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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

integrity and credit They are all upon Oath as all the other Examinations concerning cruelties before mentioned likewise are I shall leave the severall particulars to the consideration of such as shall please to take the paines to read them over And I may well say of them in respect of the former cruelties inserted as was said to the Prophet Ezekiel in another case Turne thee yet againe Ezek. 8.13 and thou shalt see greater abominations then these A generall REMONSTRANCE of the distressed PROTESTANTS in the Province of MUNSTER SEting forth from the gasping condition of thier most sad and distressed souls That wheras the Province of Munster through the vaste expence of English treasure and blood was reduced from the height of Barbarisme to such a degree of Civility that the power and dignitie of the English Crown was much advanced and extended by the surest and noblest bonds of a florishing people those of Religion Civilitie and Profit Of Religion witnessed by the enlarged Congregations both in Cathedrall and Parochiall Churches Civility by the many costly Plantations fair strong Buildings plentifull Markets and bountifull Hospitality And Profit by the free Trade and Commerce throughout Christendome Lands fully improved abounding with heards and flocks of all sorts of the best English Cattell which enabled us to advance great sums to his Majesties Customes contribute large Subsidyes and to supply the West of England with such a considerable proportion of Wooll and Cattle that a great part of the Trade of those parts subsisted therby And this begun at the great charge of the EnglishVndertakers in the time of Queen Elizabeth of famous memory since when few parts of Christendome from their beginning in so short space had such a Rise and growth which was not alone to our selves but the very Natives must confesse that their Estates were hugely augmented by our improvements And therfore let it not be wondred at that when we consider from what we are falne to what we are faln if the pain of losse strive to equall that of sence and if the depth of our Miseries have not sunke our soules to stupidity we may compare our Woes to the saddest paralell of any Story Our Temples demolished or worse prophaned by sacrifices to Idols our Houses and Castles become ruinous heaps our Nation extirpated destroyed No quality age sexe priviledged from Massacres and lingring deaths by being robbed and stript naked through cold or famine Passages of a notable peece of Clemency and Mercy The famished Infants of murdered Parents swarm in our Streets for want of Bread perish before our faces and many of our yet miserable remnant which lived plentifully and relieved others are forced to aske relief and those they ask of constrained by want to refuse them So as undoubtedly our present Miseries are not farre distant of those of Samarias Siedge and all those cast upon us by this unparalelled Rebellion at a time when we were most confident and secure more and greater Jmmunities and Bounties being granted by his Majestie that now is then ever was by his Royall Progenitours for what cause offence or least seeming occasion of provocation our Soules could never imagine Sinne excepted save that we were Protestants and his Majesties loyall Subjects and could not endure their poysonous breaths to belch out such prophanenesse as in a deepe measure pierced and wounded the sacred fame of our King and to colour this wee must goe under the notorious names of first Puritans and later of Round-heads For particular instances time would faile and length weary the Reader But we all together confident to make it manifest by abundant instances That the Depopulations in this Province of MUNSTER doe well and neere equall those of the whole KINGDOME The particulars whereof as of the multitude of inhumaine cruelties were collected and reduced to severall instances with ample proofe by the many Moneths indevours of a reverend Divine one Arch-Deacon BISSE thereunto authorized by vertue of a Commission under the Broad-Seale of this Kingdome who was most barbarously murthered by the Jrish expressing that to be the cause And because it may be thought requisite to touch something of the Demeanours of the Jrish since the Cessation as well as before many English have beene murthered as they travelled with other expressions of that utter detestations of the English that if any remaine which few doe nor surely will doe that can but breath but elsewhere then must they be in a degree worse then any knowne slavery And likewise for other parts of the Cessation they have beene totally broken and our Quarters being of large extent universally taken from us even to the wals of our Garrisons wherein we have often called to the chiefe of them for justice which being denied or which is worse delayed want