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<HEAD>THE IRISH MASSACRE; <HI>OR</HI> A true Narative of the Unparallell'd Cruelties exerci&s;ed in IRELAND upon the BRITTISH Prote&s;tants, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THat cau&s;ele&s;&s;e Antipathy which u&s;es to admi|ni&s;ter unavoidable endle&s;&s;e matter of di&s;pute betwixt Magi&s;tracy and Populacy, betwixt tho&s;e which command, and tho&s;e which obey, hath in all ages and countries proved fa|tall, and productive of &s;ad events. This is impu|ted almo&s;t by all Polititians (being no other commonly then Court Para&s;ites) to the fault of tho&s;e many, who&s;e lot it is to be &s;ubjected to government, upon pretence that the&s;e never think their liberty loo&s;e enough; but for my part my rea&s;on rather leades me to impute the fault hereof to tho&s;e few, which are intru&s;ted with government, fora&s;much as the&s;e &s;carce ever thinke their authority full enough. For that end which the diffu&s;ive body of the people aimes at is probably its owne weale, and this is no improper or ju&s;t end, nor is it at all incon&s;i&s;tent with the true weale and happine&s;&s;e of tho&s;e, which are placed above them: but that good which Commanders in cheefe aime at, often|times extends no further then to their owne per&s;ons, or families, and this ever remaines improper, or unju&s;t, becau&s;e it cannot &s;tand with the welfare of tho&s;e which are placed below them. Irrationall creatures by in&s;tinct of Nature are directed to that which is their peculiar good: wherefore if we degrade the mul|titude to a bruti&s;h condition, if we deny them rea&s;on, and if un|der the name of multitude, wee comprehend al&s;o all that are
<PB N="2" REF="2"> not inve&s;ted with &s;upreame power: yet unle&s;&s;e we will deny them naturall in&s;tinct too, we cannot &s;uppo&s;e them utterly unca|pable of that benefit and a&s;&s;urance which a well tempered po|lecy holds forth to them. And if the gro&s;&s;e number be not held &s;o intelligent, as authority makes tho&s;e which &s;it at the Sterne, yet this hinders not, but that the gro&s;&s;e number may act as regular|ly and pur&s;ue as ju&s;t ends, as tho&s;e which are deeper read in poli|ticks. And as for &s;tory, and antiquity, in all my reading I could never yet finde one precedent, where the generality of a State convened or repre&s;ented in an orderly forme, did unju&s;tly quar|rell or unlawfully capitulate with their Lords, but the contrary is mo&s;t remarkeable every where, <HI>Quicquid delirant reges, &amp;c.</HI> In the&s;e Civill warres, which now infe&s;t <HI>England, Scotland</HI> and <HI>Ire|land,</HI> much hath beene pleaded in behalfe of the Kings Pre|rogative, and much Rhetorick hath beene u&s;ed to lay the blame upon the Subjects di&s;loyalty, and &s;ome thinke that in this warre there is an intervention of &s;ome new matter, never before prece|dented or paralleld in any Age. But in my conceite, the fir&s;t mo|ving cau&s;e which imbroyles us all, is the &s;ame pretence of Sove|raignity, which hath always produced the like effects el&s;e where, and though the King &s;eeme to di&s;owne the Iri&s;h, as not In&s;tru|mentall to his purpo&s;e, and the Iri&s;h di&s;ownes us, as not concur|ring with their projections; yet &s;till there is no Novelty in the bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, be&s;ides a more artificiall and darke di&s;gui&s;e, then for|merly peeces of this nature have been covered with. Diver&s;ity of Religions hath beene a wicked meanes to heighten enmitie a|mong&s;t our Nations, and is become an expedient which the Court makes great u&s;e of for a vizard to its de&s;ignes; but diver&s;i|tie of Religions hath beene long favoured at Court, and therefore we may conclude it is but &s;ubordinate to that cau&s;e for which it was &s;o favoured. The Iri&s;h now murder us for a&s;piring to that liberty, which they them&s;elves claime with le&s;&s;e moderation then we doe, not that they thinke us enemies to their liberty but to their Religton, nor becau&s;e they are enemies in truth to our li|bertie but to our Religion. Neverthele&s;&s;e Religion, as Religion is not the &s;upreame motive, or incentive of the Iri&s;h n this dead|ly feude: for the true Religion (which is but one and contented with a &s;mall traine) may be loved for it &s;elfe, by &s;uch as are tru|ly zelots to it; whereas all fal&s;e religions, and all fal&s;e profe&s;&s;ors
<PB N="3" REF="2"> of the true Religion have other ingagements then meere con&s;ci|ence. To pa&s;&s;e by the vulgar therefore or common herd of peo|ple, which are but pa&s;&s;ive, as the waves are under the winds, and which doe but borrow Religion from education meerely, and na|turally are mo&s;t docile in that religion which is accompanied with the greate&s;t pre&s;ent temporall emoluments: if we looke up|on the primary active party in <HI>Ireland</HI> (what&s;oever their nugato|ry &s;imulatory pretexts were, for the Kings Prerogative) the true intent of their in&s;urrection was the inlargement of the Romi&s;h faith, and their zeale to that faith was onely inflamed by the ma|ny civill advantages which &s;eemed attendant upon it. Popery hath now long &s;ince beene di&s;covered to be an impo&s;ture or nothing el&s;e but a &s;lie &s;ophi&s;me, to e&s;tabli&s;h Empire in the long Robe, and wre&s;t it from &s;uch as they account &s;ecular men, and as the Prei&s;ts and Je&s;uits have beene the maine Incendiaries in all our differences, &s;o we well enough know what their particular Inte|re&s;t was therein.</P>
<P>Tis &s;trange that any Princes, e&s;pecially &s;uch as are capacious, and intelligent &s;hould think it any addition of Royallty to them in the State to admit of a Superiour in the Church, and to &s;toop to any rivallity of dominion (though di&s;tingui&s;ht, and blancht over with the Epithite of &s;pirituall) but tis more prodigious in Prote&s;tant Princes. Yet we mu&s;t take notice Popery is an intox|icating potion mingled with all the force and skill of Magick, and as it &s;ometimes &s;oothes and &s;moothes the people by curbing Princes for the Churches better accomodation, &s;o al&s;o at other times and mo&s;t con&s;tantly it &s;addles and bridles the people for both Prei&s;ts and Princes &s;atisfaction. And lea&s;t prote&s;tant Princes &s;hould wholy abominate it, as adver&s;e to their Grandour, with extraordinary profe&s;&s;ions of devotion to them it labours to infu&s;e and in&s;inuate the&s;e fragments of <HI>Machavell.</HI> Fir&s;t, that Subjects in generall are enemies to Authority, nay the cheife&s;t enemies that they ought to countermine and plot again&s;t. Secondly, that this enmity is be&s;t broken by breeding, and maintaining divi&s;ions a|mong them. Then having laid the&s;e grounds, its next &s;uper&s;tru|ctions are, fir&s;t that of all Subjects none are particularly &s;o malig|nant to Royallty as Prote&s;tants, and of all Prote&s;tants the Bri|ti&s;h hold their Kings to the mo&s;t narrow limits.</P>
<P>Secondly, that none are &s;o fit to be oppo&s;ed to <HI>Briti&s;h</HI> Prote&s;tants
<PB N="4" REF="3"> herein, as tho&s;e which are the profe&s;t Va&s;&s;alls of the Sea of Rome: and are now in a &s;tate of per&s;ecution. How far the&s;e poy&s;onous, cur&s;ed &s;ugge&s;tions have prevailed with our King, may be read in characters of bloud all over our three Nations, and it is my intent at this time more fully to relate. The Iri&s;h Rebellion which with &s;o much horrid fury, &amp; &s;laughter broke forth upon the 23 of <HI>Octo|ber,</HI> 1641. is my maine &s;ubject, and I doubt not but that (di&s;co|vered as it is already, though very much of it remaine as yet in ob|&s;curity, in regard that the Court ever &s;tood as in the darke to us, whil&s;t we are placed in the light to the Court) will &s;ufficiently ve|rifie that the prime Engeniers and Ma&s;ters of this infernall plot had not religious but politick ends therein, and tho&s;e not peculiar to <HI>Ireland,</HI> but common to all the three Kingdomes, and &s;uch as I have already intimated. But I mu&s;t not frame a meere narrative, or play the Hi&s;torian, I have to doe with a &s;hameles and lying ge|neration, with whom Authorities them&s;elves are &s;carce authenti|call: wherefore for my cheife fundamentall, I will in&s;i&s;t upon that confe&s;&s;ion which was made, and penned by the Lord <HI>Mac|queir</HI> him&s;elf. This confe&s;&s;ion was voluntarily written by the &s;aid Lord about <HI>June,</HI> 1642. whil&s;t he was a pri&s;oner in the Tower, and it was afterwards avowed by him at the day of his death in the pre&s;ence of the Leiutenant of the Tower &amp; of the two Sheriffes of <HI>London,</HI> and many others. And becau&s;e it &s;eemes &s;omething con|ci&s;e in &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages, and a little too darke in others, and hitherto hath not beene printed in &s;o exact a Coppy as it might, I &s;hall now publi&s;h it, more perfect, and more punctually agreeing with the originall, (which &s;till remaines in Ma&s;ter <HI>Becks</HI> hands of <HI>Lin|colnes Inne</HI>) and for the better under&s;tanding of &s;uch as are not &s;o inqui&s;itive, or in&s;pective I &s;hall adde &s;ome Ob&s;ervations, and give a few unque&s;tionable Illu&s;trations of mine owne.</P>
