came to Dublin and therefore I desired to have his counsell and advise He began after this manner You intend to go to ublin saith he if you do you must go speedily for within two dayes the Irish Army will be before Dublin so that you cannot passe if you should get so much favour as to passe yet when you come to Dublin you will not be admitted to come within the Gates and in the Suburbs there are sixe or seven score dying daily for want of food so that there will be no abiding place for you If you intend to go for England the least childe you have will not be carried under twenty shillings and you saith he have not one penny if you should finde so much friendship as to passe gratis there are such a multitude of people that are gone out of this Kingdom that England being but a small Island and Populous of it selfe is not able to receive you if you should be received there can be no long continuing place for you for the Papists are striving in England as well as here the Queene being fled into France for some abuses offered her own Person her Servants and Chaplains which indignities the King of France intending to revenge hath leavied an Army of 40000 men to invade England and the Cardinall in Flanders hath leavied the like number to the like end and purpose therefore it will be no purpose to go thither Lord Mr Staples said I what shall I do then If you stay here you must do as they do and turn to Masse yet they will not trust you sayd he fearing least if the King of England should ever be able to bring an Army into this Country the turn-coat English should joyne with them and cut the Irish throats in a night as the English once did the Danes in England Therefore whosoever of the English should turn to the Romish Church they would also compell to take Armes and place them in the Front and eminent place of danger that so they might fall And for hereafter when they had gotten the Kingdome into their own hands which they make no question but to have in a short time having all the Forts Castles and strong-holds in Ireland in their own hands already but the Castle of Dublin and Drogheda and these two places they would not for many thousand pounds have gotten for reasons known unto themselves but when they have once obtained them and the Kingdome those English that have not fallen by the sword the holy Church hath so ordered it that they shall be cut off by the Inquisition so that they will not leave an English-man alive whose Ancestors hav◠not been here for 200 years with many other like words Jur. 29. Jan. 1641. John Biggar John Sterne William Aldrich William Hitchcock The examination of John Mountgomery late of Clounish in the County of Monaghan Gent. THis Examinate duely sworn e deposeth inter alia That in their journey and Marching within the County of Monaghan the Rebells murthered of his knowledge at the least fourescore Protestants and committed a number of other wicked barbarous and notorious Robberies and actions and by their owne relation robb'd stripped naked kill'd and drowned 45 of the Scots at one time and that the same Robbers also murthered Mr Blyth and Master Mathew two constant Protestant Preachers within the County of Tiron and murthered one Master Fullerton Parson of Loughall in the County of Armagh and neere fourescore more English more of Protestants by drowning and throwing them all over the Bridge of Portdown in the said County into the River Bann And further saith that the Rebells aforesaid or some of them confessed unto him and so he was told also by divers Scottish-men that they the same Rebells when they came to Armagh Monaghan and Dungannon set all the prisoners at liberty and that they broke open and defaced the Church of Armagh and burned the pewes pulpit and the best things in the said Church And this Deponent whilest he was with the same Rebells saw them to pull in peeces kick up and down deface and spoyl all the Protestant Bibles and other protestant books that they found in any place where they came neither this Deponent nor any other protestant prisoner nor other durst so much do as to save or looke upon any of them in their sight nor would they willingly suffer any one to speak the English tongue And further it was pretended that it was agreed in the Parliament House of England thet the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland should be sent for to Dublin unde colour of passing Patents of their Lands and there should be imprisoned untill such time as they should either go to the Protestant Church or should be put to death And if they should go to the Church yet not to be released untill they had given security that their followers should go to the Church also otherwise to bring them in to be censured And further saith That when the Rebells of the County of Monaghan had surprized or had command of all that County some of them said that they would be governed by the Roman Law and some by the English Law which they knew better And said further That when they had taken Dublin and Drogheda Derry and Knockfergus which they did not doubt but to conquer before Candlemas then next they would have a Parliament and would settle a Government but would have no Protestants amongst them but that they would suffer English or Scottish to be Deputies Lords Justices or Judges so that one of the Irish Nation might be joyned with them and so that all should go to Masse And the same Rebells publikely and generally also said That they made no account but to keep