of meanes to justifie our selves leaves us without remedy All which we poure forth our griefes and Supplications above to God alone and here on earth to our Dread Soveraign The EXAMINATION of Anne the late Wife of John Sherring late of the Territory of Ormond The Province of Munster neere the Silverworks in the County of Tipperary aged about 25. yeeres Sworne and Examined Deposeth and Saith THat about Candlemas was two yeers the said John Sherring her then husband going from his Farme which he held from Master John Kenedy Esquire neer to the Silverworks one Hugh Kenedy one of the brothers of the said John Kennedy a cruell Rebell together with a great multitude of Irish rebellious Souldiers then and there fiercely assaulted and set upon her said husband and upon one William Brock William Laughlin Thomas Collop and eight more English Protestant men and about ten women and upon some children in their company and then and there stript them of their cloaths and then with stones poleaxes skeines swords pikes darts and other weapons most barbarously massacred and murdered her said husband and all those Protestant men women and children In the time of which Massacre a most loud and fearfull noise and storme of thunder lightning wind hailstones and raine began The time being on a Sabbath day about an hour before night the former part of that day being all very faire but that thunder lightning and tempest happening suddenly after the massacre was begun much afrighted and terrified this Deponent and many others insomuch as those murtherers themselves confessed it to be a signe of Gods anger and threatning of them for such their then cruelty yet it deterred them not but they persisted in their bloody act untill they had murdered those said English Protestants and had hackt hewed slashed stab'd and so massacred them that many of them were cut all to pieces and her husband for his part had thirty grievous wounds then and there given him viz. some through or neer his heart ten mortall wounds in his head three in his belly and in either arme four and the rest in his thighes legs back and neck and that murder

jurat Jan. 4. 1641. 66 Edward Slacke of Gusteen in the County of Fermanagh Clerke deposeth that the Rebels there took his Bible opened it and laying the open side in a puddle of water leaped and trampled upon it saying A plague on it this Bible hath bred all the quarrell and that he hoped within few weekes all the Bibles in Ireland should be used as that was or worse and that none should be left in the Kingdome jurat Jan. 4. 1641. with what indignation and reproach did they teare trample under their feet the sacred Word of God How despightfully did they upbraid the profession of the truth to those blessed soules whom neither by threats nor terrours paines nor torments they could draw to forsake their Religion But I shall not here touch any further upon those who dyed thus gloriously this will be a worthy work for some more able pen to undertake and indeed fit for a Martyrology If we shall take a survey of the primitive times and look into the sufferings of the first Christians that suffered under the tyranny and cruell persecutions of those Heathenish Emperours we shall not certainly find any one Kingdome though of a farre larger continent where more Christians suffered or more unparaleld cruelties were acted in many yeers upon them then were in Ireland within the space of the first two moneths after the breaking out of this Rebellion And howsoever 67 Alexander Creighton of Glaslough in the County of Monaghan Gent. deposeth that he heard it credibly reported among the Rebels aforesaid at Glaslough that Hugh Mac O Degan a Priest had done a most meritorious act in drawing betwixt forty and fifty English and Scottish in the Parish of Ganalley in the County of Fermanagh to reconciliation with the Church of Rome and after giving them the Sacrament demanded of them whether Christs body was really in the Sacrament or no and they said Yea And that he demanded of them further whether they held the Pope to be supreame head of the Church They likewise answered He was And that thereupon he presently told them they were in a good Faith and for feare they should fall from it and turne Hereticks he and the rest that were with them cut all their throats jurat March 1. 