of himself and having gone three quarters of a mile were all three drown'd in a Turfpit Divers Englishmen in the Parish of Levilegish murther'd Mrs. Howard Mrs. Franklan both great with Child and six of their Children murther'd The County of Caterlagh Richard Lake hang'd at Leighlin-bridge 16 more hang'd near that Place two murther'd near Caterlagh two Women hang'd up by the hair of their heads all night the next day being found still alive they were murther'd At or near Leighlin-bridge three Men with their Wives and Children murther'd one Woman and her Daughter murther'd a Woman newly deliver'd of two Children the one of them had his Brains beaten out against the Stones and after thrown into the River Barrow the other destroy'd about 40 English murther'd thereabouts Almost all the English about Gowran and Wells hang'd and murther'd The County of Cavan Many Protestants forced over the Bridge of Belturbet in the County of Cavan and there drown'd Adam Bayly and several others murther'd at Kilkolly in the County of Cavan William Rocket drown'd near Belhorbet Several Scotch Families destroy'd two of the Hovies and Abraham Jones murther'd with several other murthers committed at Butlers-bridge A distracted Gentleman run through with a Pike he laughing the while The County of Clare Christopher Hebditch and sixteen more English Protestants murthred at or near the Castle of Inchecrony The County of Cork Thomas Lencome and his Wife hang'd at their own door John Seller a Miller cut in pieces hard by Ross John Carpenter and his Wife hang'd in Mr. Morgan's Wood and their 3 Children starv'd in the Place Mary Tukesbury hang'd near thereunto Mr. Tamuse a Chirurgion-barber kill'd in the Streets of Ross by one Christopher Cloud The County of Donnegall William Mackenny and his Mother in Law and his Wife great with Child murther'd his said Wife having her belly ripped up and the Child cut out of the Womb. Robert Akins Clerk and thirteen more murther'd at Castledoe Sixty persons that came in Boats from Killala murther'd by the Mac Swines and O Boyles The County of Down Eighty forced to go on the Ice on Logh-earn till they brake the Ice and were drown'd Mr. Tudge the Minister of Newry Lieutenant Trevor and his wife and 24 more some count 50 murther'd and cut in pieces at the Pass of Ballonery Divers murther'd at Castle-Island and Down A Scotchman an Englishman a Welchman imprisoned in the Stocks at Newcastle where they lay without breeches upon raw Hides that their joints rotted insomuch that when two of them were afterwards hang'd one of their feet fell off by the Anckle A Scotchman being driven out of the Newry was knock'd on the head by the Rebels yet recovering himself came naked again into the Town whereupon the Rebels carried him and his wife out of Town cut him all to pieces and with a skein rip'd up his wives belly so as a Child drop'd out of her womb A Dier's wife of Ross-Trevor was kill'd at the Newry and her belly rip'd up by the Rebels she being great with Child of two Children who threw her and her Children into a ditch and that he this Deponent drove away Swine from eating one of her Children The Rebels confessed that Col. Brain O Neil kill'd about 1000 in this County besides 300 kill'd at Killelagh At Servagh-bridge 100 drown'd more 80 more 60 more 50 more 60 27 men murther'd The County of Dublin About the 28th of December 1641 the wife of Joseph Smithson Minister was carried from Deans-grange near Dublin to Stellorgan from thence to Powerscourt and there she and her servant hang'd Henry Maudesley hang'd at Moore-town Mr. Pardoe a Minister and William Rimmer a packet Post murther'd at Balrothery Mr. Pardoe being afterwards cast on a Dunghill and his head eaten with Swine Derrick Hubert of Holm-Patrick Esq murther'd the 2d of December 1641. Nicholas Kendiff murther'd near Dublin since the Cessation Robert Fagan murther'd at Clunduff The County of Fermanagh Arthur Champion and 16 more murther'd at Shanock-Castle at another time 24 at another time two more murther'd One Fermency killed and 14 hanged Seven hang'd at one time and divers others put to death Eighty some write 150 Men Women and Children burn'd and killed in the Castle of Lisgorl in the County of Fermanagh Ninety Protestants murther'd at Moneagh-Castle 80 at Tullagh-Castle near Cordiller three hang'd one more hang'd Mr. Middleton and 100 more murther'd by Rowry Mac-Guire at Castleskeagh Fourteen Protestants hang'd Fourty Protestants in the Parish of Newtown murther'd Eighteen some write seventeen half hang'd in the Church of Clownish and so buried Thirty murther'd in the Parish of Clankelly Twelve more murther'd in Newtown William Ogden murther'd Parson Flack and 40 more after promise of safe conveyance to Balgshanon drown'd by Rowry Mac-Guire and his Confederates One hundred fifty and two another says 100 murther'd at Tully after quarter given or promised them Fifteen hang'd at Lowtherstown two murther'd at Kynally A Child of Thomas Strattons of Newton boild to death in a Chaldron The County of Gallway Mr. Adam Novell and six more hang'd and murther'd by the Lord of Clanmorris Hugh Langridge murther'd near Loghreoge having received near sixteen wounds and his Son having nine wounds and left for dead yet recovered Mr. Corbet an ancient Minister had his head cut off by two young Cowheards near Loghreogh The Son of an Englishman murther'd a Child so beaten as he died within three days Sixty five Protestants some say eighty some ninety many of them Ministers were murther'd at the Bridge of Shreel aliàs Shruel Ludovicus Jones being amongst the rest hurried there to that intent but escaped and died at Dublin 1646. aged 104. The County of Kerry Mrs. Whittell her husband and eight more murther'd on Sir Brown's Lands John and Simon Heard killed near Castlehaven Goodman Cranbee his wife and children murther'd seven drown'd by Doinfaint's Rebels Field's wife and seven more destroy'd by Sir Brown's Tenants Mrs. Burrill kill'd in her house by her own Servant Laurence Parry his two Sisters and Mr. Edward Lassell starv'd to death Mrs. Hussie her son and daughter and many more killed going from Macrone to Cork with a Convoy which the Lord Muskerry did allow her within a mile of Cork The County of Kildare Ralph Heyward having turn'd to Mass was murther'd his wife and children hang'd the one at her neck the other at her girdle a Dog and a Cat hang'd with them Robert Woods shot to death John Morley his wife and children and one John Plivie after they were turn'd to Mass murther'd The County of Kilkenny About the 20th of December 1641. the Protestants were stripped naked at Kilkenny and whereas some of those
