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<P>A REMONSTRANCE OF THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE IAMES EARLE OF CASTLEHAVEN and Lord Audley <HI>Concerning his Impri&s;onment in</HI> Dublin, <HI>and e&s;cape from thence.</HI></P>
<Q>Laqueus contritus e&s;t &amp; nos liberati &s;umus.</Q>
<P>Reviewed, corrected, and augmented.</P>
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<P>SAGITTAE TVAE ACVTAE IN CORDA INIMI CORVM REGIS.</P>
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<P>Printed at <HI>VVaterford</HI> by <HI>Thomas Bourke,</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>TO THE KINGS MOST Excellent Maje&s;tie.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>_SIR,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>The little hopes I have, that this &s;hort Remonstrance, or any Petition of mine, &s;ent or to be &s;ent, &s;hall arrive to the Honour of your view, makes me carefull onely to &s;et downe Truth, and little looke at a Style befitting the Adre&s;se. Your Maje&s;tie by the following di&s;cour&s;e may perceive (if any Copy of the&s;e &s;hall be &s;o happy as to fall into your hands) the &s;ufferings of many your faithfull &s;ubjects of <HI>Ireland,</HI> though of all none goes &s;o neere me, and I beleeve the re&s;t, as that by the Iustices and &s;ome of the State here, our actions are daily mi&s;repre&s;ented to your Maje&s;tie, and through theirs and the Art of their friends in
<PB N="6" REF="3"><HI>England</HI> all meanes are deprived us, either by Petiti|on, or Verball Relation, to vindicate our &s;elves and charge them. Royall Sir, were I con&s;cious to my &s;elfe, that I did merit the Title too frequently, I feare, given mee, I would not pre&s;ume thus boldly to &s;ub&s;cribe my &s;elfe, what I am and ever will be,</P>
<CLOSER><SALUTE><HI>SIR,</HI> </SALUTE> <SIGNED>Your Maje&s;ties mo&s;t loyall and faithfull &s;ubject CASTLEHAUEN AUDLEY.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>A REMONSTRANCE OF THE Right Honourable IAMES Earle of Ca&s;tlehaven and Lord Audley.</HEAD>
<P>_WHeras my E&s;cape out of Sheriffe <HI>VVood|cocks</HI> hou&s;e in <HI>Dublin,</HI> where I was neere twenty weeks a Pri&s;oner, is likely to oc|ca&s;ion various di&s;cour&s;es &amp; conjectures, I have thought fit, by advice of my friends, to re|mon&s;trate the truth of my ca&s;e.</P>
<P>After having, with the re&s;t of the Peerage of <HI>England</HI> for the &s;pace of neere a yeare, &s;erved his Maje&s;tie there. Fir&s;t, in his great Councell at <HI>Yorke,</HI> and then in the Parliament: but &s;till under the awe and terrour, either of the Scoti&s;h Army at <HI>Newca&s;tle,</HI> or the rude Rabble at <HI>London:</HI> at length
<PB N="8" REF="4">many of the Lords (as well wearied with that ex|treme &s;lavery, as unwilling to be any longer eye-witne&s;&s;es of the affronts dayly multiplied on the King and Queene, and other intollerable in&s;o|lencies tending to the de&s;truction of Monarchy, and e&s;tabli&s;hing of Popular Government) retired them&s;elves to their &s;everall hou&s;es: And I with his Maje&s;ties leave, approved by the Lords of Parlia|ment, about the fea&s;t of <HI>S. Michael the Archangel</HI> 1641, came into <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>Where &s;hortly after appeared the &s;parkes of the en&s;uing warre, that now by fire and &s;word doth rage throughout this kingdome. Vpon the fir&s;t di&s;covery whereof I with all po&s;&s;ible &s;peed repai|red to <HI>Dublin,</HI> and there not onely offered my &s;er|vice, but &s;ued to the State for imployment for the &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of that Commotion. But it was refu|&s;ed: an&s;wer being given me by one of the Iu&s;tices and others of the Councell, <HI>That the Character I bare of Papi&s;t made me uncapable of Trust, nay even of Armes to defend my own Hou&s;e from Robbers.</HI></P>
