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<P>A REMONSTRANCE OF Divers Remarkeable Pa&s;&s;ages concer|ning the Church and Kingdome OF IRELAND, Recommended By Letters from the Right Honourable the Lords Ju&s;tices, and Coun&s;ell of <HI>Jreland,</HI> And Pre&s;ented By HENRY JONES Doctor in Divinity, and Agent for the Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel in that Kingdom, TO The Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons IN ENGLAND:</P>
<P><HI>London,</HI> Printed for <HI>Godfrey Emer&s;on,</HI> and <HI>William Bladen,</HI> and are to be &s;old at the &s;igne of the <HI>Swan</HI> in <HI>Little-Brittain.</HI> 1642,</P>
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<HEAD>To our very a&s;&s;ured loving Friend, Ma&s;ter <HI>Lenthall</HI> E&s;quire, Speaker of the Honourable the Commons Hou&s;e of Par|liament in the Kingdom of ENGLAND.</HEAD>
<P>_THere hath been pre&s;en|ted unto us, a Remon|&s;trance of the deplora|ble e&s;tate of this Church of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and the la|mentable Condition of the Clergy therein, occa&s;ioned by the pre&s;ent Rebellion; The Remon&s;trants de|&s;iring our Letters in the Repre&s;en|ting of the &s;ame to the honourable Hou&s;e of Commons in <HI>England;</HI> unto who&s;e grave and wi&s;e con&s;ide|ration they do apply them&s;elves.</P>
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We &s;hall not need to &s;ay much in a matter, &s;o much &s;peaking it &s;elf, and the experience we have of the true &s;ence they have of this di&s;tract|ed State, gives us great a&s;&s;urance, that they will take to heart this our mi&s;e|rable Church, and Gods &s;ervants therein, reduced unto unexpre&s;&s;able extremities, both Church and State being now involved in one common calamity.</P>
<P>The bearer hereof, <HI>Henry Jones,</HI> Doctor in Divinity, is intru&s;ted by the Clergy to negotiate in their be|half, and we have intreated him to &s;olicite the cau&s;e of the poor robbed Engli&s;h, expre&s;&s;ed in our Letters to you of the fourth of this moneth.</P>
<P>We therefore do crave leave to recommend him in this imploy|ment to that Honourable Hou&s;e, he
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being a Per&s;on who is able to &s;ay much in this bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, having been &s;ome while a Pri&s;oner in the hands of the Rebels, and ob&s;erved much of their proceedings, and being in|tru&s;ted with others, as a Commi&s;si|oner to take the examinations out of which the Remon&s;trance now to be by him offered to that Honourable Hou&s;e, is extracted.</P>
<P>As for him&s;elf, he hath &s;uffered much in his private fortunes by the&s;e troubles, and in re&s;pect of his Abi|lities and Learning, and Painfulne&s;&s;e in his Mini&s;try, he de&s;erveth favour and encouragement; Be&s;ides we have found him very diligent, and for|ward in attending all occa&s;ions, for promoting the publike &s;ervices here by timely and important intelli|gence given to us of Occurences, du|ring
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his impri&s;onment with the Re|bels; and &s;ince e&s;pecially in his in|formation made to us of the approa|ches of the enemy to <HI>Drogheda,</HI> when we could not conceive they would ri&s;e to that boldne&s;&s;e, by which in|formation (among&s;t others) we had the opportunity of &s;ending thither the pre&s;ent Garri&s;on, without whom it might have been in danger of &s;ur|pri&s;ing; And &s;o we remain from His Maje&s;ties Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin</HI> the &s;eventh day of <HI>March,</HI> 1641.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your very a&s;&s;ured<LB>
loving Friends<LB>
<HI>W. Par&s;ons, Jo. Borlace,<LB>
R. Dillon, Ad. Loftus, J. Temple,<LB>
Cha. Coote, Tho. Ratherham,<LB>
Fran. Willoughby, Rob. Meredith.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Honorable A&s;&s;embly of the Knights, Citizens, and Burge&s;&s;es in the Com|mons Hou&s;e of Parliament, in the Kingdom of ENGLAND.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>The undernamed in the behalf of them&s;elves and their brethren, the poore di&s;poiled and di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel in</HI> Ireland, <HI>with the Widdowes and Orphans of &s;uch,</HI></P>
<P>Humbly repre&s;ent their lamentable Condition,</P>
<P><HI>Shewing,</HI></P>
<P><HI>THat by the in&s;tigation of Popih Prie&s;ts, Friers, and Je&s;uites, with other fire-brands and Incendiaries of the State; partly &s;uch of them as have been re&s;ident here in this Kingdom of</HI> Ire|land <HI>before, partly flocking in from Forraign parts, of late in multitudes more then ordinary; and chiefly by &s;uch of them as re&s;orted hither out of the Kingdom of</HI> England: <HI>And out of that ancient and known hatred the Church of</HI> Rome <HI>heareth to the reformed Religion; As al&s;o by rea&s;on of the &s;urfet of that freedome and indulgence, which through Gods forbearance for our tryall, they of the Popi&s;h faction have hitherto enjoyed in this Kingdom: There hath been beyond all paralell of former ages, a mo&s;t bloudy and Antichri&s;tian combination and plot hatched, by well-nigh the whole Romi&s;h &s;ect, by way of combination from parts forraign, with tho&s;e at home, again&s;t this our Church and State; thereby intending the utter extirpation of the reformed Religion, and the profe&s;&s;ors of it: In the room thereof, &s;etting up that idoll of the Ma&s;&s;e, with all the abominations of that whore of</HI> Babylon: <HI>This al&s;o ayming at the pulling down and defacing the pre&s;ent &s;tate and go|vernment of this Kingdom under his Sacred Maje&s;ty, theirs, and our undoubted Soveraign; and introducing another form of rule ordered and moderated by them&s;elves, without dependance on his Highne&s;&s;e, or
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the Kingdom of</HI> England, <HI>whence have proceeded &s;uch depredations of of the goods, and &s;uch cruelties exerci&s;ed on the per&s;ons and lives of the loyall Subject; &s;uch wa&s;ting and defacing of all Minuments of civility, with &s;uch prophanation of holy places, and Religion, that by the mo&s;t barbarous and heatheni&s;h Nations, the like could not in any age be found to be perpetrated.</HI></P>
<P><HI>All which doth daily appear unto us your Suppliants appointed to enquire upon oath of the premi&s;&s;es, and other particulars depending thereupon, by vertue of a Commi&s;&s;ion to us directed under the great Seal of this Kingdom of</HI> Ireland, <HI>bearing Date the three and twentieth day of</HI> December, <HI>in the &s;eventeenth year of his Maje&s;ties Reign; and by one other Commi&s;&s;ion further enlarged concerning the premi&s;&s;es, Dated the eighteenth of</HI> January, <HI>in the year afore&s;aid. Copies whereof, toge|ther with the Copies of &s;uch and &s;o much of the Depo&s;itions as an&s;wer to the particulars of this our Remon&s;trance we have hereunto annexed; that both the validity of our proceedings, and the truth of this our &s;ayd Remon&s;trance may the better appear.</HI></P>
<P><HI>&V;pon view of all which, it doth very evidently appear, that in the pre&s;ent mo&s;t dangerous de&s;igne again&s;t this Kingdom, the Popi&s;h faction therein hath been confederate with forraign States, If we may rely upon the report made therof by the con&s;pirators them&s;elves, and their adherents here, whereof the following examinations are full.</HI></P>
<P>IT being confe&s;&s;ed that they had their Commi&s;&s;ion for what they did from beyond the Seas. <NOTE N="A" PLACE="foot"><HI>Iohn Day</HI> Com. Cavan, exam. <HI>Feb.</HI> 8. 1641. ex. 1.</NOTE> That from <HI>Spain</HI> they did ex|pect an Army before <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> next, con&s;i&s;ting, if of none others, yet of the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Regiments, and Commanders &s;erving in <HI>Flanders,</HI> and el&s;e where, under that King; together with a great quantity of Powder, Ammunition, and Arms, for a great number of men to be rai&s;ed in <HI>Ireland.</HI> This Kingdome (as they make up their e&s;ti|mate) being able to make up the body of an Army of two hundred thou&s;and, or more. <NOTE N="B" PLACE="foot"><HI>Lucy Spell,</HI> Com. Lowth, ex. <HI>Feb.</HI> 5. 1641. ex 2. <HI>Iohn Biggar,</HI> Com Dublin, exam. <HI>Ianu.</HI> 29. 1641. ex. 3. <HI>Iohn Monatg&oacute;mry,</HI> Com. Monaghan. exam. <HI>Ianu.</HI> 26. 1641. ex. 4. <HI>Patr. Bryan,</HI> Com. Fer. <HI>Ianu.</HI> 29. ex 5. Doctor <HI>Iones, ex.</HI> 6. <HI>George Cottingham, ex.</HI> 78.</NOTE> From <HI>France</HI> al&s;o they looke for ayd. <NOTE N="C" PLACE="foot"><HI>Iohn Biggar,</HI> and <HI>Iohn Montgomery</HI> Praed.</NOTE> Being in all this further encouraged by Bulls from <HI>Rome;</HI> &s;ome of the&s;e Rebels requiring to the Popes u&s;e, and in his name, the yeeld|ing
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up of &s;uch places of &s;trength as they had beleaguered. <NOTE N="D" PLACE="foot"><HI>Edmond. Welch,</HI> Com. Rs. <HI>Ianuary.</HI> 22. exam. 7.</NOTE> In all which re&s;pects, and in allu&s;ion to that League in <HI>France,</HI> they terming them&s;elves the Catholike Army, <NOTE N="E" PLACE="foot"><HI>Lucy Spell praed Feb.</HI> 5.</NOTE> and the ground of their war the Catholike cau&s;e. And to this purpo&s;e hath this pre|&s;ent year, 1641. been among them proclaimed a year of <HI>Jubilce,</HI> and Pardons before hand granted, of all &s;ins of what &s;ort &s;oever that &s;hall be therein committed, tending to this great work. <NOTE N="F" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Edgworth E&s;q.</HI> Com. Lengford, <HI>Feb.</HI> 23. ex. 8.</NOTE> Excommunications al&s;o thundred again&s;t any that &s;hall refu&s;e to joyn therein. <NOTE N="G" PLACE="foot">Edm. Wal&s;h.</NOTE></P>
<P>It doth &s;econdly appear, that they had their corre&s;pondents in <HI>England,</HI> for rai&s;ing the like Rebellion there; this not being a re|port made to us from one part, but confirmed from all places of this Kingdome, whence the pa&s;&s;age hath not beene &s;topped by the pre&s;ent ob&s;tructions. <NOTE N="H" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Brooks,</HI> Com Cavan. <HI>Ian.</HI> 5. ex. 9. <HI>Grace Lovet,</HI> Com. Ferm <HI>Ian.</HI> 5. ex. 10. <HI>Eliza. Coats,</HI> Com. Fer. <HI>Ian.</HI> 4 ex. 11. <HI>Nicholas Willoughby,</HI> Com. praed. <HI>Feb.</HI> 23. ex. 12. <HI>Thomas Crant.</HI> Com. Cavan <HI>Feb.</HI> ex. 13. <HI>Io. Biggar</HI> Com. Dublin, <HI>Ian.</HI> 29. <HI>Eliza. Parker,</HI> Com Catherlagh. <HI>Ian.</HI> 13. ex 14. <HI>Ocker Butts</HI> Com. Wex. <HI>la.</HI> 25. <HI>Lucy Spell,</HI> ex. 15.</NOTE></P>
<P>That thirdly, they reported them&s;elves to have had the like partie in <HI>Scotland;</HI> that the <HI>Scots</HI> joyned with them <NOTE N="I" PLACE="foot"><HI>Edw. Denman,</HI> Com. Ca. <HI>Ian.</HI> 27. ex. 16</NOTE> and were their friends. <NOTE N="K" PLACE="foot"><HI>Thomas Crant.</HI> Com. Cavan, <HI>Feb.</HI></NOTE> That the like troubles were to be rai&s;ed in <HI>Scotland.</HI> <NOTE N="L" PLACE="foot"><HI>Thomas Crant, Patr. Bryan,</HI> Com. Fer. <HI>Ian.</HI> 29. G. <HI>Cottingham, ex.</HI> 78.</NOTE> That the <HI>Scots</HI> were joyned with them in Covenant, not to leave a drop of <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> bloud in <HI>England,</HI> as they the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Rebels would do the like in <HI>Ireland.</HI> For which they pretended a writing &s;igned with the hands of the prime Nobility of <HI>Scotland.</HI> <NOTE N="M" PLACE="foot"><HI>Geo. Fercher,</HI> Com. Per <HI>Ian.</HI> 4 ex 17 <HI>Eliza. Dickin&s;on,</HI> Gom. paerd <HI>Ian.</HI> 3. ex. 18.</NOTE> And that the Tower of <HI>London,</HI> the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Edenborough,</HI> and the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin,</HI> were to be &s;urpri&s;ed all upon one day. <NOTE N="N" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Shorter.</HI> Com. Fer <HI>Ian.</HI> 5. ex. 19.</NOTE></P>
<P>As for that part of that cur&s;ed Faction within this Kingdom of <HI>Ireland,</HI> the Actors therein acknowledge it to be a plot of many years, &s;ome &s;ay two, <NOTE N="O" PLACE="foot"><HI>Thomas Knowles,</HI> Com. Fer. <HI>Ian.</HI> 3. ex. 20.</NOTE> &s;ome eight, <NOTE N="P" PLACE="foot">Patr. Bryan.</NOTE> &s;ome 14 or 17 years. <NOTE N="Q" PLACE="foot">Mr <HI>Iohn Cardiff,</HI> ex. 21.</NOTE> A plot wherein all the Popi&s;h Nobilitie and men of quality were
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intere&s;&s;ed; <NOTE N="R" PLACE="foot"><HI>Ge. Cottingham. Edw. How,</HI> Com Fer. <HI>In</HI> 29. ex. 22. <HI>Tho Knowls. Geo. Cooke,</HI> Com Cavan <HI>Ian.</HI> 22. ex. 23. <HI>Io. Ge&s;&s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> Com. <HI>Cilk, Ianu.</HI> 8. ex. 24.</NOTE> and by Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neale;</HI> that Arch-Rebell, it is profe&s;&s;ed, that what he did, was by the con&s;ent of the Parlia|ment of <HI>Ireland,</HI> <NOTE N="S" PLACE="foot"><HI>Iohn Gregg,</HI> Com. Arm. <HI>Ian.</HI> 7. ex. 25.</NOTE> thereby intending the Popi&s;h members therof.</P>
<P>Notwith&s;tanding all which, that this appeareth to have been a long-laid con&s;piracie; yet the&s;e Traytors for giving &s;ome colour to their Rebellion, pretend as if the occa&s;ion moving them there|unto were new, unexpected, and pre&s;&s;ing, &s;o that with the &s;afety of their lives, and duty which they owed God and their Country; they could not do le&s;&s;e then they have done: fal&s;ly pretending that there was a plot layd in this Kingdome, grounded on a pre|tended Act pa&s;&s;ed in the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> for the cutting off of all the Nobilitie and others the Papi&s;ts in <HI>Ireland,</HI> <NOTE N="T" PLACE="foot"><HI>Hen. Reynolds,</HI> Com Cavan, <HI>Ian.</HI> 4. ex. 26. <HI>Iohn Mountgomry.</HI> Dr <HI>Jones Tho. Crant Charles Crafford,</HI> Com. Meath, <HI>Ian.</HI> 22. ex 27.</NOTE> and all this to be done in one day; <NOTE N="V" PLACE="foot">Grace Lovet.</NOTE> and that to be on the 23 or 24^t^h of <HI>November</HI> now la&s;t pa&s;t; for preventing whereof, they laid (&s;ay they) this their counterplot a full moneth before, <HI>viz.</HI> on the 23 of <HI>October.</HI> <NOTE N="W" PLACE="foot">Dr <HI>Iones. Io. Wood,</HI> Com Wick. <HI>Feb.</HI> 17. ex. 28</NOTE>.</P>
<P>For effecting which their wicked and devilli&s;h de&s;ign, the &s;ayd Con&s;pirators and Traitors have entred into a mo&s;t accur&s;ed Cove|nant, and bound them&s;elves by an oath of confederation, the &s;ame being &s;ub&s;cribed by the hands of the chiefe&s;t Rebels, and certaine men being appointed to admini&s;ter the &s;ame to all &s;uch as &s;hall ei|ther offer them&s;elves, or be pre&s;&s;ed to &s;erve as Souldiers in that cau&s;e; others al&s;o being &s;ent abroad, and in chief, the Popi&s;h Pri|mate <HI>Reily,</HI> <NOTE N="X" PLACE="foot"><HI>Henry Stile,</HI> Com. Monagh, <HI>Ianu.</HI> 10. ex. 29.</NOTE> who hath compa&s;&s;ed far and neer, to draw into this con&s;piracy &s;uch as had not before been there withall acquainted. As al&s;o to &s;atisfie any &s;cruples, if any were that did or might retard any from entring thereinto; the Popi&s;h Clergie being ob&s;erved for the mo&s;t forward advi&s;ers and putters on of the people in this way. For whereas many of the Rebels &s;eemed no give eare to a Proclamation of grace, Dated the fir&s;t of <HI>November</HI> 1641. they were forbidden by their Prie&s;ts, a&s;&s;uring them it would be their undoing. <NOTE N="Y" PLACE="foot"><HI>Kath. Crant.</HI> Com. Meath, <HI>Ianu.</HI> 5. ex. 30.</NOTE> Hence it is that the&s;e Rebels are &s;o hardned in their
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cour&s;e of wickedne&s;&s;e, that they profe&s;&s;e again&s;t accepting of any quarter, and that they will not accept of any but a generall Par|don. <NOTE N="A" PLACE="foot">Edm. Wal&s;h.</NOTE> Others again di&s;claiming any Pardon, ca&s;ting out words to the di&s;honout of his Sacred Maje&s;ty, as if his Royall word and Seale were not to be relyed upon. <NOTE N="B" PLACE="foot"><HI>Patr. Bryan. Hugh Madden,</HI> Com. Wickloe, <HI>Feb.</HI> 23. ex 31.</NOTE></P>
<P>And yet for making the more plau&s;ible introduction into their &s;aid wicked Rebellion; the Con&s;pirators afore&s;aid, have traite|rou&s;ly, and impudently averred and proclaimed, that their autho|ritie therein is derived by Commi&s;&s;ion from his Highne&s;&s;e. Some|times at di&s;tance, making offer to &s;hew a large Patent or Commi&s;|&s;ion with a broad Scale, giving out that in that their power did appear. <NOTE N="C" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Wright,</HI> Com. Fer. <HI>Ian.</HI> 12. ex. 32.</NOTE> Others taking upon them to read (&s;ome forged wri|ting) to that purpo&s;e. <NOTE N="D" PLACE="foot"><HI>George French,</HI> Com. Kildare, <HI>Feb.</HI> 1. ex. 33.</NOTE> All which they &s;tick not publikely in Market-places to proclaim; <NOTE N="E" PLACE="foot"><HI>Iane Mansfield,</HI> Com Meath, <HI>Ianu.</HI> 3. ex. 34. <HI>Henry Palmer,</HI> Com. Wexford, <HI>Ian.</HI> 12. ex. 35.</NOTE> fal&s;ly al&s;o reporting, that his Highne&s;&s;e was among them in the North of <HI>Ireland,</HI> riding up and down di&s;gui&s;ed, and with gla&s;&s;e eyes de&s;iring not to be di&s;|covered. Others againe pretending their Commi&s;&s;ion to be from the Queens Highne&s;&s;e, and profe&s;&s;ing them&s;elves her Soul|diers, and that what they did, was under the hands of the be&s;t of the Nobility of <HI>England;</HI> which yet in favour of the <HI>Engli&s;h,</HI> they did not (&s;ay they) execute to the full. <HI>(G)</HI></P>
<P>All which they fal&s;ly reported, to the end, that thereby they might di&s;tract the mindes, and di&s;courage the hearts of the true Subject, and that therein they might gain more upon &s;uch as they de&s;ire to draw into their party; or if any &s;hould for a time &s;tand aloo&s;e as Newters, to win a better opinion with them, then to be accounted Traytors, or their enterpri&s;e a Rebellion.</P>
<P>Whereas it is apparant, that Allegiance or Obedience to his Maje&s;ty, is not the thing they ayme at, the contrary being plainly confe&s;&s;ed and profe&s;&s;ed by them&s;elves; now that they are entred as far as they can into their diabolicall practi&s;e; and that their con|federates are for the mo&s;t part declared and drawn unto an head.</P>
<P>For &s;ome of them, to the making way for their Trayterous in|tentions <NOTE N="F" PLACE="foot">Ocker Butts.</NOTE>
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have given out, That the King was dead, and that the young King was gone to Ma&s;&s;e: <NOTE N="G" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Perkins</HI> Com. Cav. I a. 8. ex 36.</NOTE> That they would have the Prince in <HI>Ireland,</HI> whom they would make their Vice-Roy, tutor|ing him in the Romi&s;h religion; And that the King &s;hould live in <HI>Scotland</HI> <NOTE N="H" PLACE="foot"><HI>Lucy Spell. Rog. Holland,</HI> ex. 77.</NOTE>: &s;ometimes, That the Duke of <HI>York</HI> &s;hould live with them.</P>
<P>But others more fully unvizard them&s;elves, profe&s;&s;ing, That they would have a King of their own, and him Crowned within a fortnight <NOTE N="I" PLACE="foot"><HI>Tho Mid|dleborough</HI> Co. Fer Ia. 4. ex. 37. <HI>Alice Tibbs</HI> Co. praed. Ia. 4 ex 38. <HI>Avis Brad&s;haw</HI> Co. praed. Ia 4. ex. 39.</NOTE>. That they had him already <NOTE N="K" PLACE="foot"><HI>Richard Knowles</HI> Co. praed. Ia. 10 ex. 40.</NOTE>: And that it was from their new King that they had their Commi&s;&s;ion &s;o much &s;poken of <NOTE N="L" PLACE="foot"><HI>Robert Barton</HI> Co. praed. Ia 5. ex. 41.</NOTE>: Declaring al&s;o their new King according to their &s;everall fancies; Some being for the Earl of <HI>Tyron</HI> <NOTE N="M" PLACE="foot"><HI>Hu. Culm</HI> Co. Mon. Ia 22. ex. 42. <HI>Marth. Culm</HI> Co. praed. Feb. 14. ex 43.</NOTE>; others for Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neal</HI> <NOTE N="N" PLACE="foot"><HI>Eliz. Gough</HI> Co. Cav Feb. 8 ex. 44.</NOTE>: If perhaps the&s;e two be not intended for one and the &s;ame, thus we finde the &s;aid Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> honoured with the &s;tyle of, His Maje&s;ty <NOTE N="O" PLACE="foot">Io. Greg</NOTE>: Others yet being rather for the Lord <HI>Maguire</HI> <NOTE N="P" PLACE="foot"><HI>Anne Gill.</HI> Co. Fer Ia. 29. ex. 45.</NOTE>; there being &s;ome that &s;aid they had a con&s;e|crated Crown for the be&s;t de&s;erver <NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot"><HI>George Cottingam.</HI> ex. 78.</NOTE>.</P>
<P>But of His &s;acred Maje&s;ty, how contemptuou&s;ly do they &s;peak? Let your King (&s;ay they) fetch you out again <NOTE N="Q" PLACE="foot"><HI>Eliz Vau&s;e</HI> Co. Leitrim Feb. 9. ex. 46.</NOTE>: The&s;e being their words to &s;ome of His Maje&s;ties Subjects, oppre&s;&s;ed by them; We care not for the King of <HI>England,</HI> &s;ay others <NOTE N="R" PLACE="foot"><HI>Nicholas Michael</HI> Co. Cav. Ian. 15. ex. 47.</NOTE>; a third, That neither King nor Queen &s;hall govern <HI>Ireland</HI> any longer, for they would govern it them&s;elves <NOTE N="S" PLACE="foot"><HI>Andr. Fo&s;ter</HI> Co. Wickloe. Feb 17. ex. 48.</NOTE>; And that their Religi|on &s;hould flouri&s;h in de&s;pight of King or State <HI>(T).</HI></P>
<P>In all which, having broken thorow the due bounds of their Al|legiance, their vain and ambitious thoughts rove without know|ing any limits. It will not now content them to &s;ettle anew, and mold again this Kingdom to their own Modell, by calling of Parliaments, making Laws, and appointing their own Gover|nours <HI>(V).</HI> Thus di&s;cour&s;e they of the mode&s;te&s;t &s;ort: but they will,
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with the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of <HI>Spain</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> &s;et footing in <HI>England,</HI> and after that in <HI>Scotland</HI> <NOTE N="W" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Mountgomery. Nath. Hig|gin&s;on,</HI> Com. Ferm Ia 7. ex. 51. <HI>George Cottingam.</HI> ex. 78.</NOTE>; where all things being &s;etled to their de&s;ires, the whole Forces of <HI>Ireland,</HI> in way of retribution, and acknowledgement of gratitude, are intended for the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> again&s;t the <HI>Hollanders</HI> <NOTE N="X" PLACE="foot">Dr. <HI>Iones.</HI></NOTE>.</P>
<P>Unto which their di&s;loyalty to theirs and our mo&s;t gracious So|veraign, they have added expre&s;&s;ions of unheard of hatred to His <HI>Britti&s;h</HI> Subjects of this Kingdom; bani&s;hment or &s;lavery are the greate&s;t favours that would be afforded them; But their generall profe&s;&s;ion is for a generall extirpation, even to the la&s;t and lea&s;t drop of Engli&s;h blood <NOTE N="Y" PLACE="foot"><HI>Anne Mar&s;hall,</HI> Co. Ferm. Ian. 3. ex 52 <HI>Iathuell Maw,</HI> Co Fer. Ian. 3. ex. 53 <HI>Iane Mans|feild.</HI></NOTE>: Which, that it may be drayned to the full, &s;uch of the Engli&s;h as cannot pre&s;cribe a &s;ettlement in this Kingdom for two hundred yeers, are to be cut off, and that not|with&s;tanding they be of the Romi&s;h Sect: It being to that end provided, That &s;uch as do revolt to their part, &s;hould, for the pre|&s;ent, be accepted of; yet &s;o di&s;po&s;ed, as being drawn into the Li&s;t of their Army, they &s;hould be &s;et upon the mo&s;t dangerous Enter|pri&s;es, &s;o either to be made away, or to &s;erve their own turns of them: And what the Sword cannot, for the pre&s;ent, effect, an Inqui&s;ition, like that in <HI>Spain,</HI> for finding out the <HI>Jewi&s;h</HI> and <HI>Moori&s;h</HI> blood, &s;hall in time thorowly accompli&s;h <NOTE N="Z" PLACE="foot">Io. Biggar.</NOTE>. As for the future, their Covenant is, That no Engli&s;h &s;hould ever &s;et footing again in <HI>Ireland</HI> <NOTE N="A" PLACE="foot">Hugh Madden.</NOTE>; Even the very Language mu&s;t be forgotten, none being to &s;peak Engli&s;h, under a penalty <NOTE N="B" PLACE="foot">Iohn Mountgomery. Hu. Culme. Marth. Culme</NOTE>. But that which exceeds all, Not an Engli&s;h Bea&s;t, or any of that breed mu&s;t be left in the Kingdom <NOTE N="C" PLACE="foot"><HI>Rich. Cleybrock.</HI> Co. Wex. his exam. taken at the Councell Table, ex. 54</NOTE>.</P>
<P>And as we finde the hearts of the&s;e men in their tongues, &s;o in their actions, doing what they profe&s;&s;e; and being in both beyond all mea&s;ure profane and heatheni&s;h in their impious words and be|haviours towards God, and the holy Scriptures, Religion, and the places of Gods publike Wor&s;hip.</P>
<P>Bla&s;pheming our God, bidding his &s;ervants, whom they had fir&s;t <NOTE N="T" PLACE="foot"><HI>Rich. Witlon</HI> Co. Wickloe. Ia. 11. ex. 49.</NOTE> <NOTE N="V" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Biggar. Tho. Crant. Edw. Taylor.</HI> Co. Wexford, Feb. 23 ex. 50</NOTE>
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&s;tripped naked, to go to their God, and let him give them clothes <NOTE N="D" PLACE="foot"><HI>Marg. Farmen,</HI> Co Fer. Ia. 3 ex. 55. <HI>Marg. Leadly,</HI> Co. Fer. Ia. 3.</NOTE>.</P>
<P>Breaking into Churches, burning Pulpits, Pues, and all belong|ing thereunto, with extreme violence, and expre&s;&s;ion of hatred to our Religion, and triumphing al&s;o in their impiety <NOTE N="E" PLACE="foot"><HI>Hen. Fi&s;her,</HI> Co. Wickloe, Ia. 25. ex. 56.</NOTE>.</P>