the State First they agreed That their Loyalty to his Majesty should be still reserv'd say they of the modest sort but both his Revenues and Government must be reduc'd to certain bounds His Rents none other than the antient Reservations before the Plantations and the Customs so order'd as to them should be thought fitting Secondly For the Government such as would be esteem'd Loyal would have it committed into the hands of two Lords Justices one of the antient Irish Race the other of the antient British Inhabitants in the Kingdom provided that they be of the Romish Profession Thirdly That a Parliament be forthwith call'd consisting of whom they shall think fit to be admitted wherein their own Religious Men shall be Assistants Fourthly That Poining's Act must be repeal'd and Ireland declar'd to be a Kingdom independent on England and without any reference to it in any case whatsoever Fifthly All Acts prejudicial to the Romish Religion shall be abolish'd and it to be Enacted That there be none other Profession in the Kingdom but the Romish Sixthly That onely the antient Nobility of the Kingdom shall stand and of them such as shall refuse to conform to the Romish Religion to be remov'd and others put in their room Howsoever the present Earl of Kildare must be put out and another put in his place Seventhly All Plantation Lands to be recall'd and the antient Proprietors to be invested into their former Estates with the Limitations in their Covenant express'd That they had not formerly sold their Interests on valuable Considerations Eighthly That the respective Counties of the Kingdom be subdivided and certain Bounds or Baronies assign'd to the Chief Septs and other of the Nobility who are to be answerable for the Government thereof and that a standing Army may be still in being the respective Governours are to keep a certain number of men to be ready at all Risings out as they term it they also being to build and maintain certain Fortresses in places most convenient within their Precincts And that these Governours be of absolute Power onely responsible to the Parliament Lastly For maintaining a Correspondency with other Nations and for securing the Coasts that also they may be render'd considerable to others a Navy of a certain number of Ships is to be maintain'd that to this end five Houses are to be appointed one in each Province accounting Meath for one of them that to these Houses shall be allotted an Annual Pension of certain thousands of Pounds to be made up of part of the Lands appropriate to Abbeys and a further Contribution to be rais'd in the respective Provinces to that end That these Houses are to be assign'd to a certain order of Knights answerable to that of Malta who are to be Sea-men And to maintain this Fleet that all Prizes are to be apportion'd some part for a Common Bank the rest to be divided to which purpose the selling of Woods serviceable for this use is forbidden The House for this purpose to be assign'd to the Province of Leimster is Kilmainham or rather Howth the Lord of Howth being otherwise to be accommodated provided he joyn with them that place being esteem'd most convenient in respect of situation which they have small grounds to hope for For the effecting of which they consider'd that the Forces of the Kingdom would easily amount to two hundred thousand able men wanting onely Commanders which as I have already took notice of might be supplied from O-Neals Regiment in Flanders and other places breeding up the Irish in Arms and Rebellion And for Money the other Sinew of War they were resolv'd not to want it if it could be rais'd-either from Tenant or the Farmers of the Customs who having it then ready were to bring it to their respective Banks So as nothing was omitted which rationally might further their design Which after the State by Proclamation had made known and many on suspicion were daily seiz'd on Certainties of its success were hourly brought to the State That night the Lord Blany brought the ill news of the Rebels seising upon Castle Blany in the County of Monaghan and his Wife and Children and Servants as also of the surprisal of Carrick Mac-ross a House of the Earl of Essex's and Sir Spotswood's in the same County burning divers Villages robbing and spoiling many English none but Protestants On Sunday Sir Arthur Tirringham gave intelligence that the Irish in Newry had broken up the King's Store of Arms and had seiz'd upon them and the Ammunition there listing themselves under the command of Sir Con Mac-Gennis Knight and one Creely a Monk Thus almost every hour some like Job's Messengers hasted to the State as preserv'd onely to acquaint them of the disasters of their Relations and the sufferings of the Protestants of which with all circumstances to it the Lords Justices and Council gave his Majesty an account by Sir Henry Spotswood being then in Scotland and sent Owen O Conally with Letters dated the 25th of October to the Earl of Leicester Lord Lieutenant of Ireland the effect of which Letter you may see in its proper place In the interim the State being from all parts terrifi'd with the insolencies of the Rebels they scarce knew how to steer their course no Money being in the Treasury and the main part of the Citizens being justly suspected for that being mov'd to advance Money on the occasion will Posterity believe it their whole Community would not reach 50 l. And such as had escaped the violence of the Rebels having nothing but their Persons for a prey could contribute little many of which were so frighted with what they had seen and suffered that like inanimate Bodies they appear'd sensless and stupid However the Lords Justices and Council having secur'd the Castle by a Company of Foot under the command of Sir Francis Willoughby one of the Privy Council a known and experienc'd Soldier and setled Sir Charles Coote also of the Privy Council in the Government of the City wherein as in other Services he proved afterwards signally eminent and noble They advertis'd the Earl of Ormond whom the Rebels boasted they had made of their Party then at his House at Carrick of what had hitherto happen'd desiring him to repair to Dublin with his Troop which he accordingly observ'd about the beginning of November About the 27th of October the Lords Justices and Council sent Commissions to the Lords Viscounts of Clandeboys and of the Ardes to raise the Scots in the Northern Parts they also writ to Sir William and Sir Robert Stewart with other Gentlemen of Quality in the North Giving them power to prosecute the Rebels with Fire and Sword yet so as to rescue such as should submit to his Majesties Grace and Mercy signifying withall That although by the said Commission they gave them full power thereunto yet they did then let them know that for those who were chief among the Rebels and Ring-Leaders of the
denying it to the last with more sense of conscience saith his Majesty in his Answer to the Parliament's two last Papers concerning Ireland than they who examined him expected However one Plunket having taken an old Broad Seal from an absolete Patent out of Farnham-Abbey and fixed it to a forged Commission it to seduce the Vulgar into an opinion of their Loyalty when they had first incited them to a Rebellion as in a parallel Case his Excellency takes notice of in his Answer to their Declaration at James-town And saith his Majesty in his Declaration to the Parliament's Answer at Newmarket the 9th of March 1641. We must think our self highly and causlesly injured in our Reputation if any Declaration Action or Expression of the Irish Rebels any Letter from Count Rosettie to the Papists for Fasting and Prayer or from Tristram Whitcombe of strange Speeches utter'd in Ireland shall beget any jealousie or mis-apprehension in our Subjects of our Justice Piety and Affection it being evident to all understandings that those mischievous and wicked Rebels are not so capable of great advantage as by having their false Discourses so far believed as to raise fears and jealousies to the distraction of this Kingdom the only way to their security Wherefore the Lords Justices and Councel detesting such Umbrages the 30th of October publisht a Proclamation to take off the people from being seduced by seditious and scandalous reports father'd on the Crown And that none ignorantly involv'd in so detestable a Guilt as the publick Conspiracy might suffer the State yet further to manifest their desire of reducing all into a general obedience having never drawn his Majesty's Sword upon jealousies or presumptions till the highest Extremities and unparallel'd Outrages compell'd them thereunto publisht