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Body of Godfrey found at Primrose Hill
Primrose Hill · street · Dublin · 1678
After the murder, Godfrey's body was carried out and dumped in a ditch near Primrose Hill (also called Greenbury Hill), close to a public house called the White House, with his sword run through him to suggest suicide.
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npon a horse, with Hill behind him, him, -till they got to Primroscloir as it is cnlled by some, Green-Bury iDear a public house, called the White % and there threw him into a ditch, his g'loves and cane on a bank near Hid his own sword run through him, \rposo to persuade the world he had
Ltmsolf. Very cunningly making I of a pHce to lay him where they
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Death and Burial of Bishop Bedell
Kilmore · townland · Cavan · 1642
Bishop Bedell, aged 71, died of fever on 7 February 1642 after his ordeal, and was buried with difficulty after the intruding bishop initially refused, claiming the churchyard was too holy for heretics; mourners fired a volley crying that the last of the English should rest in peace.
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He was at this time in the 71st year of his age, and being afflicted with a violent ague caught in his late cold and desolate habitation on the lake, it. soon threw him into a fever of the most dangerous nature. Finding his dissolution at hai^, he received it with joy, like one of the primitive martyrs just hiastening to his crown of glory. After having addressed his little floel^ and exhorted them to patience, in the most pathetic manner, as they saw their own last day approaching; after having solemnly blessea his people, his family, and his chit dren, he finished the course of his ministry and life together, on the 7th of f^ebruary, 1642. .
His friends and relations applied to the intruding bishop, for leave to bury him, which was with difficulty obtained ; he, at first, telling them, that the church-yard was holy ground, and should be no longer defiled with heretics : however, leave was at last granted, and though the church funeral service was not used at the solemnity, (fur fear of the Irish papists) yet. some of j tlic better sort, who had the lughest vene.
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Imprisonment at Loughwater Castle in Freezing Conditions
Lough Oughter · lake or lakes · Cavan · 1641–1642
Bishop Bedell, his family and other Protestants were forced into the ruinous, roofless castle of Loughwater on a lake, where they were stripped and endured freezing December conditions for weeks, daily expecting death, until released on 7 January.
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SooA after this, the papists*, forced Dr. Bedell, his two sons, and the rest 6f his family, with some of the chief of .the Protestants whom he had protected,, into a ruinous castle, called Locf^ water, situated in a lake near the sea. Here he remained with his- companions some weeks, all of them daily expecting to be put to ' death. The ' greatest paft cithern were stripped naked, by which means, as the season, ivas cold, (it being in the month of December,) and the bqilding in which they were confibed open at me top, they safibred the Qiost severe hardships. • They continued in this situation till 4e . 7th of January,' when they were all released.- The bishop was courteously re^ ceived into the house of Dennis 0*»heridan, one'of his clergy, whojn he had made a coQvert to the church of England; hot he didt not long survive this kindness.
During his residence here, he spent the whole ofhis time in religious exercises, the better to fit and prepare himself, and his sorrowfijl companions, for their great change, as nothing hut certain death was perpetually before their eyea
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Relief of Londonderry siege raised
Derry · street · Tipperary · 1689
Succors arrived by ship, the Mountjoy of Derry and the Phoenix of Coleraine, at which point only nine lean horses remained; the siege was raised on 31 July after continuing upwards of three months.
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But the succors from England liappily arriving, put an end to their afHiction ; and the siege was- f^ised on the 31st of July, naving been continued upwards of three months.
The day before the siege of Londonderry was raised, the Inniskillencrs engaged a My of 6(K)0 Irish Roman Catholics, at Newton Butler, or Crown Castle, of whom near t'MKX) were slain. This, with tlie defeat at Londonderry, so much dispirited the papists, that the^ gave up all fartlier attempts at that tune to persecute the Protestants.
