Robert Goodbody Journal

and immediately turned and left the house. A few days after two of the blackhorse drove on their horses thro the town in a gallop, hut I think one of them and his horse were both shot. But soon after the army came in by the Dublin road and the rebels soon took to their heels, after dancing around their tree of liberty for several days and committing many murders, some of the bodys of which were brought and laid in the Churchyard for burial, the weather being uncommonly hot and fine. But one of those bodies came to life in the night, and escaped with his life his wound not being mortal, got home and was afterwards called the "resurrection". But when the army came in many of themselves were shot, in fact every on in coloured cloths, were in danger as supposed rebels. The soldiers naturally thinking that all the loyalists were murdered. It was on this occasion that the kind man who had exerted himself t keep the rebels from pillaging my Uncles Pim's house, was taken up by the soldiers near the bridge, and about being shot when some woman brought word of it to my Aunt Pim, and she immediately with my Aunt Margaret Pim went through the streets full of furious solders, many of them intoxicated, and as soon as possible spoke to the officer who had him in custody, and begged his life telling them how kind he had been to them. They got him off and brought him up to the house under a guard. The servant man that had become their master now had t o hide himself for days on their concern, often in immenent danger of his life. At the next house at William Pim's there was all the time the rebels were in possession, a protestant man under an empty sugar sugar hogshead in the yard, often with crowds of the rebels lying about with their pikes, but escaped. It us surprising that neither of the

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