NARRATIVE
O F T H E
Popifl] PLOT
IRELAND.
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FOR THE
Murdering the Protestants There,
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Introducing of P o p e r y3 and the Affiftancc they
depended upon from England.
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Difcovered by me James Carrol^ in the Year 1672.
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WITH
An Account of my Sufferings for difcovering the fame.
LONDON,
Printed for Richard J anew ay , in Queenuliead-Ally% m
F ater-nofter-Row. 1681.


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ORDERED, By Vote of the Houfe of
Commons, That the Examination of Fit
Harris and others, taken by Sir George Treby, be
Printed : Which accordingly this Informants Ex¬
amination was taken before the faid Sir George Tre-
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To the Right Honourable, Arthur, Earl of Ejfex,
Vilcount Maiden, and Baron Capel3 of Had*
hum, fometime fince Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,
and lately one of His Ma;efties Privy-Council.
May it plead* you LorcKhip!
HAT zeal unwearied diligence which your
■ Honour has on all occafions demonjlrated to pre¬
serve the Proteftant Religion, and prevent the
ffli Jlill advancing Plots of bloody Papifts, has moft
jujlly rendred all Englifil Protefiants your Debtors, andfilTd
them with veneration for your name and perfon. Were all No¬
ble-men endued with a like prudence and integrity, the Po-
pijh Plot had long fince loff its Head, and England been fe-
cured ( as with a Brazen Wall) againji all the malicious effects
of Rome.
The Trojans of old had not been deffroyed, had they not
trufled to Sinon's fl itteries, and admitted the fatal Horfe,
cramb'd with treacherous Greeks, within their Walls. Nor
can England and Ireland become enflaved to the Pope, ar any
other Forrein power, unlefs fome of our own (intruffed fab-
ordinately with the Adminiflration of affairs) clandeffinsly
joyn with our open enemies. But where Thieves keep the keys,
well may the houfe be rifled,and if Wolves,though in Sheeps-
cloathing, be once made Shepherds, 'tis not difficult to imagine
what will become of the flock. Nor can that Nation but be e-
ffeemd in a condition deplorable, and on the very precipice to
wilful ruin, where 'tis a matter of greater hazard to difcover
Treafons, than to contrive them.
The following Narrative will partly fbew the figure which
potent Papiffs have made for fome years pafl in the Kingdom
of Ireland, and what influence they have had (like malevo*
lent planets) to blaft and crtifh all that durff go about to de-
teft their difloyal Helhff defigns. It will here appear, that
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there hath been for many years a Treafonable Conjpiracy car-
ryino on in that Kingdom, and that the Popifh Irifli were in
an expending readinefs to give the blow, and a5l over their
Butcheries of 41, but with greater barbarity : Only one thing
there was that hindred, viz. the Dutch fa powerful Frote-
(lant State, very powerful till fome late Jefuitical deftgns
weabned them) muft firft be ruined.
So that it feems the project was general to root out and de¬
fray all the Protefants throughout Europeor this declaration
to me was made in the year 167^ a time when England and
France were fo hopefully united, and vigoroujly engaged in a
War with Holland, and the fame jun&nre when the never-to-
be-forgotten Camp at Blackheath was on foot.
What Intervening accidents might make the Conjpirators
defer their rifing in Arms,or whether my making this difcovery
might not caufe them to be more wary, though through fome
peoples kind connivance, it rendred them never the more dik
abled to have gone on, I determine not: 'tis enough that as I
knew it my duty to divulge it: fo,although meerly for the fame
J have now pajl through a Nine-years-Purgatory, and am
thereby reduced to poverty, debt, and great extremity yet were
it ftill to do, 1 would difcharge my confcience, though a Thou-
fjnd Popifh Lords were concern d to be angry, and / were fure
not only to lofe my Livelyhood, but my Life likgwife on that
account.
