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THE

HISTORY OF BANDON,

AND THE

PRINCIPAL TOWNS IN THE WEST RIDING OF COUNTY CORK.

ENLARGED EDITION,

With Two Chromo-Lithographic Jllustrations.

BY

GEORGE BENNETT, ESQ., B.L. a

“The pleasant Bandon crowned with many a wood.” Srancen.

’ CORK: FRANCIS GUY, PRINTER AND PUBLISHER, MUNSTER WORKS, 70, PATRICK STREET.

1869. 8 e 4

_DA 746- Boils

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Defeat overtakes the Desmonds—South Munster a waste—Queen Elizabeth resolves to colonize it with English Protestants—The O’Mahonys of Castle- Mahon—Beecher’s Patent—Names of the first Scttlors—The site of tho acs “a meer waste bog’”—All the adjacent lands reclaimed—The river

CHAPTER II.

Tho Spaniards in Kinsalo—Obstinate battle on the banks of the Bandon, between the English under Taffe and the Irish nnder the Pope's Apostolic Vicar—The Irish defeated and the Vicar killed—The Letters Patent granted

James the First for holding our Fairs—Christ Church, Kilbrogan, its lergy, Charities, Monuments, &. 6. 0 ee ee te

CHAPTER III.

The Charter—The first Provost and Burgesses—“No Papist inhabitant” to dwell within the Town—The Provost's Day—Our two first Members of Parliament—Ballymodan Church, its Clergy, Charities, Monuments, &.

CHAPTER Iv.

A Joint Stock Company to manufacture woollen cloth in Bandon projected— The Beechers part with their side of the Town—Names of many of the Puritan Settlers—The Assizes held here—Great dinner given to the Judges— ‘The walls—The mason's strike for a riso of wages—Murder—The famous House of Call—The town militia—Inhabitants complain of having troops quertored on them—Original letters of Lord President Villiers—The Ear! of

‘ork—Sir Wareham St. Leger—Tho Provost refuses to impose any more taxes on the townspeople for the support of the garrison... 1...

CHAPTER V.

Grand entertainment given by the townspeople to Lord Cork and “his noble company” —Baltimore sacked by the Algerines; its History, Charter, Parlia- mentary Representatives—The 'Driscolls—Attack on Baltimore Castle by the rebels in 1642—an Algerine Rover wrecked in Dunworly Bay—the Wisomans—The Spensers—Prosperous stato of the country before the breaking out of the Great Rebellion—Bandon worthy of regard for “its bignoss and handsomencss”—Downdaniel Castlo—Kilbrittain Castle—Tho McCarthys-Reagh. . - te tt te

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IISTORY OF BANDON,

AND OF THE

PRINCIPAL TOWNS IN THE WEST RIDING OF TIIE COUNTY OF CORK.

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DEPRAT OVERTAKES THE DESMONDS—SOUTH MUNATER A WASTE—QUEEN ELIZABETH BESOLVES TO COLONIZE IT WITH ENGLISH PROTESTANTS—THE O'MAHONYS OF CASTLE-

MAHON—BEECHEN'S PATENT—NAMES OF THE FIRST SETTLELS—THE SITE OF THE ‘TOWN “A MARE WASTE BOG —ALL THE ADJACENT LANDS RECLAIMED—THE RIVER ‘RANDOM...

HE rebellion of the great Earl of Desmond* was over.

That great effort which the Goraldincs had made to

shake off the English yoke, ended as disastrously as

many a previous struggle. For awhilo the insurgents

‘qrero victorious, and their hopes rose high with their success; but the

ide turned on them, as it had often turned on them before, and

‘Paape who rode out triumphantly on the cbb wero overwhelmed with Ke Mw,

it was with the Red Earl. After carrying all before him for a

lefeat, overtook him. His brother, Sir James, was captured,

iM, the sixtoenth Earl of Desmond, familiarly known as the Bed Earl.

10 TUE UISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

Margets, Rashleigh, Scott, Thompson, Whaley, Newee, Radley, Savage, Taylor, Wight, Newman, Rake, Skinner, Thomas, | Williams, Nelson, _Richinond, — Skeuce, Tobye, Wheeler, Osmond, Spenser, Shephard, Tucker, White, Vorter, Symons, Smith, Travers, Woodroffe, Perrott, Synoger, Spratt, Tanner, Ware, Poole, Stanley, Seymour, Valley, Warren, Litt, Skipwith, Sweete, Vick, Willobe, Teyton, Suookes, Sugar, Vane, Watkins,

Preston, Saunders, —‘ Tickner, Woolfe, Wheatly,

Popham, Skipwith, Turner, Wiseman, Wade.

The country into which they had come did not lie in the track of communication between the towns already existing in the west of the county and its principal city. Should a traveller set out from Bantry, intent on reaching Cork, he should pass through a portion of O’Donovan’s country, until he came to Ross. His route then lay through lands possessed by some sept of the Mac Carthys, until he arrived at Timo- league, from which place he journeyed through the territory of the Mae Carthy Reagh, to Kinsale. Upon for Ballinuhassig ;

ing Kinsale, he made straight

and from thenee over bare hills, and through an almost uninhubited district, until lie approached the walls of Cork. The interior of the country—at least that region now occupicd by the towns of Bandon, Clonakilty, und Dunmanway—was entirely wiknown to the ordinary waytarer. Indeed, su dreary and so insceure was the site upon which Bandon itself is built, that one who naturally took a great interest in the town’s prosperity describes it as having been “a mere waste hog, serving as a retreat for woodkerns, rebels, thieves, aud wolves.” Whenever the Irish were worsted in a fight with the English ut this side of Cork, they took to their heels in hot haste tor this locality; well knowing that the lett unable to pursue them “amongst the fastnesses of Kinalmeaky.” And such was the un- enviable pre-eminence those fastnesses had obtained for sheltering the

y

worst kind of woodkern, and the me:

nest surt of rebel, that for many years—even after the colony lad heen firmly established — You Kinalmeuky thieves* was a term of bitter reproach, applied by an

* Even after the breaki f eat rebellion of 1641, Lord Muskerry, who was one of the most i predatory propensi f y i: lowers, that he executed several of them, ‘aud sent some of the Kinulineaky thieves to Bandon.” The townspeople—who wero unublo to leave a head of cattle outside the walls, lest theso nimble froobooters should make their own of it—understood tho hint, and they hanged them forthwith

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TOWNS IN THE WEST KIDING OF COUNTY CORK. il

English settler to those who ravaged his homestead, or drove away his cattle.

Although Kinalmcaky had its disadvantages, it had its advantages also. A beautiful stream, gushing from the bosom of Mount Owen, and swelled by tributary after tributary, wound its sinuous courso among meadows—rich with the swectest pastures, and rivalling the emerald in its huc. A grateful soil awaited the plough, ready to repay the husbandman for his skill aud his toil; and there was no country better udapted for breeding horses, and fur multiplying flocks and herds. A great deal of the rough land on the northern side of the river, and which is now occupicd by «am industrious and thriving tenantry, was ut that time overspread with woods. It wus the same on the southern side. Lands, which now annually produce oats and potatoes, were covered with timber for scores of miles. That there ‘were many acres of green meadow along the green banks of the Green riyer,* and fertile lands in the glades and valleys, without « tree stand- ing on them, is truc; but the numcrous woods thickly scattered throughout gave the entire scene the appearance of a vast forcst.f And a vast forest it resembled in more aspects thun one.

The devastating wars,t which had lately wasted the country of the O'Mahony and O’Crowlcy, had produced solitude upon which no one intruded; unless when some half-naked savage, who was owned by a Mac Carthy or a Hurly, came through tho thicket in quest of u wounded deer. And the silenee—ilecp and grave—was unbroken, save when the wild pigeon coocd to its missing mate ; or when the outlaw or the woodkern, brought to bay, shricked for merey from his pursucrs.

About an English mile castward of Castle-Mahon was a strip of flat land called Inis-fraoc (the heather inch). The Bandon river flowed in front of it. What is now known as the Bridewell river ilowed in its

+ Writing of Kinalmeaky, in 1589, Mr. Payne says, “In this countrio is greate ‘woodes ; the trees of wonderful length.” ‘Twenty past,” writes Lurd Cork (iat 1606), “ Bandon-Bridge was a great many wood

“ Around the Bandon of fair woods. O'liewntx. “ The pleasant Bandon crowned with many a wood." SPENSEL. Previous to tho Desmond rebellion, some parts of this country were fairly in- 3 and it would appear from the toubstone of Willoughhy Turner, who died 4 1631, and was buried in tho Romun Catholic graveyard at Dullymodan, that even . Some English adventurtrs were living in it muny years previous to the car!’s revolt,

28 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

period the name of a Presbyterian minister first appeared on the roll of clergymen of that persuasion, who have officiated in Bandon ever since.

The ancient name of the parish of Kilbrogan was Brochoyn, Brachane, or Brochane. It was a fief of the See of Cloyne; and in the fourteenth century was held under the bishop of that diocese, by the Barrys. At an Inquisition held at Clenor, on Monday, the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, in the fifticth year of the reign of Edward the Third, a.n. 1877, before W. M., seneschal of the bishop of loyne, it was found that Nicholas Barry acknowledged that he held of the Lord-Bishop the manor of Kilbrogan, with all ifs appurtenances; the woods, meadows, and three carucates of land in the parish of Brochoyn, by service of homage, fealthy, wardship, relief, and socage at the castle of Kilma- cloyne ; and by the service of sixteen and fonrpence per annum, at the usual terms; and that he will do in all things as did Maurice Chapel.

On the tenth of January, 1481, William, bishop of Cloyne, visited the church of Brochane, and demanded a return of the manor of Kil- brogan from Sir James, son of Nicholas, son of Phillip James de Barry, lord of Brochane; and Sir James swore before M., rector and vicar of Brochane, Edmund Hoverd, and many others, that he. would willingly ‘comply with the will of the said bishop, William. The modern name of the parish is derived from Kiel-Brochane (the church of Brochane). In fact the parish was sub snvocatione Sancti Brocant. Brogan, Brochane, or Brocanus, was no less a personage than the nephew of our great national saint—St. Patrick, and was also his secretary.* He was rendered famous by a prophecy of his, in which he foretold that the English would come to Ireland; and that their power would continue there as long as they would observe their own laws, but no longer.t

Richard Newman was vicar of Kilbrogan :—

1601. «Prob, do Kilbrogan. Ab, graino et hosp, mor, sunt Roctores Vicarius ibm. Richs Newman.” Rory Flynn was also vicar of Kilbrogan, according to another visitation book of same date. Flynn was vicar of Inskenny in 1581; and vicar of Kilbonane, and rector of Knockavilly, in 1691.t fhe tamly cad Tolowers of ee ee eae scribe of hhis school. =

t Canbrensis Eversus.—Dr. O'Kelly.

Fer oe pectinars as wall So, for all those connected with the

rectors and vicars of ‘Brady’sadmirable work on Diatoal Bards of Grks Ciopwn, end Bose et a

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In the royal visitation of this year, Robert Sutton appears as vicar :—

“Rilbrogan Vic. residens, Tho master of Mourne Abbey and Grauy aro

reotores.”” At this timo Cormack Mac Donough Mao Carthy was in posscssion of Mourne Abbey; and Sir Garrett Alymer and Sir William Sarsficld were the patentecs, and os such divided the revenues of Kilbrogan with Mac Carthy, the representative of Mourne Abbey. Sutton was also vicar of Desertserges, and of Ballinadec.

September 28th.—Baptist Hasscll was prebendary of Kil- brogan.

John Snary was prebendary and vicar. He was installed March Sist, on Letters Patent dated March 2nd. Hoe was deaconed on the 23rd May, and priested on tho 29th September, 1624, by John, bishop of Sodar and Man. In 1634, the rectory of Kilbrogan was valued at £20 per annum, and the prebendary and vicarage at £37—in all £57 yearly. Mr. Snary obtaincd a patent in 1635, uniting the rectory with the prebendary and vicarage; and as prebendary, rector, and vicar of Kilbrogan he appears subsequently.

Hugh Dunsterville, A.M., prebendary. In 1663 he was also archdeacon of Cloyne.

1666. John Easton, A.M., prebendary. Also chancellor of Ross.

Richard Syngo, prebendary. In 1674 he became arch- deacon of Cork. He was also chancellor of Ross. His daughter Thamer was buricd in Kilbrogan, November 11th, 1711.

George Synge, prebendary and vicar of Kilbrogan, rector and vicar of Aghinagh, vicar of Aghabollig and Kitcolman, rector of Templetrine, and of Agiapallin, county of Meath. He was son of the bishop of Cloyne. In 1665, when sixteen years old, ho entered Trinity Collego, Dublin. In 1681 he married Mary, daughter of Thomas Hewytt, of Bandon-Bridge; and secondly, in 1687, Margaret Freke, of Templebryan, in Ross. In his will, dated September, 1692, he desircs to be buried near his first wife, in the chancel of Kilbrogan church.

Daniel Lord was probendary, rector, and vicar, “ per mortem Georgii Synge.” He was the son of Richard Lord, and was born in Dublin in 1657. When only fourteen years of age ho entered Trinity College; and subsequently graduated thero as doctor of divinity. His first appointment yas to tho curacy of Liscarroll. In 1681 ho

1615.

1628,

1632,

1661.

1669.

1674.

54 THE UISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRUNCTEAL

parishioners of Ballymodan, to the memory of the Honorable Reverend Richird Boyle Bernard, Dean of Leighlin. The commemorates “‘ his devoted piety, his zeal in tho extension of the gospel of his Saviour, his selfdenying liberality im the cause of soriptural education, and his munificonce in aid of the funds raised. the erection of this church,” On one side of the inseribed tablet—on_ which is a cinerary urn—is the figure of an angel in alto-relicyo, pointing triumphantly to the words—“ Go and do thon likewise.” On beth nigh side—the figuro of a boy Rnecling, also in high relief. Near this is decorated tablet to the memory of Francis B. Sweeny; and in the south aisle are handsome white marble monumental slabs to thememory of John Shine, George Thomas, several members of the Honour family, tnd to the daughters of the first Earl of Bandon. Close to the gallery of the south transept is a white marble slab to the memory of Mary Synge, wifo of Rev. George Synge, reetor of Kilbrogan. She died November 23rd, 1684. Mrs. Synga was tho daughter of Thomas Hewitt, Esq., of Clancoole, and her husband was the third son of George, Lord Bishop of Cork. The following lines were inscribed. beneath a shield on which the family arms were emblazoned, and which formerly stood bencath the west: door of the south transept :— “ Below—the pride of ancestors—there lics,

Mouldered in dust, death's lovely sacrifico—

Her parent's darling, and her husband's prido—

‘Whence she was once, a daughter and a bride.

Lovely without, but fairer much within,

Her virtues daily triumphed over sin ;

Thus ripo for nobler joys, sho swiftly fled

To the immortal living, from the dead !

Underneath lies interred the body of Mrs. Mary Synge, &e., &e. If grief could epeak my loss, or tears retriove, : ‘Thy weeping monument I'd over live.”

The floor of the chancel contains no less than sixteen tablets of variegated marble to various members of the house of Bernard. On the north wall of the chancel is » monument in the decorated Gothio style, to Francis, Earl-of Bandon. Tho base is supported by a double- headed Prussian eagle, crowned, holding a shicld with the Bernard’s crest. Above the buttresses is an embattled canopy, bearing the earl’s arms quartered with those of Boyle, with the stag and unicorn supporters in alto-relievo. The epitaph is in Gothic characters, with illuminated capitals. Alongside this is a monument in similar Gothic style, to the

TOWNS IN THE WEST RIDING OF COUNTY COLK. 55

Honorable Francis Bernard, licutenant 9th Light Dragoons, who dicd whilst with his regiment on activo service in Portugal. On the opposite side is a monument also in Gothic characters, to tho Honorable Henry Boyle Bernard (fifth son of Earl Francis), cornet 1st Dragoon Guards, who was killed at the battle of Waterloo, on the memorable 18th of June, 1815 ; and to the cast of this is a spacious monument to Catherine Henrietta, Countess of Bandon, daughter of Richard, Parl of Bhannon, with an inscription by the Rev. Dr. Lovett, D.D. Upon the east wall, near gallery of north transept, is a monument, with the representation of the burial of Christ, in relief; underneath which is an epitaph to the memory of Thomas Rovill Guest. At the south side of the choir, (east end) is an octagonal limestone font, thus inscribed :— “ Lavagr Munonvs esto, R.G. M.Y. J... Wands 1719.”

On the flat rim :— “MY. 1719, JL

Ballymodan was ancicntly called Bally-budun (that is the place of the little boat). By the latter name it is mentioned in the list prepared by order of Pope Nicolas the Fourth, a.p. 1291; and in which it is rated at seven marks a-year. The parish isa vicarage with cure. It is three and a half miles long by two broad, and contains 7,820 acres, In 1860 the vicar’s rent-charge was three hundred per annum. Ife is also entitled to the rent of ten statute acres of the old glebe Iand—no residence. Protestant population in 1831 was 2,264; and in 1860, 1,550. In the latter year, also, 162 children attended the schools. The Parish Register doca not commence until 1695. The first entry under the head of marriages is dated June 16th, 1695; and records that, on that day, Richard Maddox was married to Sarah Bacchus. Under births, same year, we find Robert, son of Pentecost Tyler; Mary, daughter of Edward Remnett; and under same heading next year (#..—1696), Alexander, son of Edward Collyer, quaker, Collyer, the Register statcs, was admitted in the presence of many persons. In 1699, according to Dive Downes, the church was in good repair ; there ‘was a sermon every Sunday, very few DPupists in the parixh, and the sacrament four times a-year. The following is a list of the births, deaths, and marriages to be found in the Registry Buok* for several years, beginning with 1695, and cnding with 1

is in the parish, and amuny of them were

78 ‘THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND .THS PRINCIPAL +

accounts for the maintenance of the soldiery, or even any allusion to © their being billetted in the town for several years afterwards,

Upon the departure of the Lord-Deputy for. England, Bandon énd other corporate towns petitioned Viscount Ely and the Karl of Oork, who had been sworn in as Lords Justices, that they should be assensed. as part of the county at large, and not es corporations: in other words, upon the area, and not upon the valuation.

The Lords Justices revised the old enactment, by means of which every Roman Catholic, who was not regalarly in attendance et least once in every Sunday in the Protestant parish church, was subject to a penalty of nine-pence for-each offence.

We find according to an inguiry held this year at Bandon, before ‘William Wiseman, Esq., that the value of “a greate cake tree” was lls. 6d. It appears, according to sworn testimony, that Edmund Barrie, of Magowlie, cut down on the lands of Magowlie, since the first of June, 1629, “ foure greate oake trees, price, every tree, 11s. 6d. sterling, being p. cell of the inheritance of Andrew Barrett, whereby the saide woods are much spoiled, to the great damage of the saide ward’s inheritance.”

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GRAND ENTERTAINMENT OIVEN RY THE TOWNSPEOPLE TO LORD CORK AND “HIS NOBLE OOMPANY’—BALTIMORE SACKED BY THB ALGBRINES; IT8 HISTORY, CHARTER, PARLIAMENTARY HEPRESENTATIVES—THE O’DRISCOLL8—ATTACK ON BALTIMORE CASTLE BY THE REBELS IN 1642—AN ALGERINE ROVER WRECKED IN DUNWORLY HAY—THE WISEMANS—THE SPENSEK§—PROSPEROUS BTATE OF THE COUNTRY BEFORE THE BREAKING OUT OF THE GREAT REBELLION—RANDON WORTHY OF BREGABD FOR ‘ITS BIGNESS AND HANDSOMENESS”—DOWNDANIAL CASTLE— RILBRITTAIN CASTLE—THE M‘CARTHYS-KEAGH.

