be referred N To which may well be added the forcing of one Duke Wade to drinke unto drunkennesse and then hanging him therein to take a full revenge both on body and soul p Of which their aforesaid many and barbarous cruelties each day doth afford us variety of new instances This City of Dublin being the common receptacle for these miserable sufferers Here are many thousands of poore people sometimes of good respects and estates now in want and sicknesse whereof many daily dye notwithstanding the great care of those tender hearted Christians whom God blesse without whom all of them had before now perished In all which as our sufferings are generall the hatred of the enemy being expressed to the whole Nation and to all the professors of the truth So in chief and above all others O do we finde it with the deadliest venome spit against the persons of us the Ministers of the Gospel towards whom their rage is without bounds Of this we see enough in the miserable condition of Mr George Cottingham a Batchelor in Divinity and a painfull labourer in the Lords Vineyard P The like we see in the cruell murther of Mr Blyth slain with sir Pheliom ô Neals safe conduct in his hands Q it being lift up by him unto heaven as a witnesse of his treachery Q The same we finde in the murther of Mr Thomas Grafford and Mr William Fullerton R Lastly that among a multitude we may content our selves with a few We see it in the cruelty exercised upon Mr Sharpe the Minister of Kells S Of all which the following examinations shall speak morefully Such of us as have best escaped the hands of these Tyrants have been turned out of all We with such other of our brethren ours and their wives and children coming on foot hither through waies tedious and full of perill being every minute assaulted the end of one but leading to the next danger one quite stripping off what others had in pity left So that in nakednesse we have recovered this our City of refuge where we live in all extremity of want not having wherewithall to subsist or to put bread in our mouthes Of those of our brethren who have perished on the way hither some of their wives and children do yet remain The children also of some of them wholly deprived of their parents and left for desserted Orphans All of us being exposed to apparent ruine if not speedily relieved This our most miserable condition therefore and of our Brethren and of this our whole distressed Church of Ireland We do in most humble manner Remonstrate and lay downe at the feet of that your Pious Charitable and Honorable Assembly Praying That we and all of us your Suppliants together with our Brethren may finde a place among others in your tender considerations and never exhausted bounty So and in such manner as to your Wisedomes shall be esteemed most fitting Humbly desiring that we who have borne the burthen and heate of the day may not be cast off not having what to eate or what to put on That the Ministry may not in our wants be rendred despicable to our own as it hath suffered despight from our Adversaries And that the rather we may finde this Admittance into your Charity in that our sufferings are professed by our enemies to proceed which we glory in from that your zeal for the Church of God God Almighty blesse and further those your Honorable and pious desires and designs and Restraiâ—the fury of our Adversaries for which we desire the prayers of our Brethren And He grant that of his goodnesse all of them may be long preserved from knowing what we suffer otherwise then by a Brotherly and compassionate fellow feeling which are the daily prayers of Your Honors Servants and Votaries Henry Iones Roger Puttocke Iohn Watson Iohn Sterne Henry Brereton Randall Adams William Hitchcoke William Aldrich The severall Commissions whereupon the following examinations are grounded out of which the foregoing Remonstrance hath been extracted CHARLES By the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defendes of the Faith c. To Our welbeloved Henry Jones Dean of Kilmore Roger Puttock William Hitchcock Randall Adams John Sterne William Aldrich Henry Brereton and John Watson Clerks greeting Whereas divers wicked and disloyall people have lately risen in Arms in severall parts of this Kingdome and have Robbed and spoiled many of our good Subjects Brittish and Protestants who have been seperated from their setled habitations and scattered in most lamentable manner And forasmuch as it is needfull to take due examination concerning the same Know ye that We reposing especiall trust and confidence in your care diligence and provident circumspection have nominated and appointed you to be Our Commissioners And do hereby give unto you or any two or more of you full power and Authoritie from time to time to call before you and examine upon oath on the holy Evangelists which hereby we authorize you or any two or more of you to administer as well all such persons as have been so robbed and spoiled as all the witnesses that can give testimony therein what robberies and spoiles have beene