A REMONSTRANCE OF THE BARBAROUS CRUELTIES AND BLOODY MURDERS COMMITTED By the IRIsh REBELS Against the PROTESTANTS in IRELAND Both before and since the Cessation, COLLECTED Out of the Records at DUBLIN, by Thomas Morley, Gent. Being the examinations of many who were eye-witnesses of the same, and justified upon oath by many thousands; Presented to the whole Kingdom of England, that thereby they may see the Rebels inhuman deal, prevent their pernicious practices, relieve their poor brethren's necessities, and fight for their Religion, Laws, and Liberties. Published by special command and Authority. London, Printed by E. G. 12 June. 1644. WE His Majesty's Commissioners for the inquiry and examining of the losses and sufferings of the loyal subjects of the Kingdom of Ireland by means of the present rebellion Do hereby certify all those whom it may concern; That Tho: Morley of Coughs in the King's County gent. by his examination upon oath lately taken before us deposed, that since the beginning of the present Rebellion, and by means thereof he hath been and still is deprived, rob, or despoiled of his goods, chattels and estate, of the value and to his loss of one thousand ninety seven pounds stir. All which by direction from the right honourable the Lords justices of the same Kingdom we certify under our hands from the City of Dublin this, fift day of January. 1643. Henry Jones John Watson. Henry Brereton. John Stern. Ex. per Tho. Waring. THese are to certify that the bearer hereof, Thomas Morley Gent. having by means and occasion of this late Rebellion in Ireland, lost all his whole estate, was constrained upon the insurrection to flee to my Castle at Parson's Town alias Birr, in Com. Regis where he became a Trooper & was shot in his Majesty's service so, that he was constrained to go upon crutches for the space of eighteen months, or thereabouts. And now by warrant from the Lord Lieutenant, and council is amongst the rest of my Troop disbanded without any pay, and is constrained to go for England to seek for relief, or else to starve; All which at his request I signify under my hand, this 18 day of March, Anno Dom. 1643. William Parsons. YOu and every of you, are hereby required to permit, and suffer the Bearer hereof Thomas Morley, and John Morley his Son, who were lately driven out of Ireland, and landed at the Port of Dover quietly to pass for London, without any of your lets, or molestations; And this shall be your warrant. Given under my hand and seal the first day of May, 1644. WARWICK. To all deputy Lieutenants, Colonels, Lieutenants Colo. Capts Commanders, and all other Officers whom it may concern. A Brief Collection of some part of the foul Murders and barbarous cruelties, committed by the traitorous Rebels the Papists of several Counties within the Kingdom of IRELAND. And first of their Murders and Cruelties In the County of Cavan. The witnesses. THirty persons at one time most barbarously murdered, and slain outright by the popish Rebels, and about 150. more cruelly wounded; so that Traces of blood issuing from their wounds, lay upon the high way 12 miles together in their flight. And many young children were left and perished in the way, to the number of 60. The Rebels vow, if any digged graves for them they should be buried therein themselves: Adam Glover. so as many were left unburied and some hid in the bushes when they were dead, because their weak parents could carry them no further, nor bury them: and some were carried a great way before they durst bury them. And that one Philip orely then and yet Shierffe of the County, relenting at their continued cruelties, his own son told him that if he did revolt from that action and authority; he ought to die and should surely be hanged. Marry Sharp. In the County of Cavan. Anthony Sharp being directed by Hugh Brady Gent. to leave his goods with him in trust, and promising to secure them for him from the other Rebels, when afterwards Sharp came for them, Brady in stead thereof, cut off his head. Will. Bellis. In the County of Lowth. Captain Dergis a Rebel having rob him of his goods, and being desired to spare him somewhat of his own, he being sick, answered, he had 100 l. of the King's Subsidy moneys and 40 l. of the Bishop of Dromors, and all was too little for the Army; and so he going away was stripped of all his , and getting into a bed; the Rebels set the house on fire, out of which he hardly escaped, and the rebels then hanged two Protestants. nathanael Higginson, Thomas Knowles, Rich-Braishagh. Richard Walker, says, 40 more were murdered many wounded and 100 dead. In the County of Fermanagh. That Captain Mac Roy Guire Captain O Donnelle