40/55 All ecclesiastics were slain like the priests of Baal. Three bishops and 300 of the inferior clergy thus perished. The bedridden Bishop of Kilmore was the only native clergyman permitted to survive. If, in mountain recesses or caves, a few peasants were detected at mass, they were smoked out and shot. in Trinity College library, Dublin, dated 1615:-- 'There lives not a people more hardy, active, and painful ... |