any longer for they would govern it themselves S And that their Religion should flourish in despight of King or State T In all which having broken thorow the due bounds of their Allegiance their vain and ambitious thoughts rove without knowing any limits It will not now content them to settle anew and mold again this Kingdom to their own Modell by calling of Parliaments making Laws and appointing their own Governours V Thus discourse they of the modestest sort but they will with the assistance of Spain and France set footing in England and after that in Scotland W where all things being setled to their desires the whole Forces of Ireland in way of retribution and acknowledgement of gratitude are intended for the King of Spain against the Hollanders X Unto which their disloyalty to theirs and our most gracious Soveraign they have added expressions of unheard of hatred to His Brittish Subjects of this Kingdom banishment or slavery are the greatest favours that would be afforded them But their generall profession is for a generall extirpation even to the last and least drop of English blood Y Which that it may be drayned to the full such of the English as cannot prescribe a settlement in this Kingdom for two hundred yeers are to be cut off and that notwithstanding they be of the Romish Sect It being to that end provided That such as do revolt to their part should for the present be accepted of yet so disposed as being drawn into the List of their Army they should be set upon the most dangerous Enterprises so either to be made away or to serve their own turns of them And what the Sword cannot for the present effect an Inquisition like that in Spain for finding out the Jewish and Moorish blood shall in time thorowly accomplish Z As for the future their Covenant is That no English should ever set footing again in Ireland A Even the very Language must be forgotten none being to speak English under a penalty B But that which exceeds all Not an English Beast or any of that breed must be left in the Kingdom C And as we finde the hearts of these men in their tongues so in their actions doing what they professe and being in both beyond all measure profane and heathenish in their impious words and behaviours towards God and the holy Scriptures Religion and the places of Gods publike Worship Blaspheming our God bidding his servants whom they had first T V stripped naked to go to their God and let him give them clothes D Breaking into Churches burning Pulpits Pues and all belonging thereunto with extreme violence and expression of hatred to our Religion and triumphing also in their impiety E Professing That not one Protestant should be left in the Kingdome F Dragging some Professors thorow the streets by the hair of the head into the Church where stripping whipping and cruelly using them they added these taunting words If you come tomorrow you shall hear the like Sermon G How have our sacred Books of holy Scriptures been used Gods Book hath been O horrible cast into and tumbled in the Kennell thence taken up and dashed in the faces of some Professors with these words I know you love a good lesson this is an excellent one come to morrow you shall have as good H They have torn it in pieces I kicked it up and down K treading it under foot with leaping thereon they causing a Bag-pipe to play the while L laying also the leaves in the kennell leaping and trampling thereupon saying A plague on it This Book hath bred alltne quarrell hoping within three weeks all the Bibles in Ireland should be so used or worse and that none should be left in the Kingdom M and while two Bibles were in burning saying that it was hell-fire that was burning N wishing they had all the Bibles of Christendome that they might use them so But what Pen can set forth what Tongue expresse whose Eye can reade Ear hear or heart without melting consider the cruelties more than barbarous dayly exercised upon us by those inhumane blood-sucking Tygers Stripping quite naked Men Women and children even children sucking upon the Brest O whereby multitudes of all sorts in the extremitie of that cold season of Frost and Snow have perished Women being dragged up and down naked P Women in child bed thence drawn out and cast into prison Q One delivered of a childe while she was hanging R One ripped up and two children taken away and all cast unto and eaten by swine S One other stabbed in the breast her childe sucking T An Infant cruelly murthered whom they found sucking his dead mother slain by them the day before V A childe of 14 years of age taken from his mother in her sight cast into a Bog-pit and held under water while he was drown'd W The forcing 40 or 50 Protestants to renounce their profession and then cutting all their