<P>Profe&s;&s;ing, That not one Prote&s;tant &s;hould be left in the King|dome <NOTE N="F" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Greg.</HI> with infinite others&punc;</NOTE>: Dragging &s;ome Profe&s;&s;ors thorow the &s;treets by the hair of the head, into the Church; where &s;tripping, whipping, and cruelly u&s;ing them, they added the&s;e taunting words; If you come tomorrow, you &s;hall hear the like Sermon <NOTE N="G" PLACE="foot"><HI>Adam Glover,</HI> Com. Cav. Ia. 4 ex 57.</NOTE>.</P>
<P>How have our &s;acred Books of holy Scriptures been u&s;ed? Gods Book hath been, O horrible! ca&s;t into, and tumbled in the Kennell; thence taken up, and da&s;hed in the faces of &s;ome Profe&s;|&s;ors, with the&s;e words, I know you love a good le&s;&s;on, this is an excellent one; come to morrow, you &s;hall have as good <NOTE N="H" PLACE="foot">Adam Glover.</NOTE>.</P>
<P>They have torn it in pieces <NOTE N="I" PLACE="foot"><HI>Eliz. Taylor,</HI> Com. Fer. Ian. 8. ex. 58.</NOTE>, kicked it up and down <NOTE N="K" PLACE="foot">Io. Mountgomery.</NOTE>, treading it under foot, with leaping thereon, they cau&s;ing a Bag|pipe to play the while <NOTE N="L" PLACE="foot"><HI>Hen Palmer,</HI> Com. Wex, Ia. 12.</NOTE>; laying al&s;o the leaves in the kennell, leaping and trampling thereupon, &s;aying, A plague on it, This Book hath bred alltne quarrell, hoping within three weeks all the Bibles in <HI>Ireland</HI> &s;hould be &s;o u&s;ed, or wor&s;e, and that none &s;hould be left in the Kingdom <NOTE N="M" PLACE="foot"><HI>Edw Slack,</HI> Com. Fer. Ia. 4. <HI>ex.</HI> 59.</NOTE>: and while two Bibles were in burn|ing, &s;aying that it was hell-fire that was burning <NOTE N="N" PLACE="foot"><HI>Edward Dean,</HI> Com. Wickloe, Ia. 7. <HI>ex</HI> 60. <HI>Roger Holland, ex.</HI> 77.</NOTE>; wi&s;hing they had all the Bibles of Chri&s;tendome, that they might u&s;e them &s;o.</P>
<P>But what Pen can &s;et forth, what Tongue expre&s;&s;e, who&s;e Eye can reade, Ear hear, or heart, without melting, con&s;ider the cruel|ties, more than barbarous, dayly exerci&s;ed upon us by tho&s;e inhu|mane, blood-&s;ucking Tygers!</P>
<P>Stripping quite naked Men, Women, and children, even chil|dren, &s;ucking upon the Bre&s;t <NOTE N="O" PLACE="foot">Io. Greg.</NOTE>, whereby multitudes of all &s;orts in the extremitie of that cold &s;ea&s;on of Fro&s;t and Snow have
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peri&s;hed. Women being dragged up and down naked, <NOTE N="P" PLACE="foot"><HI>Katherine Bellew,</HI> Com. Mona. <HI>Feb.</HI> 5. <HI>ex</HI> 61</NOTE> Wo|men in child bed thence drawn out, and ca&s;t into pri&s;on. <NOTE N="Q" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Wi&s;edome, Com.</HI> Arm. <HI>Feb.</HI> 8. <HI>ex.</HI> 62 <HI>Roger Holland ex.</HI> 77.</NOTE> One delivered of a childe while &s;he was hanging. <NOTE N="R" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Wi&s;edome. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> Tayl<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">r, Com.</HI> Arm. <HI>Feb.</HI> 8 <HI>ex,</HI> 63</NOTE> One ripped up, and two children taken away, and all ca&s;t unto, and eaten by &s;wine. <NOTE N="S" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io Mandevile, Com.</HI> Dublin, <HI>Feb.</HI> 3 <HI>ex</HI> 64</NOTE> One other &s;tabbed in the brea&s;t her childe &s;ucking. <NOTE N="T" PLACE="foot"><HI>M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">g Stocks, Com.</HI> Fer <HI>examined by directions from the Councell Bo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">rd, ex</HI> 65</NOTE> An Infant cruelly murthered, whom they found &s;ucking his dead mother &s;lain by them the day before. <NOTE N="V" PLACE="foot"><HI>R<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ynold Gri<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">fith, Co.</HI> Arma. <HI>ex.</HI> 74</NOTE> A childe of 14 years of age taken from his mother, in her &s;ight ca&s;t into a Bog-pit, and held under water while he was drown'd. <HI>(W)</HI> The forcing 40 or 50 Prote&s;tants to renounce their profe&s;&s;ion, and then cutting all their throats. <NOTE N="*" PLACE="foot">Alex. Creig<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">hton.</NOTE></P>
<P>What &s;hould we &s;peak of their murthers, <NOTE N="X" PLACE="foot"><HI>Ad. Glover, Ro. Barton,</HI> with infinite others.</NOTE> their hanging, half-hanging, and that oft times reiterated; they delighting in the tortures of the mi&s;erable. <NOTE N="Z" PLACE="foot"><HI>Io. Gregg. Alexander Creig<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">hton, ex</HI> 76. <HI>Richard Skinner, Co. K<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="3 letters">ore, Feb</HI> 8.</NOTE> Hence &s;ome being left wounded, in vain crying out that they might be di&s;patched. <NOTE N="A" PLACE="foot">Iohn Gregg</NOTE> This being purpo&s;ely done, that the&s;e wretches might langui&s;h in their mi&s;e|rie; their tormentors affirming that their Prie&s;ts commanded them &s;o to do. <NOTE N="B" PLACE="foot">Nath. Hi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">gen&s;on.</NOTE> What &s;hould we &s;peake of tho&s;e 30 or 40 burnt in one Hou&s;e, and 50 in another. <NOTE N="C" PLACE="foot">Thomas Crant</NOTE> the denying of bu|riall to the dead, <NOTE N="D" PLACE="foot">Adam Glover. Io. Mountgomery</NOTE> whereby Chri&s;tians have been eaten by Dogs, and Dogs tearing Children out of the wombe; the bloudy beholders relating &s;uch things with boa&s;ting and great rejoycing: <NOTE N="E" PLACE="foot">Thomas Crant Marga. Stocks</NOTE> And to make perfect the mea&s;ure of their cruelty, Two were &s;aid to be buried alive, <NOTE N="F" PLACE="foot"><HI><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">. Mountgomery. Mary Woods, Com. Ki<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">dare, Feb.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">3 <HI>ex</HI> 66.</NOTE> and others that had been long buried, digged up; they &s;aying that the Churches could not be Con&s;e|crated, while Hereticks bodies or bones lay therein. <NOTE N="G" PLACE="foot"><HI>Thomas <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> Kildare, <HI>Feb</HI> 15. <HI>ex.</HI> 67. <HI>Mary Woods. Reb. Collis, Co.</HI> Kild. <HI>Feb.</HI> 23. <HI>ex.</HI> 68.</NOTE></P>
<P>The cruell u&s;age of tho&s;e 48 poore pri&s;oners in the Gaole of <HI>Monaghan.</HI> <NOTE N="H" PLACE="foot"><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">. <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">tile. Hugh Culme.</NOTE> Of tho&s;e in the County of <HI>Armagh,</HI> after drow|ned  
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in the River of the <HI>Ban,</HI> to the number of 80, <NOTE N="I" PLACE="foot">Io Mountgomry.</NOTE> or 100. <NOTE N="K" PLACE="foot">W. Clerk.</NOTE> or 196, <NOTE N="L" PLACE="foot">Mr <HI>Philip Tayler</HI></NOTE> as it is diver&s;ly reported, tho&s;e 45 drowned toge|ther. <NOTE N="M" PLACE="foot">Io. Mountgomry.</NOTE> And tho&s;e 179 burnt in one hou&s;e. <NOTE N="x" PLACE="foot"><HI>Cha. Camp|bell, ex.</HI> 75.</NOTE> All the&s;e we refer to the reading of the &s;everall depo&s;itions concerning them hereunto annexed.</P>
<P>But how can that be forgotten, or where &s;hall it be beleeved, which we hear to have been done in the Church of <HI>Newtown</HI> in the County of <HI>Fermanagh;</HI> where a childe of <HI>Thomas Strettons</HI> was boyled alive in a Caldron: A thing which as one bare reports we dur&s;t not, &s;o neither can we now with confidence enough pre&s;ent it to that your honourable A&s;&s;embly, nor can we averre it for true, otherwi&s;e then as by concurring examinations we finde them &s;o|lemnly depo&s;ed, whereunto we de&s;ire to be referred. <NOTE N="N" PLACE="foot"><HI>Marga. Parker</HI> of <HI>Newtown, Com.</HI> Fer. <HI>Ian.</HI> 19. <HI>ex.</HI> 69. <HI>Elizabeth Bur&s;ses</HI> of the &s;ame. <HI>ex.</HI> 70.</NOTE> To which may well be added, the forcing of one <HI>Duke Wade</HI> to drinke unto drunkenne&s;&s;e, and then hanging him therein, to take a full revenge both on body and &s;oul. (p)</P>
<P>Of which their afore&s;aid many and barbarous cruelties, each day doth afford us variety of new in&s;tances. This City of <HI>Dublin</HI> being the common receptacle for the&s;e mi&s;erable &s;ufferers. Here are many thou&s;ands of poore people, &s;ometimes of good re&s;pects and e&s;tates, now in want and &s;ickne&s;&s;e, whereof many daily dye, notwith&s;tanding the great care of tho&s;e tender hearted Chri&s;tians (whom God ble&s;&s;e) without whom all of them had before now peri&s;hed.</P>
<P>In all which, as our &s;ufferings are generall, the hatred of the enemy being expre&s;&s;ed to the whole Nation, and to all the profe&s;|&s;ors of the truth. So in chief and above all others <NOTE N="O" PLACE="foot"><HI>Alex. Creighton. ex.</HI> 76. <HI>Geo. Cottingham, ex.</HI> 78.</NOTE> do we finde it with the deadlie&s;t venome &s;pit again&s;t the per&s;ons of us the Mini|&s;ters of the Go&s;pel, towards whom their rage is without bounds.</P>
<P>Of this we &s;ee enough in the mi&s;erable condition of M^r <HI>George Cottingham,</HI> a Batchelor in Divinity, and a painfull labourer in the Lords Vineyard. <NOTE N="P" PLACE="foot"><HI>Henry Boyne, Com.</HI> Tiron, <HI>Feb.</HI> 16. <HI>ex.</HI> 71.</NOTE> The like we &s;ee in the cruell murther of M^r <HI>Blyth,</HI> &s;lain with &s;ir <HI>Pheliom &ocirc; Neals</HI> &s;afe conduct in his hands, <NOTE N="Q" PLACE="foot">Hugh Culme. Henry Stile.</NOTE>
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it being lift up by him unto heaven, as a witne&s;&s;e of his treachery. <NOTE N="Q" PLACE="foot">Io. Cardiff.</NOTE> The &s;ame we finde in the murther of M^r <HI>Thomas Grafford,</HI> and M^r <HI>William Fullerton.</HI> <NOTE N="R" PLACE="foot"><HI>Eliz. Trafford, com.</HI> Long f. <HI>Ian.</HI> 8. <HI>ex.</HI> 72. <HI>William Cleark.</HI></NOTE> La&s;tly, that among a multitude, we may content our &s;elves with a few; We &s;ee it in the cruelty exer|ci&s;ed upon M^r <HI>Sharpe</HI> the Mini&s;ter of <HI>Kells.</HI> <NOTE N="S" PLACE="foot"><HI>Geo. Cooke. Margery Sharpe, com.</HI> Meath, <HI>Ian.</HI> 29. <HI>ex.</HI> 73.</NOTE> Of all which, the following examinations &s;hall &s;peak morefully.</P>
<P>Such of us as have be&s;t e&s;caped the hands of the&s;e Tyrants have been turned out of all. We, with &s;uch other of our brethren, ours and their wives and children coming on foot hither, through waies tedious and full of perill, being every minute a&s;&s;aulted, the end of one but leading to the next danger, one quite &s;tripping off, what others had in pity left. So that in nakedne&s;&s;e we have recovered this our City of refuge, where we live in all extremity of want, not having wherewithall to &s;ub&s;i&s;t, or to put bread in our mouthes.</P>
<P>Of tho&s;e of our brethren who have peri&s;hed on the way hither, &s;ome of their wives and children do yet remain. The children al&s;o of &s;ome of them, wholly deprived of their parents, and left for de&s;|&s;erted Orphans. All of us being expo&s;ed to apparent ruine, if not &s;peedily relieved.</P>
<P>This <HI>our mo&s;t mi&s;erable condition therefore, and of our</HI> Brethren, <HI>and of this our whole di&s;tre&s;&s;ed</HI> Church of Ireland, <HI>We do in mo&s;t hum|ble manner Remon&s;trate and lay downe at the feet of that your</HI> Pious, Charitable, and Honorable A&s;&s;embly.</P>
<P>Praying, <HI>That we and all of us your Suppliants, together with our</HI> Brethren, <HI>may finde a place among others in your tender con&s;iderations, and never exhau&s;ted bounty. So, and in &s;uch manner as to your</HI> Wi&s;e|domes <HI>&s;hall be e&s;teemed mo&s;t fitting.</HI></P>
<P>Humbly <HI>de&s;iring that we who have borne the</HI> burthen and heate of the day, <HI>may not be ca&s;t off, not having what to</HI> eate, or what to put on.</P>
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That <HI>the</HI> Mini&s;try <HI>may not in our wants be rendred de&s;picable to our own, as it hath &s;uffered de&s;pight from our</HI> Adver&s;aries.</P>
<P>And <HI>that the rather we may finde this</HI> Admittance <HI>into your</HI> Cha|rity, <HI>in that our &s;ufferings are profe&s;&s;ed by our enemies to proceed (which we glory in) from that your</HI> zeal <HI>for the Church of</HI> God.</P>
<P>God Almighty <HI>ble&s;&s;e and further tho&s;e your Honorable and pious de|&s;ires and de&s;igns, and</HI> Re&s;trai<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>the fury of our Adver&s;aries, for which we de&s;ire the prayers of our Brethren. And He grant, that of his goodne&s;&s;e all of them may be long pre&s;erved from knowing what we &s;uffer, other|wi&s;e then by a</HI> Brotherly and compa&s;&s;ionate fellow feeling.<LB>
which are the daily prayers of</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Your Honors Servants</HI><LB>
and <HI>Votaries,</HI><LB>
Henry Iones. Roger Puttocke.<LB>
Iohn Wat&s;on. Iohn Sterne.<LB>
Henry Brereton. Randall Adams.<LB>
William Hitchcoke. William Aldrich.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>The &s;everall Commis&s;ions where|upon the following examinations are grounded; out of which the foregoing Remon&s;trance hath been extracted.</HEAD>
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<P>CHARLES By the grace of God, King of <HI>England, Scotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defendes of the Faith, &amp;c. <HI>To Our</HI> welbeloved <HI>Henry Jones,</HI> Dean of <HI>Kilmore, Roger Puttock, William Hitchcock, Randall Adams, John Sterne, William Aldrich, Henry Brereton,</HI> and <HI>John Wat&s;on</HI> Clerks, greeting. <HI>Whereas</HI> divers wicked and di&s;loyall people have lately ri&s;en in Arms in &s;everall parts of this Kingdome, and have Rob|bed and &s;poiled many of our good Subjects, Britti&s;h, and Pro|te&s;tants, who have been &s;eperated from their &s;etled habitations, and &s;cattered in mo&s;t lamentable manner. And fora&s;much as it is needfull to take due examination concerning the &s;ame. <HI>Know</HI> ye, that We repo&s;ing e&s;peciall tru&s;t and confidence in your care, diligence, and provident circum&s;pection, have nominated and appointed you to be Our Commis&s;ioners; And do hereby give unto you, or any two or more of you, full power and Au|thoritie from time to time to call before you, and examine upon oath on the holy Evangeli&s;ts (which hereby we authorize you, or any two or more of you, to admini&s;ter) as well all &s;uch per&s;ons as have been &s;o robbed and &s;poiled, as all the witne&s;&s;es that can give te&s;timony therein, what robberies and &s;poiles have beene committed on them, or any other to their knowledge, &s;ince the two and twentieth of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, or &s;hall hereafter be com|mitted on them, or any of them, what the particulars were, or are, whereof they were or &s;hall be &s;o robbed or &s;poiled; to
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what valew, by whom, what their names are, and where they now, or la&s;t dwelt that committed tho&s;e robberies, or what day or night the &s;aid robberies or &s;poiles committed, or to be com|mitted, were done; what traiterous or di&s;loyall words, &s;peeches, or actions were then, or at any other time uttered or committed by tho&s;e Robbers, or any of them, what violence or other lewd actions were then performed by the &s;ayd Robbers, or any of them, and how often: and all other circum&s;tances touching or con|cerning the &s;aid particulars, and euery of them. And you Our &s;ayd Commis&s;ioners are to reduce to writing, all the examina|tions, which you, or any two or more of you &s;hall take as afore|&s;aid: and the &s;ame to return unto Our Iu&s;tices, and Councell of this our Realm of <HI>Ireland,</HI> under the hands and &s;eales of you, or any two or more of you as afore&s;aid. <HI>Witne&s;&s;e</HI> Our Right tru&s;ty and wel-beloved Councellors, Sir <HI>William Par|&s;ons</HI> Knight and Baronet, and Sir <HI>John Borla&s;e</HI> Knight, Our Iu&s;tices of Our &s;aid Realm of <HI>Ireland.</HI> At <HI>Dublin</HI> the three and twentieth day of <HI>December,</HI> in the &s;eventeenth of our Reigne.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Carleton.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="statement">
<P>CHARLES By the grace of God, King of <HI>Eng|land, Scotland, France,</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> Defender of the Faith, &amp;c. <HI>To</HI> Our Wel-beloved, <HI>Henry Jones</HI> Dean of <HI>Kilmore, Roger Puttock, Wil|liam Hitchcock, Randall Adams, John Sterne; Wil|liam Aldrich, Henry Brereton,</HI> and <HI>John Wat&s;on</HI> Clerks, Greeting. <HI>Whereas</HI> divers wicked and di&s;loyall people, have lately ri&s;en in Arms in &s;everall parts in this King|dome, and have robbed and &s;poiled many of Our good Subjects, Britti&s;h, and Prote&s;tants; who have been &s;eperated from their &s;etled habitations, and &s;cattered in mo&s;t lamentable manner;
<PB N="15" REF="11">
and many others have beene deprived of their Lands, Rents, goods, and Chattles. And fora&s;much as it is needfull to take due examination concerning the &s;ame. <HI>Know</HI> ye, that We repo&s;ing e&s;peciall tru&s;t and confidence in your fidelities, care, and provident circum&s;pection, have nominated and appointed you to be Our Commi&s;sioners; and do hereby give unto you, or any two or more of you, full power and authority, from time to time, to call before you and examine upon oath (which We here|by authori&s;e you, or any two or more of you, to admini&s;ter on the holy Evangeli&s;ts) As well all &s;uch per&s;ons as have been &s;o Robbed and &s;poiled, or deprived of their Lands, Rents, goods, or Chattles, as all the witne&s;&s;es that can give te&s;timony therein, what Robberies and &s;poiles have been committed on them, or any other to their knowledge, &s;ince the two and twentieth of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, or &s;hall hereafter be committed on them, or any of them; what Lands, Rents, goods, or Chattles, whereof any per&s;on, or per&s;ons were or &s;hall be &s;o robbed, &s;poiled, or deprived; to what valew, by whom &s;uch robberies or &s;poiles were committed, what their names are, and where they now, or la&s;t dwelt that committted tho&s;e robberies, or &s;poiles, on what day or night the &s;aid robberies or &s;poiles committed, or to be committed were done; what Traiterous or di&s;loyall words, &s;peeches, or actions were then, or at any other time uttered or committed by tho&s;e robbers, or any of them; and what unfitting words or &s;peeches concerning the pre&s;ent Rebellion, or by occa&s;ion thereof were &s;poken at any time, by any per&s;on or per&s;ons what&s;oever; what violence or other lewd actions were then performed by the &s;aid Robbers, or any of them, and how often, what numbers of per|&s;ons have been murthered by the Rebels, or peri&s;hed after|wards in the way to <HI>Dublin,</HI> or other places whither they &s;led or retired for refuge, either by way of defence, or other|wi&s;e. What per&s;on, or per&s;ons, Clergimen, or other Prote|&s;tants have become Papi&s;ts &s;ince the &s;aid two and twentieth day
<PB N="16" REF="12">
fled or retired for refuge, either by way of defence, or other|wi&s;e. What per&s;on, or per&s;ons, Clergimen, or other Prote|&s;tants have become Papi&s;ts &s;ince the &s;aid two and twentieth day of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, and all other circum&s;tances and things touching, or concerning the &s;aid particulars, and every of them, either before the three and twentieth of <HI>October,</HI> or &s;ince. And for the better performance of this &s;ervice, all Incumbents, Curats, Pari&s;h-Clerks, and Sextons of Churches in this Kingdome, are hereby required to give in to you Our &s;aid Commi&s;sioners, to the be&s;t of their knowledge, the names and numbers of the poore &s;o &s;poyled, who have beene buried in their re&s;pective Pari&s;hes, and hereafter in and about <HI>Dublin,</HI> they are to give in weekly Bills under the hands of the Mini&s;ters, or Church-wardens of &s;uch Pari&s;hes, of &s;uch of the &s;aid per&s;ons as &s;hall be &s;o buried in the &s;aid Pari&s;hes. And you our &s;aid Commi&s;sioners, or any two or more of you, as afore&s;aid; are to reduce to writing all the Examinations which you, or any two or more of you &s;hall take as afore&s;aid, and the &s;ame to return to our Iu&s;tices, and Councell of this Our Realm of <HI>Ireland,</HI> under the hands and Seals of you, or any two or more of you, as afore&s;aid. <HI>Witne&s;&s;e</HI> Our right tru&s;ty and wel-beloved Councellors, Sir <HI>William</HI> Par&s;ons Knight and Baronet, and Sir <HI>John Borla&s;e</HI> Knight, Our Iu&s;tices of Our Realme of <HI>Ireland.</HI> At <HI>Dublin,</HI> the eigh|teenth Day of <HI>January,</HI> in the Seventeenth yeare of Our Reigne.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Carleton.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="examinations">
<PB N="17" REF="12">
<HEAD>Examinations taken before us His <HI>Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ioners thereunto appointed, by vertue of a Commi&s;&s;ion to us, or any two or more of us, directed under the great Seal of</HI> Ireland: <HI>Dated the</HI> 23^t^h <HI>day of</HI> December, <HI>in the</HI> 17^t^h <HI>yeare of his Maje&s;ties Reigne. And by vertue of one other Commi&s;&s;ion directed as afore&s;aid, bea|ring Date the</HI> 18^t^h <HI>day of</HI> January, <HI>in the yeare afore&s;aid.</HI></HEAD>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> John Day <HI>of</HI> Drumleiff <HI>in the County of</HI> Cavan, <HI>Weaver.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That the Rebells bad him open the doors of his Hou&s;e, otherwi&s;e they would fire his Hou&s;e; and they &s;aid that they had a Commi&s;&s;ion from the Queene, and from beyond the Seas for what they did, And that they would not &s;uffer an Engli&s;h-man to &s;tay in the land.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Jur.</HI> 8. <HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Day.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Aldrich.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Lucy Spell <HI>of</HI> Drogheda <HI>in the County of</HI> Lowth.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duly &s;worn depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That at <HI>Bal|lendary</HI> where &s;he was pri&s;oner three weeks, and lodged in <HI>John Par&s;imers</HI> hou&s;e; during which impri&s;onment, &s;he &s;aw one time <HI>John Malon</HI> a Fryar; who taketh upon him the title of Chaplain to the Catholike Army in <HI>Ireland;</HI> together with <HI>Mi|chael Murffy, Garret Newgent</HI> of <HI>Drogheda</HI> Marchant, <HI>John Griffin,</HI> and <HI>Patrick Griffin</HI> of the &s;ame, Merchants, <HI>Roger Belin</HI> of the &s;ame, Merchant, with others in their company; and heard them in their conference &s;ay, we will &s;hortly have the Prince of <HI>England</HI> here
<PB N="18" REF="13">
in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and make him Vice-Roy, and we will tutor him, and bring him up in the Catholike Religion, and the King him&s;elfe &s;hall live in <HI>Scotland;</HI> and before <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> day next, we &s;hall have an Army out of <HI>Spain,</HI> and then we will go all into <HI>England,</HI> and with the helpe of the Catholikes there (all who&s;e names the &s;aid Fryar &s;aid that he had). we will put all the Puritans and Prote|&s;tants to the &s;word.</P>
<P><HI>The marke&mdash;of the &s;aid</HI> Lucy.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Jur.</HI> 5. <HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>William Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hitchcock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> John Biggar <HI>of</HI> Miltown <HI>in the County of</HI> Dub|lin, <HI>Clerke.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate being duely &s;worn depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That the&s;e words were &s;poken by the Rebells, e&s;pecially by <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 3.</NOTE> their Leader. (For the third of <HI>December) Edmond Eu&s;tace</HI> of <HI>Bal|lymore-Eu&s;tace,</HI> that they did give us but our owne Law. For whereas there was an Act made by the Councell of <HI>England,</HI> in the ab&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">nce, and without the con&s;ent or knowledge of the King, for the expelling, bani&s;hing, and putting away the Papi&s;ts out of England, and &s;eizing of their goods; which when they had there effected, would have brought the like over hither, for extirpation of the Iri&s;h Nation that are Papi&s;ts. The&s;e con&s;iderations for the defence of the Religion, the Queens per&s;on, and by the Kings licen&s;e, moved them to take Arms, having the <HI>Scots</HI> for a pre&s;i|dent; they have al&s;o vowed not to leave an Engli&s;h-man in <HI>Ire|land.</HI> The Kingdome they will have in their own hands, Lawes of their own, and a Deputy of their own, without mole&s;tation or interruption of any other Nation.</P>
<P>This night, at the Widdowes hou&s;e of one <HI>Lawrence Purcell,</HI> I met with one <HI>George Staples,</HI> who for late years had taught the Children of the chiefe of the Gentry in our parts. Having beene formerly acquainted with him, he began to examine me what cour&s;e I intended to take, I told him I could not tell, untill I came to <HI>Dublin,</HI> and therefore I de&s;ired to have his coun&s;ell and advi&s;e.