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<HEAD>The Confe&s;&s;ion followes <HI>in haec verba.</HI></HEAD>
<P><LABEL>JUNE 1642.</LABEL> BEing in <HI>Dublin</HI> Candlemas Terme la&s;t was twelve moneth, the Parliament then &s;itting, Ma&s;ter <HI>Roger More</HI> did write to me de&s;iring me that if I could in that &s;pare time I would come to his hou&s;e (for then the Parliament did nothing but &s;it and adjourn, expecting a commi&s;&s;ion for the continuance thereof, their former commi&s;&s;ion being expired) and that &s;ome things he had to &s;ay to me, that did neerely concerne me, and on receipt of his Letter, the new Commi&s;&s;ion for continuing the
<PB N="5" REF="3"> Parliament landed, and I did returne him an an&s;wer that I could not fulfill his reque&s;t for that pre&s;ent, and thereupon he him&s;elfe came to towne pre&s;ently after, and &s;ending to me, I went to &s;ee him to his lodging, and after &s;ome little time &s;pent in &s;alutations, he began to di&s;cour&s;e of the many afflictions and &s;ufferings, of the Natives of that Kingdom, and particularly in tho&s;e latter times of my Lord of <HI>Straffords</HI> Government (which gave di&s;ta&s;t to the whole Kingdom) and then he began to particularize the &s;uffering of them that were the more ancient Natives, as were the Iri&s;h, how that on the &s;everall Plantations they were all put out of their Ance&s;tours e&s;tates; which &s;ufferings as he &s;aid did beget a generall di&s;contentment over all the whole Kingdome in both the Natives; to wit, the old and new Iri&s;h, and that if the Gentlemen of the Kingdom were di&s;po&s;ed to free them&s;elves furtherly from the like inconveniency, and get good conditions for them&s;elves for regaining their Ance&s;tours (or at lea&s;t a good part thereof) e&s;tates, they could never de&s;ire a more convenienter time, then that time, (the di&s;tempers of <HI>Scotland</HI> being then a foot) and did aske me what I thought of it. I made him an&s;wer that I could not tell what to think of it, &s;uch matters being alto|gether out of my element, then he would needs have an oath of &s;ecrecie from me, which I gave him, and thereupon he told me that he &s;poke to the be&s;t Gentlemen of quality in <HI>Lem&s;ter,</HI> and a great part of <HI>Conaught</HI> touching that matter, and he found all of them willing thereunto, if &s;o be they could draw to them the Gentlemen of <HI>&V;l&s;ter,</HI> for which cau&s;e &s;aid he, I came to &s;peake to you; then he began to lay down to me the ca&s;e that I was in then, overwhelmed in debt, the &s;malne&s;&s;e of my e&s;tate, and the greatne&s;&s;e of the e&s;tate my Ance&s;tors had, and how I &s;hould be &s;ure to get it againe, or at lea&s;t a good part thereof, and moreover how the welfare and mainteining of the Catholique Religion, which (he &s;aid) undoubtedly the Parliament now in <HI>England</HI> will &s;uppre&s;&s;e) doth depend on it, for &s;aid he it is to be feared, and &s;o much I heare from every under&s;tanding man, the Parliament in|tends the utter &s;ubver&s;ion of our Religion; by which per&s;wa&s;ions he obtained my con&s;ent, and &s;o demanded whether any more of <HI>&V;l&s;ter</HI> Gentlemen were in Town, I told him that Ma&s;ter <HI>Philip Rely,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Torrilagh O Neile,</HI> brother to Sir <HI>Phillim O Neile,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Colloe Macmahone</HI> were in town, and &s;o for that time wee parted.</P>
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<P>The next day he invited Ma&s;ter <HI>O Rely</HI> and me to dine with him, and after dinner, he &s;ent for tho&s;e other Gentlemen Mr. <HI>Neale,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Macmahon,</HI> and when they were come, he began the di&s;cour&s;e formerly u&s;ed to me, to them, and with the &s;ame per&s;wa&s;ions formerly u&s;ed to me, he obtained their con&s;ent, And then he be|gan to di&s;cour&s;e of the feazebility and ea&s;ines of the attempt con|&s;idering matters as they then &s;tood in <HI>England,</HI> the troubles of <HI>Scotland,</HI> the great number of able men in the Kingdome (mean|ing <HI>Ireland</HI>) what &s;uccours they were (more then) to hope for, from abroade, and the Army then rai&s;ed all Iri&s;h men, and well armed (meaning the Army rai&s;ed by my Lord <HI>Strafford</HI> again&s;t <HI>Scotland</HI>) then of the manner how it ought to be done.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, that every one &s;hould indeavour to draw his owne freinds into that act, and at lea&s;t tho&s;e that did live in one Countrey with them, and when they had &s;o done that there &s;hould be a &s;et day appointed, and every one in his own quarters &s;hould ri&s;e out that day and &s;eize on all the Armes he could get in his countrey, and &s;end to the Iri&s;h in the low Countreis, and <HI>Spaine,</HI> to let them know of the day and re&s;olution, &s;o that they be over with them by that Day, or &s;oone after with &s;upplyes of Armes, and Ammu|nition as they could, and this Day to be neere winter, &s;o that <HI>Eng|land</HI> could not be able to &s;end forces into <HI>Ireland</HI> before <HI>May,</HI> and by that time there was no doubt to be made, but that they them&s;elves would be &s;upplyed by the Iri&s;h beyond Seas, who he &s;aid could not mi&s;&s;e of help from either <HI>Spaine</HI> or the Pope; But that his re&s;olution was not in all things allowed. For fir&s;t it was re&s;olved nothing &s;hould be done untill fir&s;t they had &s;ent to the Iri&s;h over Seas, to know their advice, and what hope of &s;uccour they could give; for in them as they &s;aid, all their hope of releife was; and they would have both their advice and re&s;olution, be|fore any further proceedings more then to &s;peake to, and try the Gentlemen of the Kingdome, every one as he could convenietly, to &s;ee in ca&s;e they would at any time grow to a Re&s;olution, what back and &s;trength they might tru&s;t to. Then Ma&s;ter <HI>Moore</HI> told them that it was to no purpo&s;e to &s;pend much time in &s;peaking to the Gentlemen, for there was no doubt to be made of the an|cient Iri&s;h, that they would be ready at any time, And that all the doubt was in the Gentlemen of the <HI>Pale,</HI> but he &s;aid that for his owne part he was really a&s;&s;ured when they had ri&s;en out, the
<PB N="7" REF="4"> <HI>Pale</HI> Gentlemen would not &s;tay long after them, at lea&s;t that they would not oppo&s;e them in any thing but be Neuters, &amp; if in ca&s;e they did, that they had men enough in the Kingdome with|out them. Moreover he &s;aid, that he had &s;poke to a great man (who then &s;hould be nameles) that would not faile at the ap|pointed day of ri&s;ing out to appeare and be &s;eene in the Act, but that untill then he was &s;worne not to reveale him. And that was all that was done at that meeting, onely that Ma&s;ter <HI>Moore</HI> &s;hould the next Lent following, make a journey downe into the <HI>North</HI> to know what was done there, and that he al&s;o might in|forme them what he had done, and &s;o on parting Ma&s;ter <HI>Philip Rely</HI> and I did importune Ma&s;ter <HI>Moore</HI> for the knowledge of that great man that he &s;poke of, and on long intreaty, after bin|ding us to new &s;ecrecy, not to di&s;clo&s;e him untill the day &s;hould be appointed, he told it was the Lord of <HI>Mayo,</HI> who was very powerfull in command of men in tho&s;e parts of <HI>Conaght</HI> where-he lived, and that there was no doubt, to be made of him, no more then was of him&s;elfe, and &s;o we parted.</P>
