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<P>Horrid and Strange News from IRELAND: Being a True RELATION Of what happened in the Province of <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> at a Ca&s;tle of one of the <HI>Fitz Garrets,</HI> called <HI>Ballimarter,</HI> wherein there were very &s;trange Apparitions, the like never before heard of, to the amazement of all the Beholders.</P>
<P>Written by <HI>Henry Lovel</HI> Gent. being an Eye|witne&s;&s;e and a fellow-feeler thereof, now in <HI>London</HI> ready to averre the &s;ame for truth.</P>
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<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed by <HI>Tho. Harper.</HI> 1643.</P>
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<HEAD>Horrid and &s;trange News from <HI>Ireland.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_I Being in <HI>Ireland,</HI> and travelling into <HI>Mun&s;ter,</HI> with Sir <HI>Donough Mac Carty,</HI> now Lord of <HI>Mu&s;querie,</HI> wee came to a Ca&s;tle of one of the <HI>Fitz Garrets</HI> called <HI>Ballimarter,</HI> where our lodging was in a low chamber at the upper end of the Hall, the chamber had two win|dowes, a long table, two formes, two beds; my friend and his cou&s;en, one of the &s;ons of the Gentleman of the Ca&s;tle lay together, and I lay again&s;t the door: as we came into the chamber a hound of the hou&s;e going in before me, I &s;aw the Dog &s;hew great feare as he went under the bed, but I thought nothing of it: one of the &s;ervants &s;et down a candle up|on the ground by me, and there came a bla&s;t of winde from the doore, and blue out the candle that it &s;trucke the &s;nuffe on the one &s;ide; &s;aid I, who blue out the candle, no body here, &s;aid my friend, then no body did it &s;aid I, and then, and not before, did I remember what my friend &s;aid to me upon the way, that the hou&s;e was haunted with Spirits; pre&s;ently &s;omething made &s;uch a noi&s;e upon the top of the te&s;ter like the noi&s;e of &s;quibs: how now &s;aid I, are you there already? the thing made the like noi&s;e againe, I &s;tept up at the beds feet, and there was a hand&s;ome bea&s;t like a Cat, and it tur|ned the head and looked upon me, it was gri&s;led about the no&s;e, and away it &s;cudled to the upper end of the bed, and &s;unke downe. I told the com|pany that I had &s;een the fine&s;t bea&s;t that ever I &s;aw in my life, after wee were in bed there were lights upon the wall that went round about the chamber, but &s;omething had got my friend by the leg, and he cried out mainly, and I did not finde that his bed-fellow give him any helpe at all, which made me think he cried &s;o to make me afraid, but he being almo&s;t pulled out by the heels the Spirit let goe his leg, and his bed-fellow be|gan to roare out a maine, and I began to &s;tartle: whats the matter with you there &s;aid I: there is one, &s;aies he, lies upon me &amp; is ready to kill me: thought I with my &s;elfe, if the heire of the hou&s;e be thus dealt withall, I &s;hall bee paid by and by: with that I felt &s;omething creeping upon the bed, but it was nothing but the Hound that came for &s;uccour; then the boots began for to flye at their heads, the table went one way, the formes were drawn another way, &s;uch a damnable noi&s;e in the Hall as if twenty had been to+gether
<PB N="3" REF="2"> by the ears: I thought that all the Divels in Hell were gotten toge|ther, but I could &s;ee nothing, and that was throwne was at their heads, this continued three houres together; and then began the &s;tir over head among the &s;ervants, all the bed cloathes pulled off them, beaten with their bootes, and never gave them over untill it was almo&s;t day.</P>
