dvblin, febr. , , or, the last true newes from ireland written in a letter sent from thomas lancton, chief clarke unto sir charles coote, chiefe commander of his majesties infantry in dublin. lancton, thomas. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing l ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing l estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. 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" . how rebels attempted to frie the ships in dublin harbour, saturday, febr. and how prevented. . of two aldermen that escaped out of dublin, and is supposed they are fled to the rebels. . how two corporals and sixe souldiers are imprisoned about their escape. . what it is likely that the rebels labour to effect, and how the english endeavour to defeate them. . in what state and posture of defense, dublin is now in, what strength within for us, and what force without against us, as what distance from us. by the post master of england and ireland, febr. , . eng dublin (ireland) -- history. ireland -- history -- rebellion of . a r (wing l ). civilwar no dublin febr. . . or, the last true newes from ireland· written in a letter sent from thomas lancton, chiefe clarke unto sir charles coo lancton, thomas b the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the b category of texts with fewer than defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - celeste ng sampled and proofread - celeste ng text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion dvblin febr. . . or , the last true newes from ireland . written in a letter sent from thomas lancton , chiefe clarke unto sir charles coote , chiefe commander of his majesties infantry in dublin . consisting of these particulars , . how . rebels attempted to fire the ships in dublin harbour , saturday febr. . and how prevented . of two aldermen that escaped out of dublin , and is supposed they are fled to the rebels . how two corporals and sixe souldiers are imprisoned about their escape . what it is likely that the rebels labour to effect , and how the english endeavour to defeate them . in what state and posture of defence , dublin is now in , what strength within for us , and what force without against as , and what distance from us . by the post-master of england and ireland , febr. . . london , printed for john thomas , . true newes from ireland . the rebels stomacking the losse of so faire a booty as that by gods assistance we layd hold on in the castle of eniskenning cast about to meet with us some other way , and seeing that here in or about dublin , or as farre as either our workes or our fortifications stretch , we are not onely god bee thanked so well provided , but so wary that little good is to be done upon us by land , they attempted to mischiefe us by sea , and on munday last , the last of this moneth , between two and three of the clock in the morning . j suppose , hoping to have found us , as fast asleepe as we had them , two hundred of them , in a kind of homely clouterly shallop , made and contrived in hast , as should seem only for this design , came up with the tyde that then served in among our ships , even to the midst of them in the harbour vndescryed , being well acquainted with their country fogs , and how to make advantage by them , there were amongst others three ships lately come from england two laden with meale , one with ammunition , but see the goodnesse of god still continued towards us , for which we are more deeply bound to extoll and magnifie his mercy towards us , the ship with ammunition lay in the reare of the other , and was passed by of them either vnseene ( it being a mighty fogge , besides the darkenesse of the night ) or mistaken , not thought , or understood by them to be the ship they looked for , thinking as well they might , that she lay as neare the key as possible could be for covert and safeguard . they comming in but that sunday night late , and could not be unloaded possibly till morning , had the rebels made up with this ship called the draggon of chester , and plyed her , with fire-balls ; yea and with granadoes , as also with little drie willow faggots , all daubd over with pitch and rozen , which flew like fire-drakes into the said ships , had they in this manner greeted that ship , as they did theirs , as it was the onely sweet and mercifull providence of god that they should not , they had by all likelyhood done us a mighty displeasure , the ship having in it . last of powder , beside bullets , muskets , pikes , and other ammunition , as also pioners tooles , viz. spades , shovels , mattocks , wheele-barrowes , and the like instruments , whereof the city stood in great need but especialy of the powder , there being not onely a scarcity thereof in the city at that time , but almost a want : whilest the enemies were thus busie about the ships , the masters and marriners were not idle , playing not onely with their ordnance , which indeed did little harme , or rather none at all unto the rebels , shooting over them , but likewise with their small shot , whereof they had such store , and bestowed it so liberall amongst them , that the rebels durst not board them , which questionlesse was their intent , but plyed us hot with their fire-worke , whereof we wondred at their plenty , this bickering in the harbour which now had continued well nigh an houre , at last was heard of in the city , and the state thought as well they might , that all was not well there ; whereupon the alarum was all the city thorough , being so much terrible for that it was night , my master sir charles drew downe unto the key with . foote , whether once come ; we plainly heard what the matter was by the cryes and clamou●s from the ships . sir charles coote conceiving the danger , and how , that without doubt the rebels had notice of the arrivall of these three ships , and wherewith they were laden , thought there was no dallying , but present to worke , whereupon he commanded all the ships and barkes about the key , immediately to lanch their boates , which done ; he caused as many muskettiers as could possibly with convenience , man the boates without let either to themselves , or to those that should row forthwith to enter , which was done , and the boates being in number . wee stowed in them men , & into the harbour amongst them we came and in very good time , for the rebels had boorded one of the meale ships , being to strong in number for the saylors who were in all but tenne , and some fifteene souldiers wee made bould to enter the ship upon them , and wee with the saylors helpe , and they with ours , made shift , and quickly quit the ship of them , sending them some alive and some dead , a breakefast unto the fishes , the seamen in the harbour perceiving that wee were there , left their ships , tooke both their boates , and courages , and in amongst us ; with this supply the rebells were soone under water , whom we supposed by their attemps and tumult in the harbour , to have beene a farre greater number then we found them , for by all descrie and guesse , they could not be above two hundred , and by all conjecture , their comming was to fire the ships which brought over this last supply of ammuniton , and other engines as is afore rehearsed , as did manifestely appeare by the nature of the preparation they brought along with them , but god be praysed we are delivered of that feare now , the ammunition on munday morning betwixt . & . of the clock being all