A LOOKING-GLASS FOR ENGLAND.  
BEING An Abstract of the Bloody MASSACRE in IRELAND, by the Instigation of the jesuits, Priests and Friars, who were chief Promoters of those horrible murders, prodigious Cruelties, barbarous villainies, and inhuman Practices, executed by the Irish Papists upon the English Protestants in the Year 1642.  
As also A brief APOLOGY in the behalf of the Protestants in the Valleys of Piedmont; with a NARRATIVE of the barbarous Butcheries, inhuman Cruelties, most execrable and unheard-of villainies, perpetrated on them by the Popish party during the heat of the late Massacre in April 1655. stirred up by the Malice and Instigation of the Devil acting in the Popish clergy.  Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum. 
London, Printed in the Year, 1667.   

An Abstract of the Bloody MASSACRE in Ireland, by the instigation of the jesuits, Priests and Friars, &c.  
WHen their Plots were ripe for execution, we find their first proceedings against the English various; some of the Irish only stripping and expelling them; others murdering men, women, and children without mercy; all resolving universally to root out all the Protestants out of Ireland; so deeply malicious were they against the English Protestants, that they would not so much as endure the sound of their Language.  
The Priests gave the Sacrament unto divers of the Irish, upon condition they should neither spare man, woman, nor child of the Protestants. One Halligan, a Priest, red an Excommunication against all those, that from thenceforth should relieve or harbour any English, Scotish, or welsh man, or give them alms, whereby many were famished to death. The Friars exhorted them with tears, not to spare any of the English; they boasted that when they had destroyed them in Ireland, they would go over into England and not leave the memorial of an English man under heaven.  
They openly professed, that they held it as lawful to kill a Protestant, as to kill a Dog. One of their Priests said, That it was no more pitty to take their Lives from them, then it was to take a Bone out of a Dogs mouth.  
The day before this Massacre began, the Priests gave the People a dismiss at Mass, with liberty to go out, and take possession of all their Lands, as also to strip, rob, and despoil them of all their goods and cattle; the Protestants being, as they  told them, worse than Doggs, for they were Devils, and therefore the killing of such was a Meritorious Act, and a rare Preservative against the pains of Purgatory; and this caused some of these murderers to boast, after they had slain many of the English, That they knew, that if they should die presently, they should go strait to Heaven.  
The Irish, when the Massacre began, persuaded many of their Protestant Neighbours to bring their Goods to them, and they would secure them; and hereby they got abundance peaceably into their hands, whereof they cheated the Protestants, refusing to restore them again; yet so confident were the Protestants at first of them, that they gave them Inventories of all they had; and digged up their best things that were hidden in the ground, and deposited them in their custody. They also got much into their hands by fair Promises, deep Oaths and Engagements, that if they would deliver them their goods, they would suffer them, with their Wives and Children, quietly to depart the Country; and when they had got what they could, they afterwards murdered them.  
Having thus seized upon their goods and cattle, ransack't their houses, got their persons, stripped Man, Woman, and Child naked, and so turned them out of doors, strictly prohibiting the Irish under great penalties, not to give them any relief; by means hereof many miserable perished through could, nakedness and hunger.  
In the Town of Coleraine, many of these poor people that fled thither for succour, many thousands dyed in two dayes, so that the living could not bury the dead, but laid their carcases in ranks in waste and wide holes, pyling them up as if they had been Herrings.  
One Magdalen Redman deposeth, that she, and divers other Protestants, amongst whom were two and twenty Widows, were first robbed, and then stripped naked, and when they had covered themselves with straw, the bloody Papists threw in burning straw amongst them, on purpose to burn them; then they driven them out into the Woods in Frost and Snow, where many of them dyed with extreme could, and those that survived, lived miserable by reason of their many wants.  
Yet though these bloody Villains exercised such inhumame cruelties towards the poor Protestants, they would commonly boast, That these were but the beginnings of their sorrows, for indeed they made it good; for having disarmed the English, robbed them of their goods, stripped them of their clothes, and having their persons in their power, they furiously broken out into all manner of abominable Cruelties, horrid Massacres, and execrable Murders.  
For there were multitudes murdered in could blood, some as they were at Plough, others in their Houses, others in the high ways; all without any provocation, were suddenly destroyed.  
In the Castle of Lisgool, were about one hundred and fifty Men, Women and Children consumed with fire. At the Castle of Moneah, were one hundred slain. At the Castle of Tullah, which was delivered to Mac Guire, upon composition, and faithful promises of fair quarter, as soon as he and his entred, they began to strip the People, and most cruelly put them to the sword, murdering them all without mercy.  
At Lissenskeath, they hanged and killed above one hundred of the Scottish Protestants. In the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone, where the Protestants were more numerous, their murders were more multiplied, and with greater cruelty.  
Mac Guire coming to the Castle of Lissenskeath, desired to speak with Mr. Middleton, who admitted him in, he first burnt the Records of the County, then demanded One thousand pounds which was in his custody of Sir William Balfor●s, which as soon as he had, he caused Mr. Middleton to hear Mass, and to swear that he would never alter from it, and then hanged him up with his Wife and Children: hanging and murdering above one hundred persons besides in that place.  
At Portendown Bridge, there were one thousand Men, Women and Children carried in several Companies, and all unmercifully drowned in the River. Yea in that Country there were four thousand persons drowned in several places.  
In one place one hundred and forty English were taken and driven like Cattle for many miles together. Other companies they carried out to a place fit for execution, and then murdered them. One hundred and fifteen Men, Women and Children, they sent with Sir Philem Oneals pass till they came to Portendowne Bridge, and there drowned them.  
At another time one hundred and forty Protestants, being thrown in at the same place, as any of them swam to the shore, the bloody Villains, with the Butt-ends of their Muskets knocked out their brains.  
At Armagh, O Cane got together all the Protestants thereabouts, pretending to conduct them to Coleraine; but before they were a dayes journey, they were all murdered, and so were many others, though they had Protections from Sir Philem o'neill. The Aged people in Armagh were carried to Charlemont, and there murdered.  
Presently after, the Town of Armagh was burnt, and five hundred persons murdered and drowned. In Killoman, were forty eight families murdered. In one house twenty two Protestants were burned. In Kilmore all the Inhabitants were stripped and Massacred, being two hundred Families: the whole County was a common Butchery; many thousands perished by sword, famine, fire, water, and all other cruel deaths that rage and malice could invent.  
At Casel they put all the Protestants into a loathsome Dungeon, kept them twelve weeks in great misery. Some they barbarously mangled, and left them languishing; some they hanged up twice or thrice, others they butted alive.  
In Queens County, an English man, his Wife, five Children and a Maid, were all hanged together. At Clowns, seventeen men were butted alive; some were wounded and hanged upon Tenter-hooks.  
In Castle-Cumber two Boyes wounded, and hung upon Butchers Tenters. Some hanged up, and taken down to confess money, and then murdered. Some had their bellies ript up, and so left with their guts about their heels.  
In Kilkenny an English Woman beaten into a ditch where she died; her Child about six years old, they ript up her Belly, and let out her guts. One they forced to Mass, then they wounded him, ript his Belly, took out his guts, and so left him alive.  
