O’Connolly’s relation of the plot to seize Dublin Castle
- Reference: MS 840, fols 001r-004v
- County: Dublin
- Date: undated
- Type: Miscellaneous
- Nature of Deposition: Military Action, Investigative
- How to Cite
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A trew Relation of the treacherous designe of the Irish in Ireland on the Castle of Dublin at the beginninge of the Rebellion there And of the particular passages in the Discouerie of that plott and of what I heard of theire Intention there went halfe a yeere before, from the said Captain Hugh oge mcMaughon that did discouer the plott to mee
<1.> Beinge in Company with the said Hugh oge in Dublin, he being my neer kinsman and Intimate friend, he tould mee that he was mightely troubled with the proud and Haughty Carriage, of one Mr Aldriche that was his neighboure in the County of Monnoughan, which was a Justice of the peace, and but a vintner or Tapster few yeers before that he gaue him not the right hand of fellowship neither at the As{
I wished him that he would not thinke of that and that he wo{
<Owen O’Connally’s &c.>
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that wee should soone be deliuered from bondage and slauerie vnder which wee groaned, I demanded of him which way, and tould him that I thought it was an Impossible thinge, he replied that there was an a nationall oath to be taken by all the Irish in the kingdom, against English gouerment vpon which I desired him as he tendred his owne good, the preseruance of his and Estate, that he would in no sort intermeddle w with it or Assent therunto. And that he would doe very well to acquaint the Lo: Justices therwith, which would redound to his great honnour And that for my part the very mention of such a businesse was very unsauorie to mee, espectially to heare it out of his mouth, vrginge him further, either to reueale it him selfe, or to binde him selfe by promise, never to haue any hande in it by b e ing aiding or Assenting therunto * <but for my {
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so I tooke my leaue of him, and retorned into the North whear my habitation was, Acquaintinge seuerall Magistr{
<the date of the letter the 18th of 8ber> Cousen Owen, as you tender your owne good, and my lou{
My Answer was, that I could no{
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would visite him, at his owne hous{
the 22th being the next day I Rode to Dublin, a Journey of being 60 Irish miles it being about 7 of the Clocke at night, eere I could reach thither, And alighting at the howse where be vsually lodged, he mett mee at the dore, and towlde me, I was a wellcome guest vnto him
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And so for that I had seen him, I desired respite, whilst the next morninge to wa{
The lord of Mcguire my self and a hundred more, are Come to the towne this night, a party being out of euery province in the kingd{
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the Castle of Dublin, which wee can easely doe, they being [
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As should make a Considerable strength to fall vpon such places in the seuerall provinces of the english a s they had [
And wher as you haue of longe tym{
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whear he had appointed meetinge with some other of his Comrades but they beinge not there, and so wee two with 8 more before formerly in his Company at my lo. macGuires lodginge sate downe to de and Called for one quart of sack, being the more willing to drinke with them, if so any occasion might be offred for my Escape from them, but after wee hadd druncke that quart of sacke vpon my mo ti on wee went for t I tould desir ed him it weer better he [
<from the Company, and receiued my Information of all the proceeding passages vnto which he would hardly giue Creditt vntill, I replyinge tould him that I had discharged my duty, and and that as he tendred the preseruation of him self, the Citty, and the liues of the brittish protestants there and in other {