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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

many of Our good Subjects Brittish and Protestants who have been seperated from their setled habitations and scattered in most lamentable manner and many others have beene deprived of their Lands Rents goods and Chattles And forasmuch as it is needfull to take due examination concerning the same Know ye that We reposing especiall trust and confidence in your fidelities care and provident circumspection have nominated and appointed you to be Our Commissioners and do hereby give unto you or any two or more of you full power and authority from time to time to call before you and examine upon oath which We hereby authorise you or any two or more of you to administer on the holy Evangelists As well all such persons as have been so Robbed and spoiled or deprived of their Lands Rents goods or Chattles as all the witnesses that can give testimony therein what Robberies and spoiles have been committed on them or any other to their knowledge since the two and twentieth of October last or shall hereafter be committed on them or any of them what Lands Rents goods or Chattles whereof any person or persons were or shall be so robbed spoiled or deprived to what valew by whom such robberies or spoiles were committed what their names are and where they now or last dwelt that committted those robberies or spoiles on what day or night the said robberies or spoiles committed or to be committed were done what Traiterous or disloyall words speeches or actions were then or at any other time uttered or committed by those robbers or any of them and what unfitting words or speeches concerning the present Rebellion or by occasion thereof were spoken at any time by any person or persons whatsoever what violence or other lewd actions were then performed by the said Robbers or any of them and how often what numbers of persons have been murthered by the Rebels or perished afterwards in the way to Dublin or other places whither they fled or retired for refuge either by way of defence or otherwise What person or persons Clergimen or other Protestants have become Papists since the said two and twentieth day fled or retired for refuge either by way of defence or otherwise What person or persons Clergimen or other Protestants have become Papists since the said two and twentieth day of October last and all other circumstances and things touching or concerning the said particulars and every of them either before the three and twentieth of October or since And for the better performance of this service all Incumbents Curats Parish-Clerks and Sextons of Churches in this Kingdome are hereby required to give in to you Our said Commissioners to the best of their knowledge the names and numbers of the poore so spoyled who have beene buried in their respective Parishes and hereafter in and about Dublin they are to give in weekly Bills under the hands of the Ministers or Church-wardens of such Parishes of such of the said persons as shall be so buried in the said Parishes And you our said Commissioners or any two or more of you as aforesaid are to reduce to writing all the Examinations which you or any two or more of you shall take as aforesaid and the same to return to our Iustices and Councell of this Our Realm of Ireland under the hands and Seals of you or any two or more of you as aforesaid Witnesse Our right trusty and wel-beloved Councellors Sir William Parsons Knight and Baronet and Sir John Borlase Knight Our Iustices of Our Realme of Ireland At Dublin the eighteenth Day of January in the Seventeenth yeare of Our Reigne Carleton Examinations taken before us His Majesties Commissioners thereunto appointed by vertue of a Commission to us or any two or more of us directed under the great Seal of Ireland Dated the 23th day of December in the 17th yeare of his Majesties Reigne And by vertue of one other Commission directed as aforesaid bearing Date the 18th day of January in the yeare aforesaid The examination of John Day of Drumleiff in the County of Cavan Weaver THis Examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That the Rebells bad him open the doors of his House otherwise they would fire his House and they said that they had a Commission from the Queene and from beyond the Seas for what they did And that they would not suffer an English-man to stay in the land Jur. 8. Feb. 1641. John Day William Aldrich William Hitchcock The examination of Lucy Spell of Drogheda in the County of Lowth THis Examinate duly sworn deposeth inter alia That at Ballendary where she was prisoner three weeks and lodged in John Parsimers house during which imprisonment she saw one time John Malon a Fryar who taketh upon him the title of Chaplain to the Catholike Army in Ireland together with Michael Murffy Garret Newgent of Drogheda Marchant John Griffin and Patrick Griffin of the same Merchants Roger Belin of the same Merchant with others in their company and heard them in their conference say we will shortly have the Prince of England here in Ireland and make him Vice-Roy and we will tutor him and bring him up in the Catholike Religion and the King himselfe shall live in Scotland and before Easter day next we shall have an Army out of Spain and then we will go all into England and with the helpe of the Catholikes there all whose names the said Fryar said that he had we will put all the Puritans and Protestants to the sword The marke of the said Lucy Jur. 5. Feb. 1641. William Aldrich William Hitchcock John Sterne Henry Brereton The examination of John Biggar of Miltown in the County of Dublin Clerke THis Examinate being duely sworn deposeth inter alia That these words were spoken by the Rebells especially by their Leader For the third of December Edmond Eustace of Ballymore-Eustace that they did give us but our owne Law For whereas there was an Act made by the Councell of England in the abs●nce and without the consent or knowledge of the King for the expelling banishing and putting away the Papists out of England and seizing of their goods which when they had there effected would have brought the like over hither for extirpation of the Irish Nation that are Papists These considerations for the defence of the Religion the Queens person and by the Kings license moved them to take Arms having the Scots for a president they have also vowed not to leave an English-man in Ireland The Kingdome they will have in their own hands Lawes of their own and a Deputy of their own without molestation or interruption of any other Nation This night at the Widdowes house of one Lawrence Purcell I met with one George Staples who for late years had taught the Children of the chiefe of the Gentry in our parts Having beene formerly acquainted with him he began to examine me what course I intended to take I told him I could not tell untill I