A Scottish man they stripped, and hewed to pieces, ript up his Wifes Belly, so that her Child dropped out; many other Women they hung up with Child, ript their Bellies, and let their Infants fall out; some of the Children they gave to Doggs.  
In the County of Armagh, they robbed, stripped, and murdered abundance of Protestants, whereof some they burned, some they slay with the Sword, some they hanged, some they starved to death; and meeting Mistris Howard, and Mistris Frankland with six of their Children, and themselves both with Child, they murdered them all, ript open the Gentle womens Bellies, took out their Children, and threw them into a ditch. A young Scotish Womans Child they took by the heels and dashed out its brains against a three; the like they did to many other Children.  
Anne Hill going with a young Child on her back, and four more by her side, they pulled the Child off her back, trod on it till it died, stripped her and the other four Children naked, whereby they died of could.  
Some others they met with, hanged them up upon a windmill, and before they were half dead, cut them in pieces with their Skeins.  
Many other Protestants, especially Women and Children, they pricked and stabbed with Skeins, Forks, and Swords, slashing, cutting and mangling them in their Heads, Faces, Breasts, arms, and other parts, yet killed them not, but left them wallowing in their blood, to languish, starve and pine to death.  
The Castle of Lisgoole, being set on fire by these merciless Papists, a Woman lept out at a Window to save her self from burning, whom they presently murdered; many fled to Vaults and Cellars, where they were all murdered. One Joan Addis they stabbed, and then put her Child of a quarter old to her Breast, and bid it Suck English Bastard, and so left it to perish.  
One Mary Barlow had her husband hanged, her self with six Children st●ipt naked, in Frost and Snow, after which, sheltering themselves in a Cave, they had nothing to eat for three weeks, but two old Calves skins, which they beat with stones, and so eat them hair and all.  
In the could weather many thousands of Protestants of all ranks, ages, and Sexes, being turned out naked, perished of could and hunger; thousands of others were drowned, cast into Ditches, Bogs, and Turf-pits; multitudes miserable burnt in houses; some that lay sick of fevers they hanged up; some men, women, and children, they driven into Boggy Pits, and knocked them on the heads.  
Some Aged men and women these barbarous Papists enforced their own children to drown them; yea, some children were compelled unnaturally to execute their own Parents, Wives forced to hang their own Husbands, and Mothers to cast their own Children into the Waters, after which themselves were murdered. In Sligo they forced a young man to kill his Father, and then hanged him up. In another place they forced a Woman to kill her Husband, then caused her Son to kill her, and then hanged the Son: Yea such was their malice against the English, that they taught their Children to kill English Children.  
The Irish Women that followed the Camp, cried out, Kill them all, spare neither Man, Woman, nor Child. They took the Child of Thomas Stratton, being about twelve years old, and boiled him in a Cauldron. One good-wife Lin, and her Daughter, they carried into a Wood, first hanged the Mother, and then the Daughter in the hair of her Mothers head.  
In some places they plucked out the Eyes, and cut off the Hands of the Protestants, and turned them into the Fields, where they perished. The Women, in some places, stoned the English Women and Children to death. One man they shot through his Thighs, digged a hole in the ground, set him in upon his feet, filled up the hole, left out onely his head, where he languished to death. Another man they held his feet in the fire till he was burnt to death.  
In Munster they hanged up many Ministers in a most barbarous manner. One Minister they stripped naked, and driven him through the Town, pricking him with Darts and Rapiers, till he fell down dead.  
These barbarous Villains vowed, That if any Parents digged Graves to bury their Children in, they should be butted therein themselves. They stripped one William Loverden naked, then killed him before his Wife and Children. Divers Ministers bones that had been butted some years before, they digged up, because they were, as they say, Patrons of heresy.  
Poor Children that went out into the fields to eat Weeds and Grass, they killed without all pitty.  
A poor Woman, whose Husband was taken by them, went to them with two Children at her feet, and one at her breast, hoping to beg her Husband, but they slay her, and her sucking Child, broke the neck of another, and the third hardly escaped; and all this wickedness they exercised upon the English, without any provocation given them. Alas, who can comprehend the fears, terrors, anguish, bitterness, and perplexity that seized upon the poor Protestants, finding themselves so suddenly surprised without remedy, and wrapped up in all kind of outward miseries which could possibly by man be inflicted upon human Creatures? What sighs and groans, trembling and astonishment, what shricks, cries, and bitter lamentations of Wives, Children, Servants and Friends, howling and weeping, finding themselves without all hope of deliverance from their present miseries. How inexorable were their barbarous Tormentors, that compassed them in on every side, without all bowels of Compassion, or the least commiseration or pitty: Yea, they boasted upon their success, That the day was their own, and that ere long they would not leave one Protestant Rogue living, but would utterly destroy every one that had but a drop of English blood in them. Their Women crying out, Slay them all, the English are fit meat for Dogs, and their Children are Bastards.  
These merciless Papists having set a Castle on fire, wherein were many Protestants, they surprisingly said, O how sweetly do they fry.  
At Kilkenny, when they had committed many cruel murders, they brought seven Protestants Heads, one the Head of a Reverend Minister, all which they set upon the Market-cross, on a Market day, triumphing, slashing and mangling them; they put a Gag in the Ministers mouth, slit up his Cheeks to his Ears, and laid a leaf of a Bible upon it, and bid him Preach, for his mouth was wide enough.  
At Kilmore they put many Protestants, men, women, and children, into a Thatched House, and there burnt them. They threw Mrs. Maxwel into the River, when in Labour, the Child being half born when the mo●h●r was drowned.  
In one place they burnt two Protestant Bibles, and then said, It was Hell fire they burnt. Other Bibles they took, cut in pieces, and then burnt them, saying, They would do the like to all puritan Bibles. They took the Bible of a Minister, called Mr. Edward slacken, and opening it, they laid it in a puddle of Water, and then stamped upon it, saying, A plague on it, this Bible hath bread all the Quarrel.  
At Glastow, a Priest, with some others, drew about forty English and Scottish Protestants to be reconciled to the Church of Rome, and then  told them They were in a good Faith, and for fear they should fall from it and turn heretics, he with his Companions presently cut all their Throats.  
In the County of Tipperary, near the Silver Works, some of these Barbarous Papists met with eleven English men, ten women, some children, whom they first stripped, and then with Stones, Poleaxes, Skeins, Swords, &c. they most barbarously massacred them all.  
In the County of Mayo, about sixty Protestants, whereof fifteen were Ministers, were upon Covenant to be safely conveyed to Galway by one Edmond Burk, and his Souldiers; but by the way, this Burk and hi Company began to massacre these poor Protestants, some they shot to death, some they stabbed with Skeins, some they thrust through with their Pikes, some they drowned; the Women they stripped naked, who lying upon their Husbands to save them, were run through with Pikes, so that very few of them escaped with life.  
In the Town of Sligo, forty Protestants were stripped, and locked up in a cellar, and about midnight a Butcher provided for the purpose, was sent in amongst them, who with his Ax butchered them all.  
In Tirawly, thirty or forty English, who had yielded to go to Mass, were put to their choice Whether they would die by the Sword, or be drowned? They choose the latter; and so being driven to the Sea side, these barbarous Villains, with their naked Swords forced them into the Sea; the Mothers with their Children in their Arms, wading to the Chin, were overcome by the Waves, where they all perished.  
