watching his opportunity, loaded again with grape, knowing it could do no injury; and this he did as fast as possible during Kyan's absence, that he might waste the ammunition. Dick Monk and John Hay, being fully convinced that all was not right, now watched the execution of their cannon, and finding that Shepherd was not favouring their cause while loading with grape, obliged him to load with round shot, but the balls flew a mile beyond the town, on which Kyan levelled the cannon himself, and one of them in such a direction, that the ball smashed the carriage of one of the Durham guns to shivers, and another struck the top of the inn.

Another column of the rebels attempted to gain the lower end of the town by the beach; but here they met with a desperate charge from the cavalry, headed by the brave Colonel Sir Watkin Wynne. They then proceeded in great force to a passage that led to the centre of the town; but it being well guarded by a serjeant and twelve men, they were defeated in this manœuvre also. Some of them attempted to ford the river, but there inevitable death awaited them.

Priest Murphy, of Ballycanow, had stopped in Coolgreny, and, on proceeding towards Arklow, he met many of the rebels retreating; he drove them before him to the battle again, telling them he would beat them with the dust of the road. But as he advanced with a large party, in order to take a cannon stationed near the barrack, his bowels were torn out with cannister shot:* The

* The following articles of Popish faith were found in the pocket of Priest Murphy, who was killed at the battle of Arklow.

rebels that followed him fled from that quarter, swearing that the priest himself was down!

The heat and burthen of the action fell on Colonel Skerret, of the Durham; whose valiant conduct on this

1st, When we assemble we cross ourselves, saying, "We ac knowledge these our articles in the presence of Christ's Vicar, our Lord God the Pope, and in the presence of the holy Primates, Bishops, Monks, Friars, aud Priests."

2d, We acknowledge they can make Vice Virtue, and Virtue Vice, according to their pleasure. Falling flat on their faces, they proceed in this manner speaking to the Host, and saying"Holy, glorious, and admirable Host, we acknowledge it according to our good father the pope, we must all fall down before the great effigy of our Lord God Almighty""

3d, We acknowledge the supremacy of the holy father the Lord God the Pope, and that he is Peter's successor in the chair.

4th, We acknowledge that Peter has the keys of heaven, and that he will receive those only who acknowledge his supremacy. 5th, We are bound to believe there can be no salvation out of our holy church.

6th, We are bound to believe, that the late holy massacre was lawful, and justly put into execution against Protestants, and that we should continue the same as long as we can do it with safety to ourselves.

7th, We are bound to curse, ring the bells, and put out the candles four times in each year on heretics.

8th, We are bound to believe that heretics can never be saved, unless they partake of that holy sacrament, Extreme Unction.

9th, We are bound to believe, that those who elope from our holy religion, are under the power of the devil, whom heretics follow.

10th, No faith is to be kept with heretics, though bound by the most sacred oaths; for says our holy father, they have followed damnation, and Luther and Calvin.

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day was admirable. Colonel Maxwell of the Cavan also acted in the most spirited and determined manner, did all his officers and men. The engagement continued from four till half-past eight, at which time the

11th, We are not to believe their oaths, for their principles are damnation.

12th, We are bound to drive heretics out of the land with fire, 'sword, faggot, and confusion; as our holy father says, if their heresy prevails we are still to become their slaves. Oh! dear father, keep us from that. (Here the holy water is shaken, and they say the Hail Mary three times.)

13th, We are bound to absolve without any reward, all those who embrue their hands in the blood of heretics.

14th, We are bound to believe that Christ's Vicar, our Lord God the Pope, can absolve all men, (heretics excepted) and has given the like power to all his inferior clergy.

15th, We are bound to believe all the articles commanded by our holy church.

16th, We are bound to believe the Virgin Mary has more honour in heaven, than any of the Angels.

17th, We are bound to pray to the holy Angels, that they may pray for us.

18th, We are bound to believe in the holy cross, holy water, holy spittle, holy earth, holy bones, holy people, and beads; and that they are to be used on certain occasions.

19th, We are bound to celebrate the holy mass in Latin, having ourselves clothed in a holy vestment and shirt, bearing the holy cross on our shoulders, signifying we are the very Christ.

20th, We are bound to believe every time mass is celebrated that there is an expiatory for the living and the dead.

21st, We are bound to believe that there are four places of purgatory, viz. - Limbus Infantum, Limbus Patrum, Meadows of Ease, and Purgatory.

22d, We are bound to believe that Christ was three days in

rebels retreated back to Gorey. The military stood to their arms till four the next morning, when they cast entrenchments round the camp, expecting another attack.

Limbus Patrum, where the souls of holy fathers go, till they get a pass with them to the holy Peter.

23d, We are bound to believe that the souls of children unbaptized, go to the Limbus Infantum, until original sin is well paid away, by the help of holy masses said to them.

24th, We acknowledge the souls of Christians go to purgatory, and remain there till we pray them out of it, that they may have power to walk the Meadows of Ease with safety, till it pleases holy Peter to open the gates of glory for them, where no heretic shall

ever enter.

25th, We are bound to keep Lent, according to our Clergy's pleasure, and to maintain the work of supererogation.

26th, We are bound to acknowledge the Lake in the North to be holy, called Lough Darragh.

27th, We are bound to pray to no other saint on that day, only them to whom it is dedicated.

28th, We must baptize bells, and consecrate chapels, and no man to enter into the holy office of a priest, only he who is known to be a man, after the harlot Joan,

29th, We maintain seven sacraments essential to salvation, viz: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Extreme-Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony.

30th, We maintain we can transubstantiate the bread and wine into the real body and blood of Christ.

31st, We believe that Heretics eat their kind of sacrament to their eternal damnation.

32d, We believe that Christ is every where, but especially in our church.

33d, We maintain we cannot know any thing without being in danger of judgment.

It was dreadful to view the field of battle; men and horses lay dead together; heads and limbs were strewed over the fields. It is thought that not less than one thousand rebels could have fallen that day. Of the army there fell only Captain Knox of the Castletown cavalry and two of his men in charging the rebels; one serjeant, six privates of militia killed, and about twenty wounded.

Lord Mount Norris and some of his troop in viewing the scene of action, found the body of the perfidious priest Murphy, who so much deceived him and the country being exasperated, his lordship ordered his head to be struck off, and his body to be thrown into a house that was burning, exclaiming, "let his body go where his soul is !" This unhappy man declared to his deluded flock, that he could catch the bullets and ward them off at his pleasure.*

The rebels in their retreat to Gorey were so mad with serjeant Shepherd, that it was with the greatest difficulty Esmond Kyan could save him from falling a sacrifice to their fury. They arrived in Gorey late in the evening, bearing with them several hundreds of the

34th, We maintain that Heretics have neither the will of the Prophets nor of Christ.

35th, We acknowledge that the Rosary of St. Bridget is to be said once a week; and lastly, that the Holy Church can never

err.

* There were three priests that boasted of this power, John Murphy, Michael Murphy, and Philip Roche.

+ Serjeant Shepherd has escaped, and his extraordinary fortitude and services, deserve to be noticed by his country.