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Siege of Londonderry begins
Derry · street · Tipperary · 1689
The remarkable siege of Londonderry was opened on 18 April 1689 by 20,000 papists, the flower of the Irish army; the city was defended by only 7361 raw and disciplined fighting men.
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The renoarkable siege of Londonderry .was opened on the 18th of April, 16d9, by ^,000 papists, the flower or the Irish army. The city was not properly circuin-
e papists, it amouiitcd to l.lOflKK). Butjstanced to sustain a aioge, the defenders now remains that we proceed to the par-.! consisting of a body of raw undisciplined luhtrs that followed. I Protestants, who had fled thither for shel-
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Spanish Landing and Defeat at Kinsale, 1601
Kinsale · town · Cork · 1601
In 1601 the Spanish disembarked 4,000 men at Kinsale in support of a 'holy war' for the Catholic faith in Ireland, aided by many Irish, but were ultimately defeated by the deputy Lord Mountjoy and his officers.
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ianls, too, by landing forces in the south, and giving every encouragement to tlio di.«contenti»d natives to join their stamlard, kept the island in a continunl state of turbulence and warfare. In KHJl they ilisembarked a hodv of 40(K) men at Kinsale, nnd commenced what they cnlled '^ ihv hohj war firr the prrscrvaiion of thr. faith in Ire' Iftnd ;^^ tnev were assisted by great nunil)ers of the Irish, but were at length totally defeated by the deputy, lord Mountjoy, and his (officers.
This closed the transactions of Elizabeth's reign with respect to Ireland ; an interval of apparent tranquillity followed,
Internet Archive ahistorylivessu00foxegoog, Chapter 386
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Coming up through Kinsale now. In 1601 the Spanish landed 4,000 men here and launched what they called "the holy war for the preservation of the faith in Ireland." Great numbers of the Irish joined them, but they were ultimately defeated by the deputy Lord Mountjoy and his officers. It closed Elizabeth's reign with respect to Ireland, and an interval of apparent tranquillity followed.
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Drowning of Protestants in the River Bann
near River Bann · river · Derry · 1641
As the river Bann was not fordable and the bridge broken down, the Irish forced together at different times a great number of unarmed Protestants and thrust above 1000 into the river with pikes and swords, where they perished.
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is time near Armagh, and suffered greatly Dim these merciless savages. This clergyan, in his examination, taken uobn oath }|bre the king's commissioners, declared,. at the Irish papists owned to him, that ey had destroyed in one place, at Glyn- M« 13,000 Protestant^ in their flight JMn the county of Armagh. - - As the riv'^r Bann was- not . fordable, and e .bridge broken down, the Irish forced ither, at different times, a great- number ' unarmed,' defenceless Protestants, and Ub pikes and sWords yiblcntiv thrust ibve 1000 into the river, where they misftUy ))eri8bed. Nor did the cathedral of Armagh escape
^&nr of these.. barbarians, it bciiig ma- mveterate enemy to the ProD^^ts. By gously. set on fire by their leaders; and* his orders they were again persecuted in lAit'tt) the .^und. Ajid to qxtirpate, if {various parts of the ^ii^om. The reVe- «ible, the very race of^ those unhappy nuesofthe city of Dubliti were seized, and "0teii6LntB, who lived m or near Armagh, most of die ihtirches converted ipto prisons. Irish' fiF^t burnt all their houses, and And. ha(d it not been for the resolution- .and
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Minister's mutilation and heads displayed at market cross
Kilkenny · city · Kilkenny · 1641
Seven Protestants' heads, including that of a pious minister, were fixed up at the market cross; the minister had been gagged, his cheeks slit to his ears, and a Bible leaf laid before him in mockery, being told to preach.
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After committing these and various other horrid cruelties, they took the heads of seven Protectants, and among them tliat of a pious minister, all which they fixed up at the market cross. They put a gag into the minister's mouth, then slit his cheeks to his ears, and laying a leaf of a Bible before it, bid him preach, for his mouth was wide enough. They did several other things by way of derision, and expressed the greatest satisfaction at having thus murdered and exposed the unhappy Protestants.
