into Ireland out of Scotland * Fol. 290. * Nicholas Dowdall * The Author of the English and Scotch Bresbytery p. 222. The States Manifest in Answer to Nettervile and his Accomplices fears The Lords Justices Vindication of Sir Charles Coote See Sir J. Temple part 2. p. 30. as the Answer to the 9th Article of the Rebels Remonstrance at Trym p. 78. His Majesty's Works fol. 393 About the midst of December the Rebellion breaks forth in Munster The Rebellion appears in Connaght The Reasons why each Province burst not at once into a flame * The Author of the English and Scotch Presbytery p. 222. Scobels Acts fol. 197. Sir Simon Harcourt arriv'd out of England with the first Forces Sir Charles Coote goes to Swoards Five Regiments more arriv'd out of England His Majesties Proclamation against the Rebels the first of January His Majesties Reasons why his Proclamation came out so late The Rebels notwithstanding his Majesty's Proclamation grew more united * The Insolencies of the Polititian's Catech. briefly reflected on and what the English are charged with The Rebels endeavour principally to make themselves Masters of Leimster The Rebels begirt Tredath The Situation of Tredath The Siege of Tredath and its strength * Sir John Netterviles Sir Hen Tichborn enters the 4th of Novemb. Governour of Tredath * This Captain John Morris was Page to the Countess of Strafford one of singular courage through the whole War and a Colonel in England and Governour of Pontfract Castle for which Service having past many Fortunes he was Condemn'd and Executed at York the eight of August 1649. The first Relief of Tredath the xi of January The second Relief Febr. the 14th Appendix 6th * In his Speech the 13th of Febr. 1662. p. 17. 38. Tredath being freed several of the Lords of the Pale offer upon Conditions to come in The Earl of Ormond visits Tredath with 3000 Foot and 500 Horse Dundalk assaulted and gain'd Sir Phelim Oneal being disappointed at Tredath revenges himself on the British in other Parts The Irish taunt the Lords of the Pale with old Miscarriages The King offers to go for Ireland Sir Harcourt's Expedition into Wicklow Lieutenant Colonel Gibson pursues the Design and took Carrickmain May in his Hist. 8. p. 174. The Marquiss of Ormonds Expedition The Battle of Kilrush Some Transactions in Connaght The Lord Lisle lands at Dublin * This Lady Offalia was the only Daughter of Gerald eldest Son of Gerald Earl of Kildare who died before his Father Brother of Thomas beheaded the 28. of H. 8. She was Entituled Lady Offalia by the special Favour of King James in an Award betwixt her and George late Earl of Kildare else she could not have had that Title properly belonging to the eldest Son of the Earls of Kildare The Lord Lisle and Sir Charles Coot relieve the Lady Offalia They take in Trym The Rebels resolve to surprize Sir Charles Coot in Trym Sir Charles Coot slain at Trym The Battle of Balintober fought at a Place called now Na Nart the mid-way betwixt Oran and Balintober The account of some Affairs in the North. See the Article 6. of Aug. 1642. Kings Works fol. 534. The Affairs in Munster Mountgarret lodges at Moyallo The Lord Muskery contrary to his promises takes part with the Rebels A contest upon Mountgarret's leaving Moyallo who should be Chief Barry chosen General Muskery c. styled The Council of War Bealing's vain Summons of the Castle of Lismore The Lord President 's advance to Talloe Dungarvan taken by the Lord President The Battel near Cappaquin the first in Muster well fought and managed The Earl of Barrymore took in Cloghleagh Ardmore Castle taken in The Fort of Dunganon Limerick C. Archerstown Rathbarry Castle Dundede and Dunowen Castle Asketon Castle Matrix Castle of Loegar Castle Kilfinny An Abbreviate of Sir Cole's Services in his Fort of Eniskillin Sir Hamilton's Enterprises The Rebels under Garret Barry beaten before Cork Sir William St. Leger Lord President of Munster vigilant and faithful The Lord President of Munster dies The Lord Inchequin chosen in his Place The Lord Inchequin's excellent service at the Battel of Liscarrol Carickfergus delivered to the Scots The Bill of Loan passed at Westminster Several Sums prescrib'd * In a Declaration to all his loving Subjects in Answer to the Remonstrance of the Commons the 15th of Decemb 1641. The King expresses his deep Resentment for Ireland His Majesty's sense of Ireland and the Parliament's Return Ireland neglected The Parliament makes use of part of the Money collected for Ireland * In his Answer to the Parliament's Petition the 28th of April 1642. * Appendix 7th * In his Collection of Acts and Ordinances of Parliament fol. 197. * Fol. 740. The General Assembly at Kilkenny As also Mahone in his Disput. Apologet. p. 101. The Preamble to the Oath of Association The Oath of Association The Propositions Their Seal The Confederates Commission to a Privateer * Appendix 8. Custodiums allotted to the Soldiers Appendix 9. The Lord Mac-Guire and Mac-Mahon sent into England Their Trial at Westminster Mac-Mahon's Execution The Lord Mac-Guire's end * The 20th of August 1642. Causes why Affairs prospered no better The Lord Lisle's Expedition into Westmeath c. Cap. Vaughan's Resolution * October 14th * In Declar. 