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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

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

made for a Well and made her fast in with stones whereof she languished and dyed the Rebels bragged how many of them went to see her kick and tosse in the hole her husband being formerly murdered by the Rebels jurat ut supra actuated with all kind of circumstances that might aggravate the hight of their cruelty towards them Alas who can comprehend the feares terrours anguish bitternesse and perplexity of their souls the despairing passions and consternations of their mind What strange amazed thoughts must it needs raise in their sad hearts to find themselves so sodainly surprized without remedy and inextricably wrapt up in all kind of outward miseries which could possibly by man be inflicted upon any humane creatures What sighes groanes trembling astonishment What schriches cryes and bitter lamentation of wife and children friends and servants howling and weeping about them all finding themselves without any manner of hope or deliverance from their present misery and paine How inexorable were their barbarous tormentors that compassed them on every side without all bowels of compassion any sense of their sufferings or the least commiseration and pitty the common comforters of men in misery It was no small addition to their sorrows to hear 54 Francis Barbour of Dublin Gent. deposeth that at the beginning of the Rebellion he heard severall of the Rebels publikely say That now the day was their own and that they had been slaves to the English a long time but that now they would be revenged to the full and would not leave before Christmas day an English Protestant rogue living with other like bitter words jurat Jan. 5. 1643. the base reviling speeches used against their country and country-men some loudly threatning 55 Elizabeth the wife of Thomas Green deposeth that she heard the Rebels say the English were meat for dogs that there should not be one drop of English blood left within the Kingdom and that they would destroy all the very English children whom they called bastards jurat Novemb. 10. 1643. 55 Richard Cleybrook deposeth that he heard Luke Toole say that they would not leave an English Beast alive or any of the breed of them jurat 55 Samuel Man of the County of Fermanagh Gent. deposeth that he heard some of the Irish say that there should not be one English man woman or child left in the Kingdome jurat 55 Elizab. Dickinson deposeth that she heard some of the company of Roury Mac Guire say that the Irish had command to leave never a drop of English blood in Ireland jurat Novemb. 17. 1642. Katherine Madeson of the County of Fermanagh deposeth that she hath often heard the Rebels say that they would drive all the English and Scottish out of the Kingdome and that both man woman and child should be cut off and destroyed jurat Novemb. 17. 1642. all should be cut off and utterly destroyed that had one drop of English blood in them the Irish women crying out to spare neither man woman nor child that was English that the English was meat for dogs and their children bastards How grievous and insupportable must it needs be to a true christian soule to hear a base 56 Elenor Fullerton the relict of Wil. Fullerton late Parson of Lougall deposeth that in Lent 1641. a young roguish Cow-boy gave out and affirmed in this Deponents hearing that his hands were so weary in killing and knocking downe Protestants into a bog-pit that he could hardly lift his armes to his head jurat Septemb. 16. 1642. 56 Owen Frankland deposeth that he heard Hugh O Cane late servant to Mistris Stanhaw calling to his fellows in a boasting manner asking them what they had been doing at home all the day that he had been abroad and had killed sixteen of the rogues and shewed them some money jurat ut supra villaine boast that his hands were so weary with killing and knocking downe Protestants into a bogge that he could not lift his armes up to his head or others to say 57 Elizabeth Champion late wife of Arthur Champion in the County of Fermanagh Esquire saith that she heard the Rebels say that they had killed so many English men that the grease or fat which remained upon their swords and skeines might well serve to make an Irish candle jurat April 14. 1642. that they had killed so many English men that the grease or fat which remained on their swords or skeines might have made an Irish candle or to consider that two 58 John Birne late of Dongannon in the county of Tyrone deposeth that he heard some of the native Irish that were somewhat more mercifull then the rest complaine that two young Cow-boyes within the Parish of Tullah had at severall times murdered and drowned 36. women and children jurat Jan. 12. 1643. young Cow-boys should have it in their power to murder 36. Protestants Whosoever shall seriously weigh these particulars will not much wonder that so great numbers of British and Protestants should be destroyd in so short a time after the first breaking out of the Rebellion as Master Cunningham 59 James Shaw a Minister deposeth that after the cessation made with the Irish divers of them confessed the Priests had given them the Sacrament upon condition they should not spare man woman or child that were Protestants and that he heard divers of them say in a bragging manner that it did them much good to wash their hands in the blood of the Protestants which they had slaine Jurat Jan. 7. 1643. deposeth in his Examination He there saith that the account of the persons killed by the Rebels from the time of the beginning of the Rebellion Octob. 23. 1641. unto the month of April following was as the Priests weekly gave it in in their severall Parishes one hundred and five thousand jurat April 22. 1641. When the Castle of Lisgoole 60 Elizabeth Champin deposeth that when the Rebels had set the Castle of Lisgoole on fire upon the Protestants there enclosed and saw the said house so burning they said among themselves rejoycingly Oh how sweetly doe they fry jurat ut supra was set on fire by the Rebels and so many British as are before mentioned consumed in the flames those mischievous villaines that had done that wicked fact cryed out with much joy how sweetly do they fry How did the Inhabitants 61 William Lucas of the City of Kilkenny deposeth that although he lived in the Towne till about five or six weeks past in which time he is assured divers murders and cruell acts were committed yet he durst not goe abroad to see any of them But he doth confidently beleeve that the Rebels having brought seven Protestants heads whereof one was the head of Master Bingham a Minister they did then and there as triumphs of their victory set them up on the Market-Crosse on a Market-day and that the Rebels slasht stab'd and mangled those heads put a gag or carret in the said Master Binghams mouth slit up