At your Lordfhips feet I humbly lay thefe papers, and pre-
fume to fbelter them into the world under the patronage of your
truly Honourable Name; as well becauje your Lordjhip is fo
excellently qualifed to judg of the truth of them by your great
infi^lit into the complexion of affairs and perfons in Ireland
(which had the honour of having your Lordfhip for fome (too
ihort) time her Lord Lieutenant) as in regard of my parti¬
cular obligation, that tbe fame might remain as a publick
teftimony of my gratitude.
Your Lordfhips
Moft Humble and Fatithful Servant,
James Carroll.
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The Information of Mr. James Carroll, Junior, of
the City of Dublin, in the Kingdom of Ireland,
Spanifb Leather-drefter ; and alio a Freeman of
the City of London,an Englijh Proteftant^born at
New Caftle upon Tyne, the fit ft Dilcoverer of the
Horrible and Bloody lrifh Plot againft the Prote-
ftants of that Kingdom^upon the 12tb day of A-
pril, Anno 1672. Taken upon Oath before the
Right WorfhipfuISir George Treby, Knight, Re¬
corder of this Honourable City of London, by His
Ma;efties Order in Council.
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H IS Informant faith, That he, together with James Car-
rroll, the elder, this Informants Father, having occafion to
travel in the faid Kingdom of Ireland, to buy Wool,
Skins, and other Commodities relating to the Trade
or Calling of this Informant, did on the faid 12th day of
April, Anno Dom. \ 672. arrive at Portumna, in the County of Gallway,
a Town belonging to William Burke, Earl of Clanrickard, and took up
their Lodgings at the houfe of oneThomas Allen, an Inn-keeper, then
living at the Sign of the Black-Spred Eagle, in the faid Town of TW-
iumna, which faid Allen then was a Tenant or Steward unto the
faid Earl of Clanrickard and this Informant faith, that the faid Thomas
Allen then and there falling into difcourfe with this informant and his
faid Father, fuppofng them to be lrjh, this Informant's faid Father
fpeakingthe Irijb Tongue, did enquire of them what News there was
abroad: whereunto they anfwered, that they had been travelling up
and down the Country, but heard no ftrange News: whereupon he faid
to this Informant and his fud Father in Englijh, as followeth: If (faid
he) res have neves, that the Durch are beaten, whom rce are in great hopes
utterly to deflroy, for that's the light we mufl put out, we have Jo goodajfu•
ranee not only from France hut England too t, for there's one, we are Jure,
will flick by us then my Lord Clanrickard will prejently found a Trumpet,
and I will go along with him, and three or fourjcorc more of this Town, well
h or fed and armed, and every man five pounds in his Pocket 5 and I hope I
full kill an hundred of the Proief ant's,, Anabaptifls, Independents, and
fuch Ek? Phanatick. Rogues, before 1 am killed 5 for I expect a (Quarter-Ma¬
sters place in the Troop that is here to be raifed, and I will have fome of
them upon the point of my Sword before the lajl of June: and as for thoje,
that are herd in this Country, we will fooh cut them off, they Jhall have no
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help to come from the other fide of the Brook ( meaning England ) for rre
have taken care to prevent that, by having an Embargo pat on Shipping,
that none can come from thence to help them} fo that we full be twelve to
one, and leave them neithe: root nor branch, nor fpare them as in their for¬
mer Rising. Whereto this Informant and his faki Father anfwered, and
fait!, This is ftrange news indeed: whereupon the faid Allen askt this
Informant's faid Father (thus) Why did not you hear what was fpoken
at Mafs yefterday, being EaUer-Monday .<? And the faid Thomas Allen
ftill continued to declare to the effeft aforefaid f, furthermore curfing the
Engliflj in a moft horrid manner, declaring their wicked and bloody de-
figns againft them. And this Informant faith, that upon his return from
Portnmna to aforefaid,through his duty and allegiance to hisMa-
jefty, and natural affedion tohis Country-men, the Proteftants of that
Kingdom, refolving to reveal and make known fuch the Treafcnable
and dangerous words of the faid Thomas Allen, did immediately repair
to one Dr. Topham, a Mafter in Chancery, before whom the Informant
did upon his corporal Oath declare and make the fame known: and faith,
that prefontly after this Informant wasfent for, and did accordingly ap¬