It is impossible to conceive the pleasure these monsters took in exercising their cruelty ; and to increase the misery of those who fell into their hands, while they were butchering them, they would cry, "Your soul to the devil!"
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Spanish Armada survivors slaughtered on the Irish coast
Ireland · place · 1588
Ships of the defeated Spanish Armada were wrecked upon the Irish shore as they fled around Scotland and Ireland. Survivors who made it ashore met a grim fate: some were killed by the local Irish, while others were deliberately destroyed by English forces fearing they would join with the Irish population.
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The Spaniards, seeing all hopes fail, fled amain ; and so this great navy, being three years preparing, with great expense, was within one month overthrown, and after many were killed, being chased again, was driven about all England, by Scotland, the Orcades, and Ireland, tossed and damaged with tempests, much diminished, and went home without glory. There were not a hundred men of the English lost, and but one ship. Whereupon money was coined with a navy fleeing away in full sail, witli this inscription, Venit^ Vidit, Fugit. Others were coined with the ships on fire, the navy confounded, inscribed, in honor of the queen. Dux Fctmina Factu As they fled, it is certain that many of their ships were cast away upon the shores of Scotland and Ireland. ' Above seven hundred .soldiers and mariners were cast away upon the Scottish shore, who, at the duke of Parma's intercession with the Scotch king, the queen of England consenting, were, after a year, sent inU) Flanders. But they that were cast upon the Irish shore came to more miserable fortunes ; for some were killed by the wild Irish, and others were destroyed for fear they should join themselves witli the wild Irish (which cruelty queen Elizabeth much condemned), and th^ rest being afraid, sick, and hungry, with their disabled ships, committed themselves to the sea, and many were drowned.
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Deceitful conversion and murder at Glaslow
Glaslough · town · Monaghan · 1641
At a place called Glaslow, a popish priest and others persuaded ten Protestants to convert to Rome under the false hope of saving their lives, then immediately cut their throats.
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At a place called Glaslow, a popish priest, woman they hurig on a gibbet, wUiif with some others, prevailo«l on 10 Protest- 'child, an mfant about a twelTemonth aNL ants to be reconciled to the church of Roipe, |the latter of whom waa hnng hf Ike mH under the vain Hope of saving their lives, j with the hair of iia mnther'a hend^aadii They had no sooner done this, than the d^ that maiinef finished ila ahort bat ceivers told them they were in a good fiiith, and that they would prevent their falling fmm it, and tuminsr heretics:, bv sending them out of the world ; which thev did bv |minaiin(r whole fcniilifiiaionre. is dm y«f aliiilia
mimediately cutting their throat. ' " :rJ^'^^b^l^e1K^"^^
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Total massacre of Protestants in Kilkenny
Kilkenny · city · Kilkenny · 1641
In Kilkenny all the Protestants, without exception, were put to death, some in extraordinarily cruel manners including an Englishwoman beaten nearly to pieces and thrown into a ditch, and her child's belly ripped open.
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In Kilkenny all the Protestants, without exception, were put to death ; and some of them in so cruel a manner, as, perhaps, was never before thought of.
They beat an Englishwoman with such savage barbarity, that she had scarce a whole bone left; after which thej; threw her into a ditch ; but not satisfied with this, they took her child, a girl of about six years of age, and after ripping up its bell^, threw It to its mother, there to languish tiU it perished.
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17 men hanged and family drowned at Clownes
Clones · town · Monaghan · 1641
At Clownes 17 men were shot, and an Englishman, his wife, five children, and a servant maid were all hanged together and afterwards thrown into a ditch.