and other Rebels killed one of his Tenants, and at the least 80 English Protestants more and wounded, stripped, and hurt so many more of the English as dwelled thereabouts: yet killed few outright, but left them in ditches and other places mortally wounded, where they pined to death, the Rebels affirming their priest commanded them so to do. George Butterwick-Iohn Moreton says, 18 Protestants were murdered at another time. In the County of Cavan. Philip O rely and others promising to conduct the Protestants to the next County, and to secure their goods, they relying thereon put their old and weak people and children upon Cars▪ taking (by the Rebel's liberty) some small relief with them. But before nine miles passed, an Army of their Soldiers came against them, and their Convoys, without more money, would not help or protect them; but assisted the army to rob, strip, and wound them, so as 100 died outright, and many after: but at the beginning the Protestants were there near two thousand young and old. Robert Hancock Barbary Moreton Will. Moreton. Agnes Machem. John Heys, Charles Short. In the County of Fermanagh. To prove that very many, viz. 100 and above in the parish of Drumully are dead through hunger, and cold, since they were put out of their habitations, and divers able Protestants most cruelly and barbarously massacred and murdered. john Bowser, Barbary Maine, George Gascoine, Eliz. Ardwick, Eliz. Cotes, Eliz. Dewsbery, Hugh Stokes, Will. Cross, Anne Bath her smock ripped down with a skein. Richard Watson, Abraham James. In the County of Fermanagh. Tho. Bowser murdered in his wife's arms, and many more also at several times murdered. Magret Wilson, james pressick. Rich. Knowles, Elinor James, Margaret Fermony. Burning of the Houses of Protestants, and of cruel usage of the popish Rebels. One Lund, a man of 80. year's old most barbarously murdered. Mr. James most barbarously murdered and after stripped naked, fifteen protestants more slain. Mary. Loftus, Eliz. Massy. Marry Loftus had her husband quartered in her sight. Elizabeth Massies Husband killed in her arms, and two children starved. Eliz. Bowser, Margaret Parkin. That by credible report of all the Town, the Rebels boiled a young child of a protestant to death in a caldron, or great kettle in the Church at Newton. Marry Loftus. Marry loftus had her husband quartered and thrown into a River, and then the Rebels said it was good beef. Anne Cheetam. In the County of Armagh. Protestants detained prisoners with the Rebels. Davy Williams, Rich-Runckorn. Will. Bickerdick. In the King's County. Richard Warrins wife and 5 children detained. In the County of Fermanagh. Richard Sallyard Gent. most cruelly murdered because he would not go to mass, and his wife wounded. Jo. Smithson clerk her husband, Io. Heys & others Antony Hubert, Sara Doughty, Derby Lea. Will. Robinson, Margaret Maning. Marry Comms. Margery Sharp. In the County of Dublin. Mistress Smithson a minister's wife and her maid hanged up to death. Mistress Dirrick Hubbert, and others rob and murdered at the skirries by the Rebels, and all the Protestants there also rob; other foul murders in the County of Dublin. In the County of Meath. Cruel murders in the Town of Navan. Marry Comin● dragged up and down in a rope. Mr. Sharp the minister most cruelly murdered, and denied burial, the Rebels having first enforced him to trample and spoil all his books in the water. Jane Pressick. Tho. Pressick, james Haukin, both most cruelly murdered at Trim, being first rob, and their wives and children thereby undone. Reinold Griffith In the County of Armagh. Reinold Griffith rob, cruelly wounded, and pursued 16 miles for his life, and his wife and children imprisoned three weeks by the Rebels, and then the Rebels took her son of 14 years old and drowned him in a bog-pit, holding him down with a sword in her sight, and this done at the New●y. Rich. Warrin. William Warin rob, and imprisoned by the Rebels 12 days, then driven into the River, there stripped, thrown into the water and drowned with a 100 more women and children: his wife and six children left at the rebels mercy. Lydia Smith, Isaac Keene. In the County of Longford. O●e Smith rob there, had his head cut off in defence of the Castle, and 14 more protestants then, and there murdered also, and his wife and children stripped. Henry Palmer. In the County of Wexford. Divers that kept the Castle of Fethert wounded to death, and others stripped, and almost starved to death. Henry Steel, Robert thrown, Clark. In the County of Monoghan. M. Blany a Justice of the peace and Knight of the shire, and Committee for the Subsidies, hanged up, stripped, Hugh