The teares of Ireland wherein is lively presented as in a map a list of the unheard off [sic] cruelties and perfidious treacheries of blood-thirsty Jesuits and the popish faction : as a warning piece to her sister nations to prevent the like miseries, as are now acted on the stage of this fresh bleeding nation / reported by gentlemen of good credit living there, but forced to flie for their lives... illustrated by pictures ; fit to be reserved by all true Protestants as a monument of their perpetuall reproach and ignominy, and to animate the spirits of Protestants against such bloody villains.
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             The teares of Ireland wherein is lively presented as in a map a list of the unheard off [sic] cruelties and perfidious treacheries of blood-thirsty Jesuits and the popish faction : as a warning piece to her sister nations to prevent the like miseries, as are now acted on the stage of this fresh bleeding nation / reported by gentlemen of good credit living there, but forced to flie for their lives... illustrated by pictures ; fit to be reserved by all true Protestants as a monument of their perpetuall reproach and ignominy, and to animate the spirits of Protestants against such bloody villains.
             Cranford, James, d. 1657.
          
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             1642.
          
           
             Running title: Irelands teares.
             "To the reader" signed: I. Cranford.
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           Massacres -- Ireland.
           Ireland -- History -- Rebellion of 1641.
        
      
    
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           The
           teares
           of
           IRELAND
           VVherein
           is
           lively
           presented
           as
           in
           a
           Map
           ,
           a
           List
           of
           the
           unheard
           off
           Cruelties
           and
           perfidious
           Treacheries
           of
           bloud-thirsty
           Jesuits
           and
           the
           Popish
           Faction
           .
        
         
           As
           a
           warning
           piece
           to
           her
           Sister
           Nations
           to
           prevent
           the
           like
           miseries
           ,
           as
           are
           now
           acted
           on
           the
           Stage
           of
           this
           fresh
           bleeding
           Nation
           .
        
         
           Reported
           by
           Gentlemen
           of
           good
           Credit
           living
           there
           ,
           but
           forced
           to
           flie
           for
           their
           lives
           ,
           as
           
             Iobs
          
           Messengers
           ,
           to
           tell
           us
           what
           they
           have
           heard
           and
           seene
           with
           their
           eyes
           ,
           illustrated
           by
           Pictures
           .
        
         
           
             Fit
             to
             be
             reserved
             by
             all
             true
             Protestants
             as
             a
             Monument
             of
             their
             perpetuall
             reproach
             and
             ignominy
             ,
             and
             to
             animate
             the
             spirits
             of
             Protestants
             against
             suchbloudy
          
           Villains
           .
        
         
           LONDON
           ,
           Printed
           by
           
             A.
             N
          
           for
           
             Iohn
             Rothwell
             ,
          
           and
           are
           to
           be
           sold
           at
           his
           Shop
           in
           
             Pauls
          
           Churchyard
           at
           the
           signe
           of
           the
           Sun
           ,
           1642.
           
        
      
       
       
       
         
           
             Courteous
             Reader
             :
          
        
         
           IT
           is
           my
           hearty
           pray
           -
           for
           thee
           which
           was
           the
           last
           desire
           of
           
             Luther
          
           for
           his
           friends
           ,
           that
           thou
           mayest
           be
           filled
           with
           the
           love
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           hatred
           of
           the
           Pope
           ;
           He
           that
           loves
           not
           the
           Lord
           Jesus
           Christ
           ,
           let
           him
           be
           accursed
           ,
           hee
           that
           hates
           not
           the
           Pope
           ,
           loves
           not
           Christ
           ;
           
             a
          
           The
           Pope
           is
           that
           Antichrist
           ;
           This
           indeed
           is
           questioned
           by
           some
           Factors
           for
           
             Rome
             ,
          
           but
           determined
           by
           the
           Apostle
           .
           Who
           is
           Antichrist
           ,
           but
           
             b
          
           the
           man
           of
           sin
           ,
           and
           son
           of
           perdition
           ?
           who
           is
           this
           man
           of
           sin
           &
           son
           of
           perdition
           but
           the
           Pope
           ?
           There
           were
           never
           seene
           greater
           monsters
           ,
           and
           prodigies
           in
           the
           World
           for
           all
           kinde
           of
           accursed
           
           abominations
           ,
           then
           they
           were
           that
           have
           sate
           in
           that
           Chaire
           of
           pestilence
           ,
           as
           their
           own
           
             c
          
           
             Platina
          
           relates
           ▪
           In
           which
           there
           are
           reckoned
           ten
           
             Sodomites
             ,
          
           fourteene
           infamous
           for
           adulteries
           ;
           nine
           Simoniacks
           ,
           twelve
           Tyrants
           ,
           three
           and
           twenty
           Necromanticks
           ,
           that
           gave
           themselves
           to
           the
           Devill
           ,
           ten
           Traitors
           ,
           fifty
           in
           an
           ordinary
           succession
           unworthy
           that
           name
           ,
           
             d
          
           many
           that
           have
           justified
           the
           vilest
           of
           the
           Heathen
           Emperours
           in
           the
           most
           abominable
           of
           their
           excesses
           .
           There
           were
           never
           any
           that
           so
           puld
           up
           the
           floud-gates
           to
           open
           a
           way
           for
           the
           inundation
           of
           Wickednesse
           as
           the
           popes
           ;
           
             e
          
           by
           dispensations
           for
           Sodomie
           ,
           Incest
           ,
           Murther
           ,
           fornication
           ,
           &c.
           
             f
          
           and
           by
           indulgencies
           ,
           
             g
          
           by
           doctrine
           .
           If
           the
           pope
           should
           declare
           that
           vertue
           is
           vice
           ,
           and
           vice
           vertue
           ,
           the
           Church
           is
           bound
           to
           believe
           it
           to
           be
           so
           ,
           and
           practice
           accordingly
           .
           There
           was
           never
           such
           a
           sonne
           of
           perdition
           ;
           hee
           is
           that
           
             Apollyon
             ,
          
           or
           destroyer
           of
           whom
           Saint
           
             John
             ,
          
           a
           destroyer
           of
           souls
           ,
           and
           shedder
           of
           bloud
           ;
           but
           especially
           drunke
           with
           the
           bloud
           of
           Saints
           .
           It
           is
           credibly
           
             h
          
           related
           that
           in
           the
           
           space
           of
           eight
           hundred
           yeeres
           ,
           hee
           hath
           been
           the
           death
           of
           twelve
           Millions
           ,
           one
           alone
           pope
           
             i
          
           
             Iulius
          
           the
           Second
           in
           seven
           yeeres
           of
           his
           papacie
           destroyed
           200000
           Christians
           .
           But
           their
           outragious
           fury
           against
           the
           Saints
           who
           can
           relate
           ?
           How
           bloudy
           were
           the
           persecutions
           raised
           against
           the
           
             Waldenses
             ,
          
           in
           which
           there
           was
           no
           
             k
          
           mercy
           shewed
           to
           any
           age
           ,
           sex
           ,
           condition
           ,
           their
           rage
           extended
           it self
           to
           the
           destruction
           of
           the
           bruitish
           beasts
           ,
           and
           senslesse
           trees
           ?
           
             l
          
           what
           internecine
           wars
           were
           stirred
           up
           against
           the
           
             Hussites
          
           in
           
             Bohemia
             ?
          
           what
           Country
           or
           Kingdome
           cannot
           produce
           instances
           of
           crueltie
           more
           then
           barbarous
           ?
           The
           Low-countries
           lament
           the
           death
           of
           eighteen
           thousand
           executed
           by
           the
           Duke
           of
           
             Alva
          
           in
           the
           space
           of
           three
           thousand
           yeeres
           in
           the
           cause
           of
           Religion
           .
           
             m
          
           
             Bartholomeis
          
           slaughter
           will
           be
           for
           ever
           infamous
           in
           
             France
             ?
          
           where
           by
           a
           prodigious
           Treason
           and
           unparalled
           cruelty
           ,
           the
           Rivers
           did
           run
           with
           the
           bloud
           of
           
             Hugonets
             ;
             England
          
           hath
           still
           in
           fresh
           remembrance
           Queen
           
             Maries
          
           fires
           ;
           
             Italie
             ,
             Spaine
             ,
          
           &c.
           doe
           yet
           groan
           under
           the
           mercilesse
           inquisition
           .
           
           The
           report
           of
           these
           cruelties
           doth
           astonish
           the
           Readers
           and
           relators
           ,
           but
           not
           quench
           the
           thirst
           ,
           glut
           the
           never
           to
           be
           satiated
           ravine
           of
           these
           bloud-thirstie
           Monsters
           ,
           whose
           delight
           is
           that
           of
           the
           
             o
          
           Cardinall
           
             Farnesius
          
           to
           see
           Rivers
           of
           the
           bloud
           of
           
             Lutherans
          
           to
           his
           horse
           bridle
           .
           But
           thou
           wilt
           say
           what
           is
           this
           to
           the
           pope
           ,
           that
           he
           should
           be
           hated
           ?
           Consider
           this
           bloud
           was
           shed
           by
           his
           instigation
           ,
           by
           his
           approbation
           .
           It
           was
           hee
           that
           granted
           a
           
             Croisado
          
           against
           the
           
             p
          
           
             Waldenses
             ,
          
           and
           
             q
          
           
             Bohemians
             ,
          
           promising
           pardon
           of
           sins
           to
           all
           such
           as
           should
           die
           in
           the
           expedition
           for
           their
           extirpation
           ;
           It
           was
           hee
           that
           hearing
           of
           the
           Massacre
           in
           
             Paris
          
           skipped
           for
           joy
           ,
           and
           commanded
           a
           solemne
           triumph
           ,
           and
           panegyrick
           for
           that
           cause
           ;
           But
           what
           is
           that
           to
           us
           ?
           What
           ?
           Have
           wee
           never
           heard
           of
           the
           popes
           good
           will
           to
           
             England
             ?
          
           
             r
          
           How
           long
           wee
           have
           stood
           proscribed
           ,
           exposed
           to
           the
           fire
           ,
           and
           sword
           of
           a
           Catholike
           invader
           ?
           have
           wee
           never
           heard
           of
           those
           many
           horrid
           treasons
           hatched
           ,
           and
           furthered
           against
           our
           Kings
           ,
           and
           State
           ,
           by
           that
           bloudy
           
             Moloch
          
           and
           his
           instruments
           ,
           
           and
           sworn
           Vassals
           ?
           What
           treason
           was
           ever
           intended
           against
           our
           Church
           ,
           or
           State
           ,
           in
           which
           a
           priest
           ,
           or
           Jesuit
           hath
           not
           had
           a
           hand
           ?
           And
           as
           a
           learned
           Bishop
           hath
           shewed
           
             s
          
           :
           that
           most
           devillish
           ,
           and
           hel-borne
           plot
           of
           the
           Gun-powder
           Treason
           ,
           by
           whom
           should
           it
           have
           bin
           acted
           ?
           by
           whom
           was
           it
           invented
           ?
           
             t
          
           It
           hath
           found
           an
           Apologie
           from
           
             Eudaemon
             ,
          
           approbation
           from
           
             Claudius
             Aquaviva
             ,
          
           excuse
           from
           
             Bellarmine
             ,
          
           absolution
           from
           
             Hamon
             ;
          
           al
           Jesuits
           .
           But
           yet
           there
           is
           nothing
           done
           against
           us
           ?
           And
           papists
           amongst
           us
           abhor
           this
           bloudinesse
           ;
           What
           intentions
           ,
           and
           desperate
           machinations
           are
           against
           us
           the
           Lord
           discover
           ,
           and
           disappoint
           ;
           but
           consider
           .
           That
           in
           their
           account
           we
           are
           hereticks
           ,
           and
           declared
           to
           be
           so
           by
           the
           pope
           ;
           Now
           consider
           of
           their
           doctrine
           ;
           
             u
          
           A
           hereticke
           loseth
           all
           right
           to
           all
           that
           hee
           hath
           ;
           And
           being
           
             w
          
           declared
           to
           be
           such
           ,
           any
           one
           may
           kill
           him
           though
           a
           King
           ,
           nay
           ,
           though
           the
           pope
           should
           be
           willing
           to
           suffer
           him
           
             x
          
           yet
           may
           not
           the
           people
           ,
           nay
           ,
           
             y
          
           though
           hee
           would
           change
           his
           Religion
           ,
           and
           leave
           his
           heresie
           ,
           that
           can
           give
           him
           no
           safety
           .
           Witnesse
           
             Henry
          
           the
           
           Fourth
           of
           
             France
             ,
          
           who
           after
           he
           was
           turned
           papist
           ,
           was
           stab'd
           in
           the
           mouth
           by
           one
           
             John
             Castile
             ,
          
           and
           to
           the
           heart
           by
           
             Ravilliack
             ;
          
           
             z
          
           By
           heresie
           all
           bonds
           and
           obligations
           of
           nature
           ,
           of
           covenant
           ,
           of
           oath
           ,
           of
           duty
           are
           dissolved
           ,
           witnesse
           the
           practices
           of
           these
           
             Irish
          
           Rebels
           :
           Hereticks
           may
           be
           slain
           by
           sword
           ,
           by
           treason
           ,
           
             a
          
           even
           with
           the
           destruction
           of
           many
           innocent
           Catholikes
           .
           O
           devillish
           !
           Upon
           these
           ,
           and
           such
           like
           grounds
           ,
           our
           Liturgie
           justly
           censured
           their
           religion
           rebellion
           ,
           and
           the
           sometime
           worthy
           professors
           of
           our
           two
           famous
           Universities
           cōcluded
           ,
           that
           it
           was
           impossible
           ,
           but
           that
           an
           absolute
           Papist
           living
           under
           a
           Protestant
           Prince
           ,
           and
           standing
           to
           his
           own
           gounds
           ,
           should
           be
           an
           absolute
           traitor
           .
           And
           that
           wee
           feele
           not
           the
           effects
           of
           this
           
             Romish
          
           doctrine
           ,
           it
           is
           God's
           providence
           ,
           in
           them
           not
           want
           of
           will
           ,
           but
           want
           of
           power
           ;
           
             b
          
           
             Bannes
          
           speaks
           plainly
           .
           The
           
             English
          
           and
           
             Saxon
          
           Catholikes
           are
           to
           be
           excused
           for
           not
           rebelling
           ,
           because
           they
           want
           strength
           sufficient
           to
           make
           their
           party
           good
           ;
           I
           pray
           God
           they
           may
           alway
           want
           it
           ;
           
             c
          
           The
           Pope
           sent
           a
           Breve
           or
           Bull
           
           against
           our
           blessed
           Queene
           
             Elizabeth
             ,
          
           with
           this
           limitation
           ;
           that
           it
           should
           be
           always
           in
           force
           against
           her
           and
           the
           hereticks
           ,
           but
           should
           not
           oblige
           the
           Papists
           as
           matters
           did
           then
           stand
           ,
           but
           should
           oblige
           them
           when
           it
           might
           be
           put
           in
           execution
           ;
           so
           they
           wait
           for
           a
           time
           ,
           and
           I
           pray
           God
           their
           eyes
           may
           sinke
           in
           their
           heads
           while
           they
           wait
           ;
           But
           Reader
           doe
           not
           think
           there
           is
           nothing
           done
           against
           us
           ;
           Is
           not
           
             Ireland
          
           our
           sister
           Nation
           ?
           Doe
           not
           our
           flesh
           and
           our
           bloud
           suffer
           there
           ?
           Doe
           we
           not
           heare
           of
           their
           threatnings
           breathed
           against
           us
           ?
           That
           when
           they
           have
           finished
           their
           worke
           there
           ,
           they
           intend
           
             England
          
           for
           the
           
             Aceldama
             ,
          
           the
           seat
           of
           war
           ,
           and
           field
           of
           bloud
           ;
           I
           will
           not
           stay
           thee
           longer
           still
           in
           the
           porch
           ;
           Enter
           in
           and
           behold
           ,
           the
           miseries
           of
           
             Ireland
             ,
          
           and
           if
           thou
           findest
           cruelties
           unexampled
           ,
           remember
           they
           are
           Papists
           ,
           and
           have
           ,
           as
           I
           am
           informed
           ,
           ten
           thousand
           Priests
           in
           the
           head
           of
           their
           armies
           ,
           who
           besides
           their
           tyranny
           towards
           our
           bodies
           would
           (
           was
           it
           in
           their
           power
           )
           send
           our
           souls
           in
           fiery
           chariots
           into
           hell
           !
           So
           
             Hoffeus
          
           the
           Jesuite
           .
           Well
           
           reade
           ,
           and
           bestow
           some
           pitty
           ,
           prayers
           ,
           relief
           on
           poore
           
             Ireland
             ,
          
           prayses
           for
           
             England
             ,
          
           increase
           in
           the
           love
           of
           Christ
           ,
           and
           hatred
           of
           the
           Pope
           ;
           I
           rest
        
         
           
             
               Thine
            
             I.
             Cranford
             .
          
        
      
       
       
         
           Irelands
           
             warning
          
           to
           England
           .
        
         
           LOok
           on
           me
           (
           your
           sister
           Nation
           )
           and
           pitty
           me
           ,
           I
           am
           your
           bone
           and
           your
           flesh
           ,
           I
           am
           wounded
           by
           them
           that
           I
           have
           too
           long
           trusted
           and
           harboured
           in
           my
           bosome
           (
           I
           mean
           bloudy
           Papists
           )
           rather
           then
           better
           friends
           ,
           take
           warning
           by
           me
           on
           sad
           experience
           :
           
             Was
             there
             ever
             sorrow
             like
             my
             sorrow
             ?
          