<P>At this time the County of <HI>Kildare</HI> (where Ire|&s;ided) was quiet, &amp; held &s;o till about mid Novem|ber. But now the tide of Confu&s;ion began to over|flow tho&s;e banks al&s;o, which occa&s;ioned my &s;econd journey to the Iu&s;tices and Councell; where after
<PB N="9" REF="4">having made a faithfull narration of the &s;tate of that County, I became an humble &s;uitor, that a Troope of Hor&s;e might be pre&s;ently &s;ent downe, averring that a &s;mall force would then doe that, which the moneth following might be worke for an Army. But the effect of this journey was only their Lord&s;hips Thanks, with an unanimous li|cence from the whole Councell. <HI>That untill they were able to relieue me, I &s;hould make faire weather, and pre&s;erue my &s;elfe and mine by the re&s;pect they knew the Countrey bare me.</HI> But this helped me little. For &s;hortly after, mo&s;t of the chiefe of that County declared them&s;elves: So that the re&s;t of the winter, I was enforced to &s;tand on my own guard, with watch and ward, both day and night, keeping my Brother <HI>M. Maruin Touchet,</HI> or &s;ome other al|wayes at <HI>Dublin,</HI> from time to time, expecting the commands of the State.</P>
<P>The winter now pa&s;t, and faire weather coming on, about Ea&s;ter the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army (commanded by the Lieutenant Generall now <HI>Marqui&s;&s;e of Or|mond</HI>) in it's march to <HI>Leix,</HI> lodged &s;ome foure miles from my hou&s;e, whither that night, by the re&s;pect of the Lieutenant Generall, was &s;ent a &s;afe|guard. And in thankfulnes, the Dutches of <HI>Buckin|gham,</HI> the Earle of <HI>Antrim</HI> and my &s;elfe went the
<PB N="10" REF="5">next morning to &s;alute his Lord&s;hip and his Ar|my: where we were &s;o received, as &s;tood well with the Honour of that Great Lord and Noble Com|mander.</P>
<P>After &s;ome dayes, his Lord&s;hip, having now re|lieved the places in di&s;tre&s;&s;e, and fini&s;hed his De|&s;igne, in his returne, and in &s;ight of my hou&s;e, though three miles from it, was the Encounter betwixt the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army and the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> common|ly called the <HI>Battle of Kilru&s;h.</HI> Whither, becau&s;e I in <HI>Cuerpo,</HI> with my three or foure men, without Gunne or Powder, did not come, and being to pa&s;&s;e through thou&s;ands of the <HI>Iri&s;h,</HI> I am &s;aid by the Malicious <HI>to have di&s;countenanced the Kings Army.</HI></P>
<P>The evening after Victory, his Lord&s;hips march being neere my hou&s;e, he was plea&s;ed with &s;ome of his chiefe Commanders to refre&s;h them|&s;elves there. And in the night his Lord&s;hip wan|ting a guide to conduct him and his Army &s;ome foure miles to their Quarters, I would tru&s;t none with that charge but my &s;elfe.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding this my re&s;pect, it mu&s;t bee given out, <HI>That &s;o great an entertainment was never intended for the Lieutenant Generall and his followers, but rather for the Lord Vi&s;count Mountgaret, and the
<PB N="11" REF="5">re&s;t of the Rebells.</HI> To this point divers witne&s;&s;es are examined again&s;t me, though God knowes, I ex|pected not either of their coming thither.</P>
