Joane the relict of Gabriel Constable, late of Drumard in the County of Armagh, Gent. deposeth and saith, that she hath often heard the
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.
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- 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.
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- Temple, John, Sir, 1600-1677.
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- 1646.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A95614.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 11, 2024.
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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 lon∣ger 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.