The Son of Mr. Montgomery a Minister, Aged about fifteen years, met with his School-master, who drew his Skein at him, whereupon the Boy said, Good Master whip me as much as you will, but do not kill me. Yet this merciless tiger barbarously murdered him without all pitty.  
In the Town of Sligo, all the Protestants were first robbed of their Estates, then cast into Goal, and about midnight were all stripped naked, and were there most cruelly and barbarously murdered with Swords, Axes, Skeins, &c. some of them being Women great with Child, their Infants thrust out their Arms and Legs at their Wounds; after which execrable murders, these Hell-hounds laid the dead naked Bodies of the men upon the naked Bodies of the women, in a most immodest posture, where they left them till the next day to be looked upon by the Irish, who beholded it with great delight. Also Isabel Beard, great with Child, hearing the lamentable cries of those that were murdering, ran out into the streets, where she was murdered, and the next day was found with the Childs feet coming out of the Wounds in her sides: many others were murdered in the houses and streets.  
About Dungannon were three hundred and sixteen Protestants in the like barbarous manner murdered: about Charlemont above four hundred: about Tyrone two hundred and six.  
One Mac Crew, murdered thirty one in one morning.  
Two young Villains, murdered 140. poor Women and Children that could make no resistance. An Irish woman with her own hands murdered forty five.  
At Portendowne Bridge were drowned above three hundred. At laugh were drowned above two hundred. In another place were drowned three hundred in one day. In the Parish of Killamen, there were murdered one thousand and two hundred Protestants.  
Many young Children they cut in quarters; Eighteen Scottish Infants they hanged upon a Clothiers Tenter-hooks; One fat man they murdered, and made Candles of his Grease; Another Scottish man they ript up his Belly, took one end of his small Guts, tied it to a three, and forced him round about it, till they had drawn them all out of his Body, saying, That they would try whether a Dogs or a Scottish mans Guts were the longer.  
By the command of Sir Philem O neal, Master James Maxwel was drawn out of his Bed, being sick of a fever, and murdered, his Wife being in Child birth, the Child being half born, they stripped naked, driven her about a flight shot, and drowned her in the black Water; The like, or worse, they did to another English Woman in the same Town. One Mr. Watson they roasted alive. A Scottish Woman, great with Child, they ript up her Belly, cut the Child out of her Womb, and so left it crawling on her Body.  
Mr. Starkey, Schoolmaster at Armagh, being above one hundred years old, they stripped him naked, then took his two Daughters, being Virgins, whom they also stripped naked, and then forced them to led their Aged Father to a Turf-pit, where they drowned them all three.  
To one Henry Cowel, a gallant Gentleman, they prosfered his life, if he would mary one of their Truls, or go to Mass, but he choose death rather than to consent to either.  
Many of the Protestants they butted alive, sollacing themselves, whilst they were digging down old Ditches upon them.  
They broke the Back-bone of a Youth, and left him in the Fields; some dayes after he was found, having eaten the Grass round about him; neither then would they kill him out-right, but removed him to better Pasture, wherein was fulfilled that saying, The tender mercies of the wicked are cruelty.  
In the County of Antrim, they murdered nine hundred fifty four Protestants in one morning; and afterwards about twelve hundred more in that County. Near Lisnegarry, they forced twenty four Protestants into a house, and burnt them all.  
Sir Philem O neal boasted, That he had slain above six hundred at Garvagh, and that he had left neither man, woman, nor child alive in the Barony of Munterlong. In other places he murdered above two thousand Persons in their houses, so that many houses were filled with dead Bodies.  
Above twelve thousand were slain in the high ways, as they fled towards down. Many died of Famine; many died for want of clothes, being stripped naked in a could season; some thousands were drowned, so that in the Province of Ulster, there were about one hundred and fifty thousand murdered by sundry kinds of torments and deaths.  
The Popish English were no whit inferior, yea rather exceeded the natural Irish in their cruelty against the Protestants that lived amongst them, within the Pale, being not satisfied with their blood, till they had seen the last drop thereof.  
and Kinnard testified, That fifteen Protestants being Imprisoned, and their Feet in the Stocks, a Popish Boy, being not above fourteen years old, slay them all in one night with his skein.  
An English Woman, who was newly delivered of two Children, some of these Villains violently compelled her, in her great pain and sickness, to rise out of her Bed, and took one of the Infants that was living, and dashed his Brains against the Stones, and then threw him into the River of Barrow; The like they did by many other Infants. Many others they hanged up without all pitty.  
The Lord mount Garrit, caused divers English Souldiers, that he taken about Kilkenny, to be hanged, hardly suffering them to pray before their death.  
One Fitz Patrick, an Irish Papist, enticed a rich Merchant, that was a Protestant, to bring all his Goods to his house, promising safely to keep them, and to re-deliver them to him; but when he had gotten them into his possession, he took the Merchant and his Wife and hanged them both. The like he did by divers others.  
Some English mens heads they cut off, and carried them to Kilkenny, and on the Market day, set them on the across, where many, especially the Women, stabbed, cut and slashed them.  
A poor Protestant Woman, with her two Children, going to Kilkenny, these bloody Miscreants baited them with Dogs, stabbed them with Skeins, and pulled out the Guts of one of the Children, whereby they died; and not far off they took divers men, women, and children, and hanged them up; one of the Women being great with Child, they ripped up her Belly as she hanged, so that the Child fell out in the Cawl alive. Some after they were hanged, they drew up and down till their Bowels were torn out.  
How many thousands of Protestants were thus inhumanly butchered by sundry kindes of deaths, we cannot ascertain.  
In the Province of Ulster, we find about 150000. murdered, as before; what the number of the slain was in the three other Provinces, I find not upon Record, but certainly it was very great, for you have these passages in a general Remonstrance of the distressed Protestants in the Province of Munster. We may( say they) compare our woe to the saddest Parallel of any Story; Our Churches are profaned by Sacrifices to Idols; Our Habitations are become ruinous heaps: No quality, Age or Sex, privileged from Massacres and lingering deaths, by being robbed, stripped naked, and so exposed to could and famine. The famished Infants of murdered Parents swarm in our Streets, and for want of food, perish before our faces, &c. And all this cruelty that is exercised upon us, we know not for what cause, offence, or seeming provocation it is inflicted on us,( sin excepted) saving that we were Protestants, &c. We can make it manifest, that the depopulations in this Province of Munster, do well near equal those of the whole Kingdom, &c.  
And thus in part you have heard of the merciless cruelties which the bloody Papists exercised towards the Protestants: Let us now consider, at least, some of God's Judgments upon the Irish, whereby he hath not left the Innocent blood of his Servants to be altogether unrevenged.  
These bloody Hell-hounds, themselves confessed, That the Ghosts of divers of the Protestants, which they had drowned at Portendowne bridge, were daily seen to walk upon the River, sometimes singing of Psalms, sometimes brandishing naked Swords, sometimes shrieking in a most hideous and fearful manner. So that many of the Popish Irish which dwelled near thereabouts, being affrighted therewith, were forced to remove their Habitations further off into the country.  
