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fome of them at their Fellows; then put them like Pellets to drive out one another.

The only way to wheedle them into it is, first by round Charges to endeavour a Remove of the Minifters in poffeffion; 'tis the ready way to come at the Mafter; the Hope of their Places will engage the reft of them to help on the Work. Set but this Wheel a going, and thefe are the Cogs that will turn round the Mill. What though you have hitherto had but ill luck in lifting at them, if one Broadfide do not fink a Veffel, another may : It was a wife Providence that referved our Confeffors laft Year for this purpofe. The treating of fuch Men with Sugar-plums, and Sweat-meats to throw among the People, did Strafford's Business, and vours, and the King's too. It was thought the ready Road to Sweetning and Quiet; but behold a Troop of Thoufands! yielding in one Point made way to afk all, and the Multitude to believe all were guilty as well as one. A tacit Court confeffion of Guilt by one Sacrifice, paft for Proof enough that all was true of the reft. If the fame Point can be gained again, be it but an unbloody piece of Work, fo it amount to a Removal of any one principal Man, it may perhaps take the more eafily, and do the Feat as well, if not better: Shape your Vengeance as it may not ftartle the Nature of their Mafter: So Courtplaces may fall one after another; there's your Reward upon Earth, whatever elfe you may expect from Heaven.

Ply his Majefty with warm Clothes if ye can; tell him he is Juft and Good; but his Counfels are ill, or weak, no matter which. Drive any Peg that will go; footh him, in hope to fmite the other; A dogged Humour of no Money will please the People, and plunge him. Start up Difficulties, promote his Neceffities; then work upon them; and make bold to tell him, only new Friends can remedy them. Read your Lectures backward; fay the War was most advisable last Year, when he had neither Preparations nor Moneys for it; but not now you have got him into it. Bring on new Accounts of Growth of Popery and arbitrary Government: Charge them upon evil Counsellers: Be fure to lift them, at any hand lift them: Noife may do it; ah, but Tumult is wanting! Then burn the Pope again, to fulfil the Revelation; that will draw together the Rabble; but forget not Cakes and Ale for them; Pot-valiant will do as much as Prefs-money, if you bid Defiance to a Standing-Army, though it be but in the Clouds.

If this will not do in the City, then once again prefs Grand Jury-men in the Counties, to petition for a new Parliament. It was well and wifely done to fend them down the late Books, to infpire and quicken them. The Judges will not dare to hinder, if in the mean time you rattle them roundly for what they have done. If you perceive them sturdy, then caft Dirt at them; it will ftick, and spot too, it being upon Scarlet. You have Men of Law now that have done you Service, who gape for their Places: 'Tis fit their Mouths fhould be ftopt, that they may open with Alacrity at Prerogative and Allegiance.

'Tis fine, to see our Scotifh Friends trace the old Method of 1640. And how every thing hits to improve the Brotherly Correfpondence: Lords and Grievances came then together out of Scotland; God fend us good luck; you know what follow'd. They then went to Court one Day, another Day to Conventicles, and Conclaves, in London; Advise them to do so now. A new Buftle against that Government began An. 1674. We and our Party at the fame Time began the VOL. III.

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like Bustle at Westminster: They, and we have walkt hand in hand like Brethren ever fince. What have we to do next, but to revive and rake that Phenix the COVENANT, out of its Afhes?

Be it your Care to time the Business; my Scotch Confidents here do say, no time fo fit at home, as when the KING is engaged abroad: then it will do the French Work, and ours to.

Methinks 'tis fine Mufick when thefe four Nations play in Concert; and 'tis glorious for Scotland, that it hath the Honour to Lead the Dance.

What a dull Brute of late is the Subject of England! Therefore (as the old Song faith) Blew Cap for me. Our Men of that Nation write, preach, and fight too; they have got likewife the right Knack of Distinction, and underftand the way of fupplicating the KING's Perfon against his Authority. The Sum of all is, get out the great Loon there, and perhaps none elfe can faddle or mount them for his Majefty's Service. I like that Courfe confulted by our good Friends, that if he cannot be impeached in Scotland, 'tis but turning the Table, and you may do it at Westminster. The Pitcher hath two Ears: if you cannot lay hold on one fide, take him by t'other, and dafh him to the Ground: Remember his Name is not only Lauderdail, but Guilford too. The honest Covenanters have been whetting their Pens at him these five Years; fo have we our Spleens in England; we have fpent the most part of our Gall in Ink-pots; Try what the reft will do in a round Charge or two. Nevertheless, write on ftill I am forry we have loft the Prime Pen; therefore make fure of Andrew. He's a fhrewed Man against Popery, though for his Religion, you may place him, as Pafquin at Rome placed Henry the Eighth, betwixt Mofes, the Meffiak, and Mahomet, with this Motto in his Mouth, que me vertam nefcio. 'Tis well he is now tranfpofed into Politicks; they fay he had much ado to live upon Poetry. What a blunt Tool the People's become! no Mutiny? However, let him whet on till they take an Edge, and be fure that you and the reft of our Comrades whet him.