T was but natural the Bandonians should feel grateful to Lord Cork for the many good services he had 1631. performed for them. At their desire he hurried to completion the walling of the town ; he enlarged their two churches; he procured for them the munitions of war at ‘wholesale rates ; and he strove hard with the various Lords-President of the Province to reduce (if not to remove) the garrison, against tho burthen of maintaining and paying of which thoy so strenuously and deservedly protested. Accordingly, when it became known amongst them that Lord Cork intended coming to Bandon, they met together, and invited his lordship and “his noble company” to a grand banquet. His lordship and his noble company cheerfully accepted the invitation ; and there is no reason to think that the hosts and their guests did not fally enjoy themselves, and part mutually pleased with each other. ‘The cost of the entertainment—which amounted to twelve pounds two shillings and tenpence—was defrayed by public subscription. The following is a list of the names of the subscribers, and the sums contributed by them :—

106 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

many of those who lived in the same eventful period, and shared in the same dangers with himself.

The Irish chieftains were jealous of the growing prosperity of the English colonists. But why should they be so? These colonists were only located upon lands which had been forfeited by those who had raised the standard of open revolt, and who had been put down by a large expenditure of English blood and treasure, and by the assistance of the immediate predecessors of many of these very chieftains them- selves.

Instead of being jealous of the settlers, they should, on the contrary, have encouraged those who opened up the country, and who gave them wealth and comforts, in exchange for articles of trade to which they had previously scarcely attached a value. In truth, in this very ycar the Trish had less reason to complain than they had at any time since Strong- bow’s arrival; and so well content did they appear to be, that when Lord Muskerry (one of the most powerful chiefs of the Irish Con- federacy) heard complaints of the doings of some of his people, ‘he seemed very zealous for the English, and threatencd to hang those who committed them.” And his scarcely less powerful kinsman, McCarthy Reagh, of Kilbrittain, having made many professions of loyalty, obtained arms from the governor of Bandon in order to fight for the English.

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paid for them in hard cash; and proclaimed that all those who would act peaceably and quietly should have liberty to live at home with their ‘families, and be protected in person and estate. By these, as well as other judicious measures, he soon begat strength and confidence.

After the capture of Drogheda, Cromwell marched south. City after city, and fortress after fortress, fell before him; and the Protestant inhabitants of Bandon, Youghal, Cork, and other towns in Munster threw open their gates to him, and bid him welcome.

Upon his return to England, Charlemont, Limerick, Waterford, Galway, and some few insignificant places, were all that remained to the great army of the Confederated Catholics. Before very long, theso were ” in the hands of Coote and Ireton; and on the 26th of September, 1653, it was officially announced “that the rebels were subdued, and the rebellion appeased and ended.”

Thus ended the greatest effort that was ever made by the people of this country to rid themselves of English rule. An effort, which was conceived in order to take advantage of a nation’s distress,*—born in treachery, baptized with blood, fed on carnage,—and after a vigorous existence it was overcome, and placed in a felon’s grave!

* “England’s adversity is Ireland's opportunity!” is a cry with which our own ears are not unfamiliar. um

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aware of what was going on, and followed in pursuit. They came up with tho marauders at Brinny-Bridge. The cattle were soon the property of their former owners. They then fell on the spoilers them- selves. They made no resistance, but fled at once into Kilmore hog for safety, where fifty of them were overtaken and killed.

Upon another occasion, the rebels from Carrigadrohid, having asecr- tained that the Bandon men were away somewhere, advanced in regular order to attuck the town, which was but very poorly defended, having been entrusted to the charge of old Ralph Clear, and a guard of forty men. Old Ralph heard of their approach, and instead of allowing the enemy to waste their strength on the defences, he depended on a picee of strategy, which may be commended simply on the grounds of its smecess. At the head of his forty Spartans, he walked boldly up Rarry’s Walk, and alony the old road to Macroom, to mect the foe. In @ short time he met with two of the enemies advanced scouts, who had been sent forward to rcconnoitre and see if the Bandonians were on the alert. With these old Clear, who pretended not to know who they were, entered into friendly conversution. Perceiving that their office was not apparently suspected, they beeame somewhat emboldened, and asked him was he going to fight the Irish forees with such a handful of men. Oh!’ said he, ‘we are only the advanced guard of our party. Tho main body are gone round so as to get into the encmies reur, prevent their escape ;” adding, with a confident shake of the head, “that not a man of them but would be dead and comfortably damned before starlight.”

Seeing the effect this piece of bravado had upon his hearers, he ordered his men to halt and sce to their pieces, ay they would not have long to wait for the signal now. This was cnongh for the scouts. They quietly slipt away ; and, having got out of muskct range, they ran with tremendous haste till they reached their main body, where, pale with fright, they told all that they had heard. ‘This had such an effect on the adventurers from Carrigadrohid, that they fled in con- sternation, and in so much disorder, that, when the Bandon people arrived at the bottom of a stecp hill near Gurtcen House, they found one poor fellow lying dead upon the read, who, in his cagerness to escape, had fallen headlong, and absolutely broken his neck. There were some doggcrel lines composeil on this affair, a few of which we have been enubled to collect :—

and

148 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

against those who boasted of such leaders as Father Wolf and Sir Phelim O'Neil.

No! On the contrary, the Irish hated both the Englieh and their King; and in this they were consistent, for every generation that pre- ceded them—from the time the English came here down to their own time—did the same. That they formed an alliance with Charles—no one will deny; but it was not for the purpose of benefitting him, but of dragging from him terms which they well knew his English subjects would never concede to them.

They were also influenced by another motive—that of crushing the Puritans. On this subject the royalists and the rebels were united ; they were both sincere in their professions of enmity to them; and it would be difficult to say—now—which of the two burned with the most intense hate towards them. They both foresaw that, if the Puritans won, the ‘divine right” nonsense of the one had as little chance of attaining to favour and success, as the cruel misdeeds of the other had of escaping a severe—but well-merited—punishment.

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lived within the walls thought differently; so they joined issne, and went to law.

The cause was tried before a jury, on the 26th of September. The plaintiffs were :—The provost, free-burgésses, and commonalty of Bandon-Bridge; and tho defendants :—Francis Boyle, Esq., Thomas Ellwell (Ensign), Roger Grimley, Thomas Hogan, and all the other tenants of the said Francis Boyle, and inhabitants of the Irish-town. As the jury could not agree, another was empannelled ; and the case was re+ heard: Mr. Clement Woodroffe (the provost), Mr. George Fenton, and Mr. Abraham Savage appeared for the corporation. Mr. William Thivey (agent to Mr. Boyle), Ensign Grimley, and Thomas Elwell, for the inhabitants of the Irish-town.

It was alleged by the plaintiffs that, according to the patent of King James, “all tho castles, messuages, lofts, mills, houses and edifices, structures and carthlaghs, places, lands, tenements, and hereditaments whatsoever, with the appurtenances, on both sides of the river, sliding or running under the bridge of the said town, adding thereto, or being within the said town or village, or points of the same, shall henceforth and continue one free and entire borough of itself.” They then produced Mr. Woodner, ‘Charles Coombes, and others, “‘ who being antient men,” deposed, on their own knowledge, that at the time the Letters-Patent were granted there were some structures in that place (#.e.—the Irish-town) ; and, moreover, that Samuel Fenton had a house there, which was subsequently occupied by one James Ellwell. Woodner and Coombes slso averred that the parish church stood in part of the said Irish-town, and that all the

-inhabitants of Bandon—on the south-side of the river—went to the said church, there being no other parish church save in the said Irish-town, and that some of the burgesses nominated in the Letters- Patent (viz. :—Stephen Skipwith, Thomas Taylor, and William Cecill— they living at the south-side of the town) worshipped in the same. Plaintiffs, in addition, tried to prove that Ballymodan was also called Bally-bandon, thereby endeavouring to show that the whole parish was

6 in 1699. It was this gentlaman ttle of Liscarroll in 1642, upon z the body and chnrger of his brother, Lord Kinaln itle expired with his grandson, but was renowed in 1766, and conferred upon Henry Boyle, Esq., of Castlemartyr, tho grandson of Lord Broghill, first Earl of Oxrery.

who so yuliantly which occasion he

distinguished I arly lost his

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incorporated. Finally, they proved, from entries in the rate-books of 1614 and 1628, that Elwell and Withcrhead—although living in Irish- town—paid tho same rates as those residing inside the gates.

The defendants admitted that Ellwell and Witherhead did reside in the Irish-town, but the rates they paid, they alleged, was for property within the walls. That Irish-town was part of Ballymodan, but not of Bandon-Bridge. That it belonged to William Murray at the time of the incorporation ; and-that from him it was subsequently purchased by the Earl of Cork. And Coombes admitted that when Captain Adderly ‘was provost he was rated for a houso he built outside the walls, by West- gate; and that he was acquitted of the payment thereof, as it stood not upon the corporation. 7

The plaintiffs, in reply, urged that the house referred to by Coombes was built since the erection of the walls, and that that altered the case.

As regards Ballymodan being alias Bally-bandon, Licutenant John Langton deposed that he read over many records and always found it written Ballymodan ; and did not find it “ alias Bally-bandon,” until he hath kept court there.*

Even if they were rated, the defendants insisted that it was only during the war, and not in peaceable times. And to show that they were recognized as being outside the bounds of the corporation, they brought forward Mr. Edmunds, who stated that Mr. Richard Crofts, provost in 1617, showed him the bounds of the corporation, and told him it went no farther than the little river.t

Mr. Daniel Roch confirmed the ‘testimony of Edmunds, and said it was only intended to incorporate that portion of the town built on what was forfeited to the crown by the attainder of one Mahowne, whose lands were bounded by the said river running by the East-gate.

Tho plaintiffs showed that this could not be the case, as a small portion of the lands within the walls, and already incorporated (viz. : the lands south of the little river) never belonged to Mahowne.

But, replicd the defendants, Lord Cork being the owner of those lands south of the river, and within the walls, consented thereunto for the good of the corporation, by setting the walls on that side of the hill southwards,

* Lientonant John Langton was sencerhal of the manor of Ballymodan, and was also an officer of the Bandon militia. He married a sister of Francis Bernard, Esq., of Castle-Mehon, i Langton, Bandon militia.

t+ Now known as the Dridewell river.

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This may have arisen from their having witnessed the wholesale dcs- truction of property effected by them, and the slaughter of the thousands of people—the vast portion of whom they could never accuse of doing them any harm—which they accomplished by the various means pre- viously described. From whatever cause it has arisen—it has existed, and exists still.

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Albeit, he was inforior to Christ as man is to God, but yet was his privilege of inviolability far more clear than was Christ’s; for Christ was not a temporgl prince—His kingdom was not of this world—and, therefore, when He vouchsafed to come into this world, and to become the son of man, He did subject Himself to the law. But our gracious Sovereign was well known to be a temporal prince—a free monarch—to whom they did all owe and had sworn, allegiance. The Parliament is the great council, and hath acted all and more against the Lord and Sovereign than the other did against Christ. The proceedings against our Sovereign were more illegal, and, in many things, more cruel,””

The only matter of importance that occupied the attention of the members, during the eight sessions through which this Parliament lasted, was the grent Act of Scttlement—an Act upon which the titles of most of the estates in this country were based until the introduction of the Court of Encumbered Estates. Our senior member, Dr. Georges, was the person entrusted with the presentation of the Act of Settlement to the King.

Tn order to extricate themselves from their difficulties, the Bandon corporation—who were at this time much in want of moncy, and deeply in dcbt—intended levying a heavy rate on the town, when the undermentioned citizens came forward and generously con- tributed the sums affixed to their names :—

1662.

£ad, £ad. Clement Woodroffe, . . . 47 0 0 ! Abraham Savage, junr,. . 10 0 6 John Tandon, . . 2. . 47 0 0 William Wright, 2) >) 10 000 John Pool, . . . . . 20 0 0! Robert Blanchett,, - | 2 10 0 0 Thomas French, . . . . 20 0 0 | John Brayly, .'. 2 1) 10 0 0 John Pollen, . > 2: 2 90 0 0 | Nichole Wright, 2 |] 100 0 Jonathan Bennett, . . . 10 0 0 | John Kings. . 2 2. . 10 000 Mathias Poreival,. . . . 10 0 0! Abraham Savage,. | |] 7 7 0 Edward Tuer, . . . . 10 0 0 |

In the accounts furnished the corporation by Captain Browne, who become provost on the 29th of September—this year—we find the following items :—

£ 8, 29 05

Paid Counsellor Cox (Sir Richand), for drawing deeds, Paid the Bellman, for whipping five persons...

248 feet two-inch plink, tor gaol,

John for ironwork, 2. For mending Water-gate lock, For turf and candles for the guard, |

ecuacca®

John Nash, for East-gate lock,

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satisfactorily arranged. Finally they seperated, after entrusting to the church bell of Kilbrogan the ominous duty of announcing on the coming morn that the very eventful moment had at length arrived They all slipped away as quietly as they had entered. One or two went out by the front door, but the greater portion got into the litte gardens abutting on the churchyard, and thence into the heuses of those neighbours on whose fidelity they could rely. °

These in their turn also became emissaries; and in » few hours all the male inhabitants were enrolled*—the Rev. George Synge, of Kil- brogan, ‘Ould Andy Symes,’t of Ballymoney, and the few of those who preached and practised the doctrine of non-rosistance, alone stend- ing aloof. The Presbyteriane—and even the peace-loving Quakerst— joined in the movement to a man. ¢

It may seem odd that the only one of the fair sex entrusted with the seeret was Katty; but this was accounted for by the simple reason that it could not be helped. However the conspirators made a great parade of their confidence in her, pretending to consult her upon what they had resolved upon, and deliberating with her as to what they should

do. All went on smoothly cnough, until some one asked what they

should do with the prisoners.

onnt is that the conspiracy was organized in Kilbrogan Church, after noon-service on Sunday ; and that, in order to prevent any intentions from getting al 1, the conspirators turned out all the women—rely- ing upon that that a woman cannot keep a secret. One wonan, however. who wl to be a servant at Edwards’ Inn, where Captai untrived to hide herself under one of the seats, and heard probably smitten by the jack-boots and feather of the gallant 0 watched anxiously throughout the night; and when she heard tho first stroke of the bell, che ran up to his room and urged him to fly for his life. Knocking was

He had only time to throw on a few articles of clothing, when a loud

heard at the front door, Ife hastened as fast ns he could to the door leading into the back premises; und onec in the yard, it was but the work of minute to scale the wall and be off. Notwithstanding, he had a very narrow escape, as he was pursned for several miles, and nearly overtaken.

ymes, who spent a great deal of his time in Bandon, was Hymony upon the death of the Rev. Tsaae Mansfield in 1688, rricd at St. Fin Bar's, Cork, to Bridget Doherty, in 1692: orpnlent, Iie was act ‘strong. Whilst

sn one occasion with another stout defender of the church “him, that when he crived near home—in a fit of couple of bystanders, and tucking one

ain IIS,

inner each and - arriving victoriously at the win wel and received the st

$. One ot the y arrainged before some of the Suciety of Friends at Cork, and a " the, a Qua ould join in such an enterprize. “TD knew I quoth the follower of George Fox, “but Lalso know ['m

a Bandoni:

a me ae

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before, had used his good offices with General McCurthy on their behalf, and who was now called upon again to go over the sume ground with James.

But the man he hud to contend with this time was the reverse of the former. McCarthy was a man of good sense, and a soldier; James was a religious bigot and a poltroon. Over and over again the humane divine reminded his king that the uct of his general was the act of himsclf; but he could scarcely be prevailed upon to listen to them, and all Brady gained by his mediation wus the delay of a few days.

The royal mind was as unshaken as ever; and when the merciless monarch did set out for Dublin, he left peremptory instructions behind him to have the Bandon rebels severely dealt with.* Nugent, only too glud to curry out his Majesty’s views inthese purticulars, ordered them on their trial at once.

There they stood, unflinching and undismaycd—ualthough there was no gleam of hope to soften the gloom of that destiny which now appeared inevitable. Before them sat the Irish Jeffries, and beside him was the gibbet. But the darkest hour is that which precedes the dawn.

McCarthy, who had signed the terms of capitulation on behalf of James, and who felt himsclf’ bound in honour to maintain his promises with the Bandon people, could not look on himselt' in any other light than that of an accessory to their murder if he did not energetically interfere. Accordingly he urged the Chief Justice to ubide by the peace he had made ; but finding importunities of no avail with that worthy, he walked in contumaciously upon the bench, and dared him.

Thus menaced und overawed, Nugent, “ who had resolved on serving them us he served Mr. Browne,” gave way. The trial was postponed for a time, when it was again heard—but before a tribunal where opposing counsel were represented by contending armics, where the leaders on both sides were kings, and where the point at issue was the welfare of nations. This court sat upon the never to be forgotten bunks of the Boyne.

The names of these old Bandon heroes, over whose devoted heads

* It is stated that James was heard to say that he would trust no Protestant ; that all the Protestants of Ireland were Cromwellians, and deserved to haye their throats cut; that they stunk in his nostrils, &c.

+ This was not the first time General McCarthy bullied the bench. On another occasion he threatened the judge (Sir John Meade), because he refused to direct tho gy to bring in a verdict of guilty aguinst certain prisoners then arraigned before

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Meanwhile, the sentries—a chain of whom were posted on the open ground in the front, with orders to pick off every one who should appear in any. of the windows and attempt to firc on those who were striving to get in below—were nearly all shot. In fact, all any one of besieged had to do was to rest the muzzle of his piece on the window- sill, take good aim, touch the trigger, and down would drop one of the enemy—either howling with pain from a wound which would probably prove fatal, or a corpse.

The garrison, no longer deterred from putting their heads out of the windows, now opencd a murderous fire on the foe beneath. They could not withstand this. Should they remain much longer, they must all be killed. They knew this, and with one simultancous rush they took to their heels.

But although they were disheartened, they did not despair. Possessing themselves of the out-houscs in the rear, they kept up a continuous dis- charge of fire-arms at every opening through which a ball could cuter. At length, secing that victory was as far off as ever, they ceased firing, and ran to the banks of the river at the town side. Finding the water too deep there, they mad¢ the best of their way* to the ford which lics a little to the cast of the rustic bridge which at present spans the river in the deer-park. Before they left, however, they inflicted a severe loss in killed and wounded upon the stubborn defenders of the little garrison, amongst whom was Mr. Bernard, the owner of the castle, who valiantly lost his life in its defence.

The dead Irish were collected and removed shortly after to a stable, where they were covered with straw ; and the next day they were buried in an old but long disused graveyard, some traces of which may still be scen in the adjoining lands of Killountain,

Another party surprised the house of Mr. Francis Banfield, of Shinagh. Finding the door unfastencd, they easily obtained admission, and rushed in. They found him standing near the kitchen fire talking to his wife, and ordered him ‘to come along!’ The poor man hesitated, not well knowing what to do; upon which onc of the marauders presented his musket at his head, and would most assuredly have stained his

* A few years ago, in cleaning out a pond which lay in the track of the fugitives, ~ the remains of a few old swords, from twelve to fourteen inches long, and the blade of a pike, were discovered imbedded in the mud at the bottom. It is not unlikely that theso fragments, pronounced by competent authority to belong to weapons of that period, were the remains of some thrown away by them in their fight,

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prayed for him from the pulpit; the townspeople paid him the highest compliment thoy could—they likened him to Cromwell. Every one

~ had something good to say of, or something great to wish to, glorious William. But sincero as they were in their ardent loyalty, and loud as they were in their laudations of their now king, the parish-clerk of Kilbrogan excelled them all.

‘When tho first lesson was concluded on the Sunday after the news of William’s victory had been received in Bandon, ‘‘ Let us sing,” says old Eldad Holland, ‘‘to the praise and glory of William, a psalm of my: own composing :—

“ William is come home, come home; ~ ‘William home is come ; And now let us in his praiso Sing a Te Dewn.”

He continued :— We praise thee, O William! We acknowledge , thee to be our king!” adding, with an impressive shake of the head, ‘and faith, a good right we have, for it is he who saved us from brass money, wooden shocs, and Popery !? He then resumed the old version, and reverentially continued to the end. .

