In nomine Patris, & filii, & Spiritus Sancti, Amen.  
WIth most humble submission to the most glorius, blessed, and holy Trinity, the most purely immaculate and most blessed Virgin Mary mother of our most glorious and merciful and most omnipotent King and Redeemer Jesus Christ, and the most true and earnest intercessor for us poor wretched and contemptible sinners, and the true Queen of Heaven and Earth; And with my most humble, fervent, and christian Prayers begging the continuance of her most splendent and ever effectual Intercession for the detecting of the radiant light and splendour of the true catholic faith throughout this veil of tears from the mists of ignorance, heresy, commission and omission, and that she in her abounding mercy may graciously be pleased to let me for ever be enrolled and continued in the most royal list of her Souldiers, as one of the unworthyest of them, praying also in all humility that the glorious Angells and Apostles, my most blessed Patron and effectual intercessor St Patrick, Bishop and patriarch of Ireland, and others the Saints and celestial company of that most mighty Court, may in clemency and pity of me a wretched sinner, make intercession for my being received into that most glorious and Heavenly Kingdom when it shall please the King of Kings and the Redeemer of us all, to cause the Trumpet to sound that most welcome Call for my being transferred from this miserable, wicked, contemptible, and loathsome world, where black Satan is so nimble, that he must not onely term, but really and in effect prove himself a good soldier in dead, whose Castle he shall not batter; I, a loving brother of you true Christians, and a well wisher to such as err, do here in the presence of the most royal, Glorius and angelical Court, present to your view and consideration a true and perfect Narrtive of the condition which my wickedness and sinful course of life brought me into, and also of the most merciful and most miraculous deliverance I had out of that endless grief and sad state whereinto I almost had eternally elapsed.  
I. Know then( I pray you,) that at the time of holding a general Assizes in the Town of Mullingarre, for the County of Westmeath, being in the latter end of the month of February last past, the King of Kings seeing that I was unworthy the incomparable protection of his ●lorius colours, admitred certain instruments to device and prepare for me a poisoned cup, which I then took not at all, knowing or suspecting the design of those instruments( for whose good I hearty do pray as I humbly conceive myself bound to do for that it being most true, the evil which they intended to me, proved afterwards the introduction to my greatest happiness: Note that the said Assizes was in the week after the Sunday, which was upon the 19 of the said month, and before the Sunday which was upon the 26. of the same month, upon which day( I continuing in my error with a strong resolution) went to pray with the Protestants then in the Town both before and afternoon, and upon the Monday then next after which was the 27. day of the said month of February finding myself very much weakened by the operation of the poison, did take horse and ride to a place called Bonbrosny about four miles distant from Mullingarre, and in the road to Ballinack bridge, and resolving to lodge that night at Bonbrosny, could not sleep all the night being so much tormented by the burning operation of the poison: And the next morning which was Tuesday the last of the said month of February, in observance of my duty to Sir William Aston Knight, the then Judge of Assizes, I road back to Mullingarre, from whence I gave my attendance upon him to the Town of Longford, finding myself very much spent and weakened as I travaileed, and after the Judge had sat in the Sessiions house of Longford and had made a Speech unto the inhabitants of that County( who then were assembled there in obedience to his precept) I humbly craved his favourable liberty to retire myself to the poor place of my abode called Cloankir about 3 miles from Longford, where I remained for that night, and being Tenant to this place where I now am; upon Wednesday morning which was the 1. day of March now last past, although I found myself very much weaker, yet remembering that the Judge promised upon the Saturday following which was the 4. of March to take a Boat which I was to provide for him and the Lord Aungier at a place upon the River Camlin, called Ballikeny, and two miles distant from Longford, and to visit my habitation, here I did( notwithstanding my indisposition) ride hither, where on Wednesday night I could not sleep, and about midnight with an intent as well to see the Lady Lane who then was at Rahcline on the side of Loghrea and a small Mile Southward from Ballileag, as well to impart to her what happened to me, and to consult her what might be best for me to do therein, as also to provide in the said Town of Ballileag a large Boat for the Judges and the Lord Aungiers purpose hither; I determined to go to Rahcline, where I was not long arrived, on