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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<P>NO PAMPHLET, BVT A DETESTATION Again&s;t all &s;uch PAMPHLETS As are Printed, Concerning the Iri&s;h Rebellion, Plainely demon&s;trating the fal&s;hood of them.</P>
<P>WITH, A &s;hort Breviary of &s;ome pa&s;&s;ages lately happening betweene a Hou&s;ekeeper and &s;ome of the Rebels; With the death of the Gentleman of the Hou&s;e, and the chiefe of the Rebels.</P>
<P>Being a True Copy of a Letter &s;ent to a Mer|chant of the City of London.</P>
<P>London, Printed, 1642.</P>
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<HEAD>A Letter from Ireland.</HEAD>
<P>THe many Fabulous Pamphlets that are &s;et out concerning the Rebels in Ireland of their outrages and bloudy proceedings, hath cau&s;ed me to &s;end this to the Pre&s;&s;e, that all may pcr|ceive the vanity of the Authors, who for a &s;mall gaine, will endeavour with opprobrious lines to a|bu&s;e God and Man. Nay they will not &s;ticke to blur the faire velome of our great Senate with their blubberd writings; making credulous people to beleeve &s;uch things as are contrived from their Helli&s;h braines, to proceed from that great Coun|cell: and to put a fairer glo&s;&s;e upon their forge|ries, they have &s;ent out &s;ome of their fooli&s;h In|ventions under the Title of a Letter from a Di|vine to his Friend, or from Friend to Friend. It is confe&s;&s;ed, That the Iri&s;h doe dayly ri&s;e up in Armes and their Companies increa&s;e; likewi&s;e they pillage Prote&s;tants Hou&s;es, and take away all manner of Cattell; but for murdering or ravi|&s;hing (as is reported) it is more than we ever heard of in Ireland: onely one Gentleman lo&s;t his life after this manner. A Company of Rebels to the
<PB REF="3"> number of one hundred and twenty or thereabouts, &s;tole out of the woods in the Evening, and &s;ur|rounded a Gentlemans hou&s;e which &s;tood alone farre from any Neighbours; the Ma&s;ter of the Hou&s;e having intelligence of it, cau&s;ed his dores to be barricadoed, and his Servants to provide them&s;elves with &s;uch Armes to defend them&s;elves as the Hou&s;e afforded. The Rebels commandsd the Doores &s;hould be opened and that the Ma&s;ter of the Hou&s;e &s;hould be&s;tow on them &s;uch vi|ctuals and drinke as was within and they would not offer violence to any one, but returne in peace to the places from whence they came. The Gen|tleman fearing the old &s;aying to be true, <HI>Nulla fi|des cum inimico,</HI> there was no Faith to be given to an enemy, e&s;pecially to &s;uch traiterous Rebels, would not tru&s;t to their prote&s;tations, but plaine|ly replied, that he would &s;tand upon his defence, and would rather lo&s;e his life, then &s;uccour any that were the Kings Enemies, but would venter their lives to maintaine his dignity, and all that they &s;ought, was tolleration for their Religion. All this prote&s;tation could not get them releife not beleife; Whereupon they di&s;charged &s;ome &s;hort gunnes that they carried at the Window, and then tooke Ladders and thought to skale the Hou&s;e; which they ea&s;ily begun, and had as ea&s;ily fini&s;hed, by rea&s;on they that were there within had no manner of Armes, but Clubs, and two or three
<PB REF="3"> &s;words) which could not make much re&s;i&s;tance. Therefore fearing the wor&s;t, they cryed out for mercy, and they would willingly give unto them what they demanded; and for confirmation there|of, if one of them would clime a Ladder to a Window where the Ma&s;ter of the hou&s;e &s;tood, and there &s;weare not to offer violence to Man or Woman, the dores &s;hould pre&s;ently bee opened; which they conde&s;cended to, and &s;ent up one <HI>Macdonnell,</HI> who was the chiefe among&s;t them; but he in&s;tead of receiving an oath, recei|ved a wound through the body with the Gentle|mans &s;word that &s;tood in the Window, that he fel dead to the ground. Which when the Rebels per|ceived, their choller was &s;o &s;tirred, that they again di&s;charged their Gunnes at the Windowes, and fell to skale the Hou&s;e; the mi&s;erable people within cryed out for mercy, bur were not harke|ned to; at length they broke up a Window, and &s;ome twenty of them got into the Hou&s;e; the fearefull Hou&s;ekeepers runne all into holes to hide them&s;elves, but were &s;oone found out and all bound, &s;ave onely the Ma&s;ter of the Hou&s;e, who had conveived him&s;elfe to a private Clo&s;et made in a Wall, when the dore was &s;hut, it would de|ceive a skilfull Man to finde out; long &s;earch was made for him, but he could not be found, till one of his own &s;ervants, upon condition that his owne life &s;hould be &s;aved, <HI>Judas</HI> like, delivered up his
<PB REF="4"> Ma&s;ter, who pre&s;ently was cut in pieces and ca&s;t out. Then they pillaged the Hou&s;e, loading them|&s;elves with the riche&s;t Furniture the Hou&s;e affor|ded. Yet they killed none of the re&s;t, but left them bound, and returned againe to the Woods. The next day, &s;ome &s;trangers pa&s;&s;ing by and hea|ring the groanes and cries of tho&s;e that were with|in came and unbound them; and now they be all at Dublin. The party that di&s;covered his Ma&s;ter to the Rebels, was que&s;tioned before the Councell there, and found to be guilty of Petty-Trea&s;on, and therefore condemned to be hanged. The Re|bels are in number about twenty thou&s;and or up|wards, but not halfe of them furni&s;hed with Armes, nor, I hooe, with hearts, to &s;tand again&s;t the Lord or his Annointed.</P>
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