The Earl of Castlehaven's Memoirs: Or, His Review of the Civil Wars in Ireland; with His Own Engagement and Conduct Therein: Conatining Also an Appendix and Post-script |
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Page 46 - ... thereof ; and that I will obey and ratify all the orders and decrees made, and to be made by the Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics of this kingdom, concerning the said...
Page 17 - People prone enough to break out to all exorbitant violence, both by some principles of their religion, and the natural desires of liberty, both to exempt themselves from their present restraints, and to prevent those after rigours wherewith they saw themselves apparently threatened by the covetous zeal and uncharitable fury of some men, who think it a great argument of the truth of their religion to endure no other but their own.
Page 25 - Yet still I think them inexcusable, because I see no great difference, whether a man kills another himself, or unchains a fierce mastiff, that will tear him to pieces. I cannot therefore but believe, the contrivers and abettors of the Irish rebellion, guilty of the massacre that ensued, tho...
Page 32 - England, that they would never give consent to any toleration of the Popish religion in Ireland, or in any other of his majesty's dominions...
Page 8 - They observed, that by the governors of that kingdom they were generally looked upon as a conquered nation, seldom or never treated like natural or free-born subjects : and for their further excuse, said, besides, that a discontented people, while thus used, are very apt to think they are no longer obliged, than they are forced to obedience ; but may, by the same way they had lost, when able, regain their liberty.
Page 24 - March, 1642 [-3], the nobility and gentry of the nation desired, That the murders on both sides committed should be strictly examined, and the authors of them punished according to the utmost severity of the law, which proposal certainly their adversaries could never have rejected but that they were conscious to themselves of being deeper in the mire than they would have the world believe.* There is much matter for reflection in these remarks, particularly in the last sentence.
Page 17 - And certainly, it is thought by many wise men that the preposterous rigour and unreasonable severity which some men carried before them in England, was not the least incentive that kindled and blew up into those horrid flames the sparks of discontent...
Page 24 - tis well known who they were that used to give orders to their parties, sent into enemies quarters, to spare neither man, woman or child. And the leading men among the Irish have this to say for themselves, that they were all along so far from favouring any of the murderers, that not only by their agents (soon after the king's restoration) but even in their * remonstrance, presented by the lord viscount Gormanstown and Sir Robert Talbot, on the...
Page 38 - But the most considerable slaughter was in a great strength of furze seated on a hill, where the people of several villages (taking the alarm) had sheltered themselves. Now Sir Arthur, having invested the hill, set the furze on fire on all sides, when the people (being a considerable number) were all burnt or killed — men, women, and children. I saw the bodies and furze still burning.
Page 76 - But after all, the three provinces had no reason to complain of this campaign, for this army they sent kept them from being troubled either with Scots or Ulster people that year.