throats * What should we speak of their murthers X their hanging half-hanging and that oft times reiterated they delighting in the tortures of the miserable Z Hence some being left wounded in vain crying out that they might be dispatched A This being purposely done that these wretches might languish in their miserie their tormentors affirming that their Priests commanded them so to do B What should we speake of those 30 or 40 burnt in one House and 50 in another C the denying of buriall to the dead D whereby Christians have been eaten by Dogs and Dogs tearing Children out of the wombe the bloudy beholders relating such things with boasting and great rejoycing E And to make perfect the measure of their cruelty Two were said to be buried alive F and others that had been long buried digged up they saying that the Churches could not be Consecrated while Hereticks bodies or bones lay therein G The cruell usage of those 48 poore prisoners in the Gaole of Monaghan H Of those in the County of Armagh after drowned in the River of the Ban to the number of 80 I or 100. K or 196 L as it is diversly reported those 45 drowned together M And those 179 burnt in one house x All these we refer to the reading of the severall depositions concerning them hereunto annexed But how can that be forgotten or where shall it be beleeved which we hear to have been done in the Church of Newtown in the County of Fermanagh where a childe of Thomas Strettons was boyled alive in a Caldron A thing which as one bare reports we durst not so neither can we now with confidence enough present it to that your honourable Assembly nor can we averre it for true otherwise then as by concurring examinations we finde them solemnly deposed whereunto we desire to
came to Dublin and therefore I desired to have his counsell and advise He began after this manner You intend to go to ublin saith he if you do you must go speedily for within two dayes the Irish Army will be before Dublin so that you cannot passe if you should get so much favour as to passe yet when you come to Dublin you will not be admitted to come within the Gates and in the Suburbs there are sixe or seven score dying daily for want of food so that there will be no abiding place for you If you intend to go for England the least childe you have will not be carried under twenty shillings and you saith he have not one penny if you should finde so much friendship as to passe gratis there are such a multitude of people that are gone out of this Kingdom that England being but a small Island and Populous of it selfe is not able to receive you if you should be received there can be no long continuing place for you for the Papists are striving in England as well as here the Queene being fled into France for some abuses offered her own Person her Servants and Chaplains which indignities the King of France intending to revenge hath leavied an Army of 40000 men to invade England and the Cardinall in Flanders hath leavied the like number to the like end and purpose therefore it will be no purpose to go thither Lord Mr Staples said I what shall I do then If you stay here you must do as they do and turn to Masse yet they will not trust you sayd he fearing least if the King of England should ever be able to bring an Army into this Country the turn-coat English should joyne with them and cut the Irish throats in a night as the English once did the Danes in England Therefore whosoever of the English should turn to the Romish Church they would also compell to take Armes and place them in the Front and eminent place of danger that so they might fall And for hereafter when they had gotten the Kingdome into their own hands which they make no question but to have in a short time having all the Forts Castles and strong-holds in Ireland in their own hands already but the Castle of Dublin and Drogheda and these two places they would not for many thousand pounds have gotten for reasons known unto themselves but when they have once obtained them and the Kingdome those English that have not fallen by the sword the holy Church hath so ordered it that they shall be cut off by the Inquisition so that they will not leave an English-man alive whose Ancestors hav◠not been here for 200 years with many other like words Jur. 29. Jan. 1641. John Biggar John Sterne William Aldrich William Hitchcock The examination of John Mountgomery late of Clounish in the County of Monaghan Gent. THis Examinate duely sworn e deposeth inter alia That in their journey and Marching within the County of Monaghan the Rebells murthered of his knowledge at the least fourescore Protestants and committed a number of other wicked barbarous and notorious Robberies and actions and by their owne relation robb'd