Ireland for ever in regard they had of their own Souldiers two hundred thousand fighting men besides labourers and they expected from the King of Spain according to his promise fifteen thousand souldiers and Arms and money fit for them and from the King of France some Ayd because the Queen of England his sister was so deprived of liberty of religion And the same Rebells also further said in this Deponents hearing That in all forraigne parts it was agreed and resolved that all Protestants or others that would not go to Masse should be put to the Sword And this Deponent further saith That he did hear Neale mac Kenny Baron of Trough neer Glaslock a notorious Captain of the Rebells say That the King had sent directions from Scotland that Sir Pbelomy Roe ô Neale Knight should be Generall of all His Majesties Forces in Ireland against the English and that he the said Neale mac Kenny should be Governour of the three Counties of Tyrone Armagh and Monaghan And that therefore he the said Neale mac Kenny and the rest of the Irish Forces would after their conquest of Ireland go into England and there by the assistance of the English papists also conquer the same And that from thence they
any longer for they would govern it themselves S And that their Religion should flourish in despight of King or State T In all which having broken thorow the due bounds of their Allegiance their vain and ambitious thoughts rove without knowing any limits It will not now content them to settle anew and mold again this Kingdom to their own Modell by calling of Parliaments making Laws and appointing their own Governours V Thus discourse they of the modestest sort but they will with the assistance of Spain and France set footing in England and after that in Scotland W where all things being setled to their desires the whole Forces of Ireland in way of retribution and acknowledgement of gratitude are intended for the King of Spain against the Hollanders X Unto which their disloyalty to theirs and our most gracious Soveraign they have added expressions of unheard of hatred to His Brittish Subjects of this Kingdom banishment or slavery are the greatest favours that would be afforded them But their generall profession is for a generall extirpation even to the last and least drop of English blood Y Which that it may be drayned to the full such of the English as cannot prescribe a settlement in this Kingdom for two hundred yeers are to be cut off and that notwithstanding they be of the Romish Sect It being to that end provided That such as do revolt to their part should for the present be accepted of yet so disposed as being drawn into the List of their Army they should be set upon the most dangerous Enterprises so either to be made away or to serve their own turns of them And what the Sword cannot for the present effect an Inquisition like that in Spain for finding out the Jewish and Moorish blood shall in time thorowly accomplish Z As for the future their Covenant is That no English should ever set footing again in Ireland A Even the very Language must be forgotten none being to speak English under a penalty B But that which exceeds all Not an English Beast or any of that breed must be left in the Kingdom C And as we finde the hearts of these men in their tongues so in their actions doing what they professe and being in both beyond all measure profane and heathenish in their impious words and behaviours towards God and the holy Scriptures Religion and the places of Gods publike Worship Blaspheming our God bidding his servants whom they had first T V stripped naked to go to their God and let him give them clothes D Breaking into Churches burning Pulpits Pues and all belonging thereunto with extreme violence and expression of hatred to our Religion and triumphing also in their impiety E Professing That not one Protestant should be left in the Kingdome F Dragging some Professors thorow the streets by the hair of the head into the Church where stripping whipping and cruelly using them they added these taunting words If you come tomorrow you shall hear the like Sermon G How have our sacred Books of holy Scriptures been used Gods Book hath been O horrible cast into and tumbled in the Kennell thence taken up and dashed in the faces of some Professors with these words I know you love a good lesson this is an excellent one come to morrow you shall have as good H They have torn it in pieces I kicked it up and down K treading it under foot with leaping thereon they causing a Bag-pipe to play the while L laying also the leaves in the kennell leaping and trampling thereupon saying A plague on it This Book hath bred alltne quarrell hoping within three weeks all the Bibles in Ireland should be so used or worse and that none should be left in the Kingdom M and while two Bibles were in burning saying that it was hell-fire that was burning N wishing they had all the Bibles of Christendome that they might use them so But what Pen can set forth what Tongue expresse whose Eye can reade Ear hear or heart without melting consider the cruelties more than barbarous dayly exercised upon us by those inhumane blood-sucking Tygers Stripping quite naked Men Women and children even children sucking upon the Brest O whereby multitudes of all sorts in the extremitie of that cold season of Frost and Snow have perished Women being dragged up and down naked P Women in child bed thence drawn out and cast into prison Q One delivered of a childe while she was