pear before the Lord Berkley, his Majefties then Lord Lieftenant, and
the Council at Dublin, and by them examined touching the Premifes,
which this Informant again confirmed upon three foveral Examinations
before the faid Lord Lieftenant and Council: and after that this Infor¬
mant was font for before Sir Robert Booth, Lord Chief Jufticeof the
Common-Pleas at Dublin, and by him ingaged to profecute the faid
Thomas Allen for the faid Treafonable and dangerous words. And this
Informant faith, that foon after this Examination aforefaid, a certain
•Englijh man, who, as this Informant was informed, had been an old Soul-
dier, or Officer, and lived in, or about the County of Wicklow in Ire¬
land, whofe name this Informant hath forgot, came alfo before the faid
Lord Lieftenant and Council, and there upon his corporal Oath decla¬
red, that there were fome certain lriflj men about the time of the f?id
Thomas Speeches, offered him a Commiffion to raife men, and alfo
to impower him to give Commiffions for that purpofe to whom he
Ihould think fit 3 and advifod him to get all the affiftance hecould, ard
told him, he Ihould be fupplied with money to carry on the bufinefs,
and they fhould be in a readinefs within twelve days, then next follow¬
ing 5 for that they expeded about that time to rife, and be up in Arms
againft the Proteftants in Ireland: and faith, that about three Weeks
or a Month after, all the faid Engliflj-mans Stock, Cattle, Goods and
Subftance were taken from him, whereby he was ruined and quite un¬
done: And although the faid Engliflj-man Petitioned the Lord Liefte¬
nant and Council for relief, in fuch his diftreffed condition, yet could
he not obtain any relief, as the faid Engliflj-man declared, and told this
Informant, who fince that time could never foe him, or hear any thing
of him. And this Informant faith, that being, as aforefaid, engaged
by the faid Lord Chief Juftice Booth, toprofocute rhefaid Thomas Allen,
a Purfevant was accordingly fent for the laid Thomas Allen, but he could
not be found , and immediately after this Informant faw the laid Allen
and the Earl of Clanrickard together in the faid Earls Coach, come in¬
to Dublin, where the faid Earl appeared with the faid Allen, as his affi-
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fhrit; and the (aid Allen, together with this Informant, prdently ap¬
peared before the (aid Lord Lieftenant and Council, and by them was
examined concerning thefaid Lreafonable words and Speeches fo by the
faid Allen fpoken, as aforefaid : all which the faid Allen denied, and al¬
io denied, that this Informant, or his faid Father was, or were at the
hojfe of him the laid Thomas Allen, or in Portumna, at the time a-
forelaid : whereupon this Informant being again examined, in the (aid
Thomas Allen's prefence, did again confirm the truth of the Premifes,
and then alfo proved, that this Informant and his laid Father, were the
12th of April in the houfe of the faid 'Thomas Allen, in the Town of
Portumna. And this Informant the better remembers it to be on the day
and year aforefaid, for that he had a Bond which was then and there
fealed and delivered to this Informants ufe, where Simon Allen a Bro¬
ther to the faid Thomas Allen, had let his name as a witnels. And upon
this Informants then producing thefaid Bond, and Ihewing the fame to
the laid Thomas Allen, he could not deny the hand-writing of his faid
brother. Thereupon the faid Lord Lieutenant and Council declaring
they were very well fatisfied of the truth of this Informants evidence,
did prels and importune the faid Thomas Allen to make an open and in¬
genuous confeffion of the whole truth of the matter 5 telling him if
he did not confefs, it would be worle for him. But the laid 7 homos Al¬
len notwithftanding obftinately perfifting in his faid denial, was by the
Lord Lieutenant and Council ordered to ftand committed clofe prilbn-
er without Bail or Mainprile, and lb commanded the Gaoler to take
him away. Neverthelels the faid Thomas Allen was the very fame day,
by the prevalency, intereft, means and procurement of the laid Earl of
Clanrickard, or otherwile, let at liberty upon his giving his own lecu-
rity of One hundred pounds penalty, perlbnally to appear within ten
days next after notice Ihould be given for that purpofe, to be left at
the houle of one Thomas Lowe, fcituate in St.Thomas Street in Dublin,
before the Lord Lieutenant and Council, and not to depart without
licenfe.