stripped naked kill'd and drowned 45 of the Scots at one time and that the same Robbers also murthered Mr Blyth and Master Mathew two constant Protestant Preachers within the County of Tiron and murthered one Master Fullerton Parson of Loughall in the County of Armagh and neere fourescore more English more of Protestants by drowning and throwing them all over the Bridge of Portdown in the said County into the River Bann And further saith that the Rebells aforesaid or some of them confessed unto him and so he was told also by divers Scottish-men that they the same Rebells when they came to Armagh Monaghan and Dungannon set all the prisoners at liberty and that they broke open and defaced the Church of Armagh and burned the pewes pulpit and the best things in the said Church And this Deponent whilest he was with the same Rebells saw them to pull in peeces kick up and down deface and spoyl all the Protestant Bibles and other protestant books that they found in any place where they came neither this Deponent nor any other protestant prisoner nor other durst so much do as to save or looke upon any of them in their sight nor would they willingly suffer any one to speak the English tongue And further it was pretended that it was agreed in the Parliament House of England thet the Nobility and Gentry of Ireland should be sent for to Dublin unde colour of passing Patents of their Lands and there should be imprisoned untill such time as they should either go to the Protestant Church or should be put to death And if they should go to the Church yet not to be released untill they had given security that their followers should go to the Church also otherwise to bring them in to be censured And further saith That when the Rebells of the County of Monaghan had surprized or had command of all that County some of them said that they would be governed by the Roman Law and some by the English Law which they knew better And said further That when they had taken Dublin and Drogheda Derry and Knockfergus which they did not doubt but to conquer before Candlemas then next they would have a Parliament and would settle a Government but would have no Protestants amongst them but that they would suffer English or Scottish to be Deputies Lords Justices or Judges so that one of the Irish Nation might be joyned with them and so that all should go to Masse And the same Rebells publikely and generally also said That they made no account but to keep Ireland for ever in regard they had of their own Souldiers two hundred thousand fighting men besides labourers and they expected from the King of Spain according to his promise fifteen thousand souldiers and Arms and money fit for them and from the King of France some Ayd because the Queen of England his sister was so deprived of liberty of religion And the same Rebells also further said in this Deponents hearing That in all forraigne parts it was agreed and resolved that all Protestants or others that would not go to Masse should be put to the Sword And this Deponent further saith That he did hear Neale mac Kenny Baron of Trough neer Glaslock a notorious Captain of the Rebells say That the King had sent directions from Scotland that Sir Pbelomy Roe ô Neale Knight should be Generall of all His Majesties Forces in Ireland against the English and that he the said Neale mac Kenny should be Governour of the three Counties of Tyrone Armagh and Monaghan And that therefore he the said Neale mac Kenny and the rest of the Irish Forces would after their conquest of Ireland go into England and there by the assistance of the English papists also conquer the same And that from thence they
would go into Scotland and by the like assistance subdue that Kingdom and settle their religion in all places And further saith That he this Deponent was in the County of Armagh credibly informed by some cots and the same was confessed and confirmed to be true by some of the Irish That one â— Mr Keoon neer Cregance in the said County and his Souldiers did take a Scottish-man and a woman and tortured them by hanging them up in a Rope to confesse their moneys but still before they were dead let them down again And saith further That oâ—e Bryan mac Erowny a Ring-leader of Rebells in the County of Fermanagh and his souldiers killed one Ensigne Lloyd and Robert Workman both of the same County Gentlemen and four of their servants one of which they having wounded but not to death they buried quick And this Deponent was credibly informed That the daughter in law of one Ford in the Parish of Clonnish and County of Monaghan being delivered of a childe in the Hills the Rebells who had formerly killed her husband and his father killed her also and two of her children and suffered their dogs to