        
         
           Look
           on
           me
           ,
           Repent
           ,
           Amend
           ,
           let
           my
           sins
           be
           your
           summons
           ,
           my
           judgements
           be
           your
           feare
           ,
           and
           learne
           righteousnesse
           by
           them
           .
           
             When
             thy
             judgements
             are
             on
             the
             earth
             ,
             the
             inhabitants
             thereof
             shall
             learne
             righteousnesse
             .
          
        
         
           Look
           on
           me
           ,
           pray
           and
           fight
           ,
           my
           enemies
           are
           yours
           ,
           my
           cause
           is
           yours
           ,
           wee
           have
           one
           God
           ,
           one
           Christ
           ,
           one
           Gospel
           ,
           one
           Religion
           ,
           united
           under
           one
           King
           ,
           if
           we
           fail
           one
           another
           now
           ,
           the
           proud
           enemy
           will
           blaspheme
           our
           God
           ,
           dishonour
           our
           Royall
           King
           ,
           scorne
           our
           Religion
           .
           Hold
           out
           faith
           and
           prayer
           ,
           surely
           the
           
           victory
           is
           yours
           ,
           you
           pray
           ,
           and
           the
           enemy
           blasphemes
           ,
           up
           and
           be
           doing
           ,
           and
           the
           Lord
           shall
           be
           with
           you
           .
           Shall
           wee
           be
           lesse
           zealous
           for
           the
           Lord
           of
           hosts
           ,
           then
           they
           are
           for
           their
           wooden
           Idols
           .
        
         
           Solicit
           my
           Cause
           to
           his
           Majesty
           ,
           to
           the
           Parliament
           ,
           make
           my
           case
           yours
           ,
           
             be
             with
             mee
             as
             in
             the
             body
             ,
          
           stir
           now
           or
           never
           ,
           
             Helpe
             the
             Lord
             against
             the
             mighty
             ,
          
           your
           work
           will
           be
           glorious
           ▪
           
             You
             shall
             be
             called
             the
             repairers
             of
             our
             breaches
             .
          
        
         
           Look
           on
           me
           and
           adventure
           you
           that
           are
           Gods
           Stewards
           ,
           who
           knows
           but
           God
           intrusted
           thee
           with
           an
           estate
           for
           this
           Designe
           .
           The
           Designe
           is
           honourable
           ,
           your
           purchase
           a
           Kingdome
           for
           Christ
           .
           Back
           your selves
           with
           friends
           ,
           weaken
           the
           bloud-thirsty
           enemies
           ,
           secure
           your selves
           better
           ,
           try
           God
           if
           hee
           will
           not
           be
           your
           Ensurer
           double
           and
           treble
           .
           
             Cast
             thy
             bread
             on
             the
             waters
             ,
             and
             after
             many
             dayes
             thou
             shalt
             finde
             it
             .
          
           They
           are
           bloudy
           men
           ,
           
             The
             bloudy
             men
             shall
             not
             live
             out
             halfe
             their
             days
             .
          
           They
           are
           cruell
           to
           the
           faint
           ,
           to
           the
           weary
           ,
           cruell
           to
           women
           ,
           to
           
           poore
           children
           ,
           mark
           what
           God
           threatned
           against
           
             Amaleck
          
           for
           the
           same
           thing
           .
           
             Remember
             what
          
           Amaleck
           
             did
             unto
             thee
             ,
          
           &c.
           
             how
             hee
             smote
             the
             hindermost
             ,
             even
             all
             that
             were
             feeble
             behind
             thee
             when
             thou
             wast
             faint
             and
             weary
             ,
             and
             hee
             feared
             not
             God
             .
             Therefore
             when
             the
             Lord
             thy
             God
             shal
             give
             thee
             rest
             from
             all
             thine
             enemies
             round
             about
             in
             the
             Land
             which
             the
             Lord
             thy
             God
             giveth
             thee
             for
             an
             inheritance
             to
             possesse
             it
             :
             that
             thou
             shalt
             blot
             out
             the
             remembrance
             of
          
           Amaleckfrom
           
             under
             heaven
             ,
             thou
             shalt
             not
             forget
             it
             ,
          
           Deut.
           25.
           17
           ,
           18
           ,
           19.
           
        
      
       
       
       
         
           To
           confirme
           the
           truth
           of
           these
           ensuing
           Tragick
           Stories
           ,
           you
           may
           be
           pleas'd
           to
           reade
           this
           Letter
           ,
           the
           Copy
           whereof
           was
           read
           the
           fourteenth
           of
           
             December
             ,
          
           in
           the
           Honourable
           House
           of
           Commons
           ,
           and
           also
           read
           againe
           before
           the
           right
           Honorable
           the
           Lords
           at
           a
           Committee
           of
           both
           Houses
           ,
           and
           desired
           to
           be
           entred
           into
           the
           journals
           of
           both
           Houses
           .
        
         
           
             It
             was
             also
             read
             in
             a
             publike
             Congregation
             in
          
           London
           ,
           
             by
             an
             eminent
             Minister
             on
             the
             Fast
             day
             for
             Ireland
             to
             stir
             up
             bowels
             of
             pitty
             towards
             them
             .
          
        
         
           
             SIR
             ,
          
        
         
           ALL
           I
           can
           tell
           you
           is
           the
           miserable
           estate
           wee
           continue
           under
           ,
           for
           the
           Rebels
           daily
           increase
           in
           men
           and
           munition
           in
           all
           parts
           ,
           except
           the
           Province
           
           of
           
             Munster
             ,
          
           exercising
           all
           manner
           of
           cruelties
           ,
           and
           striving
           who
           can
           be
           most
           barbarously
           exquisite
           in
           tormenting
           the
           poore
           Protestants
           ,
           wheresoever
           they
           come
           ;
           Cutting
           off
           their
           privy
           members
           ,
           eares
           ,
           fingers
           ,
           &
           hands
           ,
           plucking
           out
           their
           eyes
           ,
           boyling
           the
           heads
           of
           little
           Children
           before
           their
           Mothers
           faces
           ,
           and
           then
           ripping
           up
           their
           Mothers
           Bowels
           ;
           stripping
           women
           naked
           ,
           and
           standing
           by
           them
           being
           naked
           ,
           whilst
           they
           are
           in
           Travell
           ,
           killing
           the
           Children
           as
           soon
           as
           they
           are
           born
           ,
           and
           ripping
           up
           their
           Mothers
           bellies
           ,
           as
           soone
           as
           they
           are
           delivered
           ;
           driving
           men
           ,
           women
           ,
           and
           children
           ,
           by
           hundreds
           together
           upon
           Bridges
           ,
           and
           from
           thence
           cast
           them
           down
           into
           Rivers
           ,
           such
           as
           drown'd
           not
           ,
           they
           knock
           their
           brains
           out
           with
           poles
           ,
           or
           shoot
           them
           with
           Muskets
           ,
           that
           endeavour
           to
           escape
           by
           swimming
           out
           ,
           ravishing
           wives
           before
           their
           husbands
           faces
           ,
           and
           Virgins
           before
           their
           Parents
           faces
           ,
           after
           they
           have
           abused
           their
           bodies
           ,
           making
           them
           renounce
           their
           Religion
           ,
           and
           then
           marry
           them
           to
           the
           basest
           of
           their
           fellows
           .
        
         
           Oh
           that
           the
           Lord
           ,
           who
           hath
           moved
           the
           Kingdomes
           of
           
             England
          
           and
           
             Scotland
             ,
          
           
           to
           send
           reliefe
           to
           these
           afflicted
           Protestants
           ,
           would
           likewise
           stirre
           them
           to
           effect
           their
           undertaking
           with
           all
           possible
           expedition
           ,
           lest
           it
           be
           too
           late
           .
        
         
           Some
           of
           the
           persons
           particularly
           mentioned
           to
           have
           suffered
           ,
           who
           are
           knowne
           unto
           you
           ,
           are
           ,
           Master
           
             Jerome
          
           Minister
           of
           
             Brides
             ,
          
           his
           body
           mangled
           ,
           and
           his
           members
           cut
           off
           .
           Master
           
             Fullerton
          
           Minister
           of
           
             Lughall
             ,
             Simon
             Hastings
          
           his
           eares
           cut
           off
           ,
           Master
           
             Blandry
          
           Minister
           ,
           hanged
           ,
           his
           flesh
           pull'd
           off
           from
           his
           bones
           ,
           in
           the
           presence
           of
           his
           wife
           ,
           in
           small
           pieces
           ,
           he
           being
           hang'd
           two
           dayes
           before
           her
           ,
           in
           the
           place
           where
           shee
           is
           now
           prisoner
           .
           
             Abraham
             Iames
          
           of
           Newtowne
           ,
           in
           the
           Diocesse
           of
           
             Clohor
             ,
          
           cut
           in
           pieces
           ,
           and
           it
           is
           reported
           that
           the
           Bishop
           of
           
             Clohor
          
           is
           turned
           to
           the
           Rebels
           ,
           thus
           moving
           pardon
           in
           presuming
           to
           trouble
           you
           at
           this
           time
           in
           your
           publike
           imployments
           ,
           doe
           with
           humble
           remembrance
           of
           his
           best
           respects
           to
           you
           ,
           and
           your
           vertuous
           Lady
           ,
           remayn
        
         
           
             
               Novemb.
               27.
               1641.
               
            
          
           
             
               Your
               Servant
               to
               command
               ,
            
             Thomas
             Partington
             .
          
        
      
    
     
       
       
       
         
           A
           true
           Relation
           of
           the
           bloudy
           Massacre
           and
           damnable
           Treason
           of
           the
           cruell
           Papists
           intended
           against
           
             Dublin
             ,
             October
          
           23.
           1641.
           desperatly
           acted
           in
           most
           parts
           of
           the
           Kingdom
           of
           
             Ireland
             ,
          
           tending
           to
           the
           utter
           ruine
           and
           extirpation
           of
           all
           the
           Protestants
           there
           :
           With
           a
           list
           of
           the
           severall
           tortures
           ,
           cruelties
           ,
           outrages
           ,
           on
           the
           bodies
           of
           poore
           Christians
           ,
           related
           by
           persons
           of
           good
           credit
           ,
           who
           are
           fled
           from
           those
           bloudy
           men
           ,
           to
           tell
           us
           what
           they
           have
           seen
           with
           their
           eyes
           and
           heard
           with
           their
           eares
           ,
           on
           examinattions
           of
           divers
           of
           the
           Actors
           in
           this
           
             Tragedy
             illustrated
             by
             Pictures
             .
          
        
         
           BEhold
           ,
           as
           in
           a
           Map
           of
           bloud
           ,
           the
           unwearied
           plottings
           ,
           and
           restlesse
           contrivements
           of
           bloudy
           men
           only
           skilfull
           to
           destroy
           ,
           whose
           Religion
           is
           
           founded
           in
           bloud
           ,
           whose
           obedience
           will
           not
           be
           bounded
           with
           oaths
           ,
           asseverations
           ,
           nay
           execrations
           ,
           as
           the
           ensuing
           Story
           of
           cruelty
           relates
           ,
           who
           are
           true
           (
           as
           steel
           )
           to
           their
           damned
           Principles
           ,
           
             Nulla
             fides
             cum
             Haereticis
          
           whose
           principles
           are
           steept
           bloud
           ,
           tolerating
           Rebellion
           against
           King
           and
           Kingdome
           ,
           murdering
           of
           Princes
           ,
           blowing
           up
           of
           Parliament
           ,
           sowing
           seeds
           of
           division
           betweene
           Confederate
           Kingdomes
           ,
           
           as
           those
           two
           Handfasted
           and
           Troth-plighted
           Nations
           in
           a
           League
           of
           love
           ,
           indissoluble
           (
           blessed
           be
           God
           )
           can
           testifie
           :
           blowing
           up
           coals
           of
           Division
           ,
           hotter
           then
           coals
           of
           Juniper
           in
           the
           same
           Kingdome
           ,
           where
           they
           live
           in
           too
           much
           peace
           .
           
           Witnesse
           
             England
             ,
          
           who
           hath
           had
           wofull
           experience
           of
           their
           plottings
           to
           breake
           Union
           betweene
           King
           and
           people
           ,
           King
           and
           Parliament
           .
        
         
           But
           now
           behold
           ,
           these
           bloudy
           Papists
           with
           their
           Vizard
           puld
           off
           ,
           and
           now
           acting
           their
           plots
           like
           incarnate
           Devils
           (
           as
           our
           Saviour
           cald
           their
           brethren
           the
           
             Scribes
          
           and
           
             Pharisees
             .
          
           For
           the
           works
           of
           their
           father
           they
           doe
           )
           I
           say
           
           now
           acting
           their
           Devillish
           designe
           on
           the
           State
           of
           
             Ireland
          
           our
           sister
           Nation
           ,
           ayming
           no
           lower
           then
           the
           death
           and
           ruine
           of
           the
           whole
           Kingdome
           at
           one
           blow
           .
           For
           had
           their
           plot
           on
           
             Dublin
          
           Castle
           taken
           (
           which
           they
           had
           laid
           with
           so
           much
           subtilty
           and
           secrecie
           )
           as
           in
           probability
           it
           had
           ,
           
             had
             not
             the
             keeper
             of
             Israel
             which
             slumbers
             not
          
           prevented
           it
           ,
           in
           a
           most
           miraculous
           manner
           ,
           they
           had
           beene
           by
           the
           morning
           light
           at
           work
           ,
           cutting
           off
           man
           ,
           woman
           and
           child
           ,
           till
           they
           had
           not
           left
           one
           remayning
           among
           them
           that
           bore
           the
           name
           of
           a
           Protestant
           .
           Blessed
           be
           God
           their
           snare
           was
           broken
           ,
           and
           that
           poore
           City
           designed
           to
           destruction
           ,
           delivered
           ,
           the
           relation
           of
           which
           
             Tragedie
          
           now
           begins
           :
           Oh
           that
           our
           eares
           may
           tingle
           !
           and
           our
           bowels
           yern
           at
           the
           relation
           of
           this
           horrid
           designe
           :
           and
           at
           the
           relations
           of
           those
           cruelties
           and
           tortures
           exceeding
           all
           parallel
           ,
           unheard
           off
           among
           
             Pagans
             ,
             Turks
             ,
          
           or
           
             Barbarians
             ,
          
           except
           you
           would
           enter
           into
           the
           confines
           of
           Hell
           it selfe
           ,
           to
           see
           the
           Devils
           (
           those
           Engineers
           of
           cruelty
           )
           acting
           of
           their
           parts
           :
           I
           know
           not
           where
           
           you
           will
           find
           their
           fellows
           ,
           making
           it
           their
           sport
           to
           torture
           and
           to
           vex
           those
           poore
           distressed
           Protestants
           ,
           he
           that
           is
           most
           cruell
           merits
           most
           of
           their
           bloudy
           Jesuits
           .
           Those
           firebrands
           of
           Hell
           preach
           to
           them
           in
           their
           Massings
           and
           Conventicles
           ,
           as
           is
           truly
           related
           by
           Gentlemen
           of
           
             Ireland
          
           of
           good
           worth
           ,
           who
           like
           
             Jobs
          
           Messengers
           are
           escaped
           their
           mercilesse
           hands
           ,
           relating
           nothing
           but
           what
           they
           have
           heard
           with
           their
           eares
           ,
           upon
           examination
           of
           witnesses
           ,
           or
           seen
           with
           their
           eyes
           ,
           that
           so
           men
           might
           not
           be
           deluded
           with
           false
           and
           idle
           Pamphlets
           ,
           but
           reade
           and
           see
           the
           truth
           of
           things
           that
           all
           men
           may
           behold
           what
           bloudy
           Tigres
           and
           Vultures
           these
           Popish
           Spirits
           are
           ,
           how
           perfidious
           and
           basely
           treacherous
           to
           those
           Nations
           that
           succour
           them
           ;
           never
           any
           Kingdom
           being
           long
           at
           peace
           where
           they
           were
           tolerated
           ,
           as
           this
           fresh
           bleeding
           Nation
           of
           
             Ireland
          
           can
           sadly
           relate
           you
           in
           this
           ensuing
           Narration
           .
        
         
         
           
             Here
             begins
             the
             bloudie
             attempts
             upon
             the
             Kingdome
             of
             
               Ireland
            
             in
             the
             generall
             ,
             and
             on
             
               Dublin
            
             in
             particular
             .
          