1641. some by outward inflictions and tortures were drawne to professe the change of their Religion and had presently their reward for many of those they suddenly despatched with great scorn saying it was fit to send them out of the world in that good mood 68 John Glasse of Montwrath in the Queens County sworne and examined saith that Florence Fitz Patrick of the said County Esquire having received Master John Nicholson and his wife Anne Nicholson under his protection did endeavour all he could to turne them to Masse or the present Rebellion but they both professed that rather then they would either forsake their Religion or fight against their Countrymen they would dye the death the husband professing how much they abhorred it and his wife even shewing greater resolution They would have had her burnt her Bible but her answer was before she would either burne her Bible or turne against her Countrymen she would dye upon the poynt of the sword which was made good by them for on a Sabbath day in the morning before Masse they were cruelly butchered and murdered by the command of the said Florence Fitz Patrick The instrument that acted the villany was one John Harding who since hath been beyond all expression tormented in his conscience and with continued apparitions of them as he conceived in such lively manner as he murdered them so as he is even now consumed away with the horror of it as is most frequently reported among the Rebels jurat April 8. 1642. yet I dare say we shall find many thus cruelly put to death equall to some of those ancient Worthies for their patience constancy courage magnanimity in their sufferings not accepting deliverance but triumphing and insulting with their last breath over the insolency rage and malice of their most inhumane and cruell persecutors We shall finde in the Roman Story during the severall cruell contestations betwixt Marius and Scilla when their factious followers filled the whole City of Rome with streames of blood Strange and most incomparable passages of friendships one exposing himselfe to all manner of dangers for the preservation of his friend of a contrary faction servants willingly sacrificing themselves to save the lives of their beloved Masters But here on the contrary what open violation of all bands of humanity and friendship no contracts no promises observed quarter given in the most solemne manner with the greatest oathes and severest execrations under hand and seale suddenly broken The Irish Landlords making a prey of their English Tenants the Irish Servants betraying their English Masters and every one esteeming any act wherein they could declare their hatred and malice most against any of the British Nation as gallant and truly meritorious It is not to be denied but that the first and most bloody executions were made in the Province of Vlster and there they continued longest to execute their rage and cruelty yet must it also be acknowledged that all the other three Provinces did concurre with them as it were with one common consent to destroy and plucke up by the roots all the British planted thorowout the Kingdome And for this purpose they went on not onely murdering stripping and driving out all of them Men Women and Children but they laid waste their Habitations burnt their Evidences defaced in many places all the Monuments of civility and devotion the Courts and places of the English Government nay as some of themselus expresse it they resolved not to leave them either Name or Posterity in Ireland How they proceeded on in this worke or how farre they co-operated each with other will be a taske of a large size and more proper for another place in this Story I shall here conclude this Discourse concerning the cruelties exercised upon the British and Protestants with these following Examinations There follows severall Examinations taken upon oath of several horrid murders most abhominaable cruelties acted with in the foure Provinces They are eight in number two Witnesses as it were taken out of each Province to declare their bloody proceedings I shall begin with Munster from whence we have yet very few Examinations brought up the chiefest of them having been most unhappily carried another way Therefore I have thought fit for the more full expressing their Miseries to insert their generall Remonstrance made upon the conclusion of the late Cessation in the yeer 1643. The two next ensuing are concerning the Province of Conaght then those of the Province of Vlster and lastly two Examinations taken of some acts of cruelty committed within the Province of Lemster I have made choyce for the most part of them of such as have been put in by persons of good quality of known

and chiefe incendiaries in this horrid Rebellion A Consultation held whether it will be best to murder or onely to banish all the British out of Ireland they had a most serious consultation what course to take with most safety to themselves for the disburthening of the Kingdome of those multitudes of English which were in very great numbers dispersedly planted among them Some were of opinion that they should spare their lives not render themselves guilty of the spilling of so much innocent blood but that they should seize on their goods expell them their habitations and after banishing them out of the Kingdome proceed as the Spaniards did with many hundred thousands of the Moors whom as it were in a moment they cleered out of their Dominions Others there were who much opposed this kind of lenity and moderation