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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

Gent. did take William Blundell of Grange in the County of Armagh Yeoman and put a rope about his necke and threw him into the black water at Charlmount and drew him up and downe the water to make him confesse his money who thereupon gave him 21 pounds yet within three weeks after he his wife and seven Children were drowned by the Rebels And further saith that Samuel Law of Grenan in the Parish of Armagh was by the said Neile Oge O Neile and others brought to a Wood and that then they there put a With about his neck and so drew him up and downe by the necke untill he was glad to promise them ten pounds Jurat ut supra Some had ropes put about their necks and so drawn thorow the water some had Withes and so drawn up and down thorow Woods and Bogs others were hanged up and taken down and hanged up againe severall times and all to make them confesse their money which as soone as they had told 19 Margaret Fermeny in the County of Fermanagh deposeth That the Rebels bound her and her husbands hands behind them to make them confesse their money and dragged them up and downe in a rope and cut his throat in her owne sight with a skeane having first knocked him downe and stripped him and that being an aged woman of 75. yeers old as she came up afterwards to Dublin she was stripped by the Irish seven times in one day the Rebels bidding them goe and looke for their God and bid him give them cloaths Jurat they then dispatched them out of the way 20 Edward Wilson of the County of Monaughan deposeth that among other cruelties used by the Rebels to the English they hung up some by the armes and then hacked them with their swords to see how many blowes they could endure before they dyed Jurat Others were hanged up by the Armes and with many slashes and cuts they made the experiment with their Swords how many blowes an Englishman would endure before he dyed Some had their 21 Anne the wife of Mervin Madesly late of the City of Kilkenny Gent. sworne and examined deposeth That some of the Rebels in Kilkenny aforesaid struck and beat a poore English woman untill she was forced into a ditch where she dyed those barbarous Rebels having first ript up her child of about six yeers of age and let her guts run about her heels jurat Bellies ript up and so left with their guts running about their heels 21 James Geare of the County of Monaughan deposeth That the Rebels at Clewnis murdered one James Nettervile Proctor to the Minister there who although he was diversly wounded his belly ript up and his intrailes taken out and laid above a yard from him yet he bled not at all untill they lifted him up and carried him away at which this Deponent being an eye witnesse much wondered and thus barbarously they used him after they had drawne him to goe to Masse with them jurat April 6. 1642. But this horrid kinde of cruelty was principally reserved by these inhumane Monsters for 22 Owen Frankland of the City of Dublin deposeth That Michael Garray told this Deponent that there was a Scottish man who bring driven by the Rebels out of the Newry and knockt on the head by the Irish recovered himselfe and came againe into the Towne naked Whereupon the Rebels carried him and his wife out of the Towne cut him all to pieces and with a skeine ripped his wives belly so as a child dropped out of her womb Jurat July 23. 1642. Women whose sexe they neither pitied nor spared hanging up severall Women many of them great with childe whose 23 At Ballimcolough within foure miles of the City of Rosse in April 1642. John Stone of the Graige his sonne his two sons in law and his two daughters were hanged one of his daughters being great with child her belly was ript up her child taken forth and such barbarous beastly actions used to her as are not fit to be mentioned bellies they ripped up as they hung and so let the little Infants fall out a course they ordinarily tooke with such as they found in that sad condition 24 Phillip Taylor late of Portnedowne deposeth that the Rebels killed a Dyers wife of Rosse trever at the Newry and ript up her belly she being great with child of two children and threw her and her children into a ditch and that he this Deponent drove away Swine from eating one of the children Jurat And sometimes they gave their Children to Swine 25 John Montgomery of the County of Monaghan sworn and examined saith that one Brian Mac Erony ringleader of the Rebels in the County of Fermanagh killed Ensign Floyd Robert Worknum and four of their servants one of which they having wounded though not to death they buried quick As also that he was credibly informed that the daughter in law of one Foard in the Parish of Clownish being delivered of a child in the fields the Rebels who had formerly killed her husband and father killed her and two of her children and suffered the dogs to eat up and devour her new borne Child jurat June 26. 1641. Some the Dogges eat and some 26 Katherine the relict of William Coke of the County of Armagh Carpenter deposeth That the Rebels of the said County robbed stripped and murthered a great company of Protestants some by burning some by the sword some by hanging and the rest by starving and other deaths And this Deponent to shun their rage and save her poore life hid her selfe in a ditch of water and sate there among high rushes so long as that she was almost frozen and starved to death and then crawled away secretly And further saith that some of the Rebels that escaped and fled from the battell of Lisnagaruay meeting one Mistreis Howard and Mistreis Frankland both great with child and six of their children with them those Rebels then and there with their pikes killed and murdered them all and after ripped open the Gentlewomens bellies took out their children the one of them being quick and threw them into a ditch in the sight of Jane this Deponents daughter who escaped because she spake Irish and said she was an Irish woman jurat Feb. 24. 1643. taken alive out of their Mothers bellies they cast into ditches And for sucking children and others of a riper age some 27 James Stevenson Clerke of the County of Letrim deposeth that the Rebels there took Isabel Stevonson a young child left at Fostering with one Hugh Mac Arran and enquiring whose child it was they told him it was a Scottish mans child whereupon they tooke the child by the heels and run and beat the braines of it out against a Tree jurat April 20. 1643. had their braines knockt out others 28 Anne Hill wife of Arthur Hill in the County of Caterlagh deposeth that as she passed through the County of Wickloe William the Plasterer with nine