<P>The next Lent following Ma&s;ter <HI>More</HI> according to his pro|mi&s;e came to <HI>&V;l&s;ter,</HI> and by rea&s;on it was the time of A&s;&s;izes in &s;everall Counties, there he met onely with M. <HI>Rely,</HI> and nothing was then done, but all matters put off untill the May follow|ing, where we, or mo&s;t of us, &s;hould meet at <HI>Dublin,</HI> it then both being Parliament and Terme time; In the mean time there landed in <HI>Ireland</HI> one <HI>Neale O Neale,</HI> &s;ent by the Earle of <HI>Tyrone</HI> out of <HI>Spaine,</HI> to &s;peak to tho&s;e Gentlemen of his name and kindred, to let them know that he had treated with Cardinall <HI>Richelieu</HI> for obtaining &s;uccour to come for Irrland, and that he prevailed with the Cardinall, &s;o that he was to have Armes, Munition and Mo|ney from him, on demand to come for Ireland, and that he onely expected a convenient time to come away, and to de&s;ire them to be in a readine&s;&s;e, and to procure all others whom they could to be &s;o likewi&s;e, which me&s;&s;age did &s;et forward the proceedings very much, &s;o that Ma&s;ter <HI>More,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Rely,</HI> my Brother and I, meeting the next day in <HI>Dublin,</HI> and the &s;ame Me&s;&s;enger being there too, it was re&s;olved that he &s;hould returne to the Earle into Spaine with their re&s;olution: which was that they would ri&s;e out 12. or 14. dayes before or after Alhollantide, as they &s;hould &s;ee cau&s;e, and that he &s;hould not faile to be with them by that
<PB N="8" REF="5"> time; (there was a report at that time and before, that the Earl of <HI>Tyrone</HI> was killed, which was not beleeved, by rea&s;on of many &s;uch reports formarly which was found to be fal&s;e) and &s;o the Me&s;&s;en|ger departed with directions, that if the Earles death were true, he &s;hould repaire into the Low-countries to Colonell <HI>Owen O Neale</HI> and acquaint him with his Comi&s;&s;ion from the Earle (whereof it was thought he was not ignorant, and to &s;ee what he would advi&s;e, or could do him&s;elf therein, and returne an an&s;wer. But pre&s;ent after his departure the certainty of the Earles death was known, and on further re&s;olution it was agreed that an expre&s;&s;e Me&s;&s;enger &s;hould be &s;ent to the Colonell to make all the re&s;olu|tions known to him, and to returne &s;peedily with his an&s;wer, and &s;o one <HI>Toole Connilly</HI> a Prie&s;t (as I think Pari&s;h Prie&s;t to Ma&s;ter <HI>More</HI>) was &s;ent away to Colonell <HI>O Neale.</HI></P>
<P>In the <HI>interim</HI> there came &s;everall Letters and news out of <HI>Eng|land</HI> to <HI>Dublin,</HI> of Proclamations again&s;t the Catholiques in <HI>Eng|land,</HI> and al&s;o that the Army rai&s;ed in <HI>Ireland</HI> &s;hould be disband|ed and conveied into <HI>Spaine,</HI> and pre&s;ently after &s;everall Colonels and Captaines landed with directions to carry away tho&s;e men, among&s;t whom Colonell <HI>Pluncket,</HI> Colonell <HI>Birne,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Brian O Neale</HI> came, but did not all come together, for Colonell <HI>Pluncket</HI> landed before my comming out of town, and the other two after: whereupon a great feare of &s;uppre&s;&s;ing Religion was conceived, and e&s;pecially by the Gentlemen of the Pale, and it was very common among&s;t them, that it would be very incon|venient to &s;uffer &s;o many men to be conveied out of the King|dome, it being as it was &s;aid very confidently reported, that the Scotti&s;h Army did threaten, never to lay down Armes, untill an uniformity of Religion were in the three Kingdoms, and the Ca|tholique Religion &s;uppre&s;&s;ed. And thereupon both Hou&s;es of Parliament began to oppo&s;e their going, and the Hou&s;es were di|vided in opinion; &s;ome would have them go, others not; but what the definitive conclu&s;ion of the Hou&s;es was touching that point, I cannot tell, for by leave from the Hou&s;e of Lords I de|parted into the Countrey before the Prorogation: but before my departure I was informed by <HI>John Barnewall</HI> a Frier, that tho&s;e Gentlemen of the Pale, and &s;ome others (Members of the Hou&s;e of Commons) had &s;everall meetings and con&s;ultations how they might make &s;tay of the Souldiers in the Kingdome, and likewi&s;e
<PB N="9" REF="5"> Arme them for the defence of the King (being then much inju|red both of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> as they were informed) and to prevent any attempt again&s;t Religion, for it was &s;aid (but very &s;ecretly) that the King did in tho&s;e times &s;ay to Ma&s;ter <HI>Nicholas Plunket</HI> (one of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Committee then in <HI>England</HI>) that if they would &s;tick to him, he would &s;ticke to them; this I heard (I think) from the &s;aid <HI>John Barnewell,</HI> but in truth I am not &s;ure whether from him or no, but certaine I am, that he from whom I heard it, did confidently report it. And pre&s;ently after I departed into the Countrey, and Ma&s;ter <HI>O Rely</HI> being a Member of the Hou&s;e of Commons &s;tayed till the Prorogation, and on his coming into the Countrey &s;ent to me to meet him, and I came to his hou&s;e, where he told me that he heard for certaine that the former narration of <HI>Barnewall</HI> to me (for I did acquaint him with it) was true, and that he heard it from &s;everall, there was al&s;o <HI>Emer Macmahone,</HI> (made privy formerly to all our proceedings) at Mr. <HI>O Relyes,</HI> lately come out of the place, where he met with the aforenamed <HI>John Barnewall,</HI> who told him as much as he formerly told me, and moreover that tho&s;e Collonells that lately came over, did proffer their &s;ervice and indu&s;try in that act, and &s;o would rai&s;e their men under colour to convey them into <HI>Spaine,</HI> and then &s;eize on the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin,</HI> and with the Armes there Arme their &s;oul|diers, and have them ready for any action, that &s;hould be com|manded them, but that they <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">d not concluded any thing, becau&s;e they were not a&s;&s;ured how the Gentlemen of the remote parts of the Kingdome (and e&s;pecially of <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI>) would &s;tand affected to that act, and that a&s;&s;urance of that doubt was all their impedi|ment; then we three began to think how we might a&s;&s;ure them of the a&s;&s;i&s;tance and help of <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> Gentlemen: It was thought that one &s;hould be &s;ent to them to acquaint them therewith, and they made choy&s;e of me to come, by rea&s;on, as they &s;aid, that my wife was allyed to them, and their Countrey woman, and would be|leeve and tru&s;t me &s;ooner then another of tho&s;e parts, they or mo&s;t of them being of the <HI>Pale,</HI> and &s;o (without as much as to re|turne home) to furni&s;h my &s;elfe for &s;uch a journey, <HI>(volens nolens)</HI> they prevailed, or rather forced me to come to <HI>Dublin</HI> to conferre with tho&s;e Collonells, (and that was the la&s;t <HI>August</HI> was twelve-month) coming to Towne, I met Sir <HI>James Dillon</HI> accidentally before I came to my lodging, who was one of the&s;e Collonells,