22. Octob. 1642. Goodwin and Reynolds arrive in Ireland See Hâ—â—b Collect fol. 248. They leave Ireland Colonel Monk relieves Balanokil Necessity of all things in Dublin upon the withdrawing of the Parliaments Committee Sir Richard Greenvile relieves Athlone The Battle at Raconnel The Lords Justices coin Plate with his Majesty's Stamp The Lords Justices Letter to the Speaker of the House of Commons in England touching Ross c. The Marquess of Ormond's Expedition against Ross. Ross Battle The Army from Ross return and quarter in Dublin to the further burthen of that City The Armies Remonstrance The Confederates Petition sent to his Majesty The Protestant Committe's Petition to his Majesty His Majesties Answer The Irish Remonstrance The Parl. Declaration concerning the Rise of the Rebels Husb. Collect. fol. 248. * Sir J. T. Hist. Irel. the Pref. * Printed by Edw. Husb. 1644. His Majesties first Letter of the 23d of April touching the Cessation An Abbreviate of the War in Munster The English Army routed The Irish worsted before Cappaquin * Colonel Myn after the Cessation went into England with his Regiment oftentimes encountring Massy who joyntly exprest much valour And in a conflict near Hartpury-fields in Glocestershire was slain by Massies Forces 1644. and by reason of his Gallantry buried at Glocester with the loss of the English Regiment he brought from Ireland Sanders H. C. 1. Fol. 731. The transactions in Connaght Galloway Fort taken by the Irish. Castle Coot Besieged The Irish break the Cessation Sir Jo. Borlase Sir Hen. Tichborn Lords Justices His Majesties second Letter about the Cessation See Husbands Collect. Fol. 160. The Lords Justices Letter to his Majesty of
incredible charge of his own Purse hanging many though of his own kindred whom he found imbrued in Blood greatly resenting the Barbarism and Inhumanity of the Irish In as much as Hubert Boy Bourk and Sir Ulick Bourk his near Relations preying on the English he often frustrated by discovering their Designs and furnishing Sir Charles Coot from time to time with supplies of Arms and Ammunition to oppose them and impoverish their Country So that at last by the advice of Colonel Walsh and others they erected a standing Camp near the Kreggs to molest and pen up our Garrison of Castle-Coot which being almost compleated the Garrison issued out upon them who receiv'd us with a good volly of Shot which ours answer'd not according to command till we came close to them which being done with great resolution their hearts fail'd them and they betook themselves to the next Bog which being at some distance gave our Horse and Foot a fair opportunity to hew them down before they could reach it in which service Major Walsh behav'd himself well with Courage and Rhetorick endeavouring to make the Rebels stand but in vain he at length being forc'd to take the Bog for his own refuge leaving in the Camp Bread Arms Powder Corn Meal c. in great quantity which being more then we could carry away we were forced to burn In the Spring following Sir Charles Coot being inform'd of a good Prey of Cattle in the Barony of Athlone towards Balniaslo in the O Mores Country he with his Forces adventur'd thither got some Cattle great quantity of Cloth and other necessaries killing many of their Souldiers in their beds though in his return he was fought with by the Rebels sculking in in-accessible Places from whence he at last got free with no small hazard to his Person and loss to the Enemy Major Sumner in this as in the whole Siege of Castle-Coot and other places in Connaght doing excellent service as Councellor Engineer and Souldier worthily keeping his promise with one Kelly a Gentleman of good Quality and a kin to the Earl of Clanrikard whom begging his life he saved ransoming himself afterwards for 10. l. in money ten barrels of Wheat and as much Salt which at the following Siege of Castle-Coot proved of great value being sold then at 2s a Quart After which in Easter week 1642. Sir Charles Coot attempted to relieve Athlone and after some small dispute did it though the access to the Place was such as a few men might have been able to have stop'd 1000. he found his greatest difficulty was to fill up the trenches that the Enemy had made as his Horse might have free access which at last he compass'd relieving the Place with what Cattle and other Provisions he got in his Expedition not being a little startled that by such a Troop as the President there had and other Conveniencies no more should have been before attempted Nor had Roscommon Tulsk Elphin Knockvicar Abbeyboyle Belanfad Persons less active in their defence even from the first surprizals of the Rebels acting to amazement when nothing but their own courage secur'd their Forts though the last for want of Water was compell'd after a long siege to yield to the Rebels after that the Governour 's two Brothers the Kings from Boyle with Sir Charles Coot had resolv'd to have reliev'd him but at