<P>By the&s;e mi&s;interpretations of my Actions, I thought I mu&s;t no longer &s;leepe, doubting that my quiet living in the Countrey, drew envy on my per&s;on. So that I re&s;olved to put my &s;elfe into the Fa&s;hion, that is, to leave my hou&s;e to be burnt, my &s;tock of all &s;orts (being of great valew) to be a prey to who&s;oever would take them, and to looke at nothing, but to &s;ave my &s;elfe and people, with &s;ome choice goods.</P>
<P>To this purpo&s;e, I pre&s;ently re&s;olved to move the State at <HI>Dublin,</HI> that I might have licence to goe for <HI>England,</HI> it being the cu&s;tome of this kingdome not to depart without leave. But, as I was di&s;patching the me&s;&s;enger, a letter un|expected fell into my hands, delivered me by one of my &s;ervants, but the bearer never came to my pre&s;ence. I opened it, never asking or con&s;i|dering from whom it might come. I found it &s;ub|&s;cribed by the Vi&s;counts <HI>Gormanston</HI> &amp; <HI>Nettervill</HI> and the Lord of <HI>Slane.</HI> It was to this effect. <HI>That in obedience to his Maje&s;ties Proclamation, they and the other united Lords and Gentlemen, had laid downe Armes, To intimate which to the State, they had &s;ent
<PB N="12" REF="6">one Lieutenant Colonell</HI> Reade, <HI>from whom they had not heard: And that neuerthele&s;se daily their owne, and their Tenants hou&s;es were burnt, their goods taken and people killed. They de&s;ired that I would mediate with the State for a Ce&s;&s;ation of Armes, and that a place might be ap|pointed, where they and their Confederates might meet to draw up their Grieuances, and &s;o haue free acce&s;se, by way of Pitition, to pre&s;ent them to his Majestie.</HI></P>
<P>With this letter I pre&s;ently &s;ent another from my &s;elfe to the State, wherein I &s;eemed to wi&s;h &s;ome good returne might be made; but it happe|ned otherwi&s;e. For an&s;wer to their Lord&s;hips they would make none at all, alleaging, <HI>they were Re|bells and Traitors.</HI> And after many frivolous excep|tions taken to my letter, as one, <HI>That I did not al&s;o call them Rebells and Traitours,</HI> they admoni&s;hed me to have nothing to doe with them, and in &s;tead of licencing me to goe for <HI>England, They commanded I &s;hould not depart the kingdome without leave.</HI></P>
<P>All this while, from the fir&s;t opening the wayes from <HI>Dublin</HI> to my hou&s;e, I was frequently at the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Garri&s;ons, &amp; had alwayes with me, either Troopes or Troopers of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army.</P>
<P>And now finding my unhappine&s;&s;e, that how candid or &s;incere &s;oever my Actions or Meaning was, I mu&s;t &s;till be mi&s;taken, I packed up all I could conveniently carry, and re&s;olved pre&s;ently
<PB N="13" REF="6">to goe to <HI>Dublin,</HI> where I would make my aboad, till I had leave to pa&s;&s;e for <HI>England.</HI> But &s;ome few dayes before my intended departure, newes is brought me, <HI>That by chance &s;ome of my friends at Dublin had di&s;covered, that I &s;tood indicted of High Trea&s;on:</HI> for it was done with great &s;ecrecy.</P>
<P>Amazed at this &s;ad and unexpected newes, the next morning by five of the clocke, I po&s;t for <HI>Du|blin,</HI> giving order that al my be&s;t furniture &amp; linne~ &s;hould be pre&s;ently &s;ent after, which accordingly was done. My &s;tock of all &s;orts (as the Marquis of <HI>Ormond</HI> and <HI>Sir Arthur Loftus</HI> well know) I be&s;towed for the u&s;e of the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Army, &amp; de&s;ired nothing in recempence, but only that my people, with the remainder of my goods, might be brought &s;alfe to <HI>Dublin,</HI> where I was now gone to purge my &s;elfe.</P>