Katherine Cook testified upon Oath, That when the Irish had barbarously drowned one hundred and eighty Protestants, men, women, and children, at Portendowne Bridge, about nine dayes after, she saw the apparition of a Man boult upright in the River, standing breast high, with his hands lifted up to Heaven; and continu●d in that pasture from December to the end of Lent, at which time some of the English Army passing that way, saw it also, after which it vanished away.  
Elizabeth Price, testified upon Oath, That she, and other women, whose Husbands and Children were drowned in that place, hearing of these Apparitions, went thither one evening, at which time they saw one like a Woman rise out of the River, breast high, her hair hanging down, which with her skin, was as white as Snow, often crying out, Revenge, Revenge, Revenge, which so affrighted them, that they went their way.  
Divers Protestants were thrown into the River of Belterbert, and when any of them offered to swim to the Land, they were knocked on the head with Poles, after which their Bodies were not seen of six weeks; but after the end thereof, the murtherers coming again that way, the Bodies came floating up to the very Bridge where they were.  
Sir Con Mac Gennis with his Company, slay Mr. Turge, Minister of the Newry, with divers other Protestants, after which the said Mac Gennis was so affrighted with the Apprehension of the said Mr. Turge, his being continually in his presence, that he commanded his Souldiers not to slay any more of them, but such as should be slain in battle.  
A young Woman being stripped almost naked, there came a Rogue to her, bidding her, Give him her money, or he would run her through with his Sword. Her answer was, You cannot kill me, except God give you leave; Whereupon he ran three times at her naked body with his drawn Sword, and yet never pierced her skin; whereat he being confounded, went his way and left her. This was attested by divers Women that were present and saw it.  
As for the Protestant Ministers whom they surprised, their manner was first to strip them, and after bind them to a three or post, where they pleased, and then to ravish their Wives and Daughters before their faces( in sight of all their merciless rabble) with the basest Villains they could pick out, after they hanged up their husbands and parents before their faces, and then cut them down before they were half dead, then quartered them, after dismembered them, and stopped their mouths therewith.  
They basely abused one Mr. Trafford, a Minister in the North of Ireland, who being assaulted by these bloody Wolves of Romes brood, that know not God, nor any bowels of mercy. This distressed Minister desired but so much time as to call upon God before he went out of the world: but these merciless wretches would admit no time, but instantly fell upon him, hacked and hewed him to pieces.  
Sir Patrick Dunstan's Wife ravished before him, slay his Servants, spurned his Children till they dyed, bound him with Match to a board that his eyes burst out, cut off his ears and nose, teared off both his cheeks, after cut off h●s arms and legs, cut out his tongue, and after run a read hot Iron into him.  
These Particulars with many more were Attested before the Commissioners appointed for that purpose.   

A Brief APOLOGY in the behalf of the Protestants in the Valleys of Piedmont, with a Narrative of the Cruelties exercised upon them, In the Year 1655.  
WHereas we are forewarned by the Word of God, That the Rage and Cruelty of the infernal Dragon, towards the latter end of the World, would be in no wise abated; but seeing his time of Persecuting the Saints to be but short, would be the more vehemently insensed against them; The Reformed Churches in several parts, especially those next unto us in Piedmont, have very often heretofore, as well as now, had sad experience of the Truth of this Particular. For, notwithstanding that the Duke of Savoy, who is sovereign Prince of the valleys of Piedmont, after a most tedious and chargeable Application made unto him, did by an Edict expressly promise, That he would confirm unto them an enjoyment of the Liberty of Religion, and of those privileges granted to them by his Predecessors, Dukes of Savoy: Yet through the powerful persuasion of the Congregation( as it is called) for Propagation of the Faith, and Extirpating of heretics, erected at Turin; Or rather by virtue of that Authority which they Usurp over Princes, he soon forgot his Promise, and beyond all mens expectations, one Gastald was sent with a Commission, who calls himself, Conservator General of the catholic Faith against the Reformed Professors; affirming that he hath received Instructions from the Prince, whereby command is given touching all the Reformed Profession, within the several Towns and Precincts of Lucerne, Lusernette, St. John, La tower, Campiglion, Fenill, Bobiane, Bricheras, and St. Second, both Inhabitants and Strangers, That in case they will not within Three Dayes embrace the Popish Religion, they must for ever bid farewell to their Native Country, Houses, Lands and Possessions; adding moreover, That it should be Death without mercy, if after that space of time, any of them were taken in those places.  
Hereupon, no sooner was the time limited overpast, but immediately the Missionary Monks and Popish Priests sent in upon them a world of Cut-throats and Villains, who not only gape after the Prey like Hounds, and hunt for the precious Lives of those miserable Exiles, but also discharge their rage and fury against their Houses and Lands, by cutting down and rooting up the very Trees.  
In the mean time these poor Protestants knew not where to complain of their Injuries, being deprived of all possibility of making any address to the Prince; and if any did but offer to present Petitions in their behalves, they were presently snapped, and sent away to the Congregation for Propagating the Faith, and Extirpation of heretics; that is, to their Adversaries, the Archbishop of Turin, the princes Confessor, the Abbot de la Monta, the Prior of Rorene, and some others, who are politic Pensioners to the Pope.  
Now, as touching this Persecution against the Protestants, whereby they are made to depart within three dayes upon pain of Death, into such desolate places as are hardly sufficient to receive or sustain the native Inhabitants; the Iniquity and Injustice of the proceeding appears even in this, that the poor Protestants, through the influence of their Adversaries, and Accusers, upon the Magistrate, were without hearing, or the least summons, sentenced to Banishment upon pain of Death, without giving them any respite, or admitting them to make any Protestation or Appeal, unless their Petitions were drawn in such form as might please the Commissioner, who is the great Protector of this Persecution; and according to the mind of their Adversaries, in such terms as they should prescribe, whereby they must necessary betray Themselves and their Cause; and then after execution of the aforesaid penalty, they have been pleased to give some of the poor Exiles a hearing, and permitted them to pled their Cause, and that only by a Popish Advocate, who had been so charmed by the Clergy, that before he entred upon the Cause, he was fain to crave pardon upon his knees for undertaking to pled it.  
And as for the pleading, it was not managed before competent and lawful Judges, but the Protestants chiefest Adversaries sate in Judgement; the Archbishop of Turin, the Dukes Confessor, the Abbot de la Monta, the Prior of Rorene, and some others, devoted to the Court of Rome, yea, and in the Archbishops own house.  
Moreover, Whereas, according to certain Grants made by the Prince, leave was given to the Protestants to dwell in their wonted Habitations, where they had a toleration, and it remains on their part to be proved, that those were the accustomend places of their Habitation, the matter was so handled by the Romish clergy, that they endeavoured as much as in them lay, ●o hinder the Papists from giving any Testimony on the behalf of their Neighbours of the Protestant Religion, concerning this their Habitation, which at length the Protestants made a hard shift to wrest out of them, to the exceeding regret and indignation of the Clergy, and so proved at last by those authentic Testimonials under the hands of their Popish Neighbours, that all those places out of which they were driven, have been places Inhabited by Protestants time out of mind.  
