The history of Ireland; from the earliest period of the Irish anals, to the present time . itherman, woman, or child, of the protestants,should be left alive. But it pleased God toprevent their dreadful intention from beingcarried into effect, by giving success to hismajestys arms. Although Roche first called ofl the mobfrom their sanguinary emj)loyment, by an-nouncing that reinforcements were wantingto resist the advance of the kings troops, itwas a priest named father Corrin, the parishpriest of Wexford, who put a stop to themassacre; we are informed that he, havingvainly supplicated the ass
The history of Ireland; from the earliest period of the Irish anals, to the present time . itherman, woman, or child, of the protestants,should be left alive. But it pleased God toprevent their dreadful intention from beingcarried into effect, by giving success to hismajestys arms. Although Roche first called ofl the mobfrom their sanguinary emj)loyment, by an-nouncing that reinforcements were wantingto resist the advance of the kings troops, itwas a priest named father Corrin, the parishpriest of Wexford, who put a stop to themassacre; we are informed that he, havingvainly supplicated the assassins to desist,commanded them to pray before proceedingfurther in the work of death ; and havingthus caused them to kneel, he dictated aprayer that God would shew the same mercyto them which they should show to the sur-viving prisoners. The respite thus procuredwould doubtless have been short, but for thesudden arrival of a person in the town an-nouncing that the kings troops were athand, upon which the multitude of spec-tators were struck with fear, and beganimmediately to ^^ CHAPTER XL BATTLE OF VINEGAR HILL ij HE government forceswere now marchingfrom different sidesupon Enniscorthyand Vinegar - hill,with the intentionof surrounding the__ rebels in their head- quarters. On theof June, lieutenant-general Dundasproceeded from Baltinglass to Hacketstownto form a junction with major-generalLoftus from Tullow; but this plan waschanged, and Loftus marched to on the IDth, major-generals Johnstonand Eustace marched out of Ross and sur-prised the camp at Lacken-hill, but theinsurgents were drawn oft in good order bytheir general, father Philip Roche, and 18th RECAPTURK OF WEXFORD. effected their retreat to a strong post nearerWexford called the Three Rocks. The twogenerals, Johnston and Eustace, then pro-ceeded to Bloomfield, where they encampedon the evening of the 20th of June. Onthe same day general Needham encampedon Oulard-hill, whence he was to pro
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