committed on them or any other to their knowledge since the two and twentieth of October last or shall hereafter be committed on them or any of them what the particulars were or are whereof they were or shall be so robbed or spoiled to what valew by whom what their names are and where they now or last dwelt that committed those robberies or what day or night the said robberies or spoiles committed or to be committed were done what traiterous or disloyall words speeches or actions were then or at any other time uttered or committed by those Robbers or any of them what violence or other lewd actions were then performed by the sayd Robbers or any of them and how often and all other circumstances touching or concerning the said particulars and euery of them And you Our sayd Commissioners are to reduce to writing all the examinations which you or any two or more of you shall take as aforesaid and the same to return unto Our Iustices and Councell of this our Realm of Ireland under the hands and seales of you or any two or more of you as aforesaid Witnesse Our Right trusty and wel-beloved Councellors Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronet and Sir John Borlase Knight Our Iustices of Our said Realm of Ireland At Dublin the three and twentieth day of December in the seventeenth of our Reigne Carleton CHARLES By the grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith c. To Our Wel-beloved Henry Jones Dean of Kilmore Roger Puttock William Hitchcock Randall Adams John Sterne William Aldrich Henry Brereton and John Watson Clerks Greeting Whereas divers wicked and disloyall people have lately risen in Arms in severall parts in this Kingdome and have robbed and spoiled
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
many of Our good Subjects Brittish and Protestants who have been seperated from their setled habitations and scattered in most lamentable manner and many others have beene deprived of their Lands Rents goods and Chattles And forasmuch as it is needfull to take due examination concerning the same Know ye that We reposing especiall trust and confidence in your fidelities care and provident circumspection have nominated and appointed you to be Our Commissioners 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 hereby authorise you or any two or more of you to administer on the holy Evangelists As well all such persons as have been so Robbed and spoiled or deprived of their Lands Rents goods or Chattles as all the witnesses that can give testimony therein what Robberies and spoiles have been committed on them or any other to their knowledge since the two and twentieth of October last or shall hereafter be committed on them or any of them what Lands Rents goods or Chattles whereof any person or persons were or shall be so robbed spoiled or deprived to what valew by whom such robberies or spoiles were committed what their names are and where they now or last dwelt that committted those robberies or spoiles on what day or night the said robberies or spoiles committed or to be committed were done what Traiterous or disloyall words speeches or actions were then or at any other time uttered or committed by those robbers or any of them and what unfitting words or speeches concerning the present Rebellion or by occasion thereof were spoken at any time by any person or persons whatsoever what violence or other lewd actions were then performed by the said Robbers or any of them and how often what numbers of persons have been murthered by the Rebels or perished afterwards in the way to Dublin or other places whither they fled or retired for refuge either by way of defence or otherwise What person or persons Clergimen or other Protestants have become Papists since the said two and twentieth day fled or retired for refuge either by way of defence or otherwise What person or persons Clergimen or other Protestants have become Papists since the said two and twentieth day of October last and all other circumstances and things touching or concerning the said particulars and every of them either before the three and twentieth of October or since And for the better performance of this service all Incumbents Curats Parish-Clerks and Sextons of Churches in this Kingdome are hereby required to give in to you Our said Commissioners to the best of their knowledge the names and numbers of the poore so spoyled who have beene buried in their respective Parishes and hereafter in and about Dublin they are to give in weekly Bills under the hands of the Ministers or Church-wardens of such Parishes of such of the said persons as shall be so buried in the said Parishes And you our said Commissioners or any two or more of you as aforesaid are to reduce to writing all the Examinations which you or any two or more of you shall take as aforesaid and the same to return to our Iustices and Councell of this Our Realm of Ireland under the hands and Seals of you or any two or more of you as aforesaid Witnesse Our right trusty and wel-beloved Councellors Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronet and Sir John Borlase Knight Our Iustices of Our Realme of Ireland At Dublin the eighteenth Day of January in the Seventeenth yeare of Our Reigne Carleton Examinations taken before us His Majesties Commissioners thereunto appointed by vertue of a Commission to us or any two or more of us directed under the great Seal of Ireland Dated the 23th day of December in the 17th yeare of his Majesties Reigne And by vertue of one other Commission directed as aforesaid bearing Date the 18th day of January in the yeare aforesaid The examination of John Day of Drumleiff in the County of Cavan Weaver THis Examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That the Rebells bad him open the doors of his House otherwise they would fire his House and they said that they had a Commission from the Queene and from beyond the Seas for what they did And that they would not suffer an English-man to stay in the land Jur. 8. Feb. 1641. John Day William Aldrich William Hitchcock The examination of Lucy Spell of Drogheda in the County of Lowth THis Examinate duly sworn deposeth inter alia That at Ballendary where she was prisoner three weeks and lodged in John Parsimers house during which imprisonment she saw one time John Malon a Fryar who taketh upon him the title of Chaplain to the Catholike Army in Ireland together with Michael Murffy Garret Newgent of Drogheda Marchant John Griffin and Patrick Griffin of the same Merchants Roger Belin of the same Merchant with others in their company and heard them in their conference say we will shortly have the Prince of England here in Ireland and make him Vice-Roy and we will tutor him and bring him up in the Catholike Religion and the King himselfe shall live in Scotland and before Easter day next we shall have an Army out of Spain and then we will go all into England and with the helpe of the Catholikes there all whose names the said Fryar said that he had we will put all the Puritans and Protestants to the sword The marke of the said Lucy Jur. 5. Feb. 1641. William Aldrich William Hitchcock John Sterne Henry Brereton The examination of John Biggar of Miltown in the County of Dublin Clerke THis Examinate being duely sworn deposeth inter alia That these words were spoken by the Rebells especially by their Leader For the third of December Edmond Eustace of Ballymore-Eustace that they did give us but our owne Law For whereas there was an Act made by the Councell of England in the absâ—nce and without the consent or knowledge of the King for the expelling banishing and putting away the Papists out of England and seizing of their goods which when they had there effected would have brought the like over hither for extirpation of the Irish Nation that are Papists These considerations for the defence of the Religion the Queens person and by the Kings license moved them to take Arms having the Scots for a president they have also vowed not to leave an English-man in Ireland The Kingdome they will have in their own hands Lawes of their own and a Deputy of their own without molestation or interruption of any other Nation This night at the Widdowes house of one Lawrence Purcell I met with one George Staples 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 course I intended to take I told him I could not tell untill I
Protestants the tenure and rigour of their said Commission protesting with great prophane oathes That they shewed much favour unto us Oekar Butts Iur. Ian. 25. 1641. Coram nobis Iohn VVatson Hen. Brereton The Examination of Edward Denman of Belturbut in the County of Cavan Merchant THis Examinate duâ—ly sworn deposeth inter alia That he asking John Rely why they did not meddle with the Scots he said the Scots did joyn with them Jurat coram nobis 27 Jan. 1641. Edward Denman Iohn Watson Randall Adams The Examination of Geo. Fercher of Toneheye in the County of Fermanagh Clerke THis Deponent being duely sworn deposeth inter alia That Con oge mac Mabon of the County of Monaghan and Barony of Dartrie did say That what they did against the English was done by Commission from His Majesty and that all the Scottish Nation was joyned with them in a Covenant for the extirpation of the English and to that effect he said he was able to let me see the Earl of Argile his Hand together with the Hands of the greatest part of the prime Nobility of Scotland Deposed before us Ian. 4. 1641. Hen. Iones Randall Adams Geo. Fercher The Examination of Elizabeth Dickinson neer Clounish in the County of Fermanagh THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That some of Rory Magwire his Company did in the hearing of this Deponent say That the Scots were to leave never a drop of English blood in England and that the Irish had command to leave never a drop of English blood in Ireland and that they were the Queens Souldiers And further sayeth not Deposed before us Ian. 3. 