           
             UPon
             the
             three
             and
             twentieth
             day
             of
             
               October
            
             last
             1641
             ,
             the
             Castle
             of
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             should
             have
             surprized
             (
             as
             at
             that
             time
             it
             might
             easily
             have
             beene
             )
             for
             there
             was
             no
             feare
             or
             suspition
             of
             Treachery
             ,
             there
             being
             at
             that
             time
             foure
             hundred
             
               Irish
            
             Papists
             elected
             out
             of
             most
             parts
             of
             
               Ireland
               ,
            
             desperate
             persons
             designed
             and
             appointed
             for
             that
             bloudy
             and
             desperate
             attempt
             ,
             all
             lodging
             and
             sculking
             in
             severall
             places
             of
             the
             City
             and
             Suburbs
             ,
             waiting
             and
             expecting
             the
             time
             and
             watch-word
             ,
             when
             to
             give
             the
             onset
             .
             But
             that
             God
             that
             keepeth
             
               Israel
            
             saw
             their
             bloudy
             intentions
             to
             overthrow
             and
             ruinate
             all
             the
             professours
             of
             the
             true
             Religion
             ,
             disapointed
             their
             wicked
             hopes
             ,
             and
             (
             to
             their
             owne
             shame
             and
             confusion
             )
             discovered
             and
             laid
             open
             their
             
             hellish
             plot
             to
             succeeding
             ages
             ,
             that
             the
             Lord
             alone
             might
             be
             admired
             ,
             and
             they
             confounded
             .
             And
             this
             he
             did
             by
             moving
             in
             the
             heart
             of
             one
             of
             their
             own
             Countrimen
             at
             that
             time
             ,
             an
             abhorring
             of
             so
             foule
             and
             detestable
             a
             Treason
             ,
             and
             to
             reveale
             it
             to
             Sir
             
               William
               Parsons
            
             Knight
             and
             Baronet
             ,
             Master
             of
             the
             Court
             of
             Wards
             and
             Liveries
             ,
             and
             Sir
             
               John
               Borlase
            
             Knight
             ,
             Master
             of
             the
             Ordnance
             ,
             both
             Lords
             Justices
             of
             the
             Kingdome
             of
             
               Ireland
               .
            
             The
             party
             who
             discovered
             the
             plot
             had
             been
             formerly
             a
             servant
             to
             Sir
             
               John
               Clotworthy
               ,
            
             a
             godly
             and
             religious
             Gentleman
             ,
             but
             at
             time
             (
             when
             hee
             revealed
             their
             designe
             )
             hee
             served
             one
             Captaine
             
               Mack-Mahowne
            
             an
             Irishman
             ,
             who
             lodged
             at
             the
             signe
             of
             the
             Artichoake
             ,
             vulgarly
             called
             Saint
             
               Maries
            
             Abbey
             in
             the
             Suburbs
             of
             the
             City
             of
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             The
             servants
             name
             was
             
               Owen
               Mack-Connel
               ,
            
             who
             being
             with
             his
             Master
             Captain
             
               Mack-Mahown
               ,
            
             in
             a
             house
             in
             Cookstreet
             ,
             at
             the
             Lodging
             of
             the
             Lord
             
               Mack-Gueere
               ,
            
             also
             and
             Irishman
             in
             the
             City
             of
             
               Dublin
               .
            
             Upon
             the
             two
             and
             twentieth
             of
             
               October
               ,
            
             being
             the
             
             night
             afore
             ;
             his
             Master
             did
             then
             and
             there
             reveale
             the
             whole
             plot
             unto
             him
             in
             the
             presence
             of
             the
             Lord
             
               Mack-Gueere
               ,
            
             and
             others
             .
          
           
             
               Owen
               Macke-onell
               ,
               who
               discouered
               the
               plot
               of
               takinge
               Dublin
               ,
               had
               a
               Pistoll
               Charged
               with
               too
               Bullets
               ▪
               the
               pane
               primed
               with
               powder
               &
               Brimstone
               twice
               offered
               against
               him
               tooke
               not
               fire
               ▪
               so
               the
               Rebells
               said
               God
               will
               not
               suffer
               him
               to
               be
               killed
               &
               he
               will
               be
               on
               our
               side
               ▪
               I
               warrant
               you
               ,
            
          
           
             
               Owen
               Macke-onell
               leapinge
               ouer
               a
               wall
               escaped
               &
               was
               sent
               to
               our
               Parlament
               with
               letters
               &
               was
               rewarded
               500
               
                 lb
              
               &
               200
               per
               Annum
               .
            
          
           
             At
             the
             first
             the
             Lord
             
               Parsons
            
             did
             seem
             to
             slight
             it
             ,
             but
             
               Owen
               Mack-Counel
               ,
            
             confidently
             affirmed
             the
             thing
             to
             my
             Lord
             in
             the
             hearing
             of
             his
             servants
             to
             be
             true
             ,
             and
             withall
             told
             him
             thus
             :
             
             
               viz.
            
             My
             Lord
             ,
             my
             Lord
             ,
             I
             have
             discharged
             my
             duty
             and
             my
             conscience
             ,
             look
             you
             to
             it
             ;
             I
             will
             goe
             backe
             to
             my
             Master
             ,
             because
             neither
             hee
             nor
             the
             rest
             shall
             suspect
             me
             .
          
           
             Your
             Lordship
             shall
             find
             my
             Lord
             
               Mack-Gueere
            
             at
             Master
             
               Cadowgans
            
             house
             in
             Cookstreet
             ,
             and
             Captaine
             
               Mack-Mahown
               ,
            
             at
             the
             Artichoke
             in
             the
             aforesaid
             
               Maryes
            
             Abbey
             ,
             to
             which
             place
             I
             am
             going
             now
             .
             This
             
               Owen
               Mack-Connel
            
             going
             homewards
             to
             his
             Masters
             lodging
             ,
             takes
             up
             dirt
             in
             his
             hands
             and
             besmuts
             and
             dirties
             his
             face
             that
             he
             might
             appear
             to
             them
             to
             have
             tumbled
             over
             and
             over
             in
             the
             dirt
             ,
             whose
             approach
             and
             entrance
             into
             the
             roome
             (
             where
             a
             great
             many
             of
             them
             were
             assembled
             together
             ,
             drinking
             and
             making
             merry
             ,
             for
             they
             intended
             not
             to
             goe
             to
             bed
             )
             was
             so
             ridiculous
             that
             the
             company
             burst
             out
             into
             such
             a
             loud
             and
             sudden
             laughter
             with
             shouting
             and
             hollowing
             that
             the
             place
             rung
             of
             them
             round
             about
             ,
             and
             to
             welcome
             him
             home
             the
             company
             fell
             to
             their
             old
             course
             to
             make
             him
             drinke
             more
             ,
             but
             at
             last
             he
             told
             them
             that
             he
             
             must
             needs
             goe
             down
             into
             the
             yard
             ,
             so
             they
             suffered
             him
             to
             goe
             ,
             but
             commanded
             two
             of
             his
             companions
             to
             attend
             him
             and
             bring
             him
             up
             againe
             ,
             but
             they
             let
             him
             goe
             into
             the
             yard
             by
             himselfe
             ,
             not
             suspecting
             what
             he
             had
             done
             ;
             nor
             what
             hee
             meant
             to
             doe
             :
             no
             sooner
             was
             he
             in
             the
             yard
             ,
             but
             knowing
             the
             place
             ,
             leaped
             over
             the
             pale
             ,
             and
             so
             escaped
             from
             them
             .
          
           
             Great
             search
             they
             made
             in
             the
             yard
             for
             him
             ,
             and
             up
             and
             downe
             the
             house
             ,
             thinking
             hee
             had
             been
             crept
             to
             bed
             ,
             or
             hid
             himself
             in
             the
             barn
             of
             stable
             ,
             so
             that
             they
             were
             amazed
             to
             think
             what
             should
             become
             of
             him
             ,
             because
             they
             generally
             believed
             him
             to
             be
             so
             drunk
             and
             in
             such
             a
             pickle
             ,
             they
             refrained
             looking
             any
             further
             after
             him
             ,
             conceiving
             that
             hee
             was
             past
             care
             to
             tell
             tales
             wheresoever
             he
             was
             ,
             and
             so
             fell
             to
             their
             mirth
             and
             jollitie
             again
             .
          
           
             But
             not
             long
             after
             ,
             in
             the
             midst
             of
             their
             mirth
             ,
             came
             some
             of
             the
             Guard
             belonging
             to
             the
             Lords
             Justices
             ,
             entred
             the
             House
             ,
             where
             there
             was
             little
             or
             no
             resistance
             ,
             apprehended
             Captain
             
             
               Mack-Mahowne
               ,
            
             and
             one
             
               Rory
               Magennis
               ,
            
             being
             the
             chief
             in
             that
             place
             at
             the
             Artichoake
             ,
             and
             brought
             them
             bound
             before
             the
             Lords
             ,
             about
             five
             of
             the
             clock
             in
             the
             morning
             ,
             being
             upon
             the
             Saturday
             ,
             which
             was
             the
             three
             and
             twentieth
             day
             of
             
               October
            
             last
             .
             At
             the
             same
             time
             and
             hour
             the
             rest
             of
             the
             Guard
             apprehended
             the
             Lord
             
               Mack-Gueere
            
             in
             Cookstreet
             ,
             in
             the
             house
             of
             Master
             
               Cadowgan
            
             where
             they
             found
             him
             under
             a
             bed
             with
             a
             case
             of
             Pistols
             charged
             and
             a
             Skeene
             by
             his
             side
             ,
             but
             did
             not
             offer
             to
             shoot
             .
          
           
             Captaine
             
               Mack-Mahowne
            
             upon
             his
             examination
             confessed
             the
             whole
             plot
             ,
             how
             that
             morning
             the
             Castle
             of
             
               Dublin
            
             should
             have
             beene
             surprized
             by
             forty
             Irish
             Papists
             desperate
             Villains
             in
             this
             manner
             following
             .
          
           
             First
             ,
             they
             should
             have
             gone
             into
             the
             Castle
             (
             to
             avoid
             suspition
             )
             one
             by
             one
             ,
             some
             at
             the
             water-gate
             ,
             and
             some
             at
             the
             Castle-gate
             ,
             each
             man
             with
             his
             Skeen
             ,
             and
             so
             to
             have
             met
             in
             the
             great
             Court
             ,
             and
             suddenly
             to
             have
             rushed
             upon
             the
             Warders
             ,
             and
             to
             have
             murthered
             them
             ,
             and
             so
             to
             have
             possest
             
             themselves
             of
             their
             Halberds
             and
             other
             weapons
             ,
             and
             then
             to
             have
             stood
             in
             the
             entrance
             of
             both
             Gates
             to
             let
             in
             the
             rest
             being
             three
             hundred
             and
             sixty
             more
             ,
             appointed
             for
             the
             execution
             of
             that
             Hel-hatcht
             Design●
             ;
             they
             could
             not
             have
             wanted
             help
             ,
             the
             ods
             was
             so
             great
             on
             their
             side
             ,
             I
             mean
             the
             bloudy
             Romish
             party
             ,
             and
             I
             am
             of
             opinion
             there
             would
             have
             been
             but
             little
             or
             no
             resistance
             ,
             their
             party
             would
             have
             beene
             so
             strong
             ,
             there
             being
             at
             that
             time
             one
             hundred
             Papists
             to
             five
             Protestants
             within
             the
             very
             City
             of
             
               Dublin
               ▪
            
             to
             my
             knowledge
             ,
             and
             so
             they
             are
             generally
             throughout
             the
             whole
             Kingdome
             ,
             what
             a
             combustion
             had
             there
             been
             in
             
               Dublin
            
             that
             day
             ?
             what
             a
             distraction
             had
             our
             poore
             Country-men
             ,
             I
             meane
             the
             English
             Protestants
             been
             in
             ?
             and
             I
             my self
             being
             then
             one
             belonging
             to
             the
             Crowne
             Office
             in
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             and
             an
             eye
             witnesse
             of
             their
             passages
             amongst
             the
             rest
             ?
             I
             dare
             be
             bold
             to
             say
             ,
             that
             if
             they
             had
             taken
             that
             Castle
             ,
             being
             so
             richly
             furnished
             with
             all
             manner
             of
             Munition
             ,
             as
             powder
             ,
             shot
             and
             Armes
             being
             also
             
             strengthened
             with
             above
             one
             hundred
             pieces
             of
             Ordnance
             of
             all
             sorts
             with
             their
             carriages
             ,
             that
             all
             
               Ireland
            
             had
             been
             before
             this
             day
             an
             
               Acheldama
               ,
            
             or
             a
             field
             of
             bloud
             ,
             and
             I
             am
             of
             opinion
             that
             of
             all
             the
             English
             Plantators
             in
             
               Ireland
               ,
            
             there
             would
             not
             have
             been
             living
             one
             Family
             .
          
           
             Some
             of
             those
             Villains
             that
             should
             have
             surprized
             the
             Castle
             ,
             to
             wit
             ,
             
               Rory
               Mack
               Mahowne
               ,
               William
               O
               Neale
               ,
               Thady
               O
               Duffe
               ,
            
             and
             others
             ,
             have
             been
             taken
             and
             examined
             before
             the
             Councill
             ,
             and
             upon
             their
             examinations
             have
             confessed
             ,
             that
             upon
             the
             Sabbath
             day
             night
             after
             they
             had
             surprized
             the
             Castle
             (
             being
             the
             day
             following
             )
             their
             intent
             was
             to
             have
             marked
             all
             the
             Irish
             houses
             with
             a
             Crosse
             ,
             to
             have
             distinguished
             them
             from
             the
             English
             ,
             and
             so
             to
             have
             murthered
             them
             by
             entring
             forcibly
             and
             treacherously
             upon
             them
             ,
             and
             also
             to
             have
             seized
             all
             the
             shipping
             at
             the
             Rings
             end
             neere
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             that
             there
             had
             beene
             no
             way
             or
             meanes
             left
             for
             man
             ,
             woman
             ,
             or
             child
             to
             have
             escaped
             their
             fury
             ,
             nor
             
             any
             place
             of
             refuge
             left
             to
             have
             found
             mercy
             .
             Stand
             and
             pause
             a
             while
             and
             consider
             the
             depth
             of
             this
             horrid
             treason
             to
             have
             cut
             off
             all
             the
             Protestants
             !
             Oh
             the
             cryes
             ,
             the
             shreeks
             ,
             the
             teares
             of
             poore
             souls
             flying
             ,
             this
             way
             and
             that
             way
             ,
             still
             into
             the
             mouth
             of
             these
             ravenous
             Lions
             ,
             and
             this
             would
             have
             beene
             their
             Sabbath
             dayes
             work
             ,
             a
             fit
             sacrifice
             for
             him
             whose
             servants
             they
             were
             .
             But
             praysed
             be
             the
             Lord
             ,
             their
             net
             is
             broken
             ,
             and
             we
             have
             escaped
             .
          
           
             What
             man
             so
             blinde
             as
             may
             not
             herein
             behold
             the
             handy
             worke
             of
             God
             ,
             and
             how
             the
             hands
             and
             hearts
             of
             those
             malicious
             furies
             and
             firebrands
             of
             
               Rome
            
             are
             bent
             to
             shed
             inocent
             bloud
             ,
             that
             notwithstanding
             they
             have
             so
             often
             failed
             in
             their
             wicked
             &
             bloudy
             purposed
             and
             intents
             both
             private
             and
             publike
             ,
             which
             they
             have
             secretly
             attempted
             in
             darknesse
             will
             not
             see
             although
             they
             live
             in
             the
             light
             nor
             take
             warning
             ,
             but
             still
             run
             on
             in
             their
             bloud-thirstinesse
             to
             extirpate
             whole
             States
             ,
             to
             suppresse
             the
             Truth
             ,
             and
             to
             shed
             the
             bloud
             of
             Gods
             Saints
             ,
             but
             I
             
             trust
             they
             shall
             fall
             into
             the
             pit
             that
             they
             digged
             for
             others
             .
          
           
             It
             was
             concluded
             by
             the
             Lords
             Justices
             and
             Councell
             of
             
               Ireland
               ,
            
             that
             the
             aforenamed
             
               Owen
               Mack-Connel
               ,
            
             who
             had
             discovered
             this
             Treason
             should
             be
             sent
             with
             Letters
             to
             the
             Parliament
             here
             in
             
               England
               ,
            
             the
             King
             being
             at
             that
             time
             in
             
               Scotland
               ,
            
             who
             at
             his
             comming
             was
             rewarded
             with
             a
             gratuity
             of
             five
             hundred
             pounds
             in
             money
             ,
             and
             an
             allowance
             towards
             the
             mayntenance
             of
             himselfe
             ,
             his
             wife
             and
             children
             of
             two
             hundred
             pounds
             a
             yeere
             ,
             until
             his
             Majesty
             finde
             out
             some
             better
             gift
             to
             bestow
             upon
             him
             ,
             I
             am
             verily
             perswaded
             that
             his
             discovery
             of
             this
             Treason
             hath
             preserved
             the
             lives
             of
             a
             hundred
             thousand
             men
             ,
             women
             and
             children
             and
             many
             more
             ,
             in
             the
             severall
             Provinces
             and
             Counties
             of
             
               Ireland
               .
            
          
           
             Now
             to
             enter
             into
             this
             direfull
             Tragedy
             ,
             every
             step
             being
             a
             step
             in
             bloud
             .
          
        
         
         
           
             Heere
             followeth
             a
             true
             description
             or
             relation
             of
             sundrie
             sad
             and
             lamentable
             collections
             ,
             taken
             from
             the
             mouthes
             of
             verie
             credible
             persons
             ,
             and
             out
             of
             Letters
             sent
             from
             
               Ireland
            
             to
             this
             Citie
             of
             
               London
               ,
            
             of
             the
             perfidious
             outrages
             and
             barbarous
             cruelties
             ,
             which
             the
             
               Irish
            
             Papists
             have
             committed
             upon
             the
             persons
             of
             the
             Protestants
             ,
             both
             men
             ,
             women
             ,
             and
             children
             in
             that
             Kingdome
             .
             