hanging R One ripped up and two children taken away and all cast unto and eaten by swine S One other stabbed in the breast her childe sucking T An Infant cruelly murthered whom they found sucking his dead mother slain by them the day before V A childe of 14 years of age taken from his mother in her sight cast into a Bog-pit and held under water while he was drown'd W The forcing 40 or 50 Protestants to renounce their profession and then cutting all their throats * What should we speak of their murthers X their hanging half-hanging and that oft times reiterated they delighting in the tortures of the miserable Z Hence some being left wounded in vain crying out that they might be dispatched A This being purposely done that these wretches might languish in their miserie their tormentors affirming that their Priests commanded them so to do B What should we speake of those 30 or 40 burnt in one House and 50 in another C the denying of buriall to the dead D whereby Christians have been eaten by Dogs and Dogs tearing Children out of the wombe the bloudy beholders relating such things with boasting and great rejoycing E And to make perfect the measure of their cruelty Two were said to be buried alive F and others that had been long buried digged up they saying that the Churches could not be Consecrated while Hereticks bodies or bones lay therein G The cruell usage of those 48 poore prisoners in the Gaole of Monaghan H Of those in the County of Armagh after drowned in the River of the Ban to the number of 80 I or 100. K or 196 L as it is diversly reported those 45 drowned together M And those 179 burnt in one house x All these we refer to the reading of the severall depositions concerning them hereunto annexed But how can that be forgotten or where shall it be beleeved which we hear to have been done in the Church of Newtown in the County of Fermanagh where a childe of Thomas Strettons was boyled alive in a Caldron A thing which as one bare reports we durst not so neither can we now with confidence enough present it to that your honourable Assembly nor can we averre it for true otherwise then as by concurring examinations we finde them solemnly deposed whereunto we desire to
Magwire upon Saturday before and there they should finde small relief if for England or Scotland it was as bad there as here saying further that what they did they had the Kings Commission for it Elizabeth M Coats her Mark Deposed this fourth of Ian. 1641. before us Randal Adams Iohn Watson The examination of Nicholas Willoughby of the Carrow in the County of Fermanagh Esquire THis examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That Con oge mac Mabon said that all the Counties in Ireland were in action or rebellion as well as Monaghan and Fermanagh and that there was warre in England and Scotland between the Papists and them And moreover he said That the Irish were certainly enformed that there was a course to be suddainly taken with them to make them go to Church or else to loose their lives and that they had seen some writing or letter to that effect and said that Owen mac Art ô Neal was come out of Spain and landed about Strangford or that side and that he had brought store of Arms and men with him and that there were many Redshanks come over out of the Highlands in Scotland to take their parts Nicholas Willoughby Deposed before us Febr. 23. 1641. Hen. Jones VVill Hitchcock The examination of Thomas Crant of Cavan in the County of Cavan THis examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That the said Donnagh mac Gwire expressing that he was not made privy to the generall Cause untill two or three dayes afore the day came if he had been made of the Councell he would advise other wayes then to take up Arms but that now it was so his hand was in and that he would not take it cut and that if the Lord of Eveskillin was ill used we should be farre worse and that if he suffered we should all be destroyed not one should escape 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 destroy him for that how many pardons soever the Earl of Tyren had as yet they did him no good Therefore he would not trust to any but would stand out to defend his Country with his bloud Expressing that the Scots were and had been alwaies their friends and that they had a Covenant to shew whereby it might appear the fair correspondency between them the Irish and the Scors in Scotland which covenant imported that the Irish should never take part with the English against the Scots and that the Scots should never take part with the English against the Irish And that it was so covenanted between many of the Lords of Scotland and many of the Lords and their Gentry of Ireland and that Hugh mac Mahon had the Covenant to shew Saying That he was more a Papist then a Protestant and that the Puritan Parliament of England was the cause of all this that they had laid a plot that at the next Sessions of Parliament here in Ireland that the Papists of the house should be all committed to the Castle or murdered and the Protestants were to murder all the Papists throughout the Kingdom and that they having intelligence of that Therefore they did begin first and would now continue and that all the whole Kingdom did rise as they did the self same day the 23. of October and that all the Papists in England did so that same day rise in Arms against the Protestants and also that some Papist Earls and Lords in Scotland did likewise so too So that there was