Culme, Gent. Henry Calladine John Greg. and buried in a ditch by the rebels in the County of Monoghan, because he would not turn and go to mass; and the next night one Luke Ward hanged and thrown into a ditch; and they and divers others were rob, and the rest kept in prison, without relief from them that robbed them. Other murders and cruelties of others, within the County of Manoghan by the rebels. Dorothy Ward. William Perkins Anne Borrell. In the County of Cavan. Fourteen or fifteen hundred Protestants all robbed and stripped together, and some stripped 20 several times. Richard Lewis, Gent. Marry Ward Elizabeth Birch John Carter Mary Owlet John Heron Nich. Michael Henry Barnes Philip Ward Christopher Ayrey Silvanus Bullock The Arms and Town of Belturbat delivered to the o Relys, and their company of Rebels, upon their promise to the Townsmen that they should enjoy their goods safe, and have them preserved against the Mac Gueres, and other Rebels of the County of Fermanah. But after, upon pretence that Mac Guere threatened them, the Protestants were turned out of the Town, with their , and had a guard from the o Relys one day; but the second day they were stripped and a great number slain, and many perished through cold and famine; and many little infants left alive by the way languishing, and gaping for breath. Protestant houses pulled down, and divers taken and kept prisoners, many stripped, and many died of cold and want, Franc. Posnet Tho. Taylor and many children left miserably alive by the way, because the parents were able to bring them no further. And a very old woman carried 6 miles on her son's back, was forced to be left by the way. And a Minister killed by the Rebels and thrown into a ditch, who had 3 children, Nich. Swainson two whereof he carried on his back, which were left by the way at his death. In the County of Monoghan. One who was executed the 15 of February 1641. at Dublin for murdering a Protestant woman, John Montgomery, Gent. and above 100 more witnesses confessed upon the gallows that he was set on to do it, and that after he washed his hands in her blood. A man who had several young children borne and alive, and his wife near her time of delivery of another, was most cruelly murdered by the rebels, his wife flying into the mountains, the rebels hastily pursued her and her little children, Mr. John Montgomery. and found her newly delivered of her child there; they pitying no such, nor any distress, presently murdered her and her other children which run with her thither, and in most inhuman and barbarous manner suffered their dogs to eat up and devour the new borne child. Philip Tailor John Wisdom In the County of Armagh. One hundred ninety six Protestants drowned by the Papists, rebels, at a Town near Armagh, all together. Many others most cruelly massacred, and amongst the rest a poor woman with child had her belly ripped up, and two children tumbling out, they threw both her and them into the ditch; and after Philip Taylor found and drove away a Swine that was feeding upon them. In the County of Armaugh and Province of Ulster. The rebels there by special command from Sir Philem o Neale, dragged Lieutenant james Maxwell out of his bed in the rage and height of a burning-fever; and lest any of his friends or acquaintance should bury him, they carried him two miles from any Church, and there cruelly butchered and murdered him, when he knew not what he did or said, and so Sir Philem paid him 260 li. which he owed him. His wife grizel Maxwell being in child birth (the child half borne, half unborn) they stripped her stark naked, and drove her about an Arrows flight to the water and drowned her. The like they did to another English woman in the same parish in the beginning of the rebellion; which was little inferior (if not more unnatural and barbarous than the roasting of Mr. Watson the Minister alive after they had cut a collop out of either buttock. A Scotch-woman was found in the Glynwood, lying dead, her belly ripped up, and a living child crawling in her womb cut out of the cawl. Mr. Starkie, sometime School master in Armagh, a Gentleman of good parentage and parts, being upwards of 100 years of age, they stripped naked, caused two of his daughters likewise naked to support him under each arm, (he being not able to go of himself;) and in that posture carried them all three a quarter of mile to a turf-pit and drowned them, feeding the lust of their eyes and the cruelty of their hearts with the selfsame objects at the same time. At the siege of Augher they would not kill any English beast, and then eat it, but they cut collops out of them being alive, letting them there