[Rarebooks] FS: THE HISTORY OF THE EXECRABLE IRISH REBELLION (1680)

[Ezra Tishman]

Ezra from Aardvark offers this recounting of the Irish Rebellion of 1642:


THE HISTORY OF THE EXECRABLE IRISH REBELLION TRAC'D FROM MANY
PRECEDING ACTS,TO THE GRAND ERUPTION THE 23. OF OCTOBER, 1641. AND THENCE PURSUED TO
THE ACT OF SETTLEMENT, MDCLXII. 

																	A very attractive copy. $900



London, England: Henry Brome, Robert Clavel,and Richard Chiswell in
St.Paul's Church-Yard., 1680. First Edition. Folio. Large paper copy in contemporary full speckled calf, with Scottish library insignia, in gilt, to center of front and rear boards. Six raised bands to spine (seven compartments), ruled in gilt. Newer spine. Contrasting red spine (title) label to second compartment. Marbled edges. Stone-marbled endpapers of red and midnight blue. Bookplate of Edw'd Place.Handwritten notes to blank pages, including Wing citation (B 3767; and "Collated Perfect”. Text block 14" x 9"; Binding 14 1/2" x 9 5/8". [xxxii (errata pp. xxx) , 327,106 (Appendices; Appendix XIV a foldout sheet),
31 (Afterword),14 (Index).

Title page in red and black. Author's name added manually by pen. Thick, bright paper throughout, each page with VERY
wide margins and side notes. Book is structured in chronological order, these dates being noted in the margins across from
where events of that year are first recounted.

A very attractive copy. Very Good Plus. Leather-bound. (#84960) $900
Of particular (if horrific) note is a 17 pp. section entitled: "A Collection of Murthers in Several Counties of Ireland committed
since the 23d of October, 1641. abstracted out of certain Examinations taken by Virtue of Commissions under the Great Seal
of Ireland,which said Particulars are singled (amongst infinite others of that kind) pointing to the Circumstances, and the
Names of the Persons (or some of them) murthering or murthered: The fuller Evidence of which may be found (according to
the Quotations) in the Archives of Dublin,now in Possession of the Clerk of the Council.”

There then follows a county-by-county graphic recounting of numbers maimed or killed (some might rightly or wrongly call this propaganda), the manner in which these assaults
occurred, down to the last gruesome details, to wit: Drownings; bellies ripped open,and babies pulled out and brain-dashed;
Women hanged up by the hair of their heads all night,;"A distracted gentleman run through with a pike, he laughing the
while"; stripped naked and murdered in the church, someone being quartered alive,his quafters then thrown into the face of
his father; Brains knock'd out with a Hatchet; "A Scotchman, an Englishman, &c a Welchman imprisoned in the Stocks at
Newcastle, where they lay without breeches upon raw Hides, that their joints rotted, insomuch that when two of them were
afterwards hang'd, one of their feet fell off by the Anckle"; "Mrs. Jane Addis of Kilcoursie (after her going to Mass)
murthere'd in her house in Fox Countrey Com. Regu, having a child not a quarter old; the Murtherers putting the dead
woman's Breast into the child's mouth, bade it such English bastard, and so left it"; people being buried alive, etc. etc. No
seeming end to this evidence that human beings are worse beasts than beasts, by far. Or at very least and kindest, to
propaganda, at any rate.

The Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet is a private society of Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594 and part of the
College of Justice...Solicitors in Scotland were previously known as "writers"; Writers to the Signet were the solicitors entitled
to supervise use of the King's Signet, the private seal of the early Kings of Scots (Wikipedia)


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