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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

and chiefe incendiaries in this horrid Rebellion A Consultation held whether it will be best to murder or onely to banish all the British out of Ireland they had a most serious consultation what course to take with most safety to themselves for the disburthening of the Kingdome of those multitudes of English which were in very great numbers dispersedly planted among them Some were of opinion that they should spare their lives not render themselves guilty of the spilling of so much innocent blood but that they should seize on their goods expell them their habitations and after banishing them out of the Kingdome proceed as the Spaniards did with many hundred thousands of the Moors whom as it were in a moment they cleered out of their Dominions Others there were who much opposed this kind of lenity and moderation remonstrating the high inconveniences which would inevitably redound to themselves thereby First that the British were in so great numbers as they could not either by disarming imprisoning or any other meanes possible ever hope to secure them from mischiefe Then that if they onely expelled them out of the Kingdome they would remain still as so many fit instruments to be entertained in England and from thence returned backe full of revengefull thoughts to recover their losses that by their long experience and knowledge in the Country they would be better guides more deeply engaged to prosecute the Warre and having their bodies inured to this Climate would prove much more able Souldiers then any new men that could be raised or any otherwayes brought over How they determined this particular I shall not undertake to declare my intelligence failes me and I am able to deliver no more of the result of this great Councell then appeares in the bloody effects and horrid executions acted in the first beginnings of their Rebellion It is most probable they came to no positive conclusion but left the chiefe Actors in this particular at large to doe as should seem good to themselves We finde their first proceedings and outrages committed upon the English very various and much differing in severall places some onely stripping and expelling of them others murdering Man Woman and Childe without mercy But this is certain and of most unquestionable truth that by one means or other they resolved universally to root all the British and Protestants out of Ireland The Irish resolve to root the English out of Ireland And that these were the first thoughts and bitter fruits of the long premeditated malicious intentions sufficiently appeares by their Actions as well as by their virulent expressions uttered upon their first rising when they thought the Kingdome their own They then said openly that they meant to destroy the English and that they had made a Covenant no Englishman should set footing among them Some of the Irish would not endure the very sound of that language The Irish in many places killed English Cowes and Sheep meerly because they were English in some places they cut off their legges or tooke out a peece out of their buttocks and so let them remain still alive The Lord Montgarrat Master Edward Butlar the Baron of Logmouth went with their Forces into Munster about the beginning of the rising of the Irish there and while they remained about Callen and Mallow they consumed no lesse then 50000. others say 100000. English Sheep besides a great abundance of English Cattell and such as they could not eat yet they killed and left in great multitudes stinking to the great annoyance of the Country This testified by Henry Champart in his Examination taken before Sir Robert Meredith Knight c. but would have penalties inflicted upon them that spake English and all the English names of places changed into the old Irish denominations others professed that they would not leave an English man or woman alive in the Kingdome but that all should be gone no not so much as an English Beast or any of the breed of them James Hallegan the Priest did read an Excommunication in the Church which as he alleaged came from their great Irish Metropolitane James Shaw a Minister Deposeth that after the Cessation divers of the Rebels confessed the Priests had given them the Sacrament upon condition they should not spare Man Woman nor Childe that were Protestants and that he heard divers of them say in a bragging manner that it did them a great deal of good to wash their hands in the blood of the Protestants whom they had slain jurat Jan. 7. 