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.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    c r\ n KKPOST'HK OF TIIK UNFOUNDED CHARACTER OF THIO STORY THAT • Dy T. Whauton Joxp]S, F.R.S. (Rfprintfil fi-oin tlio Irish Krcirslasiical Gdrcetlr, for July 20, ‘ N hofiriu of tho frustration of tlie plan to surprise the ('astir of Duhlin and srize the arms therein stored, the Iradn-s of thr i-ehrllion in the county of Cavan thought lit to teiiiporisr. 'J'hey, accorilingly, had a “Remonstrance to the Eui-tls Justices and C.'ouncil” draAvn up calculated to ])ut a gloss upon their proceedings, and Avhich Avas suhstantially in the same styh' and to the same (‘ffect as the IManifesto issued ou the day of the outbreak of the rehellion in the name of the Roiiian Catholics of li'elaud generally, but concluding Avith the following mild admission of the atrocities Avhich had alreaily been committe(l:—“As for the mischiefs and iucon- vi-ideiices that have alnauly ha))])ened through the disoi’der of the eommou soiJ of ])eo[)le against (he English inhabitants or any oihei- ])erson, Ave Avith the noblemen and gmdlemen of this and each other eoiiiily in the kingdom an* most willing aiul really to use our and their bi'sl endea\’ours in causing restitution and satisfaction to 1k‘ made, as in ))art we have alreaily ilone. An aiiswei’ hereuido is most hiindily desired, with such lu’csent expedition as may by youi’ lordshi|)S be thought most conveineid for avoiding the coidinuance of (he barliarity and incivility of (he commonalty, who have eom- mitteil many outrages and insolences without any ordei-, consenting, or privity of ours.”