And this Informant further laith, That fome Ihort time after this In¬
formant and his faid Father having further occafion to travel in thefaid
County of Galway, they came to the River Shannon, where the wind
being very high, it was late before the Ferry-boat could pals them over
to the faid Town of Portumna, where they arrived on a Saturday in
the evening $ but finding the inhabitants there to gaze upon them, and
draw tumultuoufly together, conceived it altogether unfafe to lodge
there 5 and therefore altho' they were both very wet and weary, did
rather chufe to travel four miles further, to a lone houfe on the road
to Loughreal^, and fix miles Ihort of Loughrea, whither they intended
that night to have gone, had they not been prevented by the delay of
the Ferry-boat, as aforefaid; and the next morning, being Sunday, a-
bout eleven a clock in the morning, they came to Loughrea, where they
refted that day and night 5 and yet at or by the inftigation of the faid
Earl of Clanrickard, and Thomas Allen, or others his Accomplices, the
Conftable of Loughrea and feveral other perfons with him, came very


rs;
Etighjh man, a perfonliving in Loughrea, and gave him money, and lent
him this Informants Horfie, to convey or carry a Letter from this In¬
formant and hi, (aid Father XoGalLoway,but Fourteen Miles from Lough-
tic : •. et within an hour or two after, fearing the Earl of Clanrickard's
difpleafure, being (as this Informant hath great caufe to believe)
charged by fome or other of the Earls Agents or Tenants there, at
his Perril, as he told me, not to convey or carry the faid Letter, did
return this Informant his money again, and faid, that the (aid Con-
ftable, Chriflopher Poor by name, and a Popilh Conftable in Loughrea.
told him, the laid perfon, that if he (hould carry the faid Letter, or
any other ways appear to do any thing for this informant or his'faid
Father, that the faid Earl of Clanrickard would ruin him and his Fa-
mtly: And the better to colour the (aid malicious and injurious pro-
Fcutions againft this Informant and his faid Father, feveral perfons by
Inch inegations and prevalences as aforefaid, were procured to re¬
port, that this Informant's faid Father had a defign to burn the faid
Town of I oughrca 5 and that befides the faid Information againft this
Informant and his faid Father for fuch their travelling, as^aforefaid,
on the Sabbath-day, there would be feven or eight other Indi&ments
preferred and profecuted againft them, at the then Galloway Aflizes:
and in fuch Condition this Informant and his fiid Father lay in the
faid Goal or Prifon in Loughrea, aforefaid, for fome confiderable time
and perhaps might there have layn (if not deftroy'dor famifti't be¬
fore by their cruel ufages) had not this Informant, through a Win¬
dow of the faid Prifon , accidentally feeing a ftranger riding by,
conveyed to him a Letter,directed to fome friends of theirs,then living
in Galloway, where, by fuch means, the faid Letter was received, and
underftanding thereby fuch the fad Condition of this Informant and
his (aid Father, their faid friends did prefently make application to
the Judges of the Aftizes, then fitting there at Galloway, and of them
obtained an Order for the removal of this Informant and his faid Fa¬
ther thither. And thev being by the faid Keepers of the faid Goal
thereupon brought to Galloway at night late, were put in the vileft
Prifon in that Town, amongft the condemned Malefiitftors, and with¬
out any accommodation at all 5 and the next morning they were
brought before the faid Judges, Baron Hen and Judg Ctifaci1 in the
Court of Aflizes, they then fitting, where an Indi<ftment was then
preferred and read againft this Informant and his (aid Father, for fuch
