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39 THE IRISH REBELLION.
do, with all confidence and chearfulness, betake themselves to their own defence,
and stand upon their guard, so to render the more safety to themselves, and
all the Kingdom besides; and that they may advertise us, with all possible
speed, of all occurrents, which may concern the peace and safety of the King-
dom; and now to shew fully that Faith and Loyalty, which they have always
shewn for the publicli services of the Crown and Kingdom, which we will value
to his Majesty accordingly ; and a special memory thereof will be retained for
their advantage in due time. And we require that great care be taken that no
levies of men he ‘made for foreign service, nor any men suffered to march upon
any such pretence. Given at his Majesty’s Castle of Dublin, the 23d of October,
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‘ God save the King.
“ R. Dillon, Ra. Digby,
‘ Ad. Loftus, 1. Temple,
“ Tho. Rotlteram, Fr. IVz'lloughI:y,
‘ Ja. IVare, R0. Mereditlz.’
This Proclamation "was presently printed, and several copies sent-down by ex-
press messengers unto the principal Noblemen and Gentlemen in several parts of the
‘Country ; where -they caused them to be divers ways dispersed, hoping that, when
the timely discovery of this conspiracy, and the happy prevention in a great part,
should fully appear abroad, it would prove so great a discouragement to such of
the conspirators as had not yet openly declared themselves, that they would
thereby be contained within the bounds of their duty and obedience to his Majesty.
News arrivcsatDuh- The same night the Lord Blaney arrived with the news of the surprisal of his
ll‘;)‘l‘f“‘l“’Rl""’eIl“"“ house, his wife, and his children, by the rebels of the County of Monaghan.
'8', Next day came advertisement from Sir Arthur Yyringham, of the taking of the
!obcr24.1641- Mewry; and then the sad relations of burning, spoiling, and horrible murders,
committed within the Province of Ulster, began to multiply, and several persons
every day, and almost every hour in every day, for a good while after,
arrived, like Job’s -messengers, telling the story of their own sufferings,
and the fearful massacres of the poor English in those parts from whence they
came.
These things wrought such a general consternation and astonishment in the
minds of all the English, and other well-affected inhabitants, within the City, that
they were much alfrighted therewith, expecting every hour when the Irish,
who had already crept into the Town, joining with the Papists there, should make
the City a Theatre, whereon to act the second part of that tragedy, most bloodily
begun in the Northern parts by them.
And .