<PB N="10" REF="6"> and after &s;alutation he demanded of me where my lodging was, which when I told him, we parted. The next day being abroad about &s;ome other occa&s;ions of mine owne in Towne I met him, (as he &s;aid) comming to waite on me in my Chamber, but being a good way from it, he de&s;ired me to goe to his owne Chamber being neere at hand, and then began to di&s;cour&s;e of the pre&s;ent &s;ufferings and afflictions of that Kingdome, and particularly in Religion, and how they were to expect no redre&s;&s;e, the Parlia|ment in <HI>England</HI> intending, and the Scots re&s;olving never to lay downe Armes untill the Catholick Religion was &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, then he likewi&s;e began to lay downe what danger it would be to &s;uf|fer &s;o many able men (as were to goe with them) to depart the Kingdome in &s;uch a time, neither (&s;aith he) doth the&s;e other Gentlemen that are Collonells, and my &s;elfe affect our owne pri|vate profit, &s;o as to preferre it before the generall good of the Kingdome, and knowing that you are well affected thereunto, (and I hope, &s;aid he, ready to put your helping hand to it on occa|&s;ion) I will let you know the re&s;olution of tho&s;e other Gentle|men and mine, which is, we are ready to rai&s;e our men, and after to &s;eize on the Ca&s;tle where there is great &s;tore of Armes, and arme our &s;elves there; (this was the fir&s;t motion that I ever heard, of taking the Ca&s;tle, for it never came into our thoughts formerly nor am I per&s;waded never would, if it had not proceeded from tho&s;e Collonells, who were the fir&s;t mentioners and contri|vers thereof, for ought knowne to me) and then be ready to pre|vent and re&s;i&s;t any danger, if the Gentry of the Kingdome like thereof and helpe us, for we of our &s;elves neither are able nor will doe any thing therein without their a&s;&s;i&s;tance. I began ac|cording to the directions that were &s;ent with me, to approve of the Re&s;olution, &amp; al&s;o to let him know how &s;ure he might be of the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of tho&s;e of <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> then he told me that for my more &s;atisfaction, I &s;hould conferre with the re&s;t of tho&s;e Collonells them&s;elves, as many as were privy to that action, and according|ly a place of meeting was appointed that afternoone; and at the time and place appointed I met Sir <HI>James</HI> him&s;elfe, Collonell <HI>Barne,</HI> and Collonell <HI>Plunket,</HI> and that former di&s;cour&s;e being renewed, they began to lay downe the ob&s;tacles to that enter|prize, and how they &s;hould be redre&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, if there &s;hould war en&s;ue, how there &s;hould be money had to pay the &s;ouldiers.</P>
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<P>Secondly, how and where they &s;hould procure &s;uccour for forraigne parts.</P>
<P>Thirdly, how to draw in the <HI>Pale</HI> Gentry.</P>
<P>La&s;tly, who &s;hould undertake to &s;urprize the Ca&s;tle, and how it &s;hould be done.</P>
<P>To the fir&s;t it was an&s;wered, that the Rents in the Kingdome every where, not having re&s;pect who&s;e they &s;hould be, due to the Lords and Gentry thereof, &s;hould be collected to pay the &s;ouldi|ers, and moreover they might be &s;ure (my that there was no doubt to be made thereof) to procure money from the Pope, who gave &s;everall promi&s;es formerly to my Lord of <HI>Tyrone</HI> (in ca&s;e he could make way to come into <HI>Ireland</HI>) to maintaine &s;ix thou&s;and men yeerely at his owne charge, and that notwith&s;tanding that my Lord of <HI>Tyrone</HI> was dead, yet that he would continue the &s;ame forwardnes now.</P>
<P>To the &s;econd it was an&s;wered by Collonell <HI>Birne,</HI> that helpe from abroad could not faile them, for (&s;aid he) Collonell <HI>O Neale</HI> told me, that he had, or would procure in a readines, I doe not re|member which of tho&s;e the Colonells &s;poke, or whether he &s;poke po&s;itive that Collonell <HI>O Neale</HI> had the Armes, or would pro|cure them,) Armes for ten thou&s;and men. And moreover (&s;aid he) I make no great que&s;tion that if we &s;end into <HI>Spayne</HI> we &s;hall not mi&s;&s;e of aid, for I being in <HI>London</HI> the la&s;t yeare, in the Scots trou|bles, I was in conference with one of the Spani&s;h Amba&s;&s;adours there then, and talking of tho&s;e troubles then a foote, he &s;aid, that if the Iri&s;h did then ri&s;e &s;o, and &s;end into <HI>Spayne,</HI> their Me&s;|&s;engers would be received under Canopies of gold; the&s;e la&s;t words he told me, and &s;ome one man that was pre&s;ent privately, who&s;e name I cannot call to mind (neither well I remember whe|ther he &s;pake to them all or no,) then it was thought that when they were once in Arms for the defence of the Catholique cau&s;e, they would be &s;uccoured by the Catholique Princes in Chri&s;ten|dome.</P>
<P>To the third it was an&s;wered by Collonell <HI>Plunket,</HI> that he was as morrally certaine (for tho&s;e were his words) as he could be of any thing that the <HI>Pale</HI> Gentry would joyne with and a&s;&s;i&s;t them, for (&s;aid he) I have &s;poke to &s;everall of them &s;ince my lan|ding in the Kingdome, and I finde them very ready and willing withall, I have at <HI>London</HI> &s;poke to &s;ome of the Committees, and
<PB N="12" REF="7"> particularly to my Lord of <HI>Gormon&s;tone</HI> to let them know this Re&s;olution, and they approved of it very well, and with all, they knew of the former con&s;ultations by tho&s;e Gentry, told me by <HI>Barnewall.</HI> All this was not done at the fir&s;t meeting, but at three or foure meetings, and &s;o at the la&s;t meeting it was re&s;olved to the la&s;t doubt touching &s;eizing the Ca&s;tle, That Collonell <HI>Plunket</HI> and Collonell <HI>Birne</HI> &s;hould undertake that taske, and they were named that fir&s;t &s;hould &s;uccour them, that &s;hould take the Ca&s;tle with men pre&s;ently, namely Sir <HI>James Dillon</HI> who did undertake to be with them, within three (or at the mo&s;t) foure dayes with one thou&s;and men, and &s;o many more &s;hould come to them out of the North, for tho&s;e two Collonells did not intend to u&s;e above one hundred men in the &s;urprizall, whereof they were to have twenty good able Gentlemen; for they made account that having the Ca&s;tle, they with the Artillery would Ma&s;ter the Towne un|till they were releived from the Countrey, and then there was a &s;et day appointed for the execution thereof, that was the fir&s;t of the en&s;uing <HI>October,</HI> this being the latter end of <HI>Augu&s;t</HI> or the be|gining of <HI>September, Anno</HI> 1641. (I doe not know whither) and e|very one &s;hould make provi&s;ion to ri&s;e that day, and al&s;o &s;eize on all the forts, garri&s;ons, and other places, where they think, any Armes &s;hould be, and in particular <HI>London-Derry,</HI> which &s;hould be undertaken by tho&s;e of <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> and becau&s;e there was a doubt made how all this could be done in &s;o &s;hort a time, they did ap|point that all that were there pre&s;ent &s;hould not faile to meete againe there the twenty of <HI>September,</HI> to give an Accompt of all things, as well hopes as impediments, and if at that interveiw all things &s;hould happen to be well that they goe forward, or if o|therwi&s;e, to prolong the Execution of it to a more convenient time, and &s;o we parted, every man into the Countrey, about his owne taske: and I in my way home, came to Ma&s;ter <HI>O Relyes</HI> hou&s;e, and there I received a letter from Sir <HI>Phelim O Neale,</HI> that his Lady was dead, and to be buried on the <HI>Sunday</HI> following, this being on the <HI>Saturday,</HI> and de&s;iring me in all kindnes to come to the buriall, and Ma&s;ter <HI>O Rely</HI> having received another letter to the &s;ame effect, would needes have me goe thither, (whereun|to I was very unwilling, being weary, and withall not provided to goe to &s;uch a meeting,) as well (&s;aid he) to prevent any jealou|&s;ie from the Ladies freinds, as al&s;o to conferre with Sir <HI>Phelim</HI>