the first of November a Proclamation declaring That all in the Counties of Meath Westmeath Lowth and Longford being no Free-holders nor now in prison who had taken any Goods from his Majesty's faithful Subjects not having shed blood in the Action and came in within ten days after this Proclamation should be receiv'd to his Majesty's mercy and no further prosecuted Which as others of the like nature little prevail'd to un-deceive the Rebels they being before link'd in an un-dissolvible tye of Animosity and Superstition Thus every day notwithstanding that the Conspiracy was discovered and all endeavours used to reclaim them the Irish proceeded in their Massacres and Rebellion though they did not after the knowledge of the detection of their Plot execute so generally their Villany with such open slaughters and cruelties as they did at first but stripping wounding and turning the English and Protestants out of their Houses they sent them naked and desolate in miserable weather to Dublin where their numbers at length grew so burdensom as though Thousands were ship'd away soon after they arriv'd there and such as could serve in the Army were daily in-listed yet they brought so great an extremity and want of all provisions to Dublin as the Inhabitants were reduced to great exigencies inasmuch as the mercies of the Rebels were extream cruelty Thousands of the dispoiled English dying afterwards by lingring Diseases contracted by the inhumane and cruel usage of their Enemies Miseries still increasing the Lords Justices and Councel sent a second Dispatch to the King the 5th of November then in Scotland directing also their Letters to his Privy Councel in England there being an absolute necessity to invoke all Powers that might stand with his Majesty's Honour They then and not before directed Letters to the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament inclosing in those they writ to his Majesty what they had signified by Letters to the Lords of the Councel or to the Speakers of both Houses of Parliament About the 6th of November 1641. the Rebels of Cavan commanded by Philip Mac-Hugh Mac-Shane O Relie Knight of the Shire for that County and others of the Sept of O Relies proffer'd an humble Remonstrance so they entituled their presumptuous Paper to the Lords Justices and Council to be recommended by them to his Majesty which Dr. Jones and Mr. Waldrone then delivered to their Lordships the Doctor being obliged to that service He his Wife and Children lying at the Rebels mercy To which their Lordships answered with all the moderation and satisfaction that could stand with their Duty and the weak conditions of affairs in Dublin the safety whereof wholly depended on the gaining of time and saith my Author he assur'd himself the Remonstrants expected not any other Answer the Remonstrance being tendred rather to win upon the People whose cause they pleaded then to give any reasonable account or satisfaction to the Lords concerning their proceedings which yet their Lordships forthwith certifi'd with their Answer to the Lord Lieutenant to whom his Majesty had expresly commanded all Affairs of Ireland should be address'd However they during the presenting of this Remonstrance mustered their Forces summoning all from 16 to 60 years of Age to appear the Munday following at Virginia a Place distant from Cavan twelve miles and in the way to Dublin notwithstanding that they had impower'd Dr. Jones to assure their Lordships That their should be a cessation of all things until the return of their Lordships Answer Thus no faith or confidence could ever be reposed in them And afterwards it fell out that none were more treacherous and fierce than they as great inhumanity and cruelty being acted by them of Cavan as of any other Place that County by the 11th of December being wholly reduc'd into the hands of the Rebels excepting the two Castles of Keilagh and Crohan belonging to Sir Francis Hamilton Knight and Baronet and Sir James Craig Knight who so nobly defended each their own and alternatively succoured one another that they perpetually furnish'd the Rebels with work sufficient notwithstanding whatsoever Mulmore O Relie the Sheriff or Edmond O Relie his Father or Philip Mac-Hugh O Relie their chief Commander could possibly do with all their Horsemen whom these gallant men often beat though encounter'd with much disadvantage Sir Francis Hamilton not losing in the whole Service from the 23d of October 1641. to the 15th of June 1642. setting aside such as were cut off in stragling more than five men belonging to this Castle one of them being a Serjeant who being taken at an advantage was barbarously mangled with thirty six wounds so that all that the Rebels could do effected no Conquest on these Places till the 8th of April 1642. that Sir James Craig a Gentleman of singular and the best abilities died and the Store in both Castles fell short Water growing scarce a mortal infectious sickness increasing the Rebels having tainted their Well with dead Carcases And now the care of both Castles fell unto Sir Hamilton's Charge which being impossible to be relieved from Dublin or to hold out longer their straits daily increasing both these Castles were delivered up the 4th of
many other testimonies of their Conjunctions that which is confirm'd by a very credible Person of Colonel Richard Plunket of Dunsaghly in the County of Dublin within the Pale one destin'd for the taking of the Castle of Dublin who affirm'd openly That he had a Contract under the hands of all the Lords of Ireland that were Catholicks to stand firm in this Insurrection most of their actions confirming his words And Relie's Wife told James Talbot a Person of eminent note amongst them That if those of the Pale would have let them alone and not set them on work they were so well at ease as they would never have begun that troublesome task Upon which it is evident though Some would insinuate the contrary that both the old Irish and old English what ends they would severally pretend to have centred in the destruction of the Protestants and that the old English Papists were a little backwarder than the Irish was in that they had something more to loose than the other and so would put them first upon the work wherein themselves were equally engag'd Which the Lords Justices and Councel perceiving writ the 3d. of Decemb to the Earl of Fingal the Lord Viscount Gormanston and the rest of the Lords of the Pale To come to Dublin and consult for the safety of the Kingdom Luke Nettervile and others having caus'd Proclamation to be made at Lusk twelve miles from Dublin that all the Gentry of the County should upon pain of death meet within three or four days at Swoards within six miles of Dublin which accordingly they did constituting Captains Richard Golding Thomas Russel Francis Russel Robert Travers Christopher Hollywood and other Commanders their Militia amounting on that short warning to 1200. which would have been impossible to have rais'd had they not before been Armed and instigated to that Cause Upon which these Lords of the Pale Conspirators with the first return'd to the Lords Justices the 7th of Decemb. this Answer receiv'd the 11th May it please your Lordships WE have received your Letters of the 3d. instant intimating that you had present occasions to confer with us concerning the present state of the Kingdom and the safety thereof in these times of danger and requiring us to be with you there on the 8th of this instant We give your Lordships to understand that we have heretofore presented our selves before your Lordships and freely offered our advice and furtherance towards the