<P>The next day being Friday my friend went into the Country about &s;ome bu&s;ine&s;&s;e, but that night I heard nothing &s;tir in the chamber, but in the Hall, and among the &s;ervants above they were &s;oundly beaten. Upon Saturday at night my friend came home, and I comming from the boord in the Hall, there &s;tood a candle upon the table, and one of the &s;ervants ta|king the candle&s;ticke in his hand, there came a breath or bla&s;t of winde of the colour of a Rain-bow as big as my arm, as if it had come out of a &s;quirt, with that force that if it had been a torch it would have been blowne out, &s;aid I, we are like to have a pr<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters">y night of this when as we cannot be &s;uf|fered to goe quietly out of the Hall; as &s;oone as we were in bed, there was a Bell rung about the chamber, and &s;uch a crying of <HI>O hone</HI> all about the yard, that it was wonderfull to heare their audible voyces; immediate|ly my rug was pulled from me, I complained to my friend for the lo&s;&s;e of my cloaths, by my &s;oule &s;aid he, we have lo&s;t rug, and &s;heet and all, let us ri&s;e together and get our cloaths, but he made me no an&s;wer. I heard &s;ome|thing rattle upon the che&s;t at my beds feet, doe you heare Sir, &s;aid I, do you mean I &s;hall lye cold all night, pre&s;ently I &s;aw the rug come flying about the bed po&s;t griped at one corner, and &s;o throwne upon me: I felt to &s;ee how it was laid, and I could not mend it. I tooke good hold of the rugge with both my hands, for I thought this kindne&s;&s;e came not for nothing, pre&s;ently &s;omething tooke hold of the cloaths a little below my knees, and pulled me up from the boul&s;ter: I pulled again, and down the Spirit fell up|on me as it were with two fi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ts, after which, he pulled me up from the boul&s;ter eight or ten times, thought I if he continue to pull thus diveli&s;hly, he will tyer me out quite, I mu&s;t thinke of a remedy, I gave a &s;trong pull with all my might, and withall I &s;tart up and caught at him with one of my hands &s;o that I made him let goe, he &s;trake me in&s;tantly with a boot over the knees, and laid on me as if I had done him a great deale of wrong. I &s;tart up and caught at the boot, but he &s;hifted from one &s;ide to the other that I could never touch the boot; thought I, this is not the way, he &s;trake upon one &s;ide, and I caught on the other &s;ide, &amp; then I had gotten the boot by the top with both hands, and then did I &s;ee him, he was no bigger then an Ape, but we made &s;uch an noi&s;e with puffing and blowing that my friend thought they had been killing of me, and asked me how I did, &s;aid I, here is a rogue hath beaten me with a boot, and I have hold of it, and will teare it in peeces before he &s;hall pull the boot from me, but at la&s;t I haled
<PB N="4" REF="3"> him &s;o near me that I thought to catch him in mine armes, but he tumbled downe at the beds feet, and I was taken by the foot with a hand, I beat him off with the other foot, up comes a thing tumbling upon me, and &s;its upon my legs, I gave twenty plundges at him before I could kicke him off: my friend called to me to know how I did, &s;aid I, h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="2 letters">e is a rogue rides me, but he was no &s;ooner downe but he was upon me againe, but I &s;tart up and &s;trake at him, and then he tumbled off me, in the meane time my friend knocked for his men, but no helpe came, and then the Spirits made &s;undry noi&s;es in the chamber, but e&s;pecially one of them, for he cryed <HI>We&s;haw, We&s;haw, We&s;haw,</HI> hold &s;aid I a little, I perceive you under&s;tand all Lan|guages, it may be that God will be &s;o plea&s;ed that &s;ome way may be &s;ound for the quiet of this place, but they cryed out as they did: I commanded them in Gods name to depart the chamber, but they continued their out|raging noi&s;e untill it plea&s;ed them&s;elves; in comes a younger &s;onne of Mr. <HI>Fitz Garrets</HI> to know how we did, my friend having laine long with|out his cloaths, thought it a good time to get them, but as he &s;tooped to take them up he had &s;uch a blow upon the bum that made him leap above ground, and came running to my bed &s;ide but he was followed &s;o clo&s;e that they both beat in upon me; young <HI>Fitz Garret</HI> tumbled over to the wal, my friend got in by me, but finding little re&s;t there, he left me naked, and the cry began as it did before, <HI>We&s;haw, We&s;haw,</HI> and one lay &s;noring at my eare: &s;irra &s;aid I, you are broken winded, but the chamber being a little quiet, I looked towards the doore, and there I &s;aw the &s;hape of a man, and he pi&s;&s;ed in my face, &s;aid I to my friend here is a rogue pi&s;ies, he would have &s;aid &s;omething to me