remonstrating the high inconveniences which would inevitably redound to themselves thereby First that the British were in so great numbers as they could not either by disarming imprisoning or any other meanes possible ever hope to secure them from mischiefe Then that if they onely expelled them out of the Kingdome they would remain still as so many fit instruments to be entertained in England and from thence returned backe full of revengefull thoughts to recover their losses that by their long experience and knowledge in the Country they would be better guides more deeply engaged to prosecute the Warre and having their bodies inured to this Climate would prove much more able Souldiers then any new men that could be raised or any otherwayes brought over How they determined this particular I shall not undertake to declare my intelligence failes me and I am able to deliver no more of the result of this great Councell then appeares in the bloody effects and horrid executions acted in the first beginnings of their Rebellion It is most probable they came to no positive conclusion but left the chiefe Actors in this particular at large to doe as should seem good to themselves We finde their first proceedings and outrages committed upon the English very various and much differing in severall places some onely stripping and expelling of them others murdering Man Woman and Childe without mercy But this is certain and of most unquestionable truth that by one means or other they resolved universally to root all the British and Protestants out of Ireland The Irish resolve to root the English out of Ireland And that these were the first thoughts and bitter fruits of the long premeditated malicious intentions sufficiently appeares by their Actions as well as by their virulent expressions uttered upon their first rising when they thought the Kingdome their own They then said openly that they meant to destroy the English and that they had made a Covenant no Englishman should set footing among them Some of the Irish would not endure the very sound of that language The Irish in many places killed English Cowes and Sheep meerly because they were English in some places they cut off their legges or tooke out a peece out of their buttocks and so let them remain still alive The Lord Montgarrat Master Edward Butlar the Baron of Logmouth went with their Forces into Munster about the beginning of the rising of the Irish there and while they remained about Callen and Mallow they consumed no lesse then 50000. others say 100000. English Sheep besides a great abundance of English Cattell and such as they could not eat yet they killed and left in great multitudes stinking to the great annoyance of the Country This testified by Henry Champart in his Examination taken before Sir Robert Meredith Knight c. but would have penalties inflicted upon them that spake English and all the English names of places changed into the old Irish denominations others professed that they would not leave an English man or woman alive in the Kingdome but that all should be gone no not so much as an English Beast or any of the breed of them James Hallegan the Priest did read an Excommunication in the Church which as he alleaged came from their great Irish Metropolitane James Shaw a Minister Deposeth that after the Cessation divers of the Rebels confessed the Priests had given them the Sacrament upon condition they should not spare Man Woman nor Childe that were Protestants and that he heard divers of them say in a bragging manner that it did them a great deal of good to wash their hands in the blood of the Protestants whom they had slain jurat Jan. 7. 1643. and terrifying his Parishoners therewith he told them that from that day forth whosoever did harbour or relieve any Scot English or Welchman or give them Almes at their doors should be excommunicated whereby as Master Sacheurell testifies in his Examination many were starved and dyed for want in those parts Thomas JohnsonVicar of Tullah of the County of Maio deposeth that he heard Stephen Linoh Prior of Strade being asked if it were not lawfull to kill this Deponent because he would not goe to Masse answered that it was as lawfull for them to kill him as to kill a Sheepe or a Dogge and divers of the rebellious Souldiers told him to his face that they would no more care to kill him then they would doe a Pigge We have it from Master Creighton a reverend Minister one long detained prisoner within the County of Cavan that the Fryars exhorted the peopl with tears to spare none of the English John Addis of the County of Westmeath Deposeth that Robert Magohagan Priest said to this Deponant that it was no more pitty nor conscience to take English-mens lives or goods from them then to take a bone out of a Dogs mouth jurat July 21. 