he then led her the back way to her house; but fhe then reimbarked, having found it fhut. He asked her, if she knew doctor Jacob? and having faid fhe did, he recommended to her to go there, as it would be a fafe houfe. They landed her oppofite to his door, and fhe was well received there. The hall was full of ruffians, who brought faggots to fet the house on fire, but fome of them humanely prevented it. "She was then without food or fleep from Sunday night the twenty-feventh, except that he got a little tea from Mrs. Dixon. She was distracted, and felt more the enthusiasm of defpair than infanity. She took her daughter by the hand, and went to Bagenal Harvey, who did not know her, being covered with coal-afhes, and convulsed with misery. She reminded him of their acquaintance; he gave her a protection, but faid he had no real command, and that the rebels were a fet of favages exceeding all defcription. She asked him, when this was to end? He answered, probably not for fome time, as government would not fend a force into the country till they had collected a proper one. He faid, he must get the people out of the town, and form a camp, for otherwife it would be destroyed in a few hours. Shortly after, they confented to go to camp, and fhe faw many thoufands of them going there. They were led by many priests. They often stopped, knelt down, kiffed the ground, croffed themselves; and then fet up the most hideous yells, and followed their priests. All that time fhots were conftantly fired. Small parties of them entered and fearched the house. The first of June paffed in the fame manner. 66 J. R. a Roman catholick of great humanity, came and told me with candour, how much the protestants She took this for doctor Jacob's, but it was his fon-in-law's, Mr. Hatchel's; and the rebels, availing themselves of the doctor's Furgical skill to drefs their wounded men, thowed a regard for, and protected him and fuch of his friends as fought an afylum in Mr. Hatchel's houfe. teftants were spoken against; but faid, he trufted that the women and children would be spared. "In the evening, doctor Caulfield, the Roman catholick bishop, came, and was very kind to me, J. R. having told him who I was. The doctor faid, he was cautioned in the street, to beware how he protected proteftants. He gave me a protection, but, like B. Harvey, faid, "He had no influence: That the people could not be described: That in reality, the devil was roaming at large amongst them: That their power never could hold: That they were making it a religious war, which would ruin them: That government was too ftrong, and must conquer: That this rebellion had been hatching four years." I think he might have given government notice of it. * "Second of June, the mob were constantly talking in the street of punishing proteftants. Colonel Lehunte, and many others, went to the chapel, and renounced their religion; were christened; and then marched in proceffion through the streets. "Third of June, they made three protestants shoot a man in the Bullring. We received conftant domiciliary vifits from the rebels, who we thought would murder us ere they departed. The rebels paraded twice a-day opposite our door, having fifes, fiddles, and drums. It was a kind of regular tumult; every one was giving his opinion. My little boy liftening one day faid, "Mamma, are they all kings ?" On Trinity Sunday, the third of June, a fermon was preached in the chapel, to a large congregation, confifting of a numerous body of pikemen, and fome proteftants, who affumed the femblance of fincere converts to fave their lives, and who went there to be christened for the fame purpofe. Father Roche, the preacher, and chaplain to the popish bishop doctor Caulfield, inveighed from the altar against the errors of proteftants, whofe religion he reprefented as an abominable herefy. He then explained and This is her obfervation. enforced enforced the doctrines of popery, particularly that of exclufive falvation. He defired them to perfevere with firmnefs, as they were fighting in the cause of God against hereticks. When the fermon was over, father Broe, a friar, proceeded to chriften the proteftants, in which ceremony he used much water, having almoft wafhed their faces. * Some papifts who were connected with, or attached to proteftants, ftrenuously urged them to change their religion, and even taught them how to cross themselves, and to fay popifh prayers, from a thorough conviction that the prefervation of their lives depended on their converfion. This happened to Mr. Gibfon, while in prison, to whom fome papifts lent mafs books, and pointed out to him the prayers which he should learn by heart. The rebels, in their domiciliary vifits in fearch of orangemen, arms or ammunition, in the houses of proteftants, never failed to carry