1643. and terrifying his Parishoners therewith he told them that from that day forth whosoever did harbour or relieve any Scot English or Welchman or give them Almes at their doors should be excommunicated whereby as Master Sacheurell testifies in his Examination many were starved and dyed for want in those parts Thomas JohnsonVicar of Tullah of the County of Maio deposeth that he heard Stephen Linoh Prior of Strade being asked if it were not lawfull to kill this Deponent because he would not goe to Masse answered that it was as lawfull for them to kill him as to kill a Sheepe or a Dogge and divers of the rebellious Souldiers told him to his face that they would no more care to kill him then they would doe a Pigge We have it from Master Creighton a reverend Minister one long detained prisoner within the County of Cavan that the Fryars exhorted the peopl with tears to spare none of the English John Addis of the County of Westmeath Deposeth that Robert Magohagan Priest said to this Deponant that it was no more pitty nor conscience to take English-mens lives or goods from them then to take a bone out of a Dogs mouth jurat July 21. 1642. that the Irish were resolved to destroy them out of the Kingdome that they would devour as their very word was the seed of the English out of Ireland and when they had rid them there they would goe over into ENGLAND and not leave the Memoriall of the ENGLISH Name under Heaven And so fond and vein were their imaginations and to such a height of madnesse were they grown as they could not terminate their thoughts in the reduction of Ireland under the power of their own Nation But as soon as they had begun their Rebellion there they spake confidently in all places of transporting their Armes into England that they would send 30000 men over into that Kingdom and that they would draw in foraign Auxiliaries thither to joyn with them and so by a high hand establish the free exercise of the Romish Religion within that Kingdom A Designe certainly which the Priests and Jesuits had taken up in their own thoughts and by their correspondencies abroad intended powerfully to bring about as soon as they had setled their affaires in Ireland And if it had not pleased God in an extraordinay way to bring the first Plot to light and so to blesse the weake endevours of the

or ten Rebels more pulled off her back a young child of one yeer and a quarter old threw it on the ground trod on it that it dyed stripped her selfe and foure small children who by the cold they thereby got since dyed jurat were trampled under-foot to death 28 Iohn Stubbes of the County of Longford Gent. deposeth that he heard by some of the Sheriffs men that Henry Mead and his wife John Bigel William Stell and Daniel Stubs the Deponents brother were put to death by Lisagh Farrols and Oli. Fitz Gerrals men who hanged them upon a Windmill and when they were halfe dead they cut them to pieces with their skeines jurat Novemb. 21. 1641. Some they cut in gobbets and pieces 29 William Parkinson of Kilkenny Esquire deposeth that the wife of John Harvey told him that she being at Kilkenny and having there turned to Masse to save her life was notwithstanding stripped againe together with her children and one Purcell a Butcher after he had stripped her daughter of five yeers of age ripped up her body till her intrales fell out whereof she dyed that night whereof she complaining to the Major of Kilkenny he bid away with her and dispatch her so as not onely the Butcher but many other did beat and wound her so as she hardly escaped with her life jurat ut supra others they ript up alive 30 Elizabeth Champion late wife of Arthur Champion in the County of Fermanagh Esq deposeth that when the Castle of Lisgoole was set on fire by the Rebels a Woman leaping out of a window to save her selfe from burning was murdered by the Rebels and next morning her childe was found sucking her brest and also murdered by them jurat Apill 6. 1642. some were found in the fields sucking the brests of their murdered Mothers others lay stifled in Vaults and Cellars 28 El. Price deposeth that a great number of poore Protestants especially of women and children they pricked and stabbed with their Skeins Pitch-forks and Swords and would slash mangle and cut them in their heads brests faces armes and other parts of the body but not kill them out-right but leave them wallowing in their blood to languish starve and pine to death and whereas those so mangled desired them to kill them out of their paine they would deny it but sometimes after a day or two they would dash out their braines with stones or by some other cruell way which they accounted done as a favour of which she hath in many particulars been an eye-witnesse jurat June 29. 1641. others 30 Charity Chappell late wife of Richard Chappell Esquire of the Towne and County of Armagh deposeth that as she hath credibly heard the Rebels murdered great numbers of Protestants and that many children were seen lying murdered in Vaults and Sellers whether they fled to hide themselves jurat July 2. 1642. 30 Thomas Fleetwood late Curat of Kilbeggan in the County of Westmeath deposeth that he hath heard from the mouth of the Rebels themselves of great cruelties acted by them And for one instance that they stab'd the Mother one Jane Addis by name and left her little sucking childe not a quarter old by the dead corps and then they put the brest of its dead Mother into its mouth and bid it sucke English-bastard and so left it there to perish jurat March 22. 1642. 