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

Rebels that hanged them were Garret Forrestall of Knockive and Gibbon Forrestall of Tinyhinch and the eldest son of Richard Barron alias Fitz Geraldine of Knockeen aforesaid and divers others whom she cannot name all of the County of Caterlagh which said Robert Pyme after he was hanged up twice proved alive in his grave and stroke his hand upon his brest saying Christ receive my soule and with those words in his mouth was then and there buried quick and one of those poore Protestants at Goran by name Fristoram Robinson the Rebels hanged him twice thrust him through with darts but he still continuing alive and speaking they buried him quick And this Deponent Jonas Wheeler further saith that one old English Protestant who was a Shepheard and his wife going from Kilkenny towards Ballidownell the Rebels hanged up the poor old man and going a little off his wife perceiving breath in her husband said unto him Oh joy you are alive yet which when some of the Rebels over-hearing hanged him out-right and dragged him up and downe untill his bowels fell out then his wife desiring them to hang her too but they refused And saith that this Deponent asking the Rebels of Kilkenny how they durst doe what they did considering the King was against them they answered that if the King would not hold with them they could have forty thousand to come to assist them out of France Spain and bring ammunition and armes enough and all things necessary and fight against the King and the English And the Deponent Elizabeth Gilbert further saith that she heard one James Eustace a servant to the Rebell Colonell Cullen say publiquely in Master Joseph Wheelers house in Kilkenny Let the King take heed for if they meaning the Irish had not their owne desires they would bring in a forraigne King and one Tristram Dyer a Protestant was as his wife told this Deponent murthered in a Wood with his owne Hatchet and covered with Leaves and Mosse EXAMINATIONS touching the Apparitions at Portnedowne-Bridge within the Province of ULSTER JAmes Shaw of Market-hill in the County of Armagh Inne-keeper deposeth that many of the Irish Rebels in the time of this Deponents restraint and staying among them told him very often and that it was a common report that all those that lived about the Bridge of Portnedowne were so affrighted with the cries and noise made there of some spirits or visions for revenge as that they durst not stay but fled away thence so as they protested affrighted to Market-hill saying they durst not stay nor returne thither for feare of those cries and spirits but took grounds and made creats in or neer the Parish of Mullabrack Jurat Aug. 14. 1642. Joane the relict of Gabriel Constable late of Drumard in the County of Armagh Gent. deposeth and saith that she hath often heard the Rebels Owen O Farren Patrick O Conellan and divers others of the Rebels at Drumard earnestly say protest and tell one another that the blood of some of those that were knockt in the heads and afterwards drowned at Portadowne-Bridge still remained on the Bridge and would not be washed away and that often there appeared visions or apparitions sometimes of men sometimes of women brest-high above the water at or neer Portadowne which did most extreamly and fearfully scriech and cry out for vengeance against the Irish that had murdered their bodies there and that their cryes and scrieches did so terrifie the Irish thereabouts that none durst stay nor live longer there but fled and removed further into the Country and this was a common report amongst the Rebels there and that it passed for a truth amongst them for any thing she could ever observe to the contrary Jurat Jan. 1. 1643. Katherine the relict of William Coke late of the County of Armagh Carpenter sworne and examined saith that about the 20. of December 1641. a great number of Rebels in that County did most barbarously drowne at that time one hundred and eighty Protestants men women and children in the River at the Bridge of Portnedowne and that about nine dayes afterwards she saw a vision or spirit in the shape of a man as she apprehended that appeared in that river in the place of the drowning bolt upright brest-high with hands lifted up stood in that posture there untill the latter end of Lent next following about which time some of the English Army marching in those parts whereof her husband was one as he and they confidently affirmed to this Deponent saw that spirit or vision standing upright and in the posture aforementioned but after that time the said spirit or vision vanished and appeared no more that she knoweth And she heard but saw not that there were other Visions and Apparitions and much scriching and strange noyse heard in that RIVER at times afterwards Jurat February 24. 1643. Elizabeth the wife of Captaine Rice Price of Armagh deposeth and saith that she and other women whose husbands were murdered hearing of divers Apparitions and Visions which were seen neere Portnedowne-Bridge since the drowning of her Children and the rest of the Protestants there went unto the Bridge aforesaid about twilight in the evening then and there upon a sudden there appeared unto them a Vision or Spirit assuming the shape of a woman waste-high upright in the water naked with elevated and closed hands her haire hanging down very white her eyes seemed to twinckle and her skin as white as snow which spirit seemed to stand straight up in the water often repeated the word REVENGE REVENGE REVENGE whereat this Deponent and the rest being put into a strong amazement and affright walked from the place Jurat January 29. 1642. Arthur Culme of Clowoughter in the County of Cavan Esquire deposeth that he was credibly informed by some that were present there that there were thirty women and young children and seven men flung into the River of Belterbert and when some of them offered to swim for their lives they were by the Rebels followed in Cots and knocked on the heads with poles the same day they hanged two women at Turbert and this Deponent doth verily beleeve that Mulmore O Rely the then Sheriffe had a hand in the commanding the murder of those said persons for that he saw him write two Notes which he sent to Turbert by Bryan Rely upon whose comming these murders were committed And those persons who were present also affirmed that the bodies of those thirty persons drowned did not appeare upon the water till about six weeks after past as the said Rely came to the Towne all the bodies came floting up to the very Bridge those persons were all formerly stayed in the Town by his protection where the rest of their Neighbours in the Town went away Elizabeth Price wife of Michael Price of the Newry deposeth that Sir Con Mac Gennis suffered his Souldiers the Rebels to kill Master Turge Minister of the Newry and severall other Protestants and