<P>But I continued there for many dayes without any notice taken of me, though I pre&s;ently ac|quainted the <HI>Lords Iustices</HI> and many of the Coun|c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ll of my arrivall, and the cau&s;e. So that it was then thought, and may yet be believed, that they hoped by that Indictment, rather to have frighted me, as they had done thou&s;ands of others, into Rebellion, as they tearme it, then that they had any good evidence again&s;t me.</P>
<P>But I not willing to lye long under that title of infamy, went my &s;elfe to the Councell, tooke no|tice
<PB N="14" REF="7">of my Charge, and de&s;ired that with all conve|nient &s;peed, I might be brought to my Purgation. Hitherto it is evident I thought not of an E&s;cape.</P>
<P>The Councell, after &s;ome debate, confined me to Ma&s;ter <HI>VVoodcocks</HI> hou&s;e, one of the <HI>Sheriffes</HI> of <HI>Dublin.</HI> From whence after a day or two, I &s;ent a Petition to the State, and it was to this effect, <HI>Laying downe by many particulars the improbabilitie of my a&s;&s;ociating my &s;elfe in this warre, as that I was a Peere of</HI> England, <HI>that the maine of my e&s;tate lay there, and the little intere&s;t or power I had in this kinghome, that my accu&s;ers were of ba&s;e condition, and would have beene taken off for a &s;mall &s;umme of money, and that two of them, namely</HI> Ennis <HI>and his &s;onne ran away from the Engli&s;h Colours with their Armes, and afterwards &s;erued against them at the battle of</HI> Kilru&s;h, <HI>and the third</HI> William Collis <HI>had beene &s;adler to &s;ome of the Iri&s;h Army</HI> (whereby it is mo&s;t evident, that be&s;ide what other reward the&s;e men might bee promi&s;ed they were made &s;ure of their lives) <HI>that the Iurie, who found this indictment on the evidence of the&s;e men, were per&s;ons of the &s;ame nature and condition, as parti|cularly one</HI> Francis Dade, <HI>who had a&s;sociated him&s;elfe with the</HI> Iri&s;h, <HI>changed his Religion, &amp; went to Ma&s;&s;e.</HI> This man having forfeyted his life according to their rule, they make a leading Iury-man, and I be|leeve
<PB N="15" REF="7">a witne&s;&s;e, he not daring to deny what they would have him doe or &s;ay. <HI>In fine that there was not one gentleman, or &s;carce a landed man amongst them. For the&s;e rea&s;ons, and for that it had beene frequently granted to others in the like ca&s;e, I de&s;ired to be bayled.</HI></P>
<P>An&s;wer was returned to this mode&s;t Petition, <HI>that the witne&s;&s;es were no Rebels, but E&s;pies; So that, what I had &s;aid, was no impeachment to their testimo|nies, and in generall they thought not fit to grant the Petition.</HI></P>
<P>Well, though I thought that a&s;well this an&s;wer, as the whole proceedings &s;omewhat har&s;h, yet I did not much weigh it: For &s;hortly after was to follow <HI>Trinity Terme.</HI> At which time I a&s;&s;ured my &s;elfe, that by my innocencie I &s;hould bee &s;et free both from pri&s;on and blame.</P>
<P>Oh, but here I was much deceived. For this <HI>Terme</HI> mu&s;t be otherwi&s;e imployed. For though through hanging, racking, and barbarous treaty of &s;uch as &s;ubmitted on the Kings Proclamation, thou&s;ands had declared them&s;elves for the Countrie, which were in all Po&s;t-ha&s;t going to <HI>Dublin</HI> to put them|&s;elves under the protection of the State, yet there were as many more that &s;tood at a gaze, as mo&s;t unwilling to runne the common cour&s;e, and yet loath to bee handled after this rude manner.
