{"id":2455,"date":"2015-12-27T17:37:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-27T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2015-12-27T17:38:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T17:38:31","slug":"lady-fortune-smiles-and-frowns-on-the-jessops-of-moydow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/lady-fortune-smiles-and-frowns-on-the-jessops-of-moydow\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Fortune Smiles And Frowns on the Jessops of Moydow"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"The
The Jessops local church in Moydow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Jessops later married into the Bomfords, who themselves were married through the Dopping – Hempestal family. Descendants in both the Church of Ireland community and the local Catholic population and their diasporas exist to this day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ill gotten Ill gone, the word of old
\nProved true in this story told
\nOf a humble man with a keen eye
\nTo make capital on the unwitting who come by
\nSuch a butler a soldier did greet
\nWhen chance should cause the two to meet
\nFate! She has such tricks up her sleeve
\nWhich allow the wily the unwitting to decive!
\nThe soldier discharged, thought himself grand
\nBoasted to all of his grant of land
\nThe owner which he was to be…
\nBut needed soon his grant to see…<\/p>\n

The butler was a friendly chap
\nSmile to beguile, the trusting to trap
\nHe inted the soldier his lands to view
\nHe would bring him up a hill, show them to him too
\nSlieve Gauldry they climbed, the butler pointed out
\nThe most miserable fields that there lay about
\nThe soldier disgusted at his claim barren and bare
\nSwore for five pound and a horse he would sell all then and there
\nThe butler anticpating, in his pocket had cash
\nSettled the deal as the rain down did splash
\nYou cant be up to an Irishman, and that is how
\nThe family of Jessop ended owning their lands in the village of Moydow…<\/p>\n

Those who lost the lands he who fell for the jargon
\nWould have jeered the tricked who thought he got a bargain
\nThough they would have no love for he who won
\nWhose family star had risen like the dawining sun
\nMistress Fate in this story let had to make her leave
\nIt was to have an ending that few would believe
\nIll gotten – ill gone, its a saying is true
\nEvery trickster has a fault that history will rue
\nTo be told of in verse by incapable bards:
\nOur heros issue were to lose all on a hand of cards
\nSo they who have all they have nothing, they lose in time
\nTo strive to hold on is lifes only crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jessops later married into the Bomfords, who themselves were married through the Dopping – Hempestal family. Descendants in both the Church of Ireland community and the local Catholic population and their diasporas exist to this day. Ill gotten Ill gone, the word of old Proved true in this story …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,1],"tags":[2566,2569,2270,2570,1792,2571,2071,2567,42,2568,2565,2077],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-longford","category-uncategorized","tag-bomfiord","tag-butler","tag-cards","tag-change","tag-fate","tag-fortune","tag-gamble","tag-jessop","tag-longford","tag-mount-jessop","tag-moydow","tag-soldier","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-DB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1106,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/life-to-his-kind-was-a-game-of-chance\/","url_meta":{"origin":2455,"position":0},"title":"Life to His Kind Was a Game of Chance – the story of Tom Reilly, an Irish Soldier of Fortune","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th November 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pZ1DRqo2UNQ Adventures sake Brought the young sons of Erin Into uniform Thoughts of great glory Among shot and shell in hell Of the battlefield To return to home To kisses of loved ones And relieved mothers As hero's of old Of whom they heard as children At their mothers knee.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Non Rhyming Poems"","block_context":{"text":"Non Rhyming Poems","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/category\/non-rhyming-poems\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Tom Reilly, an Irish Soldier of Fortune","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tomreilly.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tomreilly.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/tomreilly.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":167,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-wrecking-of-ballinamuck\/","url_meta":{"origin":2455,"position":1},"title":"The Wrecking of Ballinamuck","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"11th June 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In the years before the Famine, Greedy Lord Lorton, God damn the nyeuck* For the love of money and hatred of man Cleared the town of Ballinamuck... 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