Thursday morning which was the 2. of March last, before I was admitted to speak with the Lady Lane, to whom having imparted that I purposed, she desired me to go along with her by the water of Loghrea to a house of the Lord Dillon's called Kilnefaghny in Dillons country about a mile from the side of Loghrea, and being got so far as beyond the iceland Eniscloghrin, were by a high wind driven to land at Elphide in the Calloe about 3. miles by land from Rahcline, and in the evening of that same day arrived at Rahcline, where I stayed not above an hour when after making known to the Lady Lane how extraordinary weak I sound myself, took my leave of her, and that night did arrive here being about 6. miles by water from Ballileage, and after a little sta●… king sleep I suddenly 〈…〉 finding in my sel● an extraordinary pain, and ●… t on my 〈…〉, and taking a horse a Friday morning did ride ●… road for an hour or thereabouts, and meeting with Bartholomew N●… gle my ●… ther, and with several of my friends, who hearing of the condition I was in, came to see me, and delivering some of the poison that came out at my fundament to my Father in a l●ttl● p●… ce of paper, I entred the house with them, and so bega● to dictate to my brother in law Mr James Moore my will, which 〈…〉 in no order finish, having lost my speech and men cry, and ●o being unclothed was laid on a bed without hope or poss●… li●v of recovery by means of any art or physic that man could device being now quiter spent by the force of the venom, and so continued that ●… iday night which was the 3. of March last in a most miserable condition.  
II. The next day which was Saturday the fourth of March aforesaid, came to me one John Carr now called Dean of Ar●… at whose presence, I( as being then a Protestant) was very joy full, who after he had spent some time telling ●… e that 〈…〉 in my necessity call on him he would be forthcoming; he departed from me who that Saturday night was in a more wretched condition then before.  
III. Now know I pray you, that the Sunday following, it came in my mind to tell my Wife that I desired to converse with a rational man that was a Priest, and thereupon desired to speak with Father Patrick Keeran a Priest, who being sent for, came to me, and he having put me some questions, it pleased Almighty God that I declared myself a Roman catholic, and so prayed Father Keerans prayers for my Soul as also that he would please to do such office to me as to a dying man was sit to minister. And lo Now my dear brethren and friends, and you our neighbours, whose strayed condition I with tears do lament, come and listen to what I shall tell you, and you will all( I doubt not) believe that the Almighty and most merciful King th 〈…〉 me the sword of eternal vengeance if I shall not here decla●… the whole naked and plain truth, to my best power, knowledge, and memory, and nothing but the truth, and what I saw, heard, and sensually know to be truth; Lo then, when Satan saw how likely it was that he should loose one, whom before he was cock sure, upon the ceiling over my head he shows me a blew beam of about some 7. or. 8. foot long, the edge of it as sharp as a Sythe, and backward from it went whirling blew ●… ams, and in t●e middle of it was a half circled as if therein he would have threatened to place my neck, and to chop ost my head, and so it held over my h●… d in that manner; at length as I lay in my bed sometimes the edge of it went forward, and other times ●… ling smokes brought it again backward, and 〈…〉 placed several devices of 〈◇〉 wheels, and brass ●… yling ●… ces, whereby i● was continued in such admirable t●… tures, and t●… ments that it is not possible for me to find terms sufficient to express them; and being thus most wretchedly and ●… ly tormented, on Monday night which was the 6. of March last, it assuredly came in my mind that Mr car was the man in whose hands my relief wholly consisted, and that at the first call he would be with me, and withall, a very great fear possessed me that I had offended Mr. car by what I had declared to Mr Keeran, but for Sir. car I earnestly called, who( poor man) although he was not personally in the house with me that Monday at night, as all my people and friends who were there then do aver, and as he himself( I hope) will confess, he representatively suddenly appeared to me, and was not long with me when he possessed me that he himself was the person in whose hands I solely was, and that Keeran had no power there, and what he made me believe was but to delude me: And when he had thus won me again, he promises to go underneath to the Furnaces and wheels, and command them for to cease, when he was gone, another thought possesses my mind, that perhaps it were but reasonable to bring Mr. car, and Mr. Keeran both together before me, and to see them both dispute the validity of their commissions, that so I may see which had the best carded to show, whereupon I called Mr. Keeran, and by my cogitations( as I supposed) he understood from me what had before passed between Mr. car and myself, and how Mr. car was gone