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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    I'iirliaiiR'iit for llu' County of Moiuisliim, i\[r. liicluinl Blayuey, cousin of J.onl Itlaynoy, was witli many others massacred. Lonl Hlayney’s wife and children, who were taken ])risoners on tlie very day of the outhreak, had tlieir lives spared, but were brutally treated. The Kenionstrance from the county of Longford was in the form of a letter to Lord Dillon, of Costilough, signed Ity twenty-six gentlemen, all of the name of Farrell or O’Farrell, and presented by him to the Lords Justices and Council on their behalf, Xovember 10, Kill. The story of the Remonstrance of the rebels of Cavan given in the Life of Bishop Bedell, of Kilmore, by Burnet, on the authority of Clogie, though so utterly contrary to fact, has been made use of by apologists of the rebellion, to make ■it appear that the proceedings in Cavan were so far coun- tenanced by Bishop Bedell. By these apologists. Bishop Burnet’s authority is especially insisted on as if unimpeach- able, notwithstanding that in his preface Burnet disclaims all responsibility, saying:—“I had a great collection of materials put into my hands by a worthy and learned divine, Mr. Clogie, that was much more the author of this book than I am. I confess iiiy part in it was so small that I can scarce assume anything to myself but the copying out what was put in my hands.” And again, in his vindication of the funeral sermon he pi-eached on Archbishop Tillotson, against strictures by Dr. Ilickos, the deprived Dean of Worcester, Burnet says:— ‘•1 am not answerable for any mistakes (in the Life of Bishop Bedell) which my author (the Rev. Mr. Clogie) may have misremembered ; and so if any of these ai-e wrong, they are another man’s errors—they are not mine.” The Rev. Alexander Clogie was step-soivin-law of Bishop lledell, and though given to hasty assertion, was a talented and widl-meaning man, with a i)rofound A'eneration for the Ihsho]). In regard to liis mistake about the Cavan Remon- strance Mr. Clogie, after his own blundei'ing and inaccurate fashion, appears to have ajiplied to that (htcument emanating from the lioman Catholic rebels of Cavan the ])art which Bisho]) lledell took, sonu'. S oi-b years before, in the ease of a petition from the county of Cavai\ against the imposition, of increased taxes to make up the subsidies which Wentworth,