A Prospect of bleeding IRELAND'S miseries: Presented in a Brief Recitement to the eyes and hearts of all her commiserating friends in England and Scotland, as one main Motive to move their Christian courage for her assistance, when we consider there hath been at the least two hundred thousand Protestants slain and most inhumanely massacred by the barbarous and bloodthirsty Rebels, putting them to the most cruel kinds of death that they could invent, as you may read by this following Relation. Diligently Collected from the most certain Intelligence.  Recompense unto them double what they have done unto others. 
IRELANDES LAMENTATION  
REader what passages of cruelty thou shalt here peruse thou hast not the least cause to suspect of truth, they being such as by clear evidence have been made manifestly true by faithful Intelligence of eye and ear witnesses.  
1. Within the County of Fermanagh great cruelties have been acted upon the poor English Protestants where multitudes of men women and children have been killed in cold blood.  
2. In the Castle of Lisgoole there were above one hundred and fifty men, women, and children, burnt there when that Castle was set on fire.  
3. At the Castle of Moneah about one hundred English were slain by the Barbarous Rebels.  
4. The Castle of Tullah being yielded upon composition with promise of fair quarter from the Rebels, but as soon as ever they entered the same they put all to the sword without exception.  
5. At Lissenskeah they murdered near one hundred of the Scotch Protestants, which they use in every place as cruelly as the English.  
6. One Mr. Middleton they compelled to hear Mass and after ward they caused him his wife and children to be hanged up and murdered.  
7. In the Counties of Armagh and Tirone great and Barbarous cruelties have been exercised.  
8. At one place there were carried out at several times in Troops one thousand Protestants, which were drowned at the bridge of Portnedown, which for that purpose was broke down in the midst.  
9 And within the County of Armagh four thousand Protestants have in several places been drowned.  
10. The Protestants have been driven naked before these Barbarous Butchers in several companies like sheep apppointed for the slaughter, to the places of execution.  
11. And if any fainted or grew weary on the way, they pricked them forward with their sword points whereby they killed many on the way.  
12. With their Pikes and swords they ●…st the poor stripped Christians into the wa●…rom of the Banks, or Bridges.  
13. Those that assay by swimming to save their lives, they shoot or beat out their brains.  
14. Sir Phellim Oneal hath proved the chief actor of these Barbarous and bloody massacres.  
15. He having caused all the Protestants in Armagh and there abouts under prerence of conducting them murdered of young and old five hundred persons.  
16. He caused the Town of Armagh, and Cathedral Church to be fired which were burnt down.  
17. At a town called Killaman, forty and eight families were Murdered by his directtion.  
18. In the same town there were twenty too English Protestants Burnt in one house.  
19 Within two miles of the same the Rebels murdered of English two hundred Families.  
20. They have been so eager at their prey, that they would not suffer the poor Protestants to say their prayers before they murdered them.  
21. They have imprisioned some in noisome dungeons of dirt and mire, with bolts on their legs where they were starved to death by Leasure.  
22. At cassel the Rebels cruelly murdered fifteen English Protestant's using the rest most barbarously.  
23. They have most Barbarously mangled many Protestants and left them languishing in their pain in the high ways half dead accounting it to favourable to end them of their pain by a sudden death.  
24. They have buried many alive both men women and poor harmless infants.  
25. At one time at a town called Clownis, they buried seventeen persons which they had half hanged which were heard to send forth Lamentable groans.  
26. After they had cruelly wounded some they hung them upon tenter hooks.  
27. Others when they had put rops about their necks they dragged through the water.  
28. Some they dragged through the woods and Bogs till they died.  
29. They have put ropes about the necks of many and cast them several times into the water, whereby to cause them to confess where their moneys were.  
30. They have hanged up some a small time, and then taken them down again, to make them confess where their money was, which when they told them, than they hanged them outright.  
31. When they have stripped the Protestants naked, they bid them go look for their God, and bid him clothe them again.  
32. They have hung up English by the arms and then hacked them with their swords to try how many blows they would endure before they died.  
33. Some have had their bells ripped up and so left with their Entrails taken out.  
34. They have ripped up women big with child, and the young Infants hath falled out, which the Rebels have often given to dogs, and swine to eat or cast into ditches.  
35. The Rebels robbed, stripped, and murdered a great company of Protestants in the County of Armagh, some they burned, some they slew by the sword, and some they hanged, others they starved and put to death more cruelly.  
37. They have hanged some by the heels, and then with their skeans cut them in pieces  
38. Some young Infants have been found in the field, Sucking the Breasts of their murdered Mothers.  
39 A great number of Protestants especially of women and children, they haveslasht & mangled in many places of their bodies, and not killed outright, but left them wallowing in their blood.  
40. Denying to kill them outright, till two or three days after, and then they would dash out their brains with stones.  
51. A woman that leapt our of a window to save herself from burning was murdered by the Rebels, and the next morning her child found sucking at her breast which they also murdered.  
42. The Rebels stabbed one Jane Addis, left her sucking child alive by her, & putting the breast into its mouth said suck English bastard, so the child perished for want, of which Act they bragged.  
43. Many young Infants have been stifled in vaults and cellars, or starved in caves which have cried to their mothers rather to send them out to die by the Rebels then to starve so miserably there.  
44. Multitudes of men, women, and children were drowned, cast into ditches, bogs, and turf-pits.  
45. Many have been enclosed in their houses which have been set on fire and burnt with their houses to ashes in a most miserable manner, and if any attempted to escape they threw them into the fire again.  
46. They have dragged out some from their sick beds to the place of execution.  
47. In the parish of Loghgall to the river of Toll they forced children to carry their aged parents out of their beds to drown them in that river.  
48. They have enforced children to execute their parents, and wives their own husbands by hanging and other ways.  
49. The wife of Florence Fitz Patrick was outrageous with her husband's soldiers because they brought not the grease of a Protestant woman whom they had cruelly murdered for her to make candls withal.  
50. The Irish men some of them detestnot the cruelty of those bloody queans that follow their camp, that cry our spare neither man woman nor child.  
51. They hav● boiled children to death in Cauldrons.  
52. They hanged a woman and her daughter in the hair of her own head.  
53. In a frosty night they stripped a woman big with child which presently after fell in labour, and both child and she died at the instant.  
54. The Rebels often utter threaten out to cut off all that have a drop of English blood in them, and their women cry out that the English are only meat for dogs.  
55. Near the Town of Monaghan, they most cruelly murdered one Mr. Ford in his own Garden, most inhumanely tortured his wife, Laying hot Tongues to her hands and feet (to make her tell where his money was) that with the pain thereof she died.  
56. They have most villainously ravished Virgins and women, and afterwards have been so bloody and hard-hearted, as to dash their children's brains out.  
Thus have you heard of some part of the miseries and tortures inflicted upon the poor Protestants in Ireland, by the bloody Rebels; many more inhuman murders they have committed, which I forbear for brevity sake: But such is the care and wisdom of the Parliament to put an end to the bleeding miseries of Ireland, that they have chosen that renowned, faithful, and valiant Commander Major General SKIPPON to be Field-Marshal over their Forces, and Major General MASSEY is chosen Lieutenant General of the horse, the Lord crown their endeavours with victory over those inhuman bloodthirsty Rebels, that so dying Ireland may yet live to praise him.   

London, Printed for J. H. and are to be sold in Pope's head Alley. 1647.