particulars aforesaid which was by you neglected which gave us cause to conceive that our Loyalty was suspected by you We give your Lordships further to understand that we have receiv'd certain advertisement that Sir Charles Coote Knight at the Council-board hath offered some speeches tending to a purpose and resolution to execute upon those of our Religion a general Massacre by which we are all deterr'd to wait on your Lordships not having any security for our safety from those threatned evils or the safety of our lives but do rather think it fit to stand upon our best guard until we hear from your Lordships how we shall be secur'd from those perils Nevertheless we all protest that we are and will continue faithful advisers and resolute furtherers of his Majesties Service concerning the present state of this Kingdom and the safety thereof to our best abilities And so with the said tender of our humble service we remain Your Lordships humble Servants Fingall Gormanston Slane Dunsany Nettervile Oliver Lowth Trimblestone And Luke Nettervile Esq George Blackney of Rickenhore Esq George King of Clantarfe Gent. and others met at Swoards being charged on their Allegiance the 9th of Decemb. immediately on sight of the Lords Justices Warrant to separate and not to unite any more in that manner without direction from the State They instead of obedience to the States command return'd this answer That they were constrain'd to meet there together for the safety of their lives That they were put into so great a terror by the rising out of some Horse-Troops and Foot-Companies at Dublin who kill'd four Catholicks for no other reason than that they bore the name of that Religion as they durst not as they pretended stay in their houses and therefore resolved to continue together till they were assured by their Lordships of the safety of their Lives before they ran the hazard thereof by manifesting their obedience due unto their Lordships Upon which the Lords Justices and Council publish'd a Proclamation the 13th of Decemb. to satisfie the world of the innocency of the State from the guilt of any mans blood and concerning the four they alledg'd were kill'd as Papists they were such as were found faulty in rebellious actions of which one was a Protestant Commanding them furthermore on the allegiance to his Majesty to separate upon the sight of their Warrant and that Luke Nettervile and his Accomplices should appear before the State on the eighteenth of the said month to the end they may be fully heard by the State To which end the Lords Justices and Council thereby gave them and every of them the word of the State that they might then securely and safely repair thither without danger of any trouble or stay whatsoever And that the Lords of the Pale might not be less satisfi'd in what they objected the same day also the Lords Justices and Council publish'd a Proclmation and sent it to those Noblemen positively affirming That the Lords Justices and Council did never hear Sir Charles Coote or any other utter at the Council-board or else-where any speeches tending to a purpose or resolution to execute on those of their Profession or any other a general Massacre nor was it ever in their thoughts to dishonour his Majesty or the State by so odious impious and detestable a thing giving them assurance of their safety if they would repair thither the 17th of that Month. Yet notwithstanding these Condescensions or whatsoever else the State could do whereby the doubts of those men might be remov'd and their security ascertain'd still the Torrent of the Pale ran to make up the intended Deluge despising whatsoever security or faith the State was pleased to promise them Whereupon the Lords Justices and Council were enforc'd to send this Warrant to the Earl of Ormond and Ossory to send out a Party of Soldiers Horse and Foot against those that dar'd so impudently to affront them By the Lords Justices and Council William Parsons John Borlase FOrasmuch as divers of the Inhabitants of Clantarfe Rhaheny and Kilbarrock have declared themselves Rebels and having robb'd and spoil'd some of his Majesties good Subjects are now assembled thereabouts in Arms in great numbers mustering and training of their rebellious Multitudes to the terrour and danger of his Majesties good Subjects as well at Land as at Sea which their boldness is acted in such manner as to put scorn and affronts upon this State and Government they acting such depredations even before
one Body under the style of the Confederate Roman Catholicks of Ireland binding themselves also in that Confederacy by the following Oath of Association I A. B. do in the presence of Almighty God and all the Saints and Angels in Heaven promise vow swear and protest to maintain and defend as far as I may with my Life Power and Estate the publick and free exercise of the true and Roman Catholick Religion against all Persons that shall oppose the same I further swear that I will bear Faith and Allegiance to our Soveraign Lord King Charles his Heirs and Successors and that I will defend Him and Them as far as I may with my Life Power and Estate against all such Persons as shall attempt any thing against their Royal Persons Honours Estates and Dignities and against all such as shall directly or indirectly endeavour to suppress their Royal Prerogatives or do any Act or Acts contrary to Regal Government as also the Power and Priviledges of Parliament the lawful Rights and Priviledges of the Subjects and every Person that makes this Vow Oath and Protestation in whatsoever he shall do in the lawful pursuance of the same And to my Power as far as I may I will oppose and by all means and ways endeavour to bring to condign punishment even to the loss of Life Liberty and Estate all such as shall either by Force Practice Counsels Plots Conspiracies or otherwise do or attempt any thing to the contrary of any Article Clause or any thing in this present Vow Oath or Protestation contain'd So God help me This is the Oath the Confederates thought so loyal so worthy their owning whereas never any thing was more pernicious more destructive to his Majesty and his Protestant Subjects the close of it after all their insinuating and fair pretensions of Faith and Allegiance to their Soveraign his Heirs and lawful Successors vowing to bring to condign punishment all that should attempt any thing to the contrary of any Article therein whereas the first thing they insist on in this Vow is the free exercise of the Catholick Roman Religion which if the King shall not admit of He is by the issue of this Vow and Protestation to be oppos'd all being to be oppos'd that shall be against do or attempt any thing to the contrary of any Article Clause or any thing in this present Vow Oath or Protestation contain'd And if in a more favourable sence this were not as to his Majesty to be so interpreted yet his Protestant Subjects were doubtless to be fallen upon with fire and sword resisting the Ends the Rebels propos'd to themselves by this Oath and without which no Peace was to be accepted How loyal and acceptable this could be to a Protestant Prince who in testimony of his Faith laid down his life is legible without Spectacles so that in conclusion this Oath could really deceive none but those who seeing will not see and hearing will not understand Thus their strength notwithstanding whatsoever his Majesty had propos'd in his Proclamation by endeavouring to break it was united their Armies were now formed the most considerable Persons amongst them had openly declared themselves and the meanest of their Souldiers were flesht in the slaughter of the English