Exposure of the unfounded character of the story that in the Irish rebellion in 1641, Bishop Bedell, of Kilmore, countenanced the rebels of Cavan, by drawing up a remonstrance for them / by T. Wharton Jones.

  • Thomas Wharton Jones
Date:
1888
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Credit: Exposure of the unfounded character of the story that in the Irish rebellion in 1641, Bishop Bedell, of Kilmore, countenanced the rebels of Cavan, by drawing up a remonstrance for them / by T. Wharton Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    KiJmore to iis«ure tlu>, I^oi-ds Ju.sticos tliut tliere would 1ie a ; cessation ot all pi-oceedings on their part until the receii)t uL their lordships’ ansAver. Afterwards, says Dean Jones, as many cruelties and outrages were committed in the County of Cavan as elsewhere. The narrative of this transaction as given by the Kcv. Gilbert Burnet, afterwards Bishop of Salisbury, on the authority of the Rev. Alexander Clogie, and subseciuently rejiroduced by other biographers of Bishop Bedell of Kilmore, is altogether erroneous, inasmuch as the bisbop is stated to have Avi-itten oiit the Remonstrance for the rebels, and sent it bj^ a special messenger ,of their own party to the Lonls Justices; whereas it is evideiat, from the ollicial copy of the original docimient in the Public Record Otlice, London, which I examined and transcribed with my own hand, as. well as from the narrative of Dr. Henry Jones, the Dean of Kilmore, that it was he himself and Mr. John Waldron who took the Renionsti'auce to Dublin. The real history of the affair, according to 8ir John J'emjde, IMaster of the Rolls, whose name apitears as one of the Members of the Council, signing the Reply to the Remon- strance, was this :—Mr. Janies Talbot, in a letter dated November 1', IGJl, to the Lo'rds .Justices, from the county of Cavan, says that he understood from Philip MacMulmoro O’Reilljy one of the signatories, that the Remonstrance from the principal Irish in the county of Cavan to the Lords Justices and Council, of wdiich Dean Jones and Master, Waldron Avere the bearers, had been draAvn up in the English] IMle, and lirought thence to the Irish rebel leaders in Cavani by Colonel Plunket, a confederate of their oAvn. And this Avas a good Avhile before December 1(1, Kill, the date Avlien the old English of the Pale ]mblicly declared their alliancoi Avith the Irish in rebellion. Similar Remonstrances, it may l)e observed, Avere sent from the' counties of I\Ionaghan and Longford—probably, from other counties also. That from Llonaghan Avas given to IMr. Nicholas Simson, one of the Members of Parliament for the county, then a iirisoner in the hands of the rebels there, bv Ever jMacAlahon, Avith tluv intimation that the gentlemen of (he county had chosen hiiin to deliver it to the ]a)iAls Justices and Council, to be by theiiy forwardetl to the King in England. The other Member oy