mercy; I beleeve his Prayer will be granted, for he shall receive
his Justice for by the (Rules of gradation he must now serve
the Gallows, they admit but of three stories, neither can his changes
admit of more; his first masters , (since he left the Commonwealths
service) were the Fokkies, his second the Teigs; now if any
can finde a superlative, to that positive and comparative, but the
Gibbet, I wish that may not prove Mr. Woogans fate.
These Vulsters now taken are as near Jokkies in condition as in
Country, a people too that hate their own Country, as much as the
original Covenanters do theirs, and with as much cause; they are
both like fountains, always running from whence they spring; me
thinks 'twere not amiss these Barbarians should be sent after their
Generall (Owen Roe) who died about a month agon; and yet upon
better thoughts that would prove no punishment, for 'twould but
confine them eternally, from returning home; 'twere better make
an Irish Tweed, or a Pict wal, & keep them on the North side of it.
My Lord Lieutenant having ordered these savages to be
brought to Corck, went thither himself the fifteenth; and whereas
other Corporations make their mouth tell their joy, this made
their looks doe it, in which I beleeve he saw their hearts; I cannot
for the credit of the Place, but let the world know, there was
too a speech made to his Excellency, by an old Inhabitant of the
City; I must confess I cannot doe him the right to relate his
words, but I must doe him this right, that I beleeve they pleas'd
my Lord well, for they made him laugh.
The 20. the vlsters came to Town, a crew of such things as admits
not of any comparison, but amongst the residue of their
Country-men: What the Dull Presbyter (who hath not wit
enough to be a Sectary) cast upon the Army, might have been
seen in this Epitomy of the enemies, I mean Adamites, shakers, &c.
But yet 'tis strange they are such docile creatures, that only upon
a bare motion of the Marshall Generall, they had all like to have
gone to Church; some merry fellows were about to move his
Excellency; that the Clergy of this Province which are now Reform'd
(I mean not in their lives but livings) should have this new