<!DOCTYPE ETS PUBLIC "-//UMDLPS//DTD EEBOPROOF 2.0//EN">
<ETS>
<TEMPHEAD>
<REVDESCR>
<CHANGE>
<DATE>2010-03-05</DATE>
<RESPSTMT>
<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
<RESP>MURP</RESP>
</RESPSTMT>
<ITEM>Proofed and reviewed as part of batch B100114.pdcc.</ITEM>
</CHANGE>
</REVDESCR>
</TEMPHEAD>
<EEBO>
<IDG S="marc" R="UM" ID="A88942">
<STC T="W">M127</STC>
<STC T="T">E153_6</STC>
<BIBNO T="umi">99866239</BIBNO>
<VID>156795</VID>
</IDG>
<TEXT LANG="eng">
<FRONT>
<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
<PB REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 119 -->
<P>THE Copy of two Letters &s;ent FROM ROME, The one to <HI>Conny mac Guire,</HI> Lord of <HI>Jniskillin,</HI> now pre&s;ent in the Tower, or to his Brother <HI>Roury mac Guire</HI> in <HI>Ireland;</HI> The other to <HI>Phelim Roe O Neal,</HI> pri&s;oner with the Lord <HI>Conny mac Guire.</HI></P>
<P>The one written by <HI>Francis mac Guire,</HI> Co&s;in to my Lord <HI>Jniskillin:</HI> The other from <HI>Bonoventura O Conny,</HI> to <HI>Phelim Roe O Neal.</HI></P>
<P>Brought from <HI>Rome</HI> by Colonell <HI>Crely,</HI> who was apprehended at <HI>Dublin,</HI> and after|ward executed, the 26. of <HI>Iune.</HI></P>
<P>Sent from <HI>Dublin</HI> within an inclo&s;ed Letter by Ma&s;ter <HI>William Scot,</HI> to his beloved Sonne <HI>William Scot</HI> now Re&s;ident in <HI>London.</HI></P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Marmaduke Boat.</HI> 1642. July 2.</P>
</DIV1>
</FRONT>
<BODY>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB REF="2"><!-- PDF PAGE 120 -->
<PB N="3" REF="2"><!-- PDF PAGE 120 -->
<HEAD>DELIVER THIS TO CONNOR MAC GVIRE, Lord of <HI>Iniskellen;</HI> or to his Brother <HI>Roury mac Guire</HI> in <HI>IRELAND.</HI></HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>My honoured Lord,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>_A Thou&s;and Commendations unto you, to <HI>Bryan, Roury,</HI> and the re&s;t. I have heard of your and <HI>Hugh Oges</HI> impri&s;onment, and truly I never heard wor&s;e News in my life, had not &s;ome men much wi&s;er then my &s;elf, comforted me; in regard you e&s;teem that great good, and no hurt will redound unto you and your whole Nation, from the&s;e your troubles. Truly my Lord, if you were dead (which God forbid) through that attempt, you purcha|&s;ed unto your former honours a glorious and everla&s;ting name. The Pope, and the Cardinals his Nephews heard of your ca&s;e, and how valorou&s;ly <HI>Phelim, Roury,</HI> and other Gentlemen their a&s;&s;i&s;tants have behaved them&s;elves, and rejoyced greatly thereat; &s;o that I doubt not but he will &s;end help unto you, if it be demanded, as becometh you. Therefore Father <HI>Bonaventure O Conny,</HI> brother unto <HI>Encas O Conny</HI> who is Lecturer here, thought fit to write to your Gene|rall <HI>Phelim</HI> touching this matter; and I advi&s;e you to &s;ee wi&s;ely un|to your rea&s;ons which he writ, and unto the good which will ari&s;e from them in time, and that you and <HI>Phelim</HI> do all things accor|ding to his directions, and the rather, that the Father <HI>Bonaventure</HI> is a wi&s;e, prudent, and learned man, and as faithfull and naturall to you as I am: If you be not pre&s;ent your &s;elf, <HI>Roury</HI> will &s;upply your place before all things, I be&s;eech you for the love of Je&s;us Chri&s;t, that true love be e&s;tabli&s;hed among&s;t you, and let not the temptati|on of the Devill or man divert your mind from cheri&s;hing all po&s;&s;i|ble love and kindne&s;&s;e betwixt your &s;elf and <HI>Brian Mac-Connaght</HI>
