I Perceive that unlesse a Lord Lieutenant, well affected to Religion, be sent over, or another Lord Generall, That all the English in Ireland must come to ruine:

For

1. All such as are well affected to Religion, and against the Re­bells, are disgraced with aspersions of being Factious, and other lies devised against them, as against my Lord Lysle at Rosse Battell, That he should call out and offer ten pound for a guide to Duncannon, which is well known to be a false blur cast upon him for his forward­nesse.

2. Many such, and the best of them are removed out of their places, as Sir William Parsons from being Lord Justice, Colonell Monke from being Governour of Dublin City, Doctor Teate from being Governour of the Colledge.

3. They are not entrusted with Imployments of weight, but some Commander or other in chief must be ever sent along, to see that too much service be not done at one time.

4. Or else they are that by some Irish spirit, that seems to be with us, but in heart against us, as Sir Laurence Carye, at the Town of Swords, and Sir Charles Coote at Trym.

5. Others thrust into Offices who are tooth and nail for the Irish, as the L. Lambert to be Governor of Dublin City, the Bishop of Meath Governor of the Colledge, Sir George Wentworth, a deadly profest enemy to the Parliament, to be chief Martiall, Captain Bar­roughs, an Irish man, to be Provost-Martiall, who hanged Joh. Ste [...], a lusty able English man, who being forced by meer necessity, took 10. d. worth of bread from two Irish.

6. Such Irish Papists as are known to have betrayed our Armies, as did the Earl of Ormonds Troop in the Voyage to Drohedah, and such as are caught in the fact robbing our English peoples goods, are neverthelesse suffered to escape, and to continue Troopers still.

7. Such as have been taken in open Rebellion, and committed to the Castle, many of them are suffered to go at large, and we meet them daily in the streets.

8. Many of these that have been Indighted at the Kings-Bench for notorious Rebels, by set Juries of their friends, and some con­trary to their Office and Oath, have been heard to plead for them in open Court, how honest and good house keepers they have been.

9. The chief Havens, which at first might have easily been ta­ken, as Wexford, was least thought on, where the enemies have recei­ved more Ammunition and supplies then we have done: At the Battell of Rosse, when our men were entring the breach, and many fell, being shot out of the Town, they called for the Fire-balls to clear the way, but they were forgot, and none brought out with the Armie.

10. Before our Armies go forth the Rebells have aye warning to look to themselves, and notice which way our Forces are to go; By whom?

11. The Irish Papists, though they have been often caught send­ing Letters and Ammunition to the Rebells, and to harbour them, permitted to live amongst us, yea suffered to escape with little or no cesse and presse, our English are intollerably burthened, and many of them forced thereby to break and depart for England.

12. Such are protected, under pretence of sending relief to our Garrisons, as are known to murther our English when they finde opportunity.

13. After divers of our men have been shot and slain, in besie­ging Castles, the Rebells have fled by night, not a man of them hurt, our men have sometimes been charged under pain of death not to discharge at them.

14. Many prisoners have broken prison and escaped, as hath been reported by some, but by others it hath been said, They have opened the door with a silver key.

15. An English Serjeant about Whitsontide last, hearing there was a Priest in Bridge-street saying Masse, went according to an Order [Page 9]of the Board to take him, but the Priest having notice was gone, the Officer and his Souldiers seized only upon his Vestments and trum­peries left behinde; their friend, the L. Lambert, hearing thereof, im­prisons the souldiers, & swore some of them should be hangd for it.

16. Our best Ministers, as D. Harding and M. Yates, are silenced, that we have hardly any left to keep a fast with any life.

17. An English Papist (called James Room:) in S. Patricks street Dublin, being Plundered by the Souldiers, for suffering songs in his house made by the Irish women, wherein they cursed our Armies, triumphed for the losse of Ballanakell, and prayed for the Rebels pro­sperity: whereto he said, Amen; and bade them to sing it again: had his liberty and goods restored him, by the L. Lambert: and the Soul­diers were committed.

18. Ballanckell, the very key of our Garrisons in Leinster, where­in were 300 valiant men, who did as much as men could do, were neglected 5 whole weeks together, and no help sent them, till they were inforced to yeeld; to the utter disheartning of the rest of our Garrisons.

19. Our Armies are usually sent forth, sometimes on Sundayes, sometimes on Fast-dayes, after this sin hath been openly Preached against in the hearing of the Lord Generall and other Commanders.

20. All the Pillage seized on by the Officers and the famished Souldiers, when great preys have been taken, were not permitted to kill a beast to relieve their hunger.

21. The generall abounding of all open sins without any re­straint.

22. The L. Taffe hath been suffered to come and go to the Rebels with directions, which few of the Privy Counsell have been ac­quainted with.

23. Some of our Preachers have declaimed against the bloody [Page 10]Rebels cruelties, thereby to excite the Souldiers to resolution in pro­secution of the wars against them, have been declaimed against by others for bloody Preaching and Praying, and charged to desist from such extravaganeies.

24. Some have directly and professedly Preached for mercy to be shewed to these mercilesse Rebels, as Arch-Deacon Buckley, and the Bishop of Meath, who said in a Sermon before the State, That four sorts of them should be saved; viz. 1. Children. 2. Women. 3. Labourers. 4. All that resist not: Yet women are worse then men.