<PB N="16" REF="8">Again&s;t the&s;e mu&s;t Bils of indictment pre&s;ently be drawne, and Grand-jury-men picked for the pur|po&s;e. And to &s;trike the <HI>Bu&s;ine&s;se</HI> dead in the eye, fearing the&s;e men were not wicked enough, the Iudges of the Kings Chiefe Place on the Bench delivered, as part of their charge. <HI>That they must not be &s;crupulous: for that common Fame was now Euidence enough to find a Bill of Indictment.</HI></P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding this great and holy imploy|ment of the&s;e Reverend Fathers of the Law, they mu&s;t yet doe &s;omething more to &s;hew their <HI>Gran|deza.</HI> That was, I by a <HI>Habeas corpus</HI> mu&s;t bee brought into the Court before them, where after I had been &s;ufficiently lookt at by their Lord&s;hips and the people, I was remaunded back to the place whence I came, without any thing &s;aid unto me.</P>
<P>This <HI>Terme</HI> fini&s;hed, and the Iury-men having well acted their parts, &s;ome of the Iudges are di&s;|patched for <HI>England,</HI> to &s;hew there, that the Pen in <HI>Ireland</HI> had beene as active as the Sword, and that now for the de&s;truction of, at lea&s;t, al the pri&s;oners, there wanted little, but that old &s;aying, <HI>Hang-man doe your Office.</HI></P>
<P>It is no great wonder, that now, how innocent &s;oever I was, my head &s;hould begin to ake. Yet a Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament being &s;hortly to follow, I
<PB N="17" REF="8">conceived good hope of fayre play there: But when I &s;aw the compo&s;ure of this great Tribunall: That the upper hou&s;e con&s;i&s;ted of no more then five or &s;ix temporall Lords, and &s;ome Bi&s;hops, The hou&s;e of Commons (aunciently the repre&s;entative body of the kingdom) for the major part of Clerks and Clerks men, few having any land, &amp; tho&s;e ille|gally cho&s;en, as by Muskatiers, and a rabble of &s;uch like Free-holders: I began to thinke, that &s;uch a kind of Parliament might erre, &amp; feared nothing more then a Triall there. And &s;urely I had rea|&s;on, when nothing would &s;erve their turnes, but a Ce&s;&s;ation of <HI>Poynings Act</HI> during that Se&s;&s;ion. By which they were freed from tran&s;mitting their Bils into <HI>England,</HI> and &s;o might make Lawes, as in their di&s;cretions they thought fit; and I have too great cau&s;e to beleeve, they would have made one for attaynting me, and the re&s;t of the pri&s;oners.</P>
<P>All this while no meanes is untryed to make matter again&s;t me. For as before witne&s;&s;es were re|warded, by giving them their lives being forfeyted: So now to others rough language mu&s;t bee u&s;ed. One <HI>Iohn Bird</HI> being examined before <HI>Sir Robert Meredith</HI> concerning me, &amp; not an&s;wering as was expected, the &s;aid <HI>Sir Robert</HI> demanded his <HI>Religion:</HI> the hone&s;t man replyed a <HI>Protestant.</HI> Ah quoth he,
<PB N="18" REF="9"><HI>by thy an&s;wers thou &s;houlde&s;t have a little Pope in thy belly.</HI></P>
<P>And now, having by many &s;uch indirect wayes, furni&s;hed them&s;elves with plenty of evidence, they begin to affront me, by di&s;arming my men, by pul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">ng one <HI>Master Henry Slingsby</HI> out of my Chamber, comming by accident with a gentlewo|man to vi&s;it me, &s;aying. <HI>He was a Romi&s;h Popi&s;h Ie|&s;uite,</HI> it being well knowne, hee was no &s;uch man: and &s;o carried him to pri&s;on.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly, the <HI>Sheri&s;&s;es</HI> hou&s;e is now thought too weake for &s;o great a traytor. Hereupon a writ is i&s;&s;ued to the <HI>Sheriffe,</HI> to bring me with a &s;trong guard to the <HI>Innes,</HI> where the Iudges were, being neere halfe a mile: from whence I mu&s;t be &s;ent to the <HI>Castle,</HI> a loath&s;ome pri&s;on of it &s;elfe, but the inhumanitie of the <HI>Gaoler,</HI> by name <HI>Manwaring,</HI> af|ter Hell, makes it the &s;econd place for mi&s;erie and affliction.</P>