safely landed , and conveigh'd into the castle , yet t is not all so well as it should be , the sweete of our successe is againe mingled with drugs of unexpected feares , and suspitious dangers ; for foure aldermen are againe missing in dublin , who are gone without taking leave of some that i beleeve had they known of their going , would not so easily have parted with their companie , their names are peter welsh , dominicke rutter , rabert mahun , patricke ovannian , who scaped on saturday night , it is sayd in womans apparell , under pretence of soldiers wives or trulls , to carrie victuals to their husbands , or servants upon their guards in the out works , for the other three i know not what correspondency they might have with the feminine gender in any particular , but for rutter , in womans apparell , he might passe for one very well without mufling , for i beleeve his beard and his eyes would come out together , being neare threescore , and not a haire on his face , being called the old woman of dublin , they are gone with head and hoofe , having left nothing behind them valuable , that was portable , which proves that they had good helpe , and faire time , to make such a cleanely conveyance , the lords justices have seazed their houses , and two corporalls with sixe common soldiers , are in prison close chopped up about their escape , and pray god , good proofe be not brought that they are fouly guilty of it , which if it shall , they shall all ( sir simon harcourt swears ) fayrely trusse for it , seeing the rebels now lye round about the citie , in all quarters , to the number of fifteene or sixteene thousands , these aldermen may give light unto the rebels , where the citie may be most seisable , it also puts the commanders both of state , and warre , into a grounded jealousie that they have strong intelligence in the citie , which causeth sir simon harcourt to put upon his out-worke , none but his owne souldiers which he brought out of england with him , whom he thinkes he may boldly confide in , and lyes himselfe in the out workes , the rebells neare the citie under another of the barres , the bastard orocke , and perigrine oneale , are no lesse then nine or tenne thousand strong eastward , their is another power westward , at the head of hoath , under the command of the bastard muskery , but of what number is not yet knowne . that j shall goe neare to write at the next returne , when j write you the issue of the eight soldiers , how they will come off about the escape of the aldermen , we have in dublin some sixe thousand men , able expetienced , and well appoynted : yea and well provided for by the state , and their commanders , if ever soldiers were , wanting neither meat , drinke , nor cloathes fit for men , yea and for honest men , but indeed they are as hard put to it for devoir and seruice , in watching and centinels , j thinke as ever soldiers were , and indeed it is but need as now the case stands , for questionlesse the rebels shoote at the getting of this citie , by their drawing into so great bodies so nigh the citie in divers places , and cutting us off from all succours by land , and were it not that we have our ships continually active in the harbour , and have built two good sconces lately to better secure our entrance , and safe egresse into it , they would have gone neare to have raysed them for us , wherefore we find the benefit of being aforehand . finis . to the king's most excellent majesty, the humble address of the lord mayor, aldermen and sheriffs of the city and liberties of dublin, in behalf of themselves and others, the protestant freemen and inhabitants thereof dublin (ireland). common council. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) to the king's most excellent majesty, the humble address of the lord mayor, aldermen and sheriffs of the city and liberties of dublin, in behalf of themselves and others, the protestant freemen and inhabitants thereof dublin (ireland). common council. sheet ([ ] p.) dublin, printed by andrew crook, assignee of benjamin took, printer to the king and queens most excellent majesties and re-printed by him at london, and sold by randal taylor ..., [london] : . reproduction of original in huntington library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng dublin (ireland) -- politics and government -- th century. broadsides -- england -- london -- th century - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - emma (leeson) huber sampled and proofread - spi global rekeyed and resubmitted - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the king 's most excellent majesty . the humble address of the lord mayor , aldermen and sheriffs of the city and liberties of dublin , in behalf of themselves and others the protestant freemen and inhabitants thereof . thus long ( great sir ) our unparallel'd late deliverance wrought by the hand of god , the first mover , the principal author of all our good , hath hitherto most justly employed all the faculties of our souls in the profound contemplation of his mysterious and unbounded providence , receiving from us the slender reward , but necessary sacrifice of our hearty praise and thanks ; but now to you ( great sir ) the next recollected thought with equal justice does belong : to you therefore ( dread sir ) the second cause , our faith's defender , the wonderful restorer of our captiv'd liberties ; in greatest humility , but with unlimited zeal , and joyful hearts full of sincere affection , we yield our utmost and unfeigned thanks , being the only thing valuable which our enemies left us wherewithal to sacrifice , and of which their malice could not rob us . we cannot but with horror stand amazed , when we recount our never to be forgotten sufferings , our frequent causeless imprisonments , the plundering our goods ; the confiscation of our estates ; the innumerable oppressions , the illegal exactions , the tyrannous hatred of our persons ; and , in a word , the unchristian behaviour in all the actions of our enemies infinitely surpassing an egyptian servitude , when baal's priests contented not themselves with their idolatry alone to pollute our altars , but in prosecution of their profane and ungodly malice , contriv'd the leading us captive to our churches ; and each ancestor's tomb became our respective couches ; then it proved litterally true , that our liberties were offered a romish sacrifice on our own altars . thus far almighty god permitted them : then it was that our enemies grew ripe for divine vengeance : then it was that you ; ( mighty sir ) stept in , and by your own victorious arm ; to the hazard of your royal person , rescued us from the hands of our enemies : then , and not till then , did arbitrary power , popery and slavery ( terms almost convertible ) receive their period . wherefore to you ( dread sir ) our only king , our lives ; our liberties ; our goods and estates we humbly offer , and at your royal feet ( great sir ) we come prepared ready to lay them down for the defence of your majesties royal person , for the suppression of popery , for the maintenance of the protestant religion , and for the support of your majesties undoubted right to these your kingdoms and dominions . in testimony whereof , we have caused the common seal of the said city to be hereunto affixed this ninth day of july , in the second year of your majesties reign . dublin , printed by andrew crook , assignee of benjamin took , printer to the king and queens most excellent majesties , and re-printed by him at london : and sold by randal taylor near stationers-hall . . observations upon the dublin-bills of mortality, mdclxxxi, and the state of that city by the observator on the london bills of mortality. petty, william, sir, - . approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) observations upon the dublin-bills of mortality, mdclxxxi, and the state of that city by the observator on the london bills of mortality. petty, william, sir, - . [ ], , [ ] p. printed for mark pardoe ..., london : . written by sir william petty. cf. nuc pre- . four folded tables at beginning. reproduction of original in columbia university library. "a postscript to the stationer": p. [ ]-[ ]. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng dublin (ireland) -- statistics, vital. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - judith siefring sampled and proofread - judith siefring text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion observations upon the dublin-bills of mortality , mdclxxxi . and the state of that city . by the observator on the london bills of mortality . london : printed for mark pardoe , at the sign of the black raven , over against bedford-house in the strand . . yearly bills of mortality for london and dublin . anno. burials . births . burials . births .   the medium or th part whereof is london . burials . births . males . females . males . females . dublin . anno. burials . births . in ternaries of years .   the medium or th part whereof is the parishes of dvblin . anno . an. , , & . at a medium . families . hearths . births . burials . st. katherins and st. iames , st. nicholas without , st. michans , st. andrews with donabrook , st. bridgets , st. iohns , st. warbrough , st. audaens , st. michael , st. keavens , st. nicholas within , st. patrick's liberties , christ-church and trinity-colledge per estimate ,     houses built between , and , pre estimate ,         a quarterly bill of mortality , beginning and ending for the city of dublin . parishes names . births . . marriages . . buried of under years old . buried of above years old . plague , small pox , spotted fever , measels . stone , gout , dropsie , consumption . sudden death , quinsey , plurisie , fever . aged above years old . infants under years old . all other casualties . st. katherins and st. iames ,                     st. nicholas without ,                     st. michans ,                     st. andrews with donabrook ,                     st. bridgets ,                     st , iohns ,                     st. warbrough ,                     st. audaens ,                     st. michael ,                     st. keavens ,                     st. nicholas within ,                     st. patrick's liberties ,                     christ-church and trinity-colledge ,                       totals ,                     a weekly bill of mortality for the city of dublin , ending the day of . parishes names . births . males . females . burials . under years old . above years old . plague . small pox. measels . spotted fever . st. katherins and st. iames ,                     st. nicholas without ,                     st. michans ,                     st. andrews with donabrook ,                     st. bridgets ,                     st. iohns ,                     st. warbrough ,                     st. audaens ,                     st. michael ,                     st. keavens ,                     st. nicholas within ,                     st. patrick's liberties ,                     christ-church and trinity-colledge ,                       totals ,                     an account of the people of dublin for one year , ending the th of march , / . parishes names . number of persons . whereof males . females . married persons . persons of under years old . above years old . protestants of above years old . papists of above years old . of all other religions of above years old . births . burials . marriages . st. katherins and st. iames ,                         st. nicholas without ,                         st. michans ,                         st. andrews with donabrook ,                         st. bridgets ,                         st. iohns ,                         st. warbrough ,                         st. audaens ,                         st. michael ,                         st. keavens ,                         st. nicholas within ,                         st. patrick's liberties ,                         christ-church and trinity-colledge ,                           totals ,                         casualties and diseases . aged above years . head-ach , and megrim . abortive and still-born . epilepsie , and planet . childbed-women . fever , and ague . convulsion . pleurisie . teeth . quinsey . worms . executed , murder'd , drown'd gout , and sciatica . plague , and spotted-fever . stone . griping of the guts . palsey . scowring , vomiting , bleeding . consumption , and french pox. small pox. dropsie , and tympany . measels . rickets , and livergrown . neither of all the other sorts . observations upon the dvblin-bills of mortality , . and the state of that city the observations upon the london-bills of mortality have been a new light to the world ; and the like observation upon those of dublin , may serve as snuffers to make the same candle burn clearer . the london-observations flowed from bills regularly kept for near one hundred years ; but these are squeezed out of six stragling london-bills , out of fifteen dublin bills , and from a note of the families and hearths in each parish of dublin ; which are all digested into the one table or sheet annexed , consisting of three parts , markt a , b , c ; being indeed the a , b , c , of publick oeconomy , and even of that policy which tends to peace and plenty . observations upon the table a. . the total of the burials in london , ( for the said six stragling years mentioned in the table a ) is ; whereof the medium or sixth part is ; and exceeds the burials of paris , as may appear by the late bills of that city . . the births , for the same time , are , the medium or sixth part whereof is , which is about five eighth parts of the burials ; and shews , that london would in time decrease quite away , were it not supplyed out of the countrey , where are about five births for four burials , the proportion of breeders in the country being greater than in the city . . the burials in dublin for the said six years , were , the sixth part or medium whereof is , , which is about the twelfth part of the london-burials ; and about a fifth part over . so as the people of london do hereby seem to be above twelve times as many as those of dublin . . the births in the same time at dublin , are , the sixth part or medium whereof is , which is also about five eighth parts of the burials ; which shews , that the proportion between burials and births are alike at london and dublin , and that the accompts are kept alike ; and consequenly are likely to be true , there being no confederacy for that purpose : which if they be true , we then say , . that the births are the best way ( till the accompts of the people shall be purposely taken ) whereby to judge of the increase and decrease of people , that of burials being subject to more contingencies and variety of causes . . if births be as yet the measure of the people , and that the births ( as has been shewn ) are as five to eight , then eight