eat up and devour her said new born childe which they found with her in that place And saith further That Cole mac Bryan mac Mabon the Colonell and his souldiers did kill and murther at Mellifant at the Lord Moores house 18 of the said Lord Moors servants and would not suffer the greater part of them to be buried but to lie upon the ground and be devoured by Dogs Crows and revenous Creatures And this Deponent had and hath seen and observed the like to be done by the Rebells since this Rebellion began within the County of Monaghan to divers other Protestants that they had murthered Jur. 26 Jan. 1641. John Mountgomery Iohn Sterne William Hitchcocke Roger Puttocke VVilliam Aldrich Hen. Brereton The Examination of Patrick ô Bryan of the Parish of Galoon in the County of Fermanagh THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That Donagh mac Guye of the County aforesaid said That it was against his will that this was begun but seeing he had put to his hand he would not give out for if I should come in I should be used like Tyron who was persecuted notwithstanding his many pardons Con oge mac con mac Hugh mac Mabon of Aghneholagh and County of Monaghan said That the King knew of this Rebellion and that it was as hot in England and Scotland as here at the same time And he further said That all the Nobles of this Kingdom which were papists had a hand in this plot as well as my Lord Maguire and Hugh oge mac Mahon and that they expected Ayd out of Spain by one Owen Roe ô Neal viz. 10000 men and Arms for as many Item the said Deponent further saith That he heard Colonell Plunckett say That he knew of this plot eight yeers ago but within these three yeers he hath been more fully acquainted with it the cause of this Deponents knowledge is that he was sent with a Letter unto the said Colonell Plunckett from Mr. Nicholas VVilloughby and heard the same from the said Plunckett as aforesaid Patrick ô Bryan Deposed before us Ion. 29. 1641. Henry Iones Iohn Sierne The Deposition of Henry Jones Doctor in Divinity and Dean of Kilmore I Henry Iones Doctor in Divinity in obedience to His Majesties Commission requiring an Accompt of the losses of His loyall subjects wherein they suffered by the present Rebellion in Ireland Requiring also a declaration of what trayterous words projects or actions were done said or plotted by the actors or abettors in that Rebellion Do make and give in this following report of the premisses to the best of my knowledge As for the present Rebellion howsoever the first breaking out of this fire into a flame began first on the 28 of Octob. 1641 yet was it smoking as may well be conjectured for many yeers before God having given us many and apparant grounds for the discovery of it had they been duely considered or fully prosecuted to a discovery of which kinde we finde these following four particulars 1. The first That about three or four yeers since amongst many Books brought into Limrick from forraign parts and seized upon by the Reverend Bishop of that Sea as prohibited being thereunto authorizâ—d by the State One had a written addition to the first part which was printed the Manuscript containing a discourse of the Friars of the Augustine Order sometimes seated in the Town of Armagh in Vlster But by reason of the times and that Present resident as that writing imported in the City of Limrick in Munster That while it flourished at Armagh it was protected and largely provided for by the then Earl of Tyrone Since whose expulsion out of Ireland that Convent was also decayed and driven to those distresses it did for the present undergo but that within three yeers this is as I remember the time limited Ireland should finde that he had a sonne inheriting his fathers vertues who should restore that Kingdom to its former Liberty and that Convent to its first lustre or words to that effect This was related unto me by that zealous and learned Prelate Doctor VVebb now Bishop of Limrick who saw and read the said passage purposing as his Lordship told me to send that book to the Lord President of Munster to be taken into further consideration 2 Hereunto was added a second passage about the same time at Limrick aforesaid where a Popish Priest gave out that within three years there should not be a Protestant in Ireland or words to that purpose with some other materiall circumstances which I do not now remember yet all so concurring with the former or the first with this for which preceded I know not Both being about one time that it was thought fitting to be considered of the sayd Priest being sent unto the Lords at Dublin and he committed to the Castle 3 The third did agree with the two former and fell out about the same time in the County of VVestmeath in the