This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1766 Excerpt: ....-- vant to the deponent, did see the English for '--'merly specisied, going to their execution; and, as she conceived, they were about the number of thirty-five; and was told by Elizabeth Homes, that there were forty gone to execution. Jurat. 7 Septem. 1642. Anne Butler. John Watson. The examination of Joseph Wheeler of Stancarty in the county of Kilkenny, esq; Elizabeth the relict of lieutenant William Gilbert, of captain Ridgway's company; Rebecca Hill, the relict of Thomas Hill, late lieutenant to the said captain Ridgway; Thomas Lewis, late of Kilkenny, gent. Jonas Wheeler of Stancarty aforesaid, gent, and Patrick Maxwell of the Graige in the same county, gent, sworn and examined, depose and say, The pro-frlHAT about Easter 1642, one Ricard UMu. J. Phillips, and five others, who were old garrison soldiers, then under the command of captain Farrel, a captain of his majesty's party, were, by the command of the lord Mount Garrot, at the end of a house in Kilkenny, hanged to death by that cruel and bloody rebel and provost-marshal, Thomas Cantwell of Cantwell-Court, esq; or some of his servants or soldiers in his presence, who would hardly suffer them to say their prayers after they were taken out of the prison before they were put to death; those poor men dying very patiently and resolutely, in the maintenance of the the protestant faith; but one of them, because he was an Irish man, was offered his life if he would turn papist, but he chose rather death, which he quickly had with the ether five. And further faith, that a little before Christmas 1644. Mr. William William and Thomas Hill, into a saw-pit, leaving them so far unburied, that their heads and legs lay bare, untill she came and covered them with earth, about a week after: And further fai..