But to the end that it may more fully and clearly appear, upon what account of right or wrong the Popish Adversaries do incite their sovereign, the Duke of Savoy, who is yet but young, to the driving of the poor Protestants out of their ancient Patrimonies and places of Abode, in the midst of a sharp and terrible Winter, and this upon pain of Death, unless within three dayes of Publication of that Decree of perpetual Banishment, they immediately quit their native Country, or else Abjure the true, and devote themselves and their families to the Romish Religion.  
It is to be observed( omitting the mention of their more ancient Rights and privileges, the long possession which they have held beyond the memory of man) That in the Edicts set forth by the Dukes of Savoy, 
They are to be seen in the History of the Martyrs, set forth in French, to the year 1561.  and the Agreements made for the Protestants enjoying a Liberty of Religion, the Limits appointed for the public preaching of the Reformed Religion, do not extend so far as the dwellings of those men that profess it, nor are the Limits of their Dwelling to be contracted into so narrow a compass, as the Places limited for Preaching. But that the Reformed Professors have a right of Habitation in those places out of which they are now expelled, is evident, not only by an ancient Prescription of many Ages, seeing their Fathers, Grandfathers, and other their Ancestors, have inhabited there before them, but also by those very Grants and Concessions confirmed by Duke Charles Emanuel, wherein it was acknowledged by public Edict, that this Habitation was derived to them from their Fathers. For when he, through the Instigation of the Court of Rome, had by a surreptitious Decree commanded them to depart thence towards the later end of the year 1602. afterward, being well informed of their Right, he by an authentic Charter, gave them leave to dwell there again; for the confirmation of which Charter, they paid 6000. Ducatoons into the Dukes Exchequer, upon August, 17. Anno, 1620. and it was confirmed again by the Prince now reigning, upon the 29th of December, Anno 1655. And yet now, contrary to Faith given upon the 25th of January following, in the depth of Winter, not sparing even Women with Child, near delivery, nor those that had Infants hanging on their Breasts, they were all without distinction, both Men, Women, and Children, driven out to wander through Frost and Snow in a most bitter season, without the least warning or delay. And no sooner had these Old Inhabitants quitted their ancient Inheritances for the saving of their Lives, but those savage thieves that gaped after the prey, presently fell to plundering and spoiling their Houses, driving away their cattle, felling and cutting down Trees, or else rooting them up.  
In a word, they destroyed all, and by this means attempted to drive them to the utmost point of Desperation; and if any man endeavoured to withstand or oppose them, they immediately cried out, He is a traitor.  

Andreas Gastaldus, Doctor in Law, Conservator and ordinary Auditor, sitting in the honourable Chamber of Accounts of his Royal Highness the Duke of Savoy, and general Conservator of the holy Faith, appointed to put in execution all Orders which are published against the pretended Reformed Religion, in the Valleys of Lucerna, Parouse, and Saint Martin, and particularly appointed by his said Highness for this special business.  
ACcording to the Power given us by his Highness, by his Letters dispatched to us in due form, signed Violetta, and sealed, bearing date the thirteenth of this month; and in performance of the Instructions given us, as also at the instance made to us by Mr. Bartholomew Gastaldus, intervening in the behalf of the Royal Exchequer; We Ordain and Command the first Sergeant or bailiff sworn to make Command and Injunction to all heads of Families, and to each particular of the pretended Reformed Religion, of whatsoever estate, condition and degree, no Inhabitant excepted, possessing any goods in the Territories of Lucerne, Lucernette, St. John, La tower, Bobiane, Fenill, Campiglion, Bricheras, and St. Second, within three dayes next after the Publication hereof, to relinquish and abandon with their Families the said places, and to transport themselves into those places and limits, which by the good pleasure of his Royal Highness are prescribed unto them, Viz. Bobiane, the Valley of Angrogne, Rorata, and Country of Bonetta, under pain of Life, and Confiscation of their Houses, Possessions and Goods, which are extant without the said Limits, in case they cannot within twenty dayes make proof before us, that they are catholics, or that they have sold their Estates unto some catholics: His Royal Highness declaring, That it was never his design, nor of his Royal Predecessors, by any act done or to be done, nor his intention, much less his will, to enlarge their bounds; and that if any thing hath been done or published to the contrary, it was both against his own Orders, or those of his Magistrates, but a mere Usurpation against the disposi●ion of those Acts, as it is manifest; and therefore the Transgressors have undergone the Penalties mentioned in his Declaration. Besides, that his Highness doth intend, that in all those places, and each of them, where they are lovingly tolerated, the Sacrifice of holy mass shall be Celebrated; Prohibiting all Subjects of the pretended Reformed Religion, to give any molestation in Deeds or Words to the Fathers Missionaries, and those that officiate under them, much less to disturb any of the pretended Reformed Religion from turning catholics, under pain of Death: Charging and particularly commanding each particular Minister of the pretended Reformed Religion, to see the forementioned Injunctions inviolably observed, as they will answer it at their utmost perils; Declaring his Intention to be, that the Execution hereof be done by Posting, or Fixing Copies of these presents, which shall be at the like value, as if they had been made and intimated to each in particular.  
Given at Lucerne, the 25th of January, 1655. Andrew Gastaldus, Commissioner.    

A NARRATIVE of the bloody Cruelties that were exercised against the Protestants of the Valleys of Piedmont, during the heat of the late Massacre, in April, Anno. 1655.  
UPon Saturday, April 17. 1655. whilst the Deputies of the Protestants were, by the subtleties of the marquis of Pianessa, detained at Turin, a great Army arrived at St. Giovanny, and fell in the dusk of the evening into La Torre; the next day they ranged about through the commonalties of La Torre, and St. Giovanny, plundering and pillaging all before them; and the day after, their number being increased to about fifteen thousand, they set upon the Protestants in several Quarters.  
Wednesday the 21th. the marquis of Pianessa held the Deputies of the valley of Lucerna in parley till noon, & then entertained them with a large Dinner, and sent them away with many fair promises, That there should be no hurt done to any, except those of St. Giovanny and La Torre, as being the places specified in the Order of Gastaldo; but for the rest, if they would but quarter a few Troops as a token of their obedience, and that but for a short time, they might be fearless of the least inconvenience. Hereupon the Agents of Angrogna bestirred themselves to persuade their own party from making the least resistance. The same did the Agents of Villaro and Bobio. But no sooner were those Troops entred, but they put all to Fire and Sword, slaying all they met with, and that in the most barbarous manner they could possibly device; as you may see by this Extract of a Letter written by some of those poor Protestants, wherein they thus writ.  
The Army having gotten footing, became very numerous, by the addition of a multitude of the Neighbouring Inhabitants, who hearing that we were given for a prey to the plunderers, fell upon us with an impetuous fury. To these were added a great number of Out-laws, Prisoners, and other Offenders. We were forced also to receive five or six Regiments of the French Army, besides some Irish,( to whom, as it was said, our country was promised) and several other Troops of Highway-men, and Vagabonds, under a pretence of coming into the Valleys onely for fresh Quarters.  