<PB N="19" REF="13">
He began after this manner. You intend to go to <HI>ublin</HI> &s;aith he, if you do, you mu&s;t go &s;peedily; for within two dayes the <HI>Iri&s;h</HI> Army will be before <HI>Dublin,</HI> &s;o that you cannot pa&s;&s;e; if you &s;hould get &s;o much favour as to pa&s;&s;e, yet when you come to <HI>Dub|lin,</HI> you will not be admitted to come within the Gates; and in the Suburbs there are &s;ixe or &s;even &s;core dying daily for want of food, &s;o that there will be no abiding place for you, If you in|tend to go for <HI>England,</HI> the lea&s;t childe you have will not be car|ried under twenty &s;hillings, and you (&s;aith he) have not one pen|ny; if you &s;hould finde &s;o much friend&s;hip as to pa&s;&s;e <HI>gratis,</HI> there are &s;uch a multitude of people that are gone out of this Kingdom, that <HI>England</HI> being but a &s;mall I&s;land, and Populous of it &s;elfe, is not able to receive you; if you &s;hould be received, there can be no long continuing place for you, for the Papi&s;ts are &s;triving in <HI>Eng|land</HI> as well as here; the Queene being fled into <HI>France</HI> for &s;ome abu&s;es offered her own Per&s;on, her Servants and Chaplains, which indignities the King of <HI>France</HI> intending to revenge, hath leavied an Army of 40000 men to invade <HI>England,</HI> and the Cardinall in <HI>Flanders</HI> hath leavied the like number, to the like end and purpo&s;e, therefore it will be no purpo&s;e to go thither. Lord, M^r <HI>Staples</HI> (&s;aid I) what &s;hall I do then? If you &s;tay here, you mu&s;t do as they do, and turn to Ma&s;&s;e; yet they will not tru&s;t you (&s;ayd he) fearing lea&s;t if the King of <HI>England</HI> &s;hould ever be able to bring an Army into this Country, the turn-coat Engli&s;h &s;hould joyne with them, and cut the Iri&s;h throats in a night, as the Engli&s;h once did the <HI>Danes</HI> in <HI>England.</HI> Therefore who&s;oever of the Engli&s;h &s;hould turn to the Romi&s;h Church, they would al&s;o compell to take Armes and place them in the Front, and eminent place of danger, that &s;o they might fall. And for hereafter, when they had gotten the Kingdome into their own hands, which they make no que&s;tion but to have in a &s;hort time (having all the Forts, Ca&s;tles, and &s;trong-holds in <HI>Ireland</HI> in their own hands already, but the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin,</HI> and <HI>Drogheda;</HI> and the&s;e two places they would not for many thou&s;and pounds have gotten, for rea&s;ons known un|to them&s;elves) but when they have once obtained them, and the Kingdome; tho&s;e Engli&s;h that have not fallen by the &s;word, the ho|ly Church hath &s;o ordered it, that they &s;hall be cut off by the In|qui&s;ition, &s;o that they will not leave an Engli&s;h-man alive, who&s;e
<PB N="20" REF="14">
Ance&s;tors hav<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> not been here for 200 years, with many other like words.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Jur.</HI> 29. <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Biggar.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> John Mountgomery, <HI>late of</HI> Clouni&s;h <HI>in the County of</HI> Monaghan, <HI>Gent.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn,e depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That in their journey, and Marching within the County of <HI>Monag|han,</HI> the Rebells murthered of his knowledge, at the lea&s;t foure|&s;core Prote&s;tants, and committed a number of other wicked bar|barous and notorious Robberies and actions, and by their owne relation, robb'd, &s;tripped naked, kill'd and drowned 45 of the <HI>Scots</HI> at one time; and that the &s;ame Robbers al&s;o murthered Mr <HI>Blyth,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Mathew</HI> (two con&s;tant Prote&s;tant Preachers within the County of <HI>Tiron)</HI> and murthered one Ma&s;ter <HI>Fullerton,</HI> Par&s;on of <HI>Loughall</HI> in the County of <HI>Armagh;</HI> and neere foure|&s;core more Engli&s;h more of Prote&s;tants, by drowning, and throw|ing them all over the Bridge of <HI>Portdown</HI> in the &s;aid County, into the River <HI>Bann.</HI></P>
<P>And further &s;aith, that the Rebells afore&s;aid, or &s;ome of them confe&s;&s;ed unto him, and &s;o he was told al&s;o by divers Scotti&s;h-men, that they the &s;ame Rebells when they came to <HI>Armagh, Monaghan,</HI> and <HI>Dungannon,</HI> &s;et all the pri&s;oners at liberty, and that they broke open and defaced the Church of <HI>Armagh,</HI> and burned the pewes, pulpit, and the be&s;t things in the &s;aid Church.</P>
<P>And this Deponent while&s;t he was with the &s;ame Rebells, &s;aw them to pull in peeces, kick up and down, deface and &s;poyl all the Prote&s;tant Bibles, and other prote&s;tant books that they found in any place where they came; neither this Deponent, nor any other prote&s;tant pri&s;oner nor other, dur&s;t &s;o much do as to &s;ave, or looke upon any of them in their &s;ight; nor would they willingly &s;uf|fer any one to &s;peak the Engli&s;h tongue.</P>
<P>And further, it was pretended that it was agreed in the Parlia|ment Hou&s;e of <HI>England,</HI> thet the Nobility and Gentry of <HI>Ireland,</HI> &s;hould be &s;ent for to <HI>Dublin,</HI> unde, colour of pa&s;&s;ing Patents of their Lands; and there &s;hould be impri&s;oned, untill &s;uch time as they &s;hould either go to the Prote&s;tant Church, or &s;hould be put
<PB N="21" REF="14">
to death: And if they &s;hould go to the Church, yet not to be re|lea&s;ed untill they had given &s;ecurity that their followers &s;hould go to the Church al&s;o; otherwi&s;e, to bring them in to be cen&s;ured.</P>
<P>And further &s;aith, That when the Rebells of the County of <HI>Monaghan</HI> had &s;urprized, or had command of all that County, &s;ome of them &s;aid that they would be governed by the <HI>Roman</HI> Law, and &s;ome by the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Law, which they knew better. And &s;aid fur|ther, That when they had taken <HI>Dublin</HI> and <HI>Drogheda, Derry</HI> and <HI>Knockfergus,</HI> which they did not doubt but to conquer before <HI>Candlemas</HI> then next, they would have a Parliament, and would &s;ettle a Government, but would have no Prote&s;tants among&s;t them; but that they would &s;uffer Engli&s;h or Scotti&s;h to be Depu|ties, Lords Ju&s;tices, or Judges, &s;o that one of the Iri&s;h Nation might be joyned with them, and &s;o that all &s;hould go to Ma&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>And the &s;ame Rebells publikely and generally al&s;o &s;aid, That they made no account but to keep <HI>Ireland</HI> for ever, in regard they had of their own Souldiers two hundred thou&s;and fighting men, be&s;ides labourers; and they expected from the King of <HI>Spain,</HI> ac|cording to his promi&s;e fifteen thou&s;and &s;ouldiers, and Arms and money fit for them: and from the King of <HI>France,</HI> &s;ome Ayd, be|cau&s;e the Queen of <HI>England,</HI> his &s;i&s;ter, was &s;o deprived of liberty of religion.</P>
<P>And the &s;ame Rebells al&s;o further &s;aid, in this Deponents hear|ing, That in all forraigne parts it was agreed and re&s;olved that all Prote&s;tants or others that would not go to Ma&s;&s;e, &s;hould be put to the Sword.</P>
<P>And this Deponent further &s;aith, That he did hear <HI>Neale mac Kenny,</HI> Baron of <HI>Trough,</HI> neer <HI>Gla&s;lock,</HI> a notorious Captain of the Rebells, &s;ay, That the King had &s;ent directions from <HI>Scotland,</HI> that Sir <HI>Pbelomy Roe &ocirc; Neale,</HI> Knight, &s;hould be Generall of all His Maje&s;ties Forces in <HI>Ireland,</HI> again&s;t the Engli&s;h; and that he the &s;aid <HI>Neale mac Kenny</HI> &s;hould be Governour of the three Counties of <HI>Tyrone, Armagh,</HI> and <HI>Monaghan;</HI> And that therefore he the &s;aid <HI>Neale mac Kenny,</HI> and the re&s;t of the Iri&s;h Forces would, after their conque&s;t of <HI>Ireland,</HI> go into <HI>England,</HI> and there, by the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of the Engli&s;h papi&s;ts, al&s;o conquer the &s;ame; And that from thence they would go into <HI>Scotland,</HI> and by the like a&s;&s;i&s;tance &s;ubdue that Kingdom, and &s;ettle their religion in all places.</P>
<P><PB N="22" REF="15">
And further &s;aith, That he, this Deponent was in the County of <HI>Armagh</HI> credibly informed by &s;ome cots, and the &s;ame was con|fe&s;&s;ed and confirmed to be true by &s;ome of the Iri&s;h, That one <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> M^r <HI>Keoon,</HI> neer <HI>Cregance,</HI> in the &s;aid County, and his Souldiers, did take a Scotti&s;h-man, and a woman, and tortured them, by hanging them up in a Rope to confe&s;&s;e their moneys; but &s;till before they were dead, let them down again.</P>
<P>And &s;aith further; That o<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">e <HI>Bryan mac Erowny,</HI> a Ring-leader of Rebells in the County of <HI>Fermanagh,</HI> and his &s;ouldiers, killed one <HI>En&s;igne Lloyd,</HI> and <HI>Robert Workman,</HI> both of the &s;ame County, Gentlemen, and four of their &s;ervants; one of which they having wounded, but not to death, they buried quick. And this Depo|nent was credibly informed, That the daughter in law of one <HI>Ford,</HI> in the Pari&s;h of <HI>Clonni&s;h,</HI> and County of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> being delivered of a childe in the Hills; the Rebells, who had formerly killed her husband and his father, killed her al&s;o, and two of her children, and &s;uffered their dogs to eat up and devour her &s;aid new born childe, which they found with her in that place. And &s;aith further, That <HI>Cole, mac Bryan, mac Mabon</HI> the Colonell and his &s;ouldiers did kill and murther at <HI>Mellifant,</HI> at the Lord <HI>Moores</HI> hou&s;e, 18 of the &s;aid Lord <HI>Moors</HI> &s;ervants, and would not &s;uffer the greater part of them to be buried, but to lie upon the ground, and be devoured by Dogs, Crows, and revenous Creatures. And this Deponent had, and hath &s;een and ob&s;erved the like to be done by the Rebells &s;ince this Rebellion began, within the County of <HI>Mo|naghan,</HI> to divers other Prote&s;tants that they had murthered.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><DATE><HI>Jur.</HI> 26 <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>John Mountgomery.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Iohn Sterne,</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>William Hitchcocke,</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Roger Puttocke,</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>VVilliam Aldrich,</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Hen. Brereton.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Patrick &ocirc; Bryan, <HI>of the Pari&s;h of Galoon, in the County of</HI> Fermanagh.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That <HI>Do|nagh, mac Guye,</HI> of the County afore&s;aid, &s;aid, That it was <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 5.</NOTE> again&s;t his will that this was begun; but &s;eeing he had put to his hand, he would not give out; for if I &s;hould come in, I &s;hould be u&s;ed like <HI>Tyron,</HI> who was per&s;ecuted, notwith&s;tanding his many pardons. <HI>Con oge mac con mac Hugh, mac Mabon,</HI> of <HI>Aghneholagh,</HI>
<PB N="23" REF="15">
and County of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> &s;aid, That the King knew of this Re|bellion, and that it was as hot in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland</HI> as here, at the &s;ame time. And he further &s;aid, That all the Nobles of this Kingdom which were papi&s;ts, had a hand in this plot, as well as my Lord <HI>Maguire,</HI> and <HI>Hugh oge mac Mahon,</HI> and that they expected Ayd out of <HI>Spain,</HI> by one <HI>Owen Roe &ocirc; Neal, viz.</HI> 10000 men, and Arms for as many. <HI>Item,</HI> the &s;aid Deponent further &s;aith, That he heard Colonell <HI>Plunckett</HI> &s;ay; That he knew of this plot eight yeers ago: but within the&s;e three yeers he hath been more fully ac|quainted with it: the cau&s;e of this Deponents knowledge is, that he was &s;ent with a Letter unto the &s;aid Colonell <HI>Plunckett,</HI> from Mr. <HI>Nicholas VVilloughby,</HI> and heard the &s;ame from the &s;aid <HI>Plunckett</HI> as afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Patrick &ocirc; Bryan.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ion.</HI> 29. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Henry Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Sierne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="deposition">
<HEAD><HI>The Depo&s;ition of</HI> Henry Jones, <HI>Doctor in Divinity, and Dean of</HI> Kilmore.</HEAD>
<P>I <HI>Henry Iones,</HI> Doctor in Divinity, in obedience to His Maje&s;ties <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 6.</NOTE> Commi&s;&s;ion; requiring an Accompt of the lo&s;&s;es of His loyall &s;ubjects, wherein they &s;uffered by the pre&s;ent Rebellion in <HI>Ireland:</HI> Requiring al&s;o a declaration of what trayterous words, projects, or actions were done, &s;aid, or plotted by the actors or abettors in that Rebellion; Do make, and give in this following report of the premi&s;&s;es, to the be&s;t of my knowledge. As for the pre&s;ent Rebellion, how&s;oever the fir&s;t breaking out of this fire into a flame, began fir&s;t on the 28 of <HI>Octob.</HI> 1641, yet was it &s;moking, as may well be conjectured for many yeers before; God having given us many and apparant grounds for the di&s;covery of it, had they been duely con&s;idered, or fully pro&s;ecuted to a di&s;covery, of which kinde we finde the&s;e following four particulars:</P>
<P N="1">1. The fir&s;t, That about three or four yeers &s;ince, among&s;t ma|ny Books brought into <HI>Limrick</HI> from forraign parts and &s;eized upon by the Reverend Bi&s;hop of that Sea, as prohibited, being thereunto authoriz<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">d by the State, One had a written addition to the fir&s;t part, which was printed, the Manu&s;cript containing a di&s;|cour&s;e of the Friars of the <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> Order, &s;ometimes &s;eated in the Town of <HI>Armagh,</HI> in <HI>&V;l&s;ter,</HI> But by rea&s;on of the times, and
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that Pre&s;ent re&s;ident (as that writing imported) in the City of <HI>Limrick</HI> in <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> That while it flouri&s;hed at <HI>Armagh,</HI> it was protected, and largely provided for by the then Earl of <HI>Tyrone:</HI> Since who&s;e expul&s;ion out of <HI>Ireland,</HI> that Convent was al&s;o de|cayed, and driven to tho&s;e di&s;tre&s;&s;es it did for the pre&s;ent undergo; but that within three yeers (this is, as I remember, the time limit|ed) <HI>Ireland</HI> &s;hould finde, that he had a &s;onne inheriting his fathers vertues, who &s;hould re&s;tore that Kingdom to its former Liberty, and that Convent to its fir&s;t lu&s;tre, or words to that effect. This was related unto me by that zealous and learned Prelate Doctor <HI>VVebb,</HI> now Bi&s;hop of <HI>Limrick,</HI> who &s;aw and read the &s;aid pa&s;|&s;age; purpo&s;ing as his Lord&s;hip told me, to &s;end that book to the Lord Pre&s;ident of <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> to be taken into further con&s;ideration.</P>
<P N="2">2 Hereunto was added a &s;econd pa&s;&s;age, about the &s;ame time at <HI>Limrick</HI> afore&s;aid; where a Popi&s;h Prie&s;t gave out, that within three years there &s;hould not be a Prote&s;tant in <HI>Ireland,</HI> or words to that purpo&s;e, with &s;ome other materiall circum&s;tances which I do not now remember; yet all &s;o concurring with the former, or the fir&s;t with this (for which preceded I know not, Both being about one time) that it was thought fitting to be con&s;idered of, the &s;ayd Prie&s;t being &s;ent unto the Lords at <HI>Dublin,</HI> and he com|mitted to the Ca&s;tle.</P>
<P N="3">3 The third, did agree with the two former, and fell out about the &s;ame time in the County of <HI>VVe&s;tmeath,</HI> in the Province of <HI>Lim&s;ter;</HI> where <HI>VValter Newgent</HI> of <HI>Ratha&s;peck</HI> in the &s;aid County, elde&s;t Son to <HI>VValter Newgent</HI> E&s;quier (a man of great fortunes) upbraiding an Iri&s;h Prote&s;tant, who was the Pari&s;h Clerk of <HI>Ra|tha&s;peck</HI> afore&s;aid, with his Religion; and both &s;peaking Latine, the &s;aid <HI>Newgent</HI> uttered the&s;e words; <HI>Infratres annos venient tem|pus, &amp; potentia in Hibernia, quand&ograve; tu long&egrave;</HI> (likely meaning <HI>diu.) pendebis in cruce propter diabolicam vestram Religionem.</HI> (The party to which this was &s;poken feared the power of the man) dur&s;t not &s;peak of it, only in private. Yet being called upon and exami|ned juridically, upon oath he depo&s;ed the&s;e words. And being demanded whether the words were in <HI>Hiberniam,</HI> or <HI>Hibernia;</HI> the fir&s;t importing an Inva&s;ion, the other, an In&s;urrection at home: He depo&s;ed the latter, having time given him to con&s;ider of it. The&s;e Examinates were &s;ent to Sir <HI>George Radcliffe; Newgent</HI> was
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&s;ent for, and committed to the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin,</HI> and remained in long durance, but after was di&s;mi&s;&s;ed.</P>
<P N="4">4. Hereunto was added a fourth, about the &s;ame time near the <HI>Naas,</HI> about 12 miles from <HI>Dublin,</HI> where a popi&s;h Prie&s;t newly arrived out of <HI>Flanders,</HI> did make his addre&s;&s;e to the then Lord Deputy, and informed his Lord&s;hip of an intercour&s;e of Letters between the Earl of <HI>Tirone,</HI> with others in <HI>Flanders,</HI> and the po|pi&s;h Primate of <HI>Armagh, Rely;</HI> concerning an Inva&s;ion within a &s;hort time intended upon <HI>Ireland;</HI> the &s;aid Prie&s;t offering (&s;o his per&s;on might be &s;ecured) to direct &s;uch as &s;hould be thereunto appointed to the place, where the &s;aid Letters were in the cu&s;to|die of the &s;aid <HI>Rely: Rely</HI> was thereupon &s;ent for, together with the popi&s;h Vicar generall of <HI>Armagh,</HI> as I remember it; both were committed to the &s;aid Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin,</HI> but &s;oon after relea&s;ed, and the Informer di&s;mi&s;&s;ed, with x. l. and a &s;uit of clothes, or &s;ome &s;uch reward.</P>
<P N="5">5. Hereunto may this be further added another, not &s;o plain as the former; That about the &s;ame time the Lord Baron of <HI>Dun|&s;any</HI> did ride di&s;gui&s;ed throughout all the parts of <HI>Moun&s;ter,</HI> pre|tending to &s;atisfie his curio&s;ity in the knowledge of places and per&s;ons: He not being di&s;covered untill his return at the Birr, where having offerd him&s;elf to be bound for one in his company, he writ him&s;elf in his own &s;tile; being loth to leave under his hand a te&s;timony of his di&s;gui&s;ed per&s;on, and a&s;&s;umed name.</P>
<P>Hereunto may be added, a motion made by the Recu&s;ant party in the Parliament of <HI>Ireland,</HI> for hindring the &s;ending away of certain Colonels with their forces rai&s;ed in the Kingdom, and pretended to be for &s;ervice in foreign parts, many wondring it &s;hould proceed from them; but therein, con&s;idering the&s;e their former practi&s;es, their intentions may be di&s;covered to be far dif|ferent from what others conceived thereof, who a&s;&s;ented there|unto: The imploying of &s;o many thou&s;ands abroad, being a great weakning of the forces they purpo&s;ed for this their &s;oon after following Rebellion.</P>
<P>To de&s;cend now from the antecedents of this trea&s;on, to the falling in thereupon; and la&s;tly, to the con&s;equents, &amp; what ther|by hath been intended, &s;uppo&s;ing it to &s;ucceed, and that it attained the de&s;ired effect, which by them was not doubted of. And fir&s;t,
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for the entrance thereinto: How&s;oever that the ground-work were long &s;ince laid, yet would they not have it &s;o to &s;eeme: But new occa&s;ion mu&s;t be found, as the &s;ole cau&s;e of their breaking out, this being intended for the &s;atisfying the mindes of &s;uch of their own, as have not hitherto bin acquainted with the depth &amp; my&s;tery of this Iniquity, that they might not &s;tand amazed at the &s;uddenne&s;&s;e of the undertaking, or &s;tand off from joyning with them, the wor&s;t part of their de&s;ignes, it being an apparent Rebel|lion. The fitte&s;t means for this, mu&s;t have bin by ca&s;ting a&s;per&s;ions on the pre&s;ent Governme~t, which if long tolerated, would prove extremely dangerous, not onely to their Religion, but their lives and po&s;terity. For effecting hereof, reports were ca&s;t out, that in the Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> the cutting off of all the Papi&s;ts in <HI>Ire|land,</HI> of what degree &s;oever, was concluded upon, the execution of that Re&s;olution being committed to the Coun&s;ell in <HI>Ireland;</HI> The Lords (&s;aid they) had laid down a day for this work, being the 23 of <HI>Nov.</HI> then next following, and now la&s;t pa&s;t, or thereabouts. For the better, more &s;ecure, and more &s;ecret managing of this pretended plot, &s;uch of the popi&s;h Nobility and Gentry of both Hou&s;es as appeared in Parliament at <HI>Dublin,</HI> &s;hould be &s;ecured. And for the drawing together of the re&s;t, among&s;t other preten|ces, this alledged to be one, That his Maje&s;ties rents were pur|po&s;ely omitted, and not called upon in Ea&s;ter-Term with that earne&s;tne&s;&s;e as formerly; and that &s;uch as made default &s;hould be &s;ummoned to appear in Michaelmas-Term at <HI>Dublin,</HI> and there &s;urpri&s;ed; &s;uch of them as were in the Country, wanting the heads, being ea&s;ily cut off. They &s;ay that this pretended plot, was I know not how di&s;covered to them: So that for the &s;afety of their lives, and profe&s;&s;ion, they were inforced to &s;tand upon their guard, and to counter-work that day of the 23 of <HI>Nov.</HI> laid for their de&s;truction, by their declaring them&s;elves in arms on the 23 of <HI>Octob.</HI> a moneth before. The &s;erious part of this Di&s;cour&s;e was related to me by a Friar intimate in their Coun&s;el, and by a prie&s;t a popi&s;h Vicar generall, therby to give me &s;atisfaction, and to ju|&s;tifie their proceedings, who&s;e names I do for the pre&s;ent for|bear, in re&s;pect of his Maje&s;ties &s;ervice.</P>
<P>By others al&s;o it was informed, That this plot was mainly in|tended in that Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament, next after the Earl of <HI>Straf|fords</HI>
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beheading, and the manner concluded upon in the popi&s;h private meetings, which were then ob&s;erved to be frequent, and by &s;ome &s;u&s;pected might prove dangerous, and that for di&s;cove|ry of what provi&s;ion of armes and amunition our &s;tore of <HI>Dublin</HI> afforded (it being by &s;ome &s;u&s;pected, that mo&s;t was &s;ent before to <HI>Carrickfergus)</HI> one of the popi&s;h faction, in the hou&s;e of <HI>Commons</HI> put one of the Prote&s;tant members to move, that &s;ome of the Earle of <HI>Straffords</HI> men had ca&s;t out &s;ome threatning words a|gain&s;t the Parliament in revenge of his Lord, which could not be conceived to end in le&s;&s;e than a blowing up of the whole Hou&s;es of Parliament, the &s;tore lying under them: whereupon a Committee of both Hou&s;es, many of them prime Papi&s;ts, were appointed to make &s;earch in all the corners in the Store: among&s;t the&s;e the Lord <HI>Mac Guire</HI> was one who was ob&s;erved, without occa&s;ion to be liberall in di&s;po&s;ing of money to &s;ome of the Officers of the Store, in a way more than was ordinary with him.</P>
<P>The la&s;t Se&s;&s;ion of Parliament being prorogued, and the time drawing nigh for putting their de&s;igne in execution, there was a great meeting appointed of the heads of the Romi&s;h Cler|gie, and other Lay-men of their faction, &s;aid to bee at the Abbey of <HI>Mullifarvan,</HI> in the Countie of <HI>We&s;tmeath,</HI> where is a Con|vent of <HI>Franci&s;cans,</HI> thereof openly and peaceably po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed for many yeares la&s;t pa&s;t: the day of their meeting being al&s;o on their Saint <HI>Francis</HI> day, about the beginning of October la&s;t, but the time and place I cannot confidently affirm, yet how&s;oever the &s;everall opinions and di&s;cu&s;&s;ions are as follow, like as I have received it from the &s;aid Fryer, a Franci&s;can, and pre&s;ent there being a Guardian of that Order, where among many other things there debated; the que&s;tion was what cour&s;e &s;hould bee taken with the Engli&s;h, and all others that were found in the whole Kingdom to be Prote&s;tants. The Coun|cell was therein divided.</P>
<P N="1">1. Some were for their bani&s;hment, without attempting on their lives; for this was given the In&s;tance of the King of <HI>Spaines</HI> expelling out of <HI>Granado,</HI> and other parts of his Domi|nions, the Moores to the number of many hundreth of thou|&s;ands: all of them being di&s;mi&s;&s;ed with their lives, wives and
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children, with &s;ome part of their goods (if not the mo&s;t part) that this his way of proceeding redounded much to the honour of <HI>Spaine,</HI> whereas the &s;laughter of many innocents would have laid an everla&s;ting blemi&s;h of cruelty on that State, that the like u&s;age of the Engli&s;h their neighbours, and to whom many there pre&s;ent owed (if no more) yet their education; would gaine much to the cau&s;e, both in <HI>England</HI> and other parts: That their goods and e&s;tates &s;eized upon, would bee &s;ufficient without medling with their per&s;ons, that if the contrary cour&s;e were taken, and their blood &s;pilt, be&s;ide the cur&s;e it would draw from heaven upon their cau&s;e: It might withall incen&s;e and provoke the neighbour Kingdome of <HI>England,</HI> and that iu&s;tly taking a more &s;evere revenge on them and theirs, even to extirpation if it had the upper hand.</P>
<P N="2">2 On the other&s;ide, was urged a contrary proceeding to the ut|ter cutting off all the Engli&s;h Prote&s;tants, where to the in&s;tance of the di&s;mi&s;&s;ed <HI>Moores,</HI> it was an&s;wered, that that was the &s;ole Act of the King and Queene of <HI>Spaine,</HI> contrary to the advi&s;e of their Councell, which how&s;oever it might gaine that Prince a name of metcy, yet therein the event &s;hewed him to be mo&s;t un|mercifull, not onely to his owne, but to all Chri&s;tendome be|&s;ide. That this was evident in the great and exce&s;&s;ive charge that <HI>Spaine</HI> hath beene &s;ince that time put unto by the&s;e <HI>Moores</HI> and their po&s;terity to this day. All Chri&s;tendome al&s;o hath and doth &s;till groane under the mi&s;eries it doth &s;uffer by the piracies of <HI>Algiers, Sally,</HI> and the like Dennes of theeves. That all this might have beene prevented in one houre by a generall Ma&s;|&s;acre, applying that it was no le&s;&s;e dangerous to expell the Engli&s;h: That the&s;e Robbers and bani&s;hed men might againe returne with &s;words in their hands, who by their hard u&s;age in &s;poiling might bee exa&s;perated, and by the hope of recovering their former e&s;tates, would bee incen|&s;ed farre more than &s;trangers that were &s;ent again&s;t them. Being neither in their per&s;ons injured, nor grieved in their e&s;tate, that therefore a generall Ma&s;&s;acre were the &s;afe&s;t and readie&s;t way from freeing the Kingdome of any &s;uch feares.</P>
<P N="3">3. In which diver&s;ity of opinions, how&s;oever the fir&s;t pre|vailed
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with &s;ome, for which the Franci&s;cans (&s;aith this Frier, one of their Guardians) did &s;tand, yet others inclined to the &s;e|cond: &s;ome again leaning to a middle way, neither to di&s;mi&s;&s;e nor kill.</P>