but the Spirit pi&s;t in his mouth: by my &s;oule, &s;aid he, the Spirit hath pi&s;&s;ed in my mouth: you unmannerly Ra&s;call &s;aid I, is this the entertainment you give to Gentlemen? this is the rogue&s;t trick that ever I did &s;ee; I was about to ri&s;e, and run upon him, but there appears one in a white &s;hirt by the beds &s;ide, and he plaid with &s;omething under his &s;hirt again&s;t his belly, that he made &s;uch a tunable noi&s;e that I could not but laugh at his roguery: how now &s;irra &s;aid I, are you good at that &s;port? here is a &s;weet crue of you, and with that I &s;tart up, and then away he went towards the doore; my friend being weary of his lodging got up, and ran where his bed cloaths lay, and got to his owne bed, after he was gone they &s;lang all the boots and &s;hooes that were in the chamber at mee; in the end there came a weighty thing upon me, what is that &s;aid the young man by me, nothing &s;aid I, but one of the long formes, and I pu|&s;hed it downe at the beds feet, then they tumbled a joynt &s;toole upon the bed, and thus they did divers times; the roome being a little quiet the young man ran out of the chamber: &s;aid my friend to me, doe you &s;ee nothing at my window? there was the &s;ame &s;hape in a white &s;hirt that came to the
<PB N="5" REF="3"> bed &s;ide, and having opened the &s;hutting of the window, he rai&s;ed him|&s;elfe up to the height of the window, and grew big in the upper parts, and &s;lender below, &s;preading his armes abroad naked up to the elbow, and &s;ometimes he would &s;inke downe to his former po&s;ture, and up again with a body like a Gyant: in the end I called him, white &s;hirt &s;aid I, you have done very we<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="missing" EXTENT="1 letter">l, and then he &s;hut up the window and was &s;een no more: my friend called to me againe, &s;ee you nothing at our window, I looked and &s;aw two hands taboring upon the gla&s;&s;e: tho&s;e hands have a face, &s;aid I, I will out and &s;ee, but I could &s;ee nothing but his armes, and his head bob up and downe, it was as light as day in the yard: then he to&s;&s;ed up a &s;hort mantle to the top of the window, and when it fell downe he tooke it in his armes, and up with it again, thus did he divers times: thought I he will doe &s;omething el&s;e be&s;ides playing with his mantle, I will &s;tand to the ca&s;ement, it may be he will open it, and then I &s;hall &s;ee his po&s;ture, if not, I will open the window. I had no &s;ooner &s;etled my &s;elfe but the ca&s;ement opened without any winde at all, and he looks in upon me, a young face, long, lean and hollow eyed: I thru&s;t my hand at his throat, but he avoided mo&s;t nimbly under my hand, and clapped him&s;elfe flat to the wall, as flat as a cake, and turned up his face and looked at me. O you Rogue &s;aid I, I will &s;ee how you will be&s;tow your &s;elfe, but my fight was taken from him upon another that &s;tood again&s;t the window in Engli&s;h apparrell, and he began to walke towards the Hall &s;taires, &s;o I &s;hut the window and went to bed, but I was &s;carce laid downe when one of them &s;trake me over the face with a leather belt, and hurt my face: nay &s;aid I, take this and take all, and after him I went, and &s;triking at him I hit my friends bed po&s;te, and hurt my fingers, then was I wilde, and ran after him about the table, and laid about me upon every &s;ide, and &s;eeing &s;ome &s;hadowes before me, I &s;pread my armes abroad, and ran them up again&s;t the wall at the doore but I thought they went out into the entry: I followed after, and locked up the doore, and as I was taking out the key; I told my friend that I had driven all the hel-hounds out of the chamber, but turning my head a&s;ide, there was one in white looking over my &s;houlder, &amp; away goes he between the table and the wall, and I after him with the key in my hand, &s;triving to take him upon the pate, but he kept his di&s;tance &s;o before me, that I found if I &s;trake I &s;hould &s;trike &s;hort, which made me &s;ling the key at his backe, and the key went through him for he was but a &s;hadow, and hee vani&s;hed away before me; the key &s;prang back under the tables end, and I could not finde it, and then I went and lay downe in my bed, and I &s;aw a blacke head looking out from under my friends bed, and out he creeps in his former &s;hape, goes to the tables end, &s;toops under and takes up the key, and goes into the entry, and unlocks the doore, and takes the latch in his