fifths of the births is the number of the burials , where the year was not considerable for extraordinary sickness or salubrity ; and is the rule whereby to measure the same . as for example : the medium of births in dublin was , the eight fifths whereof is , but the real burials were ; so as in the said years they differed little from the , which was the standard of health ; and consequently , the years , , and , were sickly years , more or less , as they exceeded the said number ; and the rest were healthful years , more or less , as they fell short of the same number . but the city was more or less populous , as the births differed from the number ; viz. populous in the years , , , & : for other causes of this difference in births , are very occult and uncertain . . what hath been said of dublin , serves also for london . . it hath already been observ'd by the london-bills , that there are more males than females . it is to be further noted , that in these six london-bills also , there is not one instance either in the births or burials to the contrary . . it hath been formerly observ'd , that in the years wherein most dye , fewest are born , & vice versâ . the same may be further observ'd in males and females , viz. when fewest males are born , then most dye : for here the males dyed as twelve to eleven , which is above the mean proportion of fourteen to thirteen ; but were born but as nineteen to eighteen , which is below the same . observations upon the table b. from the table b , it appears , that the medium of the fifteen years burials , ( being ) is . whereas the medium of the other six years in the table a , was , and that the medium of the fifteen years births ( being in all ) is , whereas the medium of the said other six years , was . that is to say , there were both fewer births and burials in these fifteen years , than in the other six years ; which is a probable sign that at a medium there were fewer people also . . the medium of births for the fifteen years being , whereof eight fifths ( being ) is the standard of health for the said fifteen years ; and the triple of the said , being , is the standard for each of the ternaries of the fifteen years within the said table . . that , the triple of births , is for each ternary the standard of peoples increase and decrease from the year to inclusive , viz. the people increased in the second ternary , and decreased from the same in the third and fourth ternarys , but re-increased in the fifth ternary beyond any other . . that the last ternary was withal very healthful , the burials being but , viz. below , the standard . . that according to this proportion of increase , the housing of dublin have probably increased also . observations upon the table c. . first , from the table c , it appears , . that the housing of dublin is such , as that there are not five hearths in each house one with another , but nearer five than four . . that in st. warburghs parish are near six hearths to an house . in st. iohns five . in st. michaels above five . in st. nicholas within above six . in christ-church above seven . in st. iames's , and st. katherines , and in st. michans , not four . in st. kevans about four . . that in st. james's , st. michans , st. brides , st. warburgh , st. andrews , st. michaels , and st. patricks , all the christnings were but , and the burials , viz. near double ; and that in the rest of the parishes the christnings were five , and the burials seven , viz. as to . now whether the cause of this difference were negligence in accompts , or the greaterness of the families , &c. is worth inquiring . . it is hard to say in what order ( as to greatness ) these parishes ought to stand , some having most families ; some most hearths , some most births , and others most burials . some parishes exceeding the rest in two , others in three of the said four particulars , but none in all four . wherefore this table ranketh them according to the plurality of the said four particulars wherein each excelleth the other . . the london-observations reckon eight heads to be in each family ; according to which estimation , there are souls in the families of dublin ; which is but half of what most men imagine ; of which but about one sixth part are able to bear arms , besides the royal regiment . . without the knowledge of the true number of people , as a principle , the whole scope and use of the keeping bills of births and burials is impaired ; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials , may be ingenious , but very preposterous . . if the number of families in dublin be about , then ten men , in one week ( at the charge of about five pound , surveying eight families in an hour ) may directly , and without algebra , make an accompt of the whole people , expressing their several ages , sex , marriages , title , trade , religion , &c. and those who survey the hearths , or the constables or parish clarks , ( may , if required ) do the same ex officio , and without other charge , by the command of the chief governor , the diocesan , or the mayor . . the bills of london have since their beginning , admitted several alterations and improvements ; and eight or ten pound per annum surcharge , would make the bills of dublin to exceed all others , and become an excellent instrument of government . to which purpose the forms for weekly , quarterly , and yearly bills are humbly recommended , viz. a postscript to the stationer . whereas you complain , that these observations make no sufficient bulk , i could answer you , that i wish the bulk of all books were less ; but do never-the-less comply with you in adding what follows , viz. . that the parishes of dublin are very unequal ; some having in them above six hundred families , and others under thirty . . that thirteen parishes are too few for four thousand families ; the midling parishes of london containing one hundred and twenty families ; according to which rate , there should be about thirty three parishes in dublin . . it is said , that there are eighty four thousand houses or families in london , which is twenty one times more than are in dublin ; and yet the births and burials of london are but twelve times those of dublin : which shews , that the inhabitants of dublin are more crowded and streightned in their housing , than those of london ; and consequently , that to increase the buildings of dublin , will make that city more conformable to london . . i shall also add some reasons for altering the present forms of the dublin-bills of mortality , according to what hath been here recommended , viz. . we give the distinctions of males and females in the births onely ; for that the burials must , at one time or another ; be in the same proportion with the births . . we do in the weekly and quarterly bills propose , that notice be taken in the burials of what numbers dye above sixty and seventy , and what under sixteen , six , and two years old ; foreseeing good uses to be made of that distinction . . we do in the yearly bill , reduce the casualties to about twenty four , being such as may be discerned by common sense and without art ; conceiving that more will but perplex and imbroil the account . and in the quarterly bills , we reduce the diseases to three heads , viz. contagious , acute , and chronical ; applying this distinction to parishes , in order to know how the different scituation , soil , and way of living in each parish , doth dispose men to each of the