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In some places they plucked out the eyes, [persecutors, and cut off the hands of the Protestants, I At Clownes 17 men were. ^rMt atnv. and in that condition turned them intb the iand an Englisbmao, his wife, fine chiltoi fields, theK to linger out the remainder of and a servant nwid, were all bang tqgflhn; their miserable existence. and afterwards thtowm into a ditcfa. *'
They obliged many young men to force Tjiey hung many by the arms to their aged parents to a river, where they !of tree^ with a weight tn tfairif i were drowned; wives to assist fn hanging 'others by the middle, in which their husbands; and mothers to cut theVthey left them till they expired. ! throats of their children. | Several wer^ hung- on wa^diajk 9ti
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Burning of Protestants at Lisgoole Castle
Lisgoole · townland · Fermanagh · 1641
At the castle of Lisgoole, upwards of 150 men, women and children were all burnt together during the massacre.
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In the castle of Lisgool upwards of lijO I desired to speak with the jgweinui.
men, women, and children, were all burnt being admitted, he immedately together ; and at the castle of Moneah not records of the county, whidi weie M K>8s than 100 were put to the sword. Great there. He then deomnded lOOQL of m numbers wcto also murdered at the castle > governor, which having receivedi hs i of Tullali, which was delivered up tn dtately compelled biro to hearoMH^ ■ .AFGuire, on'condition of having fair nunr-! swear that he would contintiesotoda tor; but no sooner had that base villain got to complete his horrid barbaritiei^ be possession of the place, than he ordere<! ed the wife and children of the his followers to nmrder the people, which | to be hung up before his &ce; was immediately done with the greatest ! sacring at least 100 of the i cruelty. Upwards of 1000 men.
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Execution of the Duke of Northumberland on Tower Hill
Tower Hill · hill or hills · Mayo · 1553
The Duke of Northumberland was beheaded on Tower Hill as the first act of Mary's vengeance against supporters of Lady Jane Grey. He died unpitied, taunted on the scaffold by spectators who remembered his treatment of the Duke of Somerset.
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The first of these was the duke of Northumberland, who WTis beheaded on Towerliill, and who, in consequence of his crimes, arising from ambition, died unpitied : nay, he was even taunted on the scaffold by the spectators, who knew in what manner he had acted to the good duke of Somerset.
The other executioM that fbHowed we numerous indeed, but as tliey were all ap the statute of high treaaon, they cann with any degree S^ propriety, be appli«l ProtestantB, or, as they were then callc heretics. The parliament was pliant eooiii to comply with all the queen's teqnesta, ai an act passed to establish the popish religio This wfA what the queen waited for, ai power bein^ now put into her hands, il was determined to exercise it in the mo arbitrary manner. She was destitnte i human compassion, and without the least r luctancc could tyrannise over the cooscieno of men.
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Treacherous massacre en route to Coleraine
near Coleraine · town · Derry · 1641
Rebels gathered together many hundreds of innocent Protestants, young and old, near Armagh under pretence of a safe-conduct to Coleraine, then treacherously fell on them by the way and murdered them.
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en gathered together many hundi^eds of Ase innocent people, young and old, on etence of allowing them a guard -and. safenduct to Coleraine ; when they treacher- B)y .fell on them by the way, and inhu- BDly murdered them. The like horrid barbarities with those we ▼e piarticularizcd, were practised on thei retched JPlptestantd in ahiiost all parts of e kingdom ; and, when an estimate was :erWards made of the number who were cfiflced to gratify the diabolical souls of
city of lioadonderryj and the town of Iniiiskillen, . there had • not one place -remained for refuge to the distressed Protestants in the whole kiogdona; but all hiust have been given up to king James, and. to the furious popisli party ^t governed him.
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Ridley's degradation at the Mayor's house in Oxford
Oxford · townland · Mayo · 1555
On 15 October 1555, Dr Brooks, bishop of Gloucester, and other Oxford officials came to the house of the mayor, Mr Irish, where Ridley was held prisoner, to offer him the queen's mercy if he would recant. Ridley refused, and the ceremony of degrading him from priesthood, stripping his vestments, was carried out there before his execution.