1642. that the Irish were resolved to destroy them out of the Kingdome that they would devour as their very word was the seed of the English out of Ireland and when they had rid them there they would goe over into ENGLAND and not leave the Memoriall of the ENGLISH Name under Heaven And so fond and vein were their imaginations and to such a height of madnesse were they grown as they could not terminate their thoughts in the reduction of Ireland under the power of their own Nation But as soon as they had begun their Rebellion there they spake confidently in all places of transporting their Armes into England that they would send 30000 men over into that Kingdom and that they would draw in foraign Auxiliaries thither to joyn with them and so by a high hand establish the free exercise of the Romish Religion within that Kingdom A Designe certainly which the Priests and Jesuits had taken up in their own thoughts and by their correspondencies abroad intended powerfully to bring about as soon as they had setled their affaires in Ireland And if it had not pleased God in an extraordinay way to bring the first Plot to light and so to blesse the weake endevours of the

amongst the British Protestants being beaten from their owne Lands and were never satisfied with their blood untill they had in a manner seen the last drop thereof affrighting Sir Phelim O Neale every day with their numbers and perswading him That whilest they meaning the Protestants lived there would neither be roome for them nor safety for him It was easie to spur on the cowardly and bloody Rebell yet no sooner were the Protestants cut off but contrary to their expectation the meere Irish tooke present possession of their Lands and Houses whereat the Pale English much grumbled and said Sir Phelim had not kept promise with them howsoever they were forced to swallow those and many other injuries And further saith that he knew one Boy that dwelt neere unto himselfe and not exceeding fourteen yeers of age who killed at Kinnard in one night fifteen able strong men with his Skeine they being disarmed and most of their feet in the Stocks Another not above twelve yeers of age killed two women at the Siedge of Augher Another that was a woman and Tenant to this Deponent killed seven men and women of her fellow English Tenants in one morning And it was very usuall in all parts for the Rebels children to murther the Protestants children and sometimes with Lath-swords heavie and well sharpned they would venture upon people of riper yeers cruelties not to be beleeved if there were not so many eye-witnesses of them Deposed 22. of August 1642. Henry Brereton William Aldrich The EXAMINATION of Dame Anne Butler The Province of Lemster wife unto Sir Thomas Butler of Rathealin in the County of Catherlagh Knight duly sworne Deposeth THat after Walter Baggnall of Dunlickny in the County of Catherlagh Esquire Walter Butler with a great number of men had in a violent manner entred this Deponents House they not able to resist they set strict guard over this Deponent her husband and family and brought them from their setled dwelling unto Loghlin-Bridge where they kept her selfe her husband and children in restraint for two weekes and from thence conveyed them with strict guard to the towne of Kilkeny and there were brought before the Lord Mount Garro where Walter Bagnall James Butler brother to the Lord Mount Garrot did use all meanes possible to move the said Lord to put this Deponent her husband and family to death and torture alledging that they were rank Puritan Protestants and desperately provoking used these words saying There 's but one way we or they meaning Papists or Protestants must perish To which malicious provocation the said Lord did not hearken And this Deponent further deposeth that Walter Baggnall with his rebellious company apprehended Richard Lake an English Protestant and his servant with his wife and foure children and one Richard Taylor of Loghlin-Bridge his wife and children Samuel Hatter of the same his wife and children an English-woman called Jone and her daughter and was credibly informed by Dorathy Renals who had severall times bin an eye-witnesse of these lamentable spectacles that she had seen to the number of five and thirty English going to execution and that she had seen them when they were executed their bodies exposed to devouring Ravens and not afforded so much as burial Another English-woman who was newly delivered of two children in one Birth they violently compelled her in her great paine and sicknesse to rise from her childe-bed and tooke the infant that was left alive and dashed his braines against the stones and after threw him into the River of the Barrow and having a peece of Salmon to dinner Master Brian Cavanaghs wife being with her she the said Mistris Cavanagh refused to eat any part of the Salmon and being demanded the reason she said she would never eat any Fish that came out of the Barrow because she had seen severall infants bodies and other Carkases of the