Robert Goodbody Journal

of Patrick Dunn, a stone mason. I think he was flogged twice at the pump near our house. The woman said the Virgin Mary was supporting him. Joseph W.Pim was just then born, and James, his father, got them to take the flogging t the other pump. But on Jerry Dunn being brought out the third time he confessed to being a captain of the rebels, and gave the names of the persons he had sworn. I knew of this, but on going down the garden I found all the men in the tanyard had decamped, and soon after found them hiding about the place. I however brought them down and put them out through the hedge in the garden, but in a few days after they were all taken up and confined in the riding house, a large place that would hold many hundreds of persons. They were kept there many days, and several tried by Court Martial. One a horse yeomanry young fellow, was condemned for selling Pikes in his father's shop. Though very young yet having taken the oath as a yeoman, he was condemned to be hung, but on the gallows in Pond Street, nearly opposite the lane, 7 one day and 4 another. There was several others sentenced to be hung, among others John Ryan a brogue maker who dealt with the father for leather, and then owed him a large sum. But the night before he was to be hung father brought me with him as a witness, he made a will and arranged for my father to be paid. He then fully expected to be hung and several others next day, but next day a reprieve came from the Lord Lieutenant Cornwallis, and after a while the whole were liberated on condition that they show themselves every day, and answer to their names. They were

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