Robert Goodbody Journal

rock of Debycot, but it was then so dark they he might have made a mistake, which I believe was the case, but on that there was a terrible hubbub in the town, men, women, and children running about, and the Yeomanry all getting underarms, but about 12 o'clock all became quiet but guards set up all night and from that several weeks. But that evening my father being inside his shut shop door, overheard two men who would be very sorry not be counted loyal, saying that they have fine fun if there was a row, plundering the Quakers' shop. A few days after the army came into Mountmellick perhaps a hundred of I think the Downshire Militia and with them two nine pounder cannon, which were placed n the market house immediately opposite to our house, and a regular guard there night and day. I think it was on the 7th day of the week that my father and Joshua Pim went to near Ardry Mills about 65 miles from Rathangan to see if they could hear anything of their friends there, but they were advised to go no further or they would be murdered, but they saw several houses in the town on fire. I suppose thatched ones. They came back with a heavy heart thinking it likely that all their friends were murdered. I recollect Tos.Pim in great distress, indeed the whole family,, but the excitement and the possibility of each of us being in the rebels hands kept people from sinking too much. But in a few days order was restored by the government proclaiming Martial Law, and a military force. The tables were now turned, and orders came down from the castle to have Jerry Dunn and two or three more taken up and flogged. No doubt that they had been informed of, and the event proved that they were guilty. Jerry Dunn was a fat big man, he was father

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