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If they did not returnthey got this warning in the month of March--that the officers hadresolved to fill the jails with them, 'by which this bloody peoplewill know that they (the officers) are not degenerated from Englishprinciples. Though I presume we should be very tender of hanging anyexcept leading men, yet we shall make no scruple of sending themto the West Indies, ' &c. Accordingly when the time came, all theremaining crops were seized and sold; there was a general arrest ofall 'transplan...table persons. All over the three provinces, men andwomen were hauled out of their beds in the dead hour of night toprison, till the jails were choked. ' In order to further expeditethe removal of the nobility and gentry, a court-martial sat in St. Patrick's Cathedral, and ordered the lingering delinquents, who shrunkfrom going to Connaught, to be hanged, with a placard on the breastand back of each victim--'_For not transplanting. '_ Scully's conduct at Ballycohy, was universally execrated. But what didhe attempt to do?
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