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<P>IRELANDS Complaint Again&s;t Sir GEORGE RATCLIFFE Knight now Pri&s;oner in the <HI>Gate-hou&s;e</HI> at <HI>We&s;tmin&s;ter.</HI></P>
<P>Delivered in PARLIAMENT there by Cap|taine <HI>AVDLEY MERVIN.</HI></P>
<P>VVherein is declared the Grievances of that Kingdome, occa&s;ioned by him, and the late Earle of <HI>Strafford.</HI></P>
<P>The Principall cau&s;e, why the&s;e late troubles are fal|len upon them.</P>
<P>Whereunto is annexed the Depo&s;itions and Articles exhibited again&s;t him in Parliament.</P>
<P>LONDON, Printed for JOHN THOMAS. 1641.</P>
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<HEAD><HI>Irelands</HI> Grievances, and the complaint of that Kingdome again&s;t Sir <HI>George Ratcliffe</HI> Knight, and now Pri&s;oner in the <HI>Gate hou&s;e,</HI> 1641.</HEAD>
<P>_IT is an antient &s;aying, that every man knowes be&s;t, where his owne &s;hoe wrings him, <HI>England</HI> knowes be&s;t its own Grievances, but is &s;carce &s;en&s;ible of its neighbours, wherefore it is my intent at this time, with as much brevity as may be, to make <HI>England</HI> &s;en&s;ible of the &s;ufferings and Grievances which of late <HI>Ireland</HI> hath been pertakers of, groaning under the Ty|ranny and oppre&s;&s;ion of the two great Jncendiaries of this our Kingdome. <HI>Thomas</HI> late Earle of <HI>Strafford</HI> the principall Author, who lately &s;uffered for hisS de&s;erts, and Sir <HI>George Ratcliffe,</HI> now at this time Pri&s;oner in the <HI>Gate-hou&s;e</HI> at <HI>We&s;t|min.</HI> the principall Jn&s;trument, that acted his trayterous &amp; wicked de&s;igns within the&s;e 3. Kingdomes, con&s;ider gentle Reader, <HI>Irelands</HI> mi&s;erable cryes and complaints again&s;t the wicked practi&s;es and in&s;ulting power of this man, in pro&s;e cuting the natives and inhabitants even to blood.</P>
<P>Con&s;ider what affinity and Relation he had to the late Earle of <HI>Strafford</HI> in his Combinations, who was the Exe|cutioner of all the&s;e wicked and Traterous practi&s;es, the other contrived, &s;uch was their confederacy in Tyranny and oppre&s;&s;ion, that the lives, e&s;tates, and liberties of his Maje&s;ties &s;ubjects in this Kingdome was violated and rui|nated, the&s;e were tho&s;e wicked <HI>Hamans,</HI> that would make havocke of all poore <HI>Mordecays,</HI> to advance their owne greatne&s;&s;e, if God of his goodne&s;&s;e had not prevented them, by a happy <HI>Parliament.</HI> But I &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;parke any <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="3">one, in regard he hath &s;uffered the Law for it, but I returne to him who is little inferior in wickedne&s;&s;e, and who ex|pects his tryall for it every moment, Sir <HI>George Ratcliffe,</HI> the unhappy &s;ubject of my di&s;cour&s;e, he intending the de|&s;truction of the Realme of <HI>Ireland,</HI> trayterou&s;ly con&s;pired to &s;ubvert the fundamentall Lawes and Government of the Kingdome, and in pur&s;uance thereof he hath trayterou&s;ly continued and exerci&s;ed an Arbitrary and Tyrannicall Go|vernment again&s;t Law, throughout the Kingdome, he al&s;o a&s;&s;umed to him&s;elfe Regall power over the goods, per&s;ons, Lands &amp; liberties of his Maje&s;ties Subjects of this Realme, and likewi&s;e maliciou&s;ly, perfidiou&s;ly, &amp; trayterou&s;ly pub|li&s;hed fal&s;e opinions, unju&s;t judgements and &s;entences, in extrajudiciall manner again&s;t Law, and practi&s;ed unlawfull Acts, whereby as well divers mutinies, &s;editions, and rebel|lions, have been rai&s;ed, as al&s;o many thou&s;ands of his Ma|je&s;ties Liege people have been ruined in their goods, lands, liberties, and lives, and many of them being of good quali|ty and reputation, have been utterly defamed by Pillory, Mutilation of members, and other infamous puni&s;hments, by means whereof his Maje&s;ty and the Kingdome, have bin deprived of their &s;ervice, injuries, &amp; other publick em|ployments, the generall Trade and Traffique of this I&s;land, for the mo&s;t part de&s;troyed, and his Maje&s;ty highly dam|nified in his Cu&s;tomes and other Revenues.</P>
<P>And his policy to e&s;cape from being found out in the&s;e his Trayterous enterprizes, did labour by all the meanes he could to &s;top Parliamentary proceedings, and to &s;ub|vert the rights thereof.</P>