for to command the wheels and furnaces that were cleaving me up along the middle of my back-bone, and boiling me in the brass for to cease; And that if he found himself capable of making out that his commission from God Almighty for the salving of my Soul was better then Mr. cars, I would be glad to see it discussed before me: And Mr. Keeran having asked me if I resolved absolutely to surrender to him the whole power of the house, and to stick to him. he doubted not but he could quickly decide the controversy, and overcome Mr. car, and cause him to lay down his commission before my face; Thus my consent and firm promise being past to Mr. Keeran, he immediately sets strong guards about the Castle, so as Mr. car, and such as were his servants therein could not depart: Whilst Mr. Keeran had been thus setting the watch and guards about and over the Castle, Mr, car enters in a very great rage,( the so 〈…〉 wheels were now at work nimbler then ever before) and all the men and women that were in the room with me he marked by clipping part of every ones garment or hair, in token of the interest he pretended to them, and coming at last to my beds side, fell a clipping of several things about me with his two handed sissers like unto a Cotners, threatened to let me sink through the bed, and quiter into the force of the wheels & middle of the boiling furnaces; In this great agony and perplexity, I begun to cry out and lament horribly, and call earnestly to God Almighty for mercy justice, and judgement: And above that blew beam upon a splendent, lightsome, and glorious stage that chased quiter away the blew one, my ever most renowned Patron and effectual intercessor blessed St Patrick, patriarch and Apostle of Ireland did appear, with his staff in his left hand, and holding up his right hand, assuring me that if I did thoroughly resolve to believe as one of his flock, he would intercede for me, and in signal testimony of my willingness so to do, I held up my right hand and heart, offering up my Soul as an engagement for my true loyaly to the most mighty, most merciful, and most glorius, and most royal King of Kings, as a true and direct servant of the ever renowned and blessed Champion S. Patrick, my ever honoured Parron, who suddenly facing towards the Heavens failed not to intercede for me, and being through my back divided in two parts up to my very heart, I called aloud to my intercessor S. Patrick speedily to procure my relief in being delivered from the hands of the spirits of darkness, and cried out against the Devil and all his plots and works, absolutely renouncing and defying him and them; And upon that royal stage appeared unto me the right hand of a woman( as I at the first s●ght imagined,) holding forth a small pair of sissers fastened to the thumb with a small golden chain, and presently shewed forth her head and part of her shoulders, all over veiled, and I then was made to understand that it was the most glorius, most merciful, and most blessed Queen of Heaven and Earth, the most immaculate Virgin Mary, mother of our most dear, most blessed, and most merciful Lord Jesus Christ, the onely Saviour and Redeemer of us all unthankful, unworthy, miserable forgetful, and wretched sinners, of whom I had an encouragement that she will now clip away all the t●… yes and snares that Satan & his instruments had entangled me in, and set me at free liberty; Being now encouraged to call my good friend Father Keeran, who by this time had handsomely and orderly set the watch, which by his prayers he did from the Heavens procure to be over and about the Castle; Mr. Carr all this while lay lurking near my bed, just ready to snap off my head, and sink my body down among the terribly wheels, and into the boiling furnaces upon the least advantage of my cogitations which were numberless and very changing, occasioned by the strong and close siege which the nimble and powerful enemy the Devil had lain to me; Now enters the truly commissioned Capt. Father Patrick Keeran, who seeing so many of his Kings subjects for small pretensions laid flat on the ground by the procurement of Satan, having set his mark on them for faults not yet examined before the great King of Kings and in his mercifuli power, yet consisting either to be 〈◇〉 scoared upon, or forgiven them, as he graciously shal be pleased to do, He courageously revives the spirits of the miserable, daunted, and wretched sinners, and stoutly approaches me, whom when I perceived to be so magnanimous, I prayed that he would please to prepare the Alter for celebrating of Mass, and having set the Alter in due order, he then approaches Mr. Car, whom he asked for his commission to be there disturbing the poor christians, Mr car answered him, that he had a right to every one that was there: And thereupon good Father Keeran told him he must withdraw thence, which words were no sooner spoken, then the vices and screws of all the wheels and furnaces were opened, and Mr. car, with a numberless band were tumbled down that way, and so the shuts of those wheels and furnaces fastened on them.  