<P>Well, I thought it now high time, as the Iudges had &s;ummoned my body, I &s;hould recollect my wits. And as I &s;tood con&s;idering my ca&s;e, a pa&s;&s;age in the Earle of <HI>Straffords</HI> tryall occurred to my memory. He &s;tood much upon his ju&s;tification, and demanded the benefit of the law, but <HI>Ma&s;ter S^t Iohas</HI> replied, <HI>that to Hares, Deere, &amp; other innocent
<PB N="19" REF="9">creatures, law was afforded, but to</HI> Woolves, Foxes, <HI>all other &s;uch like vermine, any meanes might be &s;ought for their destruction.</HI> Now I finding my &s;elfe hither|to dealt with as one of the&s;e, although I waved the malice of the <HI>VVoolfe,</HI> I made &s;ome little u&s;e of the <HI>Foxes</HI> craft, and for that pre&s;ent fayned my &s;elfe &s;i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ke, and on information thereof given, my attendance on the Iudges was &s;pared till the mor|row.</P>
<P>Having thus gayned time, I well pondered all which hath beene before related, together with, If I were a traytor, to whom it was? The King him|&s;elfe I found pur&s;ued both with <HI>Pen</HI> and <HI>Sword,</HI> by an Army of his owne people; who&s;oever followed or adhered unto him declared Rebels and Tray|tors; The <HI>Queene</HI> his Royall Con&s;ort, flying from place to place, like an exiled or bani&s;hed woman; by <HI>M^r Martins</HI> and divers the like &s;peeches in the hou&s;e of Commons in <HI>England,</HI> that his <HI>Sacred Ma|jesty</HI> was not fit to beare the Office of a <HI>King,</HI> and that he might be depo&s;ed, and much more to this effect, as may bee &s;eene in divers printed papers; which language in that place going unpuni&s;hed, I could not conceive that the authors of &s;uch in&s;o|lencies, or the &s;waying malignant part of the State here, who from time to time tooke their directi|ons
<PB N="20" REF="10">from them, could adjudge any thing again&s;t his Maje&s;tie trea&s;on.</P>
<P>O, but I remembred that in a Book of the <HI>Kings</HI> relating truly all the pa&s;&s;ages from the fir&s;t of this Parliament to the 12. of <HI>Augu&s;t,</HI> he complaines of two great officers lately &s;et up in <HI>Engla~d,</HI> who u&s;ur|ped the Regall power, the one is a <HI>Generall</HI> for the <HI>Land,</HI> the other <HI>Admirall</HI> of the <HI>Sea.</HI> But to the&s;e I never ought allegeance, and &s;o con&s;equently could be no traytor to them.</P>
<P>I then began to con&s;ider the condition of this kingdome, as that the &s;tate did chiefly con&s;i&s;t of men of meane birth &amp; quality, That mo&s;t of them &s;teered by the influence &amp; power of tho&s;e who were in Armes again&s;t the <HI>King,</HI> That they had by cruell ma&s;&s;acring, hanging, &amp; torturing been the &s;laugh|ter of thou&s;ands innocent men, women, &amp; childre~, better &s;ubjects then them&s;elves, That they by all their actions &s;hew, they looke at nothing, but the extirpating of this <HI>Nation,</HI> the de&s;truction of <HI>Mo|narchy,</HI> &amp; by the utter &s;uppre&s;&s;ing of the ancient <HI>Catholicke Religion</HI> to &s;ettle &amp; e&s;tabli&s;h <HI>Puritani&s;me.</HI> To the&s;e I could be no traytor.</P>
<P>Neere about the time of this my <HI>exigency,</HI> I was much cleared by a vi&s;it I received from <HI>Sr Arthur Loftus,</HI> &s;on to <HI>Sr Adam Loftus,</HI> a leading in&s;trument
<PB N="21" REF="10">in all wicked de&s;ignes again&s;t his Maje&s;ty, telling me (as joyfull newes) that the Parliament had late|ly given the <HI>King</HI> a totall overthrow, &amp; that hee was now reduced to &s;o low a condition, that by the next we &s;hould certainly heare the <HI>King</HI> had &s;ub|mitted to the Parliament, and till that were done, things would never doe well.</P>
<P>Here I tooke my re&s;olution, with Gods helpe, not tamely to dye butchered, &amp; &s;o to have my in|nocencie &s;mothered, but to pre&s;erve my life (I ho|ped) more to the honor of God and &s;ervice of <HI>King Charles,</HI> and that by e&s;cape.</P>
