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A87629	A remonstrance of divers remarkeable passages concerning the church and kingdome of Ireland, recommended by letters from the Right Honourable the Lords Justices, and Counsell of Ireland, and presented by Henry Jones Doctor in Divinity, and agent for the ministers of the Gospel in that kingdom, to the Honourable House of Commons in England	Jones, Henry, 1605-1682.	1642 (1642)	Wing J943; Thomason E141_30; ESTC R202619	59,114	90

him alone demanded of him what might be the reason of their going out in such manner as in killing and robbing the English and perswading him to make peace he replyed unlesse all men that had estates lost by the Kings giving them unto great men that were little worth in former times unlesse they had their estates given under the Kings Broad-Seal that they would never yeild And withall that it they had not the Duke of York for their Governour and Ruler in this Kingdom and to be a Papist they would never yeild as aforesaid And further said That they would have the whole Kingdom to themselves and that they have been about this plot this seventeen yeers past but never had so fit an opportunity as now they had And the said Roger saith further That being in company with Colonell Pluncket at Newry and Carlingford the said Colonell told the said Roger and many others that this said plot was for these seventeen yeers past in plotting and that the said Fryar Malone and himself and one of the Lord of Trimbortons sonnes which is a Fryer with many others of the Nobility of the Pale and in the North knew it of long time but that others of the Nobles knew not of it but of late but as for the rest they have known of it the space and yeers aforesaid And that they said they would have their Religion or not any or else that they would loose both their lives and estates for in strength they were able enough for he said all the Irish would not fail but stick close to them for they fought for God and their Country for certain they knew that there cause was just and that God would not see them suffer and that they were sure of Dublin for there was not any thing done but that they had such friends that they heard out of Dublin every day and as for Sir Phelomy ô Neal he made no accompt as he said of all Ireland to be his own and others for that was there intents And further saith That at Carlingford when the foresaid Roger was there three or four dayes Sir Con Magenis sent his Warrant to send away all such prisoners as came from Newry over to Green Castle which Warrant was directed to one Jo. Babe Provost Marshall directed by Sir Con Magenis which Provost Marshall according to his direction sent them away which prisoners were sent for the releasing of some prisoners that were taken at Down-Patrick but no sooner came the aforesaid prisoners unto Green-Castle but they were all cut off And the next day following the said Sir Con Magenis sent a Convoy with all such prisoners as were there left and what became of them this Examinate cannot tell And further saith That an owner of a Boat in Carlingford told him that one Mris Holland was hang'd and as she was hanging was delivered of two children and further cannot say Jurat this 4 of March 1641. Roger Holland William Aldrich Hen. Brereton The Examination of George Cottingham Parson of Monaghan THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That about the 30 day of October this Examinate with most of the English was cast into the Dungeon which was a place of that noysomenesse by reason of great heaps of mens excrements that had been there a long time that they were almost stifled the Dungeon was so little and the people so many being some fourty eight persons that they were fain to lie one upon another so that the Examinate after he had been some seventeen dayes sometimes in the Dungeon sometimes in the Goal got such a loosenesse with cold and hard lodging that he was not able to go but as he was carried betwixt men During their continuance in this miserable restraint no meat was allowed the prisoners by the Rebells neither would they scarce suffer either their wives or friends to see or speak with them but oftentimes both in the night and day severall of the Rebells came to the prisoners with swords and Skeans drawn with Pistolls cocked to the great terrour of the prisoners and some came often and scarched them and if they found any silver either more or lesse they took it from them and stripped them of their clothes in the very Dungeon and left many almost naked with few or no rags to cover them And when these prisoners were set at liberty soon after many were murthered with Skeans some drowned and some hanged Master Richard Blaney who was prisoner in another place being bolted with Irons was taken forth suddenly and hanged and cast into a kinde of a Boggie place without Buriall stark naked The same day one Master Luke VVard was taken and hanged in the same Town of Monaghan in the beginning of the night and was never told he should die but being taken by one Patr oge ô Connelley was brought into a house in Town and there Patr gave him worth 12d or more of drink as though no hurt were intended presently went to the back side and called out the said Luke VVard and with others of his company laid hold on him and hanged him and after threw him into a little River where he lay naked and unburied The next morning many of those that were let out of prison being almost starved and famished were murthered with Skeans and others drowned Master Oliver Peirce Ensigne to the Lord Blaney murthered with Swords and Skeans Master John Francis Edward Lewis Richard Bollard and VVilliam Iones murthered with Skeans and Swords and many others pursued who escaped that night Thomas VVest was never heard of since A poor English-man unknown came stragling to the Towne having escaped from some other place was hanged Some of those that were imprisoned were sent out of the Town of Monaghan to Glaslough where they had lived formerly and there they with others to the number of fourty were cast into a River at the edge of the County men women and children In the mean time so many as escaped were in great misery and fears dayly hearing that not an English man woman or childe should be left alive that there was the like stirre in England and Scotland and that never a Protestant must be suffered to live in any of the three Kingdoms and that the Seas were full of Spanish and French Shipping and that all the Irish in other parts were coming homewards to help to subdue the English in Ireland and then they were to be in England before May for the same purpose and the like to be done in Scotland also It was usually reported that none must bear rule in Ireland but onely the Natives and that all the Lands which were enjoyed by any of the British must forthwith be taken from them which was accordingly done in all parts hereabouts It was frequently noysed and reported That the Kings Majesty was dead or not to be had and that there was a Crown consecrated for some other that should deserve it best and when