IV. Now my dear Brethren, and my other loving acquaintance and friends, whose condition I from my heart do la ent, see the true effects of my noble Patron and intercessors promises, For lo! Southward of the place where the truly good man Father Patrick Keeran, upon Tuesday morning which was the 7. of March last, begun the most blessed office of celebrating Mass, there is a narrow window which was then stopped with some things to keep the light from my eyes, that being( as the poor lamenting people who were about me fittest for one in my condition as they in all likelihood and possibility judged me to be a man irrecoverable as to bodily health,) but mat this window I observed a little of the morning light to enter, in my thought about the breadth of a shilling, and at that place entred the most radiant, splendent, and glorious beam that ever eye could see, and as the holy Mass was a clebrating, the beam did not extend strait forward a across the room, but bent itself above the good Priests head, and on the wall over the Alter, the most glorious, most powerful, and most blessed splendour of the divine Trinity continued until the holy Mass was ended; Let men t forget to tell you that the blessed Sacrament of the body of Christ when lifted up in the hands of the good Priest Father Keeran was coloured read, At the same time there were two other Masses celebrated, but the most happy, most blessed, and most glorious splendours that appeared at the first holy Mass celebrated by Father Patrick Keeran appeared not at either of the other holy celebrations.  
V. Upon Tuesday night which was the 7. of March aforesaid, one Garret Nangle my near kinsman and a Priest,( seeing that it pleased Almighty God to inspire in my heart to declare myself a true catholic, and well knowing my wickedness and sinful manner of life in the time I had spent in error,) out of his mere and humble zeal to God Almighty, in order to the performance of the duty of his function, and out of his fervent love to me, and not knowing how I was tormented, and how encouraged to bear the utmost of them torments, considering that it were necessary I should be tied, threatened, and made to tepent me more largely of my sins, did with the assistance of some others,( good men,) and of my own friends and relations tie my hands and legs fast to the bed, and my body also, which occasioned that the Devil then was very nimble with me, persuading me that I had done myself the greatest injury imaginable to put myself into the hands of such people, as( besides the hazard of eternal torment) used me before I was yet dead or put into my Coffin in that cruel manner, and the ties being so painful to me, helped on the temptations of Satan to take place, and being now again fully persuaded that in Mr. Carre's power was all the relief I could expect, I called upon him aloud, and begun to rail wickedly against the Priest and the rest, and to cry out against my friends; Whereupon Mr. car appears to me, assuring me that if now I shall stick close to him and repeat me of what I had done, he would take care for to blow up into the air all that were about me and save myself; which motion agreeing well with my inordinate passion I embraced, still cogitating that it was good and necessary to call aloud upon the name of God almighty, imagining that through my intercession the glory of God would now again appear to me in Mr. Carre's aid, whom I could not judge( now) to be other then a true servant of Gods, being apparently used and handled by the other persons after that cruel manner: And Mr. car now plants a number of great Guns under me where the wheels and sp●… before had been, and gave order that the Guns should 〈…〉 ring until those tormenters that were about me,( as I judged them who were really my good and loving friends a●… acquaintance) should be blown up into the air, and I continued safe, and being thus kept for a great while in a most grievous torment, I begin now to cry out with great and incessant voices unto the Heavens for rel●ef: And it then was made known unto me that my head, hands, and legs should be partend from my body, and the body itself blown into the air; which occasioned that I now again begin to con ider that Mr. Carre's endeavours were to delude me, with which consideration I was given to understand from below, that all the Guns were a charging, and that with one valley of shot after that my head and limbs were chopped off my body, which now was filled full of base vermin, should be blown up into the air; Whereupon I begin to cry out against all that were about me in general, judging them as well as Mr. car to be all Devils, which occasioned my couzen Garret Nangle and the rest( as well they might) to judge that I was now possessed with Devils that made me talk so, and making the ties now again much faster on my hands, legs, and body, my couzen Nangle now and then gave me some whips on the face and breast when I begun to talk of Devils, or offer to break loose, requiring me to hold my tongue, which in truth made me now to judge that he and the rest of my friends did intend to murder me, for my right hand being so fast tied to