1641. Roger Puttock Hen. Brereton Eliz. Dickinson The Examination of John Shorter of Callahill in the County of Fermanagh THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That they asked this Deponent whither he would go to whom he answered For England then said they This day Dublin Castle is taken the Tower of London and Castle of Edenborougb and you have but four and fourty hours to live and then both English men and women and children shall be slain Deposed before us Ian. 5. 1641. Roger Puttock VVilliam Aldrich John Sborter The Examination of Thomas Knowles of Newtown alias Castle-cool in the County of Fermanagh Yeoman THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That Hugh mac Mabon and one Patrick Magwire told this Deponent That they had Commission from His Majesty for what they did and that the same doings was done thorowout the whole Kingdom at that time their plot having been working for two yeers last past and that certainly God had a great hand in the same all places of the Protestants abode being taken and yeelded except three viz. London-Derry Eneskellin and another Town this Deponent now not remembring the name and that those Towns could not long withstand their Forces because the Lord Magwire had taken Dublin Castle as they said the Saturday before otherwise if it had not been taken and that their plot had been discovered the said Lord Magwire had been with them again upon Saturday aforesaid Deposed before us Ian. 3. 1641. Hen. Iones Roger Puttock Tbo. Knowles The Examination of John Kerdiff Rector of the Parish of Diserte reagh in the Barony of Dungannon and County of Tyrone THis Examinate duely sworn inter alia deposeth and saith That the Trayterous actions committed and words spoken by the Rebells against the Protestants were as followeth October the 23 and 24 they surprised these Forts Viz. Dungannon Charlemont Castle Caufield Mountjoy Munnymore Castle Blaney Monagban Newry in a word all the chiefe Forts in the Counties of Armagh and Tyroneâ— and ransackt every Town and house which belonged either to English-man or Scottish They murthered the very first day Mr Mader Minister of the Parish of Donoghmore by some of the Donellies within a while after they murthered Mr. New Curate to Mr. Bradley of the Church of Ardtra by one of the The Minister of Dungannon Mr. Blyth with eight more were murthered being first stript and after driven out of the Town under colour of Conduct and within half a mile to the Town murthered Mr. Blyth holding Sir Phelomies protection in his hand as if he would call Gods vengeance down on such treacherous truce-breakers It was also related to me that Mr. Fullerton Minister of Loughgale and Master Morgan Aubery were kild at the Bridge of Port of Downe at which time about eighty or an hundred of the Inhabitants of Loughgale were cast into the River and there drowned Many more Murthers were committed on the English and Scotch Robberies Master Bradley was robbed to the value of one thousand pounds and whilest he was robbing Sir Phelim ô Neal and his company passed by and soone after he was turned out naked out of his house the Rebels neither leaving Dublet Coate Hat nor Shirt with him His Wife is falne into an extream frenzey by these outrages Master Dunbarre Minister of Donoghemie with his Wife and five or six small Children with an old Father and Mother were all of them stript and robbed of whatsoever Goods or wearing Cloaths they had so that for a while the man was distracted and after compelled to tye some straw about his thighs to cover his nakednesse and was whipt as I was certainly informed and what is become of him his wife or children no man in the County could tell me though I lived within three miles of him Master VVright Archdeacon of Dromore had his house which cost him much burnt I saw himself his wife and two children in extream misery at Charlemont from whence they journied to Kinard Master Robinson Minister of Kinard and his wife lived miserably at Loughgale having nothing left to satisfie nature but what they could procure by others distressed like Master Hasting Minister of Tullaniskin was turned out of his lodging and stript starke naked and clad in beggars Cloaths no a Shoe to his Foot in which state he came to the house wherein I was lodged where the people of the house durst not give him lodging fearing least he should be murthered for twice the next day there was search made for him Sir VVilliam Brumley had his Town and Castle burned and all his goods taken away What shall I say more All the English and Scotch in the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone a few onely excepted were not left worth a farthing At Armagh Archdeacon Maxwell related That about fourty men women and children were drowned at Cor Bridge neer Glaslough the children going merrily hand in hand as to a place of refuge and one of their company having license to pray prayed so effectually that one of his Executioners went frantick with the conceit of his impious fact The words which I took notice of were these Sir Phelim ô Neal told in my hearing That he had Commission for what he did not only from most of the chief of the Nobility of this Kingdom but from his