John Crusty

MEMOIRS

OF

CAPTAIN ROCK,

THE

PUBLIC LIBRAR
CELEBRATED IRISH CHIEFTAIN,

WITH SOME

Account of his Ancestors.

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF.

FIFTH EDITION.

London:

Printed for

LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, BROWN,

AND GREEN.

1824.

T. C. Hansard, Pater-noster-row Press.

4-14-3340M

PREFACE

BY THE EDITOR.

IN introducing to the Reader the following
account of Captain Rock, it may be as well that
I should also give him some account of myself,
and of the manner in which the Manuscript of.
the Captain came into my possession.

I little thought, at one time of my life, that I ever should be induced to visit Ireland. Often, indeed, had I declared-so great was my horror of that country-that "I would just as soon trust my person among those savages of the Andamans, who eat up all new-comers, as among the best bred gentlemen of Kerry and Tipperary." The circumstances that at length led me to muster up courage enough for the undertaking, were as follows:

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