English taken up in the Weare And this Deponent saith that Sir Edward Butler did credibly informe her that James Butler of Finyhinch had hanged and put to death all the English that were at Gorane and Wells and all thereabouts And further Deposeth that she being in Kilkeny a prisoner in restraint and having intelligence that some of her owne Cattle were brought thither by Walter Bagnall she petitioned being in great extremity to the Lord of Mount Garrot to procure her some of her own Cattle for her reliefe whereupon he recommended her suit to the Major and Corporation of Kilkeny who concluded because she and her family were Protestants and would not turne to Masse they should have no reliefe Jane Jones servant to the Deponent did see the English formerly specified going to their execution and as she conceived they were about the number of five and thirty and was told by Elizabeth Homes that there were forty gone to execution Anne Butlar Jurat 7. Septemb. 1462. John Watson The EXAMINATION of Joseph Wheeler of Stancarty in the County of Kilkenny Esqu Elizabeth The Province of Lemster the relict of Lieutenant William Gilbert of Captaine Ridgwayes Company Rebecca Hill the relict of Thomas Hill late Lieutenant to the said Captaine Ridgway Thomas Lewes late of Kilkenny Gent. Jonas Wheeler of Stancarty aforesaid Gent. and Patrick Maxwel of the Graige in the same County Gent. sworne and examined depose and say THat about Easter 1642. one Richard Phillips and five others who were old Garrison Souldiers then under the command of Captaine Farrell a Captaine on his Majesties party were by the command of the Lord Mount Garrot at the end of a house in Kilkenny hanged to death by that cruell and bloody Rebell and Provost Marshall Thomas Cantwell of Cantwell-court Esquire or some of his servants or Souldiers in his presence who would hardly suffer them to say their prayers after they were taken out of the prison before they were put to death those poore men dying very patiently and resolutely in the maintainance of the Protestant Faith but one of them because he was an Irish man was offered his life if he would turne Papist but he chose rather death which he quickly had with the other five And further saith that a little before Christmas 1641. Master William Hill of the Abby of _____ in the Queenes County Esquire and the said Lieutenant Thomas Hill his sonne comming to Kilkenny to fetch home Mary Hill the wife of him the said William Hill and the said Rebecca one of these Deponents were then and there sent for by the Lord Mount Garrot and by him committed prisoners to the Goale of Kilkenny where they continued in a dark dungeon bolted for two moneths but were offered freedome if they would joyne with the Rebels and become Papists but they refused and after the said Lord Mount Garrot was gone into Munster with his Forces which was an example to call the rest of the wicked Irish there to rise into Rebellion one Florence Fitz Patrick of Castletowne in the Queens County Esquire a Captaine

of Rebels and his Souldiers came to Kilkenny and then and there without resistance of any broke open the Goale there and forcibly took and carried away with them into Ossory aforesaid the said William and Thomas Hill where they kept them in miserable durance for some time and then hanged them both and a poore young Girle being sent from the Towne of Ballinekill to see what was become of them the said Florence Fitz Patrick meeting her caused her to be halfe hanged then letten downe and after to be buried quicke And by report of one Jone Grace that said she was an eye-witnesse the Rebels threw the dead body of the said William and Thomas Hill into a Saw-pit leaving them so farre unburied that their heads and legs lay bare untill she came and covered them with earth about a week after And further saith that they have credibly heard and beleeve that the said Florence Fitz Patrick having enticed a rich Merchant of Montrath to his the said Fitz Patricks house to bring thither his goods which he promised should be safely protected and safely re-delivered he the said Florence Fiz Patrick possessing those goods afterwards caused the said Merchant and his wife to be hanged and they have credibly heard that the said Florence Fitz Patrick also hanged Lieutenant Keies and his sonne one Hughes a School-Master and divers other Protestants And these Deponents further say that Master Edmond Butler eldest sonne to the Lord Mount Garrot Edward Butler his second sonne Captaine Garret Balnckefield and divers other rebellious Commanders and souldiers to the number of 6 or 700 horse and foot a little before Michaelmas 1642. marched from Balliragget neer to the Iron Forge of Ballinekill and there met with Lieutenant Gilbert aforenamed Ensigne William Alfrey the younger Master Thomas Bingham the Minister Robert Graves Richard Bently and about sixty more of the English Souldiers both the same