain the hundredth part of tho&s;e that retreated to it; there was nothing to be done (to e&s;cape a &s;uddain De&s;truction by the Sword, or a lingring Death by Famine) but to fly over Sea, and pre&s;erve Life, which was all that was left them. As for the more unfortu|nate Remnant of the Poor Prote&s;tants, who being either gull'd and intrapp't by Protections, and re&s;er|ved for &s;laughter; or el&s;e deny'd a Licence to tran&s;|port them&s;elves, that they may indure the mi&s;ery, and at la&s;t receive the wages of Slaves and con|demned Per&s;ons (which a&s;&s;uredly will happen, when&s;oever the Conque&s;t of the Kingdom &s;hall be complete, and the Government devolved on the French; or perhaps &s;o &s;oon as an Army from <HI>Eng|land</HI> &s;hall land there for its re&s;cue) they are &s;ur|rounded with &s;uch poynant Circum&s;tances of &s;adne&s;s and &s;orrow, that my Heart bleeds for them; and though I dare not tru&s;t to the compa&s;&s;ion or Prayers of tho&s;e hard-hearted Men who find fault with us for coming away; Yet I leave it to their Judg|ment to determine, whether their condition be not more de&s;perate and deplorable, who have &s;taid behind.</P>
<P>May the good people of <HI>England</HI> &s;ee, and be convinced (by the di&s;mal examples of <HI>Ireland</HI>) what
<PB N="38" REF="22">would have bin their portion, if Popery had pre|vail'd, and a Popi&s;h King continued to Reign over us. May they never be deceived by that impracticable Paradox, That the Engli&s;h Nation and the Prote&s;tant Religion can &s;ub&s;i&s;t, or be in &s;afety, under the admini&s;tration of <HI>French-men,</HI> and the Dominion of a Papi&s;t.</P>
<P>I have now wearied your Patience, and ea&s;ed my own Thoughts. It &s;hall be your Fault, if I be not always,</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>May</HI> 27. 1689.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SALUTE>SIR,</SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your mo&s;t humble Servant.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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