The multitude being licenced by the marquis of Pianessa, encouraged by the Monks, and lead by our wicked Neighbours, fell upon us with such violence on every side, and in so treacherous a manner, especially in Angrognia, Villaro, and Bobio,( to whom Pianessa had plighted his troth, That if they would but Quarter one Regiment, they should be secure from all harm) that in a moment of time all was turned into a confused heap, and most inhumanly Massacred. In one place they cruelly tormented one hundred and fifty Women and Children, and afterwards chopped off the Heads of some, and dashed out the Brains of others against the Rocks. Multitudes of Prisoners they took, and such of them as refused to go to Mass, they hanged up some, and nailed the feet of others to Trees, with their heads downward, all which they constantly endured.  
The pretence of these strange Massacres and Cruelties are, That we were Rebels to the Dukes commands, in not performing a pure impossibility by immediate departing from our Habitations.  
The truth is, the cruelties which were there executed, would exceed the belief of any man, were they not so fully proved by the formal Attestations of so many eye Witnesses, and the Oath of one of their chief Commanders that acted these cruelties.  

The DECLARATION of Monseur Du Petit Bourgh, first Captain of the Regiment of Gransey, subscribed with his own Hand at Pignerel, November 27. 1655. in the presence of two other Commanders.  
I Sieur du Petit Bourgh, being commanded by Prince Thomas, to go and join myself with the marquis of Pianessa, who was then at La Torre. Upon my departure, I was requested by the ambassador, to speak to the marquis, and to use my endeavour to accommodate the troubles which were amongst those of the Religion, in the Valleys of Piedmont; Which accordingly I did, entreating him with much earnestness, that he would give way thereunto; and I doubted not but I should be able to effect it. But he refused this my request, and that divers times, notwithstanding all the endeavours I could possibly use to persuade him thereto; and instead of the least mitigation, I was Witness to many great violences, and extreme cruelties exercised by the Bandets and Souldiers of Piedmont upon all sorts, of every Age, Sex, and Condition, whom I saw Massacred, dismembered, Hanged up, Burnt, and Ravished; together with many horrid confusions, which I beholded with horror and regret; and without any distinction of those that resisted, and such as resisted not, they were used with all sorts of inhumanity, their Houses burnt, their Goods plundered; and when Prisoners were brought before the said marquis, I saw him give order to give them no Quarter at all, saying, His Highness was resolved to have none of the Religion within his Dominions. And whereas in his Declaration he protests, That there was no hurt done to any but during the Fight, nor the least outrage committed upon any Persons that were not fit to bear Arms. I will maintain that it is not so, having seen with my eyes many Persons killed in could blood; as also Women, Aged Persons, and young Children, miserable murdered, &c.   

The Attestations of divers Persons of Honour and Integrity, who were for the most part Eye and Ear Witnesses of the ensuing barbarous Cruelties, which were exercised upon the Protestants, in the Valleys of Piedmont, in the late Massacre, 1655.  
SArah Rastignole des vines, about sixty years old, was overtaken by Souldiers, and commanded to say her Prayers; then they bid her say, Jesus Maria, which she refused; whereupon one of the Souldiers thrust a Sickle into the lower part of her Belly, and ript her up to the Navel, and then dragged her upon the ground, being half-dead, till another came and cut off her head. Her Daughter in Law, who hide her self in the Snow for two days, was an eye witness of it.  
Martha Constantine of Giovanni, after she had seen several others most cruelly put to death, was her self first Ravished, and afterwards had her Breasts cut off, and part of her Privities, by some of the Souldiers, who fried them, and set them before their Comrades, making them believe they were Tripes, but when they had eaten a good part, they  told them what they were, which caused a quarrel amongst them; they that had eaten were so sick, that some of them died soon after. This was certified by a Papist to one Andrea Javel of Einachia.  
A man of Thrassaniere, being taken Prisoner, received divers stabs in the Soles of his Feet, and in his Ears, by two Souldiers, who cut off his Privy Members, and applied a burning Candle to the Wound, frying it with the flamme thereof, that the blood might stop, and his torments be prolonged. Then tore they his Nails off with burning Pincers, to force him to renounce his Religion; but when nothing would do, they tied one of his Legs to a Mule, and dragged him through the streets, and then bound a Cord about his Head, and twisted it with a staff till his Eyes and his Brains dropped out, and then cast him into the River.  
Peter Simond of Angrogna, about eighty years old, was tied Neck and Heels together, and so violently thrown down a fearful Precipice, but by the way, falling upon a cragged branch of a three, hung in a most languishing condition for divers dayes, till he died, the Precipice being inaccessible.  
Esay Garcino of Angrogna, of ninety years old, had his Body cut and hacked in small pieces, and then his head choped off.  
The Wife of Daniel Armand of La Torre, had her Body torn and cut in pieces, and the parts of it strewed along the High ways, and hung upon the Hedges.  
Captain Pola took two Women of La Torre, and with his Fauchin ript up their Bellies, and left them grovling upon the Snow in this sad condition till they died.  
The Souldiers of Bagnols, cut off the Nose, Fingers, and Hands of an old Woman, and left her languishing till she died.  
They took many Infants, and little Children, and flung them down steep Rocks, and dashed them to pieces.  
Magdalene Bertino of La Torre, they stripped naked, tied her Head between her Legs, and threw her down one of the Precipices.  
Mary Raymondet was found in a Cave, with her flesh sliced off from the Bones, and chopped as small as herbs to the Pot.  
Magdalene Pilot, was cut in pieces in a Cave near Castellus.  
Anna, Daughter to Giovanny Charboniere of La Torre, had a long stake thrust into her Privities by some of the Souldiers, and stuck into the ground, and so left hanging; a sad Spectacle to every one that passed by.  
Giovanni Andrea Michialin of La Torre, being a Prisoner, miraculously escaped; three of his Children they tore in pieces limb from limb before him, and the fourth being about six weeks old, snatched it out of its Mothers Arms, and dashed its Brains out against the Rocks.  
Jacob Perrin, and Elder of the Church of Villaro, and David his Brother, being Prisoners, were carried to Lucerna, and cast into the Marquesses Prison, where the bloody Souldiers most cruelly stripped off the skin from their Arms and Legs, in long slices like Leathern Points, till the flesh was left quiter bare; after which they were miserable starved to death in the same Prison, and their carcases left to rot there.  
Giovanni Pelanchion, a young man, being a Prisoner, they tied one of his legs to the tail of a Mule, and so dragged him through the streets of Lucerna, stoning him with Stones and Brickbats; after which these bloody Villains cut off his Privy Members, and crammed them down his throat, and at last chopped off his head, and so left him unburied.  
Magdalen, the Daughter of Peter Fantana, a beautiful Girl, about ten years old, being taken by them, because her Body was uncapable of being forced, they tore her in so inhuman a manner, as that she was found half dead wallowing in her blood.  
A poor Woman apprehending her danger, fled with her sucking Child, which some of these Hell-hounds perceiving, pursued, and overtook her, tore her Infant in pieces, ravished the Mother, then cut off her head, and left her dead Body upon the Snow.  
At Villa Novo, the Daughter of Moses Long, about ten years old, was taken by these merciless Souldiers, who broached her upon a Pike, and roasted her alive, and after a while cut off her flesh to eat it, but finding it not well roasted, their stomachs would not serve them.  
