Mercer Chronicle

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Priests must mumble in a dead language, in Latin ; and as
proved by the redoubtable Fenian Invasion she will, if able, still
cut throats, still control the opinions of mankind.
But will the quick-witted Irish be humbugged by a Butt, wbo,
when he wants to sit in Parliament for Tipperary, insults the
(xeraldines, the Butlers and the Desmonds, by calling them
Anglo-BOMANS ?
Ireland.
262. Trinity College, Dublin. Folio volumes of depositions, Rebel-
lion of 1641. Idem, fol. 261.
Deposition of Edward Lake, Alderman of DubliD,* Nov. 1641.
The said examinant sailh, that about July last he being then in
London, and usually resorting to the house of Thomas Hicks, an
apothecary in Fleet Street, where one Br. Moore lodged, the examinant
and his wife being at supper with the said Thomas Hicks, the said Dr.
Moore being then likewise at supper with them, asked him why he did
not live in England, seeing that he had given over trading, to which the
examinant answered, that he chose rather to live in Ireland, because the
little means he had was there ; whereupon the said Dr. Moore replied,
that it was much to be feared that there would be only cutting of throats in
Ireland ere it were long.
(Signed) Edw. Lake.
Coram me, Ja. Ware.
Elizabeth Lake confirms this statement on oath.
Ireland.
MSS. in Trinity College, Dublin. No. 2951.
The information of John Mercer of Gobragh,t in Killwarlin, in the
County Down, taken by Symond Richardson.$
No. I.
Who saith that he with his wife and Mary the wife of Richard Tom-
* These depositions of the Lakes' seem to have been deemed so im-
portant by the Irish Government of that day, that several copies were
taken by the Board of Commissioners. It is to be remarked that this
outbreak is familiarly called Roger Moore's rebellion.
t Gobragh, also spelt Gabberagh, or Gabbrah, now Cabrah, a townland
of the Marquis of Downshire. The Marquis is Baron Hill of Kilwar-
lin, an ancient " Toparchy."
% We know by a letter from Mr. William Waring to Mr. Symond
Richardson, that the latter was Deputy Sheriff of Carrickfergus.