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"On the 15th day of October, in the morning. Dr. ^rooks,'. bishop of Gloucester, and the vice-chancellor of Oxford, Dr. Marshall, with others df the chief and head^ of the same imivcraity, and many others accompanying theqf), -came to the bouse of Mr. Iri^, mayor of OxfM, where Dr. Ridley was a elo^ prisoner. And when the bishop of Gloucester came into the chamber . where Dr. Ridley lay, he told him for what purpose their coming' was^ saying, 'That yet once again the queen's majesty did 6f^T unto him, by them, her. gracfouis merqy, if he would receive it, and come hotno again to the faith in which he was baptized. And further said, *That if he would ndt recant and become one of the Catholic church with them, tlion they must needs (against their wills) proceed according to the law, which ^ey would be very loth to do, ^
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Bishop Bedell's Charity and Persecution at Kilmore
Kilmore · townland · Cavan · 1641–1642
At Kilmore, Bishop Bedell sheltered many Protestant refugees but was forcibly dragged from his residence, which was seized by the rival popish bishop Dr Swiney, who said mass there and confiscated Bedell's goods.
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who had fled from their habitations to cape the diabolical cruelties committed by the papists. But they dkl not kms^ enjoy the consolation of living together; the good prelate was forcibly dragged from his episcopal residence, which was immediately occupied by Dr. Swiney, the popish titular bishop of Kilmore, who said mass in the church the Sunday following, and then seized on all the goods and- e&cts helong^ ing to the persecuted bishop.
SooA after this, the papists*, forced Dr. Bedell, his two sons, and the rest 6f his family, with some of the chief of .the Protestants whom he had protected,, into a ruinous castle, called Locf^ water, situated in a lake near the sea. Here he remained with his- companions some weeks, all of them daily expecting to be put to ' death. The ' greatest paft cithern were stripped naked, by which means, as the season, ivas cold, (it being in the month of December,) and the bqilding in which they were confibed open at me top, they safibred the Qiost severe hardships. • They continued in this situation till 4e . 7th of January,' when they were all released.- The bishop was courteously re^ ceived into the house of Dennis 0*»heridan, one'of his clergy, whojn he had made a coQvert to the church of England; hot he didt not long survive this kindness.
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First Reformed Service Read at Christ Church, Dublin
Christ Church Cathedral · ecclesiastical site · Dublin · 1551
The English liturgy was first read publicly in Ireland at Christ Church, Dublin on Easter-day 1551, before the lord-deputy, archbishop Browne and others. This marked the formal introduction of Protestant worship into the kingdom.
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After the accession of Edward YI. to the throne of Enijinnd, an order was directed to Sir Anthony lifter, the lord-deputy of Ireland, coniiiiiinding that the liturgy in En<jlish l>o forthwith w3t up in Ireland, tJiere to be ol)j!nrvod within the several bitjlioprics, oathodrulti, and iiiirish churches ; and it was first read in Clirist-church, Dublin, on Eaeter-<lnv, lool, before the said Sir Anthony, archhi'shop Browne, and others. Part of the royal order for tliis purpose was as foliowj) :
** Whereas our gndoos fiitheri kinc Hoij VIII. taking into consideration the boodM and heavy yoke that his true' and mm subjects sustained, under the jurisdictioB tf the bidiop of Rome ; how severml ftteha stories and \yiag wonders misled our flk jects ; diroensinff with the sins of oor » tions, by their indulgences and psidos^fr gain ; purposely to cherish all erii liaik as robberies, rebeUions, theft, wboredon^ blasphemy, idolatry, dLC our ^raciouB fitfar hereupon diasolvea ail priones» waatKh ies, aobeys, and other pretended rjelfia houses; as being but nurseries ftr net* luxury, more than for sacred Ieamiiig,'*Aft
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Right here at Christ Church Cathedral, on Easter Day 1551, the English liturgy was read publicly for the first time in Ireland. After Edward VI came to the throne, an order went out to the lord-deputy of Ireland commanding that the English liturgy be set up in all the bishoprics, cathedrals, and parish churches. This was the moment it happened. Sir Anthony, the lord-deputy, and Archbishop Browne were present, among others. The royal order spoke of the heavy yoke that subjects had endured under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, and of how false stories and lying wonders had misled people. It said that Henry VIII had dissolved all priories, monasteries, abbeys, and other religious houses, calling them nurseries for luxury rather than sacred learning. So this service at Christ Church was the formal beginning of Protestant worship in Ireland.