Old Eldad was one of those quaint, old-fashioned people, whose notions of propriety differed widely from those entertained in our own day. He did not see why the clergyman should have all the talk to himself, and yet he did not like to interrupt him. When he withdrew, however, to the vestry, Eldad used generally inform the congregation of anything that he thought would interest them; but instead of address- ing them in the orthodox style as “dearly beloved brethren,” he used simply say, ‘ Boys.”

Boys,” said he on one occasion, “ I suppose you heard that the first of July will fall this ycar on a Sunday, so the battle of the Boyne is put off to next day. I’m sorry to tell you alxo that the Ballymodan side won the toss this time, and so we're to fight for King James. Humph! May the devil scald him!”

ter inviting his guests to “fll up.” and seeing that they did so, to rise to —"Gentlemen,

host.

his feet, s0 as to

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pA, CHAPTER XV.

THE ANNIVERSARY UF THE BATTLE OF THE ROYNE IN DAYS OF YORE—ANECDOTES— TNE BANDONIANS REBEL AGAIN—THEY DECLARE JAMES'S CHARTER NULL AND VOID—THE IRISH ATTACK CASTLETOWN—GOVERNOR COX'S PROCLAMATION— SARGPIELD’S DIVISION EMBARKS AT COKK FOR FRANCE—THE FORFEITURES.

HE celebration of the battle of the Boyne was an im-

portant cvent in the annals of Bandon in the days of

“auld lang syne.” What the 25th of December was in

7 mid-winter, the first of July was in mid-summer. The

former was the great winter festival ; the latter was the great summer

festival. The date of the battle itself was a great time-mark with the

inhabitants. For more than a century after people used to relate how

that their fathers, or their grandfathers, or their great-grandfathers,

were born, or were married, or died, so many years before or after the

battle of the Boyne. A man obtained the lease of his farm, or of his house, or his people ‘came over,” so many years before or after it.

The first of July was a grand holiday. Months before the day broke on that memorable morning—before the sun showed a portion of his broad, bright red face above the shoulder of yon castern hill, and peeped furtively into the grey valley below as if to sce if there was any one awake or up before himself—thousands were cagerly looking forward to ‘ the first.”

It came at last. Old quarrels were speedily forgotten; old friend- ships were quickly revived. Those between whom a coolness had existed now shook cach other cordially by the hand. A man one had never scen before would put a foaming tankard in his hand, and invite him to drink to the glorious William. The buxom country lass, who blushed when, for the first time, her eyes met those of the stalwart

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young fellow who insisted on walking a part of the way 1 a yoor ago, was now all blushes and smiles, as he prossed whispered in her car.

It wasa glorious day.* Heayen’s huge azure yault was rich light. The golden beams of the great luminary quivered in the warm, still air. Its light was everywhere. The and pebbles which lay in the heds of brooks and rivers soft in the midst of the soft mellowish glare that st Splashes of bright light lay scattered om the moist ground, damp green moss, that were to be found in dark recesses in # and groves; and luminous spots and patches of it—sprinkled, invisiblo hands—dappled the lasquored surfuee of the ivy leaf, th and the laurel. -

Early on that morning Bandon was astir, The cannon on fii were fired at intervals of «a few minutes, and each successive “b swelled and roared along the valley, and echoed and re-echoed amo the surrounding hills, announcing that the day had begun. The bell of Christ Church sung it in silvery toncs. Tho bell at Ballymodan boomed it. Simultaneously with this announcement, standards were | , hoisted. A large orange flag flaunted from the belfry of old Kilbrogan; + a similar one waved from the roof of Ballymodan. A blue flag floated - from a tall spar placed over the centre arch of the bridge. Orangeand ¢ blue, purple and violet, red and yellow—in fact, flags and ribbons of every colour, saye green and white—streamed from lofty oaks planted in commanding situations. One tree stood just outside the Water-gate, . another stood at Kilbrogan-cross; there was one on the quay—nowknown. as Cavendish-quay; there was one on the western extremity of the South Main Street, another at its eastern extremity ; there was one on’ Shannon Street bridge, and another in the Irish-town.

People were soon in the streets. Many of those who had arrived after a long journey the night before were busy watering and feeding their horses, so that they may havo the day uninterruptedly te themselves.

The townsmen were busy too. Every door, every window, every sky-light, was being decorated by them with branches of oak; whilst their- mothers, or their wives, or their swoethearts, stood by, twining tasteful garlands of marigold and sweet-william. oa

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The roads leading into the town swarmed with country-people. There was not a village, or a hamlet—almost every house poured its tributary into the live stream that swept by. Margery and Mabel, Sukey and Bess, in kirtles of bluc or red stuff, and wearing a bunch of roses and sweet-william in their bosoms, trouped on, accompanied by young men who wore sprays of oak and orange lilics in ther hats. Men and women— some of whom were advanced in years—were there on fovt and on horseback ; and many a comfortable-looking matron rode by, sitting on the big padded pillion affixed to her husband's saddle. Scarce a door they passed that had not an oak branch and a cluster of orange lilies placed above it in honour of the day ; and people too old to travel, or who were obliged to stay at home to mind the house, were out on the wayside, huzzaing to every group that went by, or making the air resound with the enlivening strains of ‘‘ The Boyne Water.”

About cleven o’clock the strects wero lined with crowds of pedes- trians. Precisely at that hour tho gates at the market-house at Bally- modan side were flung open, and a corps of drums and fifes passed out, playing loyal tunes. They were followed by a long line of men woaring sashes and shoulder-knots of the favourite colours, marching four deep.

After traversing the South Main Strect, Castle Strect, and the Irish- town, they arrived at Bullymodan Church, by Bridewell Street and Church Street. Here several entered and heard divine service ; but by far the greater number of them being Presbyterians, they marched to their own mecting-house.

At the same time another large body, also headed by drums and fifes, marched from the market-house at North-gate, out to the end of Sugar Lane, across the fields to Barrett’s Hill, and thence down through the North Main Strect, to the bottom of Water-gate; and returning tho same way again, thcy halted at Kilbrogan Church gate, detaching the Presbyterians, who formed no inconsidcrable portion of their rank and file.

At ono o'clock, all the religious services being over, they all met at the bridge. Hero they were divided into two hostile camps. Thosc who lost the toss, being for King James, possessed themselves of the bank of the river on tho Ballymodan side, extending from the bridgo to the piece of ground now occupied by tho gas-works. Whilst William’s party—the party who won the toss—held the Water-gate side, beginning

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spinnet, and then abutst of sounds, from dozens of hoarse throats, roared :— S “July the first, in a morning clear, one thousand six hundred and ninety, King Willinm did,” &e.

The fireworks were exhibited about nine in the evening, and proved a great source of amuscment to every one; after which the cannon on the town walls announced that the day wus ended. ;

Nearly every one in this locality—during the close of the seventeenth century, the whole of the cightecnth, and the first quarter of the one wo live in—heartily joined in celebrating the Boyne anniversary. In- deed, such was the anxiety of a gentleman-—who is still affectionately remembered by some of our old citizens—that his unaltered devotion to the principles associated with the memory of King William should be ex- hibited, and that, whilst lying in his last resting-place, his very remains should as it were display those loyal emblems he so often paraded whilst alive, that on his dying bed he gave peremptory orders to his next of kin to pay the sum of ten pounds yearly to an individual whom he named, provided he decorated his grave every 1st of July with orange lilies.

We should have stated that ‘‘ Schomberg’s” horse was uot forgotten. When the great toast that was given at every dinner-table, and was drank over and over again, was first proposed, a full bumper of the best October wits poured into the horse’s bucket, which he used to drink off with all the gusto of a real true-blue. Poor “Billy” died about the year 1708, and was publicly-buried in the churchyard of Ballymodan ; and ’tis said that many a wet eye became wetter, and many a sad heart sadder still, as the stones and clay covered for ever the inanimate form of the once gay and joyous old Boyne campaigner, “ Billy Boyne.”*

The custom of celebrating the Boyne anniversaty by a sham fight continued until the year 1809; and the last ‘‘ Schomberg” we have any account of was the late Mr. William Banfield, of Shinagh. The planting of oak-trees, with paintings of William crossing the Boyne, continued until the passing of the Party Processions Act; whilst the practice of decorating the churches with flags and streamers remained until 1858. And the only traces we have now of these by-gone cele- brations are the few harmless shots that are fired on the eye of the old anniversary. :

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The battle of the Boyme, one of tho most imp that has ever been fought in this country, vas itod which bears evident traces of haying boon written by an ays indeed, it is thought to have bean written by one of killeners who was present—and if still retains much

popularity. Am; TICE BOYNE WATER. P “July the first, in a morning elear, ona thousand six Imindeed To apt ing Jana eh i ae Se

“King Willian called bis nes, cng * Ctl il And let your valour here be shown before the Irish nation. My brazen walls lot no man break ; our subtle foes we'll seat Sco that you show good English play, this day at the Boyne yw Tlis offfeers they bowod full low, in token of subjection. Said they ‘My liege, you need not fear, we'll follow your He wheeled his harse ; the hauthoys played; drums thoy did b And ‘Lilli burlero’ was the tané we played going down to battle.

“ Both foot and horse we marched on, intending them to batter, But brave Duke Schomberg ho was shot, as he crossed over the water; ‘And when King William he perceived that brave Duke Schomberg falled, He reined his horse with a heavy, heavy heart, and the Enniskillen men he

called.

“What will you do for me, brave boys; sco yonder’s men retreating! Our enemics encouraged are, and our English drums aro beating, T'll go before, and cad you on. Boys, uso your hands full nimble ; With the help of God we'll beat them down, and make their hearts to tremble.” .

“The Enniskillen men, they did not know it-was their King spoke to them, But when informed of their mistake, they bowed fall low unto him. gaat ‘We'll go before; stay yon behind, and do not cross the water ;

Old Britain's lamp shall clearly shine, und our enemies we'll seatter.”

“We formed our body at the ford, and down the brae did swatter ; And each man grasped his fellow close as we passed through the water. But—oh, my stars !—had you been there, when we their trench came under: Sulphur and smoke darkened the air, and the elements did thunder.

“ King William he did first advance where bullets sharp did rattle. The Enniskillen men bore noble hands, and soon renewed the battle. : Then lionlike we made them roar; like chaff we did thom scatter. eg King William pressed his way through blood that day at the Boyne water. :

“My Lord Galmoyle within a crack of our fore-front advanced.

Both groat and gay, in rich array, like prince's sons they pranoed. In a fall body they came down, with bréadeword and caliver, ‘With whip and sword, most Jehu-like, as the devil had been their driver...

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“Within ten yards of our fore-front, before a shot we fired. But a sudden snuff they got that day ; they little it desired ; For men and horse fell to the ground, and sone hung on their saddles, And many turned up their forked end—as we call ‘coup-de-ladles.’

«Prince Eugene's regiment was the next, on our right-hand advanced, Into a field of standing wheat, where Irish horses pranced ; But the brandy ran so in their heads, their senses soon did scatter, They little thought to leave their bones that day on the Boyne water.

“Wo turned about our foe to flank, intending them to batter; But suddenly they did us spy, and fast began to scatter. ‘The Irish they ran first away, the French they soon did follow, And he that got fustest away, wax, aye! the happiest fellow.

“Oh seo! Oh see! cried Dermot Roe. Oh, help, dear Lady Mary! By my fet, we're all dead men this'day, if we do longer tarry!” They threw away both fife and drum, and firclock from their shoulder. King William's men pushed them hurd, to smell the English powder.

“T never eaw, nor never knew, men that for blood so gaped ; But yet I'm sure that from three to ten of then that day escaped.

We formed the French* on our left wing, the enemy to batter ; And glorious was our victory that day on the Boyne water.

“ Both man and horse lay on the ground, and many there wero bleeding. T saw no sickles there that day, and yet there was lots of shearing. But still the faster we pursued, tho more we did them seafter.

Our hearts were to each other bound that day at the Boyne water.

“Had Enniskillen men got leave that day, when they their foes defeated, For to pursue the enemy that from the ficld retreated, Ten thousand broguincers and more would not have been much eumber, Nor James's men have rose again, by the third part of their number.

“ Now praise God, all true Protestants, and heaven's great Creator, For the deliverance that He sent, our cnemics to seatter. The church’s foes shall pine away, like churlish-hearted Nabal ; For our deliverer came that day like the great Zorobabel.

“ Now praise God for all, true Protestants, and I will say no farther, But hud the Papists gained the day, there would have been open munter, Although King James, and many more, were not that way inclined ; Yet it was not in their power to stop what the rabble they designed.

“ Both France and Spain they did combine, the Pope and Father Peter ; They thought to steep a rod in brine, Great Britain to whip completer ; But Providence to us was kind—sent William to cross the water; Who broke the rud and their black design, and their bones lie at the Boyne water.”"+

* The Huguenots. + The Rev. Dr. Hume, to whom we are indebted for this copy of © July the First,’” thinks verse nineteen was subscquently added by some smart member of an Orange

2 $ oe 304 TIM NISTORT OF BANDON, AND Tire

Tho song best known in the South, anil which appeared in 1814, and from that time up to tho siderable extent supplanted thu former, which and which was known in the North ever since the

broad sheet, alone the margin of which it wax rintegl

“July the first; in Oldbridge town, there was a grievous battle, Where many a man lay on the geound, hy cannons that ‘King Jamos he pitched his fonts hotweun the linns for to neti But King William threw his bombshella in, and sot them all

“ Theroat enraged, they vowed revenge upou King William's fo And oft did vehemently ery, that they would stop their courses: — A bullet from the Irish came, which graged King William's ars They thought his Majesty wae elain, but it did him little hittin.

“ Duke Schomberg then, in fidndly care, his King would offen ent To shun the «pot where bullets hot retuined thofr rwpid motion ; But William said he don't deserve the name of Faith's Defender, ‘Who would not venture life and limb to make a foe surrender.

“When we the Boyne began to cross, the Irish they descended ; But few of tur brave men were lost, so nobly we defended. The horse they were the first crossed o'er, the foot soon followed after; But brave Duke Schomberg was no more, by crossing o'er the water.

“When gallant Schomberg he was slain, King William he accosted His warlike men for to march on, and he wou'd be the foremost. ‘Braye men,’ said he, ‘be not dismayed, at the loss of one commander, For God will be our King to-day, and I'll be general under.’

“Then Iravely we the Boyne did cross, to give the encmy-battle ; Our cannon, to our foe's great cost, like thundering claps did rattle. In maj tyle our King rode o'er, his men soon followed after, And “twas svon we put onr foes to rout, the day we crossed the water,

nts of Drogheda have reason to be thankful,

cre not to bondage brought, they being but a handful. First to the Tholsel they were brought, and then to Millmount after; But brave King William set them free by venturing over the water.

“The cunning French near to Duleck had taken up their quarters, And fenced themselves on every side, just waiting for now ordera ; But in the dead time of tho night they set their tents on fire,

And long before the morning’s light to Dublin did retire.

“Then suid King William to his men, after the French departed, # ‘T'm glad,’ said he, ‘that nune of ye scem to be faint-hearted ; So sheath your swords and rest awhile, in time we'll follow after.’ These words he uttered with s smile the day we crossed the water.

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Two reasons are assigned for this reckless waste. One is that the purchasers of the escheated estates were afraid they would-be dis- possessed in case the Pretender ascended the throne, and thet they were eager to repay themselves as much of their purchase-money out of the lands as fast as they could. The otter was that they were felled lest they should afford protection to the Tories and rapparees.

Gibraltar was taken this year. A Bandon man—Ceptain Jumper— was one of the first who rushed into it, sword in hand.

In the next chapter we give all the particulars we have been enable to collect of our famous townaman—a man to whom England is in some measure indebted for the possession of the renowned key of the Straits.

an extensive trade carried on hero in the manu-

and linen cloth, which has altogether ceased.

however, known as a scat of the provision trado—large

of u pigs, and cattle being annually disposed of in

sly and fairs. It is very advantageously situated for a

"trade of this kind, being in the centre of a wide and improving district,

and only two miles distant from where the river is navigable at Old

Court for vessels of two hundred tons burthen. Facilities are afforded

by this water-way of exporting its produce, and, by means of lighters,

landing in its very streets the various imports which the town and country require.

BANTRY.

” Bantry derives its name from Ban-tra (white strand), from the white shingly fore-shore in front of it. Others: derive it from Beant Mac © See Clerical Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross.—Dr. Brady.

| men, were sbipped for servico under the King of Spain by White; and of this body many divisions embarked at. ; for Spanish ports in the May of 1652.

_ Arthur, Barl of Anglesea, who, as has boen previously stated, obtained a grant of most of this country, had several of his jands erected into the manor of Bantry, and more of them into the manor of Altham; as appears by a private signet, dated Whitehall, February 6th, 1679, and duly enrolled. By this instrument the lands in the barony of Beere and Bantry (with others) were erected into the manor of Bantry, and other lands in the said barony were erected into the manor of Altham, with two thousand acres in each foradomain. Puwer to create tenures ; to hold Courts Lect and Baron, and a court of record ; to build prisons, to appoint seneschals, bailiffs, gaolers, and other officers ; to enjoy all waifs, &c.; toimpark three thousand acres or more in cach manor, with free warren ; to build tan-houses, and dress leather ; to hold (weekly) a

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Wednesday and Saturday market, and three fairs, &c., at Ballygobban, in the manor of Bantry; to appoint say[assay ]-master and clerk of the market. $

The desirability of having a fort at Bantry forced itself upon the attention of Lord Orrery (the lord-president of Munster). That great soldicr and statesman recommended that the fort which he himself eansed to be erected there should be garrisoned with a hundred men, in addition to the sixty it then contained ; thus confirming the opinion given by Spenser, nearly a century before, as to Bantry being ‘‘a most fit place to defend all that country from foreign invasion.”

In a letter to the Duke of Ormond, dated Charleville, May 25th, 1666, Lord Orrery, speaking of the fort at Bantry, says:—‘ lt is a small one, but regular, and consists of four small bastions, the faces of which are but forty-eight fect long, and the planks cighteen ; the curtain ninety fect long. All the stoceadoes, which were on the inside on the brick of the graff, and placed there in the nature of a fulse bray, are rotted away, the guns unmounted, the drawbridge broken, and but one company of sixty men in it, commanded by Captain Manly. This fort is the furthermost western garrison of this county ; and we have no garrison between it and Cork—which is about forty English miles. It stands over against Whiddy Island, in the bottom of the Bay of Bantry. This place must immediately have one hundred men sent to it more than the company now in it, the drawbridge and pallisadoes forthwith mended, the guns mounted, more ammunition sent to it, and one month’s victuals at least for onc hundred and sixty men put into it; for this being the frontier garrison of the west, ought to be well provided.”

The duke agreed with the views of the Munster lord-president; and in “an estimate of the charge for putting into repair his Majesty’s chief fortifications and places of strength throughont the kingdom of Ireland, made October, 1677,” says, concerning Bantry :—The fort is built of lime and stone, consisting of bastions. In it are houses built for two hundred men, but are all out of repair, and some wholly un- rooffed; walls defective, gates and drawbridge decayed, the dry graff round the fort to be cleared ; all which to repair will cost £400. In this tort must be mounted, on standing carriages, cight guns, which will cost £56; making new platform, £15; and for repairing the magazine, £80.

The following is a list of tho guns and other munitions of war in the fort at the time :—

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In 1642, Florence McCarthy, of Benduffe, Black O’Cullane, and others, after plundering the town of Ross, besieged Captain Arthur Freke and his heroic little garrison in Rathbarry Castle. Notwith- standing the valiant defence made by Freke and his warders, victory would eventually decide against them—owing to the want of food, as well as to the overwhelming numbers which prowled round and round the castle walls, like famishing wolves round a sheep-fold—had not the Bandon militia and Lord Forbes’s regiment of Scotch come to their assistance, and conveyed them safely to Bandon.

