AUDLEY MERVYN

(Sir Audley Mervyn)


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The Irish Rebellion of 1641 The Rebels wanted to take control of the government and expel the English. However, the Irish rebels got out of control of their leadership and embarked on a number of bloody massacres of what they regarded as English usurpers and destroyers of their Catholic religion. It was the policy of the rebel leadership not to even disturb Scotts. They used the technique to tell the difference between English whose homes should be seized and Scotts who should be undisturbed that the ancient Jews used on the Exodus from Egypt: Marking the lintels of their doorway. The rebels who were so full f hate and demanding of vengeance did not always discriminate and many Scotts were massacred along with the English.


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Sir Audley Mervyn of Trillick (1603?–1675) was a lawyer and politician in seventeenth-century Ireland. He was MP for County Tyrone and Speaker of the Irish House of Commons 1661-1666.