warres in England and Scotland as there was here in Ireland Divers Women and Children murdered lying unburied till dogs spoiled their Corps Women with childe murdered and some dyed for cold after being stript forth of their cloaths lying unburied that dogs gnawed their Children forth of their Wombs which this examinate heard some of the vulgar people report with a cheerfulnesse Also there he heard reported by Con oge mac Con mac Hugh mac Mahon Patrick oge mac Rosse Magwyre that upon Christmas-day they with a matter of a 1000. men went down to Eneskillin fiedge and there they burnt the house of Lisgoole where into was come of Men Women and Children a matter of fifty souls of Scots who they burnt all in the house except Master Iames Dunbarre and his Sister whom they gave quarter to and took them forth of a Window and keepe them prisoners as also they had burnt a Castle called Tullin wherein was a matter of thirty or forty souls of Scots and that as yet they could not do any good on Moone-Castle nor of Eneskillin A poor Man was met withall by a couple of Irish Women who knockt him in the head and killed him the Lord of Dunsany sent for the Women examined the reason why they did so they answered that Barnaby Reyly was hanged at Dublin and they did it to revenge his death the Lord of Dunsany committed them to prison what since is done with them this examinate knoweth not At my being at Racaine I heard it credibly reported that on the Sunday before Christmas-day that after Edmund mac Mulmore ô Rely had pillaged Bishop Bedle of Kilmore and sent him with his two sonnes to Cloughwater Castle to restraint That the Romish Bishop Mac Swine came to the Church of Kilmore and there did consecrate it anew and set up an Altar there and so said Masse and there liveth in the Bishops house Thom. Crant Iur. 13. Febr. 1641. Roger Puttock VVill Aldrich The examination of Elizabeth Parker late of Battydust in the County of Catherlagh VViddow THis examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That when she and others were wishing themselves in England What should you do in England for it was as bad as in Ireland Besides the Seas were very dangerous and Comerfords Wife further said that the Queens Priest was hanged in England which was the cause of the insurrection in this Kingdom or to that effect Iur. 13. Ian. 1641. Coram Elizabeth Parker Roger Puttock Iohn VVatson The examination of Ockar Butts late of Bollganreagh in the County of Wexford Gentleman THis examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That one of the Rebels of the said company being as he said the Leader or Commander over them spake these words viz. That they had full power and commission from their Generall to execute such and the like exploits against the Protestants and that we should have no longer respite to remain in this Kingdom then untill the next day following And that then all Protestants should have generall warning to depart this Kingdom upon pain of death And they then made question whether we should be permitted to land in any part of England or no And that such straight Commission was granted and sent over unto their Generall by the Queen and some of the best Nobility of England And also that they did not neer execute towards us
crying lamentably for some to come and end their misery by killing them out And further he saith That the names of the chiefest of the Rebels in those parts are Phelomy ô Neal of Kinnard in the County of Tyron Knight and Turlagh ô Neal Esquire his Brother and one Colonell Pluncket and Captain Manus oge ô Caban of the County of Armagh Gentlemen and Redmond ô Mullan of the Grange in the County of Tyron Gentleman and Patrick ô Mullan now of Armagh Gentleman who wrote Proclamations in His Majesties Name And further he saith That he heard by credible English-men that the said Phelomy ô Neal affirmed that his taking up Arms was by His Majesty and the Queens consent and the Parliament in this Kingdom and further that one Captain Shane ô Neal in the County of Tyron stiled the said Phelomy ô Neal with the title and stile of His Majesty Iohn Greg. Iur. 7. Ian. 1641. Coram nobis Will. Hitchcock Roger Puttock The Examination of Henry Raynolds of Cornemuekley in the County of Cavan Yeoman THis Examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That he heard one whose name as he thinks is Ferdoragh an Irish Priest say that they had the Kings hand for what they did and the cause of there rising was because there was a Statute made in England that all papists should go to Church before a certain time or be banished Hen. Raynolds Deposed before us 4. Ian. 1641. Hen. Iones Io. Watson The Examination of Charles Crafford of Navan in the County of Meath Gentleman THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That the reason generally given by them for their doing was that they had found a Letter wherein the English had resolved to hang the Irish at their doors if they would not go to Church and that therefore they would begin with the English first Charles Craffords Mark Iur. 22. Ian. 1641. Roger Puttock Io. Sterne Ioh VVatson VVill Aldrich The Examination of John Wood of New-Rath in the County of Wicklow Gentleman THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That these words were spoken by Nicholas Byrne James mac Cahire and divers other of the Rebels that they were discontented Gentlemen and having their Lands unjustly taken away by the Plantation could not have any satisfaction