<P>And according to this do we finde the event and cour&s;e of their proceedings. In &s;ome places they are generally put to the &s;word, or to other mi&s;erable ends: &s;ome re&s;train their per&s;ons in durance, knowing it to be in their hands to di&s;patch them at their plea|&s;ures; In the mean time, they being re&s;erved either for profit by their ran&s;ome, or for exchange of pri&s;oners, or gaining their own pardons by the lives of their pri&s;oners, if time would &s;erve, or by their death (if the wor&s;t did happen) to &s;atisfie their fury. The third &s;ort, at the fir&s;t altogether di&s;mi&s;&s;ed their pri&s;oners, but fir&s;t having &s;poiled them of their goods, and after of their raiment, expo&s;ing the mi&s;erable wretches to cold and famine, whereby many have peri&s;hed by deaths, wor&s;e then &s;word or halter.</P>
<P>Hitherto of their Coun&s;ells, and the effects of them. Now for their intentions, all being reduced, which God forbid, into their power; and thereof do they as by &s;ome Law, give &s;uch pe|remptory conclu&s;ions, that it may well be wondred the thoughts of men profe&s;&s;ing them&s;elves wi&s;e, &s;hould be &s;o vain: and herein I do &s;till follow mine Informer.</P>
<P><HI>Fir&s;t, their loyalty to his Maje&s;tie &s;hall be &s;till re&s;erved. Thus &s;ay they of the mode&s;t &s;ort: But both his Revenues and Government mu&s;t be reduced to certain bounds: His Rents none other then the an|cient re&s;ervations before the plantation, and the Cu&s;tomes &s;o ordered, as to them &s;hall be thought fitting.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Secondly, for the Government, &s;uch as would be e&s;teemed loyall, would have&punc; it committed to the hands of two Lords Iu&s;tices, one of the ancient Iri&s;h race, the other of the ancient Briti&s;h inhabi|tants in the Kingdom; Provided that they be of the Romi&s;h pro|fe&s;&s;ion.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Thirdly, that a Parliament be forthwith called, con&s;i&s;ting of whom they &s;hall think fit to be admitted, wherein their own religious men &s;hall be a&s;s &s;tants.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fourthly,</HI> Poinings <HI>Act mu&s;t be repealed, and</HI> Ireland <HI>declared to
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be a Kingdom independant on</HI> England, <HI>and without any reference un|to it in any ca&s;e what &s;oever.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Fiftly, all Acts prejudiciall to the Romi&s;h Religion, &s;hal be aboli&s;h|ed; and it to be enacted, That there be none other profe&s;sion in the King|dom but the Romi&s;h.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Sixtly, that onely the ancient Nobility of the Kingdom &s;hall &s;tand, and of them, &s;uch as &s;hall refu&s;e to conform to the Romi&s;h Religion to be removed, and others put in their room; how&s;oever the pre&s;ent Earl of</HI> Kildare <HI>mu&s;t be put out, and another put in his place.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Seventhly, all plantation lands to be re-called, and the ancient pre|priators to be re-inve&s;ted in their former e&s;tates, with the limitations in their Covenant expre&s;&s;ed; That they had not formerly &s;old their inte|re&s;ts an valuable con&s;iderations.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Eightly, that the re&s;pective Counties of the Kingdom be &s;ubdivided, and certain bounds or Baronies a&s;signed to the chief Septs and others of the Nobility; who are to be an&s;werable for the Government therof: And that a &s;tanding Army may be &s;till in being, the re&s;pective Governours being to keep a certain nu~ber of men to be ready at all ri&s;ings out (as they term it:) They al&s;o being to build and maintain certain fortre&s;&s;es in places mo&s;t convenient within their precincts! And that the&s;e Gover|nours be of ab&s;olute power, onely re&s;pon&s;ible to the Parliament.</HI></P>
<P><HI>La&s;tly, for maintaining a corre&s;pondencie with other Nations, and for &s;ecuring the coa&s;ts. That al&s;o they may be rendred con&s;iderable unto others, a Navie of a certain number of Ships is to be maintained: That to this end five hou&s;es are to be appointed one in each province, account|ing</HI> Meth <HI>for one of them: That to the&s;e hou&s;es &s;hall be allotted an an|nuall pen&s;ion of certain thou&s;ands of pounds to be made up of part of the lands appropriate to Abbeys: And a further contribution to be rai&s;ed in the re&s;pective provinces to that end: That the&s;e hou&s;es are to be a&s;|&s;igned to a certain</HI> Order of Knights, <HI>an&s;werable to that of</HI> Malta, <HI>who are to be &s;ea-men: And to maintain this Fleet, that all prizes are to be apportioned; &s;ome part for a common bank, the re&s;t to be divided; to which purpo&s;e the felling of woods &s;erviceable for this u&s;e, is to be for|bidden: The Hou&s;e for this purpo&s;e to be a&s;signed to the province of</HI> Lein&s;tor, <HI>is</HI> Kilmainham, <HI>or rather</HI> Howth, <HI>the Lord of</HI> Howith <HI>being otherwi&s;e to be accommodated, provided be joyn with them; that place being e&s;teemed mo&s;t convenient, in re&s;pect of &s;ituation, which they have &s;mall grounds to hope for.</HI></P>
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For effecting of all which, they ca&s;t up the accounts of the forces of this Kingdom, That it is able to make up readily, two hundreth thou&s;and able men, wanting onely Commanders, and &s;ome expert &s;ouldiers for the pre&s;ent with arms and ammunition: of all which, they expect a &s;peedy &s;upply out of <HI>Flanders,</HI> their own Regiments there exerci&s;ed, being to be &s;ent over, and &s;ome &s;hipping from <HI>Spain</HI> allotted for &s;ervice: That this Kingdom be|ing &s;etled, there are thirty thou&s;and men to be &s;ent into <HI>England,</HI> to joyn with the French and Spani&s;h forces, and the &s;ervice in <HI>England</HI> performed, joyntly to fall upon <HI>Scotland,</HI> for reducing both Kingdoms to the obedience of the pope; which being fi|ni&s;hed, they have ingaged them&s;elves to the King of <HI>Spain</HI> for a&s;|&s;i&s;ting him again&s;t the <HI>Hollanders.</HI></P>
<P>And for drawing their followers to &s;ome head, and for giving the fairer glo&s;&s;e to their foul Rebellion, it is to be admired, what &s;trange and unlikely rumours of their own devi&s;ing they ca&s;t abroad; &s;ometimes that many &s;ail of Spaniards are landed now at one port, then at another: That <HI>Drogheda</HI> was taken at &s;uch a day and hour, with all the circum&s;tances at large, and Let|ters to that purpo&s;e dated from <HI>Drogheda</HI> by the Rebels that be&s;ieged it: That <HI>Dublin</HI> was taken: And being infinitely am|bitious of gaining the Earl of <HI>Ormond</HI> to their part, for the greater countenance to their cau&s;e, giving out that he was their own; which was &s;o long beleeved by the &s;aid followers, until that no|ble Earl giving daily tho&s;e honorable Te&s;timonies to the contra|ry, and they finding it to their co&s;t, though with the hazard of his own per&s;on, further then his place might well allow; they are now otherwi&s;e &s;atisfied, and place him in the rank of their mortall enemies, together with that terrour to them, Sir <HI>Charls Coot,</HI> and others.</P>
<P>And thus have I laid down all that I have heard to me related, omitting what I finde others more largely to in&s;i&s;t upon. All which their treacherous, vain, and ayry projects God di&s;appoint.</P>
<P>As for my own private &s;ufferings by the pre&s;ent rebellion, I refer them to another Schedule, this being &s;o far taken up.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE>Depo&s;ed before us, <DATE>March 3. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Hen. Jones.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Roger Puttock.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>John Sterne.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Iohn Wat&s;on.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>William Aldrich.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>William Hitchcock.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="36" REF="20">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Edmund Wel&s;h <HI>of</HI> Moyler&s;town, <HI>in the Kings County.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That <HI>Piers Fitz-Gerald</HI> of <HI>Balli&s;onan,</HI> in the &s;aid County, taking his Pe|ternell <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 7.</NOTE> ready cocked, pre&s;ented the &s;ame to this Deponents bre&s;t, &s;aying (when this Deponent offered to draw his &s;word) that it was in vain for him to &s;trive again&s;t &s;o many, and &s;o di&s;armed him, and took from him his &s;word and dagger, with eight Guns, with cer|tain Powder and Lead, alleadging, that there was an Excommuni|on from the chief of their Church, again&s;t any of his Religion that would not do the like; and if he had not done &s;o, and that &s;oon, &s;ome of his neighbours would have had his head; and that they would never ask any Quarter, nor accept of any pardon. And the&s;e trayterous words were then and there &s;poken, and the&s;e ho&s;tile and outragious acts committed as afore&s;aid: all which this Deponent upon oath averreth.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Edmund Wel&s;h.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>Iur.</HI> 22 <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>VVilliam Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> John Edgworth, <HI>E&s;quire, high Sheriff of the County of</HI> Longford.</HEAD>
<P>THis examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That he &s;ending abroad to know what the meaning of this In&s;urre|ction <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 8.</NOTE> was, word was brought him by one <HI>Thomas Stafford,</HI> once a &s;ervant to this examinate, that he heard there was a Commi&s;&s;ion come from his Maje&s;ty to the Iri&s;h, by which they had power to de&s;troy the <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> in this Kingdom, and in &s;o doing, to revenge the wrong done to his Maje&s;ty by the Puritans of <HI>England,</HI> who had not onely taken away his prerogative, but had al&s;o depo&s;ed him, and put up the Pal&s;grave in his &s;tead: this examinate di&s;cour|&s;ing further with the &s;aid <HI>Stafford,</HI> asked him if there were not a great meeting of Friers and prie&s;ts about the the third or fourth of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, being Saint <HI>Francis</HI> day, at the Mona&s;tery of <HI>Multefarnam,</HI> in the County of <HI>VVe&s;tmeath:</HI> to which the &s;aid <HI>Stafford</HI> an&s;wered, There was: and being further asked by
<PB N="33" REF="20">
this Examinate what was the meeting for, he an&s;wered he did not know; onely thus much, That &s;ome of the Friers told him that this was a yeer of <HI>Iubilee,</HI> and that there was a plenary Indulgence or Bull (as he termed it) from the <HI>Pope,</HI> for all the &s;ins committed, and all that &s;hould be committed this yeer of <HI>Iubilee.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn Edgworth.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Febr.</HI> 23. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Aldrich.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> John Brooks <HI>of</HI> Ballyheys, <HI>in the County of</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 9.</NOTE> Cavan, <HI>Yeoman.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That by &s;ome of the Rebells this Deponent, and other Engli&s;h Prote|te&s;tants were threatned to be pre&s;ently murthered, unle&s;&s;e they would pre&s;ently be gone: And if they went to <HI>Dublin,</HI> they &s;hould finde &s;mall relief there; if for <HI>England,</HI> as little there; for <HI>England</HI> was in the &s;ame ca&s;e. And further &s;aid, That they had long paid Rents to the Engli&s;h, but they would make them pay it back again: further alleadging, That what they did, they had au|thority for the &s;ame from the King, or words to that eff<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ct.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn C Brooks his mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><DATE><HI>Jur.</HI> 5 <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn VVat&s;on.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Grace Lovett, <HI>wife to</HI> Fran. Lovett <HI>of</HI> Ballew-hillan, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 10.</NOTE> <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That <HI>Patrick mac Collomac Donnell, Edmond mac Donnell,</HI> and the re&s;t of their company, the 25. day of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, entred into &s;everall parcells of Land, and outed this Deponent and her children; as al&s;o took away the Lea&s;e, Writings, Will, and E&s;cripts that this Deponent had, that concerned the e&s;tate of the &s;everall par|cells of Land.</P>
<P>And further depo&s;eth, That &s;he heard one of the Company of Captain <HI>Rory Magwire</HI> (who, as this Deponent heard, was a Friar) &s;ay, That it was well that this Deponent was come into their Company to &s;ave her life; for if &s;he &s;hould go for <HI>Dublin,</HI> it would be as bad; And if &s;he went for <HI>England,</HI> it would be wor&s;e (for &s;aid he) we have the Kings broad Seal for what we do: And for the rea&s;on of our ri&s;ing, it is becau&s;e the Puritans preferred a
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page"><PB N="36" REF="21">
<GAP DESC="duplicate" EXTENT="1 page"><PB N="33" REF="21">
<PB N="34" REF="22">
Petition again&s;t us, and could not let us enjoy our Religion quiet|ly, for we &s;tand for our lives; And if we &s;hould not have done this, we had all lo&s;t our lives upon one day, or words to that effect.</P>
<P>And further this deponent &s;aith, That &s;he this deponent, her husband, and four children, were all &s;tript naked by the &s;aid Re|bels, belonging to the &s;aid Captain <HI>Rory,</HI> the &s;aid 25. day of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, at <HI>Newtown</HI> alias <HI>Ca&s;tlecool.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Grace <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> Lovets</HI> Mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Jan.</HI> 5. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Jones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Elizabeth Coats <HI>of</HI> Drumully <HI>in the County of</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 11.</NOTE> Fermanagh <HI>Widdow.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth, <HI>inter alia.</HI> That &s;he heard &s;ome of the Rebellious company, &s;ay, and ask the Eng|li&s;h Prote&s;tants that were there robbed, what they intended to do, or whether to go, &s;aving unto them: if they went for <HI>Dublin,</HI> that was taken by the Lord <HI>Magwire</HI> upon Saturday before, and there they &s;hould finde &s;mall relief, if for <HI>England,</HI> or <HI>Scotland,</HI> it was as bad there, as here; &s;aying further, that what they did, they had the Kings Commi&s;&s;ion for it.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Elizabeth M Coats</HI> her Mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed this fourth of</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>before us,</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Randal Adams,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Wat&s;on.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Nicholas Willoughby <HI>of the</HI> Carrow <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>E&s;quire.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 12.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That <HI>Con oge mac Mabon</HI> &s;aid, that all the Counties in <HI>Ireland</HI> were in action, or rebellion, as well as <HI>Monaghan</HI> and <HI>Fermanagh,</HI> and that there was warre in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> between the Papi&s;ts and them.</P>
<P>And moreover he &s;aid, That the Iri&s;h were certainly enformed that there was a cour&s;e to be &s;uddainly taken with them, to make them go to Church, or el&s;e to loo&s;e their lives, and that they had &s;een &s;ome writing, or letter to that effect; and &s;aid that <HI>Owen mac Art &ocirc; Neal</HI> was come out of <HI>Spain,</HI> and landed about <HI>Strangford,</HI>
<PB N="35" REF="22">
or that &s;ide, and that he had brought &s;tore of Arms and men with him, and that there were many Red&s;hanks come over out of the Highlands in <HI>Scotland,</HI> to take their parts.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Nicholas Willoughby.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Febr.</HI> 23. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Jones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVill. Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Thomas Crant <HI>of</HI> Cavan <HI>in the County of</HI> Cavan. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 13.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That the &s;aid <HI>Donnagh mac Gwire</HI> expre&s;&s;ing, that he was not made privy to the generall Cau&s;e, untill two or three dayes afore the day came, if he had been made of the Councell, he would advi&s;e other wayes, then to take up Arms; but that now it was &s;o, his hand was in, and that he would not take it cut, and that if the Lord of <HI>Eveskillin</HI> was ill u&s;ed, we &s;hould be farre wor&s;e; and that if he &s;uffered, we &s;hould all be de&s;troyed, not one &s;hould e&s;cape, and that for his part he would never lock for pardon, for that he knew well enough, that they could pick a fault in any pardon, after that he was come in, to de&s;troy him, for that how many pardons &s;oever the Earl of <HI>Tyren</HI> had, as yet they did him no good: Therefore he would not tru&s;t to any, but would &s;tand out to defend his Country with his bloud, Expre&s;&s;ing that the Scots were, and had been alwaies their friends, and that they had a Covenant to &s;hew, whereby it might appear the fair corre&s;pon|dency between them, the Iri&s;h, and the Scors in <HI>Scotland;</HI> which covenant imported, that the Iri&s;h &s;hould never take part with the Engli&s;h again&s;t the Scots; and that the Scots &s;hould never take part with the Engli&s;h again&s;t the Iri&s;h; And that it was &s;o cove|nanted between many of the Lords of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and many of the Lords, and their Gentry of <HI>Ireland;</HI> and that <HI>Hugh mac Mahon</HI> had the Covenant to &s;hew;</P>
<P>Saying, That he was more a Papi&s;t then a Prote&s;tant, and that the Puritan Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> was the cau&s;e of all this, that they had laid a plot, that at the next Se&s;&s;ions of Parliament, here in <HI>Ireland,</HI> that the Papi&s;ts of the hou&s;e &s;hould be all committed to the Ca&s;tle, or murdered, and the Prote&s;tants were to murder all the Papi&s;ts throughout the Kingdom, and that they having intelli|gence of that; Therefore they did begin fir&s;t, and would now
<PB N="36" REF="23">
continue, and that all the whole Kingdom did ri&s;e, as they did the &s;elf &s;ame day the 23. of <HI>October,</HI> and that all the Papi&s;ts in <HI>England</HI> did &s;o that &s;ame day, ri&s;e in Arms again&s;t the Prote&s;tants; and al&s;o that &s;ome Papi&s;t Earls and Lords in <HI>Scotland,</HI> did likewi&s;e &s;o too; So that there was warres in <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Scotland,</HI> as there was here in <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>Divers Women and Children murdered, lying unburied till dogs &s;poiled their Corps, Women with childe murdered, and &s;ome dyed for cold, after being &s;tript forth of their cloaths, lying unburied, that dogs gnawed their Children forth of their Wombs, which this examinate heard &s;ome of the vulgar people report with a cheerfulne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Al&s;o there he heard reported by <HI>Con oge mac Con mac Hugh mac Mahon, Patrick oge mac Ro&s;&s;e Magwyre,</HI> that upon <HI>Chri&s;tmas-</HI>day, they with a matter of a 1000. men, went down to <HI>Eneskillin</HI> fiedge, and there they burnt the hou&s;e of <HI>Li&s;goole,</HI> where into was come of Men, Women, and Children, a matter of fifty &s;ouls of Scots, who they burnt all in the hou&s;e, except Ma&s;ter <HI>Iames Dunbarre</HI> and his Si&s;ter, whom they gave quarter to; and took them forth of a Window, and keepe them pri&s;oners; as al&s;o they had burnt a Ca&s;tle called <HI>Tullin;</HI> wherein was a matter of thirty or forty &s;ouls of Scots, and that as yet they could not do any good on <HI>Moone-</HI>Ca&s;tle, nor of <HI>Eneskillin.</HI></P>
<P>A poor Man was met withall, by a couple of Iri&s;h Women, who knockt him in the head, and killed him, the Lord of <HI>Dun&s;any</HI> &s;ent for the Women, examined the rea&s;on why they did &s;o, they an|&s;wered, that <HI>Barnaby Reyly</HI> was hanged at <HI>Dublin,</HI> and they did it to revenge his death, the Lord of <HI>Dun&s;any</HI> committed them to pri|&s;on, what &s;ince is done with them, this examinate knoweth not.</P>
<P>At my being at <HI>Racaine,</HI> I heard it credibly reported, that on the Sunday before <HI>Chri&s;tmas-</HI>day, that after <HI>Edmund mac Mulmore &ocirc; Rely</HI> had pillaged Bi&s;hop <HI>Bedle</HI> of <HI>Kilmore,</HI> and &s;ent him with his two &s;onnes to <HI>Cloughwater</HI> Ca&s;tle to re&s;traint; That the Romi&s;h Bi&s;hop <HI>Mac Swine,</HI> came to the Church of <HI>Kilmore,</HI> and there did con&s;ecrate it anew, and &s;et up an Altar there, and &s;o &s;aid Ma&s;&s;e, and there liveth in the Bi&s;hops hou&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thom. Crant.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>13. <HI>Febr.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVill. Aldrich.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="37" REF="23">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Elizabeth Parker <HI>late of</HI> Battydu&s;t <HI>in the County</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 14.</NOTE> <HI>of</HI> Catherlagh, <HI>VViddow.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That when &s;he and others were wi&s;hing them&s;elves in <HI>England?</HI> What &s;hould you do in <HI>England,</HI> for it was as bad as in <HI>Ireland;</HI> Be&s;ides, the Seas were very dangerous; and <HI>Comerfords</HI> Wife further &s;aid, that the Queens Prie&s;t was hanged in <HI>England,</HI> which was the cau&s;e of the in&s;urrection in this Kingdom, or to that effect.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>13. <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Elizabeth Parker.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn VVat&s;on.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Ockar Butts <HI>late of</HI> Bollganreagh <HI>in the County</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 15.</NOTE> <HI>of</HI> Wexford, <HI>Gentleman.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That one of the Rebels of the &s;aid company, being (as he &s;aid) the Leader or Commander over them, &s;pake the&s;e words, <HI>viz.</HI> That they had full power and commi&s;&s;ion from their Generall, to execute &s;uch and the like exploits again&s;t the Prote&s;tants; and that we &s;hould have no longer re&s;pite to remain in this Kingdom, then untill the next day following; And that then all Prote&s;tants &s;hould have generall warning to depart this Kingdom upon pain of death. And they then made que&s;tion, whether we &s;hould be permitted to land in any part of <HI>England,</HI> or no. And that &s;uch &s;traight Com|mi&s;&s;ion was granted, and &s;ent over unto their Generall by the Queen, and &s;ome of the be&s;t Nobility of <HI>England.</HI> And al&s;o that they did not neer execute towards us Prote&s;tants, the tenure and rigour of their &s;aid Commi&s;&s;ion; prote&s;ting with great prophane oathes, That they &s;hewed much favour unto us.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Oekar Butts.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 25. 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram nobis,</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Iohn VVat&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Edward Denman <HI>of</HI> Belturbut, <HI>in the Coun|ty of</HI> Cavan, <HI>Merchant.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 16.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate du<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ly &s;worn depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That he ask|ing <HI>John Rely</HI> why they did not meddle with the Scots, he &s;aid the Scots did joyn with them.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Jurat. coram nobis.</HI> <DATE>27 <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Edward Denman.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Wat&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Randall Adams.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="38" REF="24">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of Geo. Fercher of</HI> Toneheye, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fer|managh, <HI>Clerke.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Deponent being duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 17.</NOTE> <HI>Con oge mac Mabon,</HI> of the County of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> and Baro|ny of <HI>Dartrie,</HI> did &s;ay, That what they did again&s;t the Engli&s;h, was done by Commi&s;&s;ion from His Maje&s;ty; and that all the Scot|ti&s;h Nation was joyned with them in a Covenant, for the extirpa|tion of the Engli&s;h; and to that effect he &s;aid he was able to let me &s;ee the Earl of <HI>Argile</HI> his Hand, together with the Hands of the greate&s;t part of the prime Nobility of <HI>Scotland.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 4. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Randall Adams.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Geo. Fercher.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Elizabeth Dickin&s;on, <HI>neer</HI> Clouni&s;h, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That &s;ome of <HI>Rory Magwire</HI> his Company did, in the hearing of this De|ponent, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 18.</NOTE> &s;ay, That the Scots were to leave never a drop of Engli&s;h blood in <HI>England,</HI> and that the Iri&s;h had command to leave never a drop of Engli&s;h blood in <HI>Ireland;</HI> and that they were the Queens Souldiers. And further &s;ayeth not.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 3. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Eliz. Dickin&s;on.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> John Shorter <HI>of</HI> Callahill, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fer|managh.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That they asked this Deponent whither he would go (to whom he <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 19.</NOTE> an&s;wered, For <HI>England)</HI> then &s;aid they, This day <HI>Dublin</HI> Ca&s;tle is taken, the Tower of <HI>London,</HI> and Ca&s;tle of <HI>Edenborougb;</HI> and you have but four and fourty hours to live, and then both Engli&s;h men and women, and children &s;hall be &s;lain.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 5. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Aldrich.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iobn Sborter.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="39" REF="24">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Thomas Knowles <HI>of</HI> Newtown, <HI>alias</HI> Ca&s;tle-cool, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>Yeoman.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That <HI>Hugh mac Mabon,</HI> and one <HI>Patrick Magwire</HI> told this Deponent, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 20.</NOTE> That they had Commi&s;&s;ion from His Maje&s;ty for what they did; and that the &s;ame doings was done thorowout the whole King|dom at that time, their plot having been working for two yeers la&s;t pa&s;t; and that certainly God had a great hand in the &s;ame; all places of the Prote&s;tants abode being taken and yeelded, except three, <HI>viz. London-Derry, Eneskellin,</HI> and another Town, this De|ponent now not remembring the name; and that tho&s;e Towns could not long with&s;tand their Forces, becau&s;e the Lord <HI>Magwire</HI> had taken <HI>Dublin</HI> Ca&s;tle (as they &s;aid) the Saturday before, other|wi&s;e if it had not been taken, and that their plot had been di&s;co|vered, the &s;aid Lord <HI>Magwire</HI> had been with them again upon Sa|turday afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 3. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Tbo. Knowles.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> John Kerdiff, <HI>Rector of the Pari&s;h of</HI> Di&s;erte reagh, <HI>in the Barony of</HI> Dungannon, <HI>and County of</HI> Tyrone.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, <HI>inter alia,</HI> depo&s;eth, and &s;aith, That the Trayterous actions committed, and words &s;poken by the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 21.</NOTE> Rebells again&s;t the Prote&s;tants, were as followeth:</P>