<PB N="4" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 121 -->his children, as I doubt not you will <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ndeavour to draw unto you, not only your own kindred, but al&s;o all the ancient Roots of the Iri&s;h where ever di&s;per&s;ed or di&s;tant; and all to the glory of God, and the defence of our Religion; and I will be bound that God will be your help, if you beare out but one yeere, beleeve me the Pope and all the Catholipue Kings will be glad that you crave their a&s;&s;i&s;tance, the merciful God grant it, and defend you from the outrage of your Enemies; &s;o will he pray night and day, which is</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your own poor Co&s;en, FRANCIS MAC GUIRE</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Rome; from I&s;&s;idores Colledge,</HI> <DATE><HI>March</HI> 4.</DATE> <HI>after the Roman Accompt.</HI></DATELINE>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>HAd I fini&s;hed my intended &s;tudiet, there is no thing in the world I had rather, then to live with you, and &s;erve you untill death; and &s;eeing I am not pre&s;ent with you, I be&s;eech you let your coun|&s;ell be wi&s;e and con&s;cienable men, and &s;uch as be acquainted with the Cu&s;tomes of other Nations. I commit you to Gods protection; behave your &s;elf nobly for your Religion.</P>
<P>Commend me to <HI>Hugh Mac-Mahoune</HI> and his children.</P>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="letter">
<PB N="5" REF="3"><!-- PDF PAGE 121 -->
<HEAD>TO MY HONOURED FRIEND, PHELIM ROE O NEIL, with my well-wi&s;hes, in <HI>IRELAND.</HI></HEAD>
<P>MY Honoured Lord, the Great God help you; I would have written often unto you&punc; &s;ince I received Saint <HI>Francis</HI> his habite, and e&s;pecially during the &s;even yeeres I lived in <HI>Rome,</HI> were it not that the Lord lately &s;lain, and <HI>Hugh Roe</HI> my Brother charged me to keep no corre&s;pon|dence with you or any other freind there, to avoid &s;u&s;pition or dam|age to happen unto you thereby, now if that which is written unto us, and which we heare from all parts be true, (to wit,) that the thing which we long de&s;ired, and whereof we hoped in God, and in you untill now, be come to pa&s;&s;e, the time of writing and keep|ing corre&s;pondence with you, touching &s;uch matters as are be&s;t and mo&s;t needfull unto you in the pre&s;ent opportunity is now at hand; wherefore I could not choo&s;e above all things but write the&s;e few lines unto you in my Mother tongue as being mo&s;t &s;afe. The holy Father and his two Nephews, Cardonall <HI>Anthony Barbarimus</HI> Protector of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and Cardinall <HI>Francis Barbarimus,</HI> who hath the power here in all &s;uch matters as concerne the Pope, have heard of the war and confederation which you make for your Religion and Libertie; and truely I cannot expre&s;&s;e unto you the greatne&s;&s;e of their joy thereat, in &s;o much that if they had received Letters, or if you did &s;end an Agent with your will and de&s;ignes, you &s;hould want no helpe, therefore I would have you to &s;end &s;ome able man hither weth a Declaration of the grievances in forme of Law. My Brother <HI>Owin Roe</HI> the Prie&s;t is in <HI>Spaine,</HI> except he be gone into <HI>Ireland</HI> by this, he hath fini&s;hed very well his &s;tudy of Philo&s;ophy, Theologie, and Law, and is well &s;poken in the Latin, Spani&s;h, and Dutch, he is I know well, &s;ober, di&s;cret, learned, and bred accor|ding to the manner of &s;everall Nations, to treat with any Prince of what matter &s;oever; further more he is as you know faithfull and na|turall
<PB N="6" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 122 -->to the other Lords your Confederats; which qualities are mo&s;t requi&s;ite in a man to be imployed here, or in any place el&s;e upon the like occa&s;ion. I prote&s;t unto you before God, that I commend him not in that he is my Brother, but that I am not acquainted with any man of more ability to be imployed in that &s;ervice here then he, &s;ince <HI>Hugh Roe</HI> my Brother dyed, through the great mi&s;ery and pains he hath taken in his la&s;t travels. I am teaching here the&s;e &s;ix yeer of the Colledge of the Iri&s;h, and all that time imployed about the affairs of the late &s;lain Lord. I might do you &s;ome &s;ervice, if I had received any intelligence from you; and &s;ome help to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">m whom you intend to &s;end hither; there is nothing I h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">d <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">t then come where you are, although I am &s;etled here to <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">y <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">w<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e contentment, do you u&s;e me and the re&s;t of my function after &s;uch manner as &s;hall &s;eeme be&s;t unto you for your own &s;ervice: Father <HI>Arthur Mac-Geny</HI> is in <HI>Madrid,</HI> and many more who would glad|ly performe any &s;ervice, wherein you would be plea&s;ed to imploy them, Father <HI>Francis Mac Genis</HI> is in <HI>Germany,</HI> &s;o likewi&s;e is Fa|ther <HI>Francis &ocirc; Farrall,</HI> who is very naturall towards you, and very intimate with the Emperor who now may give you good help, &s;ince you have ea&s;ed him of the trouble of the Palatinate whom only he feared; there is in <HI>Germany</HI> al&s;o a Prie&s;t from the Countie of <HI>Ty|rone, Edmond Mac Gray</HI> a learned man, having of late comenced Doctor in <HI>France;</HI> there is a Divinity Profe&s;&s;or <HI>Patrick O Connor,</HI> de&s;cended from the <HI>O Connors</HI> in <HI>Leinster,</HI> who hath done great &s;ervice to the late decea&s;ed Lord; he is of nature loving and con&s;tant and bold as is his Co&s;in <HI>Brandon &ocirc; Connor,</HI> who I doubt not will favour you. <HI>Michael &ocirc; Gormly</HI> is in the Low-Countries, <HI>Gaurdian</HI> of <HI>Lovaine,</HI> and many other of the like &s;ort; See your &s;elf what is be&s;t to be done with <HI>Owin &ocirc; Neal,</HI> who is in <HI>Flanders,</HI> and with <HI>Con mac Cormock,</HI> who is Serjeant Major in <HI>Spain</HI> but more is the pitty a man of no great policy or wi&s;edome. I would that all the old trained Souldiers were there, I will write to my Brother <HI>Murtaugh &ocirc; Conney,</HI> who was En&s;igne to the late decea&s;ed Lord, and is now Captain; and to the re&s;t of the Nobility of <HI>&V;l&s;ter,</HI> that they repair to you without delay: You may write to the King of <HI>Spain</HI> among&s;t other things, that he give them leave to come unto you; I doe not know well, what will the Earl of <HI>Terconell</HI> do up|on this occa&s;ion, his Regiment is disbanded, and he him&s;elf is gone
<PB N="7" REF="4"><!-- PDF PAGE 122 -->to the Court to <HI>Madrid.</HI> I fear much, That if he &s;hould goe into <HI>Ireland,</HI> he would breed more then trouble good. Noble Sir, fear God above all things, in following wi&s;ely the fortune which God offers you; let love and unanimity be among your &s;elves, and &s;hew great kindne&s;&s;e to the old Iri&s;h of <HI>Lein&s;ter.</HI> Obliege all men unto your &s;elf as neer as you can; beware of the trick of the <HI>Mun&s;ter</HI> men, who at this hour &s;hew no candid dealings towards you in <HI>Rome,</HI> and will do wor&s;e as you &s;hall &s;ee hereafter, unle&s;&s;e you prevent it &s;peedily by your Agent; for they a&s;cribe unto them&s;elves without any ground, the prai&s;e and glory of all your Heroicall deeds, as you may under&s;tand by <HI>Enis</HI> who is now with you, be &s;ure to have a great heart, and make &s;ome head among you; but be &s;ure to re&s;erve the Crown for <HI>Conus</HI> &s;ide, <HI>viz. Vl&s;ter;</HI> Remember the old &s;lavery wherein you lived long, and the generall de&s;truction to come upon you, except you prevail; you &s;hall prevail if you joyn your forces as you ought, God &s;end it; I would advi&s;e every chief Officer a|mong you, to have a Secretary a long with him, to take a Diurnall of every pa&s;&s;age, and of the overthrows which your enemies re|ceive, which &s;hall redound much to your glory; Wa&s;te not the Country for fear of famine, I will write according as I hear from you; we would &s;end unto you a Bull after the forme of the Bull, which <HI>Hugh mac Baron</HI> got, if we had received your Letters; The Church will do wi&s;ely if they commit the election of the Prelates there to the Nobility, and give them authority in this point.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your faithfull &s;ervant
<HI>Bonoventura &ocirc; Conny.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Rome,</HI> From <HI>I&s;idores</HI> Colledge, <DATE>March 4. 1642.</DATE> After the <HI>Roman</HI> account.</DATELINE></CLOSER>
</DIV1>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</BODY>
</TEXT>
</EEBO>
</ETS>
