Worse and worse NEWS FROM IRELAND BEING THE COPY OF A Letter read in the House of Parliament, the 14. of this instant Month of December, 1641.  
Wherein is contained such unheardof Cruelties, committed by the Papists against the Protestants, not sparing Age nor Sex, that it would make a Christians heart to bleed.  
LONDON, Printed for Nath: Butter. 1641.   

A COPY OF A LETTER. Read in the House of Parliament, the 14. of this Instant Month of December 1641.  
SIR,  
ALL I can tell you is the miserable estate we continue under, for the Rebels daily increase in men and munition, in all parts, except the Province of Munster, exercising all manner of cruelties, and striving who can be most barbarously exquisite in tormenting the poor Protestants, wheresoever they come; Cutting off their privy members, ears, fingers, and hands, plucking out their eyes, boiling the heads of little Children before their Mother's faces, and then ripping up their Mother's Bowels; stripping women naked, and standing by them being naked, whilst they are in Travel, killing the Children as soon as they are borne, and ripping up their Mother's bellies, as soon as they are delivered; driving men, women, and children, by hundreds together upon Bridges, and from thence cast them down into Rivers, such as drowned not, they knock their brains out with Poles, or shoot them with Muskets, that endeavour to escape by swimming out; ravishing wives before their husband's faces, and Virgins before their Parents faces, after they have abused their bodies, making them renounce their Religion, and then marry them to the basest of their fellows:  
Oh that the Lord, who hath moved the Kingdoms of England and Scotland, to send relief to these afflicted Protestants, would likewise stir them to effect their undertaking, with all possible expedition, lest it be too late.  
Some of the persons particularly mentioned to have suffered, who are known unto you, are, Master German, Minister of Brides, his Body mangled, and his members cut off, Master Fullerton Minister of Lughall, Simon Hastings his ears cut off, Master Blandry Minister, hanged, his flesh pulled off from his bones, in the presence of his wife, in small pieces, he being hanged two days before her, in the place where she is now prisoner. Abraham james of Newtowne, in the Diocese of Clohor, cut in pieces, and it is reported that the Bishop of Clohor is turned to the Rebels, thus moving pardon in presuming to trouble you at this time in your public employments, do with humble remembrance of his best respects to you, and your virtuous Lady, remain  
Novemb. 27. 1641. Your Servant to Command, THOMAS PARTINGTON.  
THis Letter was read in the House of Commons, upon the 14. day of this Month, and also read again before the Lords, at a Committee of both Houses, and humbly prayed to have the same entered in the journals of both Houses.  
The said House of Commons likewise desired the Lords to join with them, to petition his Majesty, to take off the reprieve from the seven condemned Priests, and that they might be forthwith executed according to their judgement, and the Law