but by the Sword Therefore it was their Colonell Luke Tooles pleasure that all Protestants should depart the Kingdom upon pain of death And for Dublin if that did stand out long with them they made no question to burn it but if they could take it and not fire it so they might have the head of my Lord Parsons and three or four more of the chiefest of the City all the rest should fare so much the better And they further said That there was an Act of Parliament in England that all papists in Ireland should upon pain of death either go to Church or be banished the Kingdom by such a day of the moneth which as I take it was by the 24. of November And therefore they desired liberty of conscience and to enjoy all that Land which there predecessors did formerly enjoy For why should not they have there demands as well as the Scots John Wood Jur. 17. Feb. 1641. John Stern Randall Adams The Examination of Henry Steel Curate of Cluntubbrid THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That when they were imprisoned in the Dungeon in the County Goal all the robbers and rogues first set at liberty they remained there in a most miserable estate there being in number about forty eight more or lesse where they had no roome to stand or lye And further deposeth That he by Gods great mercy being enlarged his wife yet prisoner in Castle-Blaney he came away with one Master Barnewell and being in a place called Cabret where one Master Fleming liveth whose Daughter is married to the Lord Magwire he heard the servants of the house and other Irish relating that this Magwire and the popish Primate whose Sirname is Rely were a long space travelling through the Kingdome together to perswade them all to condiscend to this most inhumane plot and this Rely was then at this Flemings house Hen. Steel Deposed this 10. of Ian. 1641. Will. Aldrich Iohn Sterne The Examination of Katherine Graunt of Navan in the County of Meath Widdow THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That the whole Town and Corporation of the Navan made good preparation for the entertainment of the Northern Rebels in victuals and drink for them very many of them went to the Rebels before they came to Town and generally all of them met them with great joy and welcoming of them when they came to Town She further deposeth That she heard the Priest that came with the Rebels from the North and the Priest of the Navan Master Fay among them as she 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 Kath. Graunts Mark Deposed this 5. of Ian. 1641. Roger Puttock Hen. Brereton The Examination of Hugh Madden late of Kirreke in the County of Wickloe Gentleman THis Examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That after he had been first besiedged by at least eight hundred of the Rebels having conference with some of them they then gave out in words that that businesse which they had begun they would pursue till it were effected and would not look for a pardon for the same or to that effect Hugh Madden Iur. 23. Feb. 1641. Iohn VVatson Iohn Sterne The Examination of John Right late of Newtown alias Castle-câ—ol in the County of Fermanagh Butcher THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That Rory Magwire shewed 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 Majesty for what he did And he further deposeth That when he and his neighbours then robbed complained of their miserable condition being robbed and stripped the said Rory replyed That if they were not content with what was done they should see worse within a few dayes Iohn Right Jurat Jan. 5. 1641. coram nobis Randall Adams Iohn Sterne The Examination of George French of Karbery in the County of Kildare THis Examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That he demanded of the Rebells why they dealt so with VVilliam Coleman to whom Luke Brumingham answered That they had a Commission from His Majesty for what they did and Gerald Fitz Gerald of Carbery aforesaid read the Commission that was a supposed Commission from His Majesty to take away all English mens goods Geo. French his mark Jur. 1 Feb. 1641. cor. John Sterne Randall Adams The Examination of Jane Mansfeild lately of the Parish of Castle-Jordan VVidow THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That she coming towards Dublin in her
Justice of Peace in the County of Monaghan was hanged in this manner Art Roe mac Bryan Sanaght of Hislough in the County of Monaghan Marshall to the Rebels came to Mr. Blaney to the Dungeon and desired him to come out to speak with him when he came out to him he led him to my Lord Blaneys Orchard in Monaghan and said 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 shall have a priest he said no but he desired to have Master Cottingham the Minister of Monaghan but they would not but hanged him there and flung him in a Ditch and he was two dayes unburied And this Deponent heard that there was one Luke VVard a Scotchman which had indicted a man the quarter Sessions before this rising the same man came to him where he was in the Goal and carried him to an Alehouse and made him drunk and when he had done carried him into the backside and hanged him after he was cut down they flung him into a River and I could never hear that he was buried Hugh Culme Deposed before us Ian. 25. 