they had likewise almost all their Goods in their possession and the strongest Places of the Kingdom with the whole Countrey at their Devotion so as they now counted themselves powerful enough to go through with the Work and resolv'd to expel all the British and Protestants out of the Kingdom to make themselves absolute Masters or there to die ingloriously as Traitors and Murtherers which is fallen to their lot for few of those inhumane Butchers have come with dry throats to their Graves there being no more ordinary dispensation to be observ'd in the Revolutions of things here below than returns of blood for blood their blood being violently to be poured forth who have maliciously contrived or wantonly delighted in the slaughter of others which will appear by the sequel of the Story Though the Polititian's Catechism a Piece of as much Venom as Art or Malice can connect would insinuate that the Murthers and Massacres done in Ireland by Protestants far exceeded without comparison those committed by Catholicks as well in respect of brutishness as numerousness I may admit that many things contrary to the Law of Arms and Christianity during the Rebellion were severely committed by the English But then it must be considered That whatsoever was rashly done by them was either acted in open Hostility or had the anguish and memory of former Villanies first commenc'd on their Relations Friends or Countreymen without the least provocation for their ground instigating them thereunto Inasmuch as Mulmore O-Relie O-Sule-van and others being at a Meeting at London immediately after the King 's happy Restauration a Colonel a Person of great Ingenuity and exemplary Vertue who had serv'd faithfully against the Irish coming into their company was acquainted by them that they were met together to draw up a Remonstrance of the Cruelties the English Army had offer'd to the Irish which say they indeed nothing concern'd him he having been a noble and generous Enemy Upon which he advis'd them to desist in that they might be certain to have an Answer much to their dis-advantage considering that if any Violencies or Irregularities were offer'd they might thank themselves in respect that after Castles or any Places were delivered up upon Composition it was a usual Custom with them to spoil the Meal and Food which they should have left entire and to have wet the Powder as also to have made the Guns un-serviceable all which were violations of Articles no ways justifiable and might require a severe return Upon which they being confounded this worthy Person heard no more of their Design And for what the Polititian's Catechism would infer from a Daughter of O-Hara an Irish Lord being barbarously murther'd as a President for what succeeded it is evident that the Rebellion commenc'd in blood Rowry Mac-Guire that day in which the Rebellion began hanging not less than 18 Persons in the Church of Clownish and afterwards burnt it several other Examples may be produc'd of the same nature And for what this insolent Assertor braves the World with from the Irish Remonstance offer'd by Viscount Preston and Sir Robert Talbot the 17th of March 1642. That they desired the Murtherers on both sides should be punished is mention'd but for a flourish those Testimones of their Cruelties being given in upon Oath in several Remonstrances which must remain an evidence to posterity of their Villany what-ever R. S. in his Collections of Murthers would by way of Recrimination charge the English with Inasmuch as what Cruelties he affirms to be acted after protection had been given and Articles at this or that Place allowed will be found upon due enquiry which they durst never stand to to be raised on breach of Faith
Defeat at Rathmines relieved Sir Charles Coot in London-derry and thereby kept the King from being entirely possessed of the Province of Ulster which but for that Action would have been able to have sent strong Supplies of Men and Provisions to the assistance of the Marquess And it is well known that while the Lord Lieutenant was in a hopeful condition to prevail against the Parliament the Commissioners of Trust and the principal Persons of Interest had no mind to agree with General O Neal out of animosity to his Person and Parts and in confidence that the Work would be done without him And others who were of his Party had as little mind that he should be drawn into a Conjunction with the Marquess because they knew if he was once engaged under him they should no more be able to seduce him to joyn with them in any Actions of Sedition And upon these Reasons the Persons who were deputed by the Commissioners to treat with him and were known to have an Interest in him on the one side perswaded Owen O Neal that the Lord Lieutenant had broken the Articles of Peace and that he could have no security that what should be promised should be performed to him and on the other side informed the Marquess that Owen O Neal insisted on such extravagant Propositions that the Commissioners of Trust would never yield to them But after the Arrival of Cromwel his success against Tredagh the Commissioners of Trust thought it high time to unite to him And Owen O Neal himself discerned how unsafe he should be by the prevailing of the English Party who notwithstanding the signal Service perform'd by him to them had publickly dis-avowed the Agreement which their Officers had made with him And thereupon by the Interposition of Colonel Daniel O Neal at that time Governour of Trim all Particulars were agreed betwixt the Lord Lieutenant and him the 12th of October 1649. with the Consent of the Commissioners of Trust the management of which was committed to Sir Nicholas Plunket Knight and Sir Richard Barnwel Baronet authoriz'd by the Lord Lieutenant to conclude with General Owen O Neal for whom there was the Bishop of Clogher and Tirlagh O Boyle who agreed in 18 Articles about the time Cromwel was before Wexford Insomuch that he promised to bring his Army within a few days and joyn with the Lord Lieutenant which though himself lived not to accomplish dying at Cloughoter-Castle in the County of Cavan about the beginning of December was shortly after performed So that about the time that Wexford was taken the Lord Lieutenant was not without hope by the advantage of a Pass and by cutting off his Provisions to have made Cromwel return to Dublin very hard without losing a good part of his Army when on a sudden and all together all the considerable Places in the Province of Munster as Cork Toughal Kinsale Bandonbridge Moyallo and other Garrisons revolted to the Parliament and thereby gave them a safe Retreat and free Passage and necessary Provisions of all that they wanted and Harbours for Ships to bring all to them that they could desire The Lord Inchiquin being so totally betrayed by those Officers whom he trusted most and had most obliged and that after he had in vain tryed to reduce them by force he could not without much difficulty obtain the liberty and re-delivery of his Wife and Children to him which when he had procur'd he fled for safety into Thomond to his Kindred This Defection in so fatal a Juncture of time when the straits Cromwel was in by the Winter and want of Provisions had rais'd the Spirits of all Men and when they looked upon themselves as like to have at least some hopeful Encounter with him was not a loss or a blow but a dissolution of the whole Frame of their Hopes and Designs and introduced a Spirit of Jealousie and Animosity in the Army which no Dexterity or Interest of the Lord Lieutenant could extinguish or allay From the first hour of the Peace the English and Irish had not been