The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-10-20
Sir Charles Coote, an Agent Of
Queen Elizabeth.
HIS ATRoClOUs DEEDS IN IRELAND
Depopulation of Whole Counties
by the Murderer.
BLOoD=THIRSTY RASCAL SHOT DEAD

His Son Inherited the Instincts
of the Monster.
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One of the principal officers of the
army sent over to Ireland by Elizabeth
under the command Of Lord Mountjoy
in 1000, after the Earl of Essex's fail
ue to subdue the country, was Sir
Charles Coote, says The Irish World.
For the eminent services" rendered in
plundering, robbing and slaughtering
the Irish Coote was appointed provost
marshal and afterward vice president
of Connaught. In 1920 he became
member of the privy council and was
knighted. He received large grants Of
land, principally in Connaught, out Of
which he had an income of $4,000 per
annum. When the patriotic rising took
place in 1641, Coote FASTENED to dis
play his loyalty" by raising consid-
cradle body of troops and soon distin.
guished himself. His first act was to
go to the relief of the castle of Wick
low, which was besieged by the pa
triots.
Shortly after the lords justices ap-
pointed Coote to the command Of
troops in Dublin and it's immediate
neighborhood. He was SO violent In
his fury, as rule, he was quite be.
side himself with rage, and he ap-
peared to those about him to enjoy
the use of his reason only at rare in
tervals. When summoned before the
council in Dublin to receive the COM
mand Of the troops, he insisted on TAX
ing the oath in pagan fashion, putting
his hand on a naked sword and mus
ket which were placed on the table be-
fore him, and he swore that he would
not desist from prosecuting the war
until all the Irish were cut off.
In Coote's excursions in the counties
Of Dublin and Wicklow the aged and
helpless and infirm, unable to save
themselves by flight, were massacred
in cold blood. When the poor people
were found to have concealed them
selves in the frs and brushwood, the
soldiers used to form Gordon all
around and set fire to the frs, put
ting all to death with savage delight
The officers declared that thus to pur
sue the Irish was the same sport and
amusement to them as to hunt the wild
beasts.
The barbarous deeds of cruelty per
petrated by the Puritan soldiery led
by Coote and his associates are thus
vividly described in a work entitled
sThe Politicians Catechism," publish
ed in 1868 by Father Peter Talbot, at
terward archbishop of Dublin: "Wit
ness their marches about Dublin
where the inhabitants were all Of Eng
lish extraction and spoke no other Ian
guage but the ancient Saxon. There
are very few Of that once populous
country called Fingal left nlive. All
perished by fire and sword, being g
most innocent people, their only crime
being that they we're Catholics. In
the march df the Protestant army to
the county of wicklow, man, woman
and child were killed. In another
march into the same shire Gne Master
CONAN, an aged gentleman, who nev.
er bore arms, was roasted alive by one
Captain Gines (Guinnessy-yea, they
murdered all that came in their way
from within two miles Of Dublin.
I'm march into the county of Kill
dare on or about February, 1912, some
of the officers went into Mrs. Eustace
of Cradogstan's house, sister Of Sir
William Talbot, of 80 years of age,
who, being unable to shun them, enter
tained them with meat and drink. Az
ter dinner herself and another old gen
tlewoman and a girl of years of age
were murdered by the said Protestant
officers.
"Seven or eight hundred women and
children, plowmen and laborers were
burned and murdered in a day in the
kings tract, a tract within seven miles
of Dublin, where neither murder nor
pillage had been committed on the
Irotestants. Whensoever the army
went abroad, the poor country people
did betake themselves to the furze.
where the Protestant officers. did be
siege them and set the furze on fire.
Such as stunned and escaped that ele-
ment were killed by the besieging ar
my, and this they termed hunting