away with them any articles of wearing-apparel, or valuable furniture, that pleafed them. The women were much more active in plundering than the men, not only in Wexford, but in the country. They conftantly entered and plundered the houfes of their proteftant neighbours, without fhame or remorfe. The wives of the country rebels often made a fantastick appearance, with the elegant apparel of proteftant ladies of Wexford, put over their own homely drefs. Some of them were feen mounted on horfeback, with handfome veils, having at the fame time pikes in their hands. At first there were ferious apprehenfions of a famine, as no provifions were carried to market, except butter and milk; and they were fold for onefourth of the ufual price, from the fcarcity of fpecie, the paucity of bidders, and the fears of the farmers that they would be feized by force for the use of the republick, if they were not fpeedily fold. Officers Some time after the rebellion was fuppreffed, he demanded payment from fome of those whom he had chriftened. Sce Appendix, No. XX 17. Officers to regulate the price of provifions were inftituted in every parifh in the county. They alfo appointed armed veffels to cruize in the channel, which were to intercept fuch as they found laden with coals, or any of the neceffaries of life. For this reafon, a committee was formed, to fupply the town with provifions, and they appointed commiffaries in every parifh, who plundered the adjacent country. William Devereux of Taghmon, commiffary of his own parifh, was folicited by a rebel to give him a pair of fhoes; and he faid, "Have you killed a foldier?" and he anfwering in the negative, Devereux faid, "You fhall not have the fhoes till you have done fo." This the rebel proved on Devereux's trial at Wexford. The governors of the newly-established republick prohibited the circulation of bank notes, with a view of injuring the credit of government, which tended materially to diftrefs the inhabitants of Wexford. A perfon of the utmost veracity fured me, that in his prefence a rebel, who had been concerned in the plunder of Mr. D'Arcy's houfe, pulled out of his pocket a large quantity of bank notes, in the ftreets of Wexford, and tore them; fwearing at the fame time, with much vehemence, that he would ruin all the banks in Ireland. The narrow escape of Mr. Milward, an officer in the Wexford militia, and Mr. Richard Newtown King, a magiftrate of the county, will fhew the reader with what malignant zeal the rebels fearched for proteftants, whom they denominated orangemen. These gentlemen lay concealed at the house of Mr. Hatchel, † fon-in-law of Dr. Jacob. One Herring, a rebel captain, in the courfe of making domiciliary vifits in queft of orangemen, entered Mr. Hatchel's houfe with a drawn fword, at the head of an armed band of rebels. On finding VOL. I. Mr. * See James Beaghan's confeffion in Appen Jix, Nɔ. XIX. 8. + Plate VI, PMK Mr. Milward, he conveyed him to prifon; but first informed Mr. Hatchel's family, that he would burn the house, if they concealed any more orangemen. On this Mr. King, who happened to be in the only room which they did not fearch, declared that no perfon fhould fuffer on his account. He therefore retreated backwards to another houfe at fome distance, and in doing fo, was obliged to fcale fome walls, and to wade through a small ftream, much fwollen with the tide. He lay concealed fome days in a wretched out-office, not better than a pig-fty, and was fupplied with food by Mrs. Jacob. His wife, though the lodged near him, would not venture to approach him, left the place of his retreat fhould be discovered. At length the rebels, who were active and inceffant in their refearches, difcovered and committed him. Thefe two gentlemen were on the point of being maffacred the twentieth of June, on the bridge of Wexford, when Mr. Efmond Kyan, a rebel chieftain, faved their lives, by telling the rebel bloodhounds, that the king's troops muft finally fucceed, and that they would take ample vengeance of them for putting fo many proteftants to death in cold blood, and without any provocation whatever. Efmond Kyan, who had been wounded at the battle of Arklow, was coming to Wexford to get medical affiftance, and happened to be croffing the bridge when the maffacre was going forward, Those who obtained a certain quantity of provifions from the committee who diftributed it, expected to have the exclufive enjoyment of it; yet the rebels would enter their houses, and take it out of their pot and carry it off, or fit down at their table and eat fhare of it; and while fitting at the tables of proteftants, they would often fay, " That they loved liberty and equality, and that they liked to fee mafters and fervants affociate together." "They led their wild defires to woods and caves, On |