Dean Bernard was Primate Ussher's chaplain, and like his master, was a Puritan. During the siege of Drogheda he watched over the Primate's library lest the rebels should attack the magnificent palace which _had been built with the fines from the recusants_. He was afterwards Cromwell's chaplain and almoner, in either of which capacities, it would be quite unreasonable to expect justice to the Irish from him. As to the "Depositions" themselves, they are summarily dealt with by the Rev. Dr. Warner, another English Protestant historian of that Rebellion. "There is no credit to be given to anything that was said by these Deponents which had not others' evidence to confirm it." And again, the same Dr. Warner, who went through the drudgery of perusing and examining these "Depositions," says: "As a great stress has been laid upon this collection in print and conversation, and as the whole evidence of the massacres turns upon it, I spent a great deal of my time examining the books; and I am sorry to say, that they have been made the foundation of much more clamour and resentment than can be warranted by truth and reason." It was in them that Temple found the story of the ghosts of the murdered Protestants, in the River Bann, at the Bridge of Portadown, shrieking for revenge, and one in particular, who was seen there from the 29th December to the end of the following Lent!!! He sets down the number of English and Protestants who were "murdered in cold blood, destroyed some other way, or expelled out of their habitations in two years by the Irish, as exceeding 300,000," though, according to Petty, there were not at the outbreak of the Rebellion 20,000 English Protestants in Ulster, where nearly all the murders were said to have been committed. Dr. Warner also tells how he saw in the Council books at Dublin, the letter which the Commissioners of the Irish Parliament wrote to the English Parliament, urging them to show no mercy to the Irish, but rather, to revenge the murders and massacres committed by them. They tell them, "that besides eight hundred-and-forty-eight families, there were killed, hanged, burned, and drowned, six thousand and sixty-two." Dr. Warner considers 2,000 about the correct number. A prodigious number to be sure, but how far less than Temple's 300,000. Warner says, finally, at p. 296 of his work so often cited: "It is easy enough to demonstrate the falsehood of every Protestant historian of this Rebellion."