parties joyned in battle but the English Souldiers though fighting valiantly and killing many Rebels and one Walter Butler a Captaine among the rest were at the last so overcome with multitudes of the Rebels that then and there they the said LIEUTENANT Gilbert William Alfrey Thomas Bingham Robert Graves Richard Bently and two other English Souldiers were absolutely slaine and the heads of all those seven carried to Kilkenny by those Rebels their pipes for joy playing before them on horsback and on a market day which happened to be on the next day following those heads as triumphs of their Victories there brought out and set upon the Market-Crosse where the Rebels but especially the women there and amongst the rest Elice Butler a reputed mother of severall bastards yet the daughter of the said Mount Garrot stab'd cut and slasht those heads the said Elice Butler drawing her skeine slasht at the face of the said William Alfrey and hit him on the nose and those that could but get a blow or stab at those heads seemed to account themselves happy And the Rebels then and there put a gag in the mouth of the said Thomas Bingham the Minister and laying the leafe of a Bible before him bad him preach saying his mouth was open and wide enough and one of those leud viragoes that had no weapons strook one of the heads so with her hand that the same night her hand grew black and blew rankled and she was extreamly lame with it a quarter of a yeer after and that lamenesse and the swelling thereof growing to an issue is like to continue till she dye and another of those women that with great rejoycing went and saw those heads did quickly after the sight therof fell into such an astonishment and distraction that for three or four dayes after she could not sleep nor rest but cried out that still she saw those heads before her eyes which heads being said by the Rebels to be the heads of Hereticks were not afforded Christian buriall but buried without the City in a crosse high-way altogether in a hole the buriers chopping and cutting the heads with their Spades as they threw mold upon them and to make the manner of their buriall and the heads themselves yet more contemptible the Rebels over the hole where the heads were laid set up a long stick whereto they fixed papers that all may take notice of the place And after and from that time the rebellious roguish Boyes took up and frequently used an Oath By the Crosse of the seven devils heads buried on Saint James Green And further say that upon the testimony of a roguish Boy that an English man that was a Maulster to one Richard Shaw of Kilkenny had said He would beleeve the Devill as soon as the Pope the cruell Rebell the Provost Mashall Cantwell aforenamed suddenly took and hanged him up in an Apple-tree till he dyed And further saith that one Vnsill Grace and divers other Rebels in Kilkenny broke open the doors of the Cathedrall Church there and robbed the same Church of the Challices Surplices Ornaments Books Records and Writings there being and made Gunpowder in Saint Patricks Church and digged the Tombes and graves in the Churches in Kilkenny under colour of getting up molds whereon to make Gunpowder And these Deponents have credibly heard and verily beleeve that the Rebels at Goran took 25. Protestants men women and children and pretending and promising to them a Convoy to Duncannon hanged them dead in the way in a Wood neer Newrosse and that the Rebels halfe hanged five more Protestants at Balliragget by the command of the said Captaine Edward Butler and the said Thomas Cantwell the Marshall and letting them downe againe before they were dead suffered them somewhat to recover and then buried them quick And these Deponents Thomas Lewes Patrick Maxwell further say that as they have been credibly told by Walter Archer of Kilkenny a Rebell that a poore English mans wife that went out to gather sticks at a place about two miles from Kilkenny was taken and hanged up by the Rebels And the Deponents Elizabeth Gilbert Patrick Maxwell further say that a poore woman and two children she being the wife of one Harvey of Ballinekill comming to Kilkenny about Candlemas was twelve moneth were then and there assaulted and set upon by the rebellious Inhabitants of that City and hunted baited and drawne with dogs cruelly stab'd with skeines and so miserably used that one of the children died presently having the guts pluckt out and the Deponent Patrick Maxwel further saith that there were taken out of Graige by the Rebels and hanged to death one John Stone and his wife and his sonne William Valentine Robert Pyme and his wife one of their children of a yeer and a halfe old and Thomas White a Merchant and his wife who being great with child had her belly ripped up after she was hanged so as the child fell out of the cawle alive Walter Sherley Mistris Joane Salter an ancient Widow one John a servant to Stone aforenamed the