25. A faction is fomented among our selves to take off our Soul­diers from the Rebells, and to turn their edge against the Parlia­ment, and to this end tend many of the Sermons that have been Preached many a day before the State, containing nothing but most bitter Invectives against the Schismatiques (as they call them) and hardly a word is to be heard to proceed from any of them against the Rebels, except the Bishop of Down, who glanced against them at the first, and yet in the end affirmed The Schismatiques to be worse then them.

26. Likewise M. Yates being called before the Arch-Bishop for a Sermon he Preached, after some conference, he taxing the Arch-Bishop for taking a Lecture from him, and giving it to a common Drunkard; reply was made by the Arch-Deacon Buckley his son, that was there present, That Lecturers had more disturb'd the peace of the Church and Common-wealth, then ever they did good: and it had been well if never none had been: The Bishop likewise said, That so long as he had power, there should be none in his Juris­diction.

27. Also Captain Lucas coming to Dublin, to convey some corn by sea thither, having been often at the Councell, to demand relief for him and his men (it being often by them promised) was demanded, If whether he was able, as also whether he was wil­ling to fetch in Captain Plunket: He answered, He was able he thought: but Captain Plunket being imployed by the Parliament, [Page 11]as well as he, he could by no means betray that trust in him reposed; and he demanded, what would be if h-e should sinke him? They an­swered. They were able to secure him: But he answered, If they were able to secure him here, yet they could no An England, where his wife and children and estate is; As also he was forced to dis­charge 30 of his men for want of means, and thereby unable for that service.

28. Our last Army going forth in May, continuing forth 50 weeks, when we expected great service to be done, there was done no­thing. It was so ordered, that the Battering pieces which should have gone with them, came not to them till a fortnight after. Then we expected that Ballashanan Castle, that hath cut off so many of our men, should have been taken: but it was protected by whom not known, though Captain Armstrong at the same time had like to have been slain by some of them: And likewise Allens Castle, which hath done much mischief to our men: In it all the Re­bels wealth thereabout was, when the men and pieces were drawn up to it, they shewed a Paper Protection by Sir Arthur Loftus, Governour of the Naas. Likewise, the same night, our men Quartering neer the said Castle, their Horses were stollen by them, and fetcht from them by violence by the Souldiers, who with the Officers also, were ready to run mad for anger that they might not take it.

29. The day before the Earl of Ormond went to the Treaty, being the 22 of June, the chief Protestants of the City were called before the Councell, to know if they would give 10000. or have a Cessa­tion: They answered, They were utterly unabled, and were grieved to hear the Officers complain, and to see the Souldiers go bare-foot and bare-legg'd, and the City undone; and would be loath to see them that had kill'd their friends and kinsfolks, walks Dublin streets, yet durst not call them Rebels. Whereupon they were dis­mist, and the next day they went to treat.

30. The Parliament, with all those that are employed by them for the good of the Kingdom, are notoriously abused, to the great [Page 12]grief of all good people; as may appear by the base usage of Capt. Smith, captain of the Swallow, by captain Flower, a profest enemy to the Parliament, giving him many opprobrious speeches, calling him Traytor and Round-head, &c. urging him to draw, so that he was fain to withdraw himself, fearing further danger.

31. But a more inhumane carriage was shewed to the Master of the Swallow, a faithfull and honest man in his place, who coming to the Globe Tavern in Castle-street, Dublin, to see some of his friends, who there called for some Sack, and was answered by the master of the Tavern, That he had none for such Rebels and Traytors, &c. as he was; and threatned, if he would not be gone, he would fetch a Guard of Muskettiers to bring him thence: Thence going to the Fleece Tavern, and there demanding a bed for his money, was an­swered as at the Globe, and a Guard of Muskettiers was sent for by the Vintner, master of the house, with a Corporall, who by force brought him to the Guard, of which Lievtenant Congreave was captain, a deadly enemy to the Parliament, who presently, in most hase manner, reviled him: an honest neighbour, who being there be­fore, having sent for some Beer for the Souldiers; the said Lievte­nant drank a Health to the confusion of the Parliament, whom he called Rogues and Traytors, and would have forced the Master to have drank it: but he answered, They were honest men, and he would rather die then drink it: whereupon the Lievtenant answer­ed, He would make him confesse that either the Parliament, or Lords Justices were Rogues and Traytors, before the morning, or he would hang him: the Master replyed, They might do with him what they pleased, he being in their hands; and that they were but boyes; and he an ancient man: Whereupon they with Match drew his neck and his heels together, in so violent a manner, as though they would have killed him; but by the intreaty of the honest man there present, he was unbound, and caused to lie upon the boards all night: from whence he was the next morning by the Serjeant of the Guard releast: The Councell have likewise given order for the ap­prehending of the captain of the Swallow, if by any means they can come by him.

32. A Treaty of Peace, or cessation of Arms is in agitation, now the Rebels are driven to such exigencies, as that they see now they cannot longer subsist otherwise, are likely to perish for want, if our Souldiers might be suffered to pillage them, and now it is well known they want Powder. The intent of it is, so far as all honest, loyall, and religious Subjects conjecture, The ruine of all the British Nation, as appears by the relation of Mistris Dillon, who is a good Protestant, and her husband a Papist among the Rebels both of them, she heard them amongst themselves to say; That their intent is, After this Treaty, they will draw down their Forces to the Scots, and cut them off; then that being finished, they would cut off the Eng­lish. And also a most execrable Oath after this is concluded on to be administred to all the Protestants that are well affected to the Parliament; which if they refuse to take, they shall be all pillaged.

The premises considered, I conceive that this may suffice to make mine excuse.

The Lord look down upon his poor Church in Ireland.