During the siege—which lasted thirty-five weeks—the Irish used the cathedral of Ross as a shambles; and within its precincts they used to slaughter the cows and sheep which they took from the Protestant inhabitants. x

It was at Ross tho last act in the drama of the great r¢bellion was performed ; when the town was surrendered to the English, and a peace concluded between Gencral Ludlow on the side of the Parliament, and Lord Muskerry on behalf of the Kilkenny Confederation, on the 22nd of June, 1652.

A great deal of the lands forfeited in the parish of Rathbarry and the neighbourhood, and which had belonged to the O’Heas and the Barrys,* were granted to William Penn, Phillip Percival, and the Duke of York; but the town itself was conferred by Cromwell (April 12th, 1653) upon Captain Robert Gookin, ‘he having laid out £600 in fortitying the abbey, and in buildings intended for the English in- habitants, and to strengthen the place.” ‘,

Upon an inquiry in 1654, a report was made, from which it appears that all these improvements cost no less than £2,143 9s.; and, in con- sideration of this, Gookin was granted Abbey-Mahon and twenty-six ploughlands adjoining.

Edward Synge, bishop of Cork, obtained a patent, dated July Ist, 1675, for three fairs to be held here annually—onc on the 15th of August, one on the 8th of September, and on the 8th of December ; also two weekly markets—one on Wednesday, and one on Saturday.

In James the Second's time Ross was garrisoned by some Irish troops, under General McCarthy ; und so well posted were they, that an English

# James and John Barry were seized of the fee of Rathbarry Castle in the time of Charles the First, as appears by an inquisition taken at Bandon-Bridge in a.p, 1627,

ee

Gist of Hows :'Tist that ond day hs Late : ‘The following night turned out to be

“Tail, happy Ross! that could produce thrice nine— All miitred sages of Liedanias line,

‘From Fachnan, crowned with everlasting praise,

Down to the date of Dongal's pious days.”

Benedict was bishop in 1172, and sat about eighteen years,

Maurice, who followed, died in 1196.

Daniel, consecrated at Rome by Pope Celestin the Third. He pro- duced letters purporting to be written by the Irish bishops, asserting that he was clected to the vacant See, and thus imposed on his Holiness. Two other monks also went from loss to the Pope, pretending that they were elected. The great Vicar, not knowing which of them to believe, entrusted the examination of the pretensions of the three candidates to the archbishop of Cashel and bishop of Killaloe, They reported in favour of Florence, one of the two monks, and they confirmed him in the See. Shortly after Pope Celestin died, and Innocent the Third occupied the Papal chair. Daniel again went to Rome; and told Inno-

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put as a prop under the loft where tho master keeps the oats for the horses, and I suspect they’ll never bo satisfied with this piece of wire!" looking contemptuously at the great poker.

“And who is it that—that—that wants such a thing at all?” folteringly inquired poor B——.

“‘ Why, the frecmasons, sir, to be sure! The dostor* ran down me while ago and told me to be quick, as they were going to make 9 mason immediately ; and many is the one I reddened for them before; but I suppose they’ ll kill me ontirely now!”

“ And why wouldn’t that poker do—do—them ?”

“Yerra! is it that knitting-neodle? Whisht! by gor, here they are !”” as a door was heard to bang-to upstairs. z

Pressing his hat on his forchead, the applicant for masonic honopra shot out of the kitchen like a flash of lightning; and fleeing through

‘the open door, ho bounded down the limestone steps, and ran for his

life.

“Come back!” roared the cook; ‘“Hould him!” cricd the hoots; “Catch him!” shouted the waiter; but away he sped faster than before.

When the fellows who lounged outside on the steps, and who, to do them justice, were never averse to a bit of fun, got an inkling of what occurred, they gave tongue with a vengeance, and some of them even gavo chuse; but they might as well try and overtake a telegraphio message on its way to its destination along the wires. The affrighted candidate was soun out of sight; and, from that day to the present, no one has cver secn him in this locality.

Masonry has been much on the increase of late years. Men are more anxious than heretofore to congregate where they can enjoy one another’s frieudship and socicty irrespective of creed and party; and where they can spend their evenings more profitably than in taxing their ingennity to discover a religious or a political grievance.

Another excellent department of masonry is that which is devoted to charity. Out of their abundance thero are but few who do not give cheerfully to a fund, out of which a brother less fortunate than them- sclyes can be assisted to get on his legs aguin, and again, and again, to fight the great battle of life; and, should he fall in the struggle, a

TOWNS IN THE WEST RIDING OF COUNTY CORK. 419

Upon the proclamation of war betwecn England and Spain, in the beginning of this year, a lot of the disaffected in this kingdom banded themselves togethcr, and under various names—as Fairies, Redboys, Whiteboys, Levellers, &c.—they traversed the country, principally between sunset and sunrise, attacking the houses of peaceable inhabi- tants, and doing serious injury to life and property. Their avowed object was to level the fences recently constructed round waste lands or commons in various parts of Ireland, and which lands, they alleged, belonged to the poor; but their real object was to co-operate with Spain, and, if possible, restore the Pretender. Many of them wero taken prisoners; and in the pockets of several were found military commissions, lists of the the names of many of their cénfcderates, and the following ballad :—

“Come cheer up, my lads, for your glory is near! i 4 Away with all doubt, and away with all fear! To freedom we call you—a Stuart shall reign. Tsurpation shall vanish—accept aid from Spain. Chorus.—Right royal is our prince, right royal our men! In the cause we are ready—stcady, boys, steady !— ‘We'll fight till we die, or restore him again. “No longer we'll wait for assistance from France, Nor again shall they lead us a wandering dance; For Spain, on whose word we may surely depend, Has the power and will our rights to defend. Chorus.

“The offspring of Brunswick or Strclitz—poor lords !— Shall never usurp or command our brave swords. For tho sword shalll again be adorned by a king, Of whose great ancestors our Druids shall sing. Chorus.

“Come cheer up, my lads, for the time it draws near ‘When tho land of all whelps and true-blues shall he clear ; ‘When Princo Charles as king, my boys, toasted shall be, And our bondage reversed into grand liberty.

Chorus.

“No blue-livered whelp, or Cromwellian black boor, In grandeur shall ride, or in splendour shall move. Of their titles we'll strip ‘em, and enslave ’em, my boys. ‘Their sorrows we'll heighten, and retrieve our own joys. Chorus.

The loyalist party hore had a poctastor, too; and he roplicd in a song of similar style and metre, and well known in this neighbourhood at

that time :— 23-2

“And in his stead, to place upon the throne

A vagabond, whose parents are unknown:

Pretender to three kingdoms not his own.”

‘An epitaph for the Levellers (commonly called the Whiteboys’”’) shows the bitter feelings entertained by the loyalists for those free- booters :—

“Now judgment passed by the great God of Heaven— Die, die, you must, in numbers odd and even. You purchase shrouds, Great George provides the rope, In spite of France, the Spaniards, and the Pope.

« “When they are going to be hanged,” is the remark made in a foot-note of th old MS. copy which wre kindly lent tons, °

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“Oh! Thavo fired off both my pistols,” quoth he, walking towanjs his horse, which had strayed away a littlc distance in quest of a mauth- ful of fresh grass.

Quick as lightning, Donogh rushed between them, and, presenting « largo horse-pistol at his head, swore by the —— that, if he did not deliver up every mortal rap in his possession, he would blow him to picevs that very instant, shouting out in a voice of thunder, “ For hero’s the master of your master! here’s Donogh Duve!””

The other had often heard of Duve beforo; and knowing there would be no use in trifling with such a powerful opponent, who, in addition to being armed, wus physically his superior, he therefore acted like any sensible man would have donc under the circumstances, and disgorged toorter. He first laid down his pistols, then his ball-cartridge, Donogh’s money-bag, and his own purse containing fourteen guiness; next followed thrco watches and a few trinkets. Having turned his pockets insido out, and rid himself of everything worth taking, he was ordered. to march off some paccs to the rear, and turn his back. In the interim, Duve, who had safely secured all the valuables, coolly mounted Brenuan’s charger; then riding up to him, and stooping over the pommel of the saddle, he told his outwitted antagonist in a confidential whisper, that whenever ho met a poor simpleton again, not to forgot

Donogh Duve.

The immediate cause of the arrest of the Duves, and their subsequent execution, was an attack upon the honse of a man name Holland, who lived as diiryman and caretaker to Mr. Alcock, of Roughgrove, and resided in the old residence, which, at that time, cecupicd the present site of Roughgrove Mouse,

VWolland had returned from Cork late in the evening, after disposing of some Tuttar, and brought with lim, amongst other things, a heavy

vs usc for shocing block-wheels. About one in

iron J

the morning, he w: out of a sound sleep by the smashing in of the trout door; and, before he contd well srouse his dormant senses and seize on the iren bar just mentioned, two of the daring burglars rushed

rs. The

Wis very narrow, and led from tho landing into his room by av It was mainly owing to this, and the cireumstance that only one person could pass up at tho time, that rendered Holland's po-ition so advantageous. ‘The first to come up was & man named McCarthy, from the ucighbouring townland of Shinagh, and

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432 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

by whistling ond coughing, endeavoured to keep them in courage. Time rolled heavily away, every minute they thought now was as long as an hour at another time. ‘‘ Will it ever be day ?” thought Holland, as he anxiously peered through the diamond-paned window-glass, and looked out upon the black massed clouds that lay before him. Again he looked out, and again; but the prospect was as unchoering and the darkness as impenetrable as ever. At length, a pale blue flash flared in tho castern sky. The cock gave out a lusty crow. Again Holland looked out, and, lo! the morrow had come. Shortly after, a neighbouring farmer knocked at the door, and asked if any thing was wrong, stating that his dogs wore barking all through the night, and he thought there must be mischivf somewhere. He was told in a few words, and directed to wake up the neighbours. These soon began to drop in, armed with pikes, reaping-hooks, and whatever offensive weapons they could eonveniently lay hands on. Finding that all hopes of a rescue were now at an end, Michael Duve burst into fits of crying, and asked God to forgive him for his numerous offences; but Dan preserved a sulky silence, broken but once, when calling to one of those that sur- rounded him. He addressed him by his Christian name, and asked for a shouyh of the pipe—a request that was instantly complied with. In a few hours later, a sergeant’s guard arrived ; and the Duves, being dclivered up to them, they were handcuffed, and marched into Bandon.

Meanwhile, news of the capture of the famous Duves had spread far and near. It ran from ploughland to ploughland, from parish to parish, The peasantry of one district no sooner told it to those of another, than, throwing down their mattocks and grephancs, they flocked in crowds to Bandon. The whole flat of Burry’s Walk, extending from where the Convent of the Order of the Presentation now stands, a full mile anda half along the oll Maervom Road, was black with people; but there was one place in that swaying mass of humanity where the thick crowd was thickest, and where the murmur ol voiyes was the loudest. In the middle of this thick crowd, a small space was with difficulty preserved; and in the centre of this was a little old woman, with a white kerchicf tied round her head, und her figure enveloped in a frieze cloak of ample dimensions. This little old woman was the mother of the Duves, and, when the unfortunate men arrived before where she was standing, she went upon her kuees to give her boys her blessing; but the salutation she received was a terrible one.

434 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

For this murder he was arraigned ; but tho judge directed the jury to acquit him, it being found that Mr. Moore had no warrant for his arrest. He was, however, immediately put upon his trial for having stolen tho blundorbuss with which he committed the fatal deed; and, this being satisfactorily proved, he was found guilty of the felony, and sentenced to death, oa were also his two brothers, who had been con- victed of the burglary at Roughgrove.

It was ordered, in addition, that the executions should take place in tho towns nearest to where the offences had been committed. Ac- cordingly, when tho three unfortunate men arrived in Bandon, Micheal and Dan were detained there ; but Donogh was sent on strongly escorted to Clonakilty. When the escort arrived at a cross-road adjoining that town, then and still known as Fac’s Bridge, they found that every preparation had been maie by the local authoritics for carrying out the dread sentence of the law, and also that numbers of persons from the country ay well us from tho town had asscmbled to feast their eyes upon ono of the most notorious criminals of the day, and to sce if that reckless daring which tracked his career through this world would cower as he appronched the next. Ife soon took his place on the drop; the rope was adjusted ; and, after nodding and smiling to some of his old friends whom he recognized in the crowd, the bolt was about being drawn, when he sought, as a last request, to be allowed to say a few words. This was assented tu; and, stepping a pace or two to tho front, “ Good people,” said he, with a comic expression of countenance, which provoked roars of merriment from those who had come to sce him die, “all Lhaye to say is, that the best thing for you to light a pipe with is the faded stalk of a potato!” Then, turning with the same humorous leer to the executioner, he told him to go on.

‘This apparent disregard for his impending doom might in some measure be accounted for by the fact that he wore an iron collar round his neck, with strong projecting hooks; so that when the drop would fall, the rope would glide up, and, heing caught by them, would be prevented from pressing futally on the jugular—a contrivanco that was made for him by a smith named Lane, from Ballinacurra, in this neighbourhood. But this did not avail him; tur Hastings Moore—a brother of the murdered man, and one of those who-assisted in his capture at Geara—was watching his every move from the foot of the scaffold, and perceiving that his neckerchief was unusuully large, or, as some assert, having

TOWNS IN TIE WEST RIDING OF COUNTY CORK. 451

Papist is better than cither a Cork or a Kinsale Protestant any day !” is an aphorism, the truth of which is so self-cvident, that it has never yct been called in question.

The Bandon militia, after a respite of nearly a century, were called to arms this year. :

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CHAPTER XXII.

THR WANDON MILITIA, OR AOUTH-CORK LIGHT INFANTRY.

HE history of the South Cork regiment is so entwined with tho history of Bandon and the Bandonians daring that eventful period which began with the furious outbreak on the 23rd of October, 1641, and terminated with the

Great revolution which displaced a dynasty which had occupied the throne of England for generations, and firmly established another in its stead, that it is no easy matter to separate them. The history of the South Cork is « portion of tho military history of Bandon during the momentous interval mentioned previously ; and the military history of Bandon includes all that of the South Cork during the same time, in addition to many other heroic achievements of her chivalrous sons in this locality during the same period and anterior to it. To produce a history of the South Cork or Bandon militia, apart from the yariots social and political events from which it originated, and rendered its maintenance indispensable for the protection of live and property, saving those which are barely necessary —to show under what cireumstances the regiment was called out, and why its services were no longer requisite —is the object of the following pages.

This distinguished corps was enrolled when the great rebellion had broken out, and when hundreds of scftlers, outlaying in the surrounding country, bad fled in consternation to Bandon—the only walled-in town to the west or to the south of Cork. At that aha

PY period, the

demon of destruction stalked unchecked throngh the land. In ever

* So Lith: were the aithoriti cl torthis outhroak, that. when the re Magister but te

Lond Balting

TOWNS IN THE WEST RIDING OF COUNTY CORK. 453

direction one could see farm-houses in flames, cattle being driven away or wantonly destroyed, and murders committed in tho broad glare of open day. The gates of the town were ever opening and shutting. At one time it wasa terrified creature who knocked frantically for admission —at another time it was a band of refugees, bemoaning the loss of all the industry of their lives, who begged an entrance. Great numbers were goon collected ; the women and children were helpless, but the men, used to labour, and accustomed to the use of arms, wero eager to be led against those by whose hands they had been such terrible sufferers.

Efforts were quickly made to stay this onrush of incendiarism and slaughter. Volunteers were called for in Bandon, and two hundred men stepped into the ranks. But it was subsequently found, that with the work before them—now hourly accumulating—two hundred men were insufficient. More volunteers were called for; and before the first day of the summer of the succecding year the Bandon militia mustered four hundred rank and file. There were many others, too, ready to obey the call; but as four hundred were the utmost the town could pay or equip, they were compelled to scek employment for their military services elsewhere.

This force was divided into four companies ; each company consisting of a captain, licutenant, ensign, and one hundred men. This was tho first military body which the English colonists, who had come over in Elizabeth’s reign, had raised upon a permanent footing,* westwards or southwards of the city of Cork, solely for the performance of active military duties; and its present representative is known amongst us as the South Cork Light Infantry Regiment of Militia. At various times it had various names. At first it was ‘“‘ Tho Valiant Bandonians ;” then “The Bandon Militia;” then, towards the close of the great rebellion, when the fame of its exploits had spread far and wide, it was known as “The Firc-Eaters;” then, as ‘‘Tho Bandon Militia” again, and by this name it appears towards the end of the seventeenth century and

® There was a town militia cver since the town was built, composed of horsemen and footmen, furnished by tho military tenures. These were called out annually for ion; and so numerous had they become nearly twenty ycars before, that, on the visit of the commissioners in 1622, there were paraded before them sixty-six horse and five. hundred and sixty-four foot—exclusive of officers, sergeants, and drummers, Even many years before this, this young corps saw service; when in the reign of Elizabeth, undcr Captain Taffe, it lapped its tirst blood on the upper banks of the Bandop river, on which occasion the Pope's apostolic vicar and many of his followers were slain.

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A great many had lands granted to them in licu of their arrears of - pay, whilst others had their arrears charged upon certain estates, vested in trustecs for thvir liquidation. Amongst tho former, were Thomas Aderly, who obtained the lands of Drounkcen, Corranure, Classafree, and half the townland of Ballinlanglay,* forfeited by Daniel McCarthy- More; also Francis Bernard,t who was granted part of the lands of Knockane—Ideenc, previously a portion of tho estate of Charles McCarthy-Reagh. And amongst the latter, were Captain John Wat- kins,} for the sum of £2,164 17s. 1d.; Captain Thomas Bennett, for £1,099 14s. Gd. ; Ellinor|) (wife of Captain Holcombe), for £769 5s. 7d.; Lieutenant Edmund Nuce, for £240 14s. 4d. ; and Anne Dunkin, for arrears due to Ensign Thomas Dunkin, amounting to £245 6s. 2d. These amounts were charged on grants made to Randal Clayton, registrar, or chief clerk of the commissioners, to whom were assigned valuable estates in trust, for the payment of certain monics due to others similarly circumstanced to those whose names we have just mentioned.

During the time the regiment belonged to the town, it undertook to pay it the sum of forty pounds « week in hard cash; and, in addition, it expended a further sum of a hundred and twenty pounds in providing it with gunpowder and vthcr necessaries. The officers appear to have served gratuitously ; Lut the privates, in addition to their pay, were billetted upon the inhabitants. When, however, the regi- ment was placed under government control, a captain was entitled to receive five shillings «

and a lieutenant two shillings and sixpence. The exact date at which the voluntecrs passed into the King’s servico

does not appear; hut, presuming this to have tuken place when com-

missions were souk down by the Lord-Licutenant fur the Bandon troop

ants of land as near to citures in the hands of the have them all conveniently at

r of Judge Bernard. It is gentlem inthe Hon. Colonel

vik ant of this ¢ this old rurp

eum due to

kins was nade up of money is well as arrears of pay due to

chtcr of Francia Bernard,

e Fre ic was sister to Francis nuts She dicd, leaving three daughters

464 THE WISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

on the opposite side of the river, and Dermot McCarthy and a numerow garrison held it for the Irish and his chieftain, McCarthy-Reagh. Bein summoned to submit to the King’s authority, and place his fortress iz English hands, Dermot stoutly refused. Upon this the gun wa brought to bear, and the cannonade was about to begin, when McCarthy hung out a white flag, intimating his desire to surrender. A boat pul off immediately to arrange the terms, and had got near half-way across, when the besicged suddenly opened fire on her, killing two of the pas sengers, and sinking the boat herself. But they were not content with even this barbarous outrage on the laws of war, for, amid jeers and derision, they continued the fusillade, severely wounding three or four of the poor creatures who were madly struggling in the water to reach the shore, from whence they had but a few moments before shoved off in high spirits.