<P><HI>October the</HI> 23, <HI>and</HI> 24, <HI>they &s;urpri&s;ed the&s;e Forts,</HI> Viz.</P>
<P><HI>Dungannon, Charlemont, Ca&s;tle Caufield, Mountjoy, Munnymore, Ca&s;tle Blaney, Monagban, Newry;</HI> in a word, all the chiefe Forts in the Counties of <HI>Armagh</HI> and <HI>Tyrone<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and ran&s;ackt every Town and hou&s;e which belonged either to Engli&s;h-man or Scotti&s;h.</P>
<P>They murthered the very fir&s;t day Mr <HI>Mader,</HI> Mini&s;ter of the Pari&s;h of <HI>Donoghmore,</HI> by &s;ome of the <HI>Donellies:</HI> within a while after, they murthered Mr. <HI>New,</HI> Curate to Mr. <HI>Bradley,</HI> of the Church of <HI>Ardtra,</HI> by one of the The Mi|ni&s;ter of <HI>Dungannon</HI> (Mr. <HI>Blyth)</HI> with eight more, were murthered, being fir&s;t &s;tript, and after driven out of the Town, under colour of Conduct; and within half a mile to the Town murthered Mr. <HI>Blyth,</HI> holding Sir <HI>Phelomies</HI> protection in his hand, as if he would
<PB N="40" REF="25">
call Gods vengeance down on &s;uch treacherous truce-breakers.</P>
<P>It was al&s;o related to me, that Mr. <HI>Fullerton,</HI> Mini&s;ter of <HI>Lough|gale,</HI> and Ma&s;ter <HI>Morgan Aubery</HI> were kild at the Bridge of <HI>Port of Downe,</HI> at which time about eighty or an hundred of the Inhabi|tants of <HI>Loughgale</HI> were ca&s;t into the River and there drowned.</P>
<P>Many more Murthers were committed on the Engli&s;h and Scotch.</P>
<DIV3 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>Robberies.</HEAD>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>Bradley</HI> was robbed to the value of one thou&s;and pounds, and while&s;t he was robbing, Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neal</HI> and his company pa&s;&s;ed by, and &s;oone after he was turned out naked out of his hou&s;e; the Rebels neither leaving Dublet, Coate, Hat, nor Shirt, with him. His Wife is falne into an extream frenzey by the&s;e out|rages.</P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>Dunbarre</HI> Mini&s;ter of <HI>Donoghemie,</HI> with his Wife, and five or &s;ix &s;mall Children, with an old Father and Mother, were all of them &s;tript and robbed of what&s;oever Goods, or wearing Cloaths they had; &s;o that for a while the man was di&s;tracted, and after compelled to tye &s;ome &s;traw about his thighs, to cover his naked|ne&s;&s;e, and was whipt as I was certainly informed, and what is be|come of him, his wife, or children, no man in the County could tell me, though I lived within three miles of him.</P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>VVright,</HI> Archdeacon of <HI>Dromore,</HI> had his hou&s;e which co&s;t him much, burnt; I &s;aw him&s;elf, his wife, and two children, in extream mi&s;ery at <HI>Charlemont,</HI> from whence they journied to <HI>Kinard.</HI></P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>Robin&s;on,</HI> Mini&s;ter of <HI>Kinard,</HI> and his wife, lived mi&s;e|rably at <HI>Loughgale,</HI> having nothing left to &s;atisfie nature, but what they could procure by others di&s;tre&s;&s;ed like.</P>
<P>Ma&s;ter <HI>Ha&s;ting,</HI> Mini&s;ter of <HI>Tullaniskin,</HI> was turned out of his lodging, and &s;tript &s;tarke naked, and clad in beggars Cloaths, no a Shoe to his Foot, in which &s;tate he came to the hou&s;e, wherein I was lodged, where the people of the hou&s;e dur&s;t not give him lodging, fearing lea&s;t he &s;hould be murthered; for twice the next day, there was &s;earch made for him.</P>
<P>Sir <HI>VVilliam Brumley</HI> had his Town and Ca&s;tle burned, and all his goods taken away.</P>
<P>What &s;hall I &s;ay more, All the Engli&s;h and Scotch in the Coun+ties
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of <HI>Armagh</HI> and <HI>Tyrone</HI> (a few onely excepted) were not left worth a farthing.</P>
<P>At <HI>Armagh</HI> Archdeacon <HI>Maxwell</HI> related, That about fourty men, women, and children were drowned at <HI>Cor</HI> Bridge, neer <HI>Gla&s;lough;</HI> the children going merrily hand in hand, as to a place of refuge; and one of their company having licen&s;e to pray, pray|ed &s;o effectually, that one of his Executioners went frantick with the conceit of his impious fact.</P>
<P>The words which I took notice of, were the&s;e: Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neal</HI> told, in my hearing, That he had Commi&s;&s;ion for what he did, not only from mo&s;t of the chief of the Nobility of this Kingdom, but from his Maje&s;ty; and had al&s;o Letters to that pur|po&s;e from the Earl of <HI>Argile.</HI></P>
<P>And that their intentions were onely for the liberty of their Religion, and for the recovery of their Lands, which &s;hould appear by the Law of the Land to be unju&s;tly held from them.</P>
<P>Colonell <HI>Plunket</HI> told us at <HI>Armagh,</HI> That &s;eeing this exploit was begun, he was one of the chief plotters thereof, and was &s;even yeers emplyed in the compa&s;&s;ing of it.</P>
<P>Frier <HI>Malone</HI> of <HI>Skerries</HI> did take the poor mens Bibles, which he found in the Boat, and cut them in pieces, and ca&s;t them into the fire, with the&s;e words, That he would deal in like manner with all Prote&s;tant and Puritan Bibles.</P>
<P>At Ma&s;ter <HI>Connors</HI> hou&s;e (where the Frier was) they had <HI>Hanmors</HI> Chronicle, out of which they animated the Rebells with the Story of the <HI>Danes</HI> Di&s;comfiture by the Iri&s;h, though for the mo&s;t part unarmed, and paralelled the Hi&s;tory with the&s;e times.</P>
<P>This Frier acknowledged that he was fourteen yeers employed to bring this de&s;igne to pa&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>At <HI>Donga<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">non</HI> they reported of a Vi&s;ion &s;een a little before this In&s;urrection began, A woman compa&s;&s;ing about the Town with a Spear in her hand; when any would approach her, &s;he would &s;eem to go from them; when any would go from her, &s;he would draw neer unto them: The like, they &s;ay, appeared before <HI>Tyrones</HI> former Rebellion.</P>
<P>At <HI>Armagh,</HI> Colonell <HI>Pluncket</HI> told us of another Vi&s;ion
<PB N="42" REF="26">
&s;een at <HI>Li&s;neigarvey,</HI> which he and about twenty more beheld, after the Battle (wherein the Iri&s;h lo&s;t very many of their men, and mo&s;t of their Arms) There was an hou&s;e &s;et on fire at the end of the Town; by the light of which fire, they di&s;cerned a number of Hor&s;e-men riding to and fro; the number &s;eemed to the Colonell, to be about a Thou&s;and, or Fifteen hundred: Upon which relati|on, I was bold to enquire whether they &s;eemed their own, or their enemies: he an&s;wered, That &s;ometime they conceived them their own, other while their enemies.</P>
<P>Yet I believed they could hardly &s;eem their own, becau&s;e a|mong&s;t them they had not neer &s;o many Hor&s;es. I further de&s;ired to know what they &s;uppo&s;ed them to be: he &s;aid, They were conceived to be Fayries, or &s;uch like.</P>
<P>At <HI>Ardtra</HI> we were &s;et upon by &s;ome of the Scots (of whom <HI>Robert Stewart,</HI> brother to the Lord of <HI>Ca&s;tle-Stewart</HI> was chief&punc;) who took &s;ome of the goods out of the hou&s;e, and many of our hor&s;es and Arms from us.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Jurat. ult.</HI> <DATE><HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Kerdiff.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Edward How, <HI>of the Pari&s;h of</HI> Galoon, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>Clerke.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That he heard <HI>Donagh mac Quire</HI> &s;ay (when <HI>Hugh mac Mahon,</HI> of the County <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 22.</NOTE> of <HI>Fermanagh</HI> excu&s;ed my Lord <HI>Magwire,</HI> and &s;aid, that others had per&s;waded him of late to &s;tirre in this action) That my Lord <HI>Magwire</HI> knew of it long before, and all the Nobility and men of quality that were papi&s;ts in this Kingdom: Moreover I heard <HI>Con+oge mac Con mac Hugh mac Mahon,</HI> of <HI>Aghnebolah,</HI> and County of <HI>Monaghan</HI> &s;ay, That if my Lord Lievtenant had not been put to death, they had not made this In&s;urrection. Further I heard him &s;ay, That there was an Act made by the pre&s;ent Parliament of <HI>England,</HI> That all Papi&s;ts there, or el&s;e-where in this Kingdom, &s;hould go to Church, otherwi&s;e be hanged at their own doors, and therefore they would begin with us, le&s;t we &s;hould begin with
<PB N="43" REF="26">
them here, as they did in <HI>England;</HI> for he &s;aid they had hanged a Je&s;uite in <HI>London,</HI> which was the Queens Chaplain. And further this Deponent cannot &s;ay.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 29. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Edw. How.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> George Cook, <HI>late of</HI> Li&s;&s;negney, <HI>in the Coun|ty of</HI> Cavan, <HI>Yeoman: And of</HI> John Cook <HI>his &s;on.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Deponent being duly &s;worn, <HI>inter alia,</HI> depo&s;eth And further &s;aith, That as he and his wife and chil|dren <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 23.</NOTE> fled away towards <HI>Dublin,</HI> they met at <HI>Kells</HI> with a Pro|te&s;tant Mini&s;ter, by name Ma&s;ter <HI>Sharpe,</HI> who had three children, and carryed two of them on his back; whom the Rebells percei|ving to be a Prote&s;tant Mini&s;ter, did mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly hack, cut in pieces, and murther, thru&s;ting into his body three or four pikes together, and threw him into a ditch of water, where they left him: but becau&s;e the Deponent fled to &s;ave his life, he cannot tell what became of the &s;aid Mini&s;ters poor children. And the Depo|ponent <HI>John Cook</HI> further &s;aith, That the &s;ame night one <HI>Tir|logh Brady</HI> took away the Deponents fathers goods: he the &s;aid <HI>Tirlogh</HI> told the Deponent, That that action was a great Rebel|lion, and that all the papi&s;ts in <HI>Ireland</HI> were in Rebellion again&s;t the King and Coun&s;ell, and that the Lord <HI>mac Guire</HI> had then taken the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Dublin;</HI> And that the Prote&s;tants mu&s;t be ba|ni&s;hed out of the Kingdom, and the papi&s;ts would have the &s;ame them&s;elves. And about the &s;ame time one <HI>Tirlogh &ocirc; Gowen alias Smith,</HI> a popi&s;h prie&s;t, demanded the Key of the Church of <HI>Lara</HI> of this Deponents brother: which being delivered unto him, he the &s;aid <HI>Tirlogh</HI> &s;aid, that the papi&s;ts would have their Churches Lands and Kingdom from the Engli&s;h, and be no more &s;laves to the Engli&s;h as they had been, or el&s;e they would lo&s;e their lives.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE><HI>Jan.</HI> 22. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>George Cooke.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Aldrich.</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Cooke.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="44" REF="27">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> John Je&s;op <HI>of</HI> Cloynmoore <HI>in the County of</HI> Kildare. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 24.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne, de&s;po&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That he hath credibly heard, that all the Papi&s;ts in the County of <HI>Wex|ford,</HI> and <HI>Kilkenney,</HI> and in all the Counties of <HI>Ireland,</HI> are Actors, Abettors, or at lea&s;t &s;ecret well-wi&s;hers unto this Rebellion.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn Ie&s;op.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>8. <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram nobis.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>W<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ll. Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> John Greg <HI>of</HI> Levilegli&s;h <HI>in the County of</HI> Ar|magh <HI>Yeoman.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 25.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That His Wife and five &s;mall Children are in the Rebels hands, who were mo&s;t cruelly &s;tripped before he left them, even to the childe that &s;ucked the bre&s;t; further he &s;aith, that his &s;aid Wife being &s;tripped to the skin by one of the Donnells, was by him mo&s;t cru|elly beaten with his drawn Sword in a triumphing and rejoycing manner, and with &s;inging.</P>
<P>Further he &s;aith one Captain <HI>Art &ocirc; Neal,</HI> of the Pari&s;h of <HI>Le|vilegli&s;h</HI> afore&s;aid, Gentleman, who pretended friend&s;hip to him, &s;aid that unle&s;&s;e he would take up Arms, and go to Ma&s;&s;e, there was no hope of his life, unto whom he replyed, that that was great cruelty, neither to &s;uffer him the &s;aid <HI>Gregg</HI> to live a &s;lave a|mong&s;t them, nor &s;uffer him to pa&s;&s;e into his Native Countrey, unto whom the &s;aid Captain replyed, that neither of tho&s;e reque&s;ts would be granted, affirming that it was intended by them, not to leave an Engli&s;h Prote&s;tant alive in this Kingdom, and that there was no hope of peace for tenne yeers to come.</P>
<P>He further &s;aith, That in the afore&s;aid Pari&s;h, there were divers Engli&s;h-men, mo&s;t cruelly murthered, &s;ome twice, &s;ome thrice hanged up, and others wounded, and left half-dead, crying la|mentably for &s;ome to come and end their mi&s;ery by killing them out.</P>
<P>And further he &s;aith, That the names of the chiefe&s;t of the Re|bels in tho&s;e parts, are <HI>Phelomy &ocirc; Neal</HI> of <HI>Kinnard</HI> in the County
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of <HI>Tyron,</HI> Knight, and <HI>Turlagh &ocirc; Neal</HI> E&s;quire, his Brother, and one Colonell <HI>Pluncket,</HI> and Captain <HI>Manus oge &ocirc; Caban</HI> of the County of <HI>Armagh,</HI> Gentlemen, and <HI>Redmond &ocirc; Mullan,</HI> of the <HI>Grange</HI> in the County of <HI>Tyron,</HI> Gentleman, and <HI>Patrick &ocirc; Mullan</HI> now of <HI>Armagh,</HI> Gentleman, who wrote Proclamations in His Maje&s;ties Name.</P>
<P>And further he &s;aith, That he heard by credible Engli&s;h-men, that the &s;aid <HI>Phelomy &ocirc; Neal</HI> affirmed, that his taking up Arms was by His Maje&s;ty, and the Queens con&s;ent, and the Parliament in this Kingdom; and further that one Captain <HI>Shane &ocirc; Neal,</HI> in the County of <HI>Tyron,</HI> &s;tiled the &s;aid <HI>Phelomy &ocirc; Neal,</HI> with the title and &s;tile of His Maje&s;ty.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn Greg.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>7. <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram nobis.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Will. Hitchcock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Henry Raynolds <HI>of</HI> Cornemuekley <HI>in the Coun|ty of</HI> Cavan, <HI>Yeoman.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 26.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That he heard one who&s;e name, as he thinks is, <HI>Ferdoragh</HI> (an Iri&s;h Prie&s;t) &s;ay that they had the Kings hand for what they did, and the cau&s;e of there ri&s;ing, was becau&s;e, there was a Statute made in <HI>England,</HI> that all papi&s;ts &s;hould go to Church before a certain time, or be bani&s;hed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. Raynolds.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us.</HI> <DATE>4. <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Io. Wat&s;on.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Charles Crafford <HI>of</HI> Navan <HI>in the County of</HI> Meath, <HI>Gentleman.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 27.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That the rea&s;on generally given by them for their doing, was, that they had found a Letter, wherein the Engli&s;h had re&s;olved to hang the Iri&s;h at their doors, if they would not go to Church; and that therefore they would begin with the Engli&s;h fir&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Charles &punc; Craffords</HI> Mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>22. <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED>Roger Puttock,</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Io. Sterne,</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Ioh,</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>VVat&s;on,</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>VVill. Aldrich.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="46" REF="28">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> John Wood <HI>of</HI> New-Rath <HI>in the County of</HI> Wicklow, <HI>Gentleman.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 28.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That the&s;e words were &s;poken by <HI>Nicholas Byrne, James mac Cahire,</HI> and divers other of the Rebels, that they were di&s;contented Gentle|men; and having their Lands unju&s;tly taken away by the Plantati|on, could not have any &s;atisfaction, but by the Sword; Therefore it was their Colonell <HI>Luke Tooles</HI> plea&s;ure, that all Prote&s;tants &s;hould depart the Kingdom upon pain of death: And for <HI>Dublin</HI> if that did &s;tand out long with them, they made no que&s;tion to burn it; but if they could take it, and not fire it, &s;o they might have the head of my Lord <HI>Par&s;ons,</HI> and three or four more of the chiefe&s;t of the City, all the re&s;t &s;hould fare &s;o much the better.</P>
<P>And they further &s;aid, That there was an Act of Parliament in <HI>England,</HI> that all papi&s;ts in <HI>Ireland,</HI> &s;hould upon pain of death, either go to Church, or be bani&s;hed the Kingdom by &s;uch a day of the moneth, which as I take it, was by the 24. of <HI>November;</HI> And therefore they de&s;ired liberty of con&s;cience, and to enjoy all that Land which there predece&s;&s;ors did formerly enjoy. For why &s;hould not they have there demands, as well as the Scots.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John Wood.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>17. <HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Stern,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Randall Adams.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Henry Steel, <HI>Curate of</HI> Cluntubbrid.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That when they <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 29.</NOTE> were impri&s;oned in the Dungeon in the County Goal, (all the robbers and rogues fir&s;t &s;et at liberty) they remained there in a mo&s;t mi&s;erable e&s;tate, there being in number, about forty eight, more or le&s;&s;e, where they had no roome to &s;tand or lye.</P>
<P>And further depo&s;eth, That he by Gods great mercy being en|larged, his wife yet pri&s;oner in <HI>Ca&s;tle-Blaney,</HI> he came away with one Ma&s;ter <HI>Barnewell,</HI> and being in a place called <HI>Cabret,</HI> where one Ma&s;ter <HI>Fleming</HI> liveth, who&s;e Daughter is married to the Lord <HI>Magwire,</HI> he heard the &s;ervants of the hou&s;e, and other Iri&s;h relating that this <HI>Magwire,</HI> and the popi&s;h Primate, who&s;e Sirname is <HI>Rely,</HI> were a long &s;pace travelling through the King|dome
<PB N="47" REF="28">
together, to per&s;wade them all to condi&s;cend to this mo&s;t inhumane plot, and this <HI>Rely</HI> was then at this <HI>Flemings</HI> hou&s;e.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. Steel.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed this</HI> <DATE>10. <HI>of Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Will. Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Katherine Graunt <HI>of</HI> Navan <HI>in the County of</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 30.</NOTE> Meath, <HI>Widdow.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That the whole Town and Corporation of the <HI>Navan</HI> made good pre|paration for the entertainment of the Northern Rebels in victuals and drink for them; very many of them went to the Rebels be|fore they came to Town, and generally all of them, met them with great joy, and welcoming of them when they came to Town.</P>
<P>She further depo&s;eth, That &s;he heard the Prie&s;t that came with the Rebels from the North, (and the Prie&s;t of the <HI>Navan,</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Fay</HI> among them, as &s;he verily beleeveth) all charging divers of the Captains not to go back, nor come in upon the Proclamation of pardon, that came from the State; for if they did, they were all undone.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Kath. &punc; Graunts</HI> Mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed this</HI> <DATE>5. <HI>of Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Hugh Madden, <HI>late of</HI> Kirreke <HI>in the County of</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 31.</NOTE> Wickloe, <HI>Gentleman.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That after he had been fir&s;t be&s;iedged, by at lea&s;t eight hundred of the Rebels, having conference with &s;ome of them, they then gave out in words, that that bu&s;ine&s;&s;e which they had begun, they would pur&s;ue till it were effected, and would not look for a par|don for the &s;ame, or to that effect.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hugh Madden.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>23. <HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Iohn VVat&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="48" REF="29">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> John Right, <HI>late of</HI> Newtown, <HI>alias</HI> Ca&s;tle-c<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ol, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>Butcher.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That <HI>Rory</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 32.</NOTE> <HI>Magwire</HI> &s;hewed to him, and others whom he then robbed, a Parchment or paper with a great Seal affixed, which he affirmed to be a Warrant from the Kings Maje&s;ty for what he did. And he further depo&s;eth, That when he and his neighbours then rob|bed, complained of their mi&s;erable condition, being robbed and &s;tripped: the &s;aid <HI>Rory</HI> replyed, That if they were not content with what was done, they &s;hould &s;ee wor&s;e within a few dayes.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn Right.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jurat.</HI> <DATE><HI>Jan.</HI> 5. 1641.</DATE> <HI>coram nobis.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Randall Adams,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Sterne,</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> George French <HI>of</HI> Karbery, <HI>in the County of</HI> Kildare.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That he <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 33.</NOTE> demanded of the Rebells why they dealt &s;o with <HI>VVilliam Coleman;</HI> to whom <HI>Luke Brumingham</HI> an&s;wered, That they had a Commi&s;&s;ion from His Maje&s;ty for what they did; and <HI>Gerald Fitz Gerald</HI> of <HI>Carbery</HI> afore&s;aid read the Commi&s;&s;ion: that was a &s;uppo|&s;ed Commi&s;&s;ion from His Maje&s;ty to take away all Engli&s;h mens goods.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Geo. &punc; French his mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>1 <HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>cor.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Randall Adams.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Jane Mansfeild, <HI>lately of the Pari&s;h of</HI> Ca&s;tle-Jordan, <HI>VVidow.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That &s;he <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 34.</NOTE> coming towards <HI>Dublin,</HI> in her way coming to one Ma&s;ter <HI>Philip Fitz-Gerralds</HI> hou&s;e, neer <HI>Miltowne,</HI> in the County of <HI>Kil|dare,</HI> this Deponent heard him utter the&s;e words: We are like to have great troubles, but we mu&s;t all ri&s;e in Arms, and not leave an Engli&s;h-man in <HI>Ireland;</HI> and that the King was on their &s;ide in the North among them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Jane Mansfeild.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed</HI> <DATE>3 <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="49" REF="29">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Henry Palmer <HI>late of</HI> Fetherd, <HI>in the County of</HI> Wexford, <HI>Brick-layer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate being duely &s;worn <HI>inter alia,</HI> depo&s;eth; That <HI>Dermot mac Dowling Cavanagh,</HI> Head of the Rebells there, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 35.</NOTE> and his company, &s;aid to this Deponent with others, Be gone you Engli&s;h dogges; for we do onely take your goods now, but wor&s;e &s;hall follow: And they went into the Church, and cut the Pulpit-Cloth and the Mini&s;ters Books in pieces, and &s;trewed them about the Church-yard, and cau&s;ed the piper to play while&s;t they danced and trampled them under their feet, and called the Mini&s;ter dog, and &s;tript him out of his clothes: And that they wounded &s;eve|rall per&s;ons that were in the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Fetherd,</HI> and the Town there; of which, &s;ome, by rea&s;on of their wounds, cold, and want, died. And what clothes this Deponent had left, being but mean, coming to <HI>Dublin,</HI> were al&s;o taken from him: And the Iri&s;h denyed them lodging and relief, in&s;omuch that they were con&s;trayned to lie out of doors naked all night. And further &s;aith, That one <HI>Wel&s;h</HI> of <HI>Killcullen</HI> Bridge, in the County of <HI>Kil|dare,</HI> Inne-Keeper, after that this Deponent was robbed and &s;trip|ped, told this Deponent, That he the &s;aid <HI>VVel&s;h</HI> knew, that the King was in the North of <HI>Ireland,</HI> and rode di&s;gui&s;ed, and had gla&s;&s;en eyes, becau&s;e he would not be known.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Henry Palmer.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>12 <HI>January,</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram nobis,</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> John Perkins, <HI>of</HI> Sleigkogh, <HI>in the County of</HI> Cavan.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duly &s;worn depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That they &s;aid that the King was dead, and that the young King went to <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 36.</NOTE> Ma&s;&s;e; and they were the Queens &s;ouldiers, and we were Tray|tors. And the &s;aid words were affirmed by <HI>Cormack mac Cloney,</HI> Pari&s;h-Prie&s;t of <HI>Killan.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Iohn</HI> I. P. <HI>Parkins his mark.</HI></SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE>8 <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="50" REF="30">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Tho. Midlebrook <HI>of</HI> Leagne Caffry, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>Yeoman.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That on the 26 day of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, he heard <HI>Cahell Boy mac Dermott</HI> &s;ay, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 37.</NOTE> That within one fortnight they &s;hould have a new King of <HI>Ice|land</HI> Crowned one of the <HI>&ocirc; Neals,</HI> or words to that effect: which words were &s;poken by the &s;aid <HI>Cahell,</HI> in the pre&s;ence of <HI>Alice Tibs,</HI> this Deponents &s;i&s;ter, and <HI>Avis Brai&s;haw,</HI> wife of <HI>Iohn Brai&s;haw.</HI> And further, that he hoth heard that the Rebells had murthered about three&s;core Engli&s;h Prote&s;tants (that lived in good manner within the &s;aid pari&s;h.) And further &s;aith, That there cannot be &s;o few as one hundred Engli&s;h Prote&s;tants (that lived in good manner within the &s;aid pari&s;h) peri&s;hed and dead &s;ince the &s;aid Re|bells did bani&s;h and drive them from their habitations.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 4. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry Brereton.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Tho.</HI> I. <HI>Midlebrook.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>his mark.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Alice Tibs <HI>of</HI> Ringvilly, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fer|managh, <HI>widow.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That &s;he heard <HI>Cahell Boy mac Dermott</HI> of <HI>Killrout,</HI> in the County afore|&s;aid, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 38.</NOTE> Yeoman, &s;ay, That <HI>Dublin</HI> Ca&s;tle was taken, and that they could afford the Engli&s;h two or three Barrells of Powder; and that the Iri&s;h within one fortnight would have a new King, or words to that effect: which words he &s;pake in the hearing of this Deponent, <HI>Avis Brai&s;haw,</HI> wife to <HI>Iohn Brai&s;haw,</HI> and <HI>Thomas Milebrooke,</HI> the five and twentieth day of <HI>October:</HI> And did after hear another Iri&s;h man (who&s;e name &s;he knoweth not) &s;ay, That it was pity that any of the Engli&s;h or their breed &s;hould be &s;uffer|ed to live, for fear they &s;hould grow &s;trong again; or words to that effect.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>This depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE>Jan. 4. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Alict &V;V. Tibs</ITEM>
