Annals Ireland, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military, 1819 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Annals Ireland, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military, 1819

The terrors of the Protestants were greatly aggravated, by the rumours that were spread of the approach of a multitude of Rebels from the adjacent counties, and that ten thousand of them were assembled in a body upon Tara Hill. Nor were the common people the only persons who were thus terrified, all ranks of men participated in the panic, and many who consulted nothing but their fears, and who preferred their own particular safety before any other consideration, laid aside all thoughts of defence, and were preparing to retire with their effects to England others who were detained by contrary winds, chose rather to endure all extremities on ship-board, than to hazard themselves on shore. Even some Scotch fishermen, who lay with their vessels within the bay in great number, catching herrings, and who had offered the government to land five hun dred men, and to enter into arms for the defence of the city, were no sooner accepted, than they were terrified with a false alarm, and suddenly in the night put out to sea, (dr. Ferdi nando Warner's History of the Rebellion and Civil War if Ire land, Dublin, 1768, vol. I. P.

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