               Anno
               Dom.
               1641.
               
            
          
           
             THe
             Irish
             Nation
             is
             well
             knowne
             to
             be
             a
             people
             both
             proud
             and
             envious
             .
             For
             the
             Comonaltie
             (
             they
             are
             for
             the
             most
             part
             )
             ignorant
             and
             illiterate
             ,
             poore
             ,
             and
             lazie
             ;
             and
             will
             rather
             beg
             or
             starve
             ,
             then
             worke
             :
             &
             therefore
             fit
             subjects
             for
             the
             Priests
             and
             Jesuits
             to
             spur
             on
             upon
             such
             bloudy
             actions
             and
             murth
             '
             rous
             Designes
             .
             Ignorance
             is
             their
             Mother
             ,
             which
             is
             devoid
             of
             mercy
             :
             God
             deliver
             all
             
             good
             Christians
             from
             the
             cruelty
             of
             such
             a
             Mother
             and
             Children
             .
          
           
             It
             is
             too
             well
             knowne
             ,
             (
             the
             more
             is
             the
             pitie
             and
             to
             be
             lamented
             )
             that
             the
             
               Irish
            
             have
             murther'd
             of
             the
             Protestant
             party
             in
             the
             Provinces
             of
             
               Vlster
               ,
               Lempster
               ,
               Connaght
            
             and
             
               Munster
               ,
            
             of
             men
             ,
             women
             ,
             and
             children
             ,
             the
             number
             of
             fifty
             thousand
             ,
             as
             it
             is
             credibly
             reported
             by
             
               Englishmen
               ,
            
             who
             have
             beene
             over
             all
             parts
             of
             the
             Kingdome
             ,
             and
             doe
             protest
             upon
             their
             oaths
             that
             there
             are
             above
             five
             thousand
             Families
             destroyed
             .
          
           
             The
             Kingdome
             of
             
               Ireland
            
             hath
             foure
             Provinces
             ,
             wherein
             there
             are
             contained
             two
             and
             thirty
             Counties
             ,
             besides
             Cities
             and
             County
             Townes
             ,
             in
             all
             which
             places
             the
             
               English
            
             are
             planted
             up
             and
             downe
             in
             all
             parts
             ,
             where
             the
             
               Irish
            
             have
             most
             murtherously
             and
             trayterously
             surprized
             them
             upon
             great
             advantages
             ,
             and
             with
             out
             respect
             of
             persons
             either
             of
             age
             ,
             youth
             ,
             or
             infancy
             ,
             of
             yongmen
             or
             maids
             ,
             or
             of
             old
             men
             or
             babes
             ,
             stript
             all
             to
             their
             skins
             ,
             naked
             as
             ever
             they
             
             were
             borne
             into
             the
             World
             ,
             so
             they
             have
             gone
             out
             of
             the
             World
             ,
             many
             hundreds
             having
             beene
             found
             starved
             to
             death
             in
             Ditches
             for
             want
             of
             food
             and
             rayment
             ,
             where
             the
             rebellious
             
               Irish
            
             have
             shewed
             them
             no
             more
             mercy
             or
             compassion
             ,
             no
             ,
             nor
             so
             much
             as
             they
             would
             doe
             to
             their
             Dogs
             .
             Thus
             much
             for
             the
             generall
             ,
             now
             I
             come
             to
             particulars
             .
          
           
             At
             one
             Master
             
               Atkins
            
             house
             ,
             seven
             Papists
             brake
             in
             &
             beat
             out
             his
             brains
             ,
             then
             ripped
             up
             his
             Wife
             with
             childe
             ,
             after
             they
             had
             ravished
             her
             ,
             and
             
               Nero-like
            
             view'd
             Natures
             bed
             of
             conception
             ,
             they
             then
             took
             the
             child
             ,
             and
             sacrificed
             it
             in
             the
             fire
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             flead
             the
             skin
             from
             the
             bones
             of
             others
             like
             Butchers
             :
             the
             principles
             of
             whose
             Religion
             is
             bloud
             .
             Witnesse
             our
             Books
             of
             Martyrs
             those
             Chronicles
             of
             bloud
             .
             Witnesse
             those
             thousands
             of
             butchered
             Protestants
             in
             
               France
               ,
            
             or
             
               Germany
               .
            
          
           
             They
             burned
             others
             ,
             firing
             their
             Houses
             ,
             Towns
             ,
             Villages
             ,
             those
             sons
             of
             the
             Coale
             ,
             as
             if
             their
             habitation
             were
             in
             Hell
             .
          
           
             
               At
               one
               Mr
               Atkins
               house
               7
               Papistes
               brake
               in
               &
               beate
               out
               his
               braines
               ,
               then
               riped
               upe
               his
               wife
               with
               Childe
               after
               they
               had
               rauished
               her
               &
               Nero
               like
               vewed
               natures
               bed
               of
               conception
               then
               tooke
               they
               the
               Childe
               &
               sacrificed
               it
               in
               the
               fire
            
          
           
             
               English
               Protestantes
               striped
               naked
               &
               turned
               into
               the
               mountaines
               in
               the
               frost
               ,
               &
               snowe
               ▪
               whereof
               many
               hundreds
               are
               perished
               to
               death
               ▪
               &
               many
               liynge
               dead
               in
               diches
               &
               Sauages
               upbraided
               them
               saynge
               now
               are
               ye
               wilde
               Irisch
               as
               well
               as
               wee
               ▪
            
          
           
           
             They
             have
             vowed
             to
             root
             out
             all
             the
             English
             Nation
             out
             of
             this
             Kingdome
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             turned
             all
             the
             Protestants
             out
             of
             
               Kilkeny
               .
            
          
           
             At
             
               Belturbal●
            
             in
             the
             County
             of
             
               Cavan
               ,
            
             the
             Popish
             Rebels
             demanded
             the
             Town
             on
             promise
             ,
             that
             if
             they
             would
             surrender
             they
             should
             passe
             free
             with
             bag
             and
             baggage
             ,
             they
             backt
             their
             promise
             with
             oaths
             and
             execrations
             ,
             cursing
             themselves
             ,
             if
             they
             did
             not
             let
             them
             goe
             withall
             .
             On
             serious
             considerations
             of
             the
             inhabitants
             and
             ,
             the
             Governour
             ,
             they
             were
             perswaded
             to
             yield
             it
             up
             ,
             which
             when
             they
             had
             done
             ,
             and
             drawing
             away
             their
             goods
             and
             moneys
             ,
             they
             like
             treacherous
             Villains
             sent
             about
             twenty
             or
             thirty
             to
             guard
             them
             ,
             when
             they
             had
             guarded
             them
             seven
             miles
             from
             the
             Town
             ,
             they
             with
             more
             of
             that
             desperate
             forsworn
             rabble
             seized
             on
             them
             ,
             robbed
             all
             the
             Protestants
             ,
             being
             betweene
             five
             hundred
             and
             a
             thousand
             persons
             ,
             
             men
             ,
             women
             ,
             and
             children
             ;
             who
             submitting
             themselves
             to
             their
             mercy
             ,
             found
             no
             quarter
             but
             cruelty
             :
             they
             stript
             them
             all
             naked
             ,
             and
             turn'd
             them
             out
             of
             their
             houses
             into
             the
             open
             fields
             in
             bitter
             cold
             weather
             ,
             in
             a
             most
             vile
             and
             shamefull
             manner
             ,
             not
             affording
             them
             one
             of
             their
             lowzy
             rags
             to
             hide
             those
             parts
             which
             should
             be
             covered
             .
             Take
             notice
             of
             the
             faith
             of
             a
             Papist
             ,
             who
             for
             his
             own
             advantage
             ,
             casts
             off
             all
             bonds
             of
             fidelity
             and
             common
             honesty
             .
          
           
             They
             are
             remarkable
             for
             perfidiousnesse
             and
             treachery
             ,
             as
             you
             may
             behold
             in
             that
             Master
             of
             Mis-rule
             ,
             the
             Arch-rebell
             Sir
             
               Philem-Oneal
               ,
            
             basely
             pretending
             to
             be
             a
             Suitor
             to
             the
             old
             Lady
             
               Cawfield
            
             being
             a
             Widow
             ,
             and
             made
             faire
             promises
             of
             his
             respects
             to
             her
             ,
             and
             when
             hee
             had
             his
             advantage
             of
             possession
             of
             her
             house
             and
             goods
             ,
             turned
             them
             out
             of
             all
             ,
             and
             bound
             them
             prisoners
             ,
             and
             made
             her
             whom
             he
             intended
             his
             neerest
             Companion
             to
             be
             his
             lowest
             Vassall
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             Towne
             of
             
               Lurgon
               ,
            
             in
             the
             
             County
             of
             
               Armagh
               ,
            
             the
             
               Mac-kans
            
             skirmishing
             with
             the
             Englishmen
             ,
             slue
             divers
             of
             our
             men
             ,
             whereupon
             they
             entred
             parley
             demanding
             the
             Towne
             :
             Sir
             
               William
               Brunlow
            
             being
             Governour
             of
             the
             Castle
             ,
             on
             some
             considerations
             thought
             good
             to
             yield
             thereupon
             they
             promised
             and
             backt
             it
             with
             oaths
             &
             great
             protestations
             ,
             that
             they
             should
             have
             faire
             quarter
             ,
             and
             passe
             without
             prejudice
             to
             their
             lives
             :
             yet
             behold
             the
             perfidiousnesse
             of
             these
             brutish
             creatures
             ,
             as
             men
             not
             fearing
             God
             or
             Devill
             ,
             whose
             practice
             they
             imitate
             ,
             who
             was
             a
             liar
             from
             the
             beginning
             .
             Notwithstanding
             all
             these
             faire
             pretences
             they
             knew
             no
             mercy
             ,
             killed
             men
             ,
             spoiled
             women
             ,
             nay
             ,
             in
             their
             boundlesse
             rage
             ,
             slue
             and
             massacred
             ,
             and
             sript
             helplesse
             Ministers
             ,
             whose
             calling
             might
             have
             pleaded
             pity
             .
             But
             what
             speake
             wee
             of
             pity
             to
             men
             ,
             that
             have
             no
             bowels
             ?
          
           
             In
             
               London
               Derry
               ,
            
             at
             the
             Towne
             of
             
               Belly-hagh
            
             belonging
             to
             the
             
               Londoners
               .
            
             Sir
             
               Philem-Oneal
               ,
            
             promised
             under
             hand
             and
             seale
             to
             let
             the
             poore
             Protestants
             
             to
             passe
             with
             bag
             and
             baggage
             ,
             only
             to
             part
             with
             their
             Town
             ,
             which
             was
             a
             faire
             goodly
             place
             :
             yet
             this
             perfidious
             Rebell
             ,
             as
             if
             it
             was
             not
             enough
             to
             make
             these
             poore
             souls
             harborless
             ,
             to
             lay
             them
             open
             to
             vvind
             and
             vveather
             ,
             but
             to
             adde
             to
             all
             their
             misery
             ,
             stript
             man
             ,
             vvoman
             and
             child
             ,
             took
             their
             clothes
             for
             a
             prey
             ,
             and
             sent
             them
             out
             naked
             ,
             vvithout
             a
             shirt
             or
             smock
             to
             their
             backs
             ,
             left
             them
             not
             vvorth
             a
             groat
             ,
             this
             vvas
             one
             of
             their
             vvorks
             of
             mercy
             ,
             if
             they
             scaped
             vvith
             their
             lives
             :
             but
             how
             many
             lives
             might
             be
             lost
             by
             this
             immodest
             and
             inhumane
             act
             ,
             judge
             .
             The
             tender
             mercies
             of
             the
             wicked
             are
             cruell
             .
          
           
             Will
             you
             behold
             another
             mercifull
             act
             and
             record
             it
             .
             Captaine
             
               Rory
               Mac-quire
               ,
            
             the
             Lord
             
               Macquires
            
             brother
             at
             the
             beginning
             of
             the
             rebellion
             for
             the
             first
             fortnight
             commands
             his
             Souldiers
             to
             give
             quarter
             to
             women
             and
             children
             ,
             but
             to
             massacre
             all
             the
             men
             to
             spare
             none
             .
             Woe
             to
             him
             that
             makes
             the
             wife
             a
             widow
             and
             the
             children
             fatherlesse
             ,
             but
             after
             they
             began
             to
             resist
             ,
             
             and
             to
             gather
             into
             Companies
             :
             then
             heare
             the
             Charge
             of
             this
             bloudy
             man
             ,
             Give
             no
             quarter
             ,
             no
             not
             to
             women
             ,
             though
             teares
             and
             prayers
             interpose
             ,
             yet
             know
             no
             pity
             :
             no
             not
             to
             harmlesse
             babes
             ,
             though
             it
             was
             death
             enough
             to
             kill
             their
             parents
             ,
             nor
             spare
             neither
             man
             ,
             woman
             ,
             or
             child
             .
          
           
             It
             is
             reported
             by
             an
             eminent
             Gentleman
             ,
             that
             hath
             long
             dwelt
             among
             the
             Rebels
             ,
             but
             it
             's
             thought
             fit
             to
             forbeare
             the
             names
             of
             those
             that
             give
             intelligence
             of
             the
             barbarous
             cruelties
             of
             these
             savage
             beasts
             ,
             because
             they
             threaten
             to
             be
             the
             death
             of
             them
             that
             shall
             unmaske
             them
             .
             It
             is
             reported
             by
             this
             Gentleman
             that
             the
             
               Handlowans
            
             came
             to
             
               Town-regis
               ,
            
             divers
             of
             them
             assaulted
             the
             Castle
             ,
             of
             which
             Captain
             Saint
             
               John
            
             was
             Commander
             ,
             hee
             with
             his
             son
             got
             away
             with
             some
             difficulty
             ,
             leaping
             over
             the
             wall
             ,
             they
             fearing
             they
             might
             fetch
             supplies
             to
             recover
             their
             lost
             Castle
             ,
             most
             inhumanely
             tooke
             the
             Captaines
             wife
             ,
             (
             poore
             Gentlewoman
             )
             and
             set
             her
             on
             the
             wall
             having
             stript
             her
             to
             her
             
             smock
             ,
             who
             was
             big
             with
             child
             (
             and
             within
             an
             houre
             of
             her
             delivery
             )
             that
             in
             case
             the
             Captain
             and
             his
             son
             should
             have
             assaulted
             the
             Towne
             ,
             his
             Wife
             should
             have
             beene
             the
             white
             at
             which
             hee
             must
             have
             levelled
             :
             oh
             extreame
             and
             unheard
             of
             cruelty
             !
          
           
             As
             for
             the
             Protestant
             Ministers
             whom
             they
             surprize
             ,
             their
             cruelty
             is
             such
             towards
             them
             ,
             as
             it
             would
             make
             the
             hardest
             heart
             to
             melt
             into
             teares
             .
             Their
             manner
             is
             first
             to
             strip
             them
             ,
             and
             after
             bind
             them
             to
             a
             tree
             or
             some
             post
             where
             they
             please
             ,
             and
             then
             to
             ravish
             their
             wives
             and
             daughters
             before
             their
             faces
             (
             in
             sight
             of
             all
             their
             mercilesse
             rabble
             )
             with
             the
             basest
             Villains
             they
             can
             pick
             out
             ,
             after
             they
             hang
             up
             their
             husbands
             and
             parents
             before
             their
             faces
             ,
             and
             then
             cut
             them
             downe
             before
             they
             be
             half
             dead
             ,
             then
             quarter
             them
             ,
             after
             dismember
             them
             ,
             and
             stop
             their
             mouthes
             therewith
             .
          
           
             They
             basely
             abused
             one
             M.
             
               Trafford
            
             a
             Minister
             in
             the
             North
             of
             
               Ireland
            
             who
             was
             assaulted
             by
             these
             bloudy
             wolves
             of
             
               Romes
            
             brood
             ,
             that
             know
             not
             God
             ,
             
             
             
             nor
             any
             bowels
             of
             mercy
             .
             This
             poore
             distressed
             Minister
             desired
             but
             so
             much
             time
             to
             bethink
             himselfe
             before
             he
             took
             his
             farewell
             of
             the
             World
             to
             call
             upon
             God
             :
             but
             these
             mercilesse
             wretches
             would
             admit
             no
             time
             ,
             but
             instantly
             fell
             on
             him
             ,
             hackt
             and
             hewed
             him
             to
             pieces
             .
          
           
             Doctor
             
               Tate
            
             Minister
             of
             
               Belly-Hayes
            
             they
             stript
             starke
             naked
             ,
             and
             then
             wounded
             him
             dangerously
             in
             the
             head
             ,
             and
             then
             let
             him
             goe
             towards
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             where
             hee
             lay
             long
             sick
             .
          
           
             Sir
             
               Patrick
               Dunstons
            
             Wife
             ravished
             before
             him
             ,
             slue
             his
             Servants
             ,
             spurned
             his
             Children
             till
             they
             died
             ,
             bound
             him
             with
             roules
             of
             Match
             to
             a
             board
             ,
             that
             his
             eyes
             burst
             out
             ,
             cut
             off
             his
             eares
             and
             nose
             ,
             teared
             off
             both
             his
             cheeks
             ,
             after
             cut
             off
             his
             arms
             and
             legs
             ,
             cut
             out
             his
             tongue
             ,
             after
             run
             a
             red
             hot
             iron
             into
             him
             .
          