Justice of Peace in the County of Monaghan was hanged in this manner Art Roe mac Bryan Sanaght of Hislough in the County of Monaghan Marshall to the Rebels came to Mr. Blaney to the Dungeon and desired him to come out to speak with him when he came out to him he led him to my Lord Blaneys Orchard in Monaghan and said to him do you remember how you hanged my Brother and made me flye my Country for three yeers but I will hang you before you go but if you will you shall have a priest he said no but he desired to have Master Cottingham the Minister of Monaghan but they would not but hanged him there and flung him in a Ditch and he was two dayes unburied And this Deponent heard that there was one Luke VVard a Scotchman which had indicted a man the quarter Sessions before this rising the same man came to him where he was in the Goal and carried him to an Alehouse and made him drunk and when he had done carried him into the backside and hanged him after he was cut down they flung him into a River and I could never hear that he was buried Hugh Culme Deposed before us Ian. 25. 1641. Hen. Iones Hen. Brereton I heard Master Mountgomery Minister and Master Hollis with severall other men of good worth report that the Sunday before this rising of the Rebels that there was seen a Sword hanging in the ayre with the point downwards the half seeming to be red and the point turned round Hugh Culme The Examination of Mistresse Martha Culme of Leitrim in the County of Monaghan THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That she being by the R●bels forced from her dwelling and robbed of all her goods she was enforced to shift from place to place for safeguard of her life particularly at VVilliam Boy Flemings house in the Parish of Tehollan in the County of Monaghan where she did hear the said Fleming in detestation of the cruelty of the Rebels to relate that while Sir Phelomy ô Neal did lye with his forces before the Ogber in the County of Tyrone the Irish women would follow after the Irish Rebell Souldiers and put them forward in cruelty with these and such words spare neither man woman nor childe God so pitty your souls as you pitty them intending those words to cruelty This Examinate further saith That in the said Flemings house one Art mac Patrick mac Toole Boy mac Mahon of the Barony of Balline Cargy in the said Parish speaking to this Examinate in Irish she desired he would deliver himself in English for she understood not Irish he answered in English that such as spake English should forfeit ten shillings to the King what King saith this Examinate have we that will not allow the speaking of English what King saith he but the Earl of Tyrone she asked where the Earl was he answered in the North where he was landed with 40000. Spaniards whereof 10000. were then with Sir Phelim ô Neal. Martba Culme Deposed before us Feb. 14. 1641. Hen. Iones Henry Brereton The Examination of Elizabeth Gough late of Ballanenagh in the County of Cavan Spinster THis Examinate duely sworne deposeth inter alia That the Irish purposed to have a King of their own in Ireland and that Phelomy ô Neal should be he Elizabeth Gough her Mark Deposed before us Feb. 8. 1641. Hen. Jones Hen. Sterne The Examination of Anne Gill of Newtown in the County of Fermanagh Widdow THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That when Rory Magwire had taken the Church at Newtown aforesaid he the said Rory in the presence and hearing of this Deponent and a great many of his neighbors the Kings Majesties loving Subjects gave forth that it was to no purpose for them to fly to Dublin for succour for Dublin was taken by the Lord Magwire who was to be King of Ireland Anne L Gill her Mark Jur. 29. Jan. 1641. John Stern VVilliam Aldrich The examination of Elizabeth Vause late of Creigs toune Longhfield in the County of Leitrim Widdow THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That when this Deponent asked why the Rebels so robbed them they asked again who sent you over and being answered that God and the King did it they the said Rebells said let your King fetch you out again And saith further That the said Rebels burned divers houses and two Children and one old Man in them and that very many Protestants that fled for safety and succour to the Castle of Sir James Craige Knight being neer them were there famished starved and dyed for want of means Eliz. Vause her mark Jur. 9. die Feb. 1641. John Sterne William Hitchcock The Examination of Nicholas Michael of Farnan in the County of Cavan THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That the parties that robbed this Deponent said they have an Irish King amongst them and they regarded not King Charles the King of England Nich. ʒ Michaels mark Deposed before us Ian. 15. 1641. VVill Hitchcock Hen. Brereton The Examination of Andrew Foster of Mocredin alias Caryetsfort in the County of Wickloe Gentleman THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That the Rebels said that they would within a week burn Dublin and that neither King nor Queen should govern Ireland any longer for they would govern it themselves Andrew Foster Iur. 17. Febr. 1641. VVilliam Aldrich John Sterne The Examination of Richard Witton of Kilnane in the County of Wickloe Miller THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That Luke Burne Gentleman of Kilnane said he would have their religion flourish no thanks to King or Subject Rich. Witton Deposed this 11. of Jan. 1641. Will. Aldrich VVill Hitchcock The Examination of Edward Taylor late of Saint Margarets alias Raven in the County of Wexford Clerk THis Examinate duely sworn deposeth inter alia That one Piers Synnot of Ballyvodogg in the said County and his sonne David and other their complices before this Rebellion burst out did dispossesse this Deponent of his Goods and Church livings into which he was long since invested by His Majesties presentation for which abuse this Deponent impleaded some of them in this last Parliament at Dublin and a little before the beginning of this said Rebellion he shewed the said David an Order from the said Parliament for this Deponents quiet enjoying his said Church Livings and restitution of the profits thereof by them wrongfully detained to which the said David Synnot answered That he cared not for that and that it was no Parliament but meet him at Dublin in Michaelmas-Term next and question him if he durst for then they would have a Parliament of their own in which Parliament he said the Deponent durst not complain or words to that effect Edward Taylor Iur. 23. Feb. 1641. Coram nobis Iohn Sterne Hen. Brereton The Examination of Nathaniel Higginson of the Castle of Knockballymore in the County of