Furor non in bona civium et in supellectilem tantum sacrum, sed in urbis tecta et aedes Deo dicatas saevire coepit. Faces subdere jam domibus parabant, nec prius desaeviere quam Nobilium quidam vicem nostram aegre ferentes grandi pecuniae vi promissa a civibus per partes solvenda, urbem ab incendii diluvio redemerunt. Atque ita tantum non funditus excisa et in cineres redacta est antiquissima Urbs Casselensis, quae tot Regum diu ac Archi-praesulum nobilis stetit. Illa, inquam, civitas quae quod semel a Patricio fidei lumen. accepit, nunquam extingui sed nec obscurari passa est, tanta laboravit eclypsi, ut in ea aliquamdiu et sacerdos et ritus sacer deficeret; Illa tot civium pro Religione decorata certaminibus, tot Divorum munita praesidiis, sinu suo complexa est Puritanum hostem; Illa tot Religionum sancta Ordinibus, tot pietati addictissimis culta familiis, una hora omnium totius Iberniae criminum prae caeteris Iberniae urbibus luit Deo supplicium. Atque quod stupori omnibus est, hoc Coelum vidit et tacuit; nec adhuc vindicat sanguinem sanctorum suorum. Numquid quasi incassum cecidit tanta civium in Patrono fiducia? Verum admirari magis convenit quam scrutari. Dei judicia, et pio delicta fletu plangere quam imprudenti ceolos quaestu tundere, quo iram Numinis cum gratia commutemus.

Caeterum non fore hic Casseliam in proverbium gentibus sperandum est; sed majorem apud orthodoxos principes et nationes exteras gloriae cumulum acquiret, nobilior jam facta pro fide funeribus quam antea triumphis. Quae dum carissima deflet pignora, spiritu gaudet gloriosos coelo transcripsisse martyres. Nec injuria credimus felices eorum esse animas. Nam dum noctibus exterminium illud praecedentibus obiremus praesidiarios milites, ut ab juramentis et militari eos insolentia dehortaremur, adeo praeter talium consuetudinem morigeros reperimus et eo loco sanguinem pro religione fundendi cupidos, ut ad optimam a Deo disponi mortem viderentur. Neque enim prius pugnam agressi sunt, quam plerique saepius, omnes ad minimum semel, exomologesi animum expiarent ac sacratissimum deinde Viaticum sumerent. Quod si qui piacularibus flammis detinentur, eos Rac. Vae. ac reliquorum Patrum sacrificiis et precibus in hoc Anniversaria Fidelium Omnium Commemoratione commendo.

Rae. Vae. Servus in Christo

Andreas Sall.

REGINALD WALSH, O.P.

THE INDICTMENTS OF CORNELIUS O'DEVANY, O.S.F., BISHOP OF DOWN AND CONNOR, AND OF JOHN BOURKE, OF BRITTAS, Co. LIMERICK

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MONG the more prominent of those whose cause for Beatification is at present under investigation by Apostolic Authority stand out the names of the above. Their indictments and records of attainder will, therefore, be of use and interest. They have been taken from Sir Richard Bolton's "A Justice of Peace for Ireland," etc., where they are reproduced as examples of forms of indictment in cases of treason. They illustrate at once the form of indictment and that “old artifice of persecutors to get up charges of treason and conspiracy against the Christians to cover their own malice and wickedness and their hatred of the Church, of which the cruel decrees and edicts issued here are more than proof." (David Kearney, Archbishop of Cashel, to the Irish Seminaries in Spain, 1612).

Sir Richard Bolton, born in Staffordshire about 1570, having faithfully served the English interest in Ireland, became Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1625 and Lord Chancellor in 1639 In 1638 he published in Dublin the folio work mentioned above: "A Justice of Peace for Ireland, consisting of two Bookes . the first declaring th' exercise of that office by one or more Justices of Peace out of Sessions. The second setting forth the forme of proceeding in Sessions, and the matters to be enquired of, and handled therein. Composed by Sir Richard Bolton, Knight, Chief Baron of his Majesties Court of Exchequer in Ireland. Whereunto are added many Presidents of Indictments of Treasons, Felonies, Misprisons, Praemunires, and Finable offences of Force, Fraud, Omission, and other misdemeanors of severall sorts, more than ever heretofore have been published in print."