Province of Limster where VValter Newgent of Rathaspeck in the said County eldest Son to VValter Newgent Esquier a man of great fortunes upbraiding an Irish Protestant who was the Parish Clerk of Rathaspeck aforesaid with his Religion and both speaking Latine the said Newgent uttered these words Infratres annos venient tempus potentia in Hibernia quandò tu longè likely meaning diu pendebis in cruce propter diabolicam vestram Religionem The party to which this was spoken feared the power of the man durst not speak of it only in private Yet being called upon and examined juridically upon oath he deposed these words And being demanded whether the words were in Hiberniam or Hibernia the first importing an Invasion the other an Insurrection at home He deposed the latter having time given him to consider of it These Examinates were sent
way coming to one Master Philip Fitz-Gerralds house neer Miltowne in the County of Kildare this Deponent heard him utter these words We are like to have great troubles but we must all rise in Arms and not leave an English-man in Ireland and that the King was on their side in the North among them Jane Mansfeild Deposed 3 Jan. 1641. Roger Puttock Henry Brereton The examination of Henry Palmer late of Fetherd in the County of Wexford Brick-layer THis Examinate being duely sworn inter alia deposeth That Dermot mac Dowling Cavanagh Head of the Rebells there and his company said to this Deponent with others Be gone you English dogges for we do onely take your goods now but worse shall follow And they went into the Church and cut the Pulpit-Cloth and the Ministers Books in pieces and strewed them about the Church-yard and caused the piper to play whilest they danced and trampled them under their feet and called the Minister dog and stript him out of his clothes And that they wounded severall persons that were in the Castle of Fetherd and the Town there of which some by reason of their wounds cold and want died And what clothes this Deponent had left being but mean coming to Dublin were also taken from him And the Irish denyed them lodging and relief insomuch that they were constrayned to lie out of doors naked all night And further saith That one Welsh of Killcullen Bridge in the County of Kildare Inne-Keeper after that this Deponent was robbed and stripped told this Deponent That he the said VVelsh knew that the King was in the North of Ireland and rode disguised and had glassen eyes because he would not be known Henry Palmer Jur. 12 January 1641. Coram nobis John Sterne William Hitchcock The examination of John Perkins of Sleigkogh in the County of Cavan THis Examinate duly sworn deposeth inter alia That they said that the King was dead and that the young King went to Masse and they were the Queens souldiers and we were Traytors And the said words were affirmed by Cormack mac Cloney Parish-Priest of Killan Iohn I. P. Parkins his mark Deposed before us 8 Jan. 1641. Roger Puttock John Sterne The Examination of Tho. Midlebrook of Leagne Caffry in the County of Fermanagh Yeoman THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That on the 26 day of October last he heard Cahell Boy mac Dermott say That within one fortnight they should have a new King of Iceland Crowned one of the ô Neals or words to that effect which words were spoken by the said Cahell in the presence of Alice Tibs this Deponents sister and Avis Braishaw wife of Iohn Braishaw And further that he both heard that the Rebells had murthered about threescore English Protestants that lived in good manner within the said parish And further saith That there cannot be so few as one hundred English Protestants that lived in good manner within the said parish perished and dead since the said Rebells did banish and drive them from their habitations Deposed before us Ian. 4. 1641. Roger Puttock Henry Brereton Tho. I. Midlebrook his mark The Examination of Alice Tibs of Ringvilly in the County of Fermanagh widow THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That she heard Cahell Boy mac Dermott of Killrout in the County aforesaid Yeoman say That Dublin Castle was taken and that they could afford the English two or three Barrells of Powder and that the Irish within one fortnight would have a new King or words to that effect which words he spake in the hearing of this Deponent Avis Braishaw wife to Iohn Braishaw and Thomas Milebrooke the five and twentieth day of October And did after hear another Irish man whose name she knoweth not say That it was pity that any of the English or their breed should be suffered to live for fear they should grow strong again or words to that effect This deposed before us Jan. 4. 