'Tis time now to fay, or print any thing that will fharpen. Blacken the whole Undertaking; Say, in this Marching Army is couch'd a Standing one. Rant roundly at Adjournments: Say, Neutrality is better now we are arm'd, than it was when we were not. Say all you can to befool the foreign Confederacy, and fruftrate it; for, what was Wifdom laft Summer, is none now. Do all you can to fpoil this Meeting alfo; then follows no Money: Urge that Point long and loud; it may force the Court to do that for Supply, which we may have occafion to rail at afterwards and rouze Men with a Witnefs. Ply the Northern Supplicators, and let them ply you.

Gather the Quakers and Fanaticks under the Wing; and allow them now for Proteftants for all the Act of Uniformity: be kind, and give them a little Opium; So they may forget the Tyranny of their Elder Brother; and be all one again; then the New Caufe may prove as good as the old One.

If you will hatch somewhat like a Remonftrance, I like it well; go back to Forty-one, there's your perpetual Pattern; Matter enough to deal with any King in Europe, Nothing in Heaven can more fermentate and leven the whole Lump: But be fure you do not call it Remonftrance; a new Name will do better to cover the purpose: and for a new Model of State, and Statefmen, commend me to the Nineteen Propofitions to begin with, To

To crown the Work, and make all things eafy, only one thing is wanting to turn the World. Archimedes, to effect it, required but one Point to stand on without the Circumference: Do you gain but one in the Centre, and you'll do it as readily; that is the King's Point. If he move, and tread never fo little afide it, the ftoutest will ftagger, no Man will ftand to it.

Juft now Letters are come hither from the Hague, where two Twins are struggling in the Womb of their Bufinefs; many thanks to you (SIR.) Whether the Delivery will be now by the Hand of a French Midwife, or an English, is not to be understood yet. They are come to the Birth: Some would have the Name of the first-born to be Prohibition; others would have the fecond be named Neutrality, because he laid hold on the Heel of his Brother: which, as our Friends of Louvenftein imagine, muft fignify, that the Younger is to trip up the Heels of the Elder.

Remember me to, &c. and let me be answered in the main of my former.

Amfterdam, 18th of April, 1678.
English Stile.

I am yours, &c.

An ACCOUNT of the BLOODY MASSACRE in IRELAND: Acted by the Inftigation of the Jefuits, Friars, and Priests, who were Promoters of thofe horrible Murders, prodigious Cruelties, barbarous Villanies, and inhuman Practices executed by the Irish Papists upon the English Proteftants.

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Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum.

Licensed 23 Decemb. 1678.

Hen their Plots were ripe for Execution, we find their firft Proceedings against the English various; fome of the Irish only ftripping and expelling them; others murdering Men, Women, and Children without Mercy; all refolving univerfally to root out all the Proteftants of Ireland: fo deeply malicious were they against the English Proteftants, that they would not fo much as endure the Sound of their Language.

The Priests gave the Sacrament unto diverfe of the Irish, upon condition they fhould neither spare Man, Woman, nor Child of the Proteftants. One Hulligan, a Prieft, read an Excommunication against all thofe, that from thenceforth fhould relieve or harbour any English, Scottish, or Welsh Man, or give them Alms, whereby many were famifhed to Death. The Friars exhorted them with Tears not to fpare any of the English.

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The Day before this Maffacre began, Anno 1642, the Priests gave the People a difmifs at Mafs, with liberty to go out, and take poffeffion of all their Lands, as alfo to ftrip, and rob, and defpoil them of all their Goods and Cattle.

The Irish, when the Maffacre began, perfwaded many of their Protestant Neighbours to bring their Goods to them, and they would fecure them. And hereby they got abundance peaceably into their hands, whereof they cheated the Proteftants, refufing to restore them again; yet fo confident were the Proteftants at first of them, that they gave them Inventories of all they had; and digged up their best things that were hidden in the Ground, and depofited them in their Cuftody. They alfo got much into their Hands by fair Promifes, deep Oaths and Engagements, that if they would deliver them their Goods, they would fuffer them, with their Wives and Children, quietly to depart the Country; and when they had got what they could, they afterwards murdered them.

Having thus feized upon their Goods and Cattle, ranfacked their Houses, got their Perfons, ftript Man, Woman, and Child naked, and fo turned them out of Doors, ftrictly prohibiting the Iris under great Penalties, not to give them any Relief; by means hereof many miferably perifht through Cold, Nakedness, and Hunger.