Carickdrumroosk Sir Charles Coot having intelligence that his own Castle was assaulted he was forced to retire back and very happily prevented that Design in the nick of execution though thereby the other Design was frustrated The 30th of April the Lords Justices and Council appointed a Fast to be observed monthly upon each Friday before the Sacrament to continue until Declaration were made to the contrary for the wonderful discovery of the late Plot against the State and true Religion as for the happy and prosperous success which God in his mercy had given his Majesties Forces against the Rebels and for the avoiding Gods just indignation for the future Upon the return of our Forces from the Battle of Kilrush within few days Philip Sidney Lord Viscount Lisle eldest Son to the Earl of Leicester Lord Lieutenant of Ireland landed at Dublin his Regiment having arriv'd before He was a Member of the House of Commons in England and by them recommended to his Father to be made Lieutenant-General of the Horse in Ireland though very young Assoon as he landed being desirous to put himself upon action he undertook the relieving of the Lady of Offalia Relict of Sir Robert Digby who upon the most insolent Menaces of the Rebels had return'd a noble answer seconding that though then very aged with an unparallel'd and gallant defence besieged in her Castle of Gheshell in the Kings-County by a numerous company of Rebels in a place of most difficult access by reason of the Bogs and Woods which encompassed it on every side The Rebels Letter to the Lady Offalia at Gheshel Honourable WE his Majesties loyal Subjects being at present imployed in his Highnesses Service for the taking of this your Castle you are therefore to deliver unto us free possession of your said Castle promising faithfully that your Ladyship together with the rest in the said Castle restant shall have a reasonable Composition otherwise upon the not yielding of the Castle we do assure you that we will burn the whole Town kill all the Protestants and spare neither Man Woman nor Child upon taking the Castle Consider Madam of this our offer and impute not the blame of your own folly unto us think not that here we brag Your Ladyship upon submissiion shall have a safe Convoy to secure you from the hands of your Enemies and to lead you where you please A speedy Reply is desired with all expedition and thus we surcease Henry Dempsy Charles Dempsy Andr. Fitz. Patrick Con. Dempsy Phelim Dempsy John Vicars James Mac Donnel Superscrib'd To the Honourable and thrice Vertuous Lady the Lady Digby These Give The Lady Offalia her Answer to the Rebels Superscrib'd For her Cousin Henry Dempsy and the Rest. I Receiv'd your Letter wherein you threaten to sack this my Castle by his Majesty's Authority I am and ever have been a loyal Subject and a good Neighbour amongst you and therefore cannot but wonder at such an Assault I thank you for your offer of a Convoy wherein I hold little safety and therefore my resolution is that being free from offending his Majesty or doing wrong to any of you I will live and die innocently and will do my best to defend my own leaving the issue to God and though I have been and still am desirous to avoid the shedding of Christian Blood yet being provoked your threats shall no whit dismay me Lettice Offalia Sir Charles Coot accompanied the Lord Lisle in this Action which with 120 Foot and 300 Horse was perform'd without much difficulty the Rebels not daring to attend their Approaches to
Walls of Cork with great Forces not far from whence the Confederates promising General Garret Barry with the consent of his Council of War the Lord Muskery and others planted his Camp at Rochforts Town holding thereby Cork in a manner besieg'd on the North-side whilst my Lord Roch the Lord of Ikern Dunboin the Baron of Loghmo Mr. Richard Butler with the Tipperary Forces were drawing down on the South till by the valour of those few English then in Town viz. the Lord Inchiquin Col. Vavasor and 400 Musketeers and 90 Horse they were beaten off with the loss of 200 of their Men their Tents and whole Bag and Baggage being taken In the whole Service Sir William St. Leger as long as he had health was active with the meanest Officers of the Army doing many times a private Soldiers duty as well as a careful Generals But finding at length the Rebels multitudes to increase and his Men to decay even in being victorious and the Supplies of Men and Money with Provisions which he expected out of England to come over very slowly and far short of what the necessities of that Province required well understanding too the difference then in England betwixt his Majesty and the Parliament and what were the designs of some putting fair Glosses on the Rebellion of Ireland which his Soul apprehended as one of the most detestable Insurrections of the World These things so troubled his Spirit as being discouraged in the desperate undertakings necessity and the honour of his Nation put him daily upon so deep an impression fixed in his mind as the distemper of his body increasing he wasted away and