said three species : and in the weekly bills we take notice not only of the plague , but of the other contagious diseases in each parish ; that strangers and fearful persons may thereby know how to dispose of themselves . . we mention the number of the people , as the fundamental term in all our proportions ; and without which , all the rest will be almost fruitless . . we mention the number of marriages made in every quarter , and in every year ; as also the proportion which married persons bear to the whole ; expecting in such observations to read the improvement of the nation . . as for religions , we reduce them to three , viz. . those who have the pope of rome for their head. . who are governed by the laws of their country . . those who rely respectively upon their own private judgments . now whether these distinctions should be taken notice of or not , we do but faintly recommend , seeing many reasons pro and con for the same : and therefore although we have mentioned it as a matter fit to be considered , yet we humbly leave it to authority . further observation upon the dublin-bills : or , accompts of the houses , hearths , baptisms , and burials in that city . the second edition , corrected and enlarg'd . by sir william petty , fellow of the royal society . lonon : printed for mark pardoe , at the sign of the black raven , over-against bedford-house in the strand . . the stationer to the reader . i have not thought fit to make any alteration of the first edition , but have only added a new table with observation upon it , placing the same in the front of what was before ; which perhaps might have been as well placed after the like table at the th page of the first edition . dublin . . parishes . houses . fire-places . baptiz'd . buri'd . st. iames st. katherines st. nicholas with-out , and st. patricks st. bridgets st. audones st. michael st. iohns st. nicholas within , and christ-church lib. st. warbors st. michans st. andrews st. kevans donobrook   ▪ further observations upon the dublin accompts of baptisms and burials , houses and hearths , viz. the table hath been made for the year , wherein is to be noted , . that the houses which anno , were but are anno , ; but whether this difference is caused by the real encrease of housing , or by fraud and defect in the former accompts , is left to consideration . for the burials or people have increased but from , to , according to which proportion , the houses anno , should anno have been but , wherefore some fault may be suspected as aforesaid , when farming the hearth-mony was in agitation . . the hearths have encreased according to the burials , and ⅓ of the said increase more , viz. the burials anno were , the ⅓ whereof is , which put together makes , which is near the number of burials anno . but the hearths anno , were , whereof the ⅓ is , making in all but ; whereas the whole hearths anno were , viz. ⅓ and better of the said more . . the housing were anno , but , which if they had encreased anno but according to the burials , they had been but , or according to the hearths , had been but , whereas they appear , encreasing double to the hearths . so as 't is likely there hath been some errour in the said account of the housing , unless the new housing be very small , and have but one chimney apiece , and that ¼ part of them are untenanted . on the other hand , 't is more likely that when dy'd per an. there were near ; for houses at inhabitants per house , would make the number of the people to be thousand , and the number of that died according to the rule of one out of ● , would have made the number of inhabitants about thousand : for which reason i continue to believe there was some errour in the accompt of houses as aforesaid , and the rather because there is no ground from experience to think that in year , the houses in dublin have encreased from to . moreover , i rather think that the number of is yet short , because that number at heads per house makes the inhabitants to be but ; whereas the who died in the year , according to the aforemention'd rule of one dying out of makes the number of people to be ; the medium betwixt which number and is , which is the best estimate i can make of that matter , which i hope authority will ore long rectifie , by direct and exact enquiries . . as to the births , we say that anno , , and ▪ at london , just before the troubles in religion began , the births were ⅚ of the burials , by reason i suppose of the greaterness of families in london above the country , and the fewer breeders , and not for want of registring . wherefore deducting ⅙ of , which is , there remains for the probable number of births in dublin for the year ; whereas but are represented to have been christen'd in that year , though were christen'd anno , when there died but ; which decreasing of the christnings , and increasing of the burials , shews the increase of non-registring in the legal books , which must be the increase of roman catholicks at dublin . the scope of this whole paper therefore is , that the people of dublin are rather , than ; and that the dissenters , who do not register their baptisms , have encreased from to : but of dissenters , none have increased but the roman catholicks , whose numbers have encreased from about to in the said years . the exacter knowledge whereof , may also be better had from direct enquiries . finis . great news from dublin, giving a true account of the seizing of a ship coming from ireland, with fifty commissions from the late king james, to several gentlemen in lancashire, in order (as suppos'd) to a rebellion in england. together, with the relation of the papists seizing the protestants estates in ireland, and imprisoning the vice-provost of the colledge of dublin, and other worthy divines, on pretence of a plot, &c. with allowance. j. m. approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. text creation partnership, ann arbor, mi ; oxford (uk) : - (eebo-tcp phase ). a wing m b estc r this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. 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ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng protestants -- ireland -- early works to . dublin (ireland) -- history -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - john pas sampled and proofread - john pas text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion great news from dublin , ●iving a true account of the seizing of a ship coming from ireland , with fifty commissions from the late king james , to several gentlemen in lancashire , in order ( as suppos'd ) to a rebellion in england . together , with the relation of the papists seizing the protestants estates in ireland , and imprisoning the vice-provost of the colledge of dublin , and other worthy divines , on pretence of a plot , &c. with allowance . chester the th of june , . sir , on the eleventh of this instant , arrived here a vessel , with some fugitive protestants aboad , which give an account , that the pretended parliament of dublin , after the general concurrence of both houses , for rescinding and abolishing the late act of settlement , proceeded to pass a bill for the forfeiture of all estates of protestants absent ; which , with all severity , even ●●e soldiers and rabble-papists put in execution : that upon the report of supplies ●eing landed at london-derry , they immediately issued out an order for securing all protestants of any note ; and particularly , they have