HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE royal blazon or coat of arms The Horrid CONSPIRACY Of such IMPENITENT TRAITORS As intended A New Rebellion In the Kingdom of Ireland. WITH A LIST of the PRISONERS, AND The Particular Manner of Seizing Dublin-Castle BY LUDLOW, And His ACCOMPLICES. Verbatim out of the Expresses sent to His MAJESTY from the Duke of ORMOND. Published by Authority. LONDON: Printed for Samuel Speed at the Rainbow near the Inner Temple-Gate in Fleetstreet. 1663. The HORRID CONSPIRACY OF Such Impenitent Traitors as intended A NEW REBELLION in the Kingdom of IRELAND. THough God Almighty hath been pleased by his unexpressible mercy to restore His Sacred MAJESTY to his Crown and Dignity, and thereby his good Subjects of his three Kingdoms; Yet after so long and various Rebellions it cannot seem strange if some wicked and desperate Principles still lurk in those who before were swollen to such a prodigious height by Rapine and Blood. And though the unparallelled Clemency of our gracious Sovereign were sufficient (one would think) to make them remember nothing but their Pardon; yet these ungrateful Wretches have broke afresh into the Act of Indemnity, plotting most wickedly the Ruin and Destruction of all that love the Peace and Government of the three Nations: And in order thereunto, contrived first to seize upon the Royal Castle of Dublin, and then to cut off that Excellent Personage James Duke of Ormond, His Majesty's Lieutenant of the Realm of Ireland; both which they plotted to put in execution the 21 of this last month of May. But God (who is better pleased with his own Mercies) would not prosper such ungrateful Traitors, but brought it to light; so as many of the Conspirators are now apprehended, and the rest so pursued as no doubt they shall not long escape. But (which is most remarkable) that all the world may see what impudent and groundless Traitors these are, they had drawn a Declaration (to be forthwith published) wherein they only repeat the selfsame Excuses which Themselves and their Predecessors used for the first Rebellion; pretending (forsooth) their former Oaths and Covenants, (which God knows bind them only to Repentance that ever they took them:) That His Majesty is seduced by evil Counsellors, (because He will not consent to His own and His People's Destruction:) That their intent to take Arms was for their just Defence; (which hath been the Pretence of all Rebels since the world began:) That they will stand for a Religion according to the tenure of the Solemn League and Covenant; (which those very Traitors, who are all Independents, fought against) And bring all things to that state it was in the year 1659. (which was the most wild and desperate condition, when we had Four Governments in one year.) And all this they call The Repairing of the Breaches. The manner of putting this horrid Villainy in execution, take in the very words of the Express itself. WHen 120 Horse, and as many Foot are had, 80 of the Foot are to be put into the Backside, and House, being most lodged there one night, after a Scout being in, tells all is clear within; then six of them being upon occasions with Petitions in their hands, or the like, within the Castle waiting; as soon as the six men come into the Castle, they send a Messenger to the 80. to tell them; who immediately return them him again, as soon as they are ready: and at his heels comes a Basket of Bread, and other Provisions; and after it three or four men, who interpose between the Basket and the 80 Foot, lest any seeing the Party, should run before, and Alarm the Guard. As soon as the six men within see the aforesaid Messenger return, as aforesaid from the eighty, they (though scatteringly) make towards the back-gate that goeth into Sheep-street, to go forth; where, in the shutting of the Gate (for by that time the Basket will be let down, and the eighty men will appear) there will some strife arise between the Guard at the door and the Basket-men; the which the six men within will decide, by taking the Baskets part, and so let the eighty in, wh● being divided, thirty to the Guard at the door, thirty for the Guard in the great gate, ten for the Gate they enter at, and ten to the Stable-yard Gate, to force it open to receive in a select party of Horse; twenty men are to go to Jones his Chamber, and to secure him and the Ladies. All these are to have their several Leaders to each Party, of the most resolute and stoutest of the Party, and each to stand to his Business. The Horse are to be disposed of as followeth: thirty over the Water, thirty against the Stable-yard-Gate, thirty without Newgate, twenty in Wine-Tavern-street: There must be attending upon the aforesaid Foot eight Messengers, which must each couple be assigned their party of Horse to go to: and assoon as the Foot are ready for the attempt of the Castle, they immediately send to each party of Horse one Messenger; the other four stay for further Orders. At the coming of the first Messengers, he that hath the charge of each party of Horse sends in four or five Horse within each Gate, and immediately mounts his men, unto whom he gives, if they want, (which few, if any, will then) a