died at his house at Downrallie four miles from Cork in the County of Cork 1642. and was there buried a little before whose death he writ the second of April 1642. a most significant Letter to the Lord Lieutenant touching the Affairs of that Province and his utter detestation of the Rebels Remonstrance sent him after a motion made for a Cessation which he would have seconded with further testimony of his aversion to their insolency as would have tended much to their dis-encouragement had he been enabled with any reasonable strength so to have done The Command of the Forces in this Province was after the death of Sir William St. Leger for the present by the Lords Justices and Council committed to the Lord Inchequin who had married his Daughter and during his Father in Law 's life had shewed himself very forward in several Services against the Rebels He was a meer Irish-man of the antient Family of O-Brian's but bred up a Protestant and one that had given good testimony of the truth of his Profession as his hatred and detestation of his Countrey-mens Rebellion and having match'd into the Lord President 's Family was held the fittest Person to cast the Command upon till there were another Lord President made by the King or he confirm'd by his Majesty in that Province In the mean time the Lord Inchequin takes some opportunity and having beaten the Rebels Forces at the Battel of Liscarrol in the County of Cork got great reputation by that action The Battel was fought on Saturday the 3d. of September 1642. in which on the English Party was kill'd Lewis Boyle Lord Viscount Kynalmeaky second Son to the late Earl and Brother to this of Cork who behav'd himself most nobly in that Expedition and was buried at Youghall in his Fathers Tomb. And on the Irish side was slain Captain Oliver Stephenson Grandson of him who in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth had done eminent service in the Wars against the Earl of Desmond And afterwards the Division increasing in England the sending over a new Lord President was neglected so as the Lord Inchequin continu'd in the Government managing affairs there sometimes for the King against the Parliament sometimes for the Parliament against the King as he conceiv'd might bring on the absolute settlement of that Government upon himself of whom we shall speak more hereafter And now having shewed you the effects of the English Courage strangely reviv'd and managed against the Rebels it will be seasonable to acquaint you by what means the Forces there have been animated to so eminent a Service You have already read the generous resolutions of the Parliament in England upon the first discovery of the Rebellion as the encouragement his Majesty gave them upon his first and second appearance in the House of Lords after his return from Scotland And you have read if it would have been admitted how he would have adventured his Royal Person thither and have rais'd 10000 English Volunteers speedily for that Service if so the House of Commons would have declared that they would pay them which would not be accepted but instead thereof the 24th of January following the Town and Castle of Carickfergus were advised by the two Houses to be given in Command and Keeping to the Scots 2500 of which were to be transported thither and paid by England so as to be accountable according to their Order the 22. of Jan. to the King and Parliament and the Lord General in his Place for all their actions in that Service Which his Majesty was loath to grant as prejudicial to the Crown of England and employing too great trust for Auxiliary Forces Though at the importunity of the Parliament it was so setled at Windsor the 27th of January 1641. But what service the Scots did in those Parts more than subsist by English Pay deserves an enquiry It will now be convenient to acquaint you that after many necessary Propositions to the King from the Parliament passionately affected with the miseries of Ireland it was in the Petition of the House of Commons December the first mov'd That his Majesty would be pleas'd to forbear to alienate any of the Forfeited or Escheated Lands in Ireland which shall accrue to the Crown by reason of this Rebellion that out of these the Crown may be the better supported and some satisfaction made to his Subjects of this Kingdom England for the great Expences they were like to undergo in this War To which his Majesty answer'd That concerning Ireland he understood their desire of not alienating the forfeited Lands thereof to proceed from their much care and love and likewise that it might be a Resolution very fit for him to take But whether it be seasonable to declare resolutions of that nature before the event of a War be seen that he much doubted Howsoever we cannot repli'd his Majesty but thank you for this care and your chearful Engagement for the suppression of that Rebellion upon the speedy effecting whereof the Glory of God in the Protestant Profession the safety of the British there our Honour and that of the Nation so much depends all the Interests of this Kingdom being so involv'd in that business We cannot but quicken your affections therein and shall desire you to frame your