roar till they had no flesh upon their backs, so that sometimes a beast would live 2 or 3 days together in that torment. The like they did at the Town of Armagh. They murdered Hugh Eccline Esquire, and hanged all his Irish servants that they thought had done him any good, and had proved faithful unto him. Henry cowel Esquire, a gallant and well-bred Gentleman was murdered because he would not consent to marry a beastly trull Mary Neale, near kinswoman to Sir Philem. He was proffered his life without the blowse if he would have gone to mass, but he refused to do either. They murdered also Robert Ecklin his son (a child of 11 or 12 years of age, because he would not go to mass. Very many of the British Protestants the rebels buried alive, and took great pleasure to hear them speak unto them as they digged down old ditches upon them, burying none otherwise, nor suffering any to perform that duty for them. The rebels would send their children abroad in great troops, especially near Kinnard, armed with long wattles and whips, who would therewith beat men's privy members until they beat or rather threshed them off, and then they would return in great joy to their parents, who received them for such service, as it were in triumph. If any women were found dead, lying with their faces downward, they would turn them upon their backs, and in great flocks resort unto them, censuring all parts of their bodies, but especially such as are not to be named; which afterwards they abused so many ways and so filthily, as chaste ears would not endure the very naming thereof. Many of the Protestants the rebels would grievously wound, but not kill outright, but being half dead would leave them entreating for no greater favour at their hands three or four days after but to kill them outright, which sometimes was granted, sometimes denied. A young youth having his back bone broken was found in a field, having like a beast eaten all the grass round about him: it could not be learned that they killed him outright, but that they removed him to a place of better pasture. County of Antrim. The rebels themselves confessed and told it to Dr. Maxwell while he was prisoner among them, that they killed 954 in one morning in the County of Antrim; and that besides them they supposed they had killed 1100. or 1200 more in that County. County of Downe. They told him likewise that Colonel Brian o Neille killed about 1000 in the County of Down, besides 300 killed near Killelengh and many hundreds both before and after in both Counties. At Sir Philems' return from Lisuegarvy, some of his soldiers forced about 24 British into a house, where they burned them alive; whose terrible out-cries they desired very much to imitate and express unto others. Sir Philem himself confessed and reported that he killed 600 English at Gervah in the County of Derry; County of Derry, Tirone. and that he had neither left man, woman, nor child alive in the Barony of Mounterlong in the County of Tinone betwixt Armagh and the Newry in the several Lands and Plantations of Sir Archebald Atcheson, john Hamilton Esq the Lord Cawfield, and the l. Mountnorris, There were above 2000 British murdered in their own houses for the most part) whose houses were seen by a Scottish man filled with their dead bodies. In the Glenwood towards Drumore there were slaughtered above 1200 in all, Armagh. who were all killed in their flight to the County of Downe. The number of people drowned at the bridge of Portadon are diversely reported; but by their own report there were 150 drowned with Mr. Fullertor. At another time they threw 140 over the bridge. At another time 36 or 37. and so continued drowning every day more or fewer for seven or eight weeks, so that the fewest that can be supposed there to have perished must needs be above one thousand; besides as many more drowned betwixt the bridge and the great Lough of Mountjoy; besides those who perished by the Sword, Fire, and Famine in Cloubrassill and the English plantation adjacent, which in regard there escaped not 300 out of all those quarters, must needs amount to many thousands; near unto Doctor Maxwels' house 37 persons were thrown from the Curr-bridge at one time 18 or 19 at another time 56 men, women, and children, all taken out of Doctor Maxwels own house; and at several other times several other numbers; besides those who were drowned in the blackwater at Kinnard; in which Town and Parish of Tynon there were drowned, slaughtered, and died of famine, and for want of clothes, about 600. To these may be added many thousands more; but reference being had to the number in gross which the Rebels themselves have upon enquiry found