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(i) William Clerk says that he, with about loo men, women, and children were driven like hogs six miles to Portadown bridge, which was cut down under them : and that his companions were barbarously murdered when in the water. [His depo- sition is signed with a mark, in ink fresher looking and quite different from that with which the body of the document is writ- ten.] (2) Margaret Fermeny's husband was murdered in her sight, and she was stripped of her clothes. (3) James Geare saw a man murdered and his entrails taken out, " yet he bled not at all." (4) Anne Hill's child was killed, and she and her four surviving children were strip- ped. (5) Mary Barlow's husband was killed, and she and her six children were stripped. (6) Elizabeth Green was stripped, and her five children died from exposure. (7) Anne Eead was stripped, and her children died from exposure. (8) Adam Clover " ob- served" 30 persons murdered and about 1 50 wounded. [The words " or there- abouts" are in the original after "30 persons." The deposition is signed with a mark ; and a note thereon shows that he was a soldier, so that there is little wonder he saw 30 persons killed and 150 wounded in the rebellion. The same note mentions that he desires liberty for his wife and five children to pass over to England, so they were not amongst the killed.] (9) Edward Banks and (10) Antony Stratford were imprisoned. (11) William Parkinson saw a boy led out to execution. (12) Philip Taylor drove a pig away from eating the carcase of a child. (13) Katherine Coke was obliged to hide among the rushes in a ditch of water : she saw the spirit of a murdered person, (14) Elizabeth Price saw the spirit of a murdered woman, which cried " Revenge, .-evenge, revenge !" Thirteen of the other vitnesses testify only to hearing threats aid treason. All the " horrid inhuman cnelties," such as boiling children alive, burying alive, and the unearthly atrocities depcted on the frontispiece of some editons of the work, are stated purely on hearay. It is remarkable that, with the ex- ception of one case, these acts of cruelty are not nintioned in the first series of deposi- tions aken in January, February, and Marchi64i-'2, and to be found in a letter from th Lords- Justices, 7th March 164 1-' 2, publishd in the Thorpe Papers, vol. ii. It is also worthy of note that in none of the printed 'epositions, whether hearsay or otherwise is there any hint of criminal assaults c^ women. There is sufiicient evidence t prove that men, women, and children wte murdered, or turned out naked

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from house and home (as has happened in time of war and revolution at the present day) ; but there is nothing to show a pre- meditated massacre in cold blood of tens of thousands of people. In 1648 Sir John Temple was appointed Commissioner of the Great Seal of Ireland, and in November 1653 a Commissioner of Forfeited Estates. He received large land grants in the Counties of Carlow and Dublin. On the Restora- tion he was re-instated in his office of Mas- ter of the Rolls, and in 1673 ^^^ appointed Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. He died 14th November 1677, and was buried beside his father in Trinity College, near where the campanile now stands. [Two of his sons, born in England, rose to eminence — Sir William, the statesman, the friend and patron of Swift ; and Sir John, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons, from whom the late Lord Palmerston was line- ally descended.] "^ "'* "^^ =S4 3=3 3=3'

Tennent, Gilbert, a distinguished Presbyterian preacher in America, was born at Armagh, 5th February 1703. At fifteen years of age he accompanied hia father, a Presbyterian minister, to Ame- rica, and assisted in conducting an academy opened by him near Philadelphia; and, having studied theology and medicine, was in 1726 ordained pastor of a congre- gation at New Brunswick. In 1740 and 1 741 he travelled through New England, at the request of Whitefield, preaching with great success. Drake says : " He was one of the most conspicuous ministers of his day, ardent in his zeal, forcible in his reasoning, and bold and passionate in his addresses to the conscience and the heart." He affected eccentricity in hia preaching, allowed his hair to grow long, and when in the pulpit wore an overcoat bound with a leathern girdle. In i743> about the time of his father's decease, he founded a Presbyterian church in Phila- delphia, and subsequently resumed the practice of itinerant preaching. In 1753 he visited England to solicit benefactions for the spread of religion in America. He was [the author, amongst other works, of The Lawfulness of Defensive War (1747), and Sermons on Important Subjects (1758). He died 23rd July 1764, aged 61. 37»

Tennent, William, brother of pre- ceding, also a clergyman, was born in the County of Antrim, 3rd January 1705. He studied theology under his brother ; and when near the completion of his course experienced a remarkable trance, during which he narrowly escaped being buried as one dead. He was ordained in 1733, and was pastor of a church for forty-four years. He died at Freehold, New Jer -^"