. The history of Ireland : from the earliest period to the present time; derived from native annals, and from the researches of Dr. O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, C. P. Meehan, R. R. Madden, and other eminent scholars, and from all the resources of Irish history now available. nd these abominations were perpetrated in openday, by impious cut-throats. From that moment I havenever seen my city, flock, country, or kindred. Thebishop then proceeds to relate his own sufferings for fivemonths after, while hunted in the woods, and obligedto sleep in the open air, without bed or covering, ofteowith scarcely
. The history of Ireland : from the earliest period to the present time; derived from native annals, and from the researches of Dr. O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, C. P. Meehan, R. R. Madden, and other eminent scholars, and from all the resources of Irish history now available. nd these abominations were perpetrated in openday, by impious cut-throats. From that moment I havenever seen my city, flock, country, or kindred. Thebishop then proceeds to relate his own sufferings for fivemonths after, while hunted in the woods, and obligedto sleep in the open air, without bed or covering, ofteowith scarcely any food, and with never any but of thecoarsest kind. From the same source to which we areindebted for Dr. Frenchs letter, we learn the names ofthe following religious of the order of St. Francis, whowere among the victims of the Wexford carnage, viz.:Fathers Richard Synnott, S. T. L., John Esmond, Pauli-nu3 Synnott, Raymond Stafford, and Peter Staftbrd, aufthe brothers Didacus Cheevers and James Rochford. ?)• Vindication of Omo7id, p. 136, ed. 1756. J This appears from Castlehavens own statemeui{Memoirs, p. 115); but the agreement between OwenRoe and Ormond was not finally signed till the 12th ofOctober, when Owen was on his deathbed. Vide CartetOrmond, ^. ^ — 11 M DEATH OF OWEN ROE ONEILL. »o. , and this promise was faitlifallyfalnllecl, altliough he did not live toperform it iu person. While encampedbefore Derry, where he remained aboutten days after raising the siege on the8th of August, he was seized with ill-ness, and conveyed in a horse-litter toBallyhaise, in the county of Cavau,where he ordered his nephew, Lieuten-ant-General Hugh Duv ONeill, to leadthe promised reinforcements to was, then carried to Cloghoughter,a strong castle of the OReillys inLough Oughter, in Cavan, where hedied, on the 6th of November.* Tothe Irish the death of Owen Roe wasan irre])arable loss. He was not alonea consummate general, and the mosteminent on the Irish side t
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