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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23600	A letter to the Right Honorable A. Earl of Essex, from Dublin Declaring the strange obstinacy of papists, (as here, so) in Ireland; who being evidently convict and condemn'd for criminal causes, yet at their death, and upon the gallows, absolutely deny the fact; and the erroneous and impious motives, given by their priests, by which they are deluded to do it.	Essex, Arthur Capel, Earl of, 1631-1683, recipient.	1679 (1679)	Wing L1747A; ESTC R222064	2,123	8

A LETTER To the Right Honorable A. Earl of Essex FROM DUBLIN Declaring the strange Obstinacy of PAPISTS As here so in IRELAND Who being evidently Convict and Condemn'd for Criminal Causes yet at their Death and upon the Gallows absolutely deny the Fact And the erroneous and impious Motives given by their Priests by which they are deluded to do it Joshua VII xix xx My Son give glory to God confess to him and tell me what thou hast done And Achan said Indeed I have sinned c. LONDON Printed by Tho Newcomb 1679. A LETTER To the Right Honorable A. EARL of ESSEX FROM DUBLIN Declaring The strange Obstinacy of PAPISTS as here so in Ireland c. May it please your Lordship ON Sunday last I received yours of February the 25th and have inquired into the Truth of the Story of an Irish Papist Executed in this Countrey who at the Gallows denied the Fact for which he was to suffer but after he had Hanged awhile the Rope by accident breaking and the Malefactor comeing to himself confess'd it to be true The person was one John Curphy a Papist who this Lent Assizes will be Seven years was Tryed before Mr. Baron Hene then His Majesties Serjeant for Burglary in the County of Monaghan and being found Guilty was condemned to dye At the Gallows this Curphy denied the Fact with great Confidence and Asseverations of his Innocency and was turned off the Ladder persisting in his denial but after he had hanged some little space the Rope by chance breaking and he falling down a little stunn'd came again to himself and fell to his prayers thanking God that he had given him time to declare the Truth and not to go out of the World with a Lye in his mouth and then confessed himself Guilty of the Fact for which he was Condemned Afterwards this Curphy was brought back to the Gaol by the Sheriff Mr. Lucas and application made to Baron Hene to Reprieve the Prisoner but he telling the Sheriff that the Judge had done his duty and the Sheriff must do his Curphy was Executed This Account I write from Mr. Baron Hene's own mouth this very morning who perfectly knows this Narrative to be true and was the Person who acquainted your Lordship with it at your first coming into the Government He also tells me that to the best of his remembrance this Curphy owned That the Priest had given him Absolution upon condition not to discover any thing or declare his Accomplices And that he need not doubt his Salvation the Fact not being committed against Gods People meaning as he supposed the Papists or to that effect Lucas the then Sheriff lives in Monaghan and the Records of this Tryal are there wherefore I have waited upon Mr. Justice Johnson who goes that Circuit and left with him a Memorial of these Particulars who will inquire into them and give me an attested Account thereof which when they come to my hands I will transmit to your Lordship Mr. Justice Johnson also told me another Relation something of this nature There was a special Commission lately directed to himself to try several Malefactors for Murthers and Robberies committed in the County of Cavan The Persons Indicted were two of the Duffies and one Plunkett all Irish Papists The Duffies when they were first apprehended Confest that they were Guilty of the Crimes laid to their Charge and gave the same Evidence also against Plunkett at his Tryal upon which with other most undeniable Circumstances Plunkett was Condemned The Duffies were afterwards tryed for the same Facts and Condemned also I should likewise have told your Lordship That Plunkett upon his first Apprehension owned to Sir John Edgworth that he was Guilty After the Sentence was past upon them one Brady a Priest came to these Duffies in Prison and used Arguments to induce them to Recant their Evidence but they persisting in the Truth would not be prevailed upon Mr. Justice Johnson hearing this sent for Brady who upon his Examination could not deny but that he had been with the Duffies to persuade them to Renounce their Testimony against Plunkett Whereupon the Judge Committed him The Conclusion was That one of the Duffies the other being Reprieved suffer'd confessing the Fact and persevering in his Accusation of Plunkett And Plunkett dyed as obstinate on the other side utterly denying that he was Guilty with Curses upon himself and Renunciations of Salvation if he were not innocent I must also crave leave to trouble your Lordship with another Narrative of this sort which I had from Sir Richard Reynell one of the Judges of the Kings Bench. About October last was Twelvemonth there was tryed before him upon a Commission of Oyer and Terminer one Neile-O-Neile an Irish Papist for a Murther committed at Rathdrum in the County of Wicklow This Neile-O-Neile in Prison and at his Tryal owned to several Persons amongst which I hear my Lord of Strafford then in Ireland was one That he was Guilty and was so found by the Jury the Fact being clearly proved against him But at the Gallows he utterly denied it These three Particulars being averr'd to me this very day by the three aforementioned Judges I humbly presume to send them your Lordship as true I fear I have tyred your Lordship with this long Letter but I thought it my Duty to give you the fullest Account I could of your Commands who am Your LORDSHIPS Most Obedient and Faithful Servant Dublin Mar. 5. 1678 9. Postscript It is thought reasonable to suppress the Name of the Person that wrote this Letter for fear of exposing him to danger from the Party concerned in the Information A Postscript in the same Letter My Lord Chief Justice Booth my Lord Chief Baron and the Three Judges named in this Letter all tell me That the Criminals that dye in the Romish Persuasion although apprehended in the very Fact yet never confess for after they have had Absolution from the Priest the Crime is according to their Doctrine totally taken away and it having as it were never been they may with a safe Conscience deny it FINIS