A Full and True ACCOUNT OF THE DAMAGES and MURDERS Done and Committed on the Estates and Lives of the Protestants. BY THE IRISH REBELS IN IRELAND, BEING A Compleat Computation of all the Losses sustained by the King, the Church, the Nobility, Gentry, and Kingdom in general.
| 1. THE King lost in his Revenue of Ireland, and the Irish got by their Rebellion at 50000 Pounds per Annum, which accounting from the 23d. of October, 1641. (being the Time when the Rebellion began) only to the Year, 1650. when the English began to prevail, being Nine Years, amounts to | 450000 |
| The Protestant Church lost, and the Irish got, within this time, as followss. | |
| 2. THE Revenue of 4 Arch-Bishops, and 18 Bishops, during that time, at least 30000 pound, per Annum, amounting to | 270000 |
| The Protestant Clergy of above 2000 Parishes, lost during the said time, at least 60000 pound per Annum. | 540000 |
| The Rents of the Protestant Nobility, at least 100000 pound per Annum, got by the [...]rish during that time, amounts to | 900000 |
| The Rents of the other Protestants, during that time, at least 150000 pound per Annum. | 1350000 |
| The Personal Estates, plundered by the Rebels, from all the said Protestants, at least | 700000 |
| The Damages sustained by all the said Protestants, in having their Plantations destroyed, their Houses burnt, Purchase lessened, the Country dis-peopled, | 3000000 |
| The Pay of the several Armies Employ'd to suppress the Rebellion is as follow. | |
| 3. IT appears by Records now in Dublin, that the Pay of the English Officers, who served his Majesty, from the 23d. of October, 1641. to the 6th. of June, 1649. amounts to | 1800000 |
| The pay of non-Commissioned Officers, and private Soldiers, was double the aforesaid Sum. | 3600000 |
| [Page] The Scots Army being about 12000 Horse and Foot, tho that Account was never adjusted, could not be less than, | 1800000 |
| The Pay of the Army, which actually suppressed the said Rebellion, from the 6th. of June, 1649. until October 1654, appears by Records to be | 3500000 |
| The Abstract of the aforesaid account. | |
| THE Irish got by the Rebellion, from the King, Church, and Protestants, as appears | 4390000 |
| The Protestants dammaged by the said Rebellion. | 3000000 |
| The Pay of the several Armies. | 10700000 |
| So that the Cost and Charge given the English, and occasioned by the Irish Rebels, amounts to | 18090000 |
| Beside above 500000 Persons destroy'd on both sides by Reason of the said Rebellion. | |
| Anno, 1641 | Annual 1641. | Purchase in 1641. 12 Years. | Annual, value reduced to 6d. Sterl. in 1653 | Purchase in 1653. at 8 Years. | Damag'd by the Rebellion. | |
| Irish Propriety beside Incumbred about. | 4 Millions of Acres. | 400000. | 4800000. | 100000. | 800000. | 4000000. |
| English Propriety. | 2 Millions, 800000 Acres. | 280000. | 360000. | 70000. | 560000. | 2800000. |
This Diagram shews what Number of Acres the Irish were possess'd of, in the Year 1641; and also what the English had, except some of their Estates that were incumbred by Mortgages (as is made appear by the Records in the Surveyor General's Office) to the Number of Two Millions of Acres; and that by the Records in the Auditors Office, they had as many Houses in Wall'd Towns, Rectories, and Tythes, as did amount to 70000 l. per Annum: It also appears by the same Records, that the English had many Houses, Rectories, and Tythes, in Citys and Wall'd Towns, which were destroy'd, and are not contained in the above Diagram.
I can prove the Irish were restored to above half of what they were possess'd of in the Year 1641. being four Millions of Acres; and that what the Soldier and Adventurer got in lieu of the aforesaid Damages, done to the King, Church, and State, by their Rebellion, is not above 2 Millions of Acres, which in the Year 1653, was worth but 400000 l. It is also plain, that there are many of them, who have lately purchased great Estates, and are now actually Imploy'd in the Army under the Lord Tyrconnel; so that by another Conquest of them, they may forfeit more Lands than they did by their last Rebellion.
When Cromwell had subdued the Irish Rebels, they did by their usual art of Insinuation procure leave of him to be try'd Man [...] Man according to their respective Qualifications, and a Judicature to be set up at Athlone for that purpose, without any Limitation of time to try such as pretend were Innocent; whereupon such as could by good Proofs make appear, they were absent during the Rebellion, or bore constant and good Affection to the English Interest, or were Lunaticks or Minors, were all restored to their reall and personal Estates.
This Court fitting four years gave all their Innocents time enough to set forth their wrongs, and to prevail with the Usurpers, to have Large Scopes of Lands set forth in the Province of Connaught; and County of Clare to such Irish as could prove there was no Record of Outlary against them; by which means, and by a year given them since the Restoration, they were Restored to above half of what they lost, though it has appear'd since that they were in the Rebels Army, that they chose Members to sit in the Supream Council at Kilkenney, and paid Contribution to it.
Therefore it behoves all Englishmen, that have friends or any Estate in that Country, to endeavous at this time to suddue that great Army Tyrconnel has set up, against the known Laws of the Land, and to prevent the Subversion of the Government, and the design he has, not only to rob us of our Estates, but also Extirpate the Hereticks out of the Kingdom, and to set up the Jurisdiction of a Foreign Potentate. In doeing this we shall not only settle a lasting Peace in that Kingdome, but also incapacitate them from ever attempting the least evill against the Protestants; The Protestants who have Estates will add to'em, and they who have none, will get some.