Witnessing this act of diabolical treachery, the Bandon men panted to be avenged. The big gun was silent no longer. It was rapidly discharged, and nearly every discharge told. At one time it was a lol of stonca from one of the towers that came rumbling down the front wall, At another time it was a portion of the battlement that fell te the ground, with a loud crash. At one time a shot passed through tc the inside ; and then again one of the coignes showed unmistakable signs of detaching itself trom the continuous masonry. Meanwhile, most of the foot, under Lord Kinalmeaky in person, scerctly ascended the hill from which the gun still threw its ponderous shot, and descending on the other side, marched westwards, keeping the ground now oceupied by Sbippool demesne between them and the Rochcs at Poulnalonge, until they arrived ut Cuolmoreen ford. Tere they easily crossed over —it being low water at the time; and having cautiously proceeded towards cl themselves of the wooded heights and the castern and western approaches, unperceived. A signal was then made to their comrades on the opposite bank to maz

iganass, they po

in the re

their boats. This being accomplished, and the great gun still whirling its destructive missiles at the now fissured and crumbling castle walls, thoy slowly and silently closed in.

For some time before, McCarthy and his men had been obliged tc withdraw from the inside, it being dangerous to remain there any longer, as stoncs and debris were falling about their cars in all directions and they had sought for safety on the outside, where they all atoo¢

TOWNS IN THE WEST RIDING OF COUNTY CORK. All

were of too prominent a character to be passed over unrequited ; accordingly his name was inserted in the savings under the Act of Scttlement for the full amount of his claims, (i.e. £1,099 14s. 6d.) He is also mentioned in the list of 1649 officers. He died, leaving, with other male issue, Thomas, his succcssor, and a daughter, Frances, who married Sir Richard Hull, a justice of Court of Common Pleas (temp. Charles the Second); by whom she had a son, William, who inherited the manor of Lemcon and other considerable possessions, and a daughter, who married her cousin Moore, of the family of Sir E. Moore, baronet, of Ross- carbery. Thomas, his successor, married a Miss Wood, of Baltimore, by whom he had two sons :—Thomas, who inherited the family estates, and resided at Ringrove (alias Bennett’s Grove), Clonakilty; and William, who settled in Bandon, where he married (December 27th, 1715,) Dorothy Whelply, by whom he had, with other issue—Thomas, who married Mary, daughter of Captain Smith, and sister of the Rev. William Elliott Mars Smith, of Easingwold, Yorkshire, and died in 1808, leaving numerous issue.

Bennett, George, settled in Cork, is on the list of 1649 officers.

Berry, Licutenant Edward. Name not mentioned on any official list. ‘Was made free of the Bandon corporation in 1637. In 1654 he lived at Garrimore, barony of Ibane.

Brayly, Captain John, is on the list of 1649 officers, and in the inroll- ment of certificates to adventurers and soldiers. Under the Act of Settlement, he obtained small portions of the lands of Killgleny, Ballyroe, Drumskellope, Skeagh East, and Ballycotten, the latter late the property of McCarthy Reagh—in all two hundred and cight acres—barony East Carbery.

Bird, Captain Walter, mentioned on list of 1649 officers.

Dunkin, Ensign Thomas. Was provost of Bandon in 1654. Is on the list of 1649 officers. His widow, Anne Dunkin, obtained the sum of £245 6s. 2d., under the savings under the Act of Scttlement.

Dodgin, Ensign Thomas. Was dispoiled of £200 worth of goods by Donough McDaniel Carthy, of Lishane, and his Irish tenants. Is on the list of 1649 officers, inrollment of certificates to adven- turers and soldiers, report addressed to Court of Claims, and, jointly with Theophilus Carey, he obtaincd portion of ‘the lands of Raheroone, Farranmareen, Gortlegher, Ballyolane, Knocknecoole, Derry, and Lisseheagh—in ull eight hundred and twelve acres— late the property of Daniel McFinin Carthy.

Dixon, James, in report addressed to Court of Claims, inrollment of certificates, &c. Under the Act of Settlement he procured the lands of Ardacrow and Killale (three hundred and seventy-six acres), late the property of Charles McCarthy-Reagh. Mr. Dixon was provost of Bandon in 1673, also in 1683, 1694, und in 1710. A portion of Ardacrow (one hundred and sixteen acres) was con- ferred on James the Second, but at the revolution it was forfcited, and sold to the Hollow Sword Blades Company.

Elwell, James, on list of 1649 officers. He was made free of the

478 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

Bandon corporation in 1635. He deposed before the commissioners to losses in cattle and moncy, by reason of the rebellion,

Elwell, Joseph, on list of 1649 officers.

Fleming, John, yuarter-master, on list of 1649 officers, also inrollment of certificates, &c. Before the commissioners at Bandon, he to losing, by reason of the rebellion, the sum of £1,107.

Fuller, Cornct William, was son of William Fuller, treasurer of: the Bandon corporation in 1636, and grandson of Ralph Faller (one of the original colonists of Bandon), who married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of John Ware, by his wife, Mary, eldest sister of Sir Hugh Owen, of Oriclton, Pembrokshire. John Ware was elder brother of Sir James Ware, the historian. From Cornet Faller descended George, who married Mary Unkles; and had, with other male issue, Ralph, William, Thomas, and George. William (his second son) married Jane, daughter of William Orange Clarke, by Rachel Daunt, cousin-german to Captain William Daunt, of Kileaskan; and by her had, with other issue, William, in holy

, died unmarried ; Joseph, married Mary Williams; Mary, rd Joseph Bennett ; Eliza, died young.

iptain Robert, was grandson of Sir Vincent Gookin, who

«la daughter of Sir Thomas Crooke. Captain Gookin,

hed hy Lord Orrery as “2 man of good brains,” was a

menturian. Indced, xo identified was he with the

ions of that great body, that he, together with

im Pigott, Cap John Brodrick, and Colonel

rl Townsend, were repr

Cromwell to give him intelligence of passing events in Ireland.

Tle applied to the Court of CI i i

name duces nut appear on the list of certificates. He was

member of the Bandon corporation in 1666, in which year he is supposed to have died at his residenco in Courtmasherry.

JLe marries Hudder, and by her had a son, Robert, who

was the ujor Cookin, whose son, Robert, was acci-

den rd in 1760. Although Captain ite by the Court of Claims, yet his not overlooked by Cromwell, who, on the 12th of

‘the English inhabitants, had cost him £2,148, 3 and, in consideration of the extra sam which he

Mahon was bestowed on him, and the adjoining nd subsequently seven ploughlands more. in, who knew he was a marked man, passed ‘y, at that time a devoted Royalist, and from

rant cane to Tela i the same ap

him ; and on the voyage she gave ke. He was called ‘Wilf ious prince under whom and elsewhere.

instead of, expended, AW nineteen plow At the x

his

in compliment to Wi : ¢ ved at the Boyne, ut Lime

480 THE ISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

Nuce, or Newce, Lieutenant Edmund, was probably the son or grand- son of Sir William Newce, our first provost. Obtained £240 14s. 4d. under savings under the Act of Settlement.

Nicholet, Charles, son of Rev. Charles Nicholet, of Ballymodan, appears in inrollment of certificates, and under the Act-of Scttlement for part of lands of Farlaghaus and Lisncbrinny—total, three hundred and ninty-cight acres—barony Curbery East.

Poole, Captain John, ancestor of the Pooles of Mayfield, was the son of Thomas Poole, who purchased the Mayfield estate in 1628, from the Aderly’s. This Thomas and his brother Samucl were both younger sons of Sir Henry Poole, who was high-sheriff of Glou- cestershire in 1571. Captain Poole is on the list of 1649 officers, the inrollment of certificates, &e. Under the savings of the Act of Settlement he obtained the sum of £93 193s. 7}d.; and under the Act itself, one hundred and cighty-five acres of the lands of

Raheroon. Ife married Mary, daughter of Francis Bernard, of Castle-Mahon, by whom he had a son, Francis, and two daughters, Mary and Jane.

Shannon, Lord Francis, youngest son of first Earl of Cork. Upon the

brother, Lord Kinalmcaky, at Liscarroll, Lord Dun-

gaurvan obtained the Bandon troop of horse, and Lord Shannon a

company in the Bundon foot. He appcars on the list of 1649 officers,

inrollme nt of certilieaton, &e. Under the Act of Settlement, he

avings to the Act of Settlement, for

Turner, Major Uenry, was provost of Bandon in 1 Although his

on the list of 1619 oflicers, inrollment of certificates, &e. ;

he lost £774, and £500 per annum bg reason of the

yet so obnoxious was he to the government of Charles the ‘saan that they never gave him a grant of a foot of ground, or paid hin a shilling of his arrears of pay.

Wade, Bryan, s in reports addressed to Court of Claims, inroll-

ment of corti i ct of Settlement, for lands of

Vheale “our hundred ive acres), late the estate of

McDonough Carthy, h Rallymoney. Colonel Wade was provost of Bandon in 1698, in which ycar he died.

Watkins, Captain John, was son of Licutenant Daniel Watkins. He was made a frecman of the Bandon corporation in 1652, and was provest of Ti 1681, and 1682. Is on the list of 1640 office cs, &e., and in savings to Act of is

Woodhouse, F of 16.49 officers.

Woodrotte, Holn ‘ hi vrs, probably sons of John

Woodlrette, provost of Bandon in 1642. His name appears in reports addre: to Court of Claims, inrollment of certificates, &e., and under Act of Settlement, for part of lands of Tullilane and) Knocknenartel: 1, two hundred and sixteen acres— late the hy Reagh, parish Ballymodan.

Woodrofte, Jedediah, appears in reports addressed to Court of Claims,

TOWNS IN THE WEST RIDING OF COUNTY CORK. 481

inrollment of certificates, &c.; and in Act of Settlement, for part of Tullilanc East—total, two hundred and sixty-two acres—parish

lymodan.

Woodroffe, Clement, provost of Bandon in 1650 and 1662. Name in reports addressed to Court of Claims, and inrollment of certifi- cates, &c.

“Woodroffe, Samuel, appears in reports addressed to Court of Claims, inrollment of certificates of adventurers and soldiers; and under Act of Settlement for lands of Carragarriffe, part of Carren and Drometiclough West—total, one thousand one hundred and thirty- six acres—late the estate of Teige O’Crowly, barony East Carbery.

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482 TIE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

THE RANDON MILITIA, OR SOUTI CORK LIOHT INFANTRY.

'N the 26th of September, 1651, it was officially announcet that the rebels were subdued, and the rebellion appeaset and ended. There being no further necessity for the services of the regiment, they were disbanded, but the

services of the troop of horse were retained ; and this troop was one of the four in the province of Munster when England declared war with France and Holland in 1663. In that year the Bandon militia were in under arms, and ready for active service. A foreign invasion was looked upon at this time as a certainty. The hostile fleets of the French and Dutch were hourly expected to make a descent upon our southern shores. At one time it at Bantry Bay they were to land ; at another time it was at Kinsale; and then, in hot haste, an express reached the lurd-president that sixteen sail of great ships came from the seaward, and were then actually in Dunworly Bay,* where they could casily land their munitions of war undisturbed, and where their troops could form and reach Clouukilty, Bandon, and Kinsale, in less than a day’s march. But it was not with a foreign foe alone they had to con- tend. All the country, south of the Leo, was entrusted to them and a by some gentlemen in the west of the

some companies of militia raise

winand of Sir Sydney Smith, who of the Plymouth, Advice, » fire-ships, an East India ipt of this startling piece of after he heard it, he was on his way to Kinsale as fast

484 THE WISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

was in friendly hands, eave Bandon alonc—the inhabitants of which town, in little more than a fortnight after the succcssful battle fought near Drogheda, boldly proclaimed William and Mary as King and Queen of England and Ireland, heedless of all consequences.

‘Thestragglers were members of anill-disciplined, disorderly militia, who were hastily brought together and muskets being placed in their hands for the first time, they were marched northward by O'Driscoll, McCarthy, O'Donovan, and other chicttains—some of whose selves, and many of whose fathers, ever since the days of Cromwell, were on the run, with a price sct on their heads. Such were the men who were to lead them to fight with English and Anglo-Irish regiments,.under Lanier and Ormond, under Mitchclburne and Wolscley; and with the French Hngnenvts, the Dancs, und the Dutch, under Caillemot, under Wirtem- berg, and under Schomberg.

Althouzh they were no longer soldiers, yet they liked the soldiers rations; which consisted, for the mo-t part, of fat oxen and fat sheep whieh they hal plundered from the Protestant colonists, and upon ch they had heen living ever since they travelled two day's mareh from their 1 nd these they were unwilling to exchange for the guut's Hesh und sour milk of western Carbery.

To stay their whol , and to rid this locality of them- miden ailitia we gain called ont for active serviec, and hourhood was ¢lvared of those pests. From. the materis] ony soldiers had to contend with at this time, a pitched Ie, or even a gon fight, was not to he expected. Nothing but hing at the utmost was to he looked for from a body, whose

ive hogs and monntain

» robberi

selves, the |

soon on immediate

pivation was to steal a flock of sheep, and who thought them- selves vietorious when they set fire to a scttler's thatch, or houghed his eattio.

The recly ever fought together as a regiment. It pli! up into detachments, and cach detachment fought away for the common weal, more in obedience to their natural instincts, or to ivcmumestances that suddenly stood before them, than to any orders ived from henl-quarters, or the carrying out of some preconceived. plan of campaign.

On the 20th of Tmuary, 1691, a little party, composed of twenty of the Bandon troop sequently known as the East Carbery horse), and eightecn rank and file from one of the foot companies under Lieutenant

yen milit

wi

486 THE HISTORY OF BAXDOX, AND THE PRINCIPAL

civilized world, after killing eome of the enemy, and bringing with them five hundred sheep, thirtecn horses, and fifty cows.

On the 11th of April, Enniskeane was attacked by Brigadier O'Carroll, at the head of McTommies regiment, McCarthy's regiment, and two others. The little garrison, which was composed of a detach- ment of Sir David Collier’s regiment, consisted of Ensigns Lindsay and Daniel, and forty-four rank and file. After fighting some time in the streets, they were obliged to retreat into ahouse. Here they maintained themselves manfully ; but faggots being procured and piled around the walls of the dwelling wherein they were, they would all soon be con- sumed in one great funcral pyre, had not Major Wade, with ten rank and file of the Bandon regiment, arrived to their assistance. Notwith- standing that fifteen hundred armed and infuriated soldiery, in addition to many civilians equally inimical, surrounded Lindsay's little band, and although six hundred yards lay between the outside of the rebel lines and the house they were in, nevertheless, the Bandon men entered the hostile cordon, and forced their way through the enemy up to the very door, Scureely had they succecded in this hazardous attempt— indecd, before the Irish could well recover from the surprise* oceasioned

by this during ex ploit—wheu Major Ogilby, of Coy’s dragoons, gallopped up, and falling on them, he soon routed them. Then following quick in pursuit, he slew scventy-Lwo of them, and scattered the rest.

On the 15th of May, the O'Donovans were again attacked by a portion of the Bandon regimaut, when Captain Hugh O'Donovan and. six of his men fell into their hands. About the same time a small

force, consisting of a lieutenant and cight men, whilst on night patrol, had their attention attracted by the glure of a fire in one of the neigh-

homing wouds, Creeping up noise ersly: to where the light proceeded

m Austen; und Mary, ton, of Dublin, by whom -nant and adjutant of the The day conspicuint were this officer's ae Mice to his mother. Margaret, who

Emma; F Sathur, died at sea Resstinent, in the’ 56th, married derich ; and ¢ Aderly.

wre but the advanced guard of a large

| will thir is i Med in the b

anyof Ceciltown Hous

1 the Trish thought these

A

488 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND TRE PRINCIPAL

lapse of nearly two centuries, is even yet found to possess a fresh and vigorous vitality.

‘When the rapparees had been hunted down, and when the Irish gentry to whom the disaffected looked for sympathy and support had transferred themselves and their available assets to foreign lands—not to procure a temporary residence there, but to live and die outside the sway of the Saxon—the country enjoyed a profound calm, undisturbed by a menacing outery, for nearly a century. Throughout this long night's rest, the services of the Bandon militia were not required. At length a pale flickering light started from among the smouldering political combustibles of France. It soon spread out into flames; then burst into a conflagration ; and then, mounting high into the akfes with loud and angry roar, flung its broad red glare upon the trembling soil of neighbouring nations. Principalitics, kingdoms, empires, rang with the clash of arms. It was but natural that the people of our own favourcd isles, who had been enjoying for many generations the civil and roligious liberty which the French nation were now madly struggling to attain, should sympathize with them in their efforts, and they did so. But when liberty was supplanted by license ; when to bo free meant to be tree to rob one’s fellows ; and when doctrines were being preached and practised which aimed at uprooting the very foundation-stones of socicty, England united with Austria, with Prussia, and with other continental powers, in an cffort to stamp out the revolutionary fires which were fust overspreading Europe, and joined those governments in a declaration of war against France.

The French Directory accepted the challenge ; and among the schemes they devised for crippling the English enemy was the invasion of Ireland. To mncet the dificulty, as well us to suppress the spirit of disaffection now exhibiting itself all over this country, our exceutive called out the militia. The Bandon regiment (now for the first time called the South Cork}; was amongst the number. Throughout the long interval that passed by since it last grounded arms, it would scem that the colonels were regularly nominated as a death vacancy, or a resignation, would occur: and when the bugle summoned the regiment to fall in for the first time within three generations, the colonel was Sir John Cox. He kept his head-quarters at Dunmanway, in which town a great many of the men were now raised, us also in Bantry and Bandon.

Shortly after it was recruited it was marched to Doneraile, where it

490 THE MISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

domain, a little atter midnight, the moon, stepping from behind a dark cloud, stood forth in the cold sky, illuminating the chilling scene beneath ber with a flood of brilliant light. But it came unlooked for, and was unwelcome to men whose minds were weakened by fatigue, and who, among the shadows of the trees that lay across their path, saw spectral arms outstretched to cmbrace them ; and by the bright silvery light which streamed through the trees themselves, they beheld hideous demons sitting cross-legged in the leafless branches, and beckoning them to come. The hardships they passed through on this terrible occasion were the theme of many a barrack fire-side for many a year afterwards, and a South Cork man who made that memor- able march was lookcd upon by younger soldiers with mingled feelings of admiration und awe.

The morning after their arrival they were paraded for the inspection of General Johnson, whose red-tape cye quickly detected the absence of the all-important cue. Turning to Lord Doneraile, who rode by his side :—“ Where's their powder ?” grufily enquired he.

“Hy G—d! gencral,” suid the colonel, ‘tis in their pouches; and ‘tis there it ought to be in such times as these !”

Johnson quictly took the rebuff, and made no farther enquiries on that subject.

From Cork they were moved to Mammoor camp—about three miles to the west of Bandon—where they remained until the departure of the Fronch fleet trom Bantry Bay. They then proceeded to Blarris, in the county of Limerick, aud from thence to Wexford, where they lay during ir their light company was aulties, however, were very small, consisting of only aman maned Murphy, iliarly known amongst his comrades a This poor tellow was believed to have bean killed, va bullet through the cheek, which felled him to the greund, where he lay motionless, and, so far as appearances went, Would never “ram down cartridge” or “ fix bayonets” again: and, indeed, there is little doubt that the blood from his wound would have choked him cventually, had not Tom Ahearn, the bugler of his company—a wild scamp of a fdlow, whom the fear of the black hole, or cven of the triangle itself, would not deter whenever he felt inclined for a spree, or any sort of innocent recreution—hcard of poor Murphy's mishap.

under fire.

two woundcd—one of those w

492 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

to arms, and fell into line in tho old barrack-yard in Kinsale, after an interval of only eleven months.

In 1803, being in a high state of efficiency, they left Kinsale in the April of that ycar for Mallow, where they recruited to their full strength. They were only two months here when they got the route for Waterford, where they remained until 1805. In that year they were stationed in the county of Roscommon, with head-quarters at Boyle. They staid here but twelve months, when they moved to Mayo (1806), detaching from where the regiment lay, at Castlebar. One detachment, which consisted of Captain Newman's company, was quartered at Ballina, and to this town the head-quarters shortly after removed. Detachments were also sent out from Ballina. One of these was at Westport ; another at Crossmolina, on the western extremity of Lough Conn; another at Eskerough, and clsewhere.