The work forms a book of reference for Irish magistrates. and Grand Juries. The student of the Penal Laws cannot but be struck by the large place occupied by statutes passed against the unfortunate Papists and the penalties and machinery

devised to crush them. Here the persecutors found, not only the laws and penalties, but concrete instances to guide them how to draw up an Indictment of Praemunire "for extolling of forraigne authoritie "—" against a Priest for practising to absolve and persuade a woman from her obedience and subjection to the King and to obey the authority of the See of Rome -or against a Priest for saying Masse in the vestry of a church . . . . and against two others for hearing the said masse." Appended to each indictment is the proper penalty.

Some of these indictments are of general historical interest, e.g. the indictment of Tyrone and Tyrconnell for treason.

A second edition was published in Dublin in 1683.

A later edition by Michael Travers (Dublin, 1750) is scarcely less interesting, though it omits some of the earlier indictments. It incorporates the later Penal Code in Bolton's work. In it the Justice of the Peace of 1750 might learn how to summon his Papist neighbour "for refusing to deliver his Horse on demand," or "to give testimony when he heard mass." While Sir Richard had not to deal with Papist minors and fails to extend any guidance to informers or priest-hunters, nevertheless his "presidents of indictments," based as they are on actual cases, form a startlingly realistic picture of our forefathers' sufferings for their faith, and not less so of that " perverted ingenuity" and malignity that concurred "to degrade the character and blast the prosperity of a nation."

The career and execution of both Servants of God will be found in Rothe's Analecta, edited by Cardinal Moran. The Indictment of John Bourke may be compared with Brouncker's account of his trial in the Calendar of State Papers (Ireland) 1606-1608 (pp. 101–104).

The National Library, Dublin, contains a copy of each of the editions.

A search for the original documents has proved unavailing.

M. J. CURRAN.

I. THE INDICTMENT AND WHOLE RECORD OF THE ATTAINDER OF
CONNAGHOR Ô DEVENNE OF TREASON for CounselLING AND

ADHERING TO REBELS.

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Memorandum quod alias scilicet per quandam Inquisitionem Downe ss. captam apud Newry in praedicto Com. Downe, decimo quinto die Hillarii 9. Jacobi Januarii Anno regni Domini Jacobi nunc Regis Angliae, Franciae capitalia placea & Hiberniae, &c. nono, & Scotiae quadragessimo quinto, coram Jacobo Hamilton mil. Fulcone Conway mil. Arthuro Magnesse mil. Hugone Mountgomery mil. Johanne Walker Ar. Attorn. dict. Dom. Regis provinciae suae Ultoniae, Arthuro Hawkes Ar. & Marmaduco Whitchurch Justic. & Comiss. dicti Do. Regis assignat. & legitime authorisat. virtute Commissionis ejusdem Domini Regis sub magno sigillo suo Hiberniae eis direct. geren. dat. apud Dublin. decimo sexto die Decembris, Anno 2 regni dicti Dom. Regis Angliae, Franciae & Hiberniae nono, & Scotiae quadragessimo quinto supradict. ad inquirend.' per sacrament. probor. & legalium hominum de praedict. Com. Downe, de omnibus & singulis prodition. murdr. homicid. incend. illicit. assemblation. felon. rober. oppressionibus, trangressionibus criminibus, contempt. Offenc. malefactis & causis. quibus cunque, tam contra pacem & communem legem dicti Domini regis vel aliquorum progenitor. dicti Dom. regis quam contra formam alicujus statuti, Actus, ordination. sive provis. antehac fact. edit. ordinat. sive confirmat. per quemcunque sive quoscunque infra hoc regnum Hiberniae, vel extra limites ejusdem in partibus ultra mare, aliquo modo fact. commiss. sive perpetrat. aut imposterum faciend. committend. sive perpetrand. eaque omnia audiend. examinand. discutiend. & exequend. (prout per eandem Commiss. plenius liquet & apparet.) per sacram. duodecim proborum & legalium hominum. Com. Downe praedict. compertum existit, quod cum Hugo nuper Comes Tyrone, & Brianus Mc Art ô Neale cum diversis aliis nequissimis & sceleratissimis proditoribus Dominae Elizabethae nuper Reginae Angliae, Franc. & Hiberniae, Deum prae oculis suis non habentes, nec debitum ligeantiae suae erga eandem nuper Reginam considerant, sed instigatione diabolica totaliter seduct, primo die Januari Anno regni ejusdem nuper Reginae quadragesimo quarto, & diversis aliis

