Discuss the role of women during the 1641 Rebellion.
The 1641 Rebellion was the result of discontent with the British in Ireland due to a number of reasons, including but not limited to the failures of the Ulster Planation. During the Ulster Plantation many Irish lost their land and were left with less desirable land. As well as land and economic reasons, another factor resulting in the rebellion was Catholics unhappiness during the English Lord Deputy, Thomas Wentworth’s rule, many were unhappy with Wentworth’s policies in Ireland. In Scotland there was a successful victory against the British and so relations between England, Ireland and Scotland, the three kingdoms were in decline, there was also a decline in the relations between the catholic King Charles and the English parliament. Irish Catholics who were land owners and from the …show more content…
After one woman was drowned, “Mr James Maxwells wife drowned Edm: oge o Donelly the murderer> heard one Edmond oge o Donelly tell his wife one night that he that the said Edmond had drowned the wife of Mr James Maxwell, & his wife demanding why he did it, the said Edmond answeared that Sir Phelemie o Neile tould him that the said mr Maxwells wife was a Witch & that he neuer had good loocke after he once kissed her, & more sayth not.” Women were looked upon with suspicion during the Rebellion. This particular murder may have been a result of fear of the woman rather than due to any of the other typical reasons mentioned for killings in the depositions. As well as being Victims during the Rebellion many women were actively involved as rebels. Some women participated in violent acts, for example Jane Hampson, “the wife of Henry Hampson of Legacory who was the most forward and cruellest Rebell amongst them that she would permitt them to come out of the house & rather to knock them in the heades then to burne
The 1641 Rebellion was the result of discontent with the British in Ireland due to a number of reasons, including but not limited to the failures of the Ulster Planation. During the Ulster Plantation many Irish lost their land and were left with less desirable land. As well as land and economic reasons, another factor resulting in the rebellion was Catholics unhappiness during the English Lord Deputy, Thomas Wentworth’s rule, many were unhappy with Wentworth’s policies in Ireland. In Scotland there was a successful victory against the British and so relations between England, Ireland and Scotland, the three kingdoms were in decline, there was also a decline in the relations between the catholic King Charles and the English parliament. Irish Catholics who were land owners and from the …show more content…
After one woman was drowned, “Mr James Maxwells wife drowned Edm: oge o Donelly the murderer> heard one Edmond oge o Donelly tell his wife one night that he that the said Edmond had drowned the wife of Mr James Maxwell, & his wife demanding why he did it, the said Edmond answeared that Sir Phelemie o Neile tould him that the said mr Maxwells wife was a Witch & that he neuer had good loocke after he once kissed her, & more sayth not.” Women were looked upon with suspicion during the Rebellion. This particular murder may have been a result of fear of the woman rather than due to any of the other typical reasons mentioned for killings in the depositions. As well as being Victims during the Rebellion many women were actively involved as rebels. Some women participated in violent acts, for example Jane Hampson, “the wife of Henry Hampson of Legacory who was the most forward and cruellest Rebell amongst them that she would permitt them to come out of the house & rather to knock them in the heades then to burne