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A95614	The Irish rebellion: or, An history of the beginnings and first progresse of the general rebellion raised within the kingdom of Ireland, upon the three and twentieth day of October, in the year, 1641. Together vvith the barbarous cruelties and bloody massacres which ensued thereupon. / By Sir Iohn Temple Knight. Master of the Rolles, and one of his Majesties most honourable Privie Councell within the kingdom of Ireland.	Temple, John, Sir, 1600-1677.	1646 (1646)	Wing T627; Thomason E508_1; ESTC R201974	182,680	207

done those barbarous Rebels tyed wyths about their necks and drew them out of the refining Mill where indeed they slew them and threw them or most of them into a deep hole formerly made one upon another so that none of those 23. men women nor children did escape death Howbeit one Tho. Ladell a Scottish-man one George Kelsie who then and there endured and had many grievous wounds and being left on the ground for dead crawled up after the Rebels were gone away and with much difficulty escaped with their lives And further saith that such was Gods judgement upon the said Hugh Kenedy for that bloody fact that he presently fell into a most desperate madnesse and distraction and could not rest day nor night yet coveting to doe more mischiefe upon the English but being prevented and denied to doe it he about a week after drowned himselfe in the next River to the Silverworks but his barbarous and wicked Souldiers went on in their wickednesse and afterwards bragged how they had killed a Minister and his wife and four children neer the City of Limrick and this Deponent is too well assured that those and other Irish Rebels in that part of the Country exercised and committed great number of bloody murthers robberies and outrages upon the persons and goods of the Protestants so as very few escaped with their lives and none at all saved their goods And further saith that all the popish Gentry in the Country thereabouts especially all those of the Septs and names of the O Brians and the Coghluns the Kenedies were all actors in the present Rebellion against his Majesty and either acted assisted incited or consented to all the murders robberies cruelties and rebellious acts aforesaid And she further saith that by meanes of the said Rebellion her said husband and she were at Werinwood about Candlemas 1641. robbed and deprived of their Cattell Houshold-stuffe Corne Mault Provision ready money debts the benefit of their Lease and other their Goods and Chattels of the value and to their losse of one hundred and threescore pounds at the least and that the said John Kenedy Esquire their Land-lord was the man that so deprived and robbed them thereof and the other Rebels stript her stark naked jurat Feb. 10. 1643. Henry Jones Henry Brereton Anne Sherring The EXAMINATION of John Goldsmith Parson of Brashoule The Province of Conaght in the County of Mayo Sworne and Examined saith THat the Lord of Mayo being to convoy all those of Castle Burre to Galway viz. Sir Henry Bingham with all his company and the Bishop of Killallae with all his company with many of the neighbouring English being about threescore in number whereof there were some fifteen Ministers covenanted with one Edmund Bourk for the safe convoy of the same parties upon a certaine day and the said Lord of Mayo appointed them all to meet him at Belcharah having first separated this Deponent from them to attend his Lady in the work of the Ministery At which day the titulary Archbishop and the Lord of Mayo meeting with their whole number went on their journey to Shreul at which place the Lord of Mayo left them in the custody of the said last named Edmud Bourk But as one Master Bringhurst told the Deponent the Lord of Mayo was not gone farre from them but the said Edmund Bourk drew out his sword directing the rest what they should doe and began to massacre those Protestants and accordingly some were shot to death some stab'd with skeines some run through with pikes some cast into the water and drowned and the women that were stripped naked lying upon their husbands to save them were run through with pikes and very few of those English then and there escaped alive but the most part were murdered in the place Amongst the rest the Bishop of Killalla escaped with his life but was then and there wounded in his head and one Master Crowd a Minister was then and there so beaten with cudgels on his feet that he dyed shortly after And this Deponent further saith that in the Towne of Sligo forty persons of English and Scottish were by the Rebels stript and lockt up in a celler and about midnight a Butcher which was sent unto them on purpose with