Annals of Ireland, [from Sept. 16, 1643 to Jan. 15, 1653,] Ecclesiastical, Civil, and Military. (The Faith of Catholics: [a review of 'The Faith of Catholics,' etc. by Messrs. Berington and Kirk.])

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ANNALS OF IRELAND, ECCLESIASTICAL, CIVIL AND MILITARr jg^R^t~-- ri^jj Knxfz^4TX.-Tr j MtB j'Wg'gBMI .BY THIS REY. JOHN GRAHAM, M.A. CURATB OF I.1FFORD, IS THE DIOCEF3 Of DStlST. " Consilii.m futmi es prate rito ve:>i>. Senega, Ep. 58, Sec t J. lonQon : PRINTED BT 6. SIDNEY, NORTHUMBERLAND STREET, ,'TBA.tD. 1819. ro THE PROTESTANTS OF THE UNITED EMPIRE 01 GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND, THESE ANNALS ARB HUMBLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY THEIR FAITHFUL AND DEVOTED SERVANT, JOHN GRAHAM. Lifford, in the County of Donegal, January bth, 1819. B CIVIL, MILITARY, AND ECCLESIASTICAL, No. I. " The cessation was a mereplot of the Confederates to ruin " those by treaty whom they could not destroy by war." (Sir Richard Cox's Hib. Ang, v. ii. page 134.) I C, 13. Sept. 16. — Lord Muskerry and eight of the Rebel Com missioners signed an instrument regulating the manner in which they engaged to pay the 30,800 J. they had agreed, in the Arti cles of cessation, to contribute to his Majesty.

(Bor. App. xvi.) Sept. 18. On this day both houses of the English Parliament made an ordinance for a collection to relieve the distressed Clergy of Ireland. (Husband's Collections, page 233.) Onthe same day the Irish broke the Cessation byplunderingthe suburbs of Dublin of three hundred and sixty nine head of cattle. They soon after published the Pope's rebellious bull of the i?5th of May, in this year, seized on the black Castle at Wicklow, and murdered the Protestants there. (Hib. Ang. vol. ii. page 135.) They also continued the siege of Castleeoote after the Cessation was published. The Earl of Castlehaven, after he had been fully informed of it, battered tlie Castle of Disert in the Queen's County, and when he had taken and plundered it, he shewed tlie garrison the Artieles of Cessation, pretending that they were just come to hand, and that he was sorry they did not come sooner.

(Ib.) Sept. ID. The Rebels, notwithstanding the Cessation, seized the Castles of Pilltown and Cloghleigh, with others, in Condon'a Country, as they had just before, in a skulkiugmaiiner, possessed themselves of several old ruinous castles and houses in Roche's Country, with several other acts of fraud and violence immediately on and after the said Cessation. Lord Inchiquin's Com plaints of the Bleachers of Cessation in Munster, Art. 2, 3, 4, J, fcc'O Lord Inchiquin concludes these complaints in the following manner : — I am by these means driven to so great straits and exigencies, that of nine hundred men, which I had ready a few weeks since to send unto his Majesty, there remained not two hundred to be sent away on Monday last with the shipping, the rest being dispersed through mere want.