Jacopo Michilino, one of the chief Elders of the Church of Bobio, being a Prisoner, they tied his hands to his privy Members, and so hung him upon a Gate, to force him to renounce his Religion, but could not prevail, for with incredible constancy he endured a world of cruelties, and tied behind at last exchanged this life for a better.  
Peter Gros, during his Imprisonment, saw two Protestants of La Sarcena, hanging in a most cruel manner by their privy members, their hands tied behind them, till their Bowels came out, and so died.  
Giovanni Rostagnal of Bobio, had his Nose, Ears, and other parts of his Body cut off, and left languishing upon the Snow, till he gave up the Ghost.  
Daniel Salvagio and his Wife, Giovanni Durant, Daniel revel, lodowick and Bartholomew Durant, all Brothers, and Paol Reynaud, being taken by the Souldiers, had their mouths and throats stuffed with Gunpowder, and then setting fire to it, their heads were torn all to pieces.  
Jacob Di Rono, a Schoolmaster of Roxas, being stripped naked, had his nails torn off with Pincets, his hands stabbed with a Daggers point, dragged through the Bourge of Lucerna, and as he went, had his flesh cut off with a Fauchin, crying, What sayest thou now Barbet, wilt thou go to Mass? To which, with admirable constancy, he answered, Much rather Death then Mass; dispatch me quickly for the love of God. Then came a notorious cut-throat, crying out, Lo here is the Minister of Rorans; and withal gave him a deadly blow with a back-sword, then dragged him to the bridge, cut off his head, and threw him into the River of Pelis.  
Paola Garnier of Roras, being taken by these murderers, they plucked out his Eyes, cut off his privy Members, thrust his Yard into his mouth, and in this posture they exposed him to public scorn for several dayes, and then, in a most inhuman manner flayed him alive, cutting his skin in four parts, and hanging it in the Windows of four of the principal houses of Lucerna.  
Daniel Cardon being taken by the Souldiers, they cut off his head, took out his brains, fried them in a Pan, and eat them up.  
Margaret Revel, and Mary Di Pravillerm, were taken by them, and in a most barbarous manner burned alive.  
Madona Lena, and Jeanna Batzan, both of La Torre, were used in the like cruel manner, and burned alive.  
A widow of La Torre, who had lain sick for three years, was taken by them, with one of her Daughters; and drawn upon a Cart through La Torre; and as they passed, these Blood-hounds stabbed them with Pitchforks, and threw them into the River of Angrogna.  
Paola Giles of La Torre, they shot in the Neck, after which they slit his Face, and when they had slain him, they left his carcase to be eaten by Dogs.  
Some of these murderers having taken eleven men, heated a great Furnace read hot, forced them to throw one another into it, and the last man they themselves threw in.  
These Sons of Blood pursued, and hunted out multitudes of these poor Protestants amongst the Rocks and Mountains, by the traces of their bleeding Feet, which were cut with the Ice, and Flints in the way, and basely murdered them.  
Michael Gonet of Lucerna, aged ninety years, was burnt alive by the Mountains of Bobio, where he fled for shelter.  
Bartholomew Frasche of fennel, was taken by the Souldiers, and after they slashed and mangled him, they thrust a poisoned knife through his Heels, and in this woeful plight they threw him into Prison at Turin, where he lay in continual torment till he died.  
Giovanni Baptista Oudri, an old man, was cruelly murdered at La Sarcena.  
Magdalen La Peire, was pursued by these Villains, and lest she might fall into their hands, threw her self down a dreadful Precipice, whereby she died.  
Mary Davy was basely murdered by them.  
Michael Bellino, with two others, were beheaded by them.  
The Daughter of Peter Mallonat a counselor, with her Brother an Infant, were rolled down a steep Hill, and two dayes after were found dead upon the Snow.  
One Giovanni, with his Wife and Child, were hurled down a mighty Rock, and three dayes after were found dead.  
Joseph Chiairet having received a Wound in the flight, was slayed alive, and his Grease taken out of his Body. The like was done to Paolo Carniero.  
Mattheo Turin was Massacred, and his Body devoured by Dogs.  
Margaret Saretta was stoned to death, and cast into the River.  
Cypriano Bastia was starved to death, and cast to Dogs.  
Antonio Bertino, had his Nose, Paps, and Privities cut off, and his Head cleft in twain.  
Two Children were murdered and burnt to ashes.  
Joseph Pont was wounded, and then had his Body cut off in the middle.  
Daniel De Maria, had two of his Children murdered before his eyes, and then was barbarously slain.  
Judith, a Widow of eighty years old, was dragged up and down, and at last had her head cut off.  
Three Infants of Peter Fine were stisted in the Snow.  
A maid that was an Innocent, was stripped naked, and then had a long Stake driven through her Belly.  
luke, the Wife of Peter Besson, being near the time of her lying down, as she fled for her life, was so affrighted with the shrieks of some that were Massacred, that she fell in travail upon the Mountains, where she was found dead, with her new born Infant, and two other Children lying by her.  
Francis, the Son of Mr. Gros a Minister, had his Body cut into small gobbets, whilst he was alive, and in the presence of his Wife; they took two of his Children, and most inhumanly murdered them.  
The Sieur Thomas Margher being forced to fly, being an Elder of La Torre, was miserable starved to death with hunger and could.  
Judith Ravelin, with seven Children, were all barbarously murdered in their Beds.  
Anna, a Widow of about seventy five years old, was cut in pieces by the Souldiers.  
The Wife of Gasper Fayol, being taken, was forced to labour hard for them, by cutting down the Corn; and as she was at work, they came behind her and cut off her head.  
Two Children, both of them Dumb, were murdered.  
Jacob Rosseno refusing to say Jesus Maria, was cruelly beaten with Clubs, and having received several shots in his Body, they at last clove his Head asunder.  
Susanna, the Daughter of Puola Giacquin, resisting a soldier that would have ravished her, and by chance pushing him down a Rock, was hewed in pieces by others of them.  
Giovanni Pullius, a poor Peasant of La Torre, being taken by the Souldiers, after all manner of reproaches and scorns cast upon him by the friars and others, was by the command of the marquis of Pionessa, dragged by the Hangman to a place near the Convent, where the marquis commanded the Hangman to place the Ladder against a three, and to prepare for his Execution; at which time the Monks and Priests ceased not to use all the Arguments they could invent, to shake the Faith and Constancy of this poor Creature, yet could they not prevail; by all his expressions he declared the inward joy of his Soul, that he was counted worthy to suffer for the Name of Christ; and though they oft pressed him to remember his Children, he answered, That it was his Prayer to God, that his Children might follow their Fathers steps, and die like him. Whereupon the Priests seeing all their labour lost, assisted the Hangman to end his life, and turned him off the Ladder.  
Sieur Paola Clement, an Elder of the Church of Rossana, was brought by the Monks and Priests to the dead Body of the other, thinking thereby to scar him from his Principles and Profession; but he answered them with undaunted courage, That they might kill the Body, but could never be able to prejudice the Soul of a true Believer. He  told them also, That God would assuredly avenge the Innocent blood that they had spilled. And having by some Ejaculations, prepared to resign up his Soul unto God, he desired the Hangman to do his work. Three or four dayes after the marquis of Pionessa coming that way, one of the Souldiers discharged a musket at his dead Body, whereupon there gushed out a stream of fresh blood, which the marquis observing, said to some about him, This blood cries for vengeance. Afterwards they took both these dead bodies and hung them up naked by one foot, near to La Torre, and when any Prisoner of the Protestants passed that way, they forced him or her to kiss their Privities, that they might put- like scorn both upon the living and the dead; but by reason of the multitude of Bullets that were shot through them by the Souldiers, they at last fell to pieces.  