the one side of the bed, and my left hand to the other side by struggling with my body I pulled both my arms two inches at least out of my shoulder joints; And being now again settled in my resolution of crying out unto the King of Kings, and unto the Heaven for relief and justice against all generally that did occasion my confusion, or any waves divert my thoughts from the heavenly throne; I am now loosed, and looking round on every one that was about me, and showing them how my arms were, which I no ways could lift up but by lifting my body, and how all my body was, and my face with those stripes: I begun to ask them if it was not ill done of them to use their friend so, and naming every one by their names, wished that God might please to forgive them; And seeing now the great Guns were not suffered to fire, and by recollecting my memory, apprehending that in all my agony my fervent and devout prayers to Heaven was the sele mean whereby I obtained any relief, I begun hearty to pray, by rehearsing the Lords Prayer, have Maria, and the Creed, and having settled in myself a devout resolution, there comes several bright lightnings from the Heavens, that chased away all the diabolical spirits that were about me, which lay numberless in my bed clothes that were over me, and within the cushions that the people laid under my head and shoulders; And seeing this incomparable chivalry, which so radiantly was acted without the noise of Guns, it made my heart rejoice, for now the infernal spirits are blacked and burned, and in numberless legions driven down to hell, and now instead of the noise of great Guns, I hear the most pleasant end sweetest harmony that ever ear could hear, like unto a very great number of friars singing of Psalms, descending from the Heavens; And now I am encouraged from Heaven, and assured that I am by the mighty hand of God brought through the very blackness of the darkness of Hell, the gates whereof being now again shut up close, and made fast upon the spirits of darkness; And see my friends, if the words salus infirmorum, refugium peccatorum, and consulatrix affl●ctorum, be not now properly attributed to the most blessed, and most immaculate Virgin Mary: For lo, through her Intercession there descends from Heaven a great number of blessed bees, which entred my belly and all my bowels, driving out as well the vermin that were in me, as also sucking and carrying away from my body all the scum and flth of them, and of the force and effects of the venom, most pleasantly and sweetly doing the work they were commanded to do, without the least annoyance to my belly or any of my guts.  
VI. And my dear Brethren and friends, having now related to you as briefly as I could the effects of Tuesday night, I hope you will give me leave to tell you, that I am of opinion, the Priest Garret Nangle and others have done carefully, devoutly, and honestly in all their actings to me, although I confess the usage of that Tuesday night occasioned, that I again was deluded by Satan, in judging them to be my open enemies, and himself my very ready and nimble friend; But you,( I hope) will agree with me in this, That it were but unreasonable in any of us to expect our King of England ought to undergo the trouble of coming in person to every one of us his humble Subjects here, that shall be running or seduced to commit any illegal act against the Laws of the Realm, to divert us from such our evil intentions, other then by the laws to us al eady prescribed, and by the daily proclaiming of them to us by his Deputy, Judges, and other Ministers: If the truth of the thing itself, nor this instance, may suffice to convince any incredulous person, to whose sight this may chance to come, let him make retrospection into that passage of Lazarus; And this being confessed, we may all conclude, that it may be by so much the more unreasonable in us sinners, to expect that the King of Kings ought, and is as it were bound to demonstrate to every one of us severally how splendent his heavenly power is, other then by the direct and infallible letter of his Law, considering that we know that he has set a day for the final hearing and judging of all his subjects that have been, and shall be in this little Playhouse, since the commencement of its being, until that great day, And therefore it being undeniable that my couzen Garret Nangle &c. as to his Priesthood and christianity is effectually good, yet in so much as he is made of the same mettle with us all, we may believe him to be subject to sin, and the temptations of Satan as we ourselves are prove to be whilst we are in the same habit with our play-fellows, it being very evident that the Devil shows the nimblest tricks and readiest pranks upon the stage, and is never off it, until( for shane) the villain sees but any glimpse of the eternal glory, and then, Oh how like himself he looks, We may then well say, that all is not gold that glisters, for all his nimbleness, he creeps into the darkest hole he can find, and when the light approaches him, all his pride that shined in the dark, is now but absolute dirt, and he himself like a cashiered cheating