<PB N="6" REF="4"> other hand, and flings the doore wide open, and walkes along the entry into the Hall; a Harpe being in the window one begins to play an Iri&s;h tune, and plaid halfe a quarter of an houre, but &s;o &s;ingularly well, that it was not po&s;&s;ible for man to doe the like, and plaid an Iri&s;h dance, and before I was aware there was &s;ome &s;even or eight young men to looke up|on, dancing in a ring, and one of them had a paire of tables in his hands, and all to ratled them up and downe, and when he left playing they were not to be &s;een: then he plaid againe, and they were in againe dancing as before, but as &s;oone as he left playing they were vani&s;hed upon a &s;udden: well thought I, you &s;hall &s;erve me &s;o no more, a mou&s;e &s;hall not come in at the doore but I will &s;ee it, the fir&s;t thing I &s;aw was a whip of lightning no bigger then a bow-&s;tring, and withall there was a limbe of the Divell kic|ked into the roome, and gave &s;uch a bounce that it drew my &s;ight fully up|on it, but before I could ca&s;t up my &s;ight there was the &s;hape of a body proportionable unto it, this &s;hape was fifteen or &s;ixteen foot of length, that his head touched the roofe of the chamber, and as he did walke for|ward he bounced and made &s;uch a noi&s;e that it was wonder to heare: I be|held him with a &s;orrowfull countenance, and I &s;aw his knees above the boord, and I could not reach neare his wa&s;te, I having no acquaintance with him formerly, I thought it was an unequall match to graple with him, but I will &s;ee the going out, and after many turnes when he came to make him&s;elfe even with the doore he vani&s;hed and became nothing, and pre|&s;ently the cry was above &s;taires, the &s;ervants lay three in a bed, and among them was a Prie&s;t, the fir&s;t that was laid hold of was the Prie&s;t, they had him by the legs, and he cried out for helpe, and with much adoe, his fellowes kept him that he was not drawn quite out of the bed, but there he lay with feare and trembling all that night, and &s;taid not in the morning to take leave: in the next bed lay a Harper, and he was pulled out of the bed by the &s;tones with a whip-cord, and in the fall hurt his &s;houlder and was &s;hrewdly beat about the chamber, before he could recover his bed, not one <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> of clo<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ths left upon them, and were beaten with boots untill day|light.</P>
<P>Upon Sunday night I had a fire in my chamber, and a boy to maintaine the fire, and a &s;taffe in my hand, purpo&s;ing to be ma&s;ter of my lodging that night, I comming formo&s;t with my <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">at in my hand, the &s;tones came flying in at the window thick and threefold, but I &s;hut the ca&s;ement with my &s;taffe and held downe the latch of the ca&s;ement, and they pinched my fin|ger in the ring of the ca&s;ement, &s;o that my naile was bru&s;ed, but I would not let goe, my friend &s;tanding in the chamber doore de&s;ired me to &s;tand off from the window, doubting that my braines would have been da&s;hed out with the &s;tones; they flang two &s;tones through the next light which
<PB N="7" REF="4"> flew by my &s;houlder, brake foure panes of the gla&s;&s;e, and yet all the bro|ken gla&s;&s;e flue backward into the yard, and the cro&s;&s;e lead was beaten out|ward into the yard, and yet the &s;tones flue into the chamber: the company being gone, I went to locke the chamber doore, but I could not finde the &s;taple, I called my friend, and bid him &s;ee if he could finde the &s;taple, I &s;hot the locke into his hand and put the doore clo&s;e to the po&s;te, and yet no &s;taple would be found, &s;o we gave it over as pulled out of the po&s;t, and yet the &s;taple was not taken out of the po&s;t: &s;aid I, it is no great matter for &s;hut|ting of the doore, for if any of them come in I will make him an example to the re&s;t of his fellows if I may &s;ee him, in the mean time I walked up and downe the