11612 (i.e. 24 March 1611, to 23 March 1612).

2 1611.

3 1602 (17 Nov. 1601, to 16 Nov. 1602).

diebus & vicibus tunc praeantea, ut falsi proditores & rebellatores ipsius nuper Reginae, seipsos apud Downe in Com. Downe praedict. & ad diversa alia loca in eodem Com. proditorie congregaverunt, & adtunc & ibidem, falso & proditorie conspiraverunt, imaginaverunt, & inter se proposuerunt praefatam nuper Reginam Elizabetham de tunc regia potestate & gubernatione suis hujus tunc regni sui Hiberniae penitus deprivare & deponere, ac gubernationem ejusdem tunc regni sui, contra voluntatem ipsius nuper Reginae, super seipsos sumere & accipere, & penes eos detinere, Ac ad illud falsum proditorium & sceleratissimum propositum suum prosequend. promovend. & perimplend. praedicti Hugo nuper Comes Tyrone, & Brianus Mc Art. Neale, simul cum praedictis aliis nequissimis & sceleratissimis dict. nuper Reginae proditoribus, die & anno supradictis, apud Downe praedict. in praedict. Com. Downe, & apud diversa alia loca in eodem. Com. Downe, cum diversis armamentis bellicis, viz. scutis, lanceis, jaculis, gladiis, bombardis & aliis armis tam offensivis quam defensivis, seipsos proditorie armaverunt & muniverunt, & sic modo guerrino arraiati. & armati voluntariè, illicitè, & proditoriè insurrexerunt, & diversos ligeos praedict. nuper Reginae ad rebellionem contra eandem nuper Reginam, adtunc & ibidem, proditorie moverunt & incitaverunt, ac guerram publicam & crudele bellum contra dictam nuper Reginam, & fideles subditos suos in dict. Com. Downe tunc existen. die & anno supradict. & diversis aliis diebus & vicibus antea, apud Downe praedict. in praed. Com. Downe, & apud diversa alia loca infra eund. Com. Downe, vi & armis praed. falso, proditoriè, & sceleratissimè levaverunt, erexerunt, & manutenuerunt, ac diversos ligeos & fideles subditos dict. nuper Reginae tunc ibidem existen. in pace dei & ejusdem Nuper Reginae, voluntariè, felonicè proditoriè, & ex malitiis suis praecogitat. murdraverunt & trucidarunt; Ac diversa bona & catalla dictorum fidelium subditorum praefatae nuper Reginae de eisdem subditis adtunc & ibidem felonicè depraedaverunt, ceper. asportav. & abduxerunt; Necnon diversa domos, grana frument. & segetes eorundem fidelium subditorum praefatae nuper Reginae, adtunc & ibidem voluntariè, malitiosè, & proditoriè combusser. & incendiis penitus devastaverunt; Et alia quamplurima nefanda & sceleratissima facinora & acta rebellionum contra praefatam nuper Reginam, adtunc & ibidem, voluntariè, malitiosè, & proditoriè commisserunt & perpetraverunt, contra pacem praedict, nuper Reginae, coronam & dignitatem suas, ac contra formam diversorum statutorum adtunc & adhuc in pleno vigore in hoc tunc regno suo Hiberniae existen. in hujusmodi casu edit. & provis. Quidam tamen Connoghor O Devenne nuper de Downe in praedict. Com. Downe, clericus Deum prae oculis