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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    on liis appointment as Lord Deputy, demanded from tliefl House of Commons for recruiting the army in Ireland. A pam])lilet justifying the part taken hy the Irisli in the rebellion of Kill was issued in London in 1747, anonymously, and without a printer’s or publisher’s name, entitled “A In-ief Account, from the most authentic Ki-otestant Writers, of the Clauses, Motives, and Mischiefs of the Irish Rebellion on the 2brd day of October, Kill, delivered in a Dialogue between a Dissenter and a Member of the Church of Ireland, as by law established. Together with an Appendix.” Under the guise of extreme candour and pretended exactness in the statement.! of facts, the “Churchman” labours to make it appear that it was really the English Protestants, hounded on Ijy the Lords Justices and Council, who committed the first outrages; and that whatever the Irish did against the English was done ^ merely in self-defence and natural retaliation. The Hemon- strance of the Rebels of Cavan is quoted at length in Appendix No. 1 of the pamphlet in question as the Avriting of the Protestant Bishop Bedell of Kilmore, who is, on the strength of that, set before us as a witness in support of the “Church- man’s” argument in faAmur of the rebellion! While the unfounded allegation as to the authorship of K the Cavan Remonstrance was thus greedily seized on, in order C to make it ap])ear that the rebellion, as it took place in the J,. County of Cavan, was countenanced bj' Bishop Bedell, the I- truthfulness of the statements in the contemporary official depositions preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, was called in question, and a counter series of ' unauthenticated depositions adduced, long after the alleged b events, to show that cimelties Avere in the first instance per- ' petrated by the English Protestants on the Irish Catholics. i. In regard to the depositions preserved in the LibrarA' of ; T]-i}iity College, Dublin, it may be here mentioned that in the valuable Avork entitled “Irehuul in the Seventeenth Century,” by IMiss Hickson, published tAvo or tlu’ee Ah'ars ago, the aiithoress gives an analysis of 200 of them, from Avhich it appears that 4G refer to oidrages bj' the Irish rebels on the K BrUish Protestants during the lirst seAxm days of the rebellion : 10 to outrages in the course of tlie month of NoAxunber: 25 ^ to outrages in December 32 in January, and 10 in February,