<P>This Sir <HI>George Ratcliffe</HI> al&s;o con&s;pired with the late Earle of <HI>Strafford,</HI> to bring in an Army from <HI>Jreland,</HI> to &s;ubdue the Subjects of <HI>England,</HI> which Trayterous fact, &s;hould all &s;ur|viving Chronologies of times be &s;earcht, is not to be par|rallel'd in any age, had that wicked intent of theirs taken
<PB REF="3">effect, which makes me view the Records among&s;t the in|fernall Spirits, to find it matcht, there I might extenuate their facts, where fir&s;t he appeares like the fal&s;e &s;pirit, &s;ent into the mouth of the Prophets of <HI>Achab,</HI> to &s;peake delu|&s;ions to &s;ubvert the Ho&s;t of God.</P>
<P>Nor mu&s;t I &s;tay here to accu&s;e him, but goe further ac|cording to the Articles which are exhibited again&s;t him.</P>
<P>He joyned likewi&s;e with the late Earle, to take 80000 pounds out of the Exchequer in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and bought To|bacco therewith, and converted the profit to their owne u&s;es.</P>
<P>He al&s;oo cuntenanced Papi&s;ts. and yeelded to the buil|ding of Mona&s;teryes, to alienate the affections of the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> from the &s;ubjection of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>And he Confederated to draw the &s;ubjects of <HI>Scotland</HI> from the King.</P>
<P>Let this man be judged according to his acts, cry the Commonalty of <HI>Jreland,</HI> al&s;o the Commons of <HI>England</HI> are of the &s;ame opinion. It is a common maxime in the&s;e times, for men to doe what they can, to enjoy greatne&s;&s;e let goodne&s;&s;e &s;eeke entertainement where it will, <HI>Victa Ja|cet pietas, probitas laudatur &amp;c.</HI> Piety alas: it is hard to be found, hone&s;ty is Co~mended, but few give it acceptance. Jn what a mi&s;erable condition are all tho&s;e, who &s;trive to be great, and not good, was it not the ca&s;e of Sir <HI>George Ratcliffe,</HI> who now for his liberty (I am per&s;waded) would exchange his dignity, for to whom much is given, much will be required, J have heard many, who having under|&s;tood the crymes afore-mentioned, committed by this <HI>Iu|das</HI> (for &s;o may J tearme him) ready to cur&s;e him, which is Jmpiety, for wee ought rather to pray for our Enemies. Neither was he alone the &s;ole actor, in the forenamed Grie|vances, for he was a&s;&s;i&s;ted by Sir <HI>Richard Bolton</HI> Knight, Lord Chancellor of <HI>Ireland, Iohn</HI> Lord Bi&s;hop of <HI>Derry,</HI>
<PB REF="4">and Sir <HI>Gerrard Lowther</HI> Knight, Lord chiefe Ju&s;tice of his Maje&s;ties Court of <HI>Common Pleas,</HI> who are likewi&s;e ac|cu&s;ed of the &s;aid Facts.</P>
<P><HI>Spencer</HI> and <HI>Gave&s;ton,</HI> who have left their names monu|mentally odious, for the evill Councell they fed the Kings care with, yet did po&s;&s;ibly advance their own friends, whil&s;t the&s;e dart their envy; and Trea&s;on for a common Centery, equally touching the bounds of every &s;uperficies, for as concerning the valid e&s;tates; they have illegally over|throwne them.</P>
<P>J mu&s;t confe&s;&s;e, that <HI>humanum e&s;t errare,</HI> and the Law al|lowes writs of errour, and arre&s;ts of judgement, but where there is <HI>cra&s;&s;a ignorantia,</HI> again&s;t their Oathes, and knowne Lawes of the Kingdome, nay where it is rather <HI>praemedita|ta malitia,</HI> an emulating policy, &s;eeking onely to be glori|ous in a Nationall de&s;truction, as if their &s;afety were onely involved in our Ruine, there J mu&s;t pity, but not excu&s;e them, Innovations in Law, and &s;o con&s;equently in govern|ment, creepe in like Here&s;ies in Religion, &s;lowly and &s;lily pleading, and in the end a &s;awcy and corrupt Legitimacy by uncontrouled pre&s;cription.</P>
<P>The <HI>Benjamites</HI> flung &s;tones with their left hands, yet they would not mi&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> a haires breadth; the&s;e extrajudiciall proceedings are flung with the left, I meane they are &s;ini|&s;terous, and imprint their black and blew markes more certaine and more fatall, &s;o that they may &s;ay; <HI>Que Regio in terris no&s;tri non plena laboris,</HI> though the&s;e things be familier unto us, yet <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> cannot but admire how this unpro|portionable body of Judicature, &s;hould &s;well up into &s;uch a va&s;te and ulcerous dimencion.</P>