Pistol, with Ammunition. Then by that time the News comes that the Castle is taken (which the four Messengers left are to convey with all speed to their several Charges) all the Horse are marched into the City, without any stir or confusion, and shut the gates after them, leaving without at each Gate two Scouts to checque the Alarm of any jealous head, and to give account how things are without. At Ormond-Gate there must be left three or four men, to shut it; seven or eight at Pole-gate, and Nicholas-gate, to shut them; and so at each Gate: then each Party having their Ward assigned them, they scour the Streets of the City, and disperse gatherings of the Soldiery, if any be endeavoured, and cry, A free Parliament, and an English Interest. Assoon as ever the City is put into any Order, (for by that time it is supposed that the Reputation of the Castle, and the undertaking of the English Interest, will gain followers enough) they must issue into the Suburbs, and scour those Streets, being then assisted by most of the Forces that attempted the Castle; and so proceed, and according as they find opportunity, require men. There must be left about twenty men near the Mainguard under the Tholshal, to help the twenty Horse in Wine-Tavern-street, to secure it; which Guard at that time a day are but a few. Upon the Discovery of this Horrid Design, the Lord Lieutenant and Council in Ireland immediately set forth this following Declaration. BY The Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL. ORMONDE. WHEREAS certain wicked persons of Fanatic and Disloyal principles, disaffected to His Majesty's Just and Gracious Government, and to the Peace and Settlement of this Kingdom, have lately most Traitorously and Disloyally conspired to raise Rebellious Disturbances in this Realm, and particularly had designed on the 21 day of this present May to surprise and take His Majesty's Castle of Dublin, His principal Fort in this His Kingdom, and to seize on the Person of Us the Lord-Lieutenant, in order to their carrying on their mischievous Contrivances, for renewing Bloody Confusions throughout this Kingddm, from which Evils this Realm and all His Majesty's Subjects therein have been but newly redeemed, and that by the blessing of God and His Majesty's happy Restauration to His Rightful Crowns and Kingdoms: And as We look upon those Odious Conspiracies as the mischievous Contrivances of some Fanatic and Disloyal persons of Desperate Fortunes, as well as of desperate and destructive Principles, who endeavour to amend their own conditions by the ruin of others, or to set up some thing (if they knew what) suitable to the Frenzy of their own Humours and Imaginations, though at the charge and hazard of others, and at the price of other men's blood whom they labour to sedure; so now their horrid Conspiracy being by the Blessing of God discovered and disappointed, and some of the Conspirators apprehended and committed to Prison, We therefore have thought fit hereby to make it publicly known, for the comfort & quieting the minds of all His Majesty's good and loyal Subjects in all parts of the Kingdom; and do pray and require the Precedents of the several Provinces of Munster and Connaght, as We also require all and every the Mayors and chief Officers of all Cities and Corporate Towns, and all and every the justices of the Peace of all and every the Counties in this Kingdom, to cause diligent search and inquiry to be made for, and to cause to be apprehended and committed to Prison all persons within their respective limits whom they shall find to have had any hand in the said Conspiracy, and to give to Us the Lord Lieutenant a speedy account of their Proceed herein, and Advertisements from time to time of all Occurrences falling within their knowledge or observation, which may any way tend to the Disturbance of that happy Peace and Quietness which by the Blessing of God upon His Majesty's gracious Government this Kingdom and His good Subjects therein have hitherto comfortably enjoyed. Given at his Majesty's Castle of Dublin the 21th Day of May, 1663. God save the King. Jo. Armachanus, Mau. Eustace, Canc. Ja. Dublin. Ossory, Kildare, Mount-Alexander, Anglesey, Massareene, Hen. Midensis, Joh. Clogher. W. Caulfield, Fran. Angier, R. Coote, Santry, Hen. Tichborne, Ja. Donelan, Jo. Bysse, T. Temple, Paul Davis, Ja. Ware, Rob. Meredith, Theo. Jones, Tho. Pigot. And within two days afterward, the foregoing Declaration was seconded by another; which is this that follws. By The Lord Lieutenant AND COUNCIL. ORMONDE. WHEREAS We have by the Blessing of God discovered and disappointed a Traitorous Conspiracy for surprising and taking His Majesty's Castle of Dublin, (His Majesty's principal Fort in this His Kingdom) which the said Conspirators had designed to do on the 21 day of this present Month of May; And whereas divers of the Conspirators are apprehended and committed to Prison, where they still remain; And whereas divers others of the said Conspirators (being conscious to themselves of their own Guilts) have found means to escape, and are not as yet apprehended, namely, Thomas Blood, late of Sarny near Dunboine in the County of Meath, Colonel Daniel