John Bathe (Jesuit)

When that town was sacked by the Cromwellian forces, Father Bathe and his brother, a secular priest, were conducted by the soldiers to the market-place and deliberately shot on 16 August 1649.

Sir William Warine was suspected, with good reason of secret Catholicism by the Elizabethan establishment.

William bathe became a personal friend of the Protestant Lord Deputy Sir John Perrot.

In 1577, John Bathe, being a barrister of Middle Temple was replaced as attorney-general and principal solicitor after only a year in office with a promotion as Chancellor.

James brother John Bathe became a close friend of Duke of Buckingham, the swashbuckling cavalier royal favourite.

Sir John Bathe became impassioned by the unfairness of discrimination against Catholics and devoted the rest of his life to a legal solution to the accusation of disloyalty.

King Charles I issued warrants for both the Old English and the new settlers to swear the Oath of Supremacy protesting loyalty to the Crown.

[3] William's Anglo-Irish aristocratic connections - his wife was the niece of 10th Earl of Kildare, gave the Bathe family confidence of their security in Ireland.

During the Civil wars Bathe made a secret journey to England where he was hidden by his old friend Father Nugent.

At the time the King's servant, Earl of Strafford was trying to put down a Protestant Revolt that had led to the massacre of Roman Catholics in the north of Ireland.

[5] Bishop Father Nugent published White's Gesta Dei per Hibernos (1646) showing the erudition of the Irish Jesuits and their propensity for scholarship.

The Counter-Reformation in Ireland was a continuance of the High Renaissance, preserving the usage of Latin in the church language and the vernacular traditions that were not English.

Cromwell's forces entered the town on 11 September and burnt St Paul's Church with its parishioners inside.

The ferocity of Cromwell's response surprised the Irish Catholics; it spread fear and loathing throughout the land.