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Excerpt from A General History of Ireland, From the Earliest Accounts to the Death of King William III, Vol. 2
On this information juftice Sibthorp, and ba ron Elliot were (cut over to try the accufed, and as indictments were found again? them, all that ?ed were outlawed, James at the fame time pro telling, as Elizabeth had done before him, that he profecuted no man merely for religion, but for fedition and rebellious behaviour, and injuries done to his good fubjeets.
But more mifchief was yet in embryo Sir Ca hir o'dogharty, a young gentlemen who had ai ways appeared favourable to the Englifh, began Open. War by furpriling a fort called Culmore, the feat of one captain Hart, whom, together with his wife and children, he got into his power by firaiagem, and threatened them all with death, if it were not delivered, which after fome difpute was done accordingly; and after that he and his tr00ps took the town and fortrefs of Derry, and then proceeded to beliege the'cafile of Lifi'ord. However, the deputy marching againfi them. Found them fufficient employment, and o'dogharty was ?ain by a random lhor, after having held out five months againft the whole Englilh army.
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