out and acknowledged, which notwithstanding will come fare short of all those that have been murdered in Ireland, there being above one hundred fifty four thousand wanting of British within the very precincts of Ulster in March 1641. as by their monthly bills brought in and made by their Priests by special direction appeareth. It is proved by divers witnesses, that after the drowning of the many Protestants at Portadowne, strange visions and apparitions have been seen and heard there upon the water; sometime a spirit assuming the shape of a man hath been seen there with his hands held up and closed together; and sometimes in the likeness of a woman, appearing waste high above the water, with hair dishevelled, eyes twinkled, elevated and clasped hands, crying out, revenge, revenge, etc. and appearing, and crying so many nights together. Other visions and strange voices, and fearful scritching have been heard where they have drowned the English at other places, as at Belturbat-river in the County of Cavan; a lough near Loghgall in the County of Armagh, which have also deterred and affrighted the Irish soldiers and others, that they durst not stay near the place, but fled away: A boy not above fourteen years of age killed at Kinnard in the County of Tirone fifteen able men with his Skein, they being disarmed, and most of their feet in the stocks. And it hath been most usual in all parts for the very Irish women and children to murder the English, and to be more fierce and cruel to their powers then the men themselves. And sometimes the rebels children with lath Swords, heavy and well sharpened, would venture upon men and women of ripe years. In the County of Armagh it was ordinary and common for the rebels to expose the murdered bodies of the British so long unto public view and censure, that they began to stink and infest the air, (which being a thing very strange) would not sometimes happen until four or five weeks after the murder committed. Then at length they would permit some of their bodies to be removed and cast into ditches, but so as they must be laid with their faces downward. The reason they gave for the same was, that they so placed them to the intent they might have a prospect and sight of Hell only. And therefore when they killed any of the Protestants they used always these words, Anim Dewll, which is, thy soul to the Devil. It was usual sport with one Mr. Maghan Captain of the Castle and Town of Monoghan, to take a wooden prick or broach and thrust it up into the fundament of an English man or Scottish-man; And thereafter to draw him up and down the room with a Joint-stoole, until through extreme pain, he either fainted or gave content to the spectators by some noteable skips and frisks. And it is further of undeniable truth that the said Maghan, and other Rebels in the County of Monoghan (after a great feast there held,) took an English or Welshman, and bound him naked upon the Table; At which they drank after dinner, and at every health gave him a gash or wound (but not mortal) until his whole body became (as it were) one continued wound; And thereafter fling him out upon a dunghill where he died, partly of his wounds, and partly of famine, none daring to relieve him. In the County of Kildare and province of Leinster, the Rebels shot an English protestant in his thigh, than took him, made a deep hole in the ground, and made him stand upright therein whilst they filled the hole full of earth again; and fast rammed all his body and Arms and all but his head therein, so as he could not stir nor help himself; In which state and posture the barbarous villains left him to Languish, Pine, Starve and die there as he did. In the County of Catherlagh two English protestants being almost starved for want of food at Catherlagh Castle, went out to gather a few ears of Corn; were seized on and hung up on a Tree by the hair of their heads all a whole night and more; The next day the Rebels took them down, and finding yet life in them both, mangled, murdered, and cut them in pieces. Tipprreary Province of Munster. At the silver works in the County of tipperary, one Captain Kenedy and two Soldiers on a Sabbath day, suddenly fell upon above 20 of the miners being Englishmen, and murdered them all. And soon after the same Captain (because he was hindered from doing the like mischief upon others of the English) sell into a mad frantic fit and drowned himself. Sligo Province of Connaght. Teige O Conniers Sligo, reputed General of the Rebelt in the County of Sligo, and his brothers and divers other bloody Captains, and a great number of their Soldiers in December, 1641. Surprised and took the Town of