About this time, a body of men known as the Threshers, or Carders, kept all Mayo in terror. Their hostility to tithe-corn, and their running off with it and thrashing it for their own benefit, carned for them the sobriquet by which they were universally known, They committed y of Protestant clergymen, but also “l with them, «nd whose exertions in s to look on them as their avowed 1ining who the perpetrators were. Fellows who spent wll night wrecking the revenues of the parson looked the very incarnation of innocence in the morning, and would with as much virtuous indignation as if they They had no word in their mouths too Vad for them—thcy were ruffians ; they were blackguards; they were thieves; and if they only know who they were, they'd soon bring the sojers upon ‘em, But as they did not know them, their friendly sentiments were valucless in staying the trangressions or informing the ATESSOTS WTC.

At last i{ was likely that the mystery would remain a mystery no Jonger, and that the midnight dvings of the Threshers would soon be submitted to the broad glue of mid-day. A man who went by the name of Murty the Thresher, and who was long suspected of being one of their most active

great injury not only on the prope on that of these who symputhi their behalf caused the Thres

enemies, ‘There was no asi

speak of the devastat

were tithe-owncrs thems

authorities who the tr:

ns, had turned informer, and gave the authoritics such intelligence as led to the arrest of several of his former accomplices. These were scized, und lay in the County Gaol awaiting

496 TIE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

where they were stationed at Tuam, and subsequently at Loughrea ; and it was whilst at the latter place they volunteered to serve in any part of tho United Kingdom. In 1812 they marched to Athlone; and after giving a great number of volunteers to the 62nd, they left in 1818, and marched direct to the Cove of Cork. Here transports awaited them ; and after a rough passage they landed at Plymouth, and proceeded direct to Brighton. Whilst occupying thoso fashionable quarters, they were officially inspected by the Duke of Clarence (afterwards William the Fourth) ; and so pleased was his Royal Highness with their soldierly bearing, and the precision with which they executed tho various mili- tary manceuvres they were put through, that he publicly avowed they were by far the best Irish regiment he had ever seen ; and to stamp his appreciation of their efficiency with an cnduring mark of his approval, he had them changed from an ordinary regiment into one of light infantry ; and from that timo forward, Light Infantry has been added to the South Cork—the name, we need scarcely say, by which this old corps is at present known. From Brighton they went in cantonments at Lewes, and remained there until the following December, when they got the route for Plymouth. They were three weeks on this march, and both officers and men suffered severcly from the frost and snow. They were but a few months here when they were ordered to Dart- mouth, where many French and American prisoners were confined ; and they remained there until peace was proclaimed on the 30th of May, 1814.% Back again to Plymouth, and across St. George’s Channel to the Cove of Cork, where they arrived in September, 1814; and on the 14th of the fullowing month—that is October, 1814—they were dis- embodied in Cork barracks.

The staff provecded to take up its quarters at Rathcormac. It consisted of Captuin Bagley (the adjutant}, Captain Gregg (paymaster), Walter Evans (quarter-master}, forty sergeants, twenty corporals, twenty buglers, a sergeaut-major, a bugle-major, a quarter-master sergeant, &e.—ninety-three men in all, exclusive of tho officers whose names we

+rs at Dartmouth at Napoleon being sent: he throne of France, that they seized an icers of the eure a toyal eockade between his Jours, they hunted him round the prison ; k, they hanged him with every sign of ignominy

and contempt.

498 THE WISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

looked thoughtfully on their young fellow-soldiers, and on the busy secne before them, as their minds strayed back to éld associations and the comrades of a former age; and on that day the regiment assembled for embodiment within the yery walls where the regiment was originally enrolled upwards of two hundred and twelve years before. Two hundred and four mcn answered to their names on the day of embodi- ment, and the following are the names of those who bore commissions in the regiment at that time :—

Colonel Hon. II. B. Bernard. Lieutenant 8. 8. Tresilian. Licut.-Colone] H. Wallis. ay J. H. Cole.

Major Hon. H. Freke. i. R. White.

Captain P. Somurville. "Frank Heard. » Hewitt Poole. Ensign Chambro Baldwin. _ Robert Heard. 1» Robert Holmes.

» C. Deane.

» W-.P. Hosford.

» §&. Hawkes.

» W.-H. Bird.

mn Johnson, » J. Agar.

Sir J. 1. Cotton, » J. Hf. Markham.

” H. D. anh Adjutant Captain A. H. Liteas, Lieutenent W ate 45th Regiment,

9 Wi won John G. Gregg. Quarter-naste: D. Cummins. Paymaster T. TD. Perry, late

captain 81st Regiment.

After remaining

in Bandon, the regiment marched to received their new colours in July; and then, to Cork. They were only a few months in which garrison, after the received erdcrs for Dublin. On their © quartered in the Palatine Square ont this kingdum there was no regiment and discipline, than the gallant South

Kinsale, where the; some mont! there when t] delay of oly + arrival in onr m¢ Royal an

more adinived tur Cork, On the 30th of

Russia on 07

s treaty of peace was signed between 1 un] her allies on the other; and ina racnt ved in Cork barracks, where they were d Jen the 12th of August, 1856.

During the ¢ enmenths they were out, chey gave upwards of two hundred recruits to the line, and tho following officers :—"ieutenant

side,

few morth

TOWNS IN THE WEST RIDING OF COUNTY. CORK. 499

John R. Wheeler, to the 1st Foot ; Lieutenant F. D. Cornwall, to the 62nd Foot; and Ensign Hawkes, to the 37th.

Upon the disembodiment, the staff, which consisted of the adjutant, the quarter-master, twenty-seven sergeants, and ten buglers, were quartered where the regiment first drew its breath ; where it first smelt powder and saw blood; where it received the thanks of the most memorable Parliament in the long list of memorable Parliaments of Great Britain ; where the greatest general the world has ever seen since the era of the great Cesar, complimented them; and where her sons, comprising, as © they did, its officers and rank and file, for more than the first sixty years of its existence, covered themselves with a glory which will endure as long as heroism will be admired.

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500 THE STORY OF TANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL =

OF RANDON—THE SITED IMINHMEN AT 1 FIRST GLASS BILOP= WUT NO TRUSHMAN.

INNOSMANNON WHY THE Ut WINDOW = THE OLD BLACK NULL

ILELIAM Ponsonby, a major in the army, was elected to

represent. the town in place of Lodge Morris, “who hath accepted a place of profit under the crown.”

1a,

On the 21 of Octuber the Bandon corps of yeomanry cavalry Won was appointed captain, Robert Hedges, lieutenant, and Arthur Beamish Bernard, cornet. It was unanimously

were callout. Lord I:

resolved by the corps, that they would serve without pay, and, in addition, provide their own clothing; bnt that they would accept accoulrement= and arms from the government. The Rev. Ambrose Hickey was their chaplain, Richard Lane, surgeon, Edward Cotter, junr,, secretary; Timothy Deasy, juur., Henry Rowen Browne, and ood John Hawkes, sergeants; and Thomas Browne, Samuel Hawkes, John Sweete, and William Popham, corporals.

The foundation-stone of the Roman Catholic chapel on Gallow’s Hill was Jaid on the 28th of April, ‘The ground was given gratuitously by the Earl of Bandon, who, in addition, subscribed liberally towards its ere Ino did inany of the Protestant inhabitants. When the rebelliuns were over, and when many of those who were possessed of a for revolt end bloodshed hud left the country, or had the necessity for maintaining the Penal Laws in their rigonr—laws which the English colonists had been com- pelled to enact in their self-defence, in order to save themselves from

ion,

feverish anxicty turned to peneetil pursui

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elegant structure was laid on tho 17th of March, 1858. It is dedicated to St. Patrick, and although not perfectly finished, divine service has becn performed in it for some years.

The French flect arrived in Bantry Bay towards the close of December. A letter written by a Bandon man to his brother, in a few weeks afterwards, gives us an opportunity of seeing matters as they then werc—or, at least, as they then presented themselves to one who was there, and saw them ut that eventful period. After alluding to the journey of a friend and himself from Limerick, he says :—‘‘ When we came to Bandon, there was nothing there but the appearance of war and hunger. I could not get as much bread in town as would do me for my breakfast. Brend was so scarce that the bakers were obliged by the provost to bake on Christmas-day, to supply the wants of the great number of soldicrs that were in the town; and which were daily increasing, for they were coming from all parts of the kingdom, with artillery and cannon continually rolling in. The churches, meet- ing-house, and preaching-house, were filled with soldiers, The chapel wos formed into « horse-barrack, so that our town was dressed in all the horrors of war. All the little towns and country were thronged with militia, Expresses hourly arriving from Bantry.” Again :— “Many of the moncyed people here took their flight from Cork and Dublin, to embark for England. Lord Bandon sent off his family with all his valuable effects. The ladies and married people are greatly in dread. Many of them had their moucy ut interest, and those that had it would not own to have a shilling, so that they were tortured by double fears. Thus were the holidays spent in Bandon, ond for seven days after, wntil the Lond arose a mighty wind that drove them from the bay, and damaged their shipping, so that they could never muster after.”

Broderick Chinnery, of Anne’s Grove, county Cork, and the Hon. William O'Callaghan, of Shanbally, were elected to represent Bandon in the last Parliament that was to bo held in Dublin.

Private Dominick Giligan, Roscommon militia, and Corporal Drum- gold, Westmeath wilitia, were tried by court-martial at Bundon, on the 10th of July in this year (1797); and Corporal McAuliffe, and William Larracy (both of the Second Fencible Dragoons), on the 20th of July, also at Bandon; “for beginning, exciting, causing, or joining in a mutiny or sedition in tho corps to which they belong, by having takes

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liberty; McAuliffe and Lurracy often repeating them to him; and Callaghan taught him a catechism by which ho’d know a brother. They all told him that they intended to rise about the lst of July, to seize the canuon and the camp, to murder the officers and all who would not join them ; and that even if the French did not come, they thought they would be able to march through the kingdom themselves.”

It was principally upon the evidence of a man named Riely that Corporal Drumgold was convicted,

In addition to the evidence we have just given in reference to the prisoners, there was other evidence given concerning them and their accomplices, from which wo extract that of John Hargrove, who deposed :—“' That, about a month beture, he was walking by the river, near Mammwor camp, when he was called by seven or cight men of the Meath, county Limerick, Wexford, and Waterford ; when he was told by one of them—a men named Allen—that they intended writing to the North and other parts of the kingdom, to inform them that they

would go un with their intoitions on the Ist of July: and then to have ail in the middle; and then, with what friends Mr. O'Bricn, near Bindon, could send them, and what friends they had in the camp jabout ti hundred), that they intended first taking the cannon, and then (he bell-tents, with the sinall arms (which

i hat woubl be sent by Mr. O*Brien), to death, aalus mmy officers as they could, of the buttery, and keep

the kingdom on fire on both cud

they wonkl give the country and then put General Cut

and then retreat te Bandon, and take pr ss ssi

it, if possible, until the French would dnd The priseners wore found guilty, ands nteneed to be shot. The day after they received Un

rscutence, they were brought in two carriages and dewn to a field wuinon, Giligan and Drumgold I MeAulitie and Larracy, of the

from the camp ef M Bandon,

midway between Band, were accompanied by 1 Secund Frcible Drag ather Shimick. All the troops in Bandon and at) Mammoor eaup were drawn up, so us to form the

thive sides of a square, the fourth being re

1ved as the place of exceution. The unhappy men being brought torward, their sentence was again read to them, alter which they were pinioned and placed kneeling upon their collins, The tiring putty having moved forward,

appantis to fpert than the -vlett evmmittee of the Huuse of Commons,

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tho Westmeath and the enemy’s front, they faced to the latter ; then, suddenly opening out their ranks, they discharged their two field-picees at them with much effect. Accompanying this with a volley of musketry, they soon sent them scampcring off to the hills.

The bodies of the two men were taken in a cart to Clonakilty. That of Teige-an-Astna was ignominiously flung into a pool of water in the Strand, called Crab Hole; but tho remains of Sergeant Cummins were buried with full military honours in the graveyard attached to the parish church of the town.

The following humorous extract from a letter, dated Bandon, July 10th, shows that the new century opened out with the” old state of things :—

“The loyalty of this town ucver appeared more conspicuously than on the glorions Ist of July. The windows were decked out with green boughs, variegated with flowers and orange lilics, and appeared at a distance ax so many hanging gardens ; while the mind was awfully ed with the sight of those royul culprits, King James and Queen who were hanged, shot at, aud consigned to the flames, as they ought to be, ‘The spectators be held, with pleasing astonishment, King William placed on a spire of one of the churehes, majestically moving in the air, riding over a salmon, painted orange colour, and with purple fins. The battle of the books was nothing to the real battle that took place between the caps. In the beginning, the country-women, who were accustomed to pluck sheep, had by the advantage, when a reinforcement coming down to the Or: girls, victory was soon decided in their favour, when cups, ribbons, and hair were plentifully distributed about."

1800.

ised that many Roman Catholics, who believe in that unchri of their communion, which pronounces in- evitable damn: tinst all those why are not members of the Papal church, should entertain inimical feclings towards their Protestant <; but these teclings are mildness itself, when compared in tact, the dire hatred—entertained by them towards those who have rcnoniced their faith and become Protestants. They won't belicve, or they alfect not to believe, in the sincerity of their

vrsion—-“ it, was for lucre they tuned.” In addition to the re- pugnance with which they see the number of the fithful diminishing, in their case, there is another reasun. When one of them becomes a member of the Reformed church, in their eyes, he ceases to be a Celt, and becomes u Saxon. Instead of being one of the oppressed, he is now among the oppressors. Instead uf howling with his quondam

We ough not to be surp:

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“If I thought they’d do him any good,” said the son, “I wouldn’ begrudgo him dozens of them; but as I don’t believe they would, | won't pay for any.”

“Oh, that will do!” said Father Dan, walking off in a huff, and muttering sumcething which Pat could not make out.

Pat thought no more about the matter, but went on as usual, save that he looked after the farm much morc carefully than he used previous to his father's death, now that tho duty of doing so solely -devolved upon him; and when his farming work was over, he spent the rest of his time cither by his own firc-side, in his favourite pastime, reading, or he strolled over to some neighbouring farmer’s house, where a well-to-do young bachelor was by no means an unwelcome guest among the un- married girls. Ho was returning from a visit of this kind one night, when a frightful apparition stood before him. It had the-head and horns of a bull; the body was also that of a bull, whom it resembled in almost every particular, save that it stood on two legs instead of four.

“Tn God’s name !” said Pat, “ who are you ?” as tho the bull sauntered out of the dike near the ditch, and walked leisurely to the middle of the roud.

+ Boo! hoo! boo!" said tne ghost, “Pm your poor father’s sowl !?

“Yerra! then are you ?” suid Pat, as a strong suspicion of an attempt tu play him a (rick entered his mind.

“To am!? said the spirit; ‘ the poor sowl that you wouldn't lose a ferthing by to get out of purgatory !”

“Yerm! I thought,” said Pat, that’twas only wicked people went there 7?

“Every one gocs there,” sid the ghost.

“By gor! thin, if that's the ease,”

ys Pat, ‘a fellow might a well take his whuck out of this world while he’s in it, as he must put in an appearanre at linho, whether he's good or bad. At all events," continued he, VU speak to Father Dun, and if he does them for nothing——"

“Oh!” interposed the spirit, ‘wouldn’t you loac a penny by me, after all the money T left you?”

“Bat,” Pat, “if the masses are said, what is it to you whether the priest did them for nothing, or was paid for them ?”

“Ah, Pat,” sid his father, emphatically, and shaking his head ina

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« But I say I won't!” said the ghost, and he boo’d awfally.

“Walk up before mo there at once !” said Pat, taking the bull wit a whack of the whip across the calves of his legs, that made him sereec tor all the world like a Christian. ‘‘ Walk up this very instant, or I! soon persuade you that the pains of purgutory arn't fit to hold a cand] to the licking I'll give you! Wulk up!” said he, as he struck hit three or four times about the region of the tail, just to show him bh wus not joking at all.

“Well, let me off this time, Pat, alleah,” coaxingly said the ghost “and I'll never trouble you again.”

“No, father, up you must go!”” said the son, and he gave him a very rough push. He then drove him before him like a pig on his way t the slaughter-house, until he got him safe and sound inside his owt kitchen, where the servant-boy sat waiting up for him; then rousing up the whole house, he told them all that his father’s ghost had com to sce them.

Meunwhile the ghost got into a dark corner, with his face to the wall, and be would not aword. “Te never usked after the old woman or if the potatoes were getting black ; or if pork was riz; or how wat corn, No! bad Inck to the word he'd say at all, at all!” said Pat: there wasn't evi boo ent of Lim, und L to tell him that there war my mother to the “fore, and to tell her what he had to say about the

masses. At last, scizing the bull by the horns, and giving his skin a shary tug or two in the front, he pulled the hide off his poor father's spirit e .

and before them stood

Tl-— went openly to church on the following Sunday, and on thi the roll of the ch wlind the name of mon than one of his descendants may he seen; und those that hear it

wy of the church of!

have never becom accused of a want of knowledge of the holy seriptures, ora lack of zeal in the performance of the dutics of their sacred calling On the goth of July, Sir Broderick Chinnery, of the city of Bath, elected to represent Bandon in the new Parlia. ment to be held at Westininster, on the 81st of August. wnal accommodation for two thousand men was taken in Tandon, Cornwall’s browery, Bigg’s mills Dowden and Wheeler's stores, Kingston's buildings—in fact, nensly all the large concerns in the town—were rented by the authorities,

Is

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The “ old black bull” was gencrally a member of that rigid and w compromising sect of religionists, the Presbyterians. Socially, he wi as playful as a kitten, and as harmless as an old horse; but he was man. of strong prejudices, and so honest was he in the advocacy « what he thought right, that he flung toleration, respect for his opx nent’s convictions, and other results of an advanced civilization, to th winds. John Knox he looked upon as a hero, a8 well as an apostli Of the high Episcopalians, he thought, ‘The least said, the scone mended.” “The high church,” he used to say, “is on the high ros to Rome.” In his cyes, there was scureely a difference between th Prelacy and the Papacy. The clergy of both churches wore vestments and claimed power to absolve penitent people from their sins ; the oan fessions were the same, one mercly repeating in Latin what the othe repeated in English; the baptismal service was the same, even ¢ marking the newly initiated members of the church with tho sign the cross; and the intolerant and persccuting spirit which alway characterized the one was not wanting in the other. Concerning th latter, he could never forget that, iu the reign of the second Charles several thousands of the hest men of the nonconformists were flun; into prison, with nothing wore laid to their charge than that of refusin, to adopt the tenets and ritual of the Chureh of England. But, grea wn to the Prelacy, it was execeded by his horror a Popery. His Puritanieal sbherrence of the lutter had been transmitte to him through gencrations, Indud, it was often the only legacy hi fathers had to bequeath. With it spiritually he had nothing to de Mo knew well that the humble Romun Catholic, who told his bead upon his knees, had the sime right to think that he had, and was a sincere in his dev. was hims lt It was against the polities Vapacy that the strongest fee of his nature were directed—hi instinet recoiled trom «© could never be prevailed upon t give it credit cven fur goud intentions. When he looked at those wh exercised such peranptory powers in relizious matters, carry the sam spirit which produced them inte temporal vs; and when he say those under their sway, who ventured to express an opinion not sane wed by the thumb-screw, and their argument w—he did not believe thom when the: shouted for liberty of couscicnee. Tut his dislike to the Papasy by m mncuus extended itsclt to its professors. is car was ever open to th

as his aver

tioned by them, req silenced by the Tnqu

TOWNS IN THE WEST RIDING OF COUNTY CORK. 615

wail of woe, regardless from whence it came; and his hand was out- stretched with charity, without heeding whether the applicant looked for divine truth among the unadorned worship-houses of the noncon- formists, or amidst the gorgeous colonnades of Rome. He was ever foremost to help a poor neighbour ; and, should death enter the humble cabin and remove its provider, amongst the readiest to step forward, catch the little orphan by the hand, and share with him the comforts of his own home, was the “ old black bull.”