           
             
               Multitudes
               of
               Herringes
               driuen
               into
               Dublin
               ,
               20
               a
               peny
               .
            
          
           
             
               Sr
               :
               Patrike
               Dunsons
               Wiffe
               ravished
               before
               him
               ▪
               slew
               his
               Seruants
               ,
               spurned
               his
               Children
               tell
               they
               died
               ,
               bound
               him
               with
               Rowles
               of
               match
               to
               a
               Bord
               that
               his
               eyes
               bursted
               out
               cut
               of
               his
               eares
               &
               nose
               teared
               ofe
               both
               his
               Cheekes
               after
               cut
               of
               his
               armes
               &
               legges
               ,
               cut
               out
               his
               tongue
               after
               rune
               a
               red
               hot
               Iron
               into
               him
            
          
           
           
             Many
             Gentlewomen
             have
             they
             ravished
             before
             their
             husbands
             faces
             ,
             stripping
             them
             first
             naked
             to
             the
             view
             of
             their
             wicked
             companions
             ,
             taunting
             and
             mocking
             them
             (
             after
             they
             have
             spoiled
             them
             )
             with
             bitter
             and
             reproachfull
             words
             ,
             sending
             them
             away
             in
             such
             a
             shamefull
             ,
             or
             rather
             shamelesse
             manner
             ,
             that
             most
             of
             them
             have
             died
             with
             shame
             and
             grief
             ,
             or
             else
             have
             starved
             with
             want
             and
             cold
             .
             Base
             cruelty
             unheard
             of
             ,
             exceeding
             the
             brute
             beasts
             ,
             and
             so
             much
             the
             worse
             because
             they
             are
             reasonable
             ,
             which
             makes
             them
             skilfull
             to
             destroy
             .
          
           
             One
             Master
             
               Luttrell
            
             dwelling
             within
             three
             miles
             of
             the
             Burrough
             of
             
               Cavan
               ,
            
             a
             Gentleman
             worth
             by
             report
             ,
             two
             or
             three
             hundred
             pounds
             a
             yeere
             ,
             with
             a
             very
             great
             stock
             of
             Cattle
             ,
             was
             basely
             betrayed
             by
             an
             
               Irish
            
             Boy
             that
             hee
             had
             bred
             up
             in
             his
             house
             .
             See
             the
             basenesse
             of
             the
             Popish
             brood
             ,
             who
             when
             hee
             was
             at
             Dinner
             (
             being
             upon
             the
             thirtieth
             day
             of
             
               October
            
             last
             )
             was
             surprized
             by
             threescore
             of
             those
             
               Irish
            
             unmercifull
             Villains
             ,
             with
             a
             company
             
             of
             dirty
             Whoores
             and
             Bastards
             that
             followed
             them
             ,
             which
             this
             Boy
             let
             in
             at
             a
             back
             doore
             ,
             where
             pulling
             him
             and
             his
             vertuous
             Wife
             from
             the
             Table
             ,
             and
             foure
             smal
             children
             ,
             the
             eldest
             of
             them
             being
             not
             sixe
             yeeres
             of
             age
             ,
             and
             one
             sucking
             at
             her
             brest
             without
             pity
             or
             humanity
             stript
             them
             naked
             ,
             notwithstanding
             their
             prayers
             and
             teares
             to
             have
             let
             them
             kept
             their
             clothes
             ,
             and
             then
             thrusting
             them
             in
             a
             cruell
             and
             violent
             manner
             out
             of
             doores
             ,
             threatned
             to
             kill
             them
             if
             they
             went
             not
             speedily
             away
             .
             Take
             notice
             how
             uncertaine
             all
             our
             outward
             comforts
             are
             .
             So
             they
             departed
             (
             for
             feare
             )
             away
             ,
             being
             ashamed
             to
             bee
             seene
             of
             their
             servants
             ,
             some
             of
             them
             running
             one
             way
             ,
             and
             some
             another
             to
             shift
             for
             themselves
             ,
             but
             the
             distressed
             Gentleman
             with
             his
             Wife
             and
             Children
             ,
             and
             a
             little
             youth
             ,
             directed
             their
             course
             towards
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             hoping
             to
             find
             some
             of
             their
             friends
             in
             the
             way
             to
             relieve
             them
             ,
             but
             the
             farther
             they
             came
             the
             more
             miserable
             they
             were
             ,
             meeting
             their
             loving
             Friends
             robbed
             (
             by
             
             others
             )
             in
             the
             same
             manner
             ,
             which
             struck
             in
             them
             such
             amazement
             and
             feare
             ,
             that
             their
             hearts
             failed
             them
             ,
             so
             that
             being
             naked
             and
             hungry
             ,
             helplesse
             and
             hopelesse
             ,
             the
             poore
             Infants
             crying
             in
             their
             eares
             ,
             which
             must
             needs
             kill
             their
             hearts
             ,
             they
             went
             not
             far
             but
             sate
             downe
             under
             a
             Hedge
             or
             Ditch
             ,
             and
             there
             died
             :
             being
             not
             (
             at
             that
             time
             above
             sixe
             miles
             from
             his
             own
             house
             ,
             for
             this
             little
             youth
             that
             he
             had
             bred
             up
             (
             being
             an
             English
             boy
             )
             forsooke
             not
             his
             Master
             when
             the
             rest
             ran
             from
             him
             ,
             but
             continued
             with
             him
             till
             death
             ,
             the
             same
             day
             ,
             some
             Horsemen
             or
             Troopers
             riding
             that
             way
             to
             coast
             the
             Country
             ,
             me
             this
             youth
             ,
             unto
             whom
             hee
             told
             this
             sad
             story
             ,
             and
             being
             not
             far
             from
             the
             place
             led
             them
             to
             this
             lamentable
             sight
             ,
             where
             they
             beheld
             the
             true
             love
             of
             Man
             and
             Wife
             ,
             embracing
             each
             other
             in
             their
             death
             ,
             the
             three
             eldest
             children
             dead
             ,
             but
             the
             sucking
             childe
             was
             alive
             preserved
             through
             heat
             ,
             being
             between
             them
             both
             ,
             and
             grabling
             and
             gaping
             for
             the
             dead
             Mothers
             brest
             .
             So
             
             the
             Troopers
             tooke
             up
             the
             child
             ,
             carrying
             it
             to
             a
             Nurse
             ,
             for
             they
             knew
             the
             Parents
             well
             ,
             and
             bestowed
             some
             clothes
             upon
             the
             English
             youth
             ,
             who
             came
             to
             
               Dublin
            
             within
             few
             days
             after
             ,
             and
             related
             the
             story
             in
             my
             hearing
             .
          
           
             In
             the
             County
             of
             
               Roscommon
               ,
            
             neere
             the
             Town
             of
             
               Roscommon
               ,
            
             there
             fled
             into
             the
             Parish
             Church
             ,
             eleven
             score
             of
             the
             English
             ,
             men
             ,
             women
             ,
             and
             children
             ,
             where
             they
             remayned
             three
             dayes
             and
             nights
             without
             any
             sustenance
             ,
             till
             they
             were
             almost
             starved
             ,
             so
             that
             at
             last
             (
             what
             with
             the
             cryes
             of
             their
             children
             and
             their
             own
             wants
             )
             they
             were
             forced
             to
             commit
             themselves
             to
             the
             cruelty
             of
             the
             
               Irish
               ,
            
             who
             according
             to
             their
             usuall
             manner
             first
             stript
             them
             naked
             ,
             after
             drove
             them
             through
             the
             Town
             like
             so
             many
             harmlesse
             Sheep
             and
             Lambs
             over
             a
             Bridge
             at
             the
             Townes
             end
             ,
             having
             before
             broke
             down
             one
             of
             the
             middle
             arches
             where
             a
             strong
             water
             runneth
             ,
             so
             that
             either
             they
             must
             leap
             in
             or
             come
             back
             ,
             their
             intent
             being
             there
             to
             murther
             them
             ,
             as
             they
             did
             .
             For
             the
             poore
             
             wretches
             being
             sicke
             ,
             weak
             and
             faint
             for
             food
             and
             sleepe
             (
             yet
             unwilling
             to
             hasten
             their
             own
             ends
             )
             some
             returned
             back
             whom
             they
             kild
             without
             mercy
             ,
             others
             they
             thrust
             into
             the
             water
             who
             were
             drowned
             ,
             some
             that
             could
             ,
             did
             swim
             towards
             the
             shoare
             ,
             and
             there
             inhumane
             villanies
             ,
             brutish
             furies
             ,
             ran
             and
             met
             them
             before
             they
             could
             get
             to
             land
             ,
             and
             knockt
             them
             in
             the
             head
             in
             the
             water
             ,
             some
             few
             escaped
             that
             did
             swim
             to
             the
             other
             side
             of
             the
             River
             ,
             where
             the
             
               Irish
            
             could
             not
             come
             at
             them
             ,
             having
             before
             broken
             downe
             the
             Bridge
             themselves
             ,
             and
             so
             escaped
             to
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             to
             be
             sad
             witnesses
             of
             this
             lamentable
             Tragedy
             .
          
           
             Master
             
               Blandry
            
             a
             Minister
             they
             hanged
             ,
             after
             puld
             his
             flesh
             from
             his
             bones
             in
             his
             Wifes
             sight
             .
          
           
             
               Driuinge
               Men
               Women
               &
               Children
               by
               hundreds
               vpon
               Briges
               &
               casting
               them
               into
               Riuers
               ,
               who
               drowned
               not
               were
               killed
               with
               poles
               &
               shot
               with
               muskets
            
          
           
             
               Mr
               Blandry
               Minister
               hanged
               after
               pulled
               his
               flesh
               from
               his
               bones
               in
               his
               wiffes
               sight
            
          
           
             There
             was
             one
             Gentlewoman
             which
             was
             wife
             to
             Master
             
               King
            
             a
             Deane
             (
             Brother
             to
             the
             Bishop
             of
             
               Clogue
            
             )
             and
             Parson
             of
             
               Dundalke
               ,
            
             in
             the
             County
             of
             
               Lowth
               ,
            
             who
             having
             three
             thousand
             inhabitants
             in
             his
             Parish
             ,
             had
             but
             thirty
             Communicants
             of
             the
             Protestant
             Party
             ,
             the
             rest
             being
             all
             
               Irish
            
             and
             Papist
             ,
             and
             although
             this
             Gentleman
             did
             for
             many
             days
             together
             (
             by
             his
             own
             Relation
             to
             mee
             )
             sollicite
             his
             wife
             to
             goe
             to
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             and
             to
             remove
             his
             goods
             thither
             living
             at
             a
             place
             about
             two
             miles
             from
             
               Dundalke
               ,
            
             she
             being
             great
             with
             child
             ,
             yet
             would
             not
             be
             perswaded
             ,
             although
             she
             knew
             the
             Rebels
             were
             at
             the
             
               Newry
            
             within
             eight
             miles
             of
             
               Dundalke
               ,
            
             whereupon
             hee
             left
             her
             and
             his
             Family
             ,
             and
             going
             to
             a
             Friends
             house
             within
             two
             
             miles
             of
             his
             own
             (
             for
             feare
             of
             the
             multitude
             of
             the
             
               Irish
               ,
            
             that
             lived
             about
             his
             own
             House
             )
             he
             remayned
             there
             but
             two
             days
             when
             tydings
             was
             brought
             him
             ,
             that
             the
             
               Irish
            
             had
             seized
             upon
             his
             wife
             and
             all
             that
             he
             had
             ,
             so
             that
             he
             was
             forced
             to
             fly
             away
             for
             his
             life
             with
             his
             friends
             ,
             who
             was
             pursued
             by
             the
             Rebels
             above
             twelve
             miles
             ,
             but
             through
             Gods
             mercy
             he
             escaped
             with
             his
             precious
             life
             (
             which
             they
             hunted
             after
             )
             with
             the
             loss
             of
             his
             whole
             estate
             ,
             and
             wife
             whom
             they
             turned
             out
             of
             doores
             (
             having
             first
             abused
             her
             )
             where
             shee
             was
             delivered
             in
             straw
             ,
             without
             the
             helpe
             of
             any
             woman
             ,
             and
             so
             perished
             .
             She
             was
             a
             charitable
             Gentlewoman
             ,
             and
             in
             her
             life
             time
             had
             relieved
             many
             hundreds
             of
             the
             poore
             
               Irish
               ,
            
             and
             this
             mercy
             they
             afforded
             her
             for
             her
             charity
             .
          
           
             The
             Lord
             
               Blany
            
             escaped
             their
             cruelty
             ,
             being
             forced
             to
             ride
             fourteene
             miles
             upon
             a
             poore
             carrion
             jade
             ,
             without
             either
             bridle
             or
             saddle
             to
             save
             his
             life
             ,
             his
             vertuous
             Lady
             being
             surprized
             by
             these
             Villains
             ,
             the
             same
             day
             and
             his
             children
             ,
             who
             use
             her
             most
             ignobly
             and
             cruelly
             ,
             
             neither
             regarding
             her
             noblenesse
             of
             birth
             ,
             nor
             her
             Lord
             ,
             but
             forc'd
             her
             to
             lodge
             in
             straw
             with
             a
             poore
             allowance
             of
             two
             pence
             a
             day
             to
             relieve
             her
             and
             her
             children
             :
             and
             to
             adde
             affliction
             to
             the
             good
             Ladies
             misery
             ,
             slue
             a
             Kinsman
             of
             hers
             ,
             and
             caused
             him
             to
             be
             hanged
             up
             before
             her
             face
             two
             days
             and
             two
             nights
             in
             the
             roome
             where
             shee
             lay
             to
             terrifie
             her
             ,
             telling
             her
             withall
             ,
             she
             must
             expect
             that
             end
             .
          
           
             
               the
               Lord
               Blany
               forced
               to
               ride
               14
               Miles
               without
               Bridle
               or
               Sadell
               to
               saue
               his
               life
               his
               Lady
               Lodged
               in
               Strawe
               beeing
               allowed
               2
               a
               day
               to
               releue
               her
               &
               her
               Children
               ,
               slew
               a
               kindsman
               of
               hers
               and
               hanged
               him
               up
               before
               her
               face
               2
               dayes
               telling
               her
               she
               must
               expect
               the
               same
               to
               terrifie
               her
               the
               moore
            
          
           
             
               Mr
               Dauenant
               and
               his
               Wife
               bound
               in
               their
               Chaires
               Striped
               the
               2
               Eldest
               Children
               of
               7
               years
               old
               rosted
               them
               upon
               Spittes
               before
               their
               Parents
               faces
               .
               Cutt
               heir
               throte
               and
               after
               murdred
               him
               .
            
          
           
             At
             the
             Borough
             of
             
               Kello
               ,
            
             or
             ,
             as
             some
             Letters
             report
             ,
             at
             the
             Borough
             of
             
               Trim
               ,
            
             being
             both
             in
             the
             County
             of
             
               Meath
               ,
            
             in
             the
             Province
             of
             
               Vlster
               ,
            
             the
             Rebels
             surprized
             the
             house
             of
             one
             
               Arthur
               Robinson
               ,
            
             he
             himselfe
             being
             at
             that
             time
             in
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             which
             was
             upon
             the
             sixt
             day
             of
             
               November
            
             last
             ,
             about
             some
             suits
             hee
             had
             in
             law
             ,
             being
             in
             the
             last
             
               Michaelmas
            
             Terme
             ,
             he
             not
             knowing
             that
             the
             Rebels
             were
             risen
             in
             those
             parts
             there
             ,
             hee
             intending
             to
             have
             gone
             home
             to
             his
             wife
             and
             family
             ,
             five
             or
             six
             days
             after
             ,
             hoping
             by
             that
             time
             to
             have
             ended
             his
             businesse
             ,
             and
             indeed
             when
             he
             
             came
             from
             his
             house
             to
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             which
             was
             on
             the
             twentieth
             day
             of
             
               October
               ,
            
             the
             Rebellion
             was
             not
             begun
             in
             any
             part
             of
             
               Ireland
               ,
            
             but
             before
             his
             appointed
             time
             to
             return
             home
             ,
             a
             Messenger
             prevented
             him
             with
             heavy
             tydings
             ,
             even
             his
             only
             Daughter
             whom
             hee
             quickly
             knew
             ,
             though
             shee
             were
             much
             disguized
             ,
             for
             the
             Rebels
             have
             slain
             most
             of
             his
             Family
             ,
             robbed
             and
             pillaged
             the
             house
             ,
             after
             they
             had
             stripped
             his
             wife
             and
             ravished
             her
             ,
             they
             sought
             ought
             for
             this
             young
             Virgin
             (
             being
             about
             fourteene
             yeares
             of
             age
             )
             who
             had
             hid
             her selfe
             in
             a
             Barne
             ,
             where
             the
             Villains
             quickly
             found
             her
             :
             but
             she
             made
             what
             resistance
             she
             could
             to
             preserve
             her
             Chastity
             ,
             and
             with
             a
             Knife
             shee
             had
             (
             unseen
             to
             them
             )
             wounded
             one
             of
             them
             ,
             which
             the
             rest
             perceiving
             seized
             upon
             her
             violently
             ,
             stripped
             her
             ,
             and
             then
             bound
             her
             with
             her
             armes
             abroad
             ,
             in
             such
             manner
             as
             she
             could
             not
             help
             her self
             any
             way
             ,
             and
             so
             like
             hel-hounds
             defloured
             her
             one
             after
             another
             ,
             till
             they
             had
             spoiled
             her
             ;
             and
             to
             shew
             their
             unheard
             off
             malice
             ,
             were
             not
             herewith
             content
             ,
             but
             puld
             the
             haire
             from
             
             her
             head
             ,
             and
             cut
             out
             her
             tongue
             :
             because
             shee
             should
             not
             report
             the
             truth
             and
             their
             cruelty
             ,
             but
             the
             maid
             could
             write
             ,
             though
             shee
             could
             not
             speak
             ,
             and
             so
             discovered
             their
             inhumane
             usage
             to
             her
             and
             her
             mother
             .
             The
             maid
             was
             sent
             with
             a
             letter
             from
             her
             Father
             in
             
               Dublin
            
             to
             
               Mynhead
            
             in
             
               Somersetshire
               ,
            
             to
             her
             Uncle
             
               William
               Dyer
               ,
            
             her
             Mothers
             Brother
             living
             within
             three
             miles
             of
             
               Mynhead
               ,
            
             which
             letter
             I
             have
             seen
             here
             in
             Towne
             ▪
             containing
             the
             contents
             above-written
             ,
             being
             dated
             at
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             the
             twentieth
             of
             
               November
            
             last
             .
          