Sligo; and quarter promised to the British there for their lives, they being 38. who were kept three weeks by the said Teige O Conniers; he having taken all their goods of great value. But then those 38. British were by consent of the said Teige put into the goal of Sligo: and about midnight were most barbarously murdered, with butcher's Axes, Sledges and other things, and cut all to pieces by the brothers of the said Teige, and others of the name and Sect of the Conniers; And a Gentlewoman there attempting to go away, she being great with Child, was taken and had her belly ripped up: So as her Child's Arm appeared in her Womb. In the County of Kilkenny, in the Province of Munster, and elsewhere in that Province (aswell as in Ulster in the North) It is a thing most common, and ordinary to bury the English alive. To dig up the dead Corpse of others in the Churches and Church-yard, and to cast them out to open view, and there to leave them: And those that attempted to bury any of the English were murdered and denied burial themselves. In Dungavon in the County of Tirone, or near thereunto the Rebels murdered 316 Protestants, between Charlemont and Dungavon above 400. By Benbarb in the black water in Com. Armagh, were drowned 206. And the rebel Patrick Mac Crew of Dungavon murdered 31. in one morning. Two yond Rebels named john Beg, and Brian Harvy murdered in the County of Tirone 140. poor Women and children. The Wife of Brian Kelly of Loghgall, in Com. Armagh, did with her own hands murder 45. Doctor Hodges with forty four more, was murdered within a quarter of a mile of Charlemount, in the County of Armagh. At a Millpond in the Parish of Killaman, and County of Tirone, there were drowned in one Day 300. protestants, and in that parish there were murdered, of English and Scotch, 1200. Many young Children were cut into quarters and gobbets by the Rebels, and 18. Scotch infants were hanged up upon a clothiers tenterhooks. A young fat Scotchman was murdered, and the Rebels made Candles of his grease. They took another Scotchman and ripped up his belly, that they might come to his small guts. The one end whereof they tied to a Tree, and made him go round until he had drawn them all out of his body. They then saying, they would try whether a dog, or a Scotchmans' guts were longer. Many other bloody murders and massacres of protestants by the popish Rebels, and other most intolerable outrages, within twenty several Counties of the Kingdom of Ireland at the least; and all protestants generally despoiled of all their goods, and clothes, turned away from their habitations naked; whereby many thousand have died of cold, hunger, and want: to prove which there are now in Dublin many thousands of witnesses. THE Impious, wicked, and lewd actions of the Papists, against the Protestants, and their Religion. Hugh o Rely a ringleader of the rebels in the County of Cavan, William Ho. said, that the English thought to cut the throats of the Irish for their Religion, but the Irish would prevent them and cut their throats first for their Religion. In the County of Cavan, james o Rely, Hugh Brady, and other rebels often took the Protestant Bibles and wetting them in puddle water, Adam Glover. did five or six several times dash the same in the faces of Protestants, saying, come I know you love a good lesson, here is a most excellent one for you, and come to morrow and you shall have as good a Sermon. And as the Protestants were going to the Church the rebels took and dragged them into the Church by the hair of the head; where they whipped, robbed, stripped, and most cruelly used them, saying, that to morrow you shall hear the like sermon. Robert Brown, Io. Montgomery john Wisdom. Eliz. Tailor, and many others. That Rory Mac Guire, Sir Philem O Neale, and the Northern Rebels in the Counties of Monoghan, Armagh, Lowth, Cavan, Meath and other places where they came, burnt, tore, or otherwise trampled under their feet, and spoilt all the Protestants Bibles, and other good Books of the Protestants. Henry Palmer. In the County of Wexford. That Derucot ma● Dooley, the Rebel, and his company went into the Church at Fethert, and cut the Pulpit-Cloath, and Ministers books in pieces: and strewed them about the Churchyard; and caused the Piper to play whilst they danced, and trampled upon them under their feet, calling the Minister dog, and stripping him of his . The General cruelty to Ministers against Protestants and that religion duly exercised by the Papist-rebells scornful malicious and contemptuous words and blasphemies, are so many and frequently used, and by too woeful experience found and proved by a multitude of witnesses. FINIS.