1641. Roger Puttock Hen. Brereton Alict VV. Tibs her mark The Examination of Avis Braishaw late of Agheruskie Moore in the County of Fermanagh THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter aliae That she heard Cahell Boy mac Dermott of Kilrout in the County aforesaid say That Dublin Castle was taken and that they could afford the English three or four Barrells of Powder and that the Irish would have a new King within a fortnight after which words or to that effect he spake in the hearing of this Deponent Tho. Midlebrook and Alice Tibs the 25 day of October last This deposed before us Jan. 4 1641. Roger Puttock Hen. Brereton Avis VV Braishaw her mark The Examination of Rich. Knowles of Newtowne alias Castle-Cool in the County of Fermanagh Yeoman THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That there is one hundred of the said parishioners that lived in good rank and fashion since they were driven out of their habitations and banished by the said rebellious Irish being all English Protestants perished and dead And this Deponent is the rather confident that there is one hundred or more dead by reason they dayly die in such abundance this Deponent well knowing the said parishioners being his neighbours and this Deponent being a Butcher by Trade had some dealing with the most of them Deposed this 10 of Jan. 1641. Iohn VVatson William Aldrich Rich. R. Knowls his mark The Examination of Robert Barton of Newtowne alias Castle-cool in the County of Fermanagh Black-smith THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth iuter alia That some Irish Rebells neer unto Virginia in the way towards Rells did strip this Deponent and said That they had a new King and Commission from him for what they did And further deposeth That he heard that Captain Rory or some other of his Company had murthered of the said parishioners to the number of fourty or thereabouts Deposed before us Jan. 5. 1641. Iohn Brereton William Hitchcock The Examination of Hugh Culme of Leitrim in the County of Monaghan Gentleman THis Examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That he was told that one Art mac Mahown who lived in the Parish of Tehollan said that they which spoke English should pay 10s to the King the party to whom he spoke it desired to know what King desired it his answers was what other King but the Earl of Tyrone And this Deponent heard one Thomas mac Aleares wife of the same County and Parish say that Captain Bryan mac Mahon of Tehollan said he would hang any that would speak English And heard the priest mac Clerey of Tehollan say that all the English in Monaghan must be hanged I asked him why he said meat was soarce and they would not be at the charge to keep us And heard more by very honest men that Mr. Cottingham Minister of Monaghan being in a Dungeon bolted desired for Gods sake to get a little straw to lye upon being put to such extremitie And that Mr. Richard Blaney
County of Monaghan Gent. THis Deponent being duely sworn and examined inter alia deposeth And further saith That when he this Deponent was so robbed by the Rebells they imprisoned him and his brother in law Andrew Lesk Alexander Bailie James Anderson Iohn Mewrhead his son Alexander Ballengall and his son VVilliam and kept them there in Glaslock Castle for 14 dayes or thereabouts in great misery neither suffering their wives or friends to come and bring them relief From thence the Rebells sent them to the Gaole of Monaghan for 14 dayes more where they were in no lesser misery than before From thence they were sent back to Glaslock aforesaid and there Art mac Bryan ô Samogh mac Maghan did gather all the whole British prisoners aswell those afore-named as others to the number of 22 or thereabouts and sent them to Corbridge But in their going another Company by the direction of the said Art mac Bryan way-layd them and slew 16 of them and the next morning murthered 46 more English at Corbridge aforesaid where this Deponent escaping with his life was admitted to go to Sir Phelim ô Neal who gave him a Protection for himself his wife and childe And then this Deponent heard the said Sir Phelim say That he would make no man account for what he did And that he had his Majesties Commission for what he did under the great Seal of England And being asked who did put Master Richard Blany Senescall to the Lord Blany and one of the Knights of the Shire to death because it was reported that one Art mac Bryan ô Samagh mac Maghan put him to death He answered Let not that Gentleman be blamed for my hand signed the Warrant for his hanging for the persecuring of my cousen ô Rely And further saith That there were killed by the name or Sept of the ô Hughes 12 Families of men women and children of English and Scotish protestants and that Edmond Boy ô Hugh Foster-brother