his Axe knocked them all on the heads and so then and there murthered them which Butcher comming afterwards to Castle Burre did there confesse his bloody fact In Tirawly within the County of _____ about thirty or forty English formerly turned Papists had their choice given them whether they would dye by the sword or drowne themselves They making choyce of drowning were brought to the Sea-side by the Rebels who had their skeines drawne in their hands and forced them to wade into the Sea The mothers with their children in their armes crying for drink having waded to the chin at length cast or dived themselves and children into the Sea yeelding themselves to the Mastery of the waves and so perished The torments the Rebels would use to the Protestants to make them confesse their moneys were these viz. some they would take and writh wyths about their heads untill the blood sprang out of the crowne of their heads others they would hang untill they were halfe dead then they would let them downe and doe the same so often over untill they confessed their monies And this Deponent further saith that a young youth of about fifteen yeers of age the sonne of Master Montgomery the Minister meeting with a bloody Rebell who had been his School-Master This Rebell drew his skeine and began furiously to slash and cut him therewith the Boy cryed unto him Good Master doe not kill me but whip me as much as you will neverthelesse the mercilesse and cruell Rebell then and there most barbarously murthered him A Scotchman travailing in the highway with his wife and children neer _____ were beset by the Rebels who wounded and stab'd him with their pikes put him alive upon a Carre brought him to a ditch and buried him alive as the poore wife afterwards with great griefe told him this Deponent The Vicar of Vrras turned Papist and became Drummer to Captaine Bourke and was after murthered for his paines by the Rebels Another Scotchman neer Ballehen was hanged by the Rebels Joh. Goldsmith Jurat 30. Decembris 1643. Henry Jones Henry Brereton The EXAMINATION of Jane the wife of Thomas Stewart The Province of Conaght late of the Town and County of Sligoe Merchant Sworn and Examined before his Majesties Commissioners in that behalfe Authorized Deposeth and saith THat after the present Rebellion was begun viz. about the beginning of December 1641. her said Husband living as a Merchant in the Towne aforesaid with her this Deponent as for twenty six yeers he had done in very good estate and condition And having continually furnished the Inhabitants of that part thereabouts with all sorts of Wares and Merchandize and by that course having acquired and gained to

into the water as I finde it credibly related upon Oath carried him to the bottome with her and so they were both drowned together 11 Captain Parkine deposeth That Sir Phelim O Neale flying from Dundalk went to Armagh where he began his bloody massacres causing Manus O Cane to get together all the Protestants which were left thereabouts to conduct them to Coleraine but before they were scarce a dayes journey from him they were all murdered and so were severall others by speciall direction from Sir Phelim O Neale and his Brother Turlagh notwithstanding they were protected by them All the aged people in Armagh were by the same directions carried away but murthered also at Charlmount And presently after his Brother and he with their adherents maliciously set on fire the goodly Cathedrall Church of Armagh and Towne of Armagh and murthered and drowned there 500. persons young and old At the Parish of Killaman 48 Families were then murthered by directions from Sir Phelim who had remained protected by him three quarters of a yeer Jurat March 8. 1643. The Cathedral Church and Towne of Armagh were burnt many Townes laid waste all the faire Plantations made by the British left desolate in some Parishes 12 Jane Grace the wife of Nicholas Grace late of Kilmore in the County of Armagh deposeth that there were two and twenty English Protestants burned in one House within two miles of Kilmore and that the Rebels stripped killed or murdered all or the most of the English of that Parish which consisted of two hundred Families That they set many in the Stocks untill they confessed their money and when they could get no more that then they murdered them two hundred Families murdered and destroyed the whole County as it were a common Butchery and thorough all parts of it very many thousands perished in a short time by Sword Famine Fire Water and all other manner of cruell deaths that rage and malice could invent Some horrid inhumain cruelties evercized upon particular persons But before I leave this Subject I shall passe a little further and out of some Examination taken here upon Oath which I have perused present a briefe collection of some other horrid inhumane cruelties which I finde were used in the murdering of many poore innocent soules To many these bloody villaines shewed so much favour as sodainly to dispatch them out of their paine Edward Saltinglasse of the County of Armagh Gentleman deposeth and saith that George Laulis a rebell of the said County resolving to kill John Cowder told him he would kill him but bid him first say his Prayers whereupon the said Cowder kneeling downe to pray the said Lawlis instantly cut off his head as he was upon his knees jurat Jun. 1. 