           
             About
             the
             eighth
             of
             
               January
            
             last
             a
             distressed
             Minister
             came
             to
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             that
             had
             left
             some
             goods
             with
             a
             supposed
             Friend
             ,
             sent
             for
             them
             ,
             the
             goods
             could
             not
             be
             delivered
             ,
             unlesse
             he
             or
             his
             wife
             came
             for
             them
             ,
             hee
             would
             not
             goe
             ,
             but
             she
             went
             and
             when
             she
             came
             where
             her
             goods
             were
             (
             as
             if
             that
             were
             too
             little
             to
             lose
             her
             estate
             ,
             but
             her
             life
             must
             goe
             also
             )
             they
             hanged
             her
             up
             .
             Was
             there
             ever
             such
             Barbarisme
             among
             the
             Heathen
             ?
          
           
             
               Arthur
               Robinsons
               daughter
               14.
               yeares
               old
               the
               Rebbels
               bounde
               her
               armes
               a
               broad
               ,
               deflowerd
               ,
               her
               one
               after
               an
               other
               tell
               they
               spoyled
               her
               then
               pulled
               the
               haire
               from
               her
               head
               and
               cut
               out
               her
               tongue
               that
               she
               might
               not
               tell
               of
               their
               Cruelty
               ,
               but
               she
               declared
               it
               by
               writing
            
          
           
             
               A
               Minister
               and
               his
               wife
               came
               to
               Dublin
               Ian
               :
               30.
               1641.
               left
               behinde
               him
               some
               goods
               with
               a
               supposed
               frend
               ,
               sent
               for
               them
               but
               could
               not
               be
               deliuered
               vnlesse
               he
               or
               his
               wife
               come
               for
               them
               she
               came
               and
               presently
               they
               hanged
               her
               upe
               ,
            
          
           
           
             In
             the
             Countie
             of
             
               Fermannagh
               ,
            
             in
             the
             Province
             of
             
               Vlster
               ,
            
             they
             murthered
             one
             Master
             
               Champion
            
             a
             Justice
             of
             Peace
             ,
             and
             a
             Burgesse
             of
             the
             Parliament
             for
             the
             Borough
             of
             
               Iniskillin
            
             in
             the
             said
             County
             ,
             who
             was
             betray'd
             by
             an
             
               Irish
            
             Villaine
             his
             Tenant
             ,
             whom
             hee
             had
             saved
             himself
             twice
             before
             from
             the
             gallows
             .
             The
             Rogue's
             name
             was
             
               Patrick
               Mack-Dermot
               ,
            
             who
             finding
             one
             of
             his
             Companion
             ,
             brings
             him
             to
             Master
             
               Champion's
            
             House
             ,
             and
             tels
             Master
             
               Champion
            
             that
             he
             found
             this
             Thiefe
             stealing
             of
             his
             cattle
             ,
             The
             Gentleman
             knowing
             this
             
               Mack-Dermot
               ,
            
             said
             unto
             him
             before
             one
             Master
             
               Iremonger
            
             an
             Attorney
             ,
             I
             am
             glad
             thou
             art
             turn'd
             from
             a
             Thiefe
             to
             catch
             a
             Thiefe
             ,
             whereupon
             he
             return'd
             him
             this
             peremptory
             answer
             ,
             That
             hee
             was
             no
             more
             Thiefe
             than
             himselfe
             .
             No
             sooner
             had
             he
             utter'd
             these
             words
             in
             the
             Court
             before
             his
             house
             ,
             but
             there
             rushes
             in
             upon
             them
             a
             great
             number
             of
             these
             rebels
             ,
             who
             without
             respect
             of
             mercy
             stabb'd
             Master
             
               Champion
               ,
            
             instantly
             before
             hee
             could
             get
             into
             his
             house
             :
             so
             that
             hee
             fell
             down
             immediatly
             ,
             but
             their
             fury
             went
             
             further
             then
             death
             ,
             for
             they
             wounded
             him
             with
             their
             Skeins
             in
             thirty
             places
             after
             hee
             was
             dead
             ,
             and
             then
             cut
             off
             his
             head
             to
             make
             sure
             worke
             ,
             while
             the
             rest
             ran
             into
             the
             house
             after
             Master
             
               Iremonger
               ,
            
             whom
             they
             followed
             so
             close
             that
             hee
             had
             not
             time
             to
             lay
             hold
             on
             his
             sword
             to
             help
             himself
             ,
             but
             falling
             down
             upon
             his
             knees
             and
             calling
             upon
             God
             for
             mercy
             ,
             they
             fell
             upon
             him
             ,
             and
             ran
             him
             thorow
             and
             thorow
             ,
             and
             so
             he
             died
             .
             One
             of
             Master
             
               Champions
            
             servants
             escaped
             to
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             and
             reported
             this
             in
             my
             hearing
             in
             
               December
            
             last
             .
             A
             third
             was
             likewise
             slaine
             ,
             then
             the
             Rebels
             entred
             the
             House
             and
             kild
             more
             :
             his
             wife's
             sister
             and
             her
             brother
             in
             law
             ,
             with
             two
             others
             in
             the
             house
             they
             keep
             prisoners
             to
             this
             day
             ,
             taking
             possession
             of
             all
             they
             had
             within
             the
             house
             and
             without
             ,
             his
             wife
             was
             down
             on
             her
             knees
             to
             beg
             a
             sheet
             to
             put
             her
             hubands
             dead
             body
             in
             .
             And
             another
             Gentleman
             with
             other
             Friends
             that
             came
             to
             visit
             him
             over
             night
             ,
             lost
             their
             lives
             next
             morning
             .
          
           
             
               Mr:
               FFordes
               house
               rifled
               and
               to
               make
               her
               Confesse
               where
               her
               mony
               lay
               they
               tooke
               hot
               tonges
               clappinge
               them
               to
               the
               Soules
               of
               her
               feete
               &
               to
               the
               Palmes
               of
               her
               handes
               so
               tormented
               her
               that
               with
               the
               paine
               thereof
               shee
               died
            
          
           
             
               They
               haue
               set
               men
               &
               women
               on
               hot
               Grideorns
               to
               make
               them
               Confesse
               where
               there
               money
               was
            
          
           
             They
             have
             set
             up
             Gallows
             five
             miles
             distant
             in
             divers
             places
             on
             purpose
             ,
             to
             hang
             up
             the
             Protestant
             Spies
             ,
             which
             they
             have
             done
             accordingly
             ,
             they
             have
             likewise
             cruelly
             set
             women
             &
             men
             one
             
             red
             hot
             Gridions
             to
             make
             them
             confess
             where
             such
             coyne
             ,
             and
             money
             ,
             and
             goods
             as
             they
             had
             ,
             or
             whether
             they
             have
             hid
             or
             sold
             any
             .
          
           
             And
             all
             these
             cruelties
             are
             not
             done
             without
             the
             advice
             and
             animation
             of
             the
             Friers
             ,
             Priests
             ,
             and
             Jesuits
             ,
             and
             their
             religious
             men
             ,
             or
             rather
             Firebrands
             of
             Hell
             ;
             who
             at
             their
             Masses
             ,
             and
             their
             incendiary
             Sermons
             ,
             stir
             up
             the
             people
             to
             the
             committing
             of
             these
             Massacres
             ,
             promising
             them
             pardon
             for
             the
             same
             ,
             and
             assuring
             them
             the
             more
             merit
             ,
             by
             how
             much
             the
             more
             they
             exceed
             in
             their
             villainous
             cruelties
             :
             they
             themselves
             being
             still
             in
             the
             first
             of
             these
             executions
             .
             For
             no
             stratagem
             of
             warre
             ,
             nor
             other
             horrid
             action
             or
             designe
             whatsoever
             ,
             is
             there
             undertaken
             ,
             without
             them
             .
             They
             going
             on
             with
             their
             Souldiers
             in
             the
             head
             and
             front
             of
             every
             battaile
             ,
             and
             by
             their
             mischievous
             advices
             and
             counsels
             do
             make
             them
             mad
             ,
             Tigre-like
             ,
             with
             fiercenesse
             and
             cruelty
             ,
             assuring
             them
             that
             to
             imbrue
             their
             hands
             in
             the
             bloud
             of
             us
             Protestants
             (
             which
             they
             terme
             Heretikes
             )
             shall
             adde
             to
             their
             merits
             and
             
             Canonization
             of
             Saints
             ,
             and
             gain
             them
             higher
             place
             and
             reward
             in
             Heaven
             .
          
           
             Master
             
               Jerome
            
             Minister
             they
             basely
             abused
             who
             lived
             neere
             
               Dublin
            
             sometimes
             :
             but
             when
             he
             was
             thus
             murthered
             ,
             he
             lived
             neere
             the
             Borough
             of
             
               Athie
               ,
            
             in
             the
             County
             of
             
               Kildare
               ,
            
             they
             hanged
             him
             then
             ,
             mangled
             his
             body
             ,
             cut
             off
             his
             members
             ,
             stopt
             his
             mouth
             with
             them
             ,
             then
             quartered
             him
             .
             This
             is
             reported
             by
             a
             Citizen
             of
             
               Dublin
            
             now
             in
             
               London
            
             to
             beare
             witnesse
             to
             this
             Truth
             .
          
           
             A
             Proclamation
             was
             made
             that
             neither
             
               English
            
             nor
             
               Irish
            
             should
             either
             sell
             or
             keep
             in
             their
             houses
             any
             powder
             upon
             the
             losse
             of
             goods
             and
             life
             :
             except
             with
             licence
             ,
             and
             at
             two
             shillings
             the
             pound
             .
          
           
             Ministers
             they
             hate
             and
             breath
             out
             cruelty
             against
             cruelty
             ,
             massacring
             their
             bodies
             ,
             burning
             their
             books
             ,
             and
             tearing
             them
             in
             pieces
             ,
             and
             it
             is
             likely
             where
             they
             can
             light
             on
             them
             they
             use
             them
             accordingly
             .
          
           
             
               Hauing
               rauished
               Virgens
               &
               Wifes
               they
               take
               there
               Children
               &
               dase
               there
               braines
               against
               the
               Walls
               in
               sight
               of
               there
               weepinge
               Parents
               &
               after
               destrored
               them
               likewise
            
          
           
             
               Mr
               Ierome
               Minister
               of
               Brides
               his
               Body
               mangled
               &
               his
               members
               cut
               of
            
          
           
           
             They
             rob
             all
             
               English
            
             Protestants
             ,
             stripping
             them
             stark
             naked
             ,
             and
             so
             turn
             them
             into
             the
             open
             fields
             and
             mountaines
             in
             frost
             and
             snow
             ,
             where
             hundreds
             have
             perished
             .
          
           
             They
             destroy
             the
             
               English
            
             breed
             of
             Cattel
             out
             of
             malice
             to
             the
             Protestants
             ,
             that
             the
             poore
             dumbe
             creatures
             fare
             the
             worse
             and
             are
             spoiled
             ,
             though
             one
             of
             ours
             is
             worth
             foure
             of
             theirs
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             cut
             off
             mens
             privy
             members
             and
             stopt
             their
             mouthes
             with
             them
             (
             like
             cruell
             savage
             beasts
             )
             that
             they
             might
             commit
             such
             horrid
             villanies
             without
             noyse
             and
             lest
             their
             pittilesse
             bowels
             might
             be
             moved
             with
             the
             cryes
             of
             those
             so
             cruelly
             massacred
             Protestants
             .
          
           
             At
             
               Waterford
               ,
            
             some
             poore
             Protestants
             ready
             to
             be
             starved
             ,
             came
             to
             the
             Towne
             for
             reliefe
             ,
             and
             their
             charity
             threw
             them
             some
             bread
             over
             the
             wall
             :
             it
             is
             likely
             the
             Dogs
             should
             have
             had
             the
             same
             entertainment
             .
          
           
             The
             Papists
             curse
             the
             Jesuites
             and
             Friers
             that
             have
             beene
             the
             cause
             of
             all
             
             this
             ,
             this
             gives
             hopes
             their
             Kingdome
             being
             divided
             cannot
             stand
             .
          
           
             These
             bloudy
             Papists
             forced
             the
             Protestants
             to
             pull
             off
             their
             clothes
             ,
             and
             then
             killed
             them
             on
             purpose
             ,
             that
             they
             might
             have
             their
             clothes
             without
             holes
             .
          
           
             After
             they
             had
             knocked
             a
             man
             down
             dead
             ,
             they
             fearing
             he
             might
             counterfeit
             they
             doe
             run
             their
             swords
             twenty
             times
             into
             his
             bodie
             lest
             hee
             might
             revive
             again
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             stripped
             Ladies
             and
             Gentlewomen
             ,
             Virgins
             both
             old
             and
             yong
             stark
             naked
             ,
             turning
             them
             into
             the
             open
             fields
             .
          
           
             Many
             hundreds
             have
             bin
             found
             dead
             in
             ditches
             with
             cold
             and
             want
             of
             food
             and
             rayment
             ,
             esteeming
             them
             no
             better
             then
             Dogs
             .
          
           
             They
             labour
             what
             they
             can
             to
             make
             death
             appear
             more
             dreadfull
             then
             it
             is
             in
             it selfe
             :
             they
             hang
             up
             Husband
             ,
             Kindred
             ,
             Children
             ,
             before
             the
             faces
             of
             their
             living
             wives
             and
             tender
             mothers
             ready
             to
             dye
             for
             griefe
             ,
             a
             death
             worse
             then
             death
             it self
             ,
             and
             this
             they
             do
             on
             purpose
             
             to
             increase
             their
             dolorous
             paine
             and
             anguish
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             forced
             (
             as
             is
             reported
             )
             some
             to
             turn
             to
             their
             cursed
             bloudy
             Religion
             ,
             and
             then
             perswaded
             them
             that
             they
             were
             fittest
             to
             die
             ,
             and
             then
             treacherously
             kill
             their
             bodies
             and
             do
             what
             in
             them
             lies
             to
             damne
             their
             souls
             .
          
           
             Debtors
             basely
             murdering
             their
             Creditors
             .
             Tenants
             sheathing
             their
             swords
             in
             their
             Landlords
             bowels
             ,
             servants
             unnaturally
             slaying
             their
             Masters
             ,
             others
             possessing
             themselves
             of
             their
             lands
             ,
             goods
             ,
             plates
             ,
             money
             ,
             jewels
             ,
             houshold-stuffe
             ,
             corn
             ,
             and
             cattle
             ,
             and
             thrust
             them
             out
             of
             doores
             naked
             .
             Oh
             inhumane
             crueltie
             !
          
           
             Many
             great
             mens
             servants
             being
             
               Irish
            
             ran
             away
             from
             their
             Masters
             with
             their
             best
             Horses
             to
             the
             Rebels
             .
          
           
             Many
             of
             the
             Protestants
             usually
             took
             into
             their
             houses
             ,
             
               Irish
            
             boys
             ,
             as
             Servants
             and
             those
             did
             basely
             betray
             their
             Masters
             like
             
               Judas
               ,
            
             into
             the
             hands
             of
             these
             bloudy
             Wolves
             .
             A
             good
             caveat
             to
             look
             to
             our
             servants
             before
             we
             take
             them
             ,
             and
             to
             instruct
             them
             in
             the
             feare
             of
             God
             when
             we
             have
             .
          
           
           
             Others
             they
             have
             wounded
             to
             death
             ,
             and
             then
             left
             them
             languishing
             ,
             their
             bellies
             being
             ript
             up
             &
             guts
             issuing
             out
             ,
             they
             poore
             wretches
             lying
             on
             Dunghils
             (
             see
             the
             charity
             of
             cruell
             Papists
             )
             all
             this
             lest
             they
             should
             be
             out
             of
             their
             misery
             too
             soon
             .
          
           
             It
             seems
             it
             was
             their
             delight
             to
             linger
             out
             their
             cruelties
             (
             like
             men
             that
             wanted
             Bowels
             )
             for
             whereas
             the
             primitive
             persecutions
             were
             exquisitly
             cruel
             yet
             they
             made
             a
             quicke
             dispatch
             of
             them
             :
             but
             these
             sons
             of
             
               Belial
            
             found
             new
             ways
             of
             persecution
             by
             extreame
             cold
             and
             hunger
             to
             starve
             (
             which
             aggravates
             their
             cruelty
             )
             tender
             women
             with
             childe
             ,
             poore
             helplesse
             infants
             and
             sucklings
             .
          