feed the Souldiers with from hand to mouth is spent I know no way to prevent their sudden disbanding and therefore I do again beseech your Lordship to endeavour that I may not be exposed to the dishonour and misery of being abandoned by the King's Forces and left my self single to the mercy of the Enemy but that Moneys may be speedily transmitted unto me with directions what pay to allow the Horsemen and Officers of the Foot with an overplus of Money as I have always desired for extraordinary and emergent occasions about either the Ordinance or Forts whereas yet nothing is in a right posture but things only shuffled together for a shift by reason we had not wherewithal to the work as it ought Your Lordships most humble Servant W. Saintleger Cork April 2. 1642 APPENDIX VII Fol. 95. In the Name of the holy Trinity the Father Son and Holy Ghost Amen Acts agreed upon ordained and concluded in the General Congregation held at Kilkanny the 10 11 and 13 days of May 1642. by those Prelates whose Names are subscrib'd the Proctors of such other Prelates as then were absent being present together with the Superiours of the Regulars and many other Dignitaries and learn'd Men as well in Divine as also in Common Law with divers Pastors and others of the Catholick Clergy of all Ireland whose Names are likewise hereafter set down 1. WHereas the VVar which now in Ireland the Catholicks do maintain against Sectaries and chiefly against Puritans for the Defence of the Catholick Religion for the maintenance of the Prerogative and the Royal Rights of our gracious King Charles for our gracious Queen so unworthily abus'd by the Puritans for the Honour safety and Health of their Royal Issue for to avert and refrain the Injuries done unto them for the Conservation of the just and lawful Safeguard Liberties and Rights of Ireland and lastly for the defence of their own Lives Fortunes Lands and Possessions VVhereas I said this VVar is by the Catholiques undertaken for the aforesaid causes against unlawful Usurpers Oppressors and their Enemies chiefly Puritans And that hereof we are enformed aswel by divers and true Remonstrances of divers Provinces Counties and Noblemen as also by the unanimous consent and agreement of almost the whole Kingdom in this VVar and Union VVe therefore declare that VVar openly Catholick to be lawful and just in which VVar if some of the Catholicks be found to proceed out of some particular and unjust Title covetousness cruelty revenge or hatred or any such unlawful private intentions VVe declare them therein grievously to sin and therefore worthy to be punished and refrained with Ecclesiastical Censures if advised thereof they do not amend 2. VVhereas the Adversaries do spread divers rumours do write divers Letters and under the King's Name do print Proclamations which are not the King 's by which means divers plots and dangers may ensue unto our Nation VVe therefore to stop the way of untruth and forgeries of the Political Adversaries do will and command That no such rumours Letters or Proclamations may have place or belief until it be known in a National Councel whether they truly proceed from the King left to his own freedom and until the Agents of this Kingdom hereafter to be appointed by a National Councel have free passage to his Majesty whereby the Kingdom may be certainly enformed of his Majesties intention and will 3. VVhereas no Family City Common-wealth much less any Kingdom may stand without union and concord without which this Kingdom for the present standeth in most danger VVe think it therefore necessary that all Irish Peers Magistrates Noblemen Cities and Provinces may be tied together with the holy bond of Union and Concord and that they frame an Oath of Union and agreement which they shall devoutly and Christianly take and faithfully observe And for the conservation and exercise of this Union VVe have thought fit to ordain the ensuing Points 4. VVe straightly command all our inferiours aswell Churchmen as Laymen to make no distinction at all between the old and ancient Irish and no Alienation comparison or differences between Provinces Cities Towns or Families and lastly not to begin or forward any emulations or comparisons whatsoever 5. That in every Province of Ireland there be a Councel made up both of Clergy and Nobility in which Councel shall be so many persons at least as are Counties in the Province and out of every City or notable Town two persons 6. Let one general Councel of the whole Kingdom be made both of the Clergy Nobility Cities and notable Towns in which Councel there shall be three out of every Province and out of every City one or where Cities are not out of the chiefest Towns To this Councel the Provincial Councels shall have subordination and from thence to it may be appealed until this National Councel have opportunity to sit together Again if any thing of great importance do occur or be conceived in one Province which by a negative Vote is rejected in the Councel of