their travelling, as aforefaid, on the Sabbath-day y- and another mali¬
cious Indi&me;nt was then alfo preferred there, and read againft this
Informant's faid Father, whereby it was charged , That he as before
( which was moft falOyand malicioufly reported) had a defign to burn
Loughrea. And to the firft of the faid fndift'mencs this Informant and
his (aid Father upon the Courts demand fubmitted •, and to thelaft, this
Informants faid Father put in his Traverfe 5 and altho' no profecutors
or witneftes then appeared againft either of them 5 yet were they or¬
dered to gjve One thoufand founds Security not to depart the faid
Town of Galloway without leave of the faid Court: and fome time
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after, on the laft day of the (aid AiTizcs, they were ordered by the
(aid Court to give , and accordingly did give new Security to appear
there again at the next Alftzes, and to keep the peace, and be of gcocl
behaviour in the meantime } and having given (ccuritv, and the fuid
Affixes being ended, they then repaired to Dublin, which is about one
hundred miles from Galloway, and from thence were forced to repair
back again at the next Attizes accordingly to Galloway, to their great
trouble and charge} and when they came there, none appeared to
maintain the aforefaid Indictment. But as if all thele malicious and
mod vexatious proceedings had been nothing, this Informant was a-
gain arretted the fourth of November following, in an Action of Ten
thoufand pounds in the name of William Earl otClanrickard, and there¬
upon being hurried to prifon, within four days procuring Bail,he was
again detained on anorher ACIion in the (aid Earls name, of Twenty
thoufand pounds, bearing date the eighth ditto } and being ready to
come forth again, was a third time detained at the (aid Earls fuit in an
Action of Thirty thoujandpounds, in all amounting to Sixty thoufand
pounds, laid upon him on purpofe to ruine him utterly. And further
faith, That within fourteen days, or thereabouts, after, the fnformant
procured a Habeas Corpus to be brought to the Common-Pleas Bar,
where tendering Bail to all the faid Adtions, the laid Earls Council
moved for time to conlider of the fufficiency of the (aid Bail} which
was granted them till the next day, when and where this Informant
was again brought } and then the (aid Earls Handing Council told the
Judges, That they had no directions or inttruCtions to prolecute this
Informant from the faid Earl} and that they conceived fome perfons
had profecuted him out of malice only to curryfavour with the laid
Earl} and thereforedetired he might be difcharged of theforefaid Au¬
ctions, and accordingly he was discharged paying his Fees} but then
left without all remedy to recover his charges and damages } the faid
Earl being at the faid Bar, declared to be no profecutor, tho' the (aid
AClions were in his name, and carried on by fecret order ("as this De¬
ponent has all the rca(bn in the world to think, and does moft allured-
ly believe ). But all thele vexations fufficed not, but being fully refol-
ved on the deftruCtion of this Informant, and a difcouragement to o-
thers} For his innocence, though zealous in performance of his duty
in revealing the faid Treafonable words, he was again fhortly after ar¬
retted by a Writ of Two thoufand pounds out of the Kings Bench, at
the fuit of the (aid Earl of Clanrickyrd } to which he gave bail} and
again in (ome (hort time was arretted at the fuit of the faid Earl,in ano¬
ther ACfion of Two thoufand pounds out of the faid Court,to which
he alio gave bail: and being bound, as aforefaid to appear at Galloway
Affizes, this Informant and his faid Father did accordingly attend, and
were there cleared, as appears by the the following Difcharge.
