The history of Bandon Author:George Bennett Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. CAPTAIN TAFFE AND THE BANDON COLONISTS MARCH INTO THE FASTNESSES OF CARBERY—UPON THEIR RETURN THEY ARE VIGOROUSLY ATTACKED BY THE POPE'S APOSTOLI... more »C VICAR—HIS DEATH—HIS CHAPLAIN TAKEN AND HANGED—PURCHASE OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH'S ESTATE BY MR. RICHARD BOYLE THE CIVIC AUTHORITIES AT CORK REFUSE TO PROCLAIM JAMES I.—A BIGOTED BROGUE-MAKER—WHAT IT 18 TO HAVE FRIENDS ON THE JURY—SIR HENRY BEECHER, LORD PRESIDENT OF MUNSTER—TIMOLEAGUE ABBEY—BANDON BEGINS TO SETTLE ITS FUTURE FORM OF GOVERNMENT—DIFFICULTY OF INDUCING THE IRISH TO ADOPT ENGLISH CUSTOMS—LEASE OF PREMISES IN KANDON IN 1608 VARIOUS ADVANTAGES BESTOWED ON SIR HENRY BEECHER AND HIS NEWLY ERECTED TOWN, CALLED BANDON-ERIDGE —KILBROGAN CHURCH, THE FIRST PROTESTANT EDIFICE BUILT IN IRELAND—THE EAST INDIA COMPANY AT DOWNDANIEL—BANDON INCORPORATED—SENDS TWO MEMBERS TO PARLIAMENT—THE FIRST PROVOST. As the greater part of the history of Bandon that is extant from this period may be termed " fragmentary," consisting, as it does, of sundry insulated portions too widely apart from each other to be written into a closely connected narrative, we shall adopt the plan pursued by Messrs. Hayman, Tuckey, and other able and industrious compilers, and crowd everything we can find, relating however remotely to the subject, into the respective years wherein those events are recorded to have happened, and thus, as it were, by annalizing our scanty information, we hope to prepare the way for those who, in the Corinthian style of history, may hereafter be ambitious of making a standard work out of the materials we have collected, 1602.—On the 5th of January, Captain Taffe, in pursuance of orders from the lord deputy, marched intothe fastnesses of Carbery, with forty men of Sir Edward Wingfield's company, his own troop o...« less