31 Mary Barlow deposeth that her Husband being by the Rebels hanged before her face she six children were stripped stark naked turned out a begging in frost snow by means whereof they were almost starved having nothing to eat in three weekes while they lay in a Cave but two old Calfe-kins which they beat with stones and so eat them haire and all her children crying out unto her rather to goe out and be killed by the Rebels then to starve there jurat starved in Caves crying out to their Mothers rather to send them out to be killed by the Rebels then to suffer them to starve there Multitudes of 32 John Duffield of the County of Armagh Gent. deposeth that the Rebels wounded John Ward and Richard Duffield so as they thereof dyed and that their wives and the said Johns six children being all stript dyed of want and cold And further saith that many thousands of Protestants men women and children being stripped of their clothes dyed also of cold and want in severall parts of the Country jurat Aug. 9. 1642. men women and children were found drowned cast into ditches bogges and turfe-pits the ordinary Sepultures of the British Nation 32 Catherine Madeson of the County of Fermanagh deposeth that they drew some lying sicke of Fevers out of their beds and hanged them and that they drove before them of men women and children to the number of sixteen and drowned them in a Boggie-pit knocking such on the head with Poles as endevoured to get out Thousands dyed of cold and want in all parts of the Country being neither permitted to depart nor relieved where they were enforced to stay * Jane the wife of Gabriel Constable late of Drumcad in the County of Armagh Gent. sworne and examined saith that her husband and his mother about 88. yeers old and his Brother being murdered by the Rebels in the Parish of Kilmore that a great number of Protestants were about Candlemas 1641. by the means and instigation of Joane Hamskin formerly a Protestant but a meer Irish woman and lately turned to Masse and of divers other her assistants forced and thrust into a thatcht house within the Parish of Kilmore and then and there the Protestants being almost naked covered with rags onely the same house was by that bloody woman and her barbarous assistants set on fire in severall parts thereof the poor imprisoned parties who were by armed parties kept there lockt in were miserably burned to death and at length the house fell upon them and the combustible part of the house being consumed before the bodies of all those miserable wretches were burned to ashes the bodies of many of them lay there in holes to the great terrour of the beholders that were Protestants three onely escaped out of a hole of the house and the rest that attempted to escape the flames were then and there forced and thrown in again and so burned to death jurat June 16. 1642. Multitudes enclosed in houses which being set on fire they were there most miserably consumed 33 Katherine Madeson of the County of Fermanagh deposeth that they drew some lying sicke of feavers out of their bed and hanged them jur ut supra Some dragged out of their sick-beds to the place of execution 34 Thomas Green in the Parish of Dumcres in the County of Armagh Yeoman and Elizabeth his wife sworn and examined saith That the Deponent Tho. Green hardly escaped away with his life but that the other Deponent and six children were all left among the Rebels and so stripped of their cloaths and hunger-starved that

made for a Well and made her fast in with stones whereof she languished and dyed the Rebels bragged how many of them went to see her kick and tosse in the hole her husband being formerly murdered by the Rebels jurat ut supra actuated with all kind of circumstances that might aggravate the hight of their cruelty towards them Alas who can comprehend the feares terrours anguish bitternesse and perplexity of their souls the despairing passions and consternations of their mind What strange amazed thoughts must it needs raise in their sad hearts to find themselves so sodainly surprized without remedy and inextricably wrapt up in all kind of outward miseries which could possibly by man be inflicted upon any humane creatures What sighes groanes trembling astonishment What schriches cryes and bitter lamentation of wife and children friends and servants howling and weeping about them all finding themselves without any manner of hope or deliverance from their present misery and paine How inexorable were their barbarous tormentors that compassed them on every side without all bowels of compassion any sense of their sufferings or the least commiseration and pitty the common comforters of men in misery It was no small addition to their sorrows to hear 54 Francis Barbour of Dublin Gent. deposeth that at the beginning of the Rebellion he heard severall of the Rebels publikely say That now the day was their own and that they had been slaves to the English a long time but that now they would be revenged to the full and would not leave before Christmas day an English Protestant rogue living with other like bitter words jurat Jan. 5. 