<ITEM>her mark.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="51" REF="30">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Avis Brai&s;haw, <HI>late of</HI> Agheruskie Moore, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter aliae,</HI> That &s;he <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 39.</NOTE> heard <HI>Cahell Boy mac Dermott</HI> of <HI>Kilrout,</HI> in the County afore|&s;aid, &s;ay, That <HI>Dublin</HI> Ca&s;tle was taken, and that they could af|ford the Engli&s;h three or four Barrells of Powder, and that the Iri&s;h would have a new King within a fortnight after: which words, or to that effect, he &s;pake in the hearing of this Deponent, <HI>Tho. Midlebrook,</HI> and <HI>Alice Tibs,</HI> the 25 day of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>This depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE>Jan. 4 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Avis &V;&V; Brai&s;haw</ITEM>
<ITEM>her mark.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Rich. Knowles <HI>of</HI> Newtowne, <HI>alias Ca&s;tle-Cool, in the County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>Yeoman.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That there <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 40.</NOTE> is one hundred of the &s;aid pari&s;hioners (that lived in good rank and fa&s;hion) &s;ince they were driven out of their habitati|ons, and bani&s;hed by the &s;aid rebellious Iri&s;h (being all Engli&s;h Prote&s;tants) peri&s;hed and dead: And this Deponent is the rather confident that there is one hundred or more dead, by rea&s;on they dayly die in &s;uch abundance; this Deponent well knowing the &s;aid pari&s;hioners, being his neighbours; and this Deponent be|ing a Butcher by Trade, had &s;ome dealing with the mo&s;t of them.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed this</HI> <DATE>10 <HI>of</HI> Jan. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Iohn VVat&s;on:</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Aldrich.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>Rich.</HI> R. <HI>Knowls his mark.</HI></ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Robert Barton <HI>of</HI> Newtowne, <HI>alias</HI> Ca&s;tle-cool, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>Black-&s;mith.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>iuter alia,</HI> That &s;ome <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 41.</NOTE> Iri&s;h Rebells neer unto <HI>Virginia,</HI> in the way towards <HI>Rells,</HI> did &s;trip this Deponent, and &s;aid, That they had a new King, and Commi&s;&s;ion from him for what they did. And further depo&s;eth, That he heard that Captain <HI>Rory,</HI> or &s;ome other of his Company, had murthered of the &s;aid pari&s;hioners, to the number of fourty, or thereabouts.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE>Jan. 5. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Iohn Brereton,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="52" REF="31">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Hugh Culme <HI>of</HI> Leitrim <HI>in the County of</HI> Mo|naghan, <HI>Gentleman.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 42.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That he was told that one <HI>Art mac Mahown,</HI> who lived in the Pari&s;h of <HI>Tehollan,</HI> &s;aid that they which &s;poke Engli&s;h, &s;hould pay 10^s to the King; the party to whom he &s;poke it, de&s;ired to know what King de&s;ired it, his an&s;wers was, what other King, but the Earl of <HI>Tyrone.</HI></P>
<P>And this Deponent heard one <HI>Thomas mac Aleares</HI> wife, of the &s;ame County and Pari&s;h, &s;ay, that Captain <HI>Bryan mac Mahon</HI> of <HI>Tehollan,</HI> &s;aid he would hang any that would &s;peak Engli&s;h. And heard the prie&s;t <HI>mac Clerey</HI> of <HI>Tehollan</HI> &s;ay, that all the Engli&s;h in <HI>Monaghan</HI> mu&s;t be hanged, I asked him why, he &s;aid, meat was &s;oarce, and they would not be at the charge to keep us.</P>
<P>And heard more by very hone&s;t men, that Mr. <HI>Cottingham</HI> Mi|ni&s;ter of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> being in a Dungeon bolted, de&s;ired for Gods &s;ake to get a little &s;traw to lye upon, being put to &s;uch extre|mitie.</P>
<P>And that Mr. <HI>Richard Blaney</HI> Ju&s;tice of Peace in the County of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> was hanged in this manner.</P>
<P><HI>Art Roe mac Bryan Sanaght</HI> of <HI>Hi&s;lough</HI> in the County of <HI>Mo|naghan,</HI> Mar&s;hall to the Rebels, came to Mr. <HI>Blaney</HI> to the Dun|geon, and de&s;ired him to come out to &s;peak with him, when he came out to him, he led him to my Lord <HI>Blaneys</HI> Orchard in <HI>Mo|naghan,</HI> and &s;aid to him, do you remember, how you hanged my Brother, and made me flye my Country for three yeers; but I will hang you before you go, but if you will, you &s;hall have a prie&s;t, he &s;aid no, but he de&s;ired to have Ma&s;ter <HI>Cottingham,</HI> the Mini&s;ter of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> but they would not, but hanged him there, and flung him in a Ditch, and he was two dayes unburied.</P>
<P>And this Deponent heard that there was one <HI>Luke VVard</HI> a Scotchman, which had indicted a man, the quarter Se&s;&s;ions before this ri&s;ing, the &s;ame man came to him where he was in the Goal, and carried him to an Alehou&s;e, and made him drunk, and when he had done, carried him into the back&s;ide and hanged him, after
<PB N="53" REF="31">
he was cut down, they flung him into a River, and I could never hear that he was buried.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hugh Culme.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 25. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED>
<POSTSCRIPT>
<P>I heard Ma&s;ter <HI>Mountgomery,</HI> Mini&s;ter, and Ma&s;ter <HI>Hollis</HI> with &s;everall other men of good worth, report, that the Sunday before this ri&s;ing of the Rebels, that there was &s;een a Sword hanging in the ayre, with the point downwards, the half &s;eeming to be red, and the point turned round.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hugh Culme.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</POSTSCRIPT></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e</HI> Martha Culme <HI>of</HI> Leitrim <HI>in the</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 43.</NOTE> <HI>County of</HI> Monaghan.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That &s;he be|ing by the R<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">bels forced from her dwelling, and robbed of all her goods, &s;he was enforced to &s;hift from place to place, for &s;afe|guard of her life: particularly at <HI>VVilliam Boy, Flemings</HI> hou&s;e, in the Pari&s;h of <HI>Tehollan,</HI> in the County of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> where &s;he did hear the &s;aid <HI>Fleming</HI> in dete&s;tation of the cruelty of the Rebels, to relate that while Sir <HI>Phelomy &ocirc; Neal</HI> did lye with his forces before the <HI>Ogber,</HI> in the County of <HI>Tyrone,</HI> the Iri&s;h women would follow after the Iri&s;h Rebell Souldiers, and put them forward in cruelty, with the&s;e and &s;uch words, &s;pare neither man, woman, nor childe, God &s;o pitty your &s;ouls, as you pitty them, intending tho&s;e words, to cruelty.</P>
<P>This Examinate further &s;aith, That in the &s;aid Flemings hou&s;e, one <HI>Art mac Patrick mac Toole Boy mac Mahon</HI> of the Barony of <HI>Balline Cargy</HI> in the &s;aid Pari&s;h, &s;peaking to this Examinate in Iri&s;h, &s;he de&s;ired he would deliver him&s;elf in Engli&s;h, for &s;he un|der&s;tood not Iri&s;h, he an&s;wered in Engli&s;h, that &s;uch as &s;pake Engli&s;h, &s;hould forfeit ten &s;hillings to the King, what King &s;aith this Examinate have we, that will not allow the &s;peaking of Eng|li&s;h, what King &s;aith he, but the Earl of <HI>Tyrone,</HI> &s;he asked where the Earl was, he an&s;wered in the North, where he was landed
<PB N="54" REF="32">
with 40000. Spaniards, whereof 10000. were then with Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neal.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Martba Culme.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Feb.</HI> 14. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Henry Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Elizabeth Gough <HI>late of</HI> Ballanenagh <HI>in the</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 44.</NOTE> <HI>County of</HI> Cavan <HI>Spin&s;ter.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth, <HI>inter alia.</HI> That the Iri&s;h purpo&s;ed to have a King of their own in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and that <HI>Phelomy &ocirc; Neal</HI> &s;hould be he.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Elizabeth&punc; Gough her</HI> Mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Feb.</HI> 8. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Jones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Anne Gill <HI>of</HI> Newtown <HI>in the County of</HI> Fer|managh, <HI>Widdow.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 45.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That when <HI>Rory Magwire</HI> had taken the Church at <HI>Newtown,</HI> afore&s;aid, he the &s;aid <HI>Rory</HI> (in the pre&s;ence and hearing of this Deponent, and a great many of his neighbors, the Kings Maje&s;ties loving Subjects) gave forth that it was to no purpo&s;e for them to fly to <HI>Dublin,</HI> for &s;uccour, for <HI>Dublin</HI> was taken by the Lord <HI>Magwire,</HI> who was to be King of <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Anne L Gill</HI> her Mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>29. <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Stern,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Aldrich.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Elizabeth Vau&s;e <HI>late of</HI> Creigs toune Longh|field <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 46.</NOTE> <HI>in the County of</HI> Leitrim, <HI>Widdow.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That when this Deponent asked why the Rebels &s;o robbed them, they asked again who &s;ent you over, and being an&s;wered, that God and the King did it, they the &s;aid Rebells, &s;aid let your King fetch you out again.</P>
<P>And &s;aith further, That the &s;aid Rebels burned divers hou&s;es, and two Children, and one old Man in them; and that very many Prote&s;tants that fled for &s;afety and &s;uccour to the Ca&s;tle of Sir
<PB N="55" REF="32">
<HI>James Craige</HI> Knight, being neer them, were there fami&s;hed, &s;tar|ved, and dyed, for want of means.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Eliz.&punc; Vau&s;e</HI> her mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>9. <HI>die Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Nicholas Michael <HI>of</HI> Farnan <HI>in the County of</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 47.</NOTE> Cavan.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That the par|ties that robbed this Deponent, &s;aid they have an Iri&s;h King among&s;t them, and they regarded not King <HI>Charles</HI> the King of <HI>England.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Nich. &dram; Michaels&punc;</HI> mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 15. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>VVill. Hitchcock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Andrew Fo&s;ter <HI>of</HI> Mocredin <HI>alias</HI> Caryetsfort <HI>in the County of</HI> Wickloe, <HI>Gentleman.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 48.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That the Rebels &s;aid, that they would within a week burn <HI>Dublin,</HI> and that neither King nor Queen &s;hould govern <HI>Ireland</HI> any lon|ger, for they would govern it them&s;elves.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Andrew Fo&s;ter.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>17. <HI>Febr.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>VVilliam Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Richard Witton <HI>of</HI> Kilnane <HI>in the County of</HI> Wickloe, <HI>Miller.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 49.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That <HI>Luke Burne</HI> Gentleman of <HI>Kilnane</HI> &s;aid, he would have their religi|on flouri&s;h, no thanks to King or Subject.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Rich. Witton.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed this</HI> <DATE>11. <HI>of Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Will. Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVill. Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="56" REF="33">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Edward Taylor <HI>late of Saint</HI> Margarets <HI>alias</HI> Raven <HI>in the County of</HI> Wexford, <HI>Clerk.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 50.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That one <HI>Piers Synnot</HI> of <HI>Ballyvodogg</HI> in the &s;aid County, and his &s;onne <HI>David,</HI> and other their complices before this Rebellion bur&s;t out, did di&s;po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e this Deponent of his Goods and Church livings, into which he was long &s;ince inve&s;ted by His Maje&s;ties pre&s;entati|on, for which abu&s;e this Deponent impleaded &s;ome of them in this la&s;t Parliament at <HI>Dublin,</HI> and a little before the beginning of this &s;aid Rebellion, he &s;hewed the &s;aid <HI>David</HI> an Order from the &s;aid Parliament, for this Deponents quiet enjoying his &s;aid Church Livings, and re&s;titution of the profits thereof, by them wrongfully detained, to which the &s;aid <HI>David Synnot</HI> an&s;wered, That he cared not for that and that it was no Parliament, but meet him at <HI>Dublin</HI> in <HI>Michaelmas-</HI>Term next and que&s;tion him if he dur&s;t, for then they would have a Parliament of their own, in which Parliament he &s;aid, the Deponent dur&s;t not complain, or words to that effect.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Edward Taylor.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>23. <HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram nobis,</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Iohn Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Nathaniel Higgin&s;on <HI>of the Ca&s;tle of</HI> Knock|ballymore <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>Gentleman.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 51.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That the Rebels then &s;aid, that they had a Commi&s;&s;ion, or Broad-Seal from the King for what they did, and that when they the &s;aid Rebels had vanqui&s;hed, or over runne this Kingdom, they would go over into <HI>England,</HI> where they would have the a&s;&s;i&s;tance of <HI>Spain</HI> and <HI>France,</HI> for over running the &s;ame.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Nath. Higgin&s;on.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>7. <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Anne Mar&s;hall <HI>of</HI> Ca&s;tle-Waterhou&s;e <HI>in the</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 52.</NOTE> <HI>County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>Widdow.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That &s;ome of the Rebels, mo&s;t cruelly murthered <HI>VVilliam Mar&s;hall,</HI>
<PB N="57" REF="33">
husband unto this Deponent, giving him &s;ixe &s;everall mortall wounds, then &s;aid, that the Scots were at that time &s;ent to leave never a drop of Engli&s;h bloud in <HI>England,</HI> and that the Iri&s;h now had authority, and command from the King, to leave never a drop of Engli&s;h bloud in <HI>Ireland.</HI></P>
<P>And further depo&s;eth, That the common &s;peech of the &s;aid Rebels was, that they were the Queens &s;ouldiers.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Anne Mar&s;hall.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE>3. <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Jathniell Mawe <HI>of</HI> Ferringrin <HI>in the County of</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 53.</NOTE> Fermanagh, <HI>Gentleman.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That he heard &s;ome of the Rebellious Iri&s;h company &s;ay, that there &s;hould not be one Engli&s;h man, Woman, or Childe, left within this King|dom, and that they had the Kings Broad-Seal for what they did.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iathniell Mawe.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 3. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVill. Aldrich.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Richard Cleybrook <HI>of</HI> Ballyellis <HI>in the County</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 54.</NOTE> <HI>of</HI> Wexford <HI>Farmer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne, de&s;po&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That he heard <HI>Luke Toole</HI> &s;ay, that he intended &s;oon after to march to <HI>Killeothery,</HI> and take it, and afterwards to come to <HI>Dublin,</HI> and take the Ca&s;tle there, and that he would not leave an Engli&s;h Man, nor Engli&s;h Woman in the Kingdom, but they all &s;hould be bani&s;hed, and that he would not leave any Engli&s;h bea&s;t a live, nor any of the breed of them.</P>
<P>He &s;aith al&s;o, That he heard the &s;aid <HI>Luke Toole</HI> &s;ay, that he would have his own Religion &s;etled in this Kingdom, And that he would pull the Lord <HI>Par&s;ons</HI> Hat from his Head.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Richard &punc; Cleybrook</HI> his mark.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Coram me. Ia. VVare</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="58" REF="34">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Margaret Farmeny, <HI>and</HI> Margaret Leadly, <HI>VViddows, both of</HI> Acra&s;haniey, <HI>in the Pari&s;h of</HI> Clowi&s;h, <HI>and County of</HI> Fermanagh.</HEAD>
<P>THe&s;e Deponents duely &s;worne <HI>inter alia,</HI> depo&s;e, That on the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 55.</NOTE> 23 day of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, the Rebells in that County, to the num|ber of an hundred, or thereabouts, robbed the Deponents of their goods and chattells, and bound their hands behinde them, urging them to confe&s;&s;e money. And that the &s;aid Rebells bound one of the Deponents husbands, and led, and dragged him up and down in a rope, and cut his throat in her own &s;ight with a Skean, having fir&s;t knockt him down, and &s;tript him. And at the &s;ame time mur|thered 14 per&s;ons more, all Engli&s;h Prote&s;tants; the &s;aid Rebells then alleadging, That they had the Kings broad Seal to &s;trip and &s;tarve all the Engli&s;h, and that they were his &s;ouldiers. And as the Deponents fled for &s;uccour towards <HI>Dublin,</HI> they were &s;trip|ped on the way by the Iri&s;h &s;even times in one day, and left &s;tark naked, being aged women of 75 yeers old: and the Rebells that &s;aw the Deponents naked, bid them go and look for their God, and let him give them clothes.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>3 <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Henry Fi&s;her <HI>of</HI> Power&s;court, <HI>in the County of</HI> Wicklow.</HEAD>
<P>THis examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That <HI>Luke</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 56.</NOTE> <HI>Toole,</HI> chief of the Rebells in tho&s;e parts, &s;aid, That there was landed at <HI>Wexford</HI> nineteen thou&s;and of the Spani&s;h enemy: where|upon they leaped and danced for joy.</P>
<P>And this Examinate further depo&s;eth, That <HI>Bryan Linch</HI> of <HI>Power&s;court,</HI> revolted and fell from the prote&s;tant Religion, to Ma&s;&s;e; and the &s;aid <HI>Linch,</HI> with &s;everall other Rebells, entered the pari&s;h Church of <HI>Power&s;court,</HI> called <HI>Staggonnell,</HI> and burnt up pues, pulpits, che&s;ts, and Bibles belonging to the &s;aid Church, with ex|treme violence and triumph, and expre&s;&s;ion of hatred to Religion:
<PB N="59" REF="34">
And this convert <HI>Linch</HI> &s;trongly laboured to have this Deponent hanged.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hon. Fi&s;her.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 25. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Iohn Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVill. Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Adam Clover <HI>of</HI> Slono&s;y, <HI>in the County of</HI> Cavan.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That this De|ponent and his company that were robbed, ob&s;erved, That 30 <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 57.</NOTE> per&s;ons, or thereabouts, were then mo&s;t barbarou&s;ly murthered and &s;lain out-right; and about 150 more per&s;ons cruelly wounded, &s;o that traces of blood i&s;&s;uing from their wounds, lay upon the high way for 12 miles together, and many very young children were left and peri&s;hed by the way, to the number of 60, or thereabouts, be|cau&s;e the cruell pur&s;uit of the Rebells was &s;uch, that their pa|rents and friends could not carry them further. And further &s;aith, that &s;ome of the Rebels vowed, That if any digged graves wherein to bury the dead children, they &s;hould be buried therin them&s;elves; &s;o the poor people left the mo&s;t of them unburyed, expo&s;ed to ravenous bea&s;ts and fowl, and &s;ome few their parents carried a great way to bury them, after they were dead, and &s;ome were hid in bu&s;h|es, that the Rebells &s;hould not finde them. And this Deponent fur|ther &s;aith, That he &s;aw upon the high-way a woman left by the Re|bells &s;tripped to her &s;mock, &s;et upon by three women, and &s;ome children, being Iri&s;h, who mi&s;erably rent and tore the &s;aid poor Engli&s;h woman, and &s;tripped her of her &s;mock in a bitter Fro&s;t and Snow, &s;o that &s;he fell in labour in their hands and pre&s;ence, and both &s;he and her childe mi&s;erably died there.</P>
<P>And this Examinate further depo&s;eth, That <HI>Iames &ocirc; Rely</HI> of, or neer to the Pari&s;h of <HI>Ballyheys,</HI> Yeoman, and <HI>Hugh Brady,</HI> of, or neer the pari&s;h of <HI>&V;rnagh,</HI> and divers others of the Rebells, did then often take into their hands the Prote&s;tant Bibles, and wetting them in the dirty water, did five or &s;ixe &s;everall times da&s;h the &s;ame on the face of this Deponent and other prote&s;tants, &s;aying, Come, I know you love a good le&s;&s;on, here is a mo&s;t excellent one for you, and come to morrow, and you &s;hall have as good a &s;ermon as this; and u&s;ed other &s;cornfull and di&s;gracefull words unto them.</P>
<P><PB N="60" REF="35">
And further &s;aith, That one <HI>Owen Brady,</HI> of the pari&s;h of <HI>Ar|magh,</HI> Gent. being one of the principall Guard to <HI>Philip mae Hugh mac Shane &ocirc; Rely,</HI> did take divers prote&s;tants (as they went by their Court of Guard to the Church) by the hair of the head, and in other cruell manner, and dragging them into the Church, there &s;tripped, robbed, whipped, and mo&s;t cruelly u&s;ed them, &s;aying, If you come tomorrow, you &s;hall hear the like Sermon; or to that effect: with other &s;cornfull and opprobrious words.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE>Ian. 4. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Randall Adams.</ITEM>