<P>But yet that I may returne againe to this unworthy Knight Sir <HI>George</HI> not S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">orge,</HI> I cannot but admire his con&s;tan|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB REF="4">put in him, to per&s;ecute both with rigour and wicked me|naces, his unju&s;t and illegall commands, which (if plou&s;ly and ju&s;tly given, &amp; vertuou&s;ly addicted) would have beene an eternall monument, of glory and happine&s;&s;e, but the children of this world, are onely wi&s;e in their conceits, and where fal&s;ity and inju&s;tice is upholden, how can equity flori&s;h.</P>
<P>I am forced to cry out, <HI>O Ratcliffe, Ratcliffe,</HI> thou did&s;t &s;eeke rather to obey thy ma&s;ter but a Viceroy, or <HI>Debuty</HI> King, then the King him&s;elfe, and by &s;o doing, did&s;t thou violate the lawes of that unhappy Kingdome, (by the and thy complices made &s;o) for which now there is nothing left unto the, but &s;hame and repentance.</P>
<P>what gla&s;&s;e hath this unhappy devided Kingdome, from his Maje&s;ties prefence and audience to contemplate the faire &amp; ravi&s;hing forme of his royall intentions in, but in the cleare and diaphanous Admini&s;tration of his Ju&s;tice, and what doe the&s;e Trayterous and Jllegall practi&s;es aime at, but in Affront to his Maje&s;tie, and di&s;content to his &s;ubjects, to multiply as by a magicke gla&s;&s;e, the royall di|&s;pen&s;ation of his favours into the ugly &amp; deformed u&s;age of their &s;uppre&s;&s;ion of the liberties, deva&s;tation of e&s;tates, and deprivation of his Loyall Subjects, &s;o that it may be &s;aid, <HI>Regali capiti cervicem con&s;ul equinam jungere &s;ic vel|let varias&abque; inducere plumas.</HI></P>
<P>Jn conclu&s;ion, all that J can &s;ay, is this, that hee which but lately (Sir <HI>George Ratcliffe</HI> J meane) lived &s;o Tryum|phantly, and in Pompe, is now but <HI>Civiliter mortuus,</HI> for his an&s;wer &s;peedily mu&s;t be put into the Articles, now in the High Court of Parliament exhibited again&s;t him, that further proceedings may be expedited, as may be &s;utable to Ju&s;tice, and the prefidents of Parliaments, to his Maje|&s;ty appeare in his magnificent goodne&s;&s;e, and indulgency to his people, that his people may bee ravi&s;hed in their
<PB REF="5">their dutifull obedience and loyalty to his Maje&s;tie.</P>
<P>So &s;hall this Parliament, live in records to Po&s;terity, as the in&s;trumentall reformers of the&s;e corrupted times, and that the Kingdome and Common-wealth, may pay an amiable Sacrifice in retribution and acknowledgement of his Maje&s;ties multiplied providence, for our pre&s;ervation herein, to this J know, all but Trayters both to King and Countrey, will with an unanimous con&s;ent &s;ay <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>The Accu&s;ation and Impeachment of Sir <HI>GEORGE RATCLIFFE,</HI> by the Com|mons in this pre&s;ent <HI>Parliament</HI> a&s;&s;embled, charging with high Trea&s;on, and other mi&s;|demeanours, as en&s;ue.</HEAD>
<P><HI>IMprimus,</HI> that he hath con&s;pired with the Earle of <HI>Strafford,</HI> to bring into <HI>Ireland</HI> an <HI>Arbitrary Government,</HI> and to &s;ubvert the fundamentall Lawes, and did joyne with the Earle to bring in an Ar|my from <HI>Ireland,</HI> to &s;ubdue the &s;ubjects of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="2">2. That he hath joyned with the Earle to u&s;e regall Power, and to deprive the &s;ubjects of their liberties and proprieties</P>
<P N="3">3. That he hath joyned with the Earle to take 80000 Pounds out of the <HI>Exchequer</HI> in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and bought Tobacco therewith, &amp; con|verted the &s;ame profits to their owne u&s;es.</P>
<P N="4">4. That he hath Traiterou&s;ly confederated with the Earle to coun|tenance Papi&s;ts, and build Mona&s;teryes, to alienate the affections of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> &s;ubjects from the &s;ubjection of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P N="5">5. That he Trayterou&s;ly confederated with the Earle, to draw the &s;ubjects of <HI>Scotland</HI> from the King.</P>
<P N="6">6. That to Pre&s;erve him&s;elfe and the &s;aid Earle, hath laboured to &s;ubvert the liberties and priviledges of the Parliament in <HI>Ire|land.</HI></P>
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