There are some specimens of the ¢aurus antiquus niger still in being. Not long since, we happened to be present when a friend of ours, who sought the representation of his native town upon principles more in vogue than those previously advocated, called upon one of those.

“Well, Dick, my old boy,” quoth the candidate for senatorial honours, “I know you'll stand to an old neighbour and an old friend.”

Dick raised his eyes, and observing a Roman Catholic gentleman, who formed one of the deputation, surlily growled out, ‘I don’t like your company.”

Upon this, we all addressed Richard blandly, some reminding him of interesting incidents connected with their mutual childhood; others told him hamorons little ancedotes, and spoke as softly, and handled him as gently, as a young mother would her firstborn babe. In course of time, we thought we made some impression upon his obdurate heart; and even one or two of thc most sanguine amongst us fancied we could discern a faint streak or two of a smile flitting about his upper lip. Again our chief led the attack :—

“Well, Dick? Ah! I knew I could always count upon your vote and interest.”

Dick, thus challenged, again raised his head, and ran his eyes over the Protestant portion of us fairly enough ; but when they alighted on the admirer of the triple tiara, oh, the scowl! ’twas as black and deep as a thunder-cloud, and every bit as dangerous. He hissed like a cobra de capella, made a rush for his hammer, and we—why we ran, of course. Would you blame us?

The Bandon Protestants may fairly be divided into three classce— the positive, the comparative, and the superlative ; or fair, brown, and black. Of these, the positive or fair Protestant is a rational being, and may be olassed with tho Liberal Conservatives or moderate Whigs of our own day ; the second think, that when Victor Ssatael holds his

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court at the Vatican, and the Pope reduced to the position of a bi parish priest upon small dues, things may mend; but as for the super lative or black Protestant, the following ancedote will help to illustrat the nature of hix undying batred at all times, and in a place where it i to be hoped none of our readers will ever be found, to Popery and every: thing connected with it.

A good many years ago, there lived here one Dick C. Dic was one of the superlatives, und he hated Pope and Popery with a much, if not more, intensity than he did Satan himself, and his fell domains, Notwithstanding all his virtues—and he had many—Dick had one vice. Who is there that has not his weak point? He wa

not a teetotallcr, so far as abstaining from intoxicating liquors was con- cerned. On the contrary, he was often teetotally the other way, and used indulge in what was known in those days as arookawn. On ona of these occasions—whether it was in order to obtain proper ventilation when he was asleep, or that his ens standé glided from under his feet and left lim there, or that his powers of locomotion had come to a stand- it all events, he was found by itunes Tying in the channel ont-ide his door, and as blind as

iI, we do nat pretend to

an aequa abat. Another acquaintance of his coming up shortly after, the two held a consultation, and they struck upon a plan for terrifying the discomforted Bacchanalian who lay snoring at their feet into sobriety demise. Raising him up, ning outhouse, and strip- ping him te his shirt «ud stockings, they wrapped him up in a sheet. To a short rope, which they lung round his neck, they tied ¢ osary, Which they borrowed from an old woman who kept an apple. at the opposite side of the street; then laying him on some tard: on the floor, they placed a wisp of’ straw and some ead, te him for a pillow. One of those whe helped him in then went away; but the other, who sometimes went ested the plot, remained behind. In woke, and fecling queer, and everything on every side of him appearing strange und odd, he hurriedly sat up, and eagerly asked, Where am J?"

“Tn hell.” said a ghastly figure in a deep sonorous tone.

Ab, that's a lid job,” said poor Dick, scratching his head: ‘a jobindeed.” Tis eye suddenly rested on the obnoxious

for the unexpired term of his sub-lun:

they earried him betwen them into an a

stall in a gatey

shavings under }

rookawning himself, aid who sn

course of time, Dick i

very, very hn

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life; and that they established their colony in a wild barbarous count where wolves roumed uhout unmolested, and where humankind wv represented by « few half-nude barbarians, who strayed in there fre tho territory of some Carbery chieftain; but principally by sor marauding woodkern, who instinctively made their own of all th could lay their hands upon, and then eseuped to the swamps and woo of Kinalmeaky, to save themselves from the skean or the rope.

Bearing all this in mind, their distaste can be accounted for. Tht greatly prided themselves upon “ being bred and born in Bandon.” 1 who first opened his oyes within the walls of the ancient and loyi borough, trod the carth with as lordly an air, as if he was lineally de eended from one of thoso iron-plated barons who came over wit William of Normandy, or could cluim half a county as his estate.

A good many years ago, a poor fellow, who was obliged to leay Bandon owing to want of employment, made his way to London, wher ho resided a long time fighting for his daily bread in the great battl of life. At length he lay on a dying Jed. A clergyman was sent for who lost no time in voming to his Indside, and administering thos woth the rugged road leadin; ile in the humble chamber id, in reply to an observatior

religious consvlations which help to from this world to th. next.

the clergyman, who w of the sick man : “T perceive you're an Irishman, like myself.” Vm no Irishman,” said the dying man. The divine was amazed. Even the very accent in which he asserte he was no Irislman was redvlent of the Emerald Isle. “And what comtry are yeu from? Are you from Franee ?—ar

ny T'm from Bandon.” suid the clergyman ; “and, therefor are you not an Tris

“Tell me, sir,” said the old Bandoni swelled agsin-t the ta raise himself in the bed—for he was wea stretched haud of the grim King of Ton was already upon him— “wernt the Leruclites fuur hurdred years in Ezypt ??

“They were,” mildly replicd the divine.

And were they Egyptians?"

whose ‘no surrender” spiri said he, as he struggled t nud the shadow of the out

tell ane, sir,”

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The knowledge of some of our old townsmen was limited to the town itself. Either they did not care to trouble themselves about what lay outside tho walls, or they may have thought that when they knew what was inside of them they kuew what was quite sufficient for any ordinary man. A poor soldier was mortally wounded at the siege of Cicudad Rodrigo. On being removed to the temporary hos- pital, he enquired for a Bandon gentleman—an officer in a regiment quartered near him. Tho officer camo to see his fellow-townsman as soon as he could; and, among other questions, asked him what part of Bandon he was born in.

“T was born on the other side,”* was the odd reply.

Those born in the suburbs were not looked upon with near the same favour as those fortunate fellows who were born in the town itself.

“Ar'nt you an old Bandonian?” we enquired one day of an old” man.

“No air,” replied the old man, with a melancholy air, “I was born at Gallow’s Hill.”

* That is the northern sido of the town.

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CHAPTER XXY.

TUR FIAT ROMAN CATHOLIC Wito ¥

TVRED TO LIVE IN ONE OF OUR PRINCIPAL ATREETS—JAC1 DY MD IT—THE HATTLE OF THE CROSS—THI wv! Yowy A --MAD MARY AND THE TOBACCO—THE AUPERVISOL AND THE POTHEEN—COMILETE LIST OF OUR CHIEP MAGISTRATRO— OUR MANOR COUKTS,

Navy, clected to represent the town, in lieu of Sir Broderick Chimnery.

1807. May 15th.—Right Hon. Henry Boyle (Tory)— commonly elled Lord Viscount Boyle—was lected to represent Bandon; and, on the 8rd of the following August, the Right Hon. George Tierney (Whig), of London, and of Wimbledon, in Surrey, succeeded Lord Boyle—he having become Earl of Shinnon upon the death of his father, Richard, the second earl.

It was about this time that the first Roman Catholic shopkeeper ventured to reside in any of our principal streets. For several years previously some Roman Catholics had crept into the town, but they were content with the humble-t habitations within the walls, and in the most out of the w:

The nine of this adventurous pioneer ort of fv-llow, and a very good- s ugly as if he was made ck of personal attractions, he was a : wus constantly in pursuit of one ognomy. Put kept a pie-shop, in long stretch of charity, was known as mutton-broth. The pivs were made of flour and water, and were just ovened cnough to stiffen them. Around their outer edge was a battlement of induratcd dough, and in the centre was a thin pellicle of

was Paddy Gathney. He was resolute tempered flow at the <ame time; but he y to order. Notwithstanding. his 1s light-hearted soul. Smile after

m

another over his pugnacious p! which he sold pies, and what, by «

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reading good books, and pitching the Pope to the divil, I may, with God's help, become one myself! Tisn’t every one,” continued he, ‘has the luck that ye’s have, gintlemen !”

«Well, he ain’t a bad Papish, any how !"” said one of the deputation.

“Well, I think ’tis wrong to be blaming the poor man,” said another. “Sure ’tis hard to censure him for his parents being idolaters, and he not born at de time.” .

“ And isn’t my daughter, that’s marricd to Bill Forbus, a Protestant?” eaid Paddy. ‘‘Faix, she is so!” said ho; “and that’s the girl that would cat mate of a Friday for you, and make herself as hoarse as a beotle on the Ist of July, singing ‘‘ The Protestant Boys,” and ‘“ Crop- pies lio down !”

Here several interposed, and said they knew this to be a fact.

“ And you may ax Tom Sloanc,” said he, “if he didn’t see me drink the glorious memory on the day King William (God rest his sowl in glory, said Pad, reverentially taking off his hat at the same time), bate the Papists ; and, by gor! "twas a murderin sin he didn’t kill them all, for then all the people that came into the world since would bo Pro- testants ; and then, sure, I’d be as good as any of ye’s, gintlemen !” said Paddy.

“Do you go to the mass-housc ?” said Sammy, who wasn’t easily imposed on.

“Very scldom !” said Paddy.

“Will you promise never to darken the durrens of the door of it again?”

“T will, and welvome!” said Pad.

’Twas impossible to suy any more to such an obliging poor fellow as this; so they all withdrew ; and we must do Gaffncy the justice to say he faithfully kept his word. His knowledge of human nature saved him. Indeed, the thorough knowledge of ordinary humanity possessed by some of our countrymen, «nd their intimate acquaintance with all the windings and the workings of the human hcart, prove them to be possessed of perceptive powers of a high order. And not only do they possess the knowledye we have just mentioned, but they know full well how to tur it to account. If a man had « prejudice or a passion; if he aspired to be a patriot, or was a sensiblo man; if he was rich or poor; an old Whig, ora Fenian; onc of those shrewd pieces of humanity could sco what was written on his very back-bone, before he would be

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“No!”

‘Will you tako the other five shillings for her?” giving tho penny unother slap into his horny palm.

“No!” é

‘Will you take the other half-crown ?”

“No!”

“What do you want for the pig?”

“Three pounds.”

“By gor, you may as well ax me three hundred. Is it three pounds for that poor, thin, wake little spaddareen? Bad luek to the man in the whole fair, Mr.—, I'd give two pound five to for the like’s of her but yourself.”

«Why, you offered me two pounds seven and sixpence just now.”

“Well, by dad, if I did, although I’m but a poor man, I’ll never brake my word;” and Jack gocs to mark her, as if ’twas all settled at last, but the seller prevents him, who then comes down another five shillings, and offers to take two pounds fifteen.

Jack, who now perccives that the owncr is losing courage, goes close up to him, and tells him in a confidential whisper, that he wonders a dacent, respectable farmer like him wouldn’t ax some knowing man the value of his pig before he put a price on her. ‘* Well, what do you ax me now?”

“ Two pound twelve and sixpence.”

Here a bystander, on receiving a look from Jack, steps in, and enquires how much between them.

“Only a crown-picee,” says Jack, “but it’s too high entirely.”?

“Oh, d. nit! tear the five shillings hetween ye’s,” says the dis- interested lookcr-on.

“ By gor, I couldn't!” says Jack, ‘she’s too dear already.”

The countryman demurs too.

“Well, wo'nt you take the two, seven, six,” says Jack, buttoning up his coat to go away.

“Ah, d. nit!” tear the five shillings, as I told ye’s before.’”

“By gor, I'll never break your word,” says Jack, who thought that was the least compliment he could pay the bystander for the trouble he took in the mutter.

“ Wisha, you may have her,” says the owner; and Jack puts three clips of a scissors on her panting flank, ond she’s his for two pounds ten.

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hat, and scratching his head; yawning at the same time, as if he looked upon the handing out of the cash as a mere matter of course.

“‘ What change ?” says Tade, looking innocently in his face.

“Yeah ! don’t be joking a poor man!” says Jack; “sure, when I was paying you yesterday, I gave you two pounds extra; and if you want the loan of it for a month or two longer, sure you may have it, and welcome, and more besides ;”’ it just having oceurred to him, that by lending him a couple more, he may get an I.0.U. for the entire.

“Och ! the devil a penny you lent me; nor I didn’t ask it from you!” replicd the other. ‘ You gave me the two pound fifteen for my little pig; and if I sold her to any one else, I'd get three pounds for her!”

“ Ah! then you would!” says Peggy, as the idea of counter irritation suggested itself to her as a means of getting rid of Jack, who was a very close-fisted fellow. ‘You could, then,” says she, “and three pounds five, too ; and if Jack has the spirit of a man dealing with him, ho’ll give us our ten shillings this minute. Indeed, faix,” continued she, ‘I suppose that’s what brought him up!’ winking to the old man at the same time, as much as to say, dwell on that note, and he’ll soon vanish. .

Old Tade took the hint at once.

“Oh! bad luck to the step you'll budge out of this, Jack!” says he, “until you give us the remainder of our money!” going towards the door at the sume time, to shut it.

“ Leave me out!” says Jack.

“Not ’till you pay us our honest ten shillings »”" says Peggy, running over to her husband's assistanee, with the tongs. ys Jack.

“ Are you going to rob and murder me?

“ Give us our ten shillings ! roared Pegpy.

“Ab! you'll do!” said Jack, as he stood in the middle of the road, after struggling through the door, which the old couple had half closed upon him, “You'll du, by good locking after!" ith! then, we'd want somebody to look after us when we'd be dealing with the like of you, and not to have us imposed upon the way we were!” replied the old woman.

Jack went straight off to » and told him all that happened; and thut very night the priest made it his business to see Tade and his wite on the subject, But they solemnly assured him that all they got from Jack was the two pounds fitteen.

her

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jobber, his money!” says he, in a deep sepulchral tone. He then got quickly down again, and went home.

Ife had somo idea that Peggy would be down with him early next morning with the money, but he was mistaken. He did not catch a glimpse of her for the whole day.

He went up again next night, and announced his uneasiness about the non-payment of the money, through the same channel, and in the same words; but the next day Peggy was as obdurate and as invisible asever. But now for the third and last effort. This was to be the great night. If ho was to succced at all, it must be now.

“T can’t rest in my grave till you give Jack, the jobber, his money,” said he in a voice more supplicating than ever; but not a stir out of Pegey.

After an interval of a few minutes, ‘Oh, Mike don't!’ said he, as if addressing the spectre of Peggy’s brother—a fine, stalwart fellow, who was killed about forty years before in a faction fight. ‘Oh, Mike, don’t!" suid he imploringly, ‘sure she's the wife of my buzzom after all.” “Wisha, don’t Kitty,” says he aguin, as if besceching her favourite sister—a young unmarried woman, who died many years ago, and who was then supposed to be armed with a red-hot spit, with which she was going to ruin Peggy through the gizzard—Jack used to say she had no heart— Don’t, Kitty, machree,” says he, in a soft, seducing tone, “who knows but she may be a Christian yet!”

After another pause, during which Peggy showed no signs of relent- ing :—‘ Well, will this contint ye’s ?"" add: ing all the family ghosts, who had bevome furious at Peggy's cruelty to her husband; “if she vesn’t give it up to-morrow, you can wll do as you like with her to- morrow night!’ Then throwing some burning sulphur down the chimney, he went home.

Peggy wax now fairly circumvented at last. She was as pale as she could be, and almost frightened out of her life. Tho smell of the sulphur, which in due time pervaded every cranny in her domicile, excited surmises about her future abode, which rendered her very un- comfortable. Nevertheless, she strove to persuade herself that it was id no blessing attending it, and not that she did anything wrong by making her own of what did not belong to her, that made the ghost’s so much vexed about it.

“Yerra! milia, murther!? says she, os she was dressing herself

because Jack’s money

530 THE WISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PEINCIPAL

orange lily) in the muzzle of his musket, just as the patriotic troops still do in Italy, Germany, and other placcs. On the 6th of July, in this year, Colonel Auriel, the commandant, issued an order for a full- dress parade. The corps asecmbled in thcir usual places. The Boyne “fell in” in the open space where the meat-shambles now stand ; the True-Blues took open order in front of the court-house; and the Union opposite the house now occupied as tho Provincial Bank. Riding up, in company with Lord Bandon and several other officers, to the Boyne, the commandant made a vigorous specch, in which he specially denounced political badges, and finally concluded by ordering the men of that corps to take out the lily or lay down their arms. The men un- hesitatingly adopted tho latter alternative, and down went the arms with a crash that sent ramrods and broken bayonets ringing about in every direction. Auriel and his party then rode down to the True- Blues, where the previous order was repeated, and down went brown Bess without a murmur. But he was more successful with the Union, several of the men retaining the musket and removing the obnoxious lily. The same day, the three corps were formally disbanded.

Whether Colonel Auricl had received instructions from the Executive to seck a pretext for disbanding these voluntecrs, we know not; but certain it is, that no government would sanction some of the language used by him on that day. He told them, that the wearing of the lily was an act of cowardice ; and that, although they had that badge of loyalty in their caps, he made no doubt but they may have the United Irishmen’s oath in their pockets.

The policy of wearing badges of any sort has long since grown into disfavour ; and we doubt if there ever was any need of symbolizing onc’s attachment to the institutions of his country, by wearing either a flower or a ribbon. As to the latter statement, that he “ made no doubt but they may have the United Irishmen’s oath in their pockets,” this couldonly have been uttered with the view of causing excessive irritation; for well he must have known, that there was no body of men in the British empire more devotedly attached to the crown and constitution of Great Britain than the yeomanry of Bandon; and their amazement could have been only surpassed by their indignation, when they found that any power occupying tho place of Cromwell or of William ILL. could entertain any doubt as to their loyalty. It must have sounded strangely in their cars to hear the term “ cowardice” applied to the

532 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

establishments if the weavers persevered. The trade was to them un- remunerative ; they were sick of it; and they did not regret that matters had now come to an issue.

On the Monday morning, the workmen came, and brought with them the old story—they should get the required advance. The “‘ governor” was a very determined man. Ie ordered the horses to be put to; crack went the whips; away rolled the carts, and with them departed, we fear, for ever the ence staple article of our old trade, and the basis of our commercial prosperity for over two hundred years. A deputation called on him that evening to say they would reconsider their decision; but he told them it was too late. They cume again next morning, and said they would work for the old wages. Again they came, and they offered to take twenty-five per cent off cven these. Before ono o'clock they had resolved to sacrifice another large slice. But it waa too late.

A day of apprehension und of want slowly trailed its weary hours over them. Early on the morrow of the next doy they came. “ Give us

what you like,” vp

“but, oh! save us from starving!" Jt was tov late. The fact was, Mr. Biggs had thrown up the contract by the Mond: post, and, even if desirous of recalling it, it was now impossible. It was too lute,

Then commenced an exodus, the like of which, considering the extent

they eri

of our population, we have searce scon paralleled even in history, and which has left us, after an interval of fifty years, with not one-half the number of inhubitants the town contained in this year. Family circles indeed, we are told, entire comninities—fed to Manchester, Leeds, London, and even to Paris, Crowds crossed the broad Atlantic ; and many passed away to unknown lands, and have uot left even a trace of their whereabouts. Those that could not make aw

y were employed on the relicf-works; many of the hilly roads in our ucighbourhood being then cut down, as Bariett’s Hill, Lovell’s Hill, &e. Lodgings were unlet ; houses were unoccupied ; whole streets were deserted ; and many and muny a green meadow, now roamed over by an Ayrshire” or a “Durham,” was then the site of a clean, orderly row of white cottages; and the solemn stillness of the country now reigns where the unvarying click-clack of the shuttle and the weaver’s merry song once held un- disputed sway. ‘

Several spirited attempts were subsequently made by Mesers. George Allman, Richard Wheeler, and James Scott, to introduce the cotton

534 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

He never forgave him. All his property—including the Liscombe estate, which Richard de Lovatt, onc of his ancestors, obtained from William tho Conqueror, besides all his personal effects—he bequeathed toa distant relative, and did not leavo his only brother even an angry shilling.