<PB N="13" REF="7"> touching all the&s;e proceedings (for neither he nor I did ever &s;peak to Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> concerning tho&s;e matters before) but to his brother Mr. <HI>Tiloragh O Neale,</HI> &amp; comming thither, we found Capt. <HI>Bryan O Neale,</HI> lately come out of the low Countries, &s;ent over by Col. <HI>O Neale</HI> to &s;peake to, and provoke tho&s;e of <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> to ri&s;e out into Armes, and that he would be with them on notice of their day; the &s;ame day, or &s;oone after it; and it was asked of the &s;aid Cap|taine, what aide he could &s;end or procure, being but a private Collonell, or where he could get any? He replyed that the &s;aid Collonell told him, that hee had &s;ent to &s;everall places that Summer to demaund aide, and in particular to Cardinall <HI>Ri|cheleiu</HI> into <HI>France,</HI> (to whom he had &s;ent twice that yeare) and had comfortable and very hopefull promi&s;es from them, and e&s;|pecially from that Cardinall, on whom he thought the Collonell did mo&s;t depend; &s;o that there was no doubt to be made of &s;uc|cour from him, and e&s;pecially when they had ri&s;en out, that it would be a meanes to the Cardinall to give aide; we did the more credit him in regard of the former treaty betweene the &s;aid Cardinall and the Earle of <HI>Tyrone,</HI> (as formerly is &s;aid) for my owne part, I did and doe beleeve that the Collonell doth depend on <HI>France</HI> for aide, more then on any other place, as well for the&s;e rea&s;ons, as al&s;o, that <HI>Omer Macmahone</HI> formerly mentioned, told me that pre&s;ently after the I&s;le of <HI>Rees</HI> enterprize (he being then in the Low Countreies) did heare for certaine that the Earl of <HI>Ty|rone,</HI> together with the Colonells, did &s;end into <HI>France</HI> to the Mar|&s;hall of <HI>France</HI> (that was the Generall of the French forces at the I&s;le of <HI>Rees</HI>) to deale with him for procuring of aide, to come then for <HI>Ireland,</HI> and that he received in an&s;wer from the &s;aid Mar&s;hall, that he was mo&s;t willing and ready to contribute his indeaveours for his furtherance therein, but that for the pre&s;ent he could not an&s;wer my Lords expectation, by rea&s;on that the King had wars then in <HI>Italy,</HI> which hee thought would be at an end within halfe a yeare, or little more, and then my Lord &s;hould not doubt of any thing that he could doe for his a&s;&s;i&s;tance, but tho&s;e warres continued a great deale longer; &s;o for that time that enterprize failed: and after the buriall was done, I gave tho&s;e Gentlemen knowledge of what I had done at <HI>Dublin,</HI> and how I was to re|turne thither, and then they began to thinke how to &s;urprize <HI>London-Derry,</HI> they being neere it, but could not then agree in
<PB N="14" REF="8"> the manner, and &s;o Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> de&s;ired me to take his hou&s;e in my way going to <HI>Dublin,</HI> and that I &s;hould have a Re&s;olution to to carry with me touching <HI>London-Derry,</HI> and thereupon I parted home, but &s;oone after came to <HI>Dublin,</HI> to the afore-appointed meeting with tho&s;e Colonells: But fir&s;t, I tooke in my way Sir <HI>Phelim O Neales</HI> hou&s;e, to be certaine what he had done; and his an&s;wer was, that he knew that matters could not be put in exe|cution by the fift of <HI>October,</HI> as was appointed, and that they would make another longer day for it, and that he would pro|vide for the taking of <HI>London-Derry</HI> by that day; and &s;o I came to <HI>Dublin,</HI> to give an account of that was done, and al&s;o know what further &s;hould be done: I was not two houres in my lod|ging when Ma&s;ter <HI>Moore</HI> came to me (who knew of what was done by tho&s;e Colonells formerly by Coll. <HI>Birne,</HI> and told me that the Me&s;&s;enger &s;ent to Colonell <HI>Neale</HI> was come with an&s;wer, de&s;iring us not to delay any time in ri&s;ing out, and to let him know of that day before hand, and that hee would not faile to be with us within fourteene dayes of that day with good aide, al&s;o de&s;iring us by any meanes to &s;eaze the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin</HI> if we could, for he heard that there was great provi&s;ion in it for warre, and Mr. <HI>Moore</HI> moreover &s;aid, that time was not to be over-&s;lipped, and de&s;ired me to be very pre&s;&s;ing with the Colonells to goe on in their re&s;olution, but on meeting with them they were fallen from their former re&s;olution, becau&s;e tho&s;e of the Pale would doe nothing therein fir&s;t, but when it was done, they would not faile to a&s;&s;i&s;t, as Collonell <HI>Plunket</HI> did affirme, and &s;o on &s;everall meetings, it was re&s;olved on by them to de&s;i&s;t from that enterprize for that time, and to expect a more convenient time; but before that their re&s;olution, Sir <HI>Phelim O Neale,</HI> and the afore&s;aid Capt. <HI>Brian O Neale</HI> followed me to <HI>Dublin</HI> (as they &s;aid) to a&s;&s;i&s;t and advi&s;e me how to proceede with that Colonell (but neither they nor Mr. <HI>Moore</HI> would be &s;eene therein them|&s;elves to tho&s;e Gentlemen, but would meete me privately, and know what was done at every meeting, alleadging for excu&s;e, that I being fir&s;t imployed in that matter, it would not be expedi|ent that they &s;hould be &s;eene in it; and moreover they would not be knowne to me to be in Towne, but by a few of their friends, untill they were in a manner ready to depart, at lea&s;t, as long as I was in Towne, for I left them there, but when I made them ac|quainted
<PB N="15" REF="8"> with their determination of de&s;i&s;ting from that enter|prize, they thought it convenient that we &s;hould meete with Ma|&s;ter <HI>Moore,</HI> and Collonell <HI>Birne,</HI> to &s;ee what was further to be done concerning the former intention of their owne, and accor|dingly we did &s;end to them, that they &s;hould meete us, and at that meeting, where were onely Sir <HI>Phelim,</HI> Mr. <HI>Moore,</HI> Colonell <HI>Birne,</HI> Captaine <HI>Neale,</HI> and my &s;elfe: after long debate, it was re|&s;olved, that we, with all tho&s;e that were of our faction &s;hould goe on with that determination, that was formerly in May con|cluded, to wit, to ri&s;e out, and moreover to &s;eize on the Ca&s;tle, (as the Colonells were purpo&s;ed) for if it were not for their pro|ject, and the advi&s;e &s;ent by Colonell <HI>Neale</HI> we would never venture to &s;urprize it, neither was it ever thought on in all the meetings and re&s;olutions betweene us, before that tho&s;e Colonels did re&s;olve on it, but by rea&s;on that the other Gentlemen that were private to their proceedings were not pre&s;ent, the certainty of the time, and the manner how to execute it, were put off to a further meeting in the Country; and this was re&s;olved in <HI>Dublin</HI> on the Saturday at night, being the 26. or 27. of <HI>Septemb.</HI> and that meeting was appointed on the Saturday following at Mr. Collo. <HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">hones</HI> hou&s;e in <HI>Far<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">y,</HI> in the County of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> but by rea&s;on that at the meeting the Gentlemen of <HI>Lim&s;ter</HI> could not be pre&s;ent, con&s;idering the remotene&s;&s;e of the place from them, it was thought fit that Mr. <HI>Moore</HI> &s;hould there meete to receive the finall re&s;olution, and &s;hould acquaint them there|with, and in the meane time Col. <HI>Birne,</HI> who had undertaken for Col. <HI>Plunket,</HI> &s;hould informe them all of the intention concei|ved, and di&s;po&s;e them in a readine&s;&s;e again&s;t that day that &s;hould be appointed, and thereupon we all left the Towne, onely Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> &s;taide about &s;ome other his private occa&s;ions, but did a&s;|&s;ure his being there at that day.</P>
<P>On the Saturday I came to Mr. <HI>Macmahones</HI> hou&s;e, there meet onely Mr. <HI>Moore,</HI> Mr. <HI>Macmahone</HI> him&s;elfe, Captaine <HI>Neale, Emer Macmahone,</HI> and my &s;elfe (and thither the &s;ame day came that Me&s;&s;enger that was &s;ent to Coll. <HI>Neale,</HI> and did report the Colonells an&s;wers and advice <HI>verbatim,</HI> as I have formerly repea|ted from Mr. <HI>Moore</HI>) and by rea&s;on that Sir. <HI>Phelim</HI> his brother, or Mr. <HI>Philip O Rely</HI> that were de&s;ired to meete, did not meete, we &s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ied that night to expect them; and that night I received a
