II. _Joan_, the relict of _Gabriel Constable_, late of _Drumard_, in the county of _Armagh_, gent, deposeth and saith, that she often heard the rebels, _Owen O‘Farren_, _Patrick O‘Conellan_, and divers others of the rebels at _Drumard_, earnestly say, protest and tell one another, that the blood of some of those that were knocked on the head, and afterwards drowned at _Portnedown_ bridge, still remained on the bridge, and would not be washed away; and that often there appeared visions or apparitions, sometimes of men, sometimes of women, breast-high above the water, at or near _Portnedown_, which did most extremely and fearfully screech and cry out for vengeance against the Irish that had murdered their bodies there: and that their cries and screeches did so terrify the Irish thereabouts, that none durst stay nor live longer there, but fled and removed further into the country, and this was common report amongst the rebels there, and that it passed for a truth amongst them, for any thing she could ever observe to the contrary. _Jurat. Jan. 1, 1643._ III. _Katherine_, the relict of _William Coke_, late of the county of _Armagh_, carpenter, sworn and examined, saith, that about the 20th of _December_, 1641, a great number of rebels in that county, did most barbarously drown at that time one hundred and eighty protestants, men, women, and children in the river at the bridge of _Portnedown_; and that about nine days afterwards, she saw a vision or spirit in the shape of a man, as she apprehended, that appeared in that river, in the place of the drowning, bolt upright heart high, with hands lifted up, and stood in that place there, until the latter end of Lent next following; about which time some of the English army marching in those parts, whereof her husband was one (as he and they confidently affirmed to this deponent) saw that spirit or vision standing upright, and in the posture aforementioned; but after that time the said spirit or vision, vanished and appeared no more, that she knoweth. And she heard, but saw not, that there were other visions and apparitions, and much screeching, and strange noises heard in that _river_ at times afterwards. _Jurat. February 24, 1643._