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Whipping of a starved beggar at Salisbury
Salisbury · townland · Kildare
A poor starved beggar who refused the Easter sacrament at Colingborow was brought to Salisbury with bills and gleaves to chancellor Dr. Geffery, who cast him into a dungeon and had him miserably whipped by two catchpoles.
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Unto those above sptf|i^ed, is also to be added. the miserable v^^ping of a poor starved beggar, who, because he would not receive the sacrament at Easter, in the town of Colingborow, was4)rought to Salisbury, with bills and glievcs, to the chancellor Dr. Geffery, who cast him into the dungeon, and after caused him miserably to be whipped by two catch-poles. The sight whcrpof made all godly hearts to rue it, to see such tyranny to be sliowed upon such a simple and silly wretch: for they that saw him have reported, that they never saw a more sunple creature. But what pity can move the hearts of meroiless pa pistB?
rcBSBcirnoN and BEtrvenAM-T or wil-
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Examination before Bishop Capon at Salisbury
Salisbury · townland · Kildare · 1556
Maundrel, Coberly and Spicer were carried to Salisbury and examined before Bishop Capon and chancellor William Geffrey concerning their faith on the sacrament, the pope's authority, purgatory and images, and were condemned as heretics.
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. Afler this the vicar came into the polpit, and being about to read his bead-roll, and to pray for the souls in purgajtory, John Maundrel, speaking with an audible voice, said, that was the pope's pinfold, th6 other two affirming the same. Upon which words, by command of the priest, thoy wore put in the stocks, where thoy remained tilUthc service was done, and then were brought before a justice of the peace ; the next day they were all three carried to Salishim', and taken before bishop Capon, and William Geffrey, chancellor of the dioce'se; by whoin thoy were imprisoned, and oflcatimes examined concerning tlieir faith, in their houses, but seldom openly. And at the hist examination the usual articles being alleged against them, tliey answered, as Christian men should and ought to believe : and first they sakl, they believed in God the Father,
and in tlie Son, and in thie Ifbly Gbait twelve tfrlicles of the creed, thie bolj ■ ture from the first of Genens to ttie ki the Revelation.'
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Sack of Dundee and murder of Protestants
Dundalk · town · Louth · 1641
The rebels took the town of Dundee, where they murdered all the Protestants, before proceeding to Drogheda.
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ualled,) soon got possession of the Castle The. besiegecf hoped, at first, that their JJewrj', where the kinff's stores and am- .*«tores of corn, and other necessaries, would initiori wjere lodged; and, with as little be suflicient; but by the continuance of the Rculty, made themselves masters of Dun- 1 siege their wants increased; and these at Ik. They afterwards took the town • of ; last became so heavy, tliaj, for a considerandee, where they murdered all the Pro-ible time before the siege was raised, a pint •lantR,and then proceeded to I)rogheda.|of coarse barley, a small quantity of fcie garrison bf Drogheda was in no coiidi-i greens, a few spoonsful of starch, with a )Q to sustain a sioffo; notwithstanHinjrjven- moderate portion of horse-flesh, were kichf as often as the Irish renewed their j reckoned a week's provision for a soldier. Bkcks, they were vitrorously repulsed, by J And they w^ere, at length, reduced to such »ery unequal number of tlie kinjf's forces, extremities, that they ate dogs, cats, and id a'few fjiithtul Pnitestjint citizens, under mice.
ir Henrv Tichbornr, the jrovernor, ns-
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