Excerpt from A Narrative of Facts, Relative to the Massacre of the Irish Protestants at Wexford, Scullabogue, and Vinegar Hill, in the Year 1798: And Their Analogy to the Present Position of Protestants in America The County of Wexford had been generally noted for the peaceable disposition of its inhabitants, and a chaste administration of justice, which might bejustly irinputed to the comfort, and the constant occu pation, which its very extensive and flourishing agriculture affords to the farmers and the peasantry, and the number of gentlemen who reside on their estates. While many counties in Ireland were disgraced by nocturnal robbery and assassination, committed by defenders and united Irishmen, for five years previous to 1797, it was the pride and boast of the Wexford gentlemen, that their county remained in perfect tran quillity. But 1n the autumn and winter of the year 1797, and m the spring of the ensumg year, as there were well grounded suspicions that the mass of the people began to be infected by those baneful principles, which have since proved fatal to the kingdom, that pikes had been manufactured, that clubs had been formed in which illegal oaths had been administered, meetings of the magistrates were held in different parts of the county, to take into consideration the necessity of pro claiming those districts, where symptoms of disturbance had appeared. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.