one Province let it be sent to the Councels of other Provinces except it be such a matter as cannot be delayed and which doth not pertain to the Weal-publick of the other Provinces 7. Embassage sent from one Province to forraign Nations shall be held as made from the rest of the Provinces and the fruit or benefit thereof shall be imparted and divided between the Provinces and Cities which have more need thereof chiefly such helps and fruits as proceed from the bountiful liberality of forreign Princes States Prelates or others whatsoever provided always that the charge and damage be proportionably recompenced 8. If there be any Province which may not conveniently send Embassage from it self unto forraign Nations let it signifie it to another Province which may conveniently supply it and ought in regard of their Union to supply it according to the instructions sent from the other Provinces concerning the place and Princes to which they would have their Embassage employed 9. Let a faithful Inventory be made in every Province of the Murthers Burnings and other Cruelties which are committed by the Puritan Enemies with a Quotation of the place day cause manner and persons and other circumstances subscribed by one of publick Authority 10. In every Parish let a faithful and sworn Messenger be appointed whereby such Cruelties and other affaires may be written and sent to the neighbouring places and likewise from one Province to another Let such things be written for the comfort instruction and carefulness of the People 11. Great men taken prisoners in one Province may not be set at liberty for any price prayers or exchange without the consent of the Prelates and Nobility of the other Province united and let every Province be careful of the Liberties of such Prisoners as are from the other Provinces as far as it conveniently may 12. If any one stubborn or dangerous be found in one Province County or
strip'd People with Ropes of Straw covered some part of their nakedness the Rebels set the Straw on fire thereby burning and grievously scorching them Six Souldiers and two Boys having quarter given them were nevertheless hanged at Kilkenny A young Girle strip'd about Easter 1642. in the City of Kilkenny by a Butcher her belly rip'd up that her Intrals fell out where the Maior upon Complaint of the Mother bade away with her and dispatch her whereupon the mother received seventeen or eighteen wounds and her other Child was also extreamly wounded and all forced out of the City by Men Women and Boys throwing stones and dirt at them so as the two Children died in a Ditch At Kilkenny seven Englishmen hang'd and one Irishman because he was taken in their company Twelve murther'd at the Graige one of them being a woman great with child had her belly rip'd up the child falling out alive and a child of a year and a half old hang'd Another of them named Robert Pyne being twice hang'd up was cast into his Grave where he sate up saying Christ receive my soul and so was buried quick An old man hang'd and afterwards drag'd up and down till his Bowels fell out Christopher Morley and two English boys at Castle-Comer hang'd Another had his head clove and before he was dead hung on his Father's Tenter-hooks About sixty men women and children more murther'd at the Graige many of them buried alive At Balincolough within four miles of Ross April 1642. John Stone of the Graige his son his two sons in Law and his two daughters were hang'd one of his daughters being great with child had her belly rip'd up her child taken forth and such barbarous beastly actions used to her as are not fit to be mentioned In Kilkenny Richard Philips and five other Souldiers under Capt. Farrall a Captain on his Majestie 's Party were by the command of the Lord Mountgarret at the end of an House hang'd to death about Easter 1642. The King's County Mrs. Jane Addis of Kilcoursie after her going to Mass murther'd in her House in Fox Countrey Com. Regis having a child not a quarter old the Murtherers putting the dead woman's Breast into the child's mouth bade it such English bastard and so left it Arthur Scot murther'd at Lislooney having twenty wounds given him Another Englishman hang'd at the same place Two men murther'd at Philips-town Seven murther'd at the Birr Thomas Horam hang'd at Philips-town Henry Bigland and eleven more hang'd and murther'd about Knocknemeis A woman aged eighty years stripped naked in frost and snow by two daughters of Rowry Coghlan of Fercall-wood before whose door she died John Lurcan murther'd and chopped in pieces Four English murther'd at Terence Coghlans House Kilkolgan about December 1641. Two and twenty widows and several stripped naked who covering themselves in a House with straw the Rebels fired the straw and threw it amongst them to burn them and they had been burn'd had they not been rescued by others who turn'd them out naked in frost and snow so as many died yea the children died in their mothers arms The County of Lytrim Mr. William Liston and Mr. Thomas Fullerton Clerks kept two days without meat or drink and then murther'd