1642. by no means allowing them leave or 13 Elizabeth Price deposeth that when as divers of the English were about to be murdered and desired the Rebels on their knees first to admit them to make their prayers to God the Rebels have often in her the deponants hearing in Irish answered and said bequeath your soule to the Devill and at other times the Rebels would say why should you pray your soule is with the Devill already and with those words in their mouthes would slaughter and put them to death jurat ut supra time to make their prayyers for others they held a sudden death too easie a punishment Therefore they imprisoned 14 Edward Bankes of Cassell in the County of Tipperary Clerke deposeth that the Rebels there on the first day of January killed fifteen men and women all English Protestants at Cassell and that they entred and took the Town and having the same that they tooke this deponant and other Clergy men and then and there forthwith caused them to be put in the Dungeon where they continued twelve weekes in most miserable slavery jurat Aprill 21. 1642. some in most beastly Dungeons full of dirt and mire and there clapping bolts on their heels suffered them to perish at leizure others they barbarously 15 John Cregge in the County of Armagh Yeoman deposeth that in the Parish of Levilegish there were divers English-men cruelly murdered some twice some thrice hanged up and others wounded and left halfe dead crying out lamentably for some to come and end their miseries by killing of them Jurat Jan. 7. 1641. mangled and left languishing upon the High-wayes crying out but for so much mercy as to be delivered out of their paine Others they buried 16 William Parkinson of Castle Cumber in the County of Kilkenny Gent. deposeth That by the credible report both of English and some Irish who affirmed they were eye-witnesses of a bloody murder committed neer Kilfeale in the Queens County upon an English man his wife four or five children and a maid All which were hanged by the command of Sir Morgan Cavanah and Robert Harpoole and afterwards put all in one hole the youngest child being not fully dead put out the hand and crying mammy mammy when without mercy they buried him alive Jurat Feb. 11. 1642. 16 Elizabeth Price deposeth That Thomas Mason an English Protestant of Laugall being extreamly beaten and wounded was carried away by his wife and some others for revenge of which the Rebels most cruelly hacked slashed and wounded them and that done dragged the said Mason unto a hole and then and there threw earth stones and rubbish upon him and with the wait thereof kept him under so as the said Masons wife told this Deponent he cryed out and languished till his owne wife to put him out of his paine rather then heare him cry still tyed her handkerchiefe over his mouth and therewith stopped his breath so as he dyed Jurat Iune 29. 1641. alive a manner of death they used to severall British in severall places and 17 This particular concerning the seventeen men buried alive at Clownes was testified unto me by Mistresse Aldrich who was then kept prisoner in the Towne by the Rebels and heard their pittifull cyres at Clownis within the County of Fermanagh there were seventeen persons having been hanged till they were halfe dead cast together into a Pit and being covered over with a little earth lay pittifully sending out most lamentable groanes for a good time after 18 William Parkinson late of Castle Cumber in the County of Kilkenny deposeth That he saw Lewes O Brenan with his sword drawne in the said Towne pursue after an English boy of eight or nine yeers of age or thereabouts by name Richard Bernet into an house and saw the said Lewes lead the said boy forth of the house the blood running about his eares in a Haire rope and led the boy to his Fathers tentors and there hanged him with John Banks another little boy jurat ut supra Some were deadly wounded and so hanged up on Tenter-hooks 19 Edward Saltingstone of the County of Armagh Gent. deposeth that Manus O Cane Bryan O Kelly Shane O Neile Neile Oge O Neile