<P>Now fora&s;much as the mo&s;t immediate way in|to <HI>England</HI> was blocked up, I re&s;olved a tryall to gaine a pa&s;&s;age by <HI>VVexford</HI> into <HI>France,</HI> &amp; from thence into <HI>England,</HI> conceiving I &s;hould have bin forthwith able to have put my &s;elfe into a &s;umme of money, to have borne my charges, by the &s;ale of &s;uch plate, goods, &amp; &s;tock, as I had in the country. But I was not many houres out of <HI>Dublin</HI> before I was pur&s;ued by &s;ome troopes of Hor&s;e, <HI>Sr Arthur Loftus</HI> leading them: who that night came to my hou&s;e in the county of <HI>Kildare,</HI> &amp; mi&s;&s;ing me, killed &s;ome of my &s;ervants, hurt divers, &amp; after having ri|fled the hou&s;e, they &s;et it, and all about it on fire. And be&s;ides all my &s;ervants pri&s;oners, they carry|ed
<PB N="22" REF="11">away more then the worth of five thou&s;and pound in plate and other goods.</P>
<P>Here my wings being clipt, all that I had to car|ry me abroad or keepe me at home, being thus ta|ken from me, together with the di&s;tractions in <HI>En|gland,</HI> that I could make little or no accompt of my e&s;tate there: In this &s;treight I thought fit to apply my&s;elfe to the great A&s;&s;embly or the king|dome of <HI>Ireland.</HI> Who having given me full &s;atis|faction for their a&s;&s;embling, &amp; that their taking Armes was but naturall, as to defend them&s;elves &amp; theirs from tho&s;e afore&s;aid barbarous cruelties: &amp; that they de&s;ired (as may appeare by many their In&s;truments in writing) nothing but the free exer|ci&s;e of their ancient <HI>Religion,</HI> then ju&s;t <HI>Laberties,</HI> &amp; the pre&s;ervation of this <HI>Crowne</HI> unto his Maje&s;tie: I having &s;ome intere&s;t both in Honour &amp; E&s;tate in the countrie, a&s;&s;ociated my &s;elfe with them, &amp; they after &s;ome time that I was among&s;t them (more out of Charity then merit in me) offered mee the Ge|neral&s;hip of their Hor&s;e of the Province of <HI>Lein|&s;ter,</HI> which I thankfully accepted: And now in my Colours beare this Device, <HI>Sagittae tuae acutae in cor|da inimicorum Regis.</HI> For the executing whereof, I de&s;ire GOD no longer to pro&s;per my actions, then my Heart, Hand, Sword, and prayers &s;hall
<PB N="23" REF="11">be readily and cheerefully imployed therein.</P>
<P><HI>Having, with much trouble to the Reader, endeavo|red to vindicate my &s;elfe in this Remonstrance; I conceiue it loth proper &amp; charitable in this place to labour to ac|quit him, who I understand hath unjustly &s;uffered for my &s;ake, I meane</HI> Sheriffe Allen. <HI>The Prote&s;tant</HI> She|riffe Woodcocke, <HI>to who&s;e custody onely I was com|mitted, went unpuni&s;hed for my e&s;cape, as really he knew nothing thereof; But</HI> Sheriffe Allen <HI>being a Catholick, who had no charge of mee, nor acquaintance with mee other then that I often &s;aw him, when he came to treate with his brother Sheriffe about the City-affaires. Hee poore innocent man (for &s;o I take God to witne&s;&s;e he was, as to my e&s;cape, or to any word let fall to that effect to my knowledge, or that I can gue&s;&s;e, is with all inhumani|ty dragged to pri&s;on, most of his goods &s;ei&s;ed upon &amp; ta|ken away, &amp; a great number of &s;ouldiers ce&s;&s;ed upon his hou&s;e, whereby, &amp; being made uncapable to receive his rents, or debts, or to follow any other way he had to gaine a living by, his VVife &amp; Children from that day forth were expo&s;ed to the charity of their friends, &amp; he endu|red impri&s;onment for a whole yeare in mi&s;ery. How ju|&s;ti&s;iable or con&s;cionable this proceeding was, I will not ar|gue, much le&s;se aggravate, having di&s;charged my Con|&s;cience, the matter it &s;elfe both to God &amp; the world cry|ing loud for Iu&s;tice.</HI></P>
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