clapt up the reverend doctor action , vice●rovost of the col●edg , and doctor king the minister of st. warbourgh's parish , and seve●l others , upon a blind pretence , that they were plotting against the government , ( as ●●ey stile it ) though all that could be said for harmless and innocent persons , was urg'd 〈◊〉 their behalf to the late king ; but such is the insolence and jealousie of the french minister , and his party , that it is now thought no longer in his power to deny or main●in any thing against them . yesterday came in a vessel from dublin to this port , in com●●ny of another small vessel , and king william's officers of his customs going on board her , ●emember'd the master had about five weeks before stole out of the harbour , without ●●king her entry at the custom-house , and the master besides being suspected for an ill man they gave notice to the mayor , and other the kings officers , who immediately re●●●t and seize on the kings vessels ; and , after strict search , find packt up fifty commis●●●● , directed to several persons in lancashire ; which commissions were forthwith sent to 〈◊〉 majesty , and 't is hoped , will give an ample discovery of all or most of the disaffected ●●●sons in that county : colonel kirk , with the ships and soldiers under his command , ●●●●'d from the isle of man the fifth instant , the wind at east south-east , a pretty strong ●●le , so that we doubt not , by this time , of his safe arrival : from dublin we hear , that the ●●●…ist army is extreamly discouraged with the vigorous resistance of the protestants in london-derry , that they begin to look nearer into matters , and do already shake their ●●ads , and wish they could handsomely unravel their past actions . doctor walker , and ●●eutenant baker , do labour indefatigably for the support of the town , which stands ●●●m yet , and in good condition ; though by continual watchings , and hard service , they ●o hourly wish and sigh for their long expected succours . the lord tyrconnel continues ●et indisposed with the black jaundice , which had like to have prov'd dangerous to him ; ●e seems to be sensibly afflicted for the loss of his reputed son the lord galmoy , ( who was ●ill'd before london-derry in the last great sally ) and is not well satisfied with the french ●anagement of affairs : many of the irish army desert daily , and take the boggs for ●●eir refuge , being either terrified with the haughty insolence of their french comman●rs , or tired with the continual drudgery of marching , counter-marching , and other ●…teigues of martial exercise and dangers : we have it confirm'd , that great numbers of boats and other small vessels , design'd ( as is thought ) for transportation of sol●●ers from any part of the north of ireland to scotland , have been seized and burnt by ●he ships from scotland . the protestants of dublin begin now to be very apprehensive 〈◊〉 their safety , especially since the confinement of those clergy men and encroachments 〈◊〉 the colledge : the late king hath put a stop to all passes ; and such is the strictness and severity of the searchers , that we are likely to have little or no intelligence from dublin . this is all that occurs at present from your humble servant , j. m. london . printed for w. downing ● a proclamation for the immediate fortifying of the citie of dublin and the suburbs thereof by lords iustices and councell, w. parsons, io. burlase. ireland. lords justices and council. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing i ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page image. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing i estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) a proclamation for the immediate fortifying of the citie of dublin and the suburbs thereof by lords iustices and councell, w. parsons, io. burlase. ireland. lords justices and council. parsons, william, sir, ?- . burlase, john, sir. broadside. imprinted first at dublin and reimprinted at london, and are to be sold by henry walker ..., [london] : . statement of responsibility transposed from head of title. "given at his majesties castle of dublin the . of november. ." reproduction of original in the society of antiquaries library, london. eng dublin (ireland) -- history, military. dublin (ireland) -- history. ireland -- history -- rebellion of . a r (wing i ). civilwar no a proclamation for the immediate fortifying of the citie of dublin and the suburbs thereof by lords iustices and councell, w. parsons, io. b ireland. lords justices and council c the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the c category of texts with between and defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - spi global keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion cr honi soit qvi mal y pense royal blazon or coat of arms ❧ by lords iustices and councell . ❧ a proclamation for the immediate fortifying of the citie of dublin , and the suburbs thereof . w. parsons . io-burlase . whereas we the lords̄ iustices and councell upon the proposition , and the humble suit of the maior , aldermen , and citizens of the city of dublin , have consented and given directions , that fortification should be immediately made about this city , and the suburbs thereof , for the safety and the conservation of the said citie and suburbs , and his majesties loyall subjects therein . and for that it is requisite and reasonable , that all those that are involved in a common danger , should ingage their persons and contribute some part of their estates in a common defence , and for that it is necessary that workes of that nature and consequence be effected with all expedition . we do therefore in his majesties name require and command all and every person and persons of what quality or condition soeuer , as well citizens as souldiers , and others , from the age of seventeen yeares and upwards , now dwelling , inhabiting , and residing within this city , or suburbs thereof , within twelve houres after publication hereof , to give their personall assistances and attendance ( with all such shovels , spades , spittles , pick-axes , and other instruments and engines fitting for that worke , as they have , or can procure ) to such officers and engineers , and other persons as are , or shall be imployed by authority , for raising and making the said fortification , and to performe such labour and duties therein , as the said officers , enginieers , and persons imployed , shall direct ; and to continue in the said service , untill the worke be fully perfected . and if any such person or persons by reason of infirmity , or for other reasonable cause cannot , or shall not attend the said service , for every day for each person so absent , shall be contributed and paid ( the sum of six pence towards the fortifications aforesaid , by each person for himself , and his servant or servants , attendant or attendants ) to the hands of the alderman of the ward , or seneschall , or other chief officer of the liberties respectively , who shall give an account thereof to the chief governour and governours , and councell here for the time being , requiring the same ; neverthelesse , we leave all persons well-disposed to this service to make such voluntary contribution and benevolence thereunto , as they shall thinke fit , and whosoevet shall not by himselfe , and his servants attend this service , or contribute thereunto as aforesaid , such person may justly be esteemed ill-affected , and shall suffer such punishment , as the lieutenant generall and councell of war shall thinke fit to inflict . given at his majesties castle of dublin the . of november . . ormond ossory . r. dillon . cha. lambert . ad. loftus . geo. shurley . i. temple . cha. coote . p. crosbie . ja. ware ▪ rob. meredith . ❧ god save the king . ❧ imprinted first at dublin , and reimprinted at london , and are to be sold by henry walker in buttlers alley in moor-lane . . a discoverie of the hellish plot against divers particular of the nobility of the kingdome of england also the papists gvnpowder-plot brought to light : with the copie of a letter sent from a noble-man in ireland to colonel lunsford, jan. , : shewing in a most true and reall reiation the manner how this hellish plot was laid and how these noble pillars of protestant-religion the earl of cork, the earl of kildare and the valourous lord iones should have been blown up : as also hovv they intended to burn dovvn the citie of dublin vvith wild-fire and how they were beaten back by the lord chief-justices in the castles. e. f. this text is an enriched version of the tcp digital transcription a of text r in the english short title catalog (wing d ). textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. the text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with morphadorner. the annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. this text has not been fully proofread approx. kb of xml-encoded text transcribed from -bit group-iv tiff page images. earlyprint project evanston,il, notre dame, in, st. louis, mo a wing d estc r ocm this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the early english books online text creation partnership. this phase i text is available for reuse, according to the terms of creative commons . universal . the text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. early english books online. (eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; :e , no ) a discoverie of the hellish plot against divers particular of the nobility of the kingdome of england also the papists gvnpowder-plot brought to light : with the copie of a letter sent from a noble-man in ireland to colonel lunsford, jan. , : shewing in a most true and reall reiation the manner how this hellish plot was laid and how these noble pillars of protestant-religion the earl of cork, the earl of kildare and the valourous lord iones should have been blown up : as also hovv they intended to burn dovvn the citie of dublin vvith wild-fire and how they were beaten back by the lord chief-justices in the castles. e. f. [ ] p. printed for iohn greensmith, london : . the letter is signed: e. f. reproduction of original in thomason collection, british library. eng lunsford, thomas, -- sir, ?- ? catholics -- england. dublin (ireland) -- history. great britain -- history -- charles i, - -- sources. a r (wing d ). civilwar no a discoverie of the hellish plot against divers particular of the nobility of the kingdome of england. also the papists gunpowder-plot, brou [no entry] c the rate of defects per , words puts this text in the c category of texts with between and defects per , words. - tcp assigned for keying and markup - aptara keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion a discoverie of the hellish plot against divers particular of the nobility of the kingdome of england . also the papists gvnpowder-plot , brought to light . with the copie of a letter sent from a noble-man in ireland , to colonel lunsford . jan. . . shewing , in a most true and reall relation , the manner how this hellish plot was laid , and how these noble pillars of protestant-religion , the earl of cork , the earl of kildare , and the valourous lord iones , should have been blown up . as also , hovv they intended to burn dovvn the citie of dublin vvith wild-fire , and how they were beaten back by the lord chief-iustices in the castles . london , printed for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 smith . 〈◊〉 . a gun-powder plot in ireland , discovered . the rebels having intelligence that the noble earle of ormond , the earle of kildare , and the lord iones were fully resolved about the . of ian. to relieve the city of dublin , by reason that the rebels have besieged it a long time , whereby they wanted provision and ammunition very much , they resolved altogether to hinder their intents : therefore generall neale , and many other of the rebels invented a plot for the utter confusion of them all , and it was to be performed at that very instant when the aforenamed lords were marching with their forces towards the city of dublin . the manner how the plot was laid . the rebels for bringing their bloody and hellish designes to perfection , had provided shovels , spades , pick-hacks , and many other instruments for the said bloudy design , and about the number of . souldiers , and there with all speed they set them to worke which was to vndermine the ground for the space of two miles , and laid there great store of gunpowder : and so by that meanes to blow up the aforenamed lords in their marching over : thi● being done , the rebels intended to march against the city of dublin , and to destroy it by wild-fire : but they were prevented , and their hellish designs discovered by a miraculous means . the manner how this plot was discovered . colonell morton marching before the protestant army , and the two other lords bringing on their forces with puissant courage , they being come within the space of sixe miles of dublin , colonel morton feeling the ground quiver under his feet , it seeming like dry ground , caused the army to stand , and said , that hee feared that there was trechery intended against them , he therefore immediatly took one of their strongest pikes , and thrust it into the ground , to see whether it were hollow or not , the pike running in with such great force , and hee laying no strength to it , immediatly caused some of his souldiers to dig , to see what plot there was intended against them , and digging a yard deepe they espyed a vault , and great store of gun-powder , whereupon the aforesaid colonell caused them to retreat back , fearing that they had come too far , but not knowing how to discover the same : unlesse that some man would venture his life to goe in : where presently a young man stept forth , and spake to them as followeth . noble captain , to do you and my country good , i will venture my life to find out this hellish plot , then they let him down , who presently espyed men , they immediatly questioning of him , he answer'd that he came from generall neale , chiefe generall for the rebels , to helpe them in their good enterprise , who being there about the space of two dayes , they resolved that onely one of them should tarry to bring this to passe , which was to give fire to the gun-powder , for to blow up the protestant army , the rest should goe forth , and retire back to the rebels : therefore they concluded together to draw cuts which of them should tarry , which as the lord would have it , it fell to his lot : and they being gone , hee seeing the place which they came out at , came presently to the said place , and opened the doore , which was of wood , and covered with turfe , in such a manner , that no man could perceive whether there were any doore or not : and comming forth , he re●ated to captain morton how it was . who presently set a strong guard about the said vault , and then , of