chamber expecting no good: it was not long before I had a thumpe in the neck with a turfe thrown at me that it &s;trake my cap on the one &s;ide, which I did not take very well, but it was not long but they hit me &s;o againe, I laid about me with my &s;taffe, but all in vaine, for I could &s;ee nothing; at la&s;t &s;omething came down the chimney ratling, which was nothing but an old &s;crubed broome, and then came downe &s;uch another, the basket hilt of a cudgell and &s;tones they threw downe into the fire, then &s;aid I if you dare come no nearer I &s;hall doe well enough this night, but they got a tricke at la&s;t that if I were at one end of the chamber, they would all to beat them that were in bed, but I came in to helpe them &s;ud|denly, in the end they de&s;ired me to &s;it by them upon the bed, and full ma|ny a thumpe upon the backe I had, but I would not be driven from them, then they were &s;o mad they threw the fire about the chamber: &s;aid I, I think the&s;e hel-hounds will burne the hou&s;e, and as I &s;at upon the bed they clapt the hilt of the cudgell upon my cap, doe you &s;ee what a coxcombe they have put upon my head, I gave it the boy and made him burne it, then they tooke my Rapier off the bed and threw it again&s;t the ground, and when I tooke it up they threw a Pi&s;toll after me and hit me on the leg: the night being well &s;pent, and the fire almo&s;t wa&s;ted, the boy un&s;eene by me was gone out of the chamber to get up the &s;taires to his bed, but before he could get up they pulled him downe by the heels and beat him, &s;o that he cried for helpe amaine. I not thinking of the boy ran to helpe, meaning to lay indifferently among&s;t them never remembring the boy, but as &s;oone as I came among them they let the boy goe, and he ran into my armes, and I led him into the chamber, but they had handled him &s;o ruffly, that I could not quiet him in a good while, and he told me that if I had not come and re&s;|cued him they had killed him, then I went and &s;at by my friend, and &s;et my candle upon the forme before me and they threw three times at it from the bed but did not put it out, then I tooke the candle in my hand and went and &s;at upon my own bed, and &s;et the candle by me, and I heard &s;omething at the doore; I ran and pulled open the doore, and there were &s;ome eight
<PB N="8" REF="5"> in the &s;hapes of men, and the hindmo&s;t was in Engli&s;h habit, and they crowded one upon another making ha&s;te to be gone, &s;o that the former was ready to turne into the Hall; when I had the fir&s;t &s;ight of this hope|full crue, and they were &s;o far gone from me that I could not give a blow upon them, &s;o I &s;et my backe again&s;t the doore, and bid one of them if hee dur&s;t come and drive me into the chamber; but they did not &s;hew them|&s;elves nor make any noi&s;e: well &s;aid I, rather then want &s;port come all the whole crue of you and let us have one rough bout before I go to re&s;t: then they &s;hewed the light of a candle through the chinkes of the &s;taires; &s;aid I, now I perceive your meaning, you intend to goe and vi&s;it your friends a|bove &s;taires, and I will goe and take my re&s;t, and as &s;oon as I had &s;hut my door, I might heare them at it above head: the men cried, the dogs cried, for they were throwne from one end of the roome to the other, and thus this la&s;t night was ended, and I was glad I had no more hurt among them.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your loving Friend <HI>Henry Lovel.</HI></SIGNED>
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<P>AFter my comming to Dublin a friend of mine told me that he came from this Ca&s;tle, and that Mr. <HI>Fitz Garret</HI> and he playing at Tables late, &s;ent the Butler into the Seller for Beere, but the Butler came running up again, and told his Ma&s;ter that <HI>Gibbaloney</HI> the great Divell was &s;itting at the barrells head with a candle in his hand taking Tobacco, and another came running out of his chamber in his &s;hirt, and &s;aid that <HI>Gibbaloney</HI> the great Divell had pulled him out of his bed, and to&s;&s;ed him up that he hit the feeling of the chamber, and as he fell downe he caught him in his armes and threw him into bed again.</P>
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