without that prejudice towards each other as gave the Marquess much trouble and they were rather incorporated by their obedience and submission to the Authority and Pleasure of their chief Commander than united by the same Inclinations and Affections to any publick End Insomuch as before the Defeat at Rathmines there were many of the Irish who much fear'd the swift success of the Army and apprehended the Lord Lieutenant's speedy reducing of Dublin would give him such Power and make him more absolute than they desired to see him and therefore were not sorry for that Mischief On the other side the English were much troubled to see the Authority and Jurisdiction of the Marquess so restrain'd and limited by the Articles and that the Army was neither recruited disciplined nor provided as it ought to be solely by his want of Power and they had a very low opinion of the Spirit and Courage of the Irish. But now upon this Defection in Munster there was a Determination of all Confidence and Trust in each other the Irish declaring That they suspected all the English Nation and made the Treachery of those who so infamously had betrayed their Trust an unreasonable Argument for jealousie of those who remain'd in the Army who being a handful of gallant Men and of most un-shaken Fidelity to the King were indeed in respect of their Courage and Experience in the War the Party to be principally depended upon in any Action or Encounter and of which the Enemy had only an apprehension Though the Season of the year for it was now towards the end of November and the Sickness that was in Cromwel's Army made it high time to betake themselves to their Winter-Quarters and such was their resolution yet hearing of the gaining of Carrick and of the present Distemper amongst those who had the whole Strength the Lord Lieutenant was to trust to and knowing all the Clergy had the full Dominion in all incorporate Towns and Places of Importance and would keep the People from submitting to those Expedients which could only preserve them he resolv'd to make an Attempt with his Army consisting of about 2000 Horse and 5000 Foot upon Waterford hoping to reduce that important Place before the Army should draw into Winter-Quarters knowing well enough that the Marquess could not keep the small Body he had together many days which was true For he having not Money to give them half a Weeks Pay or Provision to serve half so long was compelled to suffer part of them viz. the Scots to go to their Quarters who upon the Plains of Lisnegarvy being joyn'd with Sir George Monro to relieve Carickfergus were upon the 6th of December met with by Sir Charles Coot who gave them such a blow as they were afterwards never able to make head in Ulster However the Marquess was resolv'd not to leave Waterford to the
and Cruelty unmeasurably sinful and detestable But I fear I have been too long and too troublesome both to you and my self I will conclude It is well known how the loud cry of innocent Blood of many thousands of Christians ascending up to Heaven and the devout and fervent prayers of many of Gods dear Saints and Servants have solicited the Throne of Justice that this happy and blessed day might come wherein Justice might impartially be executed against those Murderers whose cruelties have made this Land a Field of Blood And now since the high and righteous Providence of God by those many and signal Victories given to the Arms and Forces of Ireland hath sent down from Heaven this day of Justice unto us in this Land we ought to return him all praise and thankfulness for this unspeakable mercy And since the trust of this great work by the same Providence is committed unto us let us stir up his Grace within us and faithfulness of our minds and Souls to the faithful discharge and execution of this great trust Sedes Judicanda est quasi Thronus Dei saith old Bracton that learned Chief Justice in Henry the Thirds time I well remember and have often thought upon the counsel of Jethro to Moses Exod. 18. 2. Thou shalt provide thee out of all thy people able men such as fear God men of truth hating covetousness and set them to judge the people Whereupon Moses having constituted Judges over the People gave them this charge viz. Hear the causes between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him Ye shall not respect persons in judgment but ye shall hear the small as well as the great Ye shall not be afraid of the face of man for the judgment is Gods Deut. 16. 17. Give me leave likewise to mind you of Jehosaphat's charge to the Judges 2 Chron. 19. 6 7 9 11. Take heed what you do for you judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in judgment Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts This shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully with a perfect heart and shall judge the cause that shall come before you between blood and blood c. Deal couragiously and the Lord shall be with you There is also an excellent Rule for Judicature put in the case of the Gibeonites abuse of the Levites Wife Judg. 19. 30. the Crime was horrid the Case extraordinary There was never such a deed done or seen before in Israel the Tribes were moved at it and upon the Assembly the Rule is given viz. Consider of it take advice and speak your minds This certainly is an excellent Rule of Judicature viz. first 1. Consider of it consider well the Case and consider all the Circumstances of it beware that no guilty person escape nor innocent person be condemned For he that justifieth the wicked and condemneth the just even they both are an abomination to the Lord Prov. 17. 15. 2. Take advice and consult with others Lean not to thine own understanding saith the wise Solomon Prov. 4. 5. In the multitude of Counsellors there is safety Be not rash nor sudden or hasty to give judgment Qui festinat ad judicium proper at ad poenitentiam Prov. 11. 14. And therefore right grave and ponderous are the Entries of the Judgments in the Common Law scil Quibus lectis auditis per justiciarios his plenius intellectis matura deliberatione me praehabita c. adjudicatur c. When we have patiently heard and fully understood the Parties and Proofs the Witness and whole Case and have search'd into all the Parts and Circumstances of it and when we have advisedly considered debated and consulted of it and taken mature deliberation thereupon then according to the charge of Jehosaphat Let us deal couragiously give Sentence and fear not the face of man for God is with us It is no less impiety to absolve the Guilty than to condemn the Innocent Thus Sir Gerrard Lowther Chief Justice of the Common Pleas one principally imployed in the weightiest Affairs at Oxford and Westminster by the Marquess of Ormond with his Majesties Approbation that it cannot be said we have here presented you with the froth of a Fanatick or one less interressed in the State then one to whom the greatest Concerns thereof had been frequently communicated Yet because his Speech being spoke at the opening of the High Court of Justice may be thought Apocryphal and so not to be admitted for Doctrine yet may be read for instruction of Manners we shall soon present you with some thing Orthodox Many at Kilkenny Waterford Cork Dublin and other Places underwent the Censure of the High Court of Justice though the number of those that suffered exceeded not 200. for that the Sword Plague Famine and Banishment had swept away vast numbers amongst whom one Tool a notable Incendiary of Wicklow was one against whom Edmund Reily the Irish Priest and Vicar-General afterwards Archbishop of Ardmagh appearing in 1653. as a Witness was there accused for the