<ITEM><HI>The mark of</HI> Adam Glover.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Elizabeth Tayler, <HI>wife of</HI> Iohn Tayler <HI>of the</HI> Newtowne, <HI>alias</HI> Ca&s;tlecool, <HI>in the Pari&s;h of</HI> Drumuly, <HI>and balf-Barony of the Coole and County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>weaver.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Deponent being duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth, That <HI>(inter alia)</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 58.</NOTE> &s;he and her &s;aid husband, with the re&s;t of their neighbours, fled for the more &s;afety of their lives, into the Church of the <HI>Newtown,</HI> being a fair Church, new built by the inhabitants of that pari&s;h, and there remained untill the Munday following, being the 25 of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, when about ten of the clock in the forenoon Captain <HI>Rory mac Quire,</HI> brother to the Lord <HI>Magwire,</HI> where they &s;o were, came, accompanied with a great multitude of Iri&s;h, to the number of 1000 per&s;ons, and upwards; which they not being able to re&s;i&s;t, upon his faithfull promi&s;es that they &s;hould quietly enjoy their own, and receive no harm, they let him and his company into the &s;aid Church; wherein to he had no &s;ooner entred, but in contempt of God and his &s;acred Word, he went up into the Pulpit, and took down the Engli&s;h Bible that was there, and rent and tore the &s;ame in pieces, and he and his company trampled the &s;ame un|der their feet; and then perfidiou&s;ly fell upon the Engli&s;h, and rifled and &s;tript them naked, and turned them out of the town, and fired and burnt the &s;ame down.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Eliz&punc; Tayler her mark.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE><HI>Ian.</HI> 8. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="61" REF="35">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Edward Slack <HI>of</HI> Gurteen, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fer|managh, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 59.</NOTE> <HI>Clerk.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That on the 24 of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, the Rebells in the County of <HI>Fermanagh</HI> afore&s;aid, took his Bible, opened it, and laying the open &s;ide of it in a puddle of water, leapt and trampled upon it, &s;aying, A plague on't, this Bible hath bred all the quarrell, and they hoped that within three weeks, all the Bibles in <HI>Ireland</HI> &s;hould be u&s;ed as that was, or wor&s;e; and that none &s;hould be left in the Kingdom; and al&s;o that the &s;aid Rebels burnt this Deponents hou&s;e, and after &s;ome other Rebels cut and wounded him twice in the head.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Edw. Slack.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Depo&s;ed before us,</HI> <DATE>4. <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Jones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVill. Aldrich.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Edward Dean <HI>late of</HI> Oghram <HI>in the County of</HI> Wicklow <HI>Tanner.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 60.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That the Iri&s;h Rebels made Proclamation, That all Engli&s;h men and women, that did not depart the Country within twenty four houres, &s;hould be hanged drawn and quartered, and that the Iri&s;h hou&s;es, that kept any of the Engli&s;h children &s;hould be burned.</P>
<P>And further &s;aith, That the &s;aid Rebels burned two Prote&s;tant Bibles, and then &s;aid, that it was hell fire that burnt.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Edw. Dean.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>7. <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram nobis.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Wat&s;on.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Katherine Bellew <HI>alias</HI> Bedlew, <HI>late of</HI> Blit|tock <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 61.</NOTE> <HI>in the County of</HI> Monaghan, <HI>Widdow.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Deponent being duely &s;worn <HI>(inter alia)</HI> depo&s;eth, That one Mi&s;tre&s;&s;e <HI>Elcock,</HI> who being in Child-bed, was neverthe|le&s;&s;e carryed away to pri&s;on, together with the Lady <HI>Blaney,</HI> and her &s;even children.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>The mark of the &s;aid Katherine.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jurat.</HI> <DATE>5. <HI>Febr.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>coram nobis.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>VVill. Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="62" REF="36">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> John Wi&s;edome <HI>of</HI> Ardmagh <HI>Pari&s;h, Clerk of the</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 62.</NOTE> <HI>Cathedrall there.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That at <HI>Lough|gall</HI> in the County of <HI>Ardmagh,</HI> the Engil&s;h being promi&s;ed a &s;afe conduct by the Rebels, from garri&s;on to garri&s;on, till they came to the next Haven, and there to take &s;hipping for their own Coun|try, by the way &s;ome of them were murthered, <HI>viz.</HI> Ma&s;ter <HI>Willi|am Fullerton,</HI> Par&s;on of <HI>Loughgall,</HI> and two or three others, as the Deponent heard, the re&s;t which they found at <HI>Loughgall,</HI> and about the Countrey there, to the number of eight&s;core per&s;ons, which they drowned at <HI>Port a Down</HI> Bridge, as the Deponent is informed by one <HI>William Pitchfork</HI> that was pre&s;ent at their &s;uffering, but e&s;caped him&s;elf, being begged by an Iri&s;h Rebell to be his &s;ervant, And about the &s;ame time, they fired many in one hou&s;e neer <HI>Ardmagh.</HI></P>
<P>And this Deponent further &s;aith, That Ma&s;ter <HI>Roger Holland</HI> related to him, that he was told by one <HI>John Babe</HI> an Owner of a Boat in <HI>Carlingford,</HI> That Mi&s;tris <HI>Holland</HI> was hanged at <HI>Carling|ford,</HI> and delivered of a childe while hanging.</P>
<P>And further this Examinate &s;aith, That he was credibly infor|med by Ma&s;ter <HI>Franklin</HI> of <HI>Dublin,</HI> who came part of the way towards <HI>Dublin</HI> in the Deponents company, That at the <HI>Newry</HI> a man was carryed out, and &s;o wounded, that he was laid for dead, but after recovering, he was again &s;et upon, and murthered, and his wife al&s;o having her belly ript up, and two children fell out.</P>
<P>And the Examinate further &s;aith, That at the <HI>Corr</HI> in the Coun|ty of <HI>Armagh,</HI> there were drowned at once one hundred and twenty per&s;ons, men, women, and children, which the Deponent heard from Ma&s;ter <HI>Holland</HI> afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>John VVi&s;edome.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>8. <HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram nobis.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Philip Taylor <HI>late of</HI> Port a-Down <HI>in the County of</HI> Armagh, <HI>Husbandman.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 63.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worne, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> That about the 24. of <HI>October</HI> he was taken pri&s;oner at <HI>Port a-Down</HI> afore|&s;aid
<PB N="63" REF="36">
by <HI>Toole mac Cann</HI> now of <HI>Port a Down</HI> Gentleman, a notori|ous Rebell, and a Commander of a great number of Rebels, to|gether with tho&s;e Rebels, his &s;ouldiers to the number of an hundred per&s;ons, or thereabouts; at which time the Rebels fir&s;t took the Ca&s;tle and victualled it, then they a&s;&s;aulted and pillaged the Town, and burnt all the hou&s;es on the further &s;ide of the water: and then the &s;aid Rebels drowned a great number of Engli&s;h Pro|te&s;tants, of men, women, and children in this Deponents &s;ight, &s;ome with their hands tyed on their backs.</P>
<P>And this Deponent further &s;aith, That the number of them that were drowned then, amounted to an hundred ninety and &s;ixe Per&s;ons, as this Deponent hath been credibly informed, And the &s;ame Rebels then al&s;o threatned to &s;hoot to death one Ma&s;ter <HI>Tiffin</HI> a zealous Prote&s;tant Mini&s;ter there, and di&s;charged a peece at him accordingly, but as it plea&s;ed God, they mi&s;t him, and at length he e&s;caped from them.</P>
<P>And the Deponent further &s;aith, That the &s;aid Rebels kept this Deponent in pri&s;on at <HI>Port a-Down</HI> afore&s;aid, for the &s;pace of &s;even weeks, and &s;et a hor&s;e lock upon his leg, but at length he got a pa&s;&s;e from the &s;aid <HI>Toole mac Cann,</HI> and &s;o got away from them: But while&s;t he &s;tayed there, many poor Prote&s;tants were by the Rebels murthered in &s;everall places about <HI>Loughgall.</HI> And they al&s;o that time &s;tript of the cloaths of one Ma&s;ter <HI>Iones</HI> a Mini&s;ter at <HI>Segoe</HI> neer <HI>Port a-Down</HI> afore&s;aid, who afterwards e&s;caped from them to the Town of <HI>Li&s;negarvey.</HI></P>
<P>And the Deponent further &s;aith, That he hath credibly heard, that one Ma&s;ter <HI>Fullerton</HI> a Mini&s;ter, and another in his company were al&s;o murthered by the Rebels, before the drowning of the Prote&s;tants afore&s;aid, and that the Rebels afore&s;aid killed a Dyers wife of <HI>Ro&s;&s;etrever</HI> at <HI>Newry,</HI> and ript up her belly, &s;he being with childe of two childrrn, and threw her and the children into a ditch, and this Deponent drove a Sow away that was eating one of the children.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sig: Philip Taylor.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>8. <HI>Febr.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>William Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Wat&s;on.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="64" REF="37">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> John Mandefield <HI>late of</HI> Miltown <HI>in the Coun|ty of</HI> Dublin, <HI>Barber Chirurgeon.</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 64.</NOTE></HEAD>
<P>THe Deponent being duly &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That &s;ome of the Rebels in that County did &s;trike his Wife, and &s;tab her with a Skean <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">n the brea&s;t, when &s;he had a young childe &s;ucking on her, which wound this Deponent being a Chirurgeon with much difficulty healed.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Iohn Mandefield.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>3. <HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram nobis.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will. Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Margaret Stoaks, <HI>the wife of</HI> Hugh Stoaks <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 65.</NOTE> <HI>late of</HI> Clonkelly <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh.</HEAD>
<P>THe &s;aid Deponent being duely &s;worn, <HI>inter alia</HI> depo&s;eth, That while&s;t &s;he was in the &s;aid County, &s;he heard credibly among the Iri&s;h, and ob&s;erved by their di&s;cour&s;es one with another, That the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Li&s;&s;egoal</HI> neer <HI>Eniskillin</HI> (which belonged to the Lord <HI>Ha&s;tings;</HI> and wherein one Ma&s;ter <HI>Segrave</HI> dwelt, was burned by the Rebels, with all the Engli&s;h and Scots that were therein, which were very many; and that almo&s;t all the Engli&s;h and Scots that dwelt in <HI>Mageryboy,</HI> were likewi&s;e killed and rob|bed by the Rebels, and that there was a woman, who when the &s;aid Ca&s;tle was a fire, let down through a Window her young childe whom &s;he gave &s;uck unto, and after leapt out of the Window her|&s;elf, which the Rebels ob&s;erving, pre&s;ently killed the &s;aid woman, and the next morning finding the young childe alive, &s;ucking the dead mothers brea&s;t, they cruelly murthered the childe.</P>
<P>This Deponent further &s;aith, That as &s;he was coming on the way to <HI>Dublin</HI> at <HI>Ballybayes,</HI> &s;he heard for certain, that handicrafts|men and trade&s;men, and others of the Engli&s;h that were remaining at <HI>Belturbart,</HI> were killed and murthered by the Rebels, about the la&s;t of <HI>Ianuary</HI> la&s;t pa&s;t; and the Rebels hanged the men, and drowned the women and children.</P>
<P>The Deponent further &s;aith, That when the Rebels, or any of them had killed any Engli&s;h man in the Country, many others of them would come one after another, and every of them would in mo&s;t cruell manner, &s;tab, wound, and out him, and almo&s;t mangle
<PB N="65" REF="37">
him, and to &s;hew their further malice, would not &s;uffer, nor per|mit any to bury them, but would have them to lye naked for the dogs, bea&s;ts, and fowles of the aire to devoure them.</P>
<P>The Deponent further &s;aith, When they had &s;o killed the Eng|li&s;h, they would reckon up and accompt the number of them, and in rejoycing and boa&s;ting manner would often &s;ay, That they had made the divell beholding to them in &s;ending &s;o many &s;ouls to him to hell.</P>
<P>The Deponent likewi&s;e &s;aith, <HI>inter alia,</HI> That as &s;he was coming towards <HI>Dublin</HI> about <HI>Dun&s;haghlin,</HI> the Rebels that were in Garri&s;on there, &s;aid unto her, That if they thought &s;he and her children, had but one drop of Engli&s;h bloud in them, they would kill both her and her children.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Margaret Stoakes.</SIGNED>
<SIGNED>Jurat. coram, Gerrardo Louther.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Mary Woods <HI>late of the Town and County of</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 66.</NOTE> Kildare, <HI>Widdow.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis examinate being duly &s;worn and examined, <HI>inter alia,</HI> &s;aith That &s;ince the beginning of this pre&s;ent rebellion, &s;he hath been &s;tripped and robbed of her goods by the Rebels in tho&s;e parts, &s;ince which time the bodies of &s;everall decea&s;ed Prote&s;tants buried in the Church there, were taken up, and thrown away into filthy places, expo&s;ed to be devoured of dogs, and other bea&s;ts, which was done partly by the commandement or direction of <HI>James Demp&s;ie</HI> a prie&s;t, <HI>Peter Sarsfield, Thomas fitz Gerald, Iames Flatis|bury,</HI> and <HI>Iohn Leighe,</HI> E&s;quires, and others, whom &s;he knoweth not.</P>
<P>And further &s;aith, That the &s;aid Rebels and others about that Town, did of late fir&s;t &s;trip her husband of cloaths, and after &s;tabbed him, and after that &s;hot him, and la&s;t of all mo&s;t barba|rou&s;ly buried him alive, where he remained with earth upon him above an hour before the breath went from him.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sig: prae: Anne VVoods.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>23. <HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram nobis,</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Joh. VVat&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="66" REF="38">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Thomas Huet&s;on <HI>of the Town and County of</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 67.</NOTE> Kildare.</HEAD>
<P>THis Deponent being duely &s;worn, and examined depo&s;eth, That <HI>(inter alia)</HI> about a moneth, or three weeks &s;ince, one <HI>Iohn Courtis</HI> of <HI>Kildare</HI> afore&s;aid, Weaver, and <HI>Martin Courtis</HI> his &s;onne, <HI>Walter White</HI> of the &s;ame labourer, <HI>Bondventure Berry</HI> of the &s;ame own, the reputed &s;on of <HI>William Berry</HI> of the &s;ame town, a popi&s;h Prie&s;t, and <HI>Thomas Berry</HI> of <HI>Kildare</HI> afore&s;aid, neer kin&s;man to the &s;aid Prie&s;t, and divers other Rebells of the Iri&s;h, did in the Cathedrall Church of <HI>K<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">ldare</HI> afore&s;aid, dig the graves of <HI>Dominick Huet&s;on,</HI> this Deponents brother, who had bin buried about twenty moneths before; and <HI>Chri&s;tian Huet&s;on</HI> the Deponents Grandmo|ther, who had bin buried about a week before, and took their Corps out of the &s;ame Graves, and Church, and laid them both in a hole which they digged up for that purpo&s;e, within a Garden, out of the walls of the Churchyard; which was done by the command or procurement of <HI>Ro&s;&s;e mac Geoghegan</HI> titular Bi&s;hop of <HI>Kildare, Iames Demp&s;ie</HI> the popi&s;h Vicar generall there, the fore&s;aid <HI>William Berry</HI> Prie&s;t, <HI>Dominick Demp&s;ie</HI> guardian to the Fryars there, <HI>Iames Flanagan</HI> a Fryar, <HI>Bryan &ocirc; Gormooley</HI> a Fryar, and other Fryars, who&s;e names he now remembreth not.</P>
<P>And the Deponent al&s;o &s;aith, That the &s;aid <HI>Berry</HI> the Prie&s;t brought this Deponent before the &s;aid Titular Bi&s;hop, and infor|med him, that the Deponent was looking in at the Church Win|dow when the Corps of his &s;aid Brother, and Grandmother were taking up, and that he there writ down the names of tho&s;e parties that &s;o took them up, and &s;o de&s;ired to know what mu&s;t be done with this Deponent; Who an&s;wered, That if he found that report to be true, or that this Deponent &s;hould do any thing again&s;t their Catholike cau&s;e, he would impri&s;on and hang him.</P>
<P>And this Deponent further &s;aith, That the parties above named with divers others of the Town of <HI>Kildare,</HI> &s;aid, that they could not &s;anctifie, nor hallow the &s;aid Church of <HI>Kildare,</HI> untill the Heretikes bones were removed out of it.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thomas Huet&s;on.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>15. <HI>Feb.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Aldrich.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="67" REF="38">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Rebecca Collis, <HI>late of the Town and County of</HI> Kildare.</HEAD>
<P>THis Deponent being duly &s;worn and examined, depo&s;eth, That <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 68.</NOTE> &s;ince the beginning of this Rebellion, &s;he and her husband have been robbed and de&s;poiled of their goods by the Rebells in tho&s;e parts. And further &s;aith, That about <HI>Chri&s;tmas</HI> la&s;t, the titular Bi&s;hop of <HI>Kildare,</HI> the <HI>Guardian,</HI> and other prie&s;ts and Friars there, did take away the Chapter-Che&s;t belonging to the Cathedrall Church of <HI>Kildare,</HI> and did cau&s;e the &s;ame to be carryed to the hou&s;e of <HI>Peter Sarsfeild</HI> of <HI>Tully</HI> E&s;quire. And &s;hortly after a con&s;ultation had among&s;t the &s;aid <HI>Peter Sarsfeild, James Flatishury, Thomas Fitz-Gerald, Iohn Leigh,</HI> E&s;quires, <HI>Iames Demp&s;ie,</HI> Vicar generall to the &s;aid Titular Bi&s;hop; By who&s;e di|rections or command, the dead bodies of divers decea&s;ed Prote&s;tants were digged out of the Church of <HI>Kildare,</HI> and ca&s;t into a filthy ditch, to be devoured by bea&s;ts and dogs.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>23 <HI>Febr.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>coram nobis.</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Rebecca Collis.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will. Aldrich.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Margaret Parkin <HI>of</HI> Newtowne, <HI>in the County of</HI> Fermanagh, <HI>widdow.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Deponent being duely &s;worn and examined, depo&s;eth <HI>inter</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 69.</NOTE> <HI>alia,</HI> That by the information of divers credible per&s;ons, &s;he under&s;tood that the Rebells boyled a young childe to death in a great Ketle, in the Church at <HI>Newtown</HI> afore&s;aid.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>29 <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Margaret Parkin.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Aldrich.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Elizabeth Bair&s;ee <HI>of</HI> Newtown, <HI>in the County of</HI> nagh.</HEAD>
<P>THe Deponent being duely &s;worn, <HI>(inter alia)</HI> depo&s;eth, That <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 70.</NOTE> &s;he was credibly informed by a great number of people of <HI>Newtown</HI> afore&s;aid, That about the 23 of <HI>October</HI> la&s;t, or &s;ince, the Rebells did boyl a childe of one <HI>Iohn Strettons,</HI> about 12 yeers old, to death.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>19. <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Elizabeth Bair&s;ee.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="68" REF="39">
<HEAD><HI>The examination of</HI> Henry Boyne <HI>late of</HI> Mullaghtean <HI>in the County of</HI> Tyrone, <HI>Clerke.</HI></HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 71.</NOTE> THis Deponent being duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> And further &s;aith, That as he was come to his own hou&s;e, he found there an Iri&s;h woman that was come (out of good will) from <HI>Donaghmore</HI> about &s;ixe miles di&s;tant from his &s;aid hou&s;e, to tell the Deponents wife, That it were be&s;t for the Deponent to be gone, lea&s;t he might be killed (for as the &s;aid wo|man related) the Rebels there had cut of one Ma&s;ter <HI>Madders</HI> head a Mini&s;ter, and that there chief malice was again&s;t Church-men.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Hen. Boyne.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>16. <HI>Febr.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Sterne.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Elizabeth Trafford, <HI>late wife of</HI> Thomas Traf|ford, <HI>late Vicar of</HI> Ballincormock <HI>in the County of</HI> Longford, <HI>Clerk.</HI></HEAD>
<P><NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 72.</NOTE> THis Deponent being duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>(inter alia,)</HI> That &s;ince the beginning of this rebellion, the Rebels in tho&s;e parts robbed and &s;tript her, and her &s;aid husband of all their goods and cloaths: And then one of the Rebels called <HI>Iohn Raynolds,</HI> &s;tabbed her husband with a &s;word, whereof he lay langui&s;hing three houres, and then the Rebells &s;tabbed him into the throat, and wounded him in the head, &s;o that he dyed, and then turned her and her poor children naked away, expo&s;ed to hunger and cold. And at the &s;ame time, The &s;aid Rebels or &s;ome of them, &s;tabbed and killed one <HI>Francis Mar&s;hall</HI> Merchant, <HI>Matthew Baker</HI> Vintner, <HI>Iohn Smith, Thomas Allen, Iohn</HI> a Butcher, and another who was a Sadler, another that was a Millner, and by report divers others.</P>
<P>And further depo&s;eth, That the Rebels &s;aid, that it was the Kings plea&s;ure, that all the Engli&s;h &s;hould be bani&s;hed, and loo&s;e their goods, becau&s;e the Queens Prie&s;t was hanged before her face.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Iur.</HI> <DATE>8. <HI>Ian.</HI> 1641.</DATE> <HI>Coram,</HI></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Henry Iones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn VVat&s;on.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Eliz. Trafford.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="69" REF="39">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Margery Sharp, <HI>late wife to</HI> John Sharp <HI>of Kells, in the County and Dioce&s;&s;e of</HI> Meath, <HI>Mini&s;ter of Gods Word.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Deponent being duely &s;worn and examined, depo&s;ed <HI>inter alia,</HI> That And <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 73.</NOTE> further depo&s;eth, That her &s;aid husband was by the Rebells in tho&s;e parts wounded, that he was deprived of his life; but in &s;uch a ble&s;&s;ed manner, that God gave him &s;trength to pray unto him, and to expre&s;&s;e him&s;elf; and being ready to die, another company of Iri&s;h Rebells came and wilfully murthered him in the &s;ame place where they found him, being coming towards <HI>Dublin</HI> to &s;eek for refuge: And after breath was departed from him, this Deponent &s;ought to have him buryed in Chri&s;tian Buryall, which the Por|treiffe or Suffraigne of the <HI>Navan</HI> would not admit, but &s;ent to cau&s;e the Grave to be made in the &s;ame place where he was mur|thered. And further &s;aith, That before her &s;aid husband was mur|thered, he carryed away, for fear of the Rebells, a good number of his be&s;t Divinity Books, and divers Bonds, Specialties, and Wri|tings. And &s;he further &s;aith, That the &s;ouldiers under the com|mand of the Rebell Capt. <HI>&ocirc; Rely</HI> meeting with him, &s;tripped him of all his clothes, and inforced him, being naked, to trample and tread upon his &s;aid Books and papers in the water to &s;poil them, and then the &s;aid Rebells threw them away, and to&s;&s;ed many of them in the winde.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Sign. praed. Margery.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>29 <HI>Jan.</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Iohn Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Reynold Griffith, <HI>late of</HI> Tandergee, <HI>in the County of</HI> Armagh.</HEAD>
<P>THis Deponent being duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia.</HI> And further &s;aith^1, That neer the <HI>Newry</HI> &s;everall Rebells took <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 74.</NOTE> from this Deponents wife a childe of hers of 14 yeers of age, and drowned it in a bog or pit, and held it down before her face with a &s;word while&s;t the &s;aid childe was a drowning.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Reynold Griffith, and Eliz. his wife.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE><HI>Jan.</HI> 6. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<PB N="70" REF="40">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Charles Campbell, <HI>late of</HI> Shamulloghe, <HI>in the Pari&s;h of</HI> Clonnl&s;&s;e, <HI>in the County of</HI> Monaghan, <HI>Gentleman.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Deponent being duely &s;worn and examined, depo&s;eth <HI>in|ter alia,</HI> That the &s;aid Deponent likewi&s;e, while&s;t he <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 75.</NOTE> was among&s;t the Rebells, ob&s;erved the&s;e &s;everall pa&s;&s;ages en&s;uing, <HI>viz.</HI> Fir&s;t, the burning of the Ca&s;tle of <HI>Li&s;gowle,</HI> in the County of <HI>Fermanagb,</HI> containing the number of &s;even&s;core per&s;ons, men, women and children, whereof none e&s;caped death, except one man who was taken pri&s;oner; which cruelty &s;everall of the <HI>mac Mahons,</HI> and <HI>mac Guires</HI> did confe&s;&s;e to this Deponent; one <HI>Ca&s;&s;e|dy</HI> a Frier, being the chief in&s;trument thereof. Another prie&s;t al|&s;o, one <HI>Philip mac Enany</HI> told this Deponent, that it was no &s;inne to kill all the Prote&s;tants, for that they were all damned already. And the &s;aid Deponent was an ocular witne&s;&s;e of the hanging and killing of thirty per&s;ons in one day, at <HI>Clonni&s;&s;e,</HI> by <HI>Patrickoge mac Ro&s;&s;e mac Guire, Rory mac Mahon, Patrick mac Aper&s;on &ocirc; Con|nelly,</HI> and &s;everall others, the &s;aid Deponent being likewi&s;e upon the Ladder, with a Wyth about his neck, ready to be ca&s;t off, but delivered by the interce&s;&s;ion of the &s;aid <HI>Rory mac Mahon</HI> and his wife: Afterwards this Deponent, with <HI>Robert Aldrich,</HI> and <HI>Mat|thew Brown,</HI> being then pri&s;oners with the &s;aid Deponent, were &s;ent unto the &s;iege of <HI>Drogheda,</HI> by Captain <HI>Rory mac Mahon</HI> his wife, conducted by an hundred Rebells, or thereabouts; where they remained for the &s;pace of three weeks, untill this Deponents e&s;cape: In which time afore&s;aid, one <HI>Ever mac Mahon,</HI> brother to Captain <HI>Redmond mac Mahon,</HI> told this Deponent, That there was not a Romane Catholique in <HI>Ireland,</HI> that could di&s;pend ten pounds <HI>per an.</HI> but was acce&s;&s;ory to the rebellious plot. This De|ponent likewi&s;e heard &s;everall of the <HI>mac Mahans</HI> affirm, That the Earl of <HI>Antrim</HI> was al&s;o guilty of the &s;aid plot. And this Depo|nent was credibly informed, that with Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neal</HI> were con|ver&s;ant the Lord of <HI>Gurman&s;ton,</HI> the Lord <HI>Nettervyle,</HI> the Lord <HI>Lowth,</HI> with many other the chief Gentry of the <HI>Pale;</HI> and did &s;ee the Lord of <HI>Dun&s;any</HI> frequent the &s;aid Rebells company; and that the Countyes of <HI>Meath</HI> and <HI>Lowth</HI> did furni&s;h the Rebells