threescore yeers or thereabouts sworn and examined before his Majesties Commissioners by vertue of a Commission in that behalf directed under the great Seale of Ireland Deposeth and saith THat these Protestant Ministers following about the beginning of the present Rebellion were murthered in the Counties of Tyrone Armagh viz. Master John Matthew Master Blyth Master Hastings Master Smith Master Durragh Master Birge and eight more whose names this Deponent hath forgotten by the Rebels none of which would the Rebels permit to be buried the names of such as murthered this Examinant knoweth not his cause of knowledge of the said murthers is that some of his this Deponents servants who were among the Rebels did give him the relation and he verily beleeveth them and besides this Deponent heard the same confessed and averred by many of the Rebels themselves and by some of those Protetestants that had escaped and that he this Deponent was a prisoner amongst the Rebels at Castle Gaufield neer the place of those murders where he continued fourteen moneths And further saith that in Dungannon in the County of Tyrone or neer thereunto the Rebels murdered three hundred and sixteen Protestants and between Charlmount and Dungannon above four hundred there were murdered and drowned at and in the River by Benburb the Black-water between the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone two hundred and six Protestants and Patrick Mac Crew of Dungannon aforesaid murdered thirty one in one morning and two young Rebels viz. John Begbrian Harie murdered in the said County of Tyrone one hundred and forty poore women and children that could make no resistance and that the wife of Brian Kelly of Loghgall in the County of Armagh one of the Rebels Captaines did with her owne hands murder forty five And this Deponent further saith that one Thomas King sometimes Serjeant to the late Lord Caulfields Company which this Deponent commanded he being enforced to serve under the Rebels and was one of their Provest Marshals gave the Deponent a List of every housholders name so murdered and the number of the persons so murdered which List this Deponent durst not keep At Portadowne there were drowned at severall times about three hundred and eight who were sent away by about forty or such like numbers at once with convoyes and there drowned There was a Lawgh neer Loghgall aforesaid where were drowned above two hundred of which this Deponent was informed by severall persons and particularly by the wife of Doctor Hodges and two of her sons who were present and designed for the like end but by Gods mercy that gave them favour in the eyes of some of the Rebels they escaped and the said Mistris Hodges and her sons gave the Deponent a List of the names of many of those that were so drowned which the Deponent durst not keep and saith that the said Doctor Hodges was imployed by Sir Phelim O Neile to make Powder but he failing of his undertaking was first halfe hanged then cut down and kept prisoner three moneths then murdered with forty four more within a quarter of of a mile Charlmount aforesaid they being by Tirlogh Oge O Neile brother to Sir Phelim sent to Dungannon prisoners and in the way murdered This Deponent was shewed the pit where they were all cast in at a Mill-pond in the Parish of Killamen in the County of Tyrone there were drowned in one day three hundred and in the same Parish there were murdered of English and Scottish one thousand and two hundred as this Deponent was informed by Master Birge the late Minister of the said Parish who certified the same under his hand which note the Deponent durst not keep The said Master Birge was murthered three moneths after all which murders were in the first breaking out of the Rebellion but the particular times this Deponent cannot remember neither the persons by whom they were committed This Deponent was credibly informed by the said Serjeant and others of this Deponents servants who kept company with the Rebels and saw the same that many young children were cut into quarters and gobbets by the Rebels and that eighteen Scottish Infants were hanged on a Clothiers tenterhook and that they murthered a young fat Scottish man and made candles of his grease they took another Scottish man and ripped up his belly that they might come to his small guts the one end whereof they tyed to a tree and made him goe round untill he had drawne them all out of his body they then saying that they would try whether a dogs or a Scotch mans guts were the longer Anthony Stratford Deposeth March 9. 1643. before us Henry Jones Henry Brereton The EXAMINATION of Robert Maxwell Clerk The Province of Ulster Arch-Deacon of Downe sworne and examined deposeth and saith inter alia THat by command from Sir Phelim O Neile the Rebels dragged the Deponents brother Lieutenant James Maxwell out of his bed in the rage and height of a burning Feaver and least any of his acquaintance or friends should bury him they carried him two miles from any Church and there cruelly butchered him when he neither knew what he did or said and thus Sir Phelim paid him two hundred and sixty pound which he owed him And his wife Grissell Maxwell being in child-birth the child halfe born and halfe unborne they stript starke naked drove her about an arrowes flight to the Black-water and drowned her The like they did to another English woman in the same Parish in the beginning of the Rebellion which was little inferiour if not more unnaturall and barbarous then the roasting of Master Watson alive after they had cut a collop out of either buttock And farther saith that a Scottish woman was found in the Glinwood lying dead her belly ripped up and a living child crawling in her wombe cut out of the Cawle and that Master Starkey School-Master at Armagh he a Gentleman of good Parentage and parts being upwards of an hundred yeers of age they stript naked caused two of his Daughters Virgins being likewise naked to support him under each arme he being not able to goe of himselfe And in that posture carried them all three a quarter of a mile to a turfe pit and drowned them feeding the lusts of their eyes and the cruelty of their hearts with the self-same objects at the same time At the siege of Augher they would not kill any English Beast and then eat it but they cut collops out of them being alive letting them there rore till they had no more flesh upon their backs so that sometimes a Beast would live two or three days together in that torment the like they did at Armagh when they murdered Hugh Echlin Esquire they hanged and murdered all his Irish servants which had any way proved faithfull or usefull to him during this Rebellion And as touching exemplary constancy in Religion this Deponent saith that Henry Cowell Esquire a gallant and well bred Gentleman was murdered because he

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