Whilst he was rector of Kilbrogan, it wos customary with Mr. Lovatt to dispense the parochial charities weekly, and the recipients of them he used to recognize, not by the names conferred upon them when a few of their fricnds undertook serious responsibilities on their behalf, but by some accomplishment, or blemish, or peculiarity that they were noted for. A poor women who sold him a lame duck for a whole one was Mrs. Duckey, and her daughter was the little duck ; another, who had an oblique vision, was Squinty ; Honey was the dulcet appellation he had for one whose sweet tonguo often poured copioua blessings on his rectorial head; and the Wasp was a peevish creature, that would fight with the shadow of her own dyspeptic countenance.

The doctor was a great humorist. Nevertheless, under the guise of pleasuntry and merriment, he could administer a rebuke that would not soon be forgotten. Passing hurriedly through his hall one night in the dark, he knocked against a poor man who was waiting to sce him.

“Who's that?” said the divine, as he recoiled off the unfortunate fellow’s ribs with such force as to full in a most unclerical position on the floor.

“Nobody, your reverence!” was the timid reply.

“Nobody,” repeated the rector, rising rapidly to his fect; ‘ well, thank goodness, I have you at last!” laying a firm hold of tho intruder by the collar of his coat, and calling loudly to the servants to hasten to him at once, and bring lights. Thcy rushed towards him, snatching up a lamp or a candle, or any other kind of light they could lay their hands upon, thinking something serious must have occurred ; and their fears were more than half realized, when they beheld their master looking determinedly at a strange man who stood trembling in his grusp. Guthering them ubout him, he addressed his prisoner :—

“Well, Nobody,” said he, you're the very fellow I have been look- ing for these thirty years. There is not a dish broken in tho kitchen, or a bottle of wine finished in the pantry, or u joint of cold meat, or a book, or a blanket, that has been stolen out of my dwelling, ever since I became a housekeeper, but it was you that did it.”

/

sok! for poor Mary, that up ta ‘that moment he had not ¢ . ~~

Meanwhile the unfortnnate Iunatic was howling piteously. —

‘Well, we won't delay you any longer!" said his two nei as they gave their horses a crack of the whip, and resum journey, a)

The Ballineen man got safe to Rosscarbery, disposed of h satisfactorily, and canfe home,

It happened that onevof those who met him in the morn standing at the door of the forge as he passed by, and he ran enquired anxiously about Mary.

“Qh! she’s as well as ever she was in her life, thank God!” extiltant parent, “There she is, and ask herself !?"

“Father John! may the heavens be his bed !’? said the grat to the crowd that was now gathering about her, ‘ enred 1 minute!” +

After delaying some little time, the father and daughter wer

542 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND THE PRINCIPAL

capacity of a witness than of anything else, as he was resolved to monopolize to himself the entire glory of catching Koith-More, and of causing such a penalty to be inflicted upon that old defrouder of the revenuc, a8 would compel her to disgorge no small share of her illicit gains. Getting out of his gig, he walked into Mrs. Teige’s hostelry, and boldly knocked with the end of his whip on the counter.

“‘ What’s wanting ?” says the old widow, putting her head inside the little shop-door from the kitchen, where she was sitting before the fire, darning an old stocking.

“Haw! I want two glasses of potheen whiskey, please!” said tho Anglo-Saxon, in an accent that smacked strongly of the land of roast beef ond plum-pudding.

“Is it pothecn, yer honour? By the hokey !” said the old lady, who knew well who the Englishman was, and who knew what he was then up to just as well as he did himself. “ By the hokcy !” says she, ‘* there wasn’t a pint of it within the four walls of this house those forty years; but I have some of Cornwall’s crame, that I got in last night, and a quart of it would do you more good than if you were drinking the best of pothcen for a month of Sundays !””

“Haw ! but its pothcen I want, and I won't have anything else !”

“By gor! thin, yer honour!” replied she, ‘if you were to give me Lord Bandon’s castle to live in, and his grate, big illegant park for a praty-garden, bad cess to the sup I could give you!”

“Qh! come, come, I must have it!’ said the supervisor, who was beginning to get angry.

The old woman seeing she could not get rid of them, began to get alarmed, and dreaded lest they would search the house.

“Well, gentlemen,” said she, ‘go down in the room ablow there, and T’ll try and get some for you !”

They readily complied; the Englishman giving his assistant a know- ing wink, as they pulled a stool a-picce to sit down upon, as much as to say, I knew I’d catch her.

They had scarcely turned their backs upon Mrs. Teige, when she adroitly removed a gallon jar of the coveted liquid which she had under the counter all the time, and sent a boy with it as hard as he could run, to empty its contents into the Bandon river, which was only distant a ficld from the house. When she thought he was well out of the range of detection, she went up stairs, where sho made a great

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bridge; fourth, north side of the great bridge; fifth, Kilbrogan-cross; sixth, Shambles; seventh, Court-house.

Oxver or Processor.

A detachment of the 78th Infantry. Highlanders. Police. Parish Constables, with staves. Gentlemen. Revenue Officers.

Magistrates of the County. Sergeants-at-Mace. Town Clerk.

Provost. Commanding-Ofticer. Francis Perey, Sub-Inspector of Police. Free-Burgesses. Common Councilmen. Freemen. Gentlemen of the Town. "Police.

Detachment of the 78th Infantry.

August the Ist.—At the gencral election, consequent upon the accession of the Queen, Joseph D. Jackson (Tory), was proposed by Hon. William Smith Bernard, and seconded by-Abraham Lane; and William George Cavendish (Whig’, was proposed hy the Rev. Armiger Scaly, and seconded by Michael Galway. Mr. Jackson obtained one hundred and thirty-three votes, and Mr. Cavendish, eighty-one.

September the 29th.—The Hon. William Smith Bernard entered on the office of provost. He was the last of a long line of provosts, as the old charter became extinct upon the expiration of his oflicial yeux, on the 29th of ptember, 1841.

The following is a complete list of our chief magistrates, including the first who took his scat in the reign of Jamcs the First, down to and and including the last, when the office ccased, in the reign of Queen Victoria :-—

1840,

Richard Crofie. . «1615. Anthony Skipwith . 1622. Thomas Adderley*, . 1616. Eban Woodrooffo . . 1623. Edward Beecher. . 1617. Nicholas Blacknall . 1624,

i 1618. Anthony Skipwith . 1625. 1619. Thomas Dickenson . 1626.

ted the argent portion of the year in uf cice, although, in reality, he entered on thomas Adderley, whom we have Bicol

3; but as he served three e paced the former after his naw

3, we ha Wo have applied the suena vide tovall the others + We have given the spelling us we found it.

TOWNS IN THE WEST RIDING OF COUNTY CORK. 547

Henry Turner . . . 1627. George House . . . 1677. John Lake .-. . . 1628. Richard Cox. . . 1678. William Brooke . . 1629. John Poole. . . . 1679. Christopher Skipwith. 1630. William Chartres . . 1680. Edward Dunkin . . 1681. John Watkins . . . 1681.

Thomas Atkinson . . 1632. John Watkins . . . 1682. William Newce . . 1633. Jomes Dixon . . 1683.

Thomas Taylor. . . 1634. Christopher Greenway 1684, Richard Tickner . . 1635. Christopher Greenway 1685. Randal Fenton. . . 1636. Thomas Polden. . . 1686. Thomas Dickenson . 1637. Daniel Beamish . . 1687. Henry Turner. . . 1638. Teige Carty (temp. Jas. 2. 3 ee William Brooke . . 1639. Teige Carty. . . 1689.

George Fenton. . . 1640. Robert Casey . . . 1690. Anthony Skipwith . 1641. John Nash . . . . 1691. John Woodroffe + + 1642. Soul Bruce. . . . 1692. Daniel Howard . . 1643. George House . . . 1693. John Landon . . . 1644. James Dixon . 1694, Jeffery Sale. . . . 1645. Christopher Greenway 1695. Robert Bathurst . . 1646. Isaac Browne . . 1696. Abraham Savage . . 1647. William Lapp . . . 1697. William Brooke . . 1648. George Symmes - . 1698, John Smith. . - 1649. James Martin . . . 1699. Clement Woodroffe - 1650. Thomas Polden. . . 1700. Michael Bul . . . 1651. Thomas Polden. . . 1701. William Wright . . 1652. James Jackson. . . 1702. William Wright . . 1653. John Nash . . . . 1708. Thomas Dunkin . . 1654. Richard Willoe. . . 1704. Thomas Beamish . . 1655. Thomas Shorten . . 1705. John Jackson . . . 1656. Daniel Conner . . . 1706. Samuel Browne . . 1657. Saul Bruce . . . . 1707. Nathaniel Cleare . . 1658. Richard Cox . . . 1708, Abraham Savage . . 1659. William Lapp . . . 1709. John Landon . . . 1660. James Dixon . . . 1710. Jeffery Sale. . + 1661. John Nash . . . . 1711.

Clement Woodroffe | 1662. Saul Bruce. . . . 1712. William Wright . . 1663. James Martin . . . 1713. John Jackson . . . 1664. George House . . . 1714. Thomas Beamish . . 1665. Jonathan Tanner . . 1715. John Browne . . . 1666. James Jackson. . . 1716. John Browno . . . 1667. John Jones... . 1717. Matthow Porcival. . 1668. Arthur Bernard . . 1718. John Poolo . . . . 1669. John Travers . . . 1719. William Chartrea . . 1670. William Bull . . . 1720. William Chartres . . 1671. James Martin . . . 1721. John Watkins . . . 1672. Daniel Conner. . . 1722. Jamon Dixon. « 1673, John Nash . . . . 1728, Willism Wright . . 1674. John Nash . . . . 1724, Thomas Venmish . . 1675. Baul Bruce. . . . 1725.

Trowun . 1676. Jonathan Tanner tog iat

pleas of all manner of debts, covenants, trespass contracts, matters whatsoever, in which debts ; excced forty shillings correct money of England. assigns, also entitled to all waifs, estraies, deodi chattels of felons, fugitives, and all persons condem had, in addition, the right to appoint the clerk of thi newly crected, called Bandon-Bridge, situate in tt

in any other town which sball hereafter be made a

the halfendale or cantred of the said countrie of the power of licensing, or permitting any person, o the trade, craft, or ministerie of butcher, baker, b or which shall sell, or cause to be sold, any aqui beere within the town of Bandon-Bridge.””

For a long time these courts were much ayaile the beginning of the present century ; all the law bu: criminal as well as civil, of which these courts too!

* through them; but since then they havo gradual!

and, as a consequence, some of the seneschals gr different, more or less, to that decorum which shou! court of justice.

Some amusing storics are still told of the senes justice—we were going to say who dispensed with of twenty miles from our town. The courts of lat, held in some public-house, and the jury was gen

trenton minn fanm tha matahhanshand Gamatinns at

552 THE HISTORY OF BANDON, AND TI PRINCIPAL

gallons more, to damp the indignation of those who had just cousigned him to the gibbet.

~The jury were not prohibited from the use of the dudcen during their labours, and were allowed to cross-examine tho witnesses as they liked.

“So, you lent him five shillings? By gor! I don’t believe you!” one of them would say, “for I know you hadn't it of your own, and there’s no one would lend it to you !”

“Yerra! give the poor man time!” would cry another. “ Sure you didn’t think he was going to keep the moncy in his pocket until you plaze to ask him for it ?”

“Take and pay the woman at once!” another would say. ‘‘’Tisa shame for the like of ye—a dacent-looking man—to be walking about with the few pence belonging tu that poor creature in your pocket !””

Even the public took part in ‘these trials. Addressing one of the jurors, Mick would shout out—one of the great unwashed, who, by standing on the tips of his toes, would succced in catching an occasional glimpse of the court insidc—‘‘ Don’t mind a word be says” (referring to the witness), ‘as there isn’t a man, woman, or child in the street would bleev: a word from him !”

“Swear!” would ery another of the magni iMloti; “by gor! he'd swear a hole through the bottom of a brass skillct, and he looking as innocent as a new-horn baby all the time

The courts were not favourites with the well-to-do classes. However it may fare with the peor man, the rich man had often good reason to complain. Consequently, when their fate was placed in the scales, be did not stand up in their behalf.

Joseph Devonshire Jackson (Tory", returned to represent

184). the town. No opposition.

ia August 2nd.—Lord Bernard (Tory), proposed by John

"Wheeler, I.P., nied by Franklin Baldwin. No conteat.

sage, _,_THly 9th.—Lord Bernard (Tory), proposed by John Wheeler, “ SLP., seconded by William C. Sullivan. No contest.

tsz,Februmy 11th—Captoin Hon, William Smith Bernard

(Tory), proposed by William C. Sullivan, seconded by Richard Tresilian. William Shaw (Whig), proposed by Richard L, Allman, seconded by Juhn Heron. At the conclusion of the poll, there were found recorded for Captain Bernard, onc hundred and one votes, and for Mr. Shaw, sixty-seven.

INDEX,

A

Page Appey, TIMOLEAGUE . . . . 368 Abbey,Mahon. . . . . . . 366 Abduction . . re: 4 ‘Accounts, Soldiers 4 Adventurers. + 178 ‘Aderly, Captain Thomas | | | 463 ‘Aderly, George we AB ‘Apostolic Vicar killed : / / ] 92 ‘Ardtully Castle, the battle | | | 128 ‘A Turk, a Jew, or an Atheist . . 344

Battrmopay, Peren’s Cuvrcu . 60

Baldwin, Bachelors Taxed Bandon River . Bandonians at the Boyne Bandon Old Bridgo : Bandon Endowed School ndon Boyne Yeomanry Bandon Cavalry . . Bandon Independe Bandon Militia Bandon Volunteers disarmed Ballinen . .. .

Bantry.

;, Joan, the Red-Shanks Battle of the Cross... Beecher, Phane Beaches pone nial ‘am 383

jernard, Francis, the Ju A , North Ludlow + - Francis, the Squire ie

Baa "Captain Walter | Blunt's, Colonel, Officore Boyne Water, The . . Browne, St.John Brayly, Captain John

c

raard, Castle-Mahon, attack on Christ Church, Kilbrogan Church, St. Peters. . Clonakilty...

Clear, Old Ralph

erry - Coal- Bandon Goomtallin Bandon Crow, William. Crooke, Sit

, Sir Thomas . . .

568

Tevtos, Joun. . ‘The new English. ; The Boyne Water The Threshers. . Timoleague .

Tom, Rov. sean ‘Town Walls, the - Tories... ss Togher Castio |: ‘Tradesmen’s Tokens . Turk, Jew, or Atheist Turner, Major Henry Tyreonnell’. .

wt

442

342

INDEX. v Page Page - « 437 | Vavasor, Siz Crantes. . . 131,469 S 109 | Milliers, Sir Edward . 72 : 1 802 | Vigo, Capture of Spanish galleons 334 Df 492 | ¥ lunteer Review at Ballincollig % + 385 | oe + 8681 see ST Y we ~. 67 1. 185 | Warxrxs, Jou, Provost. . 253, 480 205. wa cht, the Quakers’ historian . 221, / 351, 367 | lor, Sir Hardress. . . . » B44! Watney the old Bandon . . 480 | Wade, Bryan . . . 369» Wesley first visit to Bandon * “Wiseman, William . i ' White, Earl of Bantry |; | Wolf, Father, and his sep *

Uxrrep Intenacex, Execetion or 502

‘Woodroffe, Holmstead .

APPENDIX.

THE BERNARDS OF PALACE-ANNE.

THE GOODMANS.

566 THE BERNARDS OF PALACE-ANNE.

Tn thoso halcyon days an appeal to the King’s Bench was unfashion- able. Should the plaintiff fecl himself aggrieved by the defendant, he resorted to a summary process, about which the only thing wrong was, that the innocent man had just the same chance of being murdered as the guilty one. Indeed, we may truly venture to affirm that he often had a greater; for it was by no means uncommon for a professed shot to roam «bout the country, or swagger through our streets, seeking for a casus belli, and then bring his deadly skill to bear upon one with whom he had purposely picked a quarrel.

“Name your friend !” ronred Henley, jumping to his feet in a rage.

“Captain Tonson, sir. Yours?”

“ Mr. Spread.”

‘The seconds met that evening, and it was arranged that the affair should come off early on the following day.

As we have said, Beamish was a very young man, and had never pulled a trigger on such an occasion in his life. Henloy, who was a member of the notorious Hell-tire Club, was, on tho contrary, an old hand, and had already stretched his fourth man.

The news went everywhere. Everyone that heard it reckoned Beamish a gone man. ‘Before to-morrow’s sun will reach the meridian, he'll be a gone man,” said one.“ You might as well bring him before a sergeant’s guard, and let them shoot him decently,” said another. There was no man in his senses would give more than twelve hours’ purchase for his life.

The place appointed for the ineeting was at Killancthig, about three and. a-half miles south of Bandon. Toth inen were on the sod well up to time, It was observed that the younger one looked cool and collected, but thoughtful. His friend had great hopes of him.

“Keep cool, Arthur, my boy,” said he; ‘keep cool; and if you don’t let the ht into his bread-bag, L’m not Jake Tonson !”?

The clder displayed the most perfect nonchalance, occasionally whistling snatches of a popular air, or making some indifferent remark to those around him. When his second began walking the paces :

“Make them long,” said he, “as it may give this spirited young chap a chan

“LT don’t want any chance,” cried his opponent in an angry tone. “To you hold one end of a handkerchief, and ['ll hold the other, and Tet us blaze away.”

“Oh, no, my young friend,” replied Henley, with a ecremonious bow, that would he murder ;" adding, in a low tone, ‘a little bleeding will 1

Tonson, alter lowling the pistols, gave onc to cach of the combatants ; then handing the powder-tlisk to Beamish, who carelessly put it into his breust-pocket, he retir Ha ken their places, at the word beth slowly rime hand, with the right arm right angle with the body, and atucs. Upon the signal being given to fire, they discharged their weapons simultancou The spectators, rushing in before the smoke had yet rolled away, found Beamish erect—his adversary's bullet struck the powder-flask, and, glancing off obliquely,

572 THE GOODMANS,

again upon their miraculous good fortune, and, in the exuberance of their joy, they not only forgave the sacrilegious ‘sexton, but they: abso- lutely drank his health.

She lived some years after, and had a son, who dicd at a good old age, towards the close of last century, in Innoshannon ; and such a dissolute and dissipated fellow was he, that he was known, not as Goodman, but as “ Badman;” and there are those still living who knew and conversed with ‘‘ Badman” in his old age. A lady of our acquaintance often saw and spoke to him. She says he used to wear a frilled shirt and knee-breeches, and was fond of displaying a pair of large silver buckles in his shoes. Another lady had a perfect recollection of sitting upon his knee when a child, and of his telling her that he was the man who was born after his mother was buried. Before old Goodman left this world—wo hope for a better—he had spent all he had inherited from his parents, and dicd in poverty, leaving ason, who had to subsist by tho labour of his hands.

This man also married, and died, leaving a son, who served a part of. his time to a shoemaker in Bandon; but, before his apprenticeship was half completed, he lent an attentive car to the seductive wiles of a recruiting sergeant, and, when last we hcard of him, he was a private s the Grenadier Company of Her Majesty’s Sixty —— Regiment of

Foot.*

ects to what we have just detailed ir truth or falsehood we know ; but that the cireumstances e, as well as others