<PB N="16" REF="9"> Letter from Sir <HI>Phelim,</HI> intteating us by any meanes not to ex|pect him untill the Munday following, for he had not, nor could di&s;patch &s;ome occa&s;ions neerely concerning him, but what&s;oever came of them, he would not faile on the Munday. And the next day after receipt of the Letter, being Sunday (by Mr. <HI>Moores</HI> ad|vice) we departed from Mr. Coll. <HI>Macmahones</HI> hou&s;e, (to pre|vent (as he &s;aid) the &s;u&s;pition of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> living thereabouts to <HI>Louro&s;&s;e,</HI> in the County of <HI>Ardmaugh</HI> to Mr. <HI>Torilagh O Neales</HI> hou&s;e, not Sir <HI>Phelims</HI> brother, but Son to Mr. <HI>Henry O Neale</HI> of the <HI>Fues,</HI> Son in Law to Mr. <HI>Moore,</HI> and left word that if Sir <HI>Phe|lim,</HI> or any of tho&s;e other Gentlemen did come in the meane time they &s;hould follow us thither (whether onely went Mr. <HI>Moore,</HI> Captaine <HI>O Neale,</HI> and my &s;elfe) and there we expected untill the Tue&s;day &s;ub&s;equent, before any of tho&s;e did come: On the Tue&s;|day came Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> and Mr. <HI>Emer Macmahone,</HI> all the re&s;t fai|ling to come, Mr. Collonell <HI>Macmahons</HI> wife was dead the night before, which was the cau&s;e that he was not there, but I gave his a&s;&s;ent to what &s;hould be concluded to joyne therein, and execute what &s;hould be appointed him, and then we five, <HI>viz.</HI> Sir <HI>Phelim,</HI> Mr. <HI>Moore,</HI> Captaine <HI>O Neale, Emer Macmahone,</HI> and my &s;elfe, a&s;&s;uring our &s;elves that tho&s;e Gentlemen ab&s;ent would both allow and joyne to what we &s;hould determine, did grow in|to a finall re&s;olution, grounding all, or mo&s;t part of our hope and confidence on the &s;uccour from Collonell <HI>Neale,</HI> to &s;eize on the Ca&s;tle, and ri&s;e out all in one day, and the day was appointed on the 23. of that month, this being the fift day of <HI>October,</HI> having regard therein to the day of the weeke whereon that day did fall, which was the Saturday, being the Market day, on wich day there would be le&s;&s;e notice taken of people up and downe the &s;treets: Then began a que&s;tion who &s;hould be deputed for the &s;urprizall of the Ca&s;tle, and then Mr. <HI>Moore</HI> &s;aid he would be one of them him&s;elf, and that Coll. <HI>Birne</HI> &s;hould be another, and what other Gentlemen of <HI>Lein&s;ter</HI> they could procure to joyne with them, and &s;eeing the Ca&s;tle had two gates, the one the great, and the other the little gate, going downe to my Lord Leiutenants Sta|bles, hard by which Stable without the Ca&s;tle was the &s;tote|hou&s;e for Armes, they of <HI>Lein&s;ter</HI> would undertake one Gate, and that &s;hould be the little Gate, and the great Gate &s;hould be undertaken by tho&s;e at <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> (and &s;aid he) of nece&s;&s;ity one of
<PB N="17" REF="9"> you both (meaning Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> &amp; me) mu&s;t be there for the better countenance of that matter, it being the glory of all our procee|dings; his &s;peeches were well liked of all pre&s;ent, but Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> would be exempted from that imployment, and &s;o would I; but then all of them &s;et on me, de&s;iring me to be one; alleadging for rea&s;on that their proceedings &amp; re&s;olutions were very honourable and glorious, being for Religion, and for to procure more liberty for their Countrey, as did (&s;aid they) of late <HI>Scotland;</HI> and that in taking the Ca&s;tle con&s;i&s;ted all the glory and honour of the &s;aid Action, all which &s;hould be attributed to them that &s;hould be im|ployed therein, and &s;o by con&s;equence all or mo&s;t part to me, being (as they &s;aid) the cheife in that enterprize; and moreover Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> &s;aid, that he would endeavour to take or procure o|thers to take <HI>London-Derry</HI> the &s;ame day, and if he &s;hould be a|way, that place would not be taken. With the&s;e and many other per&s;wa&s;ions they obtained my con&s;ent, and then the Captain of|fered him&s;elfe. We began then to con&s;ider what number &s;hould be imployed in that act, and they concluded on two hundred men, a hundred from each Province, for tho&s;e Gates which they &s;eize on, of which number Sir <HI>Phelim O Neale</HI> &s;hould &s;end forty with an able &s;ufficient Gentleman to conduct them; and like|wi&s;e Captaine <HI>Neale</HI> twenty, Ma&s;ter Collonell <HI>Macmahone</HI> ten, Ma&s;ter <HI>O Rely</HI> ten more, and I &s;hould bring twenty. Then began a doubt how they &s;hould rai&s;e tho&s;e men, and convey them to <HI>Dublin</HI> without &s;u&s;pition; and it was an&s;wered, that under pre|tence of carrying them to tho&s;e Colonels that were conveying Souldiers out of the Kingdome, it might &s;afely be done; and to that purpo&s;e Sir <HI>Phelim O Neale,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>More,</HI> and the Captaine had &s;everall blanke Patents with deputations to make Captains to tho&s;e Colonells, which they &s;ent to tho&s;e Gentlemen, that &s;hould &s;end men to <HI>Dublin,</HI> for the more colour; Then they be|thought of what was to be done in the Countrey that day, and it was re&s;olved that every one privie to that matter, in every part of the Kingdom, &s;hould ri&s;e out that day, and &s;eize on all the Forts and Armes in the &s;everall Counties, to make all the Gen|tlemen pri&s;oners the more to a&s;&s;ure them&s;elves again&s;t any ad|ver&s;e fortune, and not to kill any but where of nece&s;&s;ity they &s;hould be forced thereunto by oppo&s;ition (which tho&s;e that were appointed for taking the Ca&s;tle &s;hould ob&s;erve) and in particular
<PB N="18" REF="10"> they bent all their aime in <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> to take that day <HI>London-Derry,</HI> which Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> did undertake; <HI>Knockfergus,</HI> which they thought Sir <HI>Henry O Neales</HI> brother would doe, and to that end Sir <HI>Phe|lims</HI> Brother <HI>Terilaugh O Neale</HI> &s;hould be &s;ent to them; and the Nurie, which &s;hould be undertaken by Sir <HI>Margeria&s;&s;e,</HI> and his Brothers, for whom Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> (in regard they were his brothers in law, his decea&s;ed Lady being their Si&s;ter) did undertake. More|over it was agreed, that Sir <HI>Phelim,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>O Rely,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Coll. Macmahone,</HI> and my brother &s;hould, with all &s;peed they could, after that day rai&s;e all the forces they could and follow us to <HI>Dublin,</HI> both to arme the men and &s;uccour us, and defend and garri&s;on the Towne and Ca&s;tle, and likewi&s;e Ma&s;ter <HI>More</HI> &s;hould appoint <HI>Lein&s;ter</HI>-Gentlemen to &s;end like &s;upply of men. All which I was by their appointment to informe Ma&s;ter <HI>O Rely,</HI> I being next him, together with what he was to doe for his own part. Then there was feare of the Scots conceived, that they would pre&s;ently oppo&s;e them&s;elves, and that would make the matter more difficult; to avoide which danger it was re&s;ol|ved not to meddle with them or any thing belonging to them, and to demeane our &s;elves towards them as if they were of us, which we thought would pacify them from making any oppo&s;i|tion, and if the Scots would not accept of that offer of Amity, but would oppo&s;e us, we were in good hope to cau&s;e a &s;tirre in Scotland, that might divert them from us. And I beleeve the ground for that hope was, that two yeares before in or about the beginning of the Scots troubles, my Lord of <HI>Tyrone</HI> &s;ent one <HI>Te|rilagh O Neale</HI> (a Prei&s;t) out of <HI>Spayne</HI> (and this I take it was the time that he was in Treaty with Cardinall <HI>Richelieu</HI>) to my Lord of <HI>Argyle,</HI> to treat with him for help from my Lord, for him to come into Ireland, and as was &s;aide for a marriage, betweene the &s;aide Earle and my Lord of <HI>Argyles</HI> daughter (or Si&s;ter I know not which) and this me&s;&s;enger tooke Ireland in his way thither, with whom Ma&s;ter <HI>Terilagh O Neale,</HI> Sir <HI>Phelims</HI> Bro|ther, had conference, from whom this relation was had. That &s;aid me&s;&s;enger went into <HI>Scotland</HI> as I did heare from the &s;aid Ma&s;ter <HI>Neale,</HI> or from <HI>Emer Macmahone</HI> afore named, I know not from which of them; but what he did there I could never heare, by rea&s;on that my Lord of <HI>Tyrone</HI> was pre&s;ently after kil|led; they were the more confirmed therein, hearing that my Lord