1641. Hen. Iones Hen. Brereton I heard Master Mountgomery Minister and Master Hollis with severall other men of good worth report that the Sunday before this rising of the Rebels that there was seen a Sword hanging in the ayre with the point downwards the half seeming to be red and the point turned round Hugh Culme The Examination of Mistresse Martha Culme of Leitrim in the County of Monaghan THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That she being by the Râ—bels forced from her dwelling and robbed of all her goods she was enforced to shift from place to place for safeguard of her life particularly at VVilliam Boy Flemings house in the Parish of Tehollan in the County of Monaghan where she did hear the said Fleming in detestation of the cruelty of the Rebels to relate that while Sir Phelomy ô Neal did lye with his forces before the Ogber in the County of Tyrone the Irish women would follow after the Irish Rebell Souldiers and put them forward in cruelty with these and such words spare neither man woman nor childe God so pitty your souls as you pitty them intending those words to cruelty This Examinate further saith That in the said Flemings house one Art mac Patrick mac Toole Boy mac Mahon of the Barony of Balline Cargy in the said Parish speaking to this Examinate in Irish she desired he would deliver himself in English for she understood not Irish he answered in English that such as spake English should forfeit ten shillings to the King what King saith this Examinate have we that will not allow the speaking of English what King saith he but the Earl of Tyrone she asked where the Earl was he answered in the North where he was landed with 40000. Spaniards whereof 10000. were then with Sir Phelim ô Neal. Martba Culme Deposed before us Feb. 14. 1641. Hen. Iones Henry Brereton The Examination of Elizabeth Gough late of Ballanenagh in the County of Cavan Spinster THis Examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That the Irish purposed to have a King of their own in Ireland and that Phelomy ô Neal should be he Elizabeth Gough her Mark Deposed before us Feb. 8. 1641. Hen. Jones Hen. Sterne The Examination of Anne Gill of Newtown in the County of Fermanagh Widdow THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That when Rory Magwire had taken the Church at Newtown aforesaid he the said Rory in the presence and hearing of this Deponent and a great many of his neighbors the Kings Majesties loving Subjects gave forth that it was to no purpose for them to fly to Dublin for succour for Dublin was taken by the Lord Magwire who was to be King of Ireland Anne L Gill her Mark Jur. 29. Jan. 1641. John Stern VVilliam Aldrich The examination of Elizabeth Vause late of Creigs toune Longhfield in the County of Leitrim Widdow THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That when this Deponent asked why the Rebels so robbed them they asked again who sent you over and being answered that God and the King did it they the said Rebells said let your King fetch you out again And saith further That the said Rebels burned divers houses and two Children and one old Man in them and that very many Protestants that fled for safety and succour to the Castle of Sir James Craige Knight being neer them were there famished starved and dyed for want of means Eliz. Vause her mark Jur. 9. die Feb. 1641. John Sterne William Hitchcock The Examination of Nicholas Michael of Farnan in the County of Cavan THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That the parties that robbed this Deponent said they have an Irish King amongst them and they regarded not King Charles the King of England Nich. Ê’ Michaels mark Deposed before us Ian. 15. 1641. VVill Hitchcock Hen. Brereton The Examination of Andrew Foster of Mocredin alias Caryetsfort in the County of Wickloe Gentleman THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That the Rebels said that they would within a week burn Dublin and that neither King nor Queen should govern Ireland any longer for they would govern it themselves Andrew Foster Iur. 17. Febr. 1641. VVilliam Aldrich John Sterne The Examination of Richard Witton of Kilnane in the County of Wickloe Miller THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That Luke Burne Gentleman of Kilnane said he would have their religion flourish no thanks to King or Subject Rich. Witton Deposed this 11. of Jan. 1641. Will. Aldrich VVill Hitchcock The Examination of Edward Taylor late of Saint Margarets alias Raven in the County of Wexford Clerk THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That one Piers Synnot of Ballyvodogg in the said County and his sonne David and other their complices before this Rebellion burst out did dispossesse this Deponent of his Goods and Church livings into which he was long since invested by His Majesties presentation for which abuse this Deponent impleaded some of them in this last Parliament at Dublin and a little before the beginning of this said Rebellion he shewed the said David an Order from the said Parliament for this Deponents quiet enjoying his said Church Livings and restitution of the profits thereof by them wrongfully detained to which the said David Synnot answered That he cared not for that and that it was no Parliament but meet him at Dublin in Michaelmas-Term next and question him if he durst for then they would have a Parliament of their own in which Parliament he said the Deponent durst not complain or words to that effect Edward Taylor Iur. 23. Feb. 1641. Coram nobis Iohn Sterne Hen. Brereton The Examination of Nathaniel Higginson of the Castle of Knockballymore in the County of