1643. the base reviling speeches used against their country and country-men some loudly threatning 55 Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Green deposeth that she heard the Rebels say the English were meat for dogs that there should not be one drop of English blood left within the Kingdom and that they would destroy all the very English children whom they called bastards jurat Novemb. 10. 1643. 55 Richard Cleybrook deposeth that he heard Luke Toole say that they would not leave an English Beast alive or any of the breed of them jurat 55 Samuel Man of the County of Fermanagh Gent. deposeth that he heard some of the Irish say that there should not be one English man woman or child left in the Kingdome jurat 55 Elizab. Dickinson deposeth that she heard some of the company of Roury Mac Guire say that the Irish had command to leave never a drop of English blood in Ireland jurat Novemb. 17. 1642. Katherine Madeson of the County of Fermanagh deposeth that she hath often heard the Rebels say that they would drive all the English and Scottish out of the Kingdome and that both man woman and child should be cut off and destroyed jurat Novemb. 17. 1642. all should be cut off and utterly destroyed that had one drop of English blood in them the Irish women crying out to spare neither man woman nor child that was English that the English was meat for dogs and their children bastards How grievous and insupportable must it needs be to a true christian soule to hear a base 56 Elenor Fullerton the relict of Wil. Fullerton late Parson of Lougall deposeth that in Lent 1641. a young roguish Cow-boy gave out and affirmed in this Deponents hearing that his hands were so weary in killing and knocking downe Protestants into a bog-pit that he could hardly lift his armes to his head jurat Septemb. 16. 1642. 56 Owen Frankland deposeth that he heard Hugh O Cane late servant to Mistris Stanhaw calling to his fellows in a boasting manner asking them what they had been doing at home all the day that he had been abroad and had killed sixteen of the rogues and shewed them some money jurat ut supra villaine boast that his hands were so weary with killing and knocking downe Protestants into a bogge that he could not lift his armes up to his head or others to say 57 Elizabeth Champion late wife of Arthur Champion in the County of Fermanagh Esquire saith that she heard the Rebels say that they had killed so many English men that the grease or fat which remained upon their swords and skeines might well serve to make an Irish candle jurat April 14. 1642. that they had killed so many English men that the grease or fat which remained on their swords or skeines might have made an Irish candle or to consider that two 58 John Birne late of Dongannon in the county of Tyrone deposeth that he heard some of the native Irish that were somewhat more mercifull then the rest complaine that two young Cow-boyes within the Parish of Tullah had at severall times murdered and drowned 36. women and children jurat Jan. 12. 1643. young Cow-boys should have it in their power to murder 36. Protestants Whosoever shall seriously weigh these particulars will not much wonder that so great numbers of British and Protestants should be destroyd in so short a time after the first breaking out of the Rebellion as Master Cunningham 59 James Shaw a Minister deposeth that after the cessation made with the Irish divers of them confessed the Priests had given them the Sacrament upon condition they should not spare man woman or child that were Protestants and that he heard divers of them say in a bragging manner that it did them much good to wash their hands in the blood of the Protestants which they had slaine Jurat Jan. 7. 1643. deposeth in his Examination He there saith that the account of the persons killed by the Rebels from the time of the beginning of the Rebellion Octob. 23. 1641. unto the month of April following was as the Priests weekly gave it in in their severall Parishes one hundred and five thousand jurat April 22. 1641. When the Castle of Lisgoole 60 Elizabeth Champin deposeth that when the Rebels had set the Castle of Lisgoole on fire upon the Protestants there enclosed and saw the said house so burning they said among themselves rejoycingly Oh how sweetly doe they fry jurat ut supra was set on fire by the Rebels and so many British as are before mentioned consumed in the flames those mischievous villaines that had done that wicked fact cryed out with much joy how sweetly do they fry How did the Inhabitants 61 William Lucas of the City of Kilkenny deposeth that although he lived in the Towne till about five or six weeks past in which time he is assured divers murders and cruell acts were committed yet he durst not goe abroad to see any of them But he doth confidently beleeve that the Rebels having brought seven Protestants heads whereof one was the head of Master Bingham a Minister they did then and there as triumphs of their victory set them up on the Market-Crosse on a Market-day and that the Rebels slasht stab'd and mangled those heads put a gag or carret in the said Master Binghams mouth slit up