<PB N="19" REF="10"> of <HI>Argyle</HI> did &s;ay (neare on the &s;ame time as I gue&s;&s;e, and when the Army was rai&s;ed in Ireland as I thinke) to a great Lady in <HI>Scotland;</HI> I know not her name, but did heare that &s;he was much imbarked in the troubles of that Kingdome, then; &s;he que&s;tio|ning how they could &s;ub&s;i&s;t again&s;t the two Kingdomes of En|gland and Ireland, that if the King did endeavour to &s;tirre Ireland again&s;t them, he would kindle &s;uch a fire in Ireland as would hardly or never be quenched; And moreover we knew my Lord to be powerfull with the Ilanders, or Red-&s;hankes in <HI>Scotland,</HI> whom we judged would be prone and ready to &s;uch Actions, they for the mo&s;t part being de&s;cended out of Ireland, and hol|ding the Iri&s;h language and manners &s;till; and &s;o we parted, the next day being Wedne&s;day, from <HI>Lough Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> every man about his owne taske; and &s;o when I came home I acquainted my bro|ther with all that was done, and what they had appointed him to doe, and did likewi&s;e (according as they appointed me) &s;end to Ma&s;ter <HI>O Rely</HI> to let him know as much. And the eighteenth of the &s;ame moneth I began my journey to <HI>Dublin,</HI> and when I came to <HI>Dublin</HI> being the day before the appointed day of put|ting that re&s;olution in execution there, I met with Captaine <HI>Con O Neale</HI> &s;ent out of the Low-Countryes by Colonell <HI>O Neale,</HI> (who came after the me&s;&s;enger &s;ent by us formerly to the &s;aide Colonell, and was by him di&s;patched with his An&s;wer) to en|courage us in our re&s;olution, and to &s;peedy performance, with a&s;&s;urance of &s;uccours, which he &s;aid would not fail on the Col|lonells behalfe; And for the more certainty of helpe from him, and to a&s;&s;ure us that the Colonell had good hopes to procure aide from others, he &s;aid that it was he him&s;elf that was imploied from him to Card. <HI>Richelieu</HI> twice that Summer, who gave them very faire promi&s;es to an&s;wer the Colonells expectation, with which he &s;aid that the &s;aid Colonell and him&s;elfe were really a&s;&s;ured of the Cardinalls aide, and that he was likewi&s;e commanded by the Collonell upon our Re&s;olution of the day to give notice thereof to him, and that he would be within foureteene dayes over with us with aide; but he the &s;aid <HI>Con O Neale</HI> landing 9. or 10. dayes before, and meeting with Captaine <HI>Brian O Neale,</HI> who made him acquainted with what was re&s;olved, he did write all the matter to Colonell <HI>O Neale;</HI> &s;o as he was &s;ure of his &s;peedy com|ming. And that Evening he and I came to meete the other Gen|tlemen,
<PB N="20" REF="11"> and there we met Ma&s;ter <HI>Moore,</HI> Collonell <HI>Birne,</HI> Collo|nell <HI>Plunket,</HI> Captaine <HI>Fox,</HI> and another <HI>Lein&s;ter</HI>-Gentleman, a Captaine I thinke of the <HI>Birnes,</HI> but I am not &s;ure wheiher a <HI>Birne</HI> or a <HI>Toole,</HI> and Captaine <HI>Birgan O Neale;</HI> and taking an ac|compt of tho&s;e that &s;hould have beene there, it was founde that Sir <HI>Phelim O Neale</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Collo Macmahone,</HI> did faile of &s;ending their men, and Colonell <HI>Birne</HI> did mi&s;&s;e Sir <HI>Mergan Ca|vanagh</HI> that had promi&s;ed him to be there, but he &s;aid he was &s;ure he would not fail to be that night or the next morning in Town, and of the two hundred men that were appointed, there were onely eighty pre&s;ent, yet notwith&s;tanding they were re&s;olved to goe on in their Re&s;olution, and all the difference was at what time of the day they &s;hould &s;et on the Ca&s;tle, and after &s;ome de|bate it was re&s;olved in the afternoone, and the rather hoping to meete the Councell there then; for they &s;aide, if they &s;hould take the Ca&s;tle, and be inforced by any extreamity for not receiving timely &s;uccour out of the Countrey, having them, they could not want; and &s;o parted that night, but to meete in the morning to &s;ee further what was to be done; and immediately thereon I came to my Chamber, and about nine of the clock Ma&s;ter <HI>Moore</HI> and Captaine <HI>Fox</HI> came to me and told me that all was di&s;cove|red, and that the City was in Armes, and the Gates &s;hut up, and &s;o departed from me, and what became of them, or of the re&s;t I know not, but think that they e&s;caped, yet how or at what time I doe not know, becau&s;e I my &s;elfe was taken that morning.</P>
<P>After a deliberate reading and rumination of this account (gi|ven by <HI>Macquir</HI>) I &s;hall de&s;ire the Reader to be di&s;tinct in the&s;e particular con&s;iderations. Fir&s;t, I would have him ob&s;erve here the principall Agents in this de&s;perate A&s;&s;a&s;&s;ination. Secondly, I would have notice taken what the end and pretences were which moved, and enraged the&s;e Agents. Thirdly, what the opportuni|ties and contingencies were which made that very &s;ea&s;on pitcht upon for action. Fourthly, what the &s;tratagems and policies were which attended their enterprize. Fiftly To what degrees of cru|elty they did at la&s;t arrive. The&s;e particulars being truely and cleerely laid open, together with &s;ome other additionall eviden|ces of the like authority, conclu&s;ions will i&s;&s;ue of them&s;elves, ac|quainting us with the cau&s;es of all our mi&s;eries, and amounting to no le&s;&s;e then what I have already premi&s;ed and pre&s;umed.</P>
<P N="1"><PB N="21" REF="11">1. Fir&s;t therefore we &s;ee here a difference is to be noted be|tweene the mo&s;t eminent plotters, and the mo&s;t violent execu|tours of this mi&s;cheife: the Lord <HI>Macquir</HI> gives a good relation of the executours, but not being acquainted with the con&s;piracy it &s;elfe, till it had beene matured by others, and was communica|ted to him by <HI>Roger Moore,</HI> about nine moneths before the gene|rall eruption; He &s;aies nothing thereof; but tis plaine, that the&s;e Councells were laid long before by the Popi&s;h Clergy: for by the connivence of our Governours in Ireland, that Countrey had its Titular Arch-bi&s;hops, Bi&s;hops, Vicar-generals, Provincial Con|&s;i&s;tories, Eccle&s;ia&s;ticall Deanes, Abbotts, Priors, Monkes, Nunns, Je&s;uits, Prei&s;ts, and Fryars without number, be&s;ides all Hierar|chicall Officers, and as well in Townes as in the Countrey had free u&s;e of the Ma&s;&s;e. Dr. Jones had it from the mouth of a Fran|&s;ci&s;can, that before the di&s;mall day of October, there was a great meeting at a religious hou&s;e in We&s;tmeath of the Romi&s;h Cler|gy, and &s;ome others, whereat the que&s;tion was debated, what cour&s;e &s;hould be taken with the Engli&s;h, and how the govern|ment of the State &s;hould be new moulded. And in <HI>May</HI> 1642. there was a generall congregation held at <HI>Kilkenney</HI> wherein the Church of <HI>Ireland</HI> was annexed to the Sea of <HI>Rome,</HI> and the State made no le&s;&s;e in effect then purely Democraticall: and one Act was pa&s;&s;ed for &s;ending Emba&s;&s;adours in behalfe of the whole Kingdome to the Pope, the Emperour, the King of <HI>France</HI> and <HI>Spayne,</HI> and tho&s;e to be of the Church Prelates, with one of the Nobility and a Lawyer: Moreover all the acts of <HI>Kilkenney</HI> were onely &s;ub&s;cribed by three Archbi&s;hops, &s;ixe Bi&s;hops, and twen|ty others either of the Clergy, or &s;ome holy orders, or officers belonging to the Hierarchy: whereby it appeares that the Nobi|lity, Gentry, and Commonalty of Ireland (though the adventu|rous and active part of the warre be left to them) have as yet but very little or no &s;hare in the directive or gubernative part; much le&s;&s;e had they whil&s;t the matter was but in con&s;ultation; Be&s;ides, we know the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks, were ranged into fit &s;tations, and as there was a ju&s;t number appointed to attend at home for managing of bu&s;ine&s;&s;e in Ireland, &s;o there was as va&s;t a proporti|on di&s;tributed abroade into the Court of <HI>Rome,</HI> and all other Courts of <HI>Europe</HI> for forraigne Agency and corre&s;pondency. Wherefore if the Apo&s;tolick &s;ea ever did lively repre&s;ent the bot|tomles
<PB N="22" REF="12"> pit reeking forth thick fumes, or darkening the skye with &s;warmes of odious Locu&s;ts, doubtle&s;&s;e at this time by the emi&s;&s;i|on of &s;o many Regulars and Seculars, upon &s;uch confounding me&s;&s;ages, it did verify and explaine that dimme prediction.</P>