the protestants went in , and fetched all the powder out , and great store of ammunition they have also taken . the copie of a letter sent from a noble-man in ireland , to colonel lunsford . sir , we desire you to make ready your forces , as soo●e as possible you can , and to fall on with speed , you know our meaning , and wee vvill send you aid suddenly ; for vvee have gathered our forces together , since they were defeated by the scottish regiments , for in that fight vve lost . men , and what you begin , vve vvill end , use your hands , and put in practice your wits ; for you know wee have many friends in citie and countrie , and what monies you disburst , vve vvill be ansvverable to you , your loving friend , e. f. finis . to the king's most excellent majesty, the humble address of the lord mayor, aldermen and sheriffs of the city and liberties of dublin, in behalf of themselves and others, the protestant freemen and inhabitants thereof dublin (ireland). common council. approx. kb of xml-encoded text 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(eebo-tcp ; phase , no. a ) transcribed from: (early english books online ; image set ) images scanned from microfilm: (early english books, - ; : ) to the king's most excellent majesty, the humble address of the lord mayor, aldermen and sheriffs of the city and liberties of dublin, in behalf of themselves and others, the protestant freemen and inhabitants thereof dublin (ireland). common council. william iii, king of england, - . sheet ([ ] p.) printed at london, and re-printed at edinburgh, by the heir of andrew anderson, printer to the king and queens most excellent majesties, [edinburgh] : . reproduction of the original in the harvard university library. created by converting tcp files to tei p using tcp tei.xsl, tei @ oxford. re-processed by university of nebraska-lincoln and northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. eebo-tcp is a partnership between the universities of michigan and oxford and the publisher proquest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by proquest via their early english books online (eebo) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). the general aim of eebo-tcp is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic english-language title published between and available in eebo. eebo-tcp aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the text encoding initiative (http://www.tei-c.org). the eebo-tcp project was divided into two phases. the , texts created during phase of the project have been released into the public domain as of january . anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source. users should be aware of the process of creating the tcp texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data. text selection was based on the new cambridge bibliography of english literature (ncbel). if an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in ncbel, then their works are eligible for inclusion. selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. in general, first editions of a works in english were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably latin and welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so. image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in oxford and michigan. % (or pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet qa standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. after proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of instances per text. any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of tcp data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a tcp editor. the texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level of the tei in libraries guidelines. copies of the texts have been issued variously as sgml (tcp schema; ascii text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable xml (tcp schema; characters represented either as utf- unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless xml (tei p , characters represented either as utf- unicode or tei g elements). keying and markup guidelines are available at the text creation partnership web site . eng dublin (ireland) -- politics and government -- th century -- early works to . ireland -- history -- war of - -- early works to . - tcp assigned for keying and markup - apex covantage keyed and coded from proquest page images - mona logarbo sampled and proofread - mona logarbo text and markup reviewed and edited - pfs batch review (qc) and xml conversion to the king 's most excellent majesty , the humble address of the lord mayor , aldermen , and sheriffs of the city and liberties of dublin , in behalf of themselves and others , the protestant freemen and inhabitants thereof . thus long ( great sir ) our unparallel'd late deliverance wrought by the hand of god , the first mover , the principal author of all our good , hath hitherto most justly employed all the faculties of our souls in the profound contemplation of his mysterious and unbounded providence , receiving from us the slender reward , but necessary sacrifice of our hearty praise and thanks ; but now to you ( great sir ) the next recollected thought with equal justice does belong . to you therefore ( dread sir ) the second cause , our faith's defender , the wonderful restorer of our captiv'd liberties ; in greatest humili●y , but with unlimited zeal , and joyful hearts full of sincere affection , we yield our outmost and unfeigned thanks , being the only thing valuable , which our enemies left us wherewithal to sacrifice , and of which their malice could not rob us . we cannot but with horror stand amazed , when we recount our never to be forgotten sufferings , our frequent causeless imprisonments , the plundering our goods , the confiscation o● our estates , the innumerable oppressions , the illegal exactions , the tyrannous hatred of our persons ; and , in a word , the unchristian behaviour in all the actions of our enemies , infinitely surpassing an egyptian servitude , when baal's priests contented not themselves with their idolatry alone to pollute our altars , but in prosecution of their profane and ungodly malice , contriv'd the leading us captive to our churches , and each ancestor's tomb became our respe●●ive couches ; then it proved literally true , that our liberties were offered a romish sacrifice on our own altars . thus far almighty god permitted them : then it was that our enemies grew ripe for divine vengeance : then it was that you , ( might sir ) stept in , and by your own victorious arm , to the hazard of your royal person , rescued us from the hands of our enemies ; then , and not till then , did arbitrary power , popery and slavery ( terms almost convertible ) receive their period . wherefore to you ( dread sir ) our only king , our lives , our liberties , our goods and estates we humbly offer , and at your royal feet ( great sir ) we come prepared , ready to lay them down for the defence of your majesties royal person , for the suppression of popery , for the maintenance of the protestant religion , and for the support of your majesties undoubted right to these your kingdoms and dominions . in testimony whereof , we have caused the common seal of the said city to be hereunto affixed , this ninth day of july , in the second year of your majesties reign . printed at london , and re-printed at edinburgh , by the heir of andrew anderson , printer to the king and queens most excellent majesties , .