           
             An
             
               Irish
            
             Rebell
             (
             as
             a
             credible
             friend
             reports
             )
             snatched
             an
             innocent
             babe
             out
             of
             the
             arms
             of
             the
             mother
             ,
             and
             cast
             it
             into
             the
             fire
             before
             her
             face
             ,
             but
             God
             met
             with
             this
             bloudy
             wretch
             :
             for
             before
             he
             went
             from
             that
             place
             ,
             hee
             brake
             his
             neck
             .
          
           
             The
             Rebels
             have
             burned
             all
             the
             Plantation
             Townes
             in
             the
             County
             of
             
               London
               Derry
               .
            
          
           
           
             One
             hundred
             and
             twenty
             they
             threw
             into
             the
             water
             by
             force
             ,
             drowning
             some
             that
             could
             not
             swim
             ,
             others
             that
             could
             they
             knock'd
             on
             the
             head
             .
          
           
             Many
             rich
             and
             great
             men
             have
             fled
             into
             
               England
               ,
            
             carrying
             their
             estates
             with
             them
             ,
             they
             have
             left
             no
             reliefe
             for
             the
             poore
             distressed
             people
             that
             came
             hither
             .
             thousands
             are
             thus
             fled
             into
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             many
             hundreds
             starved
             to
             death
             with
             hunger
             and
             cold
             ,
             the
             poore
             Citizens
             relieve
             them
             beyond
             their
             abilities
             the
             charge
             lying
             on
             the
             poorer
             sort
             .
          
           
             Many
             of
             their
             wives
             they
             have
             ravished
             in
             their
             sights
             before
             the
             multitude
             like
             bruit
             beasts
             ,
             stripping
             them
             naked
             to
             the
             view
             of
             their
             wicked
             companions
             ,
             taunting
             them
             ,
             scoffing
             them
             ,
             and
             then
             sending
             them
             away
             shamefully
             ,
             that
             they
             have
             died
             with
             grief
             ,
             or
             beene
             starved
             with
             cold
             .
          
           
             One
             Master
             
               Wels
            
             Minister
             losing
             his
             notes
             ,
             went
             back
             to
             looke
             them
             ,
             and
             as
             he
             returned
             hee
             met
             the
             Rebels
             crying
             ,
             Kill
             all
             ,
             Kill
             all
             ,
             the
             head
             Rebels
             command
             .
             Thereupon
             hee
             fled
             over
             a
             Mountain
             ,
             was
             up
             to
             the
             breast
             in
             cold
             
             snow
             water
             and
             so
             scaped
             to
             
               Dublin
            
             very
             hardly
             with
             his
             life
             .
          
           
             Three
             thousand
             six
             hundred
             poore
             souls
             fled
             naked
             into
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             and
             starved
             with
             hunger
             ,
             came
             to
             eat
             something
             and
             died
             with
             eating
             ,
             twenty
             in
             a
             day
             lay
             dead
             in
             the
             open
             streets
             ,
             as
             men
             smitten
             with
             the
             plague
             .
          
           
             Sir
             
               James
               Crag
            
             being
             in
             his
             Castle
             ,
             having
             many
             with
             him
             was
             besieged
             with
             the
             Rebels
             ,
             and
             almost
             famished
             the
             Knight
             was
             constrained
             to
             put
             forty
             out
             of
             the
             Castle
             which
             else
             must
             have
             beene
             famished
             with
             the
             rest
             :
             behold
             the
             crnelty
             of
             these
             bloud-sucking
             Papists
             ,
             when
             they
             were
             turned
             out
             ,
             and
             left
             to
             their
             mercie
             ,
             they
             made
             quicke
             dispatch
             set
             on
             them
             ,
             and
             slue
             every
             man
             .
          
           
             Another
             as
             savage
             of
             that
             Bloud-hound
             
               Rory
               Macqueere
               ,
            
             at
             the
             beginning
             of
             the
             Rebellion
             ,
             who
             came
             into
             an
             
               English
            
             Gentlemans
             house
             ,
             and
             found
             him
             in
             his
             bed
             ,
             and
             there
             began
             to
             cruciate
             
             and
             torture
             his
             naked
             body
             ,
             that
             hee
             might
             extort
             of
             him
             a
             Confession
             where
             his
             treasure
             lay
             ,
             which
             when
             this
             poore
             distracted
             Gentleman
             acknowledged
             in
             hopes
             to
             be
             eased
             ,
             they
             cruelly
             killed
             him
             ,
             and
             then
             stript
             his
             wife
             naked
             ,
             and
             turned
             her
             out
             of
             doors
             ,
             as
             if
             they
             would
             make
             all
             savage
             like
             themselves
             :
             and
             lastly
             ,
             
               Makqueere
            
             took
             his
             daughter
             being
             a
             proper
             Gentlewoman
             and
             satisfied
             his
             beastly
             lust
             on
             her
             deflouring
             her
             ,
             as
             if
             this
             was
             too
             little
             to
             kill
             her
             father
             ,
             turn
             her
             mother
             out
             of
             doores
             ,
             and
             abuse
             her
             himselfe
             ,
             but
             like
             an
             inhumane
             Villain
             cut
             off
             her
             garments
             by
             the
             middle
             ,
             and
             then
             turned
             her
             to
             the
             mercy
             of
             the
             common
             Souldiers
             ,
             to
             be
             abused
             at
             their
             pleasure
             .
          
           
             
               The
               Preestes
               &
               Iesuites
               anointe
               the
               Rebells
               with
               there
               Sacrament
               of
               vnction
               before
               they
               goe
               to
               murther
               &
               robe
               ashuringe
               them
               that
               for
               there
               meritorious
               Seruice
               ,
               if
               they
               be
               killed
               he
               shall
               escape
               Purgatory
               &
               go
               to
               heauen
               immediatly
               .
            
          
           
             
               They
               do
               usually
               mangell
               there
               dead
               Carcases
               layng
               wagers
               who
               shall
               cut
               deepest
               into
               there
               dead
               flesh
               with
               there
               Skeyns
               .
               they
               destroy
               our
               English
               Sheepe
               in
               detestation
               of
               us
               ,
               although
               one
               is
               better
               then
               4
               of
               theirs
               .
               they
               haue
               vowed
               to
               roote
               out
               the
               name
               of
               the
               English
               .
            
          
           
             They
             doe
             usually
             mangle
             their
             dead
             carcasses
             laying
             wagers
             ,
             who
             shall
             cut
             deepest
             into
             their
             flesh
             with
             their
             skeins
             .
          
           
             At
             
               Carvagh
               ,
            
             neere
             
               Colerant
               ,
            
             the
             Rebels
             came
             to
             begirt
             the
             .
             Towne
             ,
             Master
             
               Rowly
            
             Brother
             to
             the
             worthy
             Knight
             Sir
             
               John
               Clotworthy
               ,
            
             came
             forth
             with
             a
             small
             Company
             about
             three
             hundred
             men
             to
             prevent
             them
             ,
             they
             came
             upon
             them
             with
             a
             very
             great
             company
             ,
             and
             slue
             all
             but
             eight
             of
             the
             Protestants
             ,
             base
             cowardize
             where
             they
             want
             courage
             ,
             they
             make
             it
             up
             with
             heaps
             and
             multitudes
             of
             frighted
             Hares
             ,
             and
             the
             more
             fearefull
             and
             cowardly
             ,
             ever
             the
             more
             cruell
             upon
             any
             advantage
             .
          
           
           
             All
             their
             cruelties
             have
             been
             usually
             on
             disarmed
             men
             in
             small
             Villages
             ,
             where
             was
             no
             strength
             to
             resist
             them
             ,
             there
             they
             have
             tyrannizd
             over
             the
             weaker
             sex
             ,
             women
             ,
             &
             they
             have
             basely
             triumphed
             over
             little
             children
             their
             rage
             hath
             beene
             exercised
             .
             Oh
             base
             cowardise
             if
             they
             have
             ventured
             sometimes
             on
             pur
             men
             ,
             it
             hath
             beene
             when
             they
             were
             naked
             ,
             as
             they
             have
             bin
             flying
             from
             those
             Furies
             which
             their
             party
             have
             newly
             stript
             naked
             :
             by
             and
             by
             they
             met
             with
             more
             of
             those
             White-livered
             Villaines
             in
             companies
             .
             They
             would
             likewise
             abuse
             those
             poor
             naked
             Protestants
             like
             Dogs
             ,
             adding
             to
             their
             misery
             beating
             them
             and
             bruising
             their
             naked
             bodies
             with
             cudgels
             ,
             breaking
             the
             heads
             of
             some
             and
             wounding
             others
             that
             if
             they
             have
             not
             died
             ,
             they
             have
             beene
             dangerously
             sicke
             with
             the
             inhumane
             usage
             of
             those
             merciless
             wretches
             :
             nay
             ,
             rather
             then
             they
             will
             be
             (
             no body
             )
             they
             will
             shew
             their
             manhood
             in
             abusing
             dead
             bodies
             ,
             as
             this
             story
             declares
             by
             very
             credible
             testimony
             from
             their
             own
             Countrimen
             .
          
           
           
             Here
             I
             shall
             acquaint
             you
             with
             a
             remarkable
             Story
             ,
             which
             I
             received
             from
             a
             Citizen
             of
             
               Dublins
            
             testimony
             of
             good
             repute
             there
             and
             here
             :
             wherein
             you
             may
             behold
             the
             promise
             made
             good
             to
             the
             Protestant
             side
             ,
             which
             the
             Lord
             himselfe
             made
             to
             his
             People
             
               Israel
               ,
            
             that
             five
             should
             chase
             a
             hundred
             .
          
           
             It
             pleased
             God
             by
             one
             man
             and
             few
             with
             him
             to
             out-dare
             about
             thirty
             thousand
             of
             those
             cowardly
             Rebels
             ,
             whose
             cause
             is
             base
             ,
             whose
             Religion
             is
             but
             a
             meere
             pretence
             for
             their
             bloudy
             designes
             ,
             and
             thus
             it
             was
             as
             that
             Citizen
             related
             .
          
           
             A
             very
             great
             Army
             of
             about
             thirty
             thousand
             Rebels
             besieged
             
               Drohedah
               ,
            
             wherein
             was
             that
             valiant
             and
             religious
             Commander
             Sir
             
               Henry
               Tichbourn
               ,
            
             with
             a
             few
             of
             the
             Protestant
             party
             with
             him
             in
             comparison
             of
             those
             multitudes
             of
             Rebels
             ,
             trusting
             to
             their
             great
             Army
             ,
             boldly
             demanded
             the
             Towne
             ,
             if
             they
             would
             yield
             ,
             no
             question
             ,
             but
             they
             should
             have
             faire
             quarter
             :
             but
             Sir
             
               Henry
            
             
             knowing
             them
             (
             its
             likely
             )
             very
             well
             how
             perfidious
             they
             were
             ,
             and
             the
             lesse
             to
             be
             believed
             ,
             the
             more
             they
             swore
             and
             execrated
             themselves
             ,
             resolutely
             replyed
             ,
             and
             sent
             the
             Rebels
             this
             Answer
             .
             Be
             it
             knowne
             to
             you
             I
             am
             a
             Souldier
             bred
             ,
             and
             wil
             never
             yield
             but
             upon
             three
             conditions
             :
          
           
             
               1
               Before
               I
               surrender
               I
               will
               kill
               all
               the
               Papists
               in
               the
               Town
               .
            
             
               2
               I
               will
               destroy
               all
               the
               Nunneries
               .
            
             
               3
               I
               will
               fire
               the
               Towne
               ,
               and
               march
               in
               the
               light
               of
               it
               ,
               by
               the
               help
               of
               God
               to
               
                 Dublin
                 .
              
            
          
           
             Nay
             ,
             rather
             then
             I
             will
             give
             up
             ,
             I
             will
             feed
             on
             a
             piece
             of
             a
             dead
             horse
             ,
             and
             if
             that
             faile
             ,
             I
             will
             eat
             the
             shoulder
             of
             an
             old
             Popish
             Alderman
             .
             This
             bone
             hee
             threw
             among
             those
             hungry
             wolves
             ,
             and
             you
             may
             imagine
             how
             they
             relished
             it
             .
          
           
             And
             that
             remarkable
             instance
             which
             was
             published
             by
             order
             of
             the
             Right
             Honorable
             the
             House
             of
             Lords
             concerning
             this
             Noble
             and
             Religious
             Knight
             
             Sir
             
               Henry
               Tichbourn
               ,
            
             how
             it
             pleased
             God
             to
             honour
             him
             with
             a
             succesfully
             victory
             against
             the
             Rebels
             now
             very
             lately
             ,
             they
             being
             driven
             in
             
               Drohedah
               ,
            
             to
             eat
             horse
             flesh
             for
             want
             of
             other
             provision
             .
             The
             Rebels
             having
             chained
             up
             the
             River
             in
             hope
             to
             keepe
             out
             provision
             by
             Sea
             ,
             that
             no
             reliefe
             might
             come
             from
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             it
             pleased
             God
             to
             raise
             such
             a
             storme
             that
             broke
             the
             chain
             ,
             and
             scattered
             the
             enemies
             boats
             ,
             and
             opened
             a
             free
             passage
             from
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             whereby
             they
             were
             relieved
             ,
             blessed
             be
             God
             .
             Thus
             the
             Lord
             fought
             for
             them
             by
             winds
             and
             Seas
             .
             As
             the
             windes
             and
             Seas
             obey
             him
             ,
             and
             hee
             rules
             in
             them
             ,
             so
             on
             the
             land
             he
             rules
             .
             It
             is
             
             
               not
               by
               many
               but
               by
               few
               ,
               one
               shall
               chase
               a
               hundred
            
             when
             God
             sights
             for
             his
             people
             .
          
           
             
               Pulling
               them
               about
               the
               streetes
               by
               the
               haire
               of
               the
               head
               ,
               dashing
               the
               Childrens
               braines
               against
               the
               postes
               saynge
               these
               were
               the
               Pigges
               of
               the
               English
               Sowes
               .
            
          
           
             
               Droghedah
               so
               bloked
               up
               that
               a
               bushell
               of
               wheate
               was
               fold
               for
               23.
               
               Shill
               ,
               &
               meate
               scarce
               to
               be
               had
               at
               any
               rate
               ▪
               Ian
               ▪
               4.
               1641.
               
            
          
           
             Here
             take
             notice
             of
             their
             cowardise
             againe
             attempted
             on
             a
             noble
             Lady
             by
             a
             Letter
             sent
             from
             seven
             of
             the
             grand
             Rebels
             ,
             with
             her
             resolute
             and
             undaunted
             answer
             to
             them
             as
             follow●
             .
          
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     The
                     Rebels
                     Letter
                     to
                     the
                     Lady
                     
                       Offalia
                       ,
                    
                     in
                     her
                     Castle
                     at
                     
                       Geshel
                       .
                    
                  
                   
                     To
                     the
                     honorable
                     and
                     thrice
                     vertuous
                     Lady
                     ,
                     the
                     Lady
                     
                       Digby
                       ,
                    
                     these
                     give
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Honorable
                       ,
                    
                  
                   
                     WE
                     his
                     Majesties
                     loyall
                     Subjects
                     being
                     at
                     the
                     present
                     employed
                     in
                     his
                     Highnesse
                     Service
                     for
                     the
                     taking
                     of
                     this
                     your
                     Castle
                     ,
                     you
                     are
                     therefore
                     to
                     deliver
                     unto
                     us
                     free
                     possession
                     of
                     your
                     said
                     Castle
                     ,
                     promising
                     faithfully
                     ,
                     that
                     your
                     Ladiship
                     ,
                     together
                     with
                     
                     the
                     rest
                     in
                     the
                     said
                     Castle
                     restant
                     shall
                     have
                     a
                     reasonable
                     composition
                     ;
                     otherwise
                     upon
                     the
                     yielding
                     of
                     the
                     Castle
                     ,
                     wee
                     doe
                     assure
                     you
                     that
                     we
                     will
                     burn
                     the
                     whole
                     Town
                     ,
                     kill
                     all
                     the
                     Protestants
                     ,
                     and
                     spare
                     neither
                     man
                     ,
                     woman
                     nor
                     child
                     upon
                     taking
                     the
                     Castle
                     :
                     Consider
                     (
                     Madam
                     )
                     of
                     this
                     our
                     offer
                     ,
                     and
                     impute
                     not
                     the
                     blame
                     of
                     your
                     owne
                     folly
                     unto
                     us
                     ,
                     thinke
                     not
                     that
                     here
                     wee
                     brag
                     :
                     your
                     Ladiship
                     upon
                     submission
                     ,
                     shall
                     have
                     a
                     safe
                     convoy
                     to
                     secure
                     you
                     from
                     the
                     hands
                     of
                     your
                     enemies
                     ,
                     and
                     to
                     lead
                     you
                     where
                     you
                     leave
                     .
                     A
                     speedy
                     replyis
                     desired
                     with
                     all
                     expedition
                     ,
                     and
                     thus
                     wee
                     surcease
                     :
                  
                   
                     
                       
                         
                           Henry
                           Demsy
                           .
                        