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hath latelv fyied a large Declaration in the Common-Pleas, ftufr with
many falfe fuggeftions, containing near three Skins of Parchment, it
being an Aftion of Slander, grounded upon the Statute made at Glou-
ccjler, in the fecond year of Richard the Second, and laid to this In¬
formants faid Fathers charge, damages to the value of One thou find
pounds, to which the Defendant pleaded the General Plea Not Guilty9
and then there was no further profecution,as by the Records may plain¬
ly appear.
Whereupon this Informant and his laid Father prefented fl-veral
Petitions unto the Lord Lieutenant and Council at Dublin about Sep¬
tember laft, reprefenting and fetting forth their damages,and the vexa¬
tious Suits brought againfl them for many years pafled, and prayed
that the before mentioned Thomas Alien might be fent for, and the
Earl of Clanrickard living in Dublin, and that we might be ordered
to appear and prove thefe Treafonable Words which the fiid Alien
fpoke, and have fatisfaftion i, and thereupon we might be difmifled
from thofe unjuft Profecutions from the faid Earl of Clanrickard ;but
nothing would be done,fave leaving them to the Common Law 5 where¬
as this Informant and his Father being fo ruinated as aforefiid, are not
now in a capacity to profecute or defend themfelves againfl: the faid
Earl of Clanrickard, he being a near Relation to the Duke of Ormond.
About the twelfth day of May, 1680. one Mr. Robert Downing
came to this Informants Houfe, and (hewed him a Paper written,which
was as he faid by the Earls Order (viz,.*) That if this Informant and his
faid Father would give under their Hands and Seals, thar they do ve¬
rily believe in their Confciences, that the faid Earl of Clanrickard was
not any ways guilty of the Things fpoken of him in the Affidavit againfl
the h\dl homas Allen, that then the faid Earl would forbear all further
proceedings, anddifcharge them from all thingspaft, by(ealingmutual
Releafes to each other: But this Informant retufinglo to do, declared
he had good grounds to believe to the contrary, and did hope in time
to have fatisfaftion for the great damages he fuflained by the faid Earl
of Clanrickard.
One Robert Potts fworn before two Juflices of the Pence, the four¬
teenth of April, 1679. and declared he heard one JohnVenge, a Gun-
fmith of Portumna, fay, That he had fixed up for the faid Earl jive hun¬
dred Fire-Arms about five or fix years fince, and that he had a great
many more to fix up for the faid Earl 5 and that the faid Gunfmith and
his men with Forge and Tools did work in the Caftle of Portumna,
belonging to the faid Earl. This Informant Petitioned the Lord Lieu¬
tenant and Council for a Copy of Potts Affidavit, and fome other Co¬
pies he thought neceflary, but the Clerk of the Council faid my Lord
would not grant them.
And this Informant further faith, that in the Year 1678. there
Were Proclamations to difarm Papijls in Ireland, and banifli Popilh
Priefts, Jeluits, and Fryars, &c. And this Informant hath been cre¬
dibly informed, that feveral Papifts, &c. having not obeyed the (aid
Proclamations have been (eized on, but producing Licenfes from the
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that the laid City and Country Jrvarnrs with them, and that there are
feveral Iriffj and French Officers lately come into Ireland, Papifts, and:
bythenamesof Collonels, Majors, Captains, &c. Nor were any Of¬
ficers permitted to fearch the faid Earls Caltle, or feize any Arms tohim
belonging, being prohibited lo to do, as follows.
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By the Lord Lieutenant-General, and General
Governour of Ireland.
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Signed Ormond.
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r prefly to mil and require all his Wlajefties Officers and
SoMiersrobatfoever, whom it may concern, to forbear fearch.
i„nfor 'or feihingupon any of the Arms belonging to our
ry good Lord, William Earl of Clanrickard. Given un¬
der onr hand this 26th of Novemb. 1678.
William Ellis.