In the Town of Coleraine, many of these poor People that fled thither for fuccour, many thousands died in two Days, fo that the Living could not bury the Dead, but laid their Carcaffes in ranks in wafte and wide Holes, piling them up as if they had been Herrings.

One Magdalen Redman depofeth, that fhe, and diverfe other Proteftants, amongst whom were two and twenty Widows, were first robbed, and then ftript naked, and when they had covered themfelves with Straw, the bloody Papifts threw in burning Straw among them, on purpofe to burn them; then they drove them out into the Woods in Froft and Snow, where many of them died with extreme Cold, and thofe that furvived, live miferably by reafon of of their many Wants.

Yet though thefe bloody Villains exercifed fuch inhuman Cruelties towards the poor Proteftants, they would commonly boaft, That these were but the beginning of their Sorrow, for indeed they made it good; for having difarmed the English, robbed them of their Goods, ftript them of their Clothes, and hav ing their Perfons in their Power, they furioufly broke out into all manner of abominable Cruelties, horrid Maffacres, and execrable Murders.

For there were multitudes murdered in cold Blood, fome as they were at Plough, others in their Houfes, others in the Highways, all without any Provocation were fuddenly deftroyed.

In the Caftle of Lifgool were about one hundred and fifty Men, Women and Children confumed with Fire. At the Caftle of Tullah, which was delivered to Mac Guire, upon Compofition, and faithful Promiles of fair Quarter; as foon as he and his entered, they began to ftrip the People, and moft cruelly put them to the Sword, murdering them all without Mercy.

At Liffenfkeath they hanged and killed above one hundred of the Scottish Proteftants. In the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone, where the Proteftants were more numerous, their Murthers were more multiplied, and with greater Cruelty,

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Mac Guire coming to to the Caftle of Lissenskeath, defired to fpeak with Mr. Middleton, who admitted him in, he first burnt the Records of the County, then demanded one thousand Pounds, which was in his Cuftody, of Sir William Balfore's, which as foon as he had, he caufed Mr. Middleton to hear Mafs, and to fwear that he would never alter from it, and then hanged him up with his Wife and Children: Hanging and murdering above one hundred Perfons besides in that Place.

At Portendown Bridge, there were one thousand Men, Women, and Children carried in several Companies, and all unmercifully drowned in the River. Yea, in that Country there were four thousand Perfons drowned in feveral Places.

In one Place an hundred and forty English were taken and driven like Cattle for many Miles together. Other Companies they carried out to a Place fit for Execution, and then murthered them. One hundred and fifteen Men, Women, and Children, they fent with Sir Philem O Neal's Pafs till they came to Portendown Bridge, and there drowned them.

At another time one hundred and forty Proteftants, being thrown in at the fame Place, as any of them fwam to the Shore, the bloody Villains with the Butt-Ends of their Mufkets knocked out their Brains.

At Armagh, O Cane got together all the Proteftants thereabouts, pretending to conduct them to Coleraine; but before they were a Day's Journey, they were all murdered, and fo were many others, though they had Protections from Sir Philem O Neal. The aged People in Armagh were carried to Charlemont, and there murthered.

Prefently after the Town of Armagh was burnt, and five hundred Perfons murthered and drowned. In Ki laman were forty-eight Families murthered. In one House twenty-two Proteftants were burned. In Kilmore, all the Inhabitants were ftript and maffacred, being two hundred Families; the whole Country was a common Butchery; many thousands perifhed by Sword, Famine, Fire, Water, and all other cruel Deaths, that Rage and Malice could invent.

At Cafel they put all the Proteftants into a loathfcme Durgeon, kept them twelve Weeks in great Mifery. Some they barbaroufly mangled, and left them languifhing; fome they hanged up twice or thrice, others they buried alive.

In Queen's-County, an Englishman, his Wife, five Children, and a Maid, were all hanged together. At Clowns, feventeen Men were buried alive; fome were wounded and hanged upon Tenter-hooks.

In Castle-Cumber, two Boys wounded and hung upon Butchers Tenters. Some hanged up and taken down to confefs Money, and then murthered. Some had their Bellies ript up, and fo left with their Gurs about their Heels.

In Kilkenny, an English Woman was beaten into a Ditch, where he died; her Child about fix Years old, they ript up her Belly, and let out her Guts. One they forced to Mifs, then they wounded him, ript his Belly, took out his Guts, and fo left him alive.

A Scottishman they ftript and hewed to Pieces, ript up his Wife's Belly, fo that her Child drop out many other Women they hung up with Child, ript

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