Another theory was reported by "Juverna" in "Notes and Queries" in 1864, as having been heard "in Kilkenny, forty years ago, from a gentleman of unquestioned veracity". The story holds that a group of bored soldiers stationed in Kilkenny held fights between two cats tied together by their tails and suspended from a clothes line or crosspost. Their commander forbade the practice, but they carried on in secret. When the commander was heard approaching, a soldier hastily cut through the cats' tails, allowing them to escape. The commander asked about the hanging tail ends, and the soldier averred that the cats had eaten each other. In Juverna's version, the troops were Hessians after the Wexford Rebellion of 1798 or Emmet's Insurrection of 1803. A review in "The Athenaeum" of Ross' "Book of Cats" claims the soldiers were in the Williamite army of 1690. Prim agrees that the episode occurred with Hessians in 1798, but states that their sport was influenced by a story already proverbial. In other accounts, the soldiers were the regular garrison at Kilkenny Castle in Elizabethan times (1558–1603); or the Catholic Confederate army of the 1640s; or Cromwell's occupying force of the 1650s. John Baptist Crozier when Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin endorsed the theory. Joseph O'Connor's 1951 memoir has Matt Purcell, a comrade of his father's in the 10th (North Lincoln) Regiment of Foot in the 1880s, claim the original Kilkenny cats were tied together by the Earl of Ormond's jester.