Abbot, Major Abel Warren, Andrew Mac Cormock a pretended Minister, lately of Magherawly in the County of Down, Robert Chambers, a pretended Minister, Colonel Gilbert Carr, commonly called Gibby Carr, John Chamberlin late of Dublin Brewer, John Fooke late of Atherdee in the County of Lowth Esquire, Lieutenant John Ruxton late of the same, Lieutenant De la Rock, Major Henry Jones late of Stelorgan in the County of Dublin, Major Alexander Staples late of Londonderry, Lieutenant Colonel William Moor, who was lately Disbanded, and had been formerly Garisoned at galway, and afterwards at Athlone. We therefore do by this Proclamation in His Majesty's Name strictly charge and command all and every the said forenamed Persons, that within eight and forty hours after the publishing of this Proclamation, within the County where such Person or Persons shall then be, he and they do render his and their persons to Us, the Lord Lieutenant, or to one of His Majesty's Privy Council in this Kingdom, or to one of His Majesty's justices of Peace next adjoining to the place or places where such person or persons now are, or then shall be: wherein if they or any of them shall fail, We do hereby Declare and publish them and every of them so failing, to be Rebels and Traitors against His Majesty, His Crown and Dignity, and to be accordingly prosecuted by all His Majesty's good Subjects. And we do hereby publish and declare, That all and every person and persons that shall relieve or conceal any of the said forenamed persons at any time after the publishing of this Proclamation as aforesaid, that they also shall be proceeded against as Relievers and Abattors of Rebels and Traitors. And we require all his Majesty's Officers and Loving Subjects to endeavour the Apprehension of all and every the said forenamed persons. And we do hereby declare, That any person or persons that shall apprehend the said Thomas Blood, Major Abel Warren, Andrew Mac Cormock, Robert Chambers, Colonel Gilbert Carr, commonly called Gibby Carr, or any of them, and bring him or them, or cause him or them to be brought to the High Sheriff of the County wherein he or they shall be apprehended, at, by or before the 24th day of June next, shall have as a reward for the said Service, the sum of One hundred pounds for every of the said last named persons, so to be apprehended and brought in as aforesaid by or before the said 24th day of June next. Given at His Majesty's Castle of Dublin the 23th of May, 1663. God save the King. Mau. Eustace, Canc. Drogheda, Mount-Alexander, Anglesey, Massereene, Dungannon, VV. Caulfield, R. Coote, Santry, Hen. Tichborne, ja. Donelan, Io. Bysse, I. Temple, Paul Davis, Tho. Pigot. BY this time 'tis too plain that the Loyal Parliaments of England, Scotland and Ireland, had too much reason to order a Renunciation of the Solemn League and Covenant; when those very Rebels which abhor and despise it (as if they were honest men) do to this hour make it the bottom for a new Rebellion: who are so weary of their own happiness, that they would not live under a Prince whom they can only fault, that he is too good to be their King. A LIST of the PRISONERS committed the 22 of May 1663. THomas Scot, formerly a Colonel under Harry Cromwell, and continued in the Army till the King's Restauration; and son to the Regicide. Col. Edward Warren, a Colonel under Harry Cromwell, and so continued till Harry Cromwel's leaving Ireland. Theophilus Sandford, a Capt. of Horse in Harry Cromwel's time, and so continued till his Majesty's Restauration. John Chambers, formerly a Capt. of Horse in his Ma.tie service, and afterwards served as a Trooper under Cromwell. Alexander Jephson, a Fanatic Justice of Peace, and Portriff of Trim; formerly of the Army under Cromwell. Philip Alden, an expert Attorney. Richard Thompson, formerly a Lieutenant of Horse to Ottoway, and is now Deputy-Provost-Marsoal of Lei●ster. John Fouke, son to Col. John Fouke, formerly Governor of Drogheda under Cromwell. Edward Baines, a Fanatic Preacher, formerly Harry Cromwel's Chaplain. William Lackey, a Presbyterian Preacher, and a Schoolmaster. Thomas Boyd, a Merchant of Dublin. James Tanner, formerly a Clerk to Dr Gorge when he was Secretary to Harry Cromwell. Andrew Sturges, an Innkeeper where the Conspirators usually met. William Dod, a Clerk in the Discriminators Office. Stephen Radford, an ordinary Towns-man, and a professed Fencer. Abraham Langton, an ordinary Citizen of Dublin. William Bayly, a Towns-man. Robert Davies, a Trooper formerly. John Biddel, a Trooper formerly. John Smullen, a Trooper formerly. Thomas Ball, a Towns-man, and formerly a Trooper. John Griffin, a Trooper formerly. William Bradford. Samuel Fannio, alias Farr. Taken since. Major Henry Jones. Richard Price. Postscript. THere is a daily expectation of some farther Intelligence, which shall be made public with the first opportunity: till then, t●e Reader must be satisfied with what hath been already related, it being an exact Narrative as it was represented to His Majesty Himself. If you meet with any other Accounts of the Irish Affairs, they must be imperfect and counterfeit, and not as this is, Printed and Published by Authority. FINIS.