chief Author of surprizing and burning in Cessation time the black Castle of Wicklow and consequently too of murthering of all those were in it upon which he was seized and committed Yet for his service in betraying the Royal Camp at Rathmines suffered no further punishment In distributing of Lands a course was thought of how the English might enjoy them freely without disturbance of the Irish for the future ever ready to fall upon them and therefore many of the Natives were transplanted into Connaght and according to the Extenuation of their Crimes had more or less Land allotted them which they enjoyed freely and in several respects was a great conveniency to them and not less security to the English They being now in a Body might be better watched then several where they would have been sure on every opportunity to have disturb'd the Peace One of the last Commanders amongst the Irish which bore up against the Parliament was Moitogh O Brian who being at last forced into his Fastnesses obtain'd in March 1653. the usual Articles of Transportation By the favour of which not less then 27000 Men had that year been sent away so as through the numbers that had been killed died of the Plague Famine and had been Transported the scarcity of People was very considerable To supply which Fleetwood writ that several Colonies might be sent over offering very good Conditions to such Families that would Transport themselves whereupon great numbers of all sorts of Sex flocked into Ireland which Fleetwood much indulging Cromwel thought requisite for the greater strengthening of his own Party to make his Son Harry Lord Deputy which he did in 1655. and soon after Lord Lieutenant a
as near as I can suitable to what their necessities may require and the Condition and State of Affairs under my charge can admit as either by continuing them or so many of them in Town as shall be thought fit or for those of that condition that do go out by allotting for them some places near hand such as may by industry and care of any Friends in their behalfs be in most respects equal to what benefits they have in Town or at least contribute competently towards their livelihood and subsistence at present until either the state of our Affairs or frame of their Spirits be known to be altered as may admit their return or a further provision for them Given at Waterford March 1650. H. IRETON Fol. 316. l. 23. Consideration No mention yet of the King He was not to be named though there were but few that saw Him not at a distance improving each Gale to further his Return in as much as they continued till May 1660. then readily accepting of the Kings Declaration from Breda Fol. 319. l. 34. Eminent Sufferings for regulating of whose Interests a Court of Claims was afterwards instituted wherein if the exact Method and Institution ordered by his Majesties Commission grounded on the Act of Settlement were not regularly persued It 's agreed on by All that the Commissioners were no losers by their Imployment And that the house of Commons who knew best their own sense of so important an Act might have no excentrical proceedings thereupon they presented to his Grace an Instrument with Rules and Directions for the Commissioners proceedings That discovering a Cloud through the Interposition of some Malevolent Planet it might remain whether persued or no as a Record of their Endeavours That the hard Fate and Ruine of an English Interest in Ireland might not bear date under the best of Kings under so vigilant a Lord Lieutenant under the first and if not prevented like to be the last Protestant Parliament there Which Instrument hath since magnified that house justly sensible of intervening Evils TO THE READER Reader IN the Preceding History we cursorily mention'd the execrable Barbarisms the Irish committed in their Insurrection briefly reflected on in The Remonstrance of the Clergy to the House of Commons in England 1642. out of which other Examinations and Authentick Proofs in the Archives at Dublin we have collected the ensuing Murthers reducing them to Counties readier for every ones view Not mentioning the Rebels Mercy Plundering Stripping or Exposing the English to Cruelties worse than Death All being short of that Number which had we time would soon compleat a Volume especially could we have recover'd Archdeacon Bisse his Examinations taken in Munster with greater Artifice than Justice smother'd who as an Eminent and Worthy Person on the same Account the 12th of October 1678. was most inhumanly Murther'd by the Irish as He by the late Conspirators expressing that to be the Cause viz. The Examinations that were then taken Yet what we have here Collected with Dr. Robert Maxwell's Examination whose Integrity and Candor None ever yet dar'd Question I am confident exceeds the Martyrologie of former Ages and as a solid Divine ingeniously as well as truly observ'd on the Fast-day Wednesday the 13th of November 1678. is a Wonder even to Amazement That more Arts of Cruelty have been found out by the Romish Clergy propagating their Religion than the Heathen Persecutors ever reach'd to A Collection of Murthers in several Counties of Ireland committed since the 23d of October 1641. abstracted out of certain Examinations taken by Virtue of Commissions under the Great Seal of Ireland which said Particulars are singled amongst infinite others of that kind pointing to the Circumstances and the Names of the Persons or some of them murthering or murthered The fuller Evidence of which may be found according to the Quotations in the Archives of Dublin now in Possession of the Clerk of the Council The County of Antrim THE Rebels confessed to this Deponent that they killed in one Morning 954 in this County And that besides them they supposed they had killed 1100 or 1200 more in that County The County of Armagh Protestants in Multitudes forced over the Bridge of Portnedown whereby at several times there were drown'd in the River of Banne above 1000. Great Numbers of Protestants drown'd at Corbridge and Kynard in the County of Armagh Mr. Fullerton Clerk Mr. Aubrey Mr Gladwich murthered in the way towards Portnedown Many others Murther'd 5 murther'd soon after the beginning of the Rebellion 50 murther'd at Blackwater-Church 20 drown'd near the Water of Callon and several others murther'd Mr. William Blundell drawn by the Neck in a Rope up and down Blackwater at Charlemont to confess money and three weeks after He with his Wife and seven Children drown'd Four and fourty at several times murther'd A Wife compell'd to hang her own Husband with several other notorious murthers Mr. Robinson the Minister his Wife and three Children and seven more murther'd Two and twenty Protestants put into a thatch'd house in the Parish of Kilmore and there burned alive The Lord Caufield murther'd Dr. Hodges with 43 more murther'd within a quarter of a mile of Charlemont The Wife of Arnold Taylor great with Child had her belly ripp'd up then drown'd Thomas Mason buried alive Seventeen Men Women and Children cast into a Bogg-pit in the Parish of Dumcrees Many more murther'd Fifteen hundred murther'd in three Parishes 27 more murther'd Mr. Cambell drown'd Three hundred Protestants stripped naked and put into the Church of Loghgall whereof about 100 murther'd within the Church amongst whom John Gregg was quarter'd alive his Quarters thrown into the face of Richard Gregg his Father The said Richard was after there murther'd having received seventeen or eighteen wounds after cut into Quarters in this Deponents his Wife's Presence Such as were not murther'd were turn'd out a begging amongst the Irish naked and into the cold most of which were killed by Irish Cripples their Trulls and Children One hundred and eighty drown'd at twice at the Bridge of Callon One hundred some say two hundred more in a Lough near Ballimackilmorrogh Mr. Gabriel Constable and his Mother 80 years old murther'd Five hundred murther'd at Armagh besides 48 Families murther'd in the Parish of Killaman Three had their Brains knock'd out with a Hatchet within the Church of Benburb 8 Women drown'd in a River under the same Church Christopher Glover murther'd Lieutenant James Maxwell by order from Sir Phelim O Neil was dragg'd out of his Bed raving in the height of a burning Fever driven two miles and murther'd his Wife great with Child stripp'd stark naked and drown'd in the Blackwater the Child half born Mr. Starkey about 100 years old and his two daughters strip'd naked the Daughters forced to support and lead their Father he being not able to go