officer, tumbled headlong down from whence he came: Oh that you could but see how he looked, and yet the traitor was not overcome by the force of Cannon shot, but by the light of glory: and the noise that he and his Cannons made when tumbled down from whence they came, being like unto great rocks tumbled down into bottonles pits, was extraordinary pleasing to me, not doubting but the villains powder is made so dank, and his guns so far sunk, besides the shameful cracks and repulses his other screws, wheels and furnaces had received, That( my dear brethren and friends,) when I am shedding of tears, fearing least the traitor catch any of you in his clutches: I again do cheer up myself, hoping that whilst the villains instruments are in so great disorder, and will take a great deal of time to six them after so shameful a rout as he met withall, We may all now shake hands, and by the great glory of God keep the dirty cheating gaoler in his own stinking prison until he be quiter smothered, for if he had not made this Play-house his withdrawing room, he had long since been smothered, and that is suffered him through our freedom, because( forsooth) we are unwilling to shut out our doors against any pretty fellow that shall come to the play. Upon Wednesday morning, when the truly good Priest Father Patrick Keeran was celebrating the office of the holy Mass, there did appear a Coffin a pretty distance from the Alter, which indeed I at the first sight did take to be a coffin prepared for myself, until observing it to stand with the head upward without any support, I begun to look more earnestly on it: And lo, when the elevation was begun, the half of the board that faced towards the Alter was opened, and out of it the most blessed Virgin Mary, mother of our most merciful Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, shewed her head and shoulders overvailed, stretching forth her hand, holding her beads on her fingers, and knocking her breast with far more fervency of devotion then any that was in the room, and as she drew her head and hand too so the coffin closed, and as often as she stretched forth her hand the coffin opened, and when the Mass was ended it did not farther appear.  
Now then know I pray you, that for filling up the breaches which the fiery wheels, furnaces, and vermin made in my body, there was laid under the small of my back a great quantity of bees wax about the bigness of a Smiths anvil, whereof was as much melted into my body and all my limbs as made me f rmer and sounder then ever before I was, and my arms were left at the same length, and made up stronger then ever before they were, and are now two full inches longer then before they were; Note farther, that there was a golden chain drawn through my very eyes, and every other part of my head and body by a splendent white thing, that so often as it came forth appeared unto me as broad as an ordinary plate without doing me the least hurt: and that a pin was screwed down through my skull and brain, and knocked by St. Patrick my most blessed and renowned patron, who gave it three knocks, whereupon the skin and flesh of my head that was before loose like unto a piece of a cow hid put on a dead mans skull, begun to fasten, and my hair that was rotting and falling apace, fasined also; For which, as I am the most wicked of all wretches, and the most contemptible of all sinners, so itis most certain that I am unworthy of offering once to turn my face towards that glorious Throne, and in no ways able to render due thanks unto my most merciful and most glorious King and Saviour for the least of his mercies extended to me, who never believed directly in his Law, never feared his Justice, never refrained myself from wickedness, but gave the bridle to 'vice, and all obedience unto my own appetites; And as I am now the most ungrateful and forgetful of creatures, and a most contemptible sinner, if not remembering, every day to do evil and to offend my most merciful Lord and Saviour, most certainly forgetting daily to do good, and therefore unworthy and most impudent to open my lips in so much as once the naming of him, and much more the begging of any the least of his gracious favours of indempn ty: But Oh, I do know there is mercy in abundance with my King, and I therefore will again most humbly and fervently beg the most effectual intercession of the most immaculate and eternally blessed Virgin, mother of our Saviour Jesus, and of all the Archangells, Angells, Apostles, of my most renowned and effectual intercessor S. Patrick, and of all the rest of that most celestial Court, for the true instructing of myself, my Parents, Wife, Children, Family, Kindred, Relations and acquaintance, for the lightning of such as are blind, for the bringing home of such as are strayed, and particularly for this poor iceland, and for my being received as the unworthy est of that heavenly company into their society at the last day through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen. And so I conclude.  
From Cloandarah the first of April in the year of our Lord God, 1665. A true well wisher of all the world. 
 Edmond Nangle.  
FINIS.