<P>Well: but after the Je&s;uits and Prei&s;ts had beene long in con|juration about this woefull tragedy, at la&s;t the troubles of <HI>Scot|land</HI> have occa&s;ioned a Parliament in <HI>England,</HI> and rai&s;ed an Ar|my of Papi&s;ts in Ireland; and now all advantages concurring, &s;uch of the Lords &amp; Gentry, as are mo&s;t apt for innovation are to be &s;ollicited, and rightly in&s;tructed how to draw in other con|current partyes in all the foure &s;everall Provinces.</P>
<P>The common people are not to be tru&s;ted with the knowledge of any thing till the very night it &s;elfe approaches; nay the very Gentry them&s;elves, except &s;ome few cho&s;en ones, are not to re|ceive this &s;ecret till all things are ready for execution: the Sa|craments of the Ma&s;&s;e, and of Confe&s;&s;ion (which are made Vm|brages to draw the multitude together, and my&s;terious attractives to engage in this helli&s;h &s;acrifice,) are not to be &s;olemnized be|fore the day appointed. There was feare that the multitude could not be prepared without di&s;covery; but there was no feare that the multitude would not con&s;ent without preparation. At a meet|ing therefore in <HI>Dublin</HI> 8 monthes at lea&s;t before this infamous October, when one of the Con&s;piratours advi&s;ed to imploy time in &s;peaking to, and trying the Gentry of Ireland, till adverti&s;e|ment could be received from the other undertakers beyond the &s;eas: Ma&s;ter <HI>Moore</HI> replyed, that it was to no purpo&s;e to &s;pende much time in &s;peaking to the Gentry; for there was no doubt to be made of the Iri&s;h, that they would be ready at any time; but all the doubt was in the Gentry of the <HI>Pale.</HI> How&s;oever for his part his affirmation was that he was really a&s;&s;ured, when the I|ri&s;h were up, the <HI>Pale</HI> Gentry would not &s;tay long after. He fur|ther proceeded al&s;o to intreate that the Lord of <HI>Maye</HI> (who was very powerfull in command of men in tho&s;e parts of <HI>Connaught</HI> wherein he lived) had beene &s;poken to by him&s;elfe, and that his con&s;ent was granted, yet not without an oath for concealement of the &s;ame. But I will goe on with the Lord <HI>Macquir,</HI> to men|tion the principal Lay-conjuratours who were not onely taken in by the Eccle&s;ia&s;ticks for meere action, but were al&s;o admitted to &s;ome part of the contrivance at lea&s;t nine monthes before; and
<PB N="23" REF="12"> we &s;hall &s;ee &s;ome u&s;e may be made of the &s;ame. The fir&s;t in&s;tan|ced in, is <HI>Roger Moore,</HI> alias <HI>Roei Morace</HI> of the family of the <HI>Moraces</HI> of <HI>Leix</HI> in <HI>Lem&s;ter,</HI> which County together with the Territories of <HI>Offali</HI> were e&s;cheated to the Crown by Act of Par|liament, and were planted with Engli&s;h in the Raigne of Queen <HI>Mary.</HI> Neverthele&s;&s;e al&s;o the father of this <HI>Roei</HI> being civill and of peaceable di&s;po&s;ition, though a Papi&s;t, was by Queene <HI>Eliza|beth</HI> cheri&s;ht and &s;ufficiently provided for by a grant of faire and large po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions in the County of <HI>Keldare</HI> and <HI>Meath</HI> to him and his heires in fee, and the &s;ame did de&s;cend to this <HI>Roei.</HI> Here was Ju&s;tice done long &s;ince by a Popi&s;h Queene to his dammage, here is grace &s;hewed lately by a Prote&s;tant Queene to his advan|tage: what pretence of quarrell therefore can this afford to <HI>R. Moore</HI> for Papi&s;ts again&s;t Prote&s;tants, or for former times again&s;t latter? The Lord <HI>Macqueir</HI> him&s;elfe, and his family may next take place; and we mu&s;t take knowledge, that Sir <HI>Conor Ro. Macqueir</HI> his Grandfather was dive&s;ted of the dignity of <HI>Mac|queir,</HI> and the County of <HI>Termanagh,</HI> and unable to right him|&s;elfe, was rein&s;tated by the aide of the Engli&s;h, after which al&s;o he had not onely the <HI>Barony</HI> of <HI>Maghere &s;taffana,</HI> but al&s;o a yeare|ly pen&s;ion for life granted out of the <HI>Exchequer</HI> by King <HI>James.</HI> And not long &s;ince <HI>Bryan</HI> the Sonne of Sir <HI>Connor,</HI> and father of this Lord, obtained a Patent from King <HI>Charles</HI> of the Barony of <HI>Eviskillim;</HI> if the&s;e offices be accounted di&s;obligations or pro|voke the Iri&s;h again&s;t the Engli&s;h, or &s;tirre up Papi&s;ts again&s;t Prote&s;tants, certainely either the Iri&s;h differ from other Nati|ons, and Popery differs from other Religions, or el&s;e the nature of ingratitude mu&s;t needs be changed from what it was.</P>
<P><HI>Philip O Rely</HI> comes now in view; and his Father Captaine <HI>Hugh Mac-&s;hane O Rely</HI> had from King <HI>James</HI> a grant and con|firmation in fee of a faire e&s;tate in Lands, lying within the Coun|ty of <HI>Oavan,</HI> one of the e&s;cheated Counties of <HI>Vl&s;ter.</HI> Of all the Rebels none &s;car&s;e ever did pur&s;ue the Engli&s;h and the Refor|med Religion more perfidiou&s;ly, and de&s;perately, then this <HI>Philip</HI> and his family, yet here is to be &s;eene what it co&s;t King <HI>James</HI> to incen&s;e him &s;o deeply again&s;t us.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>Phelim O Neale,</HI> and his brother <HI>Torilah</HI> may pre&s;ent them|&s;elves after the <HI>O Relies;</HI> and the&s;e in their minority being left Orphans by <HI>Oge O Neal</HI> their father, were liberally bred up in
<PB N="24" REF="13"> learning, and carefully recommended by our State to the tuition of the Lord <HI>Calfield,</HI> and when they had attained to full yeares, their fathers inheritance with &s;ome additions was &s;ettled upon them. Yet 'tis conjecturable that for as much as the Province of <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> did e&s;cheat by the &s;everall trea&s;ons and attaindors of the Earles, <HI>Tyrone, Tyrconell,</HI> and others, if <HI>Tyrone</HI> had againe re|&s;tored him&s;elfe according to the de&s;igne of the&s;e <HI>O Neales,</HI> the titles and po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions of this Family in <HI>Vl&s;ter</HI> would have been &s;hrewdly &s;haken, or at lea&s;t their power ecclip&s;d. Neverthe|le&s;&s;e the <HI>O Neales</HI> now for &s;uch offences as the&s;e, butcher a thou|&s;and of Engli&s;h, and for their fir&s;t &s;acrifice &s;lay the yong Lord <HI>Calfield</HI> their old Guardians &s;on, and yet it mu&s;t pa&s;&s;e by the laws of Popery for a very faire, equitable, and gratefull retaliation. Colonell <HI>Mac-Mahon</HI> and his Family next in order, never could complaine of any mole&s;tation, or di&s;inheri&s;on by Engli&s;h plan|tations, but all the <HI>Mac-Mahons</HI> of <HI>Farny</HI> and their chiefe had been extirpated by the <HI>O Neales,</HI> if the power of the Engli&s;h had not &s;upported, and pre&s;erved them. Sure &s;uch meritorious obligations upon any other then either Iri&s;h, or Catholicks, would have procured &s;ome other acknowledgement. We may now conclude with Sir <HI>Con. Mageniis</HI> and his brethren, and Sir <HI>Ar|thur</HI> his Father; and 'tis apparant, that upon the &s;ettlement of <HI>Vl&s;ter,</HI> though he was in actuall rebellion with the Earle of <HI>Ty|rone,</HI> who&s;e daughter he had married, yet he obtained from King <HI>Iames</HI> a grant and confirmation of the territory of <HI>Ireagle</HI> in the County of <HI>Doune</HI> to him&s;elfe and his heires in fee. Had an In|dian, or Mahometan been &s;o treated, we may well expect he would have &s;tudied &s;ome other requitall then the totall extirpa|tion of tho&s;e which &s;o treated him, or he would have thought &s;omething el&s;e had appertained to gratitude be&s;ides murther and revenge. I thus ranke the&s;e con&s;piratours by them&s;elves, be|cau&s;e their taske was dome&s;ticall, and mo&s;t of them were of <HI>Vl|&s;ter;</HI> and therefore policy required that where the greate&s;t diffi|culty was, mo&s;t indu&s;try was to be u&s;ed. For 'tis to be noted, that in Mun&s;ter, and in Conaght, where the Engli&s;h were thinner planted, and le&s;&s;e fortified, there was not that feare of oppo&s;ition as in Vl&s;ter and Lem&s;ter, where the Scots and Engli&s;h were clo|&s;er embodied, and &s;urer garri&s;ond, but e&s;pecially neare Dublin where the Seate of Ju&s;tice was, and the five adjacent Counties,
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