near Mannor Hamilton 24 of January 1641. An English child taken by the heels had its brains dash't out against a block of Timber The County of Limerick A Minister his wife and four children murther'd by Hugh Kenedy and his followers near Limerick The County of Londonderry Six hundred English murther'd at Gervagh by Sir Phelim O Neil The County of Longford Many cruelly murther'd at Longford after quarter promised William Steel and four others hang'd at a Windmill near to Racleen till they were half dead and then cut in pieces by the Rebels The wife of Henry Mead hang'd the said Henry himself being placed in a Ring amongst the Rebels each stabbing of him as he was forced to flie from side to side and so continued till his shoulder and breast were cut in two with a Bill-hook George Foster his wife and child and the wife of John Bizell murther'd at Ballinecorr one other drown'd some children there buried alive The County of Lowth Eighteen of the Lord Moore 's Servants murther'd at Mellifont by Col. Cole Mac Bryan Mac Mahon and his Followers who would not suffer them to be buried The County of Mayo About seven and twenty Protestants besides Children drown'd in the Bay or Harbour near Killala by the Instigation of the Friers Thirty or forty English formerly turn'd Papists drown'd in the Sea near Killala A young boy Mr. Montgomerie's son killed by one that had been his School-master the boy the while crying Good Master do not kill me but whip me as much as you will A man wounded and buried alive A Minister murther'd after he had gone to Mass another hang'd near Ballyhen At the Moyne aliàs Mogne 59 Protestants stripped naked and after barbarously murther'd some encrease the number much William Gibb and his wife both very old murther'd at the Moyn One hundred and twenty men women and children stripped naked and after murther'd at Bellick aliàs Belleeke George Buchanan mortally wounded was near the Strade buried alive by Edmond O Maghery and his followers August 1643. the wife of John Gardiner of the Barony of Carrogh having leave and a Convoy of two Irishmen to visit her children at Bellick was by the said Convoy cruelly murther'd At the Moyn the Rebels forced one Simon Lepers wife to kill her husband and then caused her son to kill her and then hang'd the son The County of Meath Near Navan the son of James Wignall murther'd about Novemb. 1641. Mrs. Heglin and her daughter with two children murther'd at Wilkins-town by two men hired thereto for two barrels of wheat and Robert Robin murther'd near Sir Hill's House Mr. John Ware murther'd at Moylagh Four more hang'd at the Navan An English woman a Papist murther'd at Fitz-Gerald's House at Clonard The murther of Thomas Pressick and others at Trim. The County of Monaghan Many Protestants hang'd at Carrick-maccross Sixteen Protestants at once hang'd at Clounish several others there also hang'd and sixteen women and children drown'd in a Turf-pit The Deponent's father and son murther'd Richard Blancy Esq. hang'd Some murther'd in Monaghan Seven murther'd in the Fews Ensign Lloyd and others murther'd and one buried quick John Hughes and 24 murther'd Eighteen murther'd Seventeen men women and children drown'd at Ballyross Many murther'd and four drown'd Cornet Clinton and his Grandchild drown'd many others murther'd The Queens County Five murther'd wherof one was an English woman turn'd to Mass great with child who was shot John Nicholson and his wife
murther'd by Florence Fitz-Patrick and his Servants on the Sabbath-day the first Deponent hardly escaping death for burying them Elizabeth Baskervile says that Mrs. Fitz-Patrick blam'd the murtherers because they brought not Mrs. Nicholsons fat or greese wherewith she might have made Candles Thomas Keyes a Justice of Peace of the Queens County Esq. aged 66. and Thomas Dubbleday hang'd near Burroughs Castle and Dubbleday shot as he was hanging both being first stripped naked gored and pricked in several Parts of their Bodies Amy Mamphins husband murther'd and she compelled to stand in his blood and she being stripped naked was drawn by the Hair through Thorns and after sent away An English Girl half hang'd and so buried Six English hang'd by Florence Fitz-Patrick after quarter given 1641. Near Kilfeckell an English man and his wife and four or five children hang'd by command of Sir Morgan Kavanagh and Mr. Robert Harpole all afterwards cast into one hole the youngest child not fully dead putting up the hand and crying Mammy Mammy yet buried alive Mary Harding put in the Stocks and whip'd to death and her husband starv'd to death by Florence Fitz-Patrick and his Followers after they had given him all their Goods in his Promise to relieve them and theirs The County of Roscommon Sixteen English hang'd at Ballilegue by Oliver boy Fitz-Gerald of Bellilegue Nine murther'd at Ballinafad whereof four were children and one woman great with child through whose belly the Rebels thrust their Pikes as she was hanging because as they said the child should not live John Price and several others murther'd in Athlone William Stewart had Collops