                         
                           Charles
                           Demsy
                           .
                        
                         
                           Andrew
                           Fitz
                           Patrick
                           .
                        
                         
                           Conn
                           Dempsy
                           .
                        
                         
                           Phelim
                           Demsy
                           .
                        
                         
                           John
                           Vicars
                           .
                        
                         
                           James
                           m
                           Donel
                           .
                        
                      
                    
                  
                
              
            
          
           
             
               
                 
                   
                     The
                     Lady
                     
                       Offalia
                    
                     her
                     answer
                     to
                     the
                     Rebels
                     .
                  
                   
                   
                     
                       For
                       my
                       Cosin
                       
                         Henry
                         Dempsy
                      
                       and
                       the
                       rest
                       .
                    
                  
                   
                     I
                     Received
                     your
                     Letter
                     ,
                     wherein
                     you
                     threaten
                     to
                     sack
                     this
                     my
                     Castle
                     by
                     his
                     Majesties
                     authority
                     ;
                     I
                     am
                     and
                     ever
                     have
                     beene
                     a
                     loyall
                     subject
                     ,
                     and
                     a
                     good
                     neighbour
                     amongst
                     you
                     ,
                     and
                     therefore
                     cannot
                     but
                     wonder
                     at
                     such
                     an
                     assaul
                     ;
                     I
                     thank
                     you
                     for
                     your
                     offer
                     of
                     a
                     convoy
                     ,
                     wherein
                     I
                     hold
                     little
                     safety
                     ,
                     and
                     therefore
                     my
                     resolution
                     is
                     ,
                     that
                     being
                     free
                     from
                     offending
                     his
                     Majesty
                     ,
                     or
                     doing
                     wrong
                     to
                     any
                     of
                     you
                     ,
                     I
                     will
                     live
                     and
                     die
                     innocently
                     ,
                     and
                     will
                     doe
                     my
                     best
                     to
                     defend
                     my
                     owne
                     ,
                     leaving
                     the
                     issue
                     to
                     God
                     ;
                     and
                     though
                     I
                     have
                     beene
                     and
                     still
                     am
                     desirous
                     to
                     avoid
                     the
                     shedding
                     of
                     Christian
                     bloud
                     ,
                     yet
                     being
                     provoked
                     your
                     threats
                     shall
                     no
                     whit
                     dismay
                     me
                     .
                  
                   
                     
                       Lettice
                       Offalia
                       .
                    
                  
                
              
            
          
           
             These
             stories
             I
             relate
             that
             all
             true-hearted
             Protestants
             may
             take
             heart
             ,
             and
             likewise
             take
             notice
             that
             God
             is
             vindicating
             his
             owne
             glory
             against
             these
             desperate
             Atheists
             that
             began
             to
             insult
             ,
             and
             
             to
             aske
             (
             as
             wee
             are
             credibly
             informed
             )
             what
             is
             become
             of
             the
             God
             of
             the
             Protestants
             ,
             and
             likewise
             what
             spirit
             and
             courage
             God
             is
             able
             to
             put
             into
             the
             hearts
             of
             those
             that
             fight
             for
             him
             ,
             and
             for
             his
             cause
             against
             his
             bloud-thirsty
             enemies
             .
             And
             therefore
             be
             not
             dismaid
             you
             Protestants
             ,
             't
             is
             a
             great
             honour
             to
             fight
             under
             the
             Banner
             of
             Christ
             ,
             they
             fight
             under
             the
             Banner
             of
             Antichrist
             ,
             the
             Lord
             is
             with
             you
             while
             yee
             are
             with
             him
             .
             See
             the
             blasphemies
             and
             cruelties
             of
             these
             bloudy
             men
             :
             it
             is
             that
             their
             names
             (
             as
             
               Amalek
            
             )
             may
             be
             blotted
             out
             from
             under
             Heaven
             ,
             for
             surely
             the
             day
             of
             recompence
             is
             comming
             ,
             that
             God
             will
             make
             his
             arrowes
             drunke
             in
             their
             bloud
             ,
             they
             love
             bloud
             ,
             and
             therefore
             God
             will
             give
             them
             bloud
             in
             great
             measure
             .
          
           
             As
             for
             instance
             .
             I
             shall
             relate
             you
             a
             bloudy
             story
             of
             one
             of
             those
             cruell
             beasts
             .
             The
             Protestant
             Troopers
             about
             the
             beginning
             of
             
               February
            
             last
             ,
             marched
             out
             of
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             as
             they
             use
             to
             do
             ,
             to
             view
             the
             Coasts
             ,
             they
             espied
             a
             cruell
             Rebell
             hewing
             and
             mangling
             a
             woman
             in
             so
             
             horrid
             a
             manner
             that
             it
             was
             not
             possible
             to
             know
             her
             ,
             having
             acted
             his
             Devillish
             part
             he
             triumph'd
             over
             her
             dead
             corps
             ,
             and
             washed
             his
             hands
             in
             her
             bloud
             ,
             whereupon
             the
             Troopers
             apprehended
             this
             barbarous
             Villaine
             in
             the
             very
             act
             of
             crueltie
             ,
             and
             brought
             him
             to
             
               Dublin
            
             with
             his
             hands
             all
             bloudy
             ,
             and
             was
             adjudged
             to
             be
             hang'd
             immediatly
             ,
             hee
             ascended
             the
             Ladder
             ,
             and
             would
             not
             stay
             till
             the
             Executioner
             turned
             him
             off
             ,
             but
             desperatly
             lept
             off
             and
             hanged
             himself
             .
             This
             was
             in
             the
             beginning
             of
             
               February
            
             last
             ,
             and
             is
             credibly
             reported
             by
             a
             Citizen
             of
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             who
             saw
             him
             thus
             hanged
             with
             his
             hands
             all
             bloudy
             .
          
           
             It
             is
             remarkable
             to
             take
             notice
             of
             the
             rice
             of
             this
             bloudy
             act
             ,
             it
             was
             thus
             .
             A
             Frier
             and
             this
             Villaine
             was
             drinking
             together
             in
             a
             Village
             ,
             the
             Frier
             hearing
             of
             a
             poore
             English
             woman
             ,
             there
             hee
             commanded
             this
             Rebell
             to
             murther
             her
             which
             he
             did
             ,
             as
             you
             have
             read
             attested
             by
             a
             Gentleman
             of
             
               Ireland
               ,
            
             of
             good
             credit
             .
          
           
             
               A
               Woman
               mangled
               in
               so
               horred
               a
               man̄er
               that
               it
               was
               not
               possible
               shee
               should
               be
               knowne
               &
               after
               the
               Villaine
               washed
               his
               handes
               in
               her
               bloode
               was
               taken
               by
               the
               Troopers
               adiuged
               to
               be
               hanged
               leaped
               of
               the
               lader
               &
               hanged
               himselfe
               like
               a
               Bloodey
               Tyger
               .
            
          
           
             
               Companyes
               of
               the
               Rebells
               meeting
               with
               the
               English
               flyinge
               for
               their
               liues
               falling
               downe
               before
               them
               cryinge
               for
               mercy
               thrust
               theire
               Pichforkes
               into
               their
               Childrens
               bellres
               &
               threw
               them
               into
               the
               water
               .
            
          
           
             Would
             any
             man
             believe
             that
             these
             Villains
             should
             take
             children
             and
             tosse
             them
             with
             pitchforks
             like
             dung
             into
             Rivers●
             one
             was
             an
             eye
             witnesse
             (
             who
             lost
             a
             great
             estate
             there
             ,
             and
             since
             have
             received
             reliefe
             from
             the
             Parliament
             )
             who
             saw
             a
             cruell
             wretch
             ,
             throw
             a
             woman
             crying
             with
             teares
             one
             way
             ,
             and
             her
             Childe
             with
             a
             pitchfork
             another
             way
             .
          
           
             They
             have
             cruelly
             murdered
             women
             great
             with
             child
             ,
             and
             then
             left
             them
             in
             ditches
             ,
             to
             the
             fury
             of
             their
             dogs
             ,
             who
             learned
             to
             be
             cruell
             from
             their
             bloudy
             Masters
             ,
             for
             they
             have
             eaten
             the
             Children
             out
             of
             the
             bowels
             of
             the
             mother
             .
          
           
             At
             
               Lesgoole
            
             Castle
             in
             the
             County
             of
             
               Four
               managh
               ,
            
             they
             have
             burned
             fifty
             
               Scots
               ,
            
             men
             ,
             women
             ,
             and
             children
             .
          
           
             Sixteen
             
               Scots
            
             more
             they
             have
             barbarously
             hanged
             at
             
               Cloynes
            
             in
             the
             County
             of
             
               Monaghan
               .
            
          
           
             Thirty
             
               Scots
            
             they
             burned
             in
             
               Tolagh
               .
            
          
           
           
             It
             is
             remarkable
             that
             they
             deale
             thus
             cruelly
             with
             those
             Noble
             
               Scots
               ,
            
             who
             have
             bin
             renowmed
             through
             the
             Christian
             World
             ,
             for
             their
             zeale
             against
             that
             Antichristian
             Rabble
             ,
             that
             these
             Rebels
             would
             wish
             they
             had
             but
             one
             neck
             ,
             that
             they
             might
             cut
             them
             off
             at
             one
             blow
             ,
             but
             the
             Protestant
             Cause
             shall
             stand
             in
             
               England
            
             and
             
               Scotland
               ,
            
             when
             they
             and
             their
             
               Babel
            
             shal
             be
             cast
             into
             the
             Bottomlesse
             pit
             .
          
           
             
               Rory
               Mackqueere
            
             at
             
               New
               towne
            
             in
             the
             County
             of
             
               Fourmanagh
               ,
            
             above
             foure
             hundred
             poore
             Protestants
             fled
             in
             the
             Church
             to
             shrowd
             themselves
             under
             its
             roofe
             ,
             for
             safety
             from
             the
             rage
             of
             those
             men
             of
             bloud
             ,
             where
             they
             might
             have
             been
             famished
             ,
             but
             the
             mercy
             of
             this
             mercilesse
             Beast
             affords
             them
             quarter
             to
             goe
             away
             with
             their
             clothes
             to
             
               Dublin
               ,
            
             and
             vows
             he
             will
             not
             hurt
             them
             :
             before
             they
             got
             out
             of
             the
             Town
             ,
             his
             Souldiers
             stript
             some
             and
             killed
             others
             like
             base
             perfidious
             wretches
             .
          
           
             The
             
               Iresh
            
             Lievtenant
             pretending
             they
             came
             for
             the
             King
             perfidiously
             come
             under
             favour
             ,
             pretends
             to
             borrow
             the
             
             armes
             of
             the
             inhabitants
             ,
             as
             they
             say
             ,
             to
             quell
             the
             Rebels
             ,
             then
             breake
             into
             their
             houses
             ,
             and
             turne
             their
             weapons
             against
             themselves
             ,
             make
             havock
             taking
             their
             featherbeds
             ,
             &
             throw
             out
             their
             feathers
             ,
             and
             in
             the
             tikes
             put
             up
             what
             precious
             things
             they
             can
             find
             in
             the
             house
             ,
             and
             carry
             all
             away
             ,
             and
             so
             turns
             them
             out
             of
             doores
             ,
             the
             next
             company
             takes
             away
             their
             clothes
             ,
             and
             clothe
             them
             with
             their
             rags
             .
             The
             next
             company
             thinking
             they
             may
             have
             mony
             in
             those
             rags
             ,
             they
             will
             take
             them
             also
             ,
             search
             their
             mouthes
             ,
             and
             those
             parts
             which
             modesty
             will
             not
             admit
             of
             an
             expression
             :
             if
             they
             can
             find
             none
             ,
             they
             set
             their
             Skeins
             at
             their
             breasts
             ,
             that
             if
             they
             can
             extort
             any
             thing
             when
             the
             poore
             Protestants
             are
             naked
             .
             Blush
             !
             ô
             Sun
             ,
             to
             behold
             the
             inhumane
             cruelties
             and
             beastly
             usages
             of
             these
             unheard
             of
             Cannibals
             .
          
           
             
               George
               Forde
               hanged
               on
               a
               tree
               in
               his
               owne
               ground
               ,
               cut
               his
               flesh
               a
               peaces
               carying
               it
               up
               &
               downe
               ,
               sainge
               this
               is
               the
               flesh
               of
               one
               of
               the
               traitors
               against
               our
               Holy
               Father
               the
               Pope
               .
            
          
           
             
               a
               Proclamation
               that
               nether
               English
               nor
               Irish
               should
               either
               sell
               or
               keepe
               in
               their
               houses
               any
               Powder
               upon
               the
               losse
               of
               goods
               &
               life
               nether
               any
               〈◊〉
               mos
               whatsoeuer
               ,
               exept
               with
               a
               liconse
               &
               then
               but
               fiue
               pound
               at
               most
               at
               2
               Shill
               :
               ye
               pound
               .
            
          
           
             Some
             Ministers
             they
             whip
             ,
             others
             they
             set
             in
             the
             stocks
             ,
             and
             make
             others
             goe
             to
             Masse
             against
             their
             wils
             ,
             then
             tell
             them
             now
             they
             have
             saved
             their
             souls
             ,
             they
             would
             hang
             their
             bodies
             .
          
           
             A
             Minister
             seeing
             his
             Wife
             abused
             ,
             &
             his
             children
             roasted
             ,
             desired
             them
             to
             put
             him
             out
             of
             his
             extremity
             of
             anguish
             ,
             to
             see
             such
             cruelty
             on
             those
             so
             neere
             him
             ,
             they
             most
             inhumanely
             cut
             his
             tongue
             out
             of
             his
             head
             .
          
           
             And
             for
             a
             conclusion
             of
             this
             dreadfull
             Tragedy
             .
             It
             is
             related
             from
             one
             of
             the
             last
             Letters
             from
             
               Ireland
               ,
            
             that
             seventeen
             of
             those
             barbarous
             Monsters
             came
             to
             a
             Ministers
             house
             ,
             where
             they
             violently
             fell
             on
             him
             and
             his
             wife
             ,
             stript
             them
             naked
             ,
             bound
             them
             back
             to
             back
             ,
             then
             cut
             off
             the
             Ministers
             privy
             members
             ,
             afterward
             ravished
             his
             wife
             on
             his
             back
             ,
             and
             then
             inhumanely
             cut
             their
             throats
             :
             transcendent
             cruelty
             exceeding
             Pagans
             and
             Atheists
             .
          
           
             
               
                 For
                 the
                 oppression
                 of
                 the
                 poor
                 ,
                 and
                 for
                 the
                 sighing
                 of
                 the
                 needy
                 :
                 now
                 will
                 I
                 arise
                 ,
                 saith
                 the
                 Lord
                 ,
                 and
                 set
                 him
                 at
                 liberty
                 from
                 him
                 that
                 puffeth
                 at
                 him
                 .
              
               
                 Psal.
                 12.
                 5.
                 
              
            
          
           
             FINIS
             .
          
           
        
      
    
     
       
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             ,
             &c.
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             .
          
           
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             Thess.
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             c
             S●egedin
             .
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             v.
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             reform
             .
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             .
             tom.
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             part
             .
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             sect.
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             .
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             tit.
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             .
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             .
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             pont
             .
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             c.
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             refor
             .
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             supra
             c.
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             de
             actis
             Rom.
             
             Pontif.
             l.
             7.
             
          
           
             k
             Hist.
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             .
          
           
             l
             Sleidanus
             .
          
           
             m
             Thuanus
             .
          
           
             o
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             reform
             .
             Antich
             .
             tom.
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             part
             .
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             c.
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             p
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             Waldens
             .
          
           
             q
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               tom
            
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             5●●
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             Elizabeth
             
          
           
             s
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             Carleton
             .
          
           
             t
             
               Prideaux
               Serm.
            
             on
             the
             Gunpowder
             Treason
             .
          
           
             u
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             instit.
             moral
             .
             li
             .
             8.
             de
             poenis
             haeretic
             .
          
           
             w
             Symanch
             .
             instit.
             lib.
             23.
             5.
             11.
             
             Saunders
             de
             visibil
             .
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             .
             l.
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             .
             c.
             4.
             
          
           
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             in
             2
             2.
             q.
             12.
             artic
             .
             2.
             
          
           
             y
             Symanch●
             ubi
             supra
             .
          
           
             z
             Azor.
             inst.
             mor.
             l.
             8.
             c.
             13.
             
          
           
             a
             Eudaem
             .
             Apol.
             pro
             Garnet
             .
             cap
             4.
             
             
               Collect
               for
               Gunpowder
               treason
               .
            
             D.
             Davenan
             .
             determ.
             qu
             17.
             
             D.
             Prideaux
             .
             sex
             .
             Higgajon
             and
             Selab
             .
          
           
             b
             In
             32.
             
             ●
             .
             ●ide
             suprà
             .
          
           
             c
             Abbor
             .
             Antilog
             .
             c.
             6.
             p.
             85.
             
          
        
         
           Notes for div A34925e-1440
           
             England
             ,
             Scotland
             .
          
           
             Witnesse
             
               Germany
               ,
            
             that
             field
             of
             bloud
             ,
             as
             a
             book
             of
             their
             miseries
             called
             the
             
               Lamentation
               of
               Germany●●ely
            
             printed
             ●elates
             .
          
           
             Deut.
             32.
             30.