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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

should arrive out of England The popish party among them was so prevalent as that after a most serious consultation and very solemn debate among themselves they returned this answer that they were not able to furnish above 40 l. and part of that was to be brought in in cattell There remained at this time imbarqued within the harbour of Dublin four hundred Irish souldiers ready as was pretended Severall Irish souldiers imbarqued under pretence of being carried into Spain at the very time of the first breaking out of the Rebellion to set sail for Spain under the command of Colonell Iohn Barry who with some other Irish Gentlemen had procured leave from his Majesty to leavie certain numbers of voluntiers to be transported over for the service of the King of Spain And those levied in other parts as well as at Dublin were brought together just at the very time designed for the execution of the great plot The pretence was specious but certainly their intentions how finely soever covered over were to have those men in a readinesse together at the very time appointed for the first breaking out of these unnaturall troubles And as for those men which lay within the Harbour of Dublin they were so great a terrour to all the Protestant inhabitants in the City as it exceedingly perplexed the Lords how to dispose so of them as might prevent the mischief justly feared in case of their landing Their Commanders had so handsomely ordered the matter as though they were designed for a long voyage yet stay on ship-board any longer they could not by reason they had no victuals not even enough to carry them out of the Harbour and no man had order in the absence of Colonell Barry who retired himself some few miles out of the town the very evening before the Castle should have been taken to provide for the further supplying of them To suffer them to land was to adde so many instruments of mischief to those already gathered within and about the City Therefore it was resolved that the Captain of the Kings Pinace then in the Harbour should by force keep them from landing which he did severall dayes together till it was apparent they would inevitably starve if a course were not suddenly taken to afford them some relief Whereupon the Lords having no means to victuall them aboard gave them leave to land having first taken order they should not come into the City The Lords Justices and Councell thought fit within very few dayes after the landing of these men the more to deter them and all other ill-affected persons from repairing to the City of Dublin Several Proclamations issued out by the Lo. Iustices and Councell to issue out a Proclamation for the discovery and present removall of all such as did or should come and continue there without just or necessary cause But so carefull were they in this and all other their actions not to give any distaste to the Irish or other inhabitants of the countrey as they forbear to inflict any punishment upon any that continued in the City contrary to their Proclamation sparing severall persons whom they had not only just cause to be jealous off but who were brought before them and convinced to have uttered speeches clearly discovering their ill affections And having by late Proclamations prorogued the Parliament and adjourned Michaelmas Term that under pretence of repair to either of them unnecessary concourse of strangers might not be brought unto the town they proceeded on to some other Acts which as they conceived would not only render great security to the City but lessen the distempers abroad bring safety to the Pale and keep the dangers at distance and far off from them And for this purpose they being informed that a multitude of the meaner sort of people were ignorantly involved in the guilt of this rebellion and by the wicked seducement of the first Conspirators had been drawn on to dispoile their English neighbours they issued out a Proclamation about the beginning of the moneth of November declaring unto all such as were not Freeholders within the County of Meath Westmeath Lowth and Longford that if they would come in and submit make restitution of the goods so taken they should be received to his Majesties mercy and no further prosecution held against them Much about the time of the sending forth of this Proclamation some of the chief of the Sept of the Relyes A Remonstrance sent up to the Lords Iustices and Councell from the Rebels in the county of Cavan and other prime Gentlemen in the County of Cavan sent up a kinde of Remonstrance to the Lords Justices and Councell Whereunto they returned them a very fair answer assuring them of their readinesse to give them all just redresse of their grievances expressed therein so they would in the mean time retire peaceably to their houses restore as they were able the English mens goods forbear all further acts of rapine and violence And they did presently send over their Remonstrance to the Lord Lieutenant to be presented to his Majestie according to their desires But these wayes of moderation and peaceable perswasions proved of very little effect they had no manner of influence into the resolved mindes of the Leaders or of operation upon the hardned hearts of the people they were too deeply engaged so sleightly to retire They had now drenched themselves in the blood of the English and were greatly enriched with their spoiles It was not possible for them to make restitution and they hoped to go through with the work and by the united power of the Kingdome to draw the whole management of the affairs into their own hands And now likewiise the Lords Justices and Councell that they might shew the great confidence they had in the Lords and chief Gentlemen of the Pale Commissions of martiall law granted unto severall persons by the Lords Iustices and give them both oportunity and means to expresse their loyalty and affections to his Majesties service resolved according as the constitution of their affairs then required to do some such acts as might clearly perswade them of the great trust they really reposed in them And therefore first they gave out severall Commissions of Martiall law for executing without attending a proceeding according to the ordinary course of the Common law of such Traitors and Rebels as should be apprehended doing mischief in any parts of the countrey about them And these they directed to the most active Gentlemen though all Papists inhabiting in the severall Counties As to Henry Talbot in the County of Dublin John Bellew Esq in the county of Lowth Richard Dalton and Iames Tuit Esq in the county of West-Meath Valerian Wesley in the county of Meath Iames Talbot in the County of Cavan Commissions of government of the severall counties within the Pale granted to severall Lords and Gentlemen without distinction of Religion Next they made choice of the