cut off him being alive fire coles put into his mouth his belly ripp'd up and his entrals wrapped about his neck and wrists The County of Sligo Mr. Thomas Stewart Merchant and seven and thirty Protestants put into the Goal of Sligo all except two or three murther'd there the same night by divers breaking in upon them at midnight for proof whereof see the Examinations of Four murther'd that day in the Streets of Sligo Elizabeth Beard was killed in the River by a Friars man A Friar with some Souldiers undertaking to conduct Mr. Thomas Walker a Minister his Man and two Gentlewomen from Roserk to Abbeyboyle the Friar riding away they fell into an ambush laid for them where Mr. Walker being on his knees at prayer they cleft his skull to his mouth kill'd his man and stripped the women one of which was afterwards murther'd at Ballymoate Five and forty men women and children murther'd and destroy'd near Ballysekerry Mr. William Ollifant Clerk stripp'd half naked at Temple-house and after drag'd with a rope about his neck at a Horse-heels up and down because he would not turn Papist another Minister at the same time murther'd 1641. At Ardneglas and Skreen about thirty Protestants men women and children murther'd Ten men women and children buried alive near Titemple or Temple-house In Sligo the Rebels forced one Lewis the younger to kill his Father and they hang'd the Son The County of Tipperary January 1641. fifteen men women and children Protestants murther'd in Cashell and near Cashell three or four Children murther'd by a Convoy Four and twenty English after they had revolted to the Mass murther'd at the Silver-mines James Hooker Gent. and Mr. John Stuckley and six more murther'd on Sir Everet's Land Mr. Richard Walker and ten more hang'd at Rathell George Crawford and above fifty more murther'd Joyce a Maid of Mr. Walkers buried alive Mr. Carr Mr. Carter and some eighteen more hang'd and murther'd near Cashell Mr. Dashwood to whom the Rebels gave Quarter and Convoy to Michaels-town by one Prender-gast-Prender murther'd on his own Land The County of Tyrone Robert Bickerdick and his wife drown'd in the black Water Thomas Carlisle put to death James Carlisle and his wife also murther'd and so were about 97 more The murther of Mr. John Mather and Mr. Blyth both Clerks in or near Dungannon though Mr. Blyth had Sir Phelim O Neils Protection and sixty Families of the Town of Dungannon murther'd Near three hundred murther'd in the way to Colrain by direction from Sir Phelim O Neil and Firlagh his Brother In and about Dungannon three hundred and sixteen murther'd between Charlemont and Dungannon above four hundred murther'd drown'd at and in the River of Benburb and Blackwater 206. Thirteen murther'd one morning by Patrick mac Crew of Dungannon Two young Rebels did murther in the County of Tyrone one hundred and forty women and children the wife of Bryan Kelly of Loghgall murther'd five and forty with her own hands At a Milpool in the Parish of Killamon were drown'd in one day 300. Eighteen Scotch Infants hang'd on Clothiers Tenterhooks and one young fat Scotchman murther'd and Candles made of his Grease another Scotchmans belly ripp'd up and the end of his small guts tied to a Tree then he drawn about till his guts were pulled out that they might try said they whether a Dogs or a Scotchmans guts were longest The County of Westmeath In Kilbeggan a boy and two women hang'd one of them having a sucking child desired it might be buried with her knowing it would suffer afterwards but it was cast out and starved to death William Sibthorp Parish-Clerk of Mollingar hang'd Edmund Dalton and Mr. Mooreheads Son murther'd The County of Wickloe Edward Snape and two others hang'd Nov. 1641. in Knockrath-Park John the Son of William Leeson stripp'd and hang'd at Balligarny Nov. 1641. A young child of a year and quarter old the Deponents taken from her back thrown and trodden upon that it died the Mother and three other children stripp'd naked so as the said Children died this was done upon the Lands of Bordkillamore about the 11th of Novemb 1641. The Scene of which Murthers was ever so deeply imprest on the English that though they were sufficiently enclined to be generous where they found the Irish resolute and gallant yet they never took any considerable City Fort or Castle by Agreement but it was constantly inserted amongst the Articles that the benefit of whatever they allow'd should not extend to any that had been Guilty of murthering the English or adhering to them since the 23 of October 1641. Nor to any Officer or Souldier that had taken away the Lives of any of the English or others after quarter given or to such as sate in the first General Assembly or Council or acted upon any Commissions or Powers derived from either and that all who commanded in the first year of the Rebellion should be liable to a Trial at Law for any Action committed since the 23 of Octob. 1641. But how far these Provisoes were observ'd when his Majestie 's gracious Declaration the 30th of Novemb. 1660. for the Settlement of each Interests came in force is