Daniel Rambaut of Villaro, having a numerous Family, was taken and carried to Paysana, with divers others of his Neighbours, where he was cast into Prison, and importunately set upon by the Monks and Mass-Priests, both with promises and threats to pronounce Jesus Maria, and when they could not prevail, the Tormentors cut off his Fingers one by one, then his hands, and lastly, gave him a deadly wound in the Stomach, dragged his Carcase to the River side, and left it to be devoured by Dogs and wild Beasts.  
Peter Chabriolo being taken by the Souldiers, they hung a great quantity of Gunpowder about his body, and then giving fire to it, tore him all to pieces.  
Antony, the Son of Samuel Calieris, a dumb and innocent Creature, was inhumanly butchered as he sat by the fire.  
Peter Moninat and his Wife, lying both of them extreme sick, were murdered by the Souldiers, who finding one of their Children lame and impotent, they cut off his Legs, and so left it in that miserable plight.  
Another Girl that was dumb from her Cradle, was found starved to death for want of sustenance.  
Daniel Benech of Villaro, was taken by the Souldiers, who cut off his Nose, Ears, and other parts of his Body, till they had slain him, and left the mangled pieces upon the Hedges and Bushes in the same place.  
Two of his Children were also stisted in the Snow.  
Mary, the Widow of Daniel Pelanchion of Villaro, being taken by the Souldiers, after they had basely abused her, they shot her, and threw her into the River; but this poor Woman being not quiter dead, with much pains, and hard shifts, got out of the River again, hoping to be somewhat revived by the warm Sun, which she laid her down in; but some of these bloody Villains spying her, they fastened a Rope to her Feet, and dragged her to the Bridge, where they hung her up by the Legs, and so shot her to death, and left her naked upon the Rock.  
Mary, the Wife of Daniel Monino, was taken by the Souldiers, who having broken her Jaws in pieces, they gave her a deep cut in the Neck, so that her head was half off, and left her in that languishing condition, till she yielded up the Ghost.  
Mary, the Widow of David Nigrino, with her Daughter, were both inhumanly massacred in the Village of Bozza, and their dead Bodies thrown into the Woods.  
Susanna, the Widow of Samuel balls of Villaro, was by the Souldiers basely abused at their pleasure, and afterwards shut her up between two ston Walls, where she was miserable pined to death.  
Susanna, the Wife of Jacob Calvio, being sorely wounded by the Souldiers, after which flying to a Barn, the Souldiers perceiving it, set fire on the Barn, and burnt her to ashes.  
A Child of Daniel Bertino, was burnt in a Barn at Balmedaut.  
Paolo Armand being sick, was barbarously hacked in pieces.  
Andrea Bertino, a lame and old man, had his Breasts cut off, and was cruelly murdered by those bloody Villains, who to testify their malice against him, for his constancy in Religion, after he was dead, they cut out his Bowels, and with their Halberts hacked his Body in pieces.  
Daniel, the Son of David Machialino, being taken by the Souldiers, after much cruel usage, had his Tongue pulled out with great violence and torments.  
Constantia Bellione had her Body hacked and mangled, and then shot to death with several Bullets in her Bowels, & cleft her head with a Hanger.  
Judith Mondon was beaten to death in a savage manner with Clubs and Staves.  
David Paglias and Paolo Genre endeavouring to fly, each of them having a little Infant in his Arms, being tired, were overtaken by the Souldiers▪ both Men and Infants were inhumanly murdered.  
Micheli Genre, a young man of Bobio, was thrown off the Bridge of La Torre, where, as he was praying, he was partly stoned and partly drowned.  
David Armond was beaten about the Head with an Hammer till he died.  
Jacob Baridono being taken Prisoner at Villaro, and from thence carried to La Torre, where he was tormented with burning Matches between his Fingers, his Lips, and other parts of his Body, till he died, and was eaten of Dogs.  
Margaret, the Wife of Joseph Garniero, having received a shot in one of her Breasts, as she was giving suck to her Child with the other, was yet so courageous, that with many Pathetical Expressions, she exhorted her Husband to endure the across with Patience, and to hold out to the End. Neither did she desire any favour of the Murtherers, but only that they would spare the Life of the innocent Babe, which accordingly they did; but withal gave the Mother another shot in her Body, whereof she died, and afterwards the Infant being found alive in the dead Mothers arms, was miraculously preserved.  
Isaiah Mondon, having hide himself in a Cleft of a Rock, where for many dayes he had nothing but a few leaves to eat; was at last found by the Souldiers, and unmercifully handled by them, and drawn towards the Town of Lucerna, being almost dead, fell down upon his knees, and besought them to dispatch him, which accordingly they did; partly with Swords, partly with Pistols; crying out in a scoffing manner, Kill the Barbet, kill the Barbet, who refuseth to become a Christian.  
Giovanni Barrolino, and his Wife were cast alive into a pool, and thrust under the water with Staves and Pitch-forks, and dispatched with Stones and Brickbats.  
Mary Revel receiving a shot in her Body, fell upon her knees, and as she was praying, the bloody Enemy dispatched her.  
Giovanni Salvagiot, as he was returning from Bagnol, after the Peace was concluded, as he was passing by a chapel, because he did not put off his hat, and make obeisance to it, was murdered, and his Body left unburied.  
Giovanni Gayo, and divers other Men, Women, and Children, hide themselves in a Cave, till they were discovered by some of those blood-hounds; whereupon they fell upon their knees, and begged their Lives of them, most of the Murtherers having been their Neighbours and familiar Acquaintance, and such as had pretended great friendship to them: but the mercy of these men proved extreme cruelty: for the kindest salute they could afford them, was with Swords, muskets, and Pistols, which the poor People perceiving, and not desiring to behold the lamentable misery each of other, they kneeled down in a Ring, and thrust their heads into Fern, and such like stuff as they had prepared to lie upon, in which posture they were all miserable shot to death, and their dead bodies horribly mangled and cut in pieces.  
Jacob Barral and his Wife being taken Prisoners by the Earl of St. Secondo, they cut off the Womans Breast, and then shot them to death.  
Antony Guiguo went to Periero with a purpose to change his Religion; but it pleased God so to touch his heart, that he repented of the Resolution, and sought to make an Escape: but as he was flying, some troops of the marquis of Galeas caught him, and used him most cruelly, because he would not go to Mass: and as they carried him Prisoner towards parley, passing by a Precipice, the poor man to avoid his Tormentors, leaped down from the Rock, and so was dashed in pieces.  
Very many others there were which might have been inserted, whereof some were Drowned, some Burnt, some slain with the Sword, some Shot to death, some Starved, some smothred in the Snow, some Pined to death, some killed with Staves, some Cut in Pieces; and all this and much more by their Popish Adversaries; as may be seen in Mr. Moorelands History, of the Persecutions in the Valleys of Piedmont.   
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