Majesty and had also Letters to that purpose from the Earl of Argile And that their intentions were onely for the liberty of their Religion and for the recovery of their Lands which should appear by the Law of the Land to be unjustly held from them Colonell Plunket told us at Armagh That seeing this exploit was begun he was one of the chief plotters thereof and was seven yeers emplyed in the compassing of it Frier Malone of Skerries did take the poor mens Bibles which he found in the Boat and cut them in pieces and cast them into the fire with these words That he would deal in like manner with all Protestant and Puritan Bibles At Master Connors house where the Frier was they had Hanmors Chronicle out of which they animated the Rebells with the Story of the Danes Discomfiture by the Irish though for the most part unarmed and paralelled the History with these times This Frier acknowledged that he was fourteen yeers employed to bring this designe to passe At Donga●non they reported of a Vision seen a little before this Insurrection began A woman compassing about the Town with a Spear in her hand when any would approach her she would seem to go from them when any would go from her she would draw neer unto them The like they say appeared before Tyrones former Rebellion At Armagh Colonell Pluncket told us of another Vision seen at Lisneigarvey which he and about twenty more beheld after the Battle wherein the Irish lost very many of their men and most of their Arms There was an house set on fire at the end of the Town by the light of which fire they discerned a number of Horse-men riding to and fro the number seemed to the Colonell to be about a Thousand or Fifteen hundred Upon which relation I was bold to enquire whether they seemed their own or their enemies he answered That sometime they conceived them their own other while their enemies Yet I believed they could hardly seem their own because amongst them they had not neer so many Horses I further desired to know what they supposed them to be he said They were conceived to be Fayries or such like At Ardtra we were set upon by some of the Scots of whom Robert Stewart brother to the Lord of Castle-Stewart was chief who took some of the goods out of the house and many of our horses and Arms from us Jurat ult. Feb. 1641. John Kerdiff William Aldrich John Sterne The Examination of Edward How of the Parish of Galoon in the County of Fermanagh Clerke THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That he heard Donagh mac Quire say when Hugh mac Mahon of the County of Fermanagh excused my Lord Magwire and said that others had perswaded him of late to stirre in this action That my Lord Magwire knew of it long before and all the Nobility and men of quality that were papists in this Kingdom Moreover I heard Conoge mac Con mac Hugh mac Mahon of Aghnebolah and County of Monaghan say That if my Lord Lievtenant had not been put to death they had not made this Insurrection Further I heard him say That there was an Act made by the present Parliament of England That all Papists there or else-where in this Kingdom should go to Church otherwise be hanged at their own doors and therefore they would begin with us lest we should begin with them here as they did in England for he said they had hanged a Jesuite in London which was the Queens Chaplain And further this Deponent cannot say Deposed before us Ian. 29. 1641. Edw. How Hen Iones Iohn Sterne The Examination of George Cook late of Lissnegney in the County of Cavan Yeoman And of John Cook his son THe Deponent being duly sworn inter alia deposeth And further saith That as he and his wife and children fled away towards Dublin they met at Kells with a Protestant Minister by name Master Sharpe who had three children and carryed two of them on his back whom the Rebells perceiving to be a Protestant Minister did most barbarously hack cut in pieces and murther thrusting into his body three or four pikes together and threw him into a ditch of water where they left him but because the Deponent fled to save his life he cannot tell what became of the said Ministers poor children And the Depoponent John Cook further saith That the same night one Tirlogh Brady took away the Deponents fathers goods he the said Tirlogh told the Deponent That that action was a great Rebellion and that all the papists in Ireland were in Rebellion against the King and Counsell and that the Lord mac Guire had then taken the Castle of Dublin And that the Protestants must be banished out of the Kingdom and the papists would have the same themselves And about the same time one Tirlogh ô Gowen alias Smith a popish priest demanded the Key of the Church of Lara of this Deponents brother which being delivered unto him he the said Tirlogh said that the papists would have their Churches Lands and Kingdom from the English and be no more slaves to the English as they had been or else they would lose their lives Jur. Jan. 22. 1641. George Cooke Hen. Brereton VVilliam Aldrich John Cooke The examination of John Jesop of Cloynmoore in the County of Kildare THis Examinate duely sworne desposeth inter alia That he hath credibly heard that all the Papists in the County of Wexford and Kilkenney and in all the Counties of Ireland are Actors Abettors or at least secret well-wishers unto this Rebellion Iohn Iesop Iur. 8. Ian. 1641. Coram nobis Hen. Brereton W●ll Hitchcock The examination of John Greg of Levileglish in the County of Armagh Yeoman THis Examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That His Wife and five small Children are in the Rebels hands who were most cruelly stripped before he left them even to the childe that sucked the brest further he saith that his said Wife being stripped to the skin by one of the Donnells was by him most cruelly beaten with his drawn Sword in a triumphing and rejoycing manner and with singing Further he saith one Captain Art ô Neal of the Parish of Levileglish aforesaid Gentleman who pretended friendship to him said that unlesse he would take up Arms and go to Masse there was no hope of his life unto whom he replyed that that was great cruelty neither to suffer him the said Gregg to live a slave amongst them nor suffer him to passe into his Native Countrey unto whom the said Captain replyed that neither of those requests would be granted affirming that it was intended by them not to leave an English Protestant alive in this Kingdom and that there was no hope of peace for tenne yeers to come He further saith That in the aforesaid Parish there were divers English-men most cruelly murthered some twice some thrice hanged up and others wounded and left half-dead