of these, their names, their sufferings, and their indignities, are on record; as of one who was inhumanly murdered at Killyman, in the county of Tyrone, and another, who, with his wife and four children, underwent the same fate at Limerick; of one who was stripped, and driven, like a wild beast, through Cashel, the rebels following, and pricking him on with darts and rapiers, till he fell down dead; of others, at the same place, who were thrust into a loathsome dungeon, and kept there for many weeks in abject and miserable bondage; and of others, again, who were hanged, at the same place, with circumstances of unfeeling and pitiless barbarity; of others, who, having been barbarously slaughtered, were exposed in their remains to laceration and mutilation, to indignity and insult, at Kilkenny: and of others who were refused Christian burial, after being murdered, or, having been buried, were dug out of their graves, as patrons of heresy, at Killaloe. The Vicar of Urras, in the county of Mayo, having been terrified into a profession of Popery, became a drummer in the company of an insurrectionary officer, and was then slaughtered for a recompense by the rebels'. on a clergyman. Upon one of these ministers, in particular, was Peculiar outrage inflicted an act of peculiar outrage, which requires especial notice. Seven Protestant heads being triumphantly erected, on a market-day, upon the market-cross of Kilkenny, slashed, stabbed, and mangled, into the mouth of one of them, being that of a clergyman, with his cheeks slit up to the ears, was inserted a gag or carrot; and a leaf of the Bible being placed before him, he was bidden to preach, being insultingly told that his mouth was wide 5 TEMPLE'S Irish Rebellion, pp. 94, 87, 111, 106, 95. Outrages on the Disasters of the bishops. Primate Ussher. enough. The outrage, thus offered to the minister of God's word, harmonized with that which was offered to the word of God". Of the irreligious treatment of the latter many other examples are recorded. In the counties of Wicklow, Tyrone, Cavan, Fermanagh, and in the Queen's County, instances might be specified of the Holy Volume being cut or torn to pieces, being cast into the fire and burned, being plunged into, and soiled with, filthy water, being leaped upon and trampled under foot, with exclamations of bitter reproach and imprecation; as that this Book was the cause of all the strife and contention in the country, and that there was good hope of all the Bibles in Ireland being polluted and trodden on, as that was, and of there being soon not one suffered to remain in the kingdom'. During such acts of animosity against the Church, and everything connected with it, perpetrated by the Irish Papists, under the auspices of their hierarchy and their priesthood, who participated or abetted these atrocities, it is not to be supposed that the governors of the Church escaped uninjured. The disasters, indeed, which befel them in these days of trouble, rebuke, and blasphemy, may be traced with considerable particularity, though not with perfect precision. The Primate, in the preceding year, had gone on a short visit of private business to England; whence, however, he never returned to his native country. But his absence did not exempt him from a share of the common affliction. In a very few days after the breaking out of the rebellion, his houses in the country were plundered by the rebels; his rents. 7 Ib., p. 99. 6 TEMPLE, p. 97. seized; his tenements quite ruined or destroyed; his numerous flocks and herds of cattle, to a very great value, driven away; in a word, nothing escaped their devastation, but his library and the furniture of his house at Drogheda, which were secured by the strength of the place, notwithstanding a long and dangerous siege, and the library with much difficulty transmitted to him the following year. To pawn all the jewels and plate in his possession was necessary for his present supply. Bulkeley. Bulkeley, archbishop of Dublin, remained in that Archbishop city, which, by a marvellous interposition of God's providence, had been preserved from imminent destruction, and became the sole place of refuge for the persecuted Protestants of the country. He died some years afterwards, at Taulaght, his country residence in the neighbourhood, spent with age and grief for the calamities of the times. Hamilton. Hamilton, archbishop of Cashel, appears to have Archbishop sought safety in a remote country; at least, he died at Stockholm, a very aged man, in 1659. Boyle and Bishop Maxwell. Boyle, archbishop of Tuam, and with him Max- Archbishop well, bishop of Killalla, retired for protection to Galway, in 1641; and were in great peril of their lives from an insurrection of the townsmen, who took up arms against the garrison. Bishop Maxwell had been forced from his episcopal palace by the rebels, plundered of his goods, attacked, with his wife, three children, and a number of Protestants, in all about a hundred, at the bridge of Shruel, when several were slain, and the bishop himself, with others, was wounded; but happily escaped, under the protection of a neighbouring gentleman, who took them to his house, and afforded them signal assistance®. » CLANRICKARDE's Memoirs, pp. 72, 73. Several bishops, whose sufferings larly known. Of several, no incidents are related, beyond the are not particu- date, and, perhaps, the place, of the death of each. Spottiswood, bishop of Clogher, died at Westminster, in 1644. Richardson, bishop of Ardagh, is supposed to have died in London, August, 1654. He had taken early alarm at the Rebellion, and withdrawn, with all his substance, into England, in the summer of 1641. Buckworth, bishop of Dromore, on the breaking out of the Rebellion, also retired to England, and died in 1652. Under similar circumstances, Ussher, bishop of Kildare, died in 1642; and Adair, bishop of Waterford, at Bristol, in 1647; and Synge, bishop of Cloyne, at Bridgenorth, in 1653, having, however, not gone to England till 1647; and Dawson, bishop of Clonfert, at Kendal, his native place, 1643. Of these no particulars, having reference to the Rebellion, are related, save the fact of their having apparently sought a refuge from the storm in England. Bishop Martin. Bishop Henry Of the following, more particulars are related. As that Martin, bishop of Meath, having had his house pillaged and burnt in the beginning of the troubles, and all his property seized by the rebels, who left him nothing, capable of being converted into money, but a few old gowns, continued in Dublin, under circumstances of which we shall have occasion hereafter to make honourable mention, till he died there, oppressed with poverty, and a victim to the plague, in 1650: That Lesley, bishop of Down and Connor, patiently and magnanimously endured the loss of all his substance in the common calamity; and having loyally attended his sovereign in his distress, was, on the restoration of that sovereign's son, promoted to the see of Meath, in 1660: That Bramhall, bishop of Derry, having narrowly Bishop Bramhall. escaped a plot to circumvent him by Sir Phelim O'Neale, under a pretence of secret intelligence between them, which was intended to bring upon him a dishonourable death; and having had his carriages searched and plundered; took ship privately for England, and was of great service, by his faithful adherence to the king; and, in the end, after escaping from many and great dangers, became Archbishop of Armagh at the Restoration: That Willams, bishop of Ossory, having been Bishop Williams. compelled to flee from his see within a few months of his consecration in 1641, whence he had derived no emolument, and having passed through a long succession of poverty, suffering, and persecutions, survived them all, and was reinstated in his bishoprick in 1660: That Chappel, bishop of Cork and Ross, fled to Bishop Chappel. England in December, 1641, to avoid the fury of the Rebellion, which had commenced about two months before; and having suffered much from captivity in his voyage, and afterwards from the loss of a choice and valuable library, died in 1649 at Derby; having, during the troubles in England, been relieved out of the alms of well-disposed persons: And that Henry Tilson, bishop of Elphin, re- Bishop Tilson. tired to England, having undergone the pillage of his library and goods by the titular bishop; and was buried at Dewsbury in 1655. Lesley. One of the Irish prelates, Lesley, bishop of Bishop John Raphoe, continued in the country under circumstances hereafter to be mentioned; and one other, Jones, bishop of Killaloe, appears not to have quitted the country, as he is related to have died in Dublin in 1646. The same may perhaps be said of Sib |