himselfe an estate of good value He the said Thomas Stewart and she this Deponent then possessing that Estate were then at Sligoe aforesaid by Andrew Creane of Sligoe Esquire then high Sheriffe of that County Neile O Hart of Donelly in the said County Gentleman Roger O Conner of Skarden in the same County Gent. Donnell O Conner of _____ Gent. brother in law to Teige O Conner Sligo Richard O Creane of Tirreragh Gent. John O Creane Esqu and a Justice of Peace Son to the said Andrew Creane Anthony Screane of _____ neer Ballyshanny Gent. forcibly deprived robbed and despoiled of their Houshold-goods Wares Merchandize Specialities cattell horses plate money and other goods and chattels of the value of one thousand two hundred pounds Sterl or thereabouts Which robbery and outrage was committed in or about the beginning of December aforesaid at the very time of the Rebels surprizing robbing and pillaging of all the English and Scots of the Towne of Sligoe In the doing whereof not onely the persons Rebels before named but also Teige O Conner Sligo now of the Castle of Sligo general of the Rebels in those parts James French of Sligo aforesaid Esq a Justice of the Peace a notorious and cruell Rebell Brian O Conner of Drumcleere Gent. Captaine Charles O Conner a Fryar and Captaine Hugh O Conner all three Captaines and brothers to the said Teige O Conner Sligo Captain Patrick Plunket neer Killoony in the same County a Justice of the Peace Captaine Phelim O Conner Captaine Teige O Conner of the Glan Captaine Con O Conner of the same and divers others whose names she cannot for the present remember were most forward and cruell actors and those Rebels having altogether deprived and stripped all the British of all their estates they had she this Deponent and her husband and many other British were left in that Towne and amongst the rest there were left there which she can well remember viz. William Braxton the Deponent and her husband and six children James Scot and his sonne of the age of four or five yeers Sampson Port and his wife Mary Port and her father of the age of seventy yeers or thereabouts John Little Arthur Martin William Dowlittle and his wife and children William Carter and John Lewes and Elizabeth his wife Robert Scyens Elizabeth Harlow and one woman then was great with child and within a moneth of her time Isabel Beard who was great with child and very neer her time and others whom she cannot name which British people although they were promised fair quarter and taken into the protection of the said Teige O Conner Sligo who promised them a collection yet they were daily threatned to be murdered if they would not turne Papists in one moneth then the next after which for saving of their lives they were enforced to doe Notwithstanding which about the sixth of January then next following the said O Conner Sligoe having before called a meeting of his followers and kinred in the Counties of Sligoe and Letrim and considered with them and with a Covent of Fryars of the Abby of Sligo for three dayes together where they sate in Counsell all the men women and children of the British that then could be found within the same Towne saving this Deponent who was so sick that she could not stirre were summoned to go into the Goale and as many as could be met withall were carried and put into the Goale of Sligo where about twelve a clock in the night they were stripped stark naked and after most of them were most cruelly and barbarously murdered with swords axes and skeines and particularly by two Butchers named James Buts and Robert Buts of Sligoe who murthered many of them wherein also were actors Charles O Conner the Fryar and Hugh O Conner aforenamed brother to the said Teige O Conner Sligo and Teige O Sheile Kedagh O Hart Labourer Richard Walsh and Thomas Walsh the one the Jaylor the other a Butcher and divers others whom she cannot name And saith that above thirty of the British which were so put into the Goale were then and there murdered besides Robert Gumble then Provost of the said Towne of Sligoe Edward Newsham and Edward Mercer who were wounded and left for dead amongst the rest and Jo. Stewart this Deponents sonne which foure being the next day found alive yet all besmeared with blood were spared to live All which particulars the Deponent was credibly told by those that so escaped and by her Irish servants and others of the Towne and saith that some of the women so murthered being big with child by their wounds received the very arms and legs of the children in their wombs appeared and were thrust out and one woman viz. Isabel Beard being in the house of the Fryars and hearing the lamentable cry that was made ran into the street and was pursued by one of the Fryars men unto the River where she was barbarously murdered and found the next day with the childs feet appearing and thrust out of her wounds in her sides And further saith that on the said sixt day of January there were murdered in the streets of the Towne of Sligo these British Protestants following viz. William Sheiles and John Sheiles his sonne William Mapwell and Robert Akin And the Deponent further saith as she was credibly informed by the persons before named that the inhumane Rebels after their murthers committed in the said Goale laid and placed some of the dead bodies of the naked murdered men upon the naked bodies of the women in a most immodest posture not fit for chaste eares to heare In which posture they continued to be seen the next morning by those Irish of the Towne that came into the said Goale who were delighted and rejoyced in those bloody murthers and uncivill actions And that they of the Irish that came to bury them stood up to the mid-leg in the blood and braines of those that were so murdered who were carried out and cast into a pit digged for that purpose in the Garden of Master Ricrofts Minister of Sligo And she further saith that whereas the River of Sligo was before very plentifull of Fish it did not for a long time after those murders afford any Fish at all And this Deponent saw the Fryars in their white habits in great companies in precession going to sanctifie the water casting thereinto holy water She saith also that the Pryor of the Covent of Sligo after the murder of the said woman in the River fell frantick and ran so about the Streets and continued in that frenzy for three or four weeks and saith that of her six children three were starved and dyed after her release of imprisonment which had been for eigthteen moneths amongst the Rebels Signum predict VVV Janae Stewart alias Menize Jurat 23. Aprilis 1644. Henry Jones Henry Brereton Captaine ANTHONY STRATFORD of Charlmount in the County of Armagh Esquire The Province of Ulster aged