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there, with all &s;orts of Victualls, and &s;uch nece&s;&s;aries.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Cb: Campbell.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Jur.</HI> <DATE>2 <HI>Martii,</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>John Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>VVilliam Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Alexander Creigchton, <HI>late of</HI> Gla&s;loghe, <HI>in the County of</HI> Monaghan, <HI>Gent.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THis Deponent being duely &s;worn and examined <HI>(inter alia)</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 76.</NOTE> depo&s;eth. And further &s;aith, That when he this Depo|nent was &s;o robbed by the Rebells, they impri&s;oned him and his brother in law, <HI>Andrew Lesk, Alexander Bailie, James Ander&s;on, Iohn Mewrhead</HI> his &s;on, <HI>Alexander Ballengall,</HI> and his &s;on <HI>VVilliam,</HI> and kept them there in <HI>Gla&s;lock</HI> Ca&s;tle for 14 dayes, or thereabouts, in great mi&s;ery, neither &s;uffering their wives or friends to come and bring them relief: From thence the Rebells &s;ent them to the Gaole of <HI>Monaghan</HI> for 14 dayes more, where they were in no le&s;&s;er mi&s;ery than before: From thence they were &s;ent back to <HI>Gla&s;lock</HI> afore&s;aid, and there <HI>Art mac Bryan &ocirc; Samogh mac Maghan,</HI> did gather all the whole Briti&s;h pri&s;oners, a&s;well tho&s;e afore-na|med, as others, to the number of 22 or thereabouts, and &s;ent them to <HI>Corbridge:</HI> But in their going, another Company, by the directi|on of the &s;aid <HI>Art mac Bryan,</HI> way-layd them, and &s;lew 16 of them, and the next morning murthered 46 more Engli&s;h at <HI>Cor|bridge</HI> afore&s;aid; where this Deponent e&s;caping with his life, was admitted to go to Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neal,</HI> who gave him a Protection for him&s;elf, his wife, and childe. And then this Deponent heard the &s;aid Sir <HI>Phelim</HI> &s;ay, That he would make no man account for what he did, And that he had his Maje&s;ties Commi&s;&s;ion for what he did under the great Seal of <HI>England:</HI> And being asked who did put Ma&s;ter <HI>Richard Blany,</HI> Sene&s;call to the Lord <HI>Blany,</HI> and one of the Knights of the Shire to death, becau&s;e it was reported that one <HI>Art mac Bryan &ocirc; Samagh mac Maghan</HI> put him to death; He an&s;wered, Let not that Gentleman be blamed, for my hand &s;igned the Warrant for his hanging, for the per&s;ecuring of my cou&s;en <HI>&ocirc; Rely.</HI> And further &s;aith, That there were killed by the name or Sept of the <HI>&ocirc; Hughes,</HI> 12 Families of men, women, and children of Engli&s;h and Scoti&s;h prote&s;tants; and that <HI>Edmond
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Boy &ocirc; Hugh,</HI> Fo&s;ter-brother to the &s;aid Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neal,</HI> did at <HI>Ki|nard,</HI> at the entry of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Phelims</HI> gate, &s;hoot to death with a brace of Bullers, behinde his back, the Lord <HI>Cawlfeild:</HI> And that night after killed &s;even Families of Engli&s;h men, women, and children that lived on the Land of the &s;aid Sir <HI>Phelim.</HI> And as this Deponent hath heard, there were above twenty Families &s;lain betwixt <HI>Kinnard</HI> and <HI>Armagh</HI> by the Rebells: And after the repul&s;e given at <HI>Li&s;negarvy, Shane oge mac Canna,</HI> and a Company of Rebells under his command, marched thorow all the Ba|rony of <HI>Trough,</HI> in the County of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> and murthered a great number of Britti&s;h prote&s;tants; among&s;t others, En&s;igne <HI>Peirce,</HI> Gentleman, <HI>Ambro&s;e Blany,</HI> Gentleman, <HI>William Chal|lengwood,</HI> Gentleman, and <HI>William</HI> his &s;onne; <HI>David Dray|nan,</HI> Gentleman, <HI>Andrew Carr,</HI> Weaver, <HI>John La&s;ley,</HI> Labourer, and his wife.</P>
<P>And this Deponent heard it credibly reported among&s;t the Rebells at <HI>Gla&s;logh</HI> afore&s;aid, That <HI>Hugh mac &ocirc; Degan mac Guire,</HI> a prie&s;t, had done a mo&s;t meritorious act in the pari&s;h of <HI>Glanally,</HI> and County of <HI>Fermanagh,</HI> in drawing betwixt 40 or 50 of the Engli&s;h and Scotti&s;h there to reconciliation with the Church of <HI>Rome,</HI> and after giving them the Sacrament, demanded of them whether Chri&s;ts Body was really in the Sacrament or no; and they &s;aid, Yea. And that he demanded of them further, Whether they held the Pope to be &s;upreme Head of the Church, they like|wi&s;e an&s;wered he was; And that thereupon he pre&s;ently told them they were in a good faith: and for fear they &s;hould fall from it, and turn hereticks, he and the re&s;t that were with him, cut all their throats.</P>
<P>And this Deponent further &s;aith, That the wife of Ma&s;ter <HI>Luke Ward</HI> told him, That the Rebells had forced her husband to be drunk in drinking of his part of 3^s in drink; and that they when he was &s;o drunk, hanged him: And &s;he &s;hewed this Depo|nent the place where he was executed.</P>
<P>And &s;aith al&s;o, That the Rebells pulled up, and took away the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> in the Church of <HI>Monaghan</HI> up to the Quire, and carried them <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Goal, and made fires with them for the Friers; And that the <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">ls did at <HI>Gla&s;lock</HI> afore&s;aid, burn two or three Bibles or Ser|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="3 letters"> Books: And heard them &s;ay, they would never lay down
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arms, till their Church were put into its due place, and that all the plantation lands were given to the right owners; and that if they had once gotten the City of <HI>Dublin</HI> taken, they would hold it no rebellion to follow the Kings &s;word, in doing any act they plea&s;|ed: And this Deponent heard <HI>Brian &ocirc; Hugh,</HI> Prie&s;t to the &s;aid <HI>Phe|lim &ocirc; Neale</HI> &s;ay, That they had fifteen hundred thou&s;and of the Iri&s;h bloud, to maintain their wars begun: And the &s;aid <HI>Alexander</HI> further depo&s;eth, That about the beginning of <HI>Feb.</HI> la&s;t, one <HI>En&s;igne William Pew</HI> of <HI>Gla&s;logh</HI> in the County of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> being &s;trip|ped, robbed, and expul&s;ed by the Rebels, was &s;even times in one day taken up and hanged on a tree, and taken down again for dead every time by <HI>Patrick Duff, Mac Hugh, Mac Ro&s;&s;e,</HI> a Captain of the Rebels near <HI>Monaghan:</HI> which cruelty was practi&s;ed by the in&s;tigation of <HI>Patrick Mother mac Wade,</HI> who had informed, that the &s;aid <HI>William Pew</HI> had monies; the confe&s;&s;ion and knowledge whereof was intended to be extracted by the fore&s;aid hard u&s;age.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Iur. primo Martii,</HI> <DATE>1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Alexander Creichton.</ITEM>
<ITEM>Iohn Sterne.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hitchcock.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> Roger Holland <HI>of</HI> Gla&s;logh, <HI>in the County of</HI> Monaghan.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duly &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That during his impri&s;onment, he was credibly informed, that there were <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 77.</NOTE> 38 per&s;ons, men, women, and children drown'd, being thrown over into the river of <HI>Corr-</HI>bridge in the County of <HI>Armagh;</HI> and al&s;o &s;aith, That Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neale,</HI> under pretence of &s;ending a Convoy with many of the Engli&s;h of <HI>Loghgall,</HI> and thereabouts, the &s;aid Convoy did drown at the Bridge of <HI>Pontie-Down,</HI> 68 per&s;ons, as he is credibly informed: And likewi&s;e, that he did &s;ee 14 or 15 kill'd by the Iri&s;h as he pa&s;&s;ed in the country.</P>
<P>And further &s;aith, That Friar <HI>Malone,</HI> when this Examinate arrived at <HI>Skerries,</HI> that his Company &s;hot one &s;hot at the Ve&s;&s;el; and that the &s;aid Company asked whether we had a Pa&s;&s;e or not, which we told them we had; whereupon they replyed, That if we had not, we &s;hould all &s;uffer: But &s;o &s;oon as we &s;hewed them our Pa&s;&s;e, they made much of us, &amp; told us that we &s;hould take no hurt; which they performed the next day, being Chri&s;tmas-day.</P>
<P>The &s;aid Friar took a boat, to go to the boat to &s;ee whether
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there were a leak in our Ve&s;&s;ell or not, and &s;earching for the leak, he found &s;ome Bibles, and other Prayer-Books, which &s;aid Books he ca&s;t into the fire, and wi&s;hed that he had all the Bibles in Chri|&s;tendom, and he would &s;erve them all &s;o, and demanding of him what was the rea&s;on, he an&s;wered, That it was fitting for every man to have the Bible by rote, and not to mi&s;in&s;truct them which &s;hould have it by rote: and the &s;aid <HI>Roger</HI> &s;itting by him alone, de|manded of him, what might be the rea&s;on of their going out in &s;uch manner, as in killing and robbing the Engli&s;h, and per&s;wa|ding him to make peace; he replyed, unle&s;&s;e all men that had e&s;tates lo&s;t, by the Kings giving them unto great men, that were little worth in former times, unle&s;&s;e they had their e&s;tates given under the Kings Broad-Seal, that they would never yeild; And withall, that it they had not the Duke of <HI>York</HI> for their Governour and Ruler in this Kingdom, and to be a Papi&s;t, they would never yeild as afore&s;aid. And further &s;aid, That they would have the whole Kingdom to them&s;elves, and that they have been about this plot this &s;eventeen yeers pa&s;t, but never had &s;o fit an opportunity as now they had.</P>
<P>And the &s;aid <HI>Roger</HI> &s;aith further, That being in company with Colonell <HI>Pluncket</HI> at <HI>Newry</HI> and <HI>Carlingford,</HI> the &s;aid Colonell told the &s;aid <HI>Roger</HI> and many others, that this &s;aid plot was for the&s;e &s;e|venteen yeers pa&s;t in plotting, and that the &s;aid Fryar <HI>Malone</HI> and him&s;elf, and one of the Lord of <HI>Trimbortons</HI> &s;onnes, which is a Fryer, with many others of the Nobility of the <HI>Pale,</HI> and in the North, knew it of long time, but that others of the Nobles knew not of it, but of late; but as for the re&s;t they have known of it the &s;pace and yeers afore&s;aid: And that they &s;aid they would have their Religion or not any, or el&s;e that they would loo&s;e both their lives and e&s;tates, for in &s;trength they were able enough, for he &s;aid all the Iri&s;h would not fail, but &s;tick clo&s;e to them, for they fought for God and their Country, for certain they knew that there cau&s;e was ju&s;t, and that God would not &s;ee them &s;uffer, and that they were &s;ure of <HI>Dublin,</HI> for there was not any thing done, but that they had &s;uch friends, that they heard out of <HI>Dublin</HI> every day, and as for Sir <HI>Phelomy &ocirc; Neal</HI> he made no accompt as he &s;aid, of all <HI>Ireland</HI> to be his own, and others, for that was there intents.</P>
<P>And further &s;aith, That at <HI>Carlingford,</HI> when the fore&s;aid <HI>Roger</HI>
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was there three or four dayes, Sir <HI>Con Magenis</HI> &s;ent his Warrant, to &s;end away all &s;uch pri&s;oners as came from <HI>Newry</HI> over to <HI>Green Ca|&s;tle;</HI> which Warrant was directed to one <HI>Jo. Babe</HI> Provo&s;t Mar|&s;hall, directed by Sir <HI>Con Magenis:</HI> which Provo&s;t Mar&s;hall, ac|cording to his direction, &s;ent them away: which pri&s;oners were &s;ent, for the relea&s;ing of &s;ome pri&s;oners that were taken at <HI>Down-Patrick:</HI> but no &s;ooner came the afore&s;aid pri&s;oners unto <HI>Green-Ca&s;tle,</HI> but they were all cut off: And the next day following, the &s;aid Sir <HI>Con Magenis</HI> &s;ent a Convoy with all &s;uch pri&s;oners as were there left; and what became of them, this Examinate cannot tell.</P>
<P>And further &s;aith, That an owner of a Boat in <HI>Carlingford</HI> told him, that one M^r^i^s <HI>Holland</HI> was hang'd; and as &s;he was hanging, was delivered of two children; and further cannot &s;ay.</P>
<CLOSER><DATELINE><HI>Jurat: this</HI> <DATE>4 <HI>of March,</HI> 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Roger Holland.</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="examination">
<HEAD><HI>The Examination of</HI> George Cottingham, <HI>Par&s;on of</HI> Monaghan.</HEAD>
<P>THis Examinate duely &s;worn, depo&s;eth <HI>inter alia,</HI> That about <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Ex.</HI> 78.</NOTE> the 30 day of <HI>October,</HI> this Examinate, with mo&s;t of the Eng|li&s;h, was ca&s;t into the Dungeon, which was a place of that noy|&s;omene&s;&s;e, by rea&s;on of great heaps of mens excrements, that had been there a long time, that they were almo&s;t &s;tifled; the Dungeon was &s;o little, and the people &s;o many, being &s;ome fourty eight per|&s;ons, that they were fain to lie one upon another; &s;o that the Ex|aminate, after he had been &s;ome &s;eventeen dayes, &s;ometimes in the Dungeon, &s;ometimes in the Goal, got &s;uch a loo&s;ene&s;&s;e, with cold and hard lodging, that he was not able to go, but as he was carried betwixt men. During their continuance in this mi&s;erable re&s;traint, no meat was allowed the pri&s;oners by the Rebells, nei|ther would they &s;carce &s;uffer either their wives or friends to &s;ee or &s;peak with them; but oftentimes, both in the night and day, &s;eve|rall of the Rebells came to the pri&s;oners with &s;words, and Skeans drawn, with Pi&s;tolls cocked, to the great terrour of the pri&s;on|ers: and &s;ome came often and &s;carched them; and if they found any &s;ilver, either more or le&s;&s;e, they took it from them, and &s;tripped them of their clothes, in the very Dungeon, and left
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many almo&s;t naked, with few or no rags to cover them: And when the&s;e pri&s;oners were &s;et at liberty, &s;oon after many were murther|ed with Skeans, &s;ome drowned, and &s;ome hanged: Ma&s;ter <HI>Richard Blaney,</HI> who was pri&s;oner in another place, being bolted with Irons, was taken forth &s;uddenly, and hanged, and ca&s;t into a kinde of a Boggie place, without Buriall, &s;tark naked. The &s;ame day one Ma&s;ter <HI>Luke VVard</HI> was taken and hanged in the &s;ame Town of <HI>Monaghan;</HI> in the beginning of the night, and was never told he &s;hould die; but being taken by one <HI>Patr: oge &ocirc; Connelley,</HI> was brought into a hou&s;e in Town; and there <HI>Patr:</HI> gave him worth 12^d or more of drink, as though no hurt were intended, pre&s;ently went to the back &s;ide, and called out the &s;aid <HI>Luke VVard,</HI> and with others of his company laid hold on him, and hanged him, and after threw him into a little River, where he lay naked and unburied: The next morning many of tho&s;e that were let out of pri&s;on, being almo&s;t &s;tarved and fami&s;hed, were murthered with Skeans, and others drowned: Ma&s;ter <HI>Oliver Peirce,</HI> En&s;igne to the Lord <HI>Blaney,</HI> murthered with Swords and Skeans; Ma&s;ter <HI>John Francis, Edward Lewis, Richard Bollard,</HI> and <HI>VVilliam Iones,</HI> murthered with Skeans and Swords; and many others pur&s;ued, who e&s;caped that night: <HI>Thomas VVe&s;t</HI> was never heard of &s;ince. A poor Engli&s;h-man unknown came &s;tragling to the Towne, having e&s;caped from &s;ome other place, was hanged.</P>
<P>Some of tho&s;e that were impri&s;oned, were &s;ent out of the Town of <HI>Monaghan,</HI> to <HI>Gla&s;lough,</HI> where they had lived formerly; and there they, with others, to the number of fourty, were ca&s;t into a River at the edge of the County, men, women, and chil|dren: In the mean time, &s;o many as e&s;caped were in great mi&s;ery and fears, dayly hearing, that not an Engli&s;h man, woman, or childe &s;hould be left alive; that there was the like &s;tirre in <HI>Eng|land</HI> and <HI>Scotland;</HI> and that never a Prote&s;tant mu&s;t be &s;uffered to live in any of the three Kingdoms; and that the Seas wre full of Spani&s;h and French Shipping; and that all the Iri&s;h in other parts, were coming homewards to help to &s;ubdue the Engli&s;h in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and then they were to be in <HI>England</HI> before <HI>May</HI> for the &s;ame purpo&s;e; and the like to be done in <HI>Scotland</HI> al&s;o. It was u&s;ually reported that none mu&s;t bear rule in <HI>Ireland,</HI> but onely the
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Natives; and that all the Lands which were enjoyed by any of the Briti&s;h, mu&s;t forthwith be taken from them; which was according|ly done in all parts hereabouts.</P>
<P>It was frequently noy&s;ed and reported, That the Kings Maje|&s;ty was dead, or not to be had; and that there was a Crown con|&s;ecrated for &s;ome other that &s;hould de&s;erve it be&s;t; and when af|terwards it was reported His Maje&s;ty was in <HI>England,</HI> it was &s;aid that Sir <HI>Phelim &ocirc; Neal</HI> was made Generall by His Maje&s;ties appointment; and that there were others that had command by the &s;ame appointment.</P>
<P>We dayly heard of mo&s;t cruell murthers of pri&s;oners on all &s;ides of us, be&s;ides what we &s;aw committed in our own Town: in &s;ome places neer were hanged &s;ometimes 17, &s;ometimes 22 at a time; as at <HI>Clowni&s;h,</HI> and <HI>Carrick mac Ro&s;&s;e.</HI> And within &s;even miles were murthered &s;ome 25 men, women, and children in the night; and every hour we expected the like u&s;age, being often threatned that not any Engli&s;h &s;hould be left in <HI>Ireland.</HI> Con|voyes were &s;ent with many, pretending to bring pri&s;oners &s;afe to &s;uch places as they were de&s;ired to go, and were mo&s;t pitifully murthered and drowned by the way by &s;uch as conveyed them, others were turned out without any Convoy, and &s;o mur|thered.</P>
<P>About &s;ix weeks &s;ince, I, my wife, and four &s;mall children, with &s;ome other Engli&s;h, were turned out of the Town of <HI>Mo|naghan,</HI> about three of the Clock in the afternoon, the Drum beating, and <HI>Art Roe mac</HI> S^t <HI>Patrick mac Art Moyl,</HI> who is chief Governour there, went before, and declared that we mu&s;t be gone forthwith, and not &s;uffered to return, on pain of death; when we were a&s;&s;ured, that not pa&s;t a quarter of a mile before us, there were men with Swords and with Skeans, lying in wait to mur|ther and &s;trip us, of which we were fully a&s;&s;ured; but it plea&s;ed God we e&s;caped that time, by means of one <HI>Bryan mac Hugh mac Ro&s;&s;e mac Mahon,</HI> about a week after we had leave to come as far as within a mile of <HI>Drogheda,</HI> called <HI>Bewley;</HI> neer unto which place are encamped many Rehels, which came from towards <HI>Monaghan,</HI> and other places of the North; at which place S^r <HI>Phe|lim &ocirc; Neal</HI> was, where might he perceived by the Speeches of the Rebels, that they were very confident to take <HI>Drogheda,</HI> and <HI>Dublin,</HI>
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but during this Examinates remaining there, were driven off the Walls, which they a&s;&s;ayed to a&s;&s;ault with &s;caling-Ladders, on Sun|day la&s;t was a &s;ennight, in the morning before day, and many prai|&s;ed be God, run from the Walls, and left &s;ome of their Muskets and Pikes behinde them, as they related among&s;t them&s;elves, from thence this Examinate was &s;ent into <HI>Drogheda,</HI> and a Pri&s;oner re|lea&s;ed thence for him, and from thence is gotten to <HI>Dublin</HI> by Sea with his Wife and four &s;mall children, neer fami&s;hed and &s;tarved, being left quite de&s;titute of all relief for the pre&s;ent.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>George Cottingham.</SIGNED>
<DATELINE><HI>Iura.</HI> <DATE><HI>Martij</HI> 4. 1641.</DATE></DATELINE>
<SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Jones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Will. Aldrich.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<P><HI>And whereas the &s;ufferings of the loyall Subjects of this Kingdom of</HI> Ireland, <HI>do con&s;i&s;t as in the cruelties exerci&s;ed on the Per&s;ons, &s;o in the &s;poiling and robbing them of their E&s;tates, Fortunes, and Livelyhoods, whereof the &s;aid &s;everall Commi&s;&s;ioners, do authorize, and require a &s;trict inquiry to be made. And whereas in the foregoing</HI> Remon&s;trance, <HI>Depredation of the Goods of the Subjects, is one part of the Charge laid to the&s;e Rebels, and humbly offered by the</HI> Remon&s;trants <HI>to be con&s;ide|red off by the Honourable Hou&s;e of Commons in</HI> England.</P>
<P><HI>They the &s;aid</HI> Remon&s;trants <HI>and humble</HI> Petitioners, <HI>for the forti|fying of that their</HI> Allegation, <HI>do here withall pre&s;ent the generall Summes of &s;uch Counties, as have an&s;wered to that particular from the</HI> 30. <HI>of</HI> December <HI>la&s;t pa&s;t, untill the</HI> 8. <HI>day of</HI> March, 1641. <HI>The whole amounting unto above &s;ix hundred thirty five thou&s;and three hundred &s;eventy five pounds, four &s;hillings and nine pence; the Per&s;ons thereunto appearing, being in all hitherto examined but &s;ix hundred thirty &s;even: whereas this by the following con&s;iderations may be readily conceived hardly to be the five hundreth part of the full lo&s;&s;es of the whole Kingdom.</HI></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<DIV3 N="1" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>I.</HEAD>
<P>For fir&s;t, Out of the whole Province of <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> containing the&s;e following large and rich Counties, <HI>viz. Tipperary, Limerick, Cork, Kerry</HI> and <HI>Clare,</HI> no one hath yet appeared.</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="2" TYPE="section">
<PB N="81" REF="44">
<HEAD>II.</HEAD>
<P>Out of the whole Province of <HI>Connaght,</HI> containing the&s;e Counties, <HI>Ro&s;comon, Mayo, Galway, Sligoe</HI> and <HI>Leitrim,</HI> There have only eleven out of <HI>Leitrim</HI> given in their lo&s;&s;es being&mdash;1352^l&mdash;04^s&mdash;08^d</P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="3" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>III.</HEAD>
<P>Out of the Province of <HI>&V;l&s;ter,</HI> the&s;e alone have appeared them&s;elves, <HI>viz.</HI></P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>s</CELL>
<CELL>d</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="7">Out of</CELL>
<CELL><HI>Lowth,</HI> 6. Examinates</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="7">Their lo&s;&s;es</CELL>
<CELL>4332</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>04</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Cavan,</HI> 113. Examinates</CELL>
<CELL>47418</CELL>
<CELL>07</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Fermanagh,</HI> 94. Examinates</CELL>
<CELL>26947</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Armagh,</HI> 8. Examinates</CELL>
<CELL>03802</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Tyron,</HI> 2. Examinates</CELL>
<CELL>01667</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>London-Derry,</HI> 1. Examinate</CELL>
<CELL>01911</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Monaghan,</HI> 31. Examinates</CELL>
<CELL>36181</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
<P>None appearing out of the Counties of <HI>Down, Antrim,</HI> or <HI>Donegall.</HI></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="4" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>IV.</HEAD>
<P>Fourthly, For the Province of <HI>Lein&s;ter,</HI> the number of the Examinates is as followeth,</P>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>&nbsp;</CELL>
<CELL>1</CELL>
<CELL>s</CELL>
<CELL>d</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL ROWS="11">In the</CELL>
<CELL>County of <HI>Dublin,</HI> 72. Exam.</CELL>
<CELL ROWS="11">Their lo&s;&s;es</CELL>
<CELL>120032</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>03</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>County of <HI>Kildare,</HI> 57. Ex.</CELL>
<CELL>098967</CELL>
<CELL>17</CELL>
<CELL>04</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>County of <HI>Wickloe,</HI> 65. Ex.</CELL>
<CELL>132457</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>02</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>County of <HI>Wexford,</HI> 38. Ex.</CELL>
<CELL>062519</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>04</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>County of <HI>Catherlagh,</HI> 16. Ex.</CELL>
<CELL>010270</CELL>
<CELL>01</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>County of <HI>Kilkenny,</HI> 5. Ex.</CELL>
<CELL>008312</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>County of <HI>Meath,</HI> 46. Exam.</CELL>
<CELL>033678</CELL>
<CELL>14</CELL>
<CELL>03</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>County of <HI>VVe&s;tmeath,</HI> 7. Ex.</CELL>
<CELL>003512</CELL>
<CELL>12</CELL>
<CELL>00</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Kings</HI> County, 9. Examinates</CELL>
<CELL>011525</CELL>
<CELL>04</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL><HI>Queens</HI> County, 14. Exam.</CELL>
<CELL>018884</CELL>
<CELL>15</CELL>
<CELL>09</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>County of <HI>Longford,</HI> 28. Ex.</CELL>
<CELL>016440</CELL>
<CELL>10</CELL>
<CELL>08</CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
</DIV3>
<DIV3 N="5" TYPE="section">
<HEAD>V.</HEAD>
<P>Fifthly, Of tho&s;e Counties that have come in, one being con&s;i|dered with another, not the five hundred part hath appeared, there being of them,</P>
</DIV3>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<LIST>
<ITEM><PB N="80" REF="45">
1. Many impri&s;oned, or be&s;ieged by the Rebels.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Many gone into <HI>England,</HI> before the beginning of this com|motion, and &s;ince.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Multitudes murthered, and none hitherto appearing for them.</ITEM>
<ITEM>4. Many thou&s;ands by rea&s;on of the danger of the wayes, not daring to appear.</ITEM>
<ITEM>5. Many being &s;ick and weak, by rea&s;on of their &s;ufferings, &s;o not able to appear.</ITEM>
<ITEM>6. Many there are who (in time) purpo&s;e to give in the parti|culars of their lo&s;&s;es, but for the pre&s;ent forbear being in many re&s;pects not prepared for the doing thereof.</ITEM>
<ITEM>7. La&s;tly, of &s;uch as have given in their particulars, few can de|po&s;e to the full of their lo&s;&s;es, wanting the help of their Papers torn from them, or of their Agents, who could in|form them of their E&s;tates, they being remote in the Coun|try, and there impri&s;oned, or be&s;ieged, or by rea&s;on of the danger of the wayes, not daring to adventure from &s;uch places of &s;afety, as they have betaken them&s;elves unto, if perhaps they have not altogether peri&s;hed by the hand of the enemy.</ITEM>
</LIST>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<P><HI>The &s;ame Con&s;ideration may al&s;o induce any to beleeve that of the o|ther particulars in the &s;aid</HI> Remon&s;trance, <HI>either for words bla&s;phemous again&s;t God, impious again&s;t Religion, or traiterous towards His &s;acred Maje&s;ty, or for Actions, wicked, cruell, or barbarous, or for di&s;covery of the minds and intents of the&s;e con&s;pirators, and their adherents, the lea&s;t part hath been &s;et forth in the &s;aid</HI> Remon&s;trance, <HI>and Examina|tions thereunto annexed; and yet that alone is &s;ufficient, and more then enough to &s;et forth the mi&s;erable condition of the poor di&s;tre&s;&s;ed Church, and mi&s;erable wa&s;ted Kingdom of</HI> Ireland.</P>
<P><HI>Of all which we the Commi&s;&s;ioners afore&s;aid, do herein give up a true report atte&s;ted under our re&s;pective hands this &s;eventh of March.</HI> 1641.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><LIST>
<ITEM>Hen. Jones,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Roger Puttock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Wat&s;on,</ITEM>
<ITEM>John Sterne,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Aldrich,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Randal Adams,</ITEM>
<ITEM>William Hitchcock,</ITEM>
<ITEM>Hen. Brereton.</ITEM>
</LIST></SIGNED></CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
</DIV2>
<PB REF="45">
</DIV1>
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