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And this Informant further faith, That by theunjuft Profecutions
which followed his honeftdifcovery, he .s damnified above loco./
Tr befides the lofs of his Trade, and was forced to fell an Ejhte of
! per annum in defending his innocency, and preferring his life
and'liberty, and paying his juft Debts, contraStd by the continual
orofecutions of the faid Earl or his Agents; whereby this Informant
and his Cud Evidence are utterly ruined by the never to ^ forgotten
unkind, ufs, or rather apparent ,nfif.eof the faid Jultice Oliver Jones,
in fafferingthe faid Venire to be altered, as aforefaid y aPSl that now
this Informant is fo much impoverittied, being forced to.leave his
Trade and habitation, that he hath not wherewithal lo help
neither doth he know any place of fifty, but hasincurred the difplea-
fare of many 5 and being in great danger feats he lhall be deftroyed,
S others have been, for d elating the truth; al which, the before-men¬
tioned ptemifes, this Informant hath received, and endured by, and
through the means of the faid unjuft and notorious probations of
rhe Earl of Clanrickard, thefe Eight years part, which hath created
2reat'difcouragements to many, and ftifles of Treafons,
coming to their mind and knowledg fince the yeer 1672.
Jurat, 7th die February, Anno Dom. 1680.
Corani me, Geo. Trebv, Recorderc
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ThislnFormant further faith, that what he did in difcoveringof the
laid Treasonable words; was out of lenle of his duty to God, and for
the prefervation of the Proteftants there} nor could he then in the
leaft imagine, by fuch a proceeding, tobeuttterly ruined, as appears by
the Depofitions aforefaid.
Another Inducement of hisdifcovery, was the bloody Maflacre that
broke forth there in the year 1641. which will never be forgotten by
the Protectants, nor ever be repented of by the Papifts: And that not-
vttthftandiug the prefent appreherrfions of great danger from the drf*
covered Plot , there are in, and about the City and suburbs of Dub¬
lin divers Majfhoufes, publickly frequented by Hundreds and Thou-
fands, connived, at although feveral Proclamations have been iifucd OLt
agairrft them.
Again, Had not this Information been fully and clearly proved to
the Lord Lieutenant and Council, he this Informant would certainly
have been by them feverely and delervedly puntlhed.
But let all moderate Proteftants, and true Engli/lj met\ coplider the
calamity that this Informant and his Father have fuftered in making
the faid difcovery, and the neceflity he is reduced to for fo doing 5 for
all the proceedings have been (as you may obferve ) managed againft
him with that cruelty and injuftice, the Earl of Clanrickard (hewing
his implacable wrath and malicious hatred to all Engl/jh Proteftants, as
he hath in the former Rebellion given fufticient demonftrations of his
bloody-mindednefs towards the Enghjh Proteftants in all parts: when
old Ulick., Earl of Clahtickard, living in the beginning of the Rebel¬
lion in Portutona, and fotitetimes at Loughlrea, did endeavour to fave
(bmeof the Englijh Proteftants, and commanded his Nephew, the pre¬
fent Earl, fo to do, but the new Earl refufed to obey his Unckle, old
Z)tic4, but wenttotheArrtiyof the Rebels, and inftead of being kind
to the Proteftants and Enghfi, he moft cruelly handled them in all parts
Wherefoever he found them, and Was always found to be moft cruel
atld unmerciful in the time of the Maflacre and Rebellion, and lb hath
continued ever fince upon all oCcafions, as you may fee in his late pafe
feges concerning this Informant. Many other cruel and unjuft a&iorra
in that County hath he done to many of the Enghjb fince he was re-
ftored, efpecially to a Gentleman of Quality, and a Juftice of peace
in that County,becaufe he lived in an Abby which ftood upon Land that
he bought with his mortey, and refufed to give it to Popifh Clergy
and Fryars 5 they made the Earl to begin a Suit againft the (aid Gen¬
tleman, to his ruin, by hiring Witnefies to teftifie for the Earl: the
laid Judg Jones was the Judg for the faid Earl, who never makes any
feruple to give judgment againft a Pfoteftant 5 which all Englijh and
Proteftants have reafon to take notice of.
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