better understood by the Records of the Age then to be descanted on now An Alphabet of the Counties wherein such Murthers as are here mentioned were committed Counties fol. ANtrim 109 Armagh ibid. Catherlagh 111 Cavan 112 Clare ibid. Cork ibid. Donnegall ibid. Down 113 Dublin 114 Fermanagh ibid. Gallway 115 Kerry ibid. Kildare 116 Kilkenny ibid. Kings County 117 Leytrim 118 Limerick ibid. Londonderry ibid. Longford ibid. Lowth ibid. Mayo 119 Meath ibid. Monaghan 120 Queens County ibid. Roscommon 121 Sligo 122 Tipperary 123 Tyrone ibid. Westmeath 124 Wickloe ibid. Dr. Robert Maxwell since Bishop of Kilmore his Examination worthy deliberate and serious Reflexions but not here to be flied to as quoted in the Abstract That only to be sought for in the Archives of Dublin DOctor Robert Maxwell Rector of Tynon in the County of Armagh sworn and examined and first touching the nature of the Rebellion deposeth and saith that to begin higher than the 22th of Octob. 1641. at the coming in of the Scots to Newcastle he observ'd Sir Phelim O Neil Tirlagh oge O Neil his Brother Robert Hovenden Esq. deceased and generally all his Popish Neighbours overjoyed and at their peaceable disbanding as much cast down and dejected calling the English base degenerate Cowards and the Scots dishonourable Bragadochies who came into England not to fight but to scrape up wealth merchandizing their honours for sums of money But he this Deponent did not much heed those distempered speeches as every where rise in those days and as proceeding from bankrupt and discontented Gentlemen and the rather because many in Ireland at that time measuring the Scots Laws by their own accompted the Scots subjection not much better than Rebellion although since by the Event their Judgments are now rectified yet he asked what they meant to be thus sad at good News but joyful at evil They said if the two Kingdoms had gone by the ears they hoped the Earl of Strafford whose Government had been most avaritious and tyrannical would in regard of his forwardness have perished in the Combustion But this he the Deponent thought not worth the informing because what they said most men thought from the disbanding of the Scots until the breaking out of the present Rebellion He observed also frequent and extraordinary meetings of Priests and Fryars almost every where under colour of Visitations and at the first summons of Fryars to the number of two or three thousand in a Company they would usually meet together for a twelvemonth before the Rebellion who with others of the same stamp borrowed what sums of money they possibly could from the Brittish ane often without any apparent necessity neither did it afterwards appear what they did with the money so borrowed for they would not pay any man a penny And the Deponent further saith That in April 1641. there went a report amonst the Irish the Deponents next Neighbours that the Earl of Tyrone was seen with Sir Phelim O Neil in the Wood of Ballynametash but upon Examination they denied it yet since the Rebellion they told the Deponent That a great man out of Spain was at that time with him but they would not name him and about three years before that one Priest mac Case came from Rome with the Pope's Bull for the Parish of Tynon and being kept out by Sir Phelim talked freely of a Rebellion plotted and intended by him and others Upon which the Priest went to Dublin to inform the Lord Deputy thereof by whom being examined he either said nothing to the purpose or was not believed or was taken off by Sir Phelim And further saith That Sir Phelim O Neil a little before the Rebellion brought two Hogsheads of Gunpowder from Dublin under colour of Wine by Patrick O Dogherty Vintner of Kynard he bought a great part thereof by ten or twelve pounds in the name of most of the Gentry in the Country This he bragged of to the Deponent afterwards and that he likewise told this Deponent when the Lord Magwyre and other Rebels were taken in Dublin his man James Warren and Friar Paul O Neil were apprehended amongst them having sent them thither a little before to assist and attend the Issue of the business but said that upon Examination at Council-table they were both dismissed contrary to his expectation He said also that some Lord or other spoke for them This Deponent further saith That he heard Sir Phelim O Neil upon his first return from Strabane say that this Plot was in his head five or six years before he could bring it to any maturity but said that after it was concluded by the Parliament meaning the Popish party he was one of the last men to whom it was communicated He said likewise That to bring about his own ends he had formerly demeaned himself as a fool in all great mens Company but that he hoped by that time the greatest of them saw that Sir Phelim O Neil was no such fool as they took him for And further saith That he this Deponent heard Sir Phelim's Brother Tirlagh oge O Neil say that this business meaning the Rebellion was communicated by the Irish Committee meaning the Popish Irish unto the Papists in England who promised their assistance and that by their advice some things formerly resolved upon were altered saying it was a good Omen and undoubted sign of Divine Approbation that the Parliament here should send over a Committee the major part whereof were Papists He also affirmed that when the Protestants of the lower House in Ireland withdrew themselves apart unto Chichester-Hall The Papists at the same time never dreaming the Deponent should live to tell it again debated concluded and signed a combinatory Writing of this Rebellion under their hands in the Tollbooth or Tolsell which he said that Session drew on and hastned sooner than it was intended and when the Deponent answered That the Papists in all former Parliaments which either of them had seen usually and without exception consulted apart as often as they pleased He replied in great choler But so did never the Protestants before And this Deponent further saith That in Decemb. 19. 1641. he the Deponent heard Sir Phelim in his own House and in the hearing of Mr. Joseph Traverse and others say That if the Lords and Gentlemen meaning Popish of the other Provinces then not in Arms would not rise but leave him in the lurch for all he would produce his Warrant signed with their hands and written in their own blood that should bring them to the Gallows and that they sate every day at Council-board and whispered the Lords Justices in the ear who were as deep in that business as himself And saith also That on the third day after this Rebellion began Neil's wife a most bloody woman and natural Daughter to the late Earl of Antrim told this Deponent that all Ireland was in the same case with Ulster for said