to the said Sir Phelim ô Neal did at Kinard at the entry of the said Sir Phelims gate shoot to death with a brace of Bullers behinde his back the Lord Cawlfeild And that night after killed seven Families of English men women and children that lived on the Land of the said Sir Phelim And as this Deponent hath heard there were above twenty Families slain betwixt Kinnard and Armagh by the Rebells And after the repulse given at Lisnegarvy Shane oge mac Canna and a Company of Rebells under his command marched thorow all the Barony of Trough in the County of Monaghan and murthered a great number of Brittish protestants amongst others Ensigne Peirce Gentleman Ambrose Blany Gentleman William Challengwood Gentleman and William his sonne David Draynan Gentleman Andrew Carr Weaver John Lasley Labourer and his wife And this Deponent heard it credibly reported amongst the Rebells at Glaslogh aforesaid That Hugh mac ô Degan mac Guire a priest had done a most meritorious act in the parish of Glanally and County of Fermanagh in drawing betwixt 40 or 50 of the English and Scottish there to reconciliation with the Church of Rome and after giving them the Sacrament demanded of them whether Christs Body was really in the Sacrament or no and they said Yea. And that he demanded of them further Whether they held the Pope to be supreme Head of the Church they likewise answered he was And that thereupon he presently told them they were in a good faith and for fear they should fall from it and turn hereticks he and the rest that were with him cut all their throats And this Deponent further saith That the wife of Master Luke Ward told him That the Rebells had forced her husband to be drunk in drinking of his part of 3s in drink and that they when he was so drunk hanged him And she shewed this Deponent the place where he was executed And saith also That the Rebells pulled up and took away the 〈◊〉 in the Church of Monaghan up to the Quire and carried them â—â— the Goal and made fires with them for the Friers And that the â—…ls did at Glaslock aforesaid burn two or three Bibles or Serâ—â—â— Books And heard them say they would never lay down arms till their Church were put into its due place and that all the plantation lands were given to the right owners and that if they had once gotten the City of Dublin taken they would hold it no rebellion to follow the Kings sword in doing any act they pleased And this Deponent heard Brian ô Hugh Priest to the said Phelim ô Neale say That they had fifteen hundred thousand of the Irish bloud to maintain their wars begun And the said Alexander further deposeth That about the beginning of Feb. last one Ensigne William Pew of Glaslogh in the County of Monaghan being stripped robbed and expulsed by the Rebels was seven times in one day taken up and hanged on a tree and taken down again for dead every time by Patrick Duff Mac Hugh Mac Rosse a Captain of the Rebels near Monaghan which cruelty was practised by the instigation of Patrick Mother mac Wade who had informed that the said William Pew had monies the confession and knowledge whereof was intended to be extracted by the foresaid hard usage Iur. primo Martii 1641. Alexander Creichton Iohn Sterne William Hitchcock The Examination of Roger Holland of Glaslogh in the County of Monaghan THis Examinate duly sworn deposeth inter alia That during his imprisonment he was credibly informed that there were 38 persons men women and children drown'd being thrown over into the river of Corr-bridge in the County of Armagh and also saith That Sir Phelim ô Neale under pretence of sending a Convoy with many of the English of Loghgall and thereabouts the said Convoy did drown at the Bridge of Pontie-Down 68 persons as he is credibly informed And likewise that he did see 14 or 15 kill'd by the Irish as he passed in the country And further saith That Friar Malone when this Examinate arrived at Skerries that his Company shot one shot at the Vessel and that the said Company asked whether we had a Passe or not which we told them we had whereupon they replyed That if we had not we should all suffer But so soon as we shewed them our Passe they made much of us told us that we should take no hurt which they performed the next day being Christmas-day The said Friar took a boat to go to the boat to see whether there were a leak in our Vessell or not and searching for the leak he found some Bibles and other Prayer-Books which said Books he cast into the fire and wished that he had all the Bibles in Christendom and he would serve them all so and demanding of him what was the reason he answered That it was fitting for every man to have the Bible by rote and not to misinstruct them which should have it by rote and the said Roger sitting by