AN ABSTRACT OF THE Bloody Massacre IN IRELAND. Acted 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 1641. And intended to have been acted over again, on Sabbath Day, December the 9th 1688. But by the wonderful Providence of God was prevented. To the Haters of Popery, by what Names or Titles soever dignified or distinguished. THus 'twas of old, when Israel felt the Rod, When they obeyed their Kings, and not their God When they went whoring after other Lovers, To worship Idols in new Planted Groves: They made their Gods of Silver, Wood and Stone, And bowed and worshipped them when they had done. And to complete their Sins in every way, They made'em things called Priests, Priests did Isay A crew of Villants more profane than they. Hence sprung that Romish Crew, first spawned in hell, Who now in Viee their Pedagogues excel: Their Church consists of vicious Popes, the rest Are whoring Nuns and bawdy buggering Priests. A Noble Church! daubed with Religious Paint, Each Priest's a Stallion, every Rogue's a Saint. Come you that loathe this Brood, this Murdering Crew; Your Predecessors well their mercies knew. Take Courage now, and be both bold and wise? Stand for your Laws, Religion, Liberties: You have the Odds, the Law is still your own, They're but your Traitors, therefore pull'em down. They struck with Fear, seek to destroy your Laws, They're raving mad, you see they fix their Paws; Because from them they fear their fatal Fall, And by those Laws, they know you'll hang'em all. Then keep your Laws, the Penal, and the rest, And give your Lives up, you give the Test. And thou great Church of England hold thy own, Force you they may, otherwise give up none; Robbers and Thiefs must count for what thiy've done Let all thy mighty Pillars now appear Zealous and brave, void both of Hate and Fear, That Popish Fops may Grin, Lie, Cheat and Whine? And curse their Faith, while all admire thine. And thou brave Oxford, Cambridge and the rest, Great Hough and Fairfax, that durst Beard the beast Let all the Just with Thanks record their Name; O standing Pillars of Immortal Fame! Let God arise, and his Enemies Perish. The Hieroglyphic, being a Synopsis of the whole Year, by way of Conclusion. COme Painter, take a Prospect from this Hill, And on a well-spread Canvas show thy Skill; Draw all in Colours, as they shall appear, And as they in Merit place 'em there. Draw, as the Heralds do, a spacious Field, And as directed, so let them be filled. First, Draw a Popish Army brisk and gay; Fight, and beat, destroyed and run away. Then draw a Hearse, and let it stand in view, The Mourners more, far more than they're in show Cursing their Fate, their Stars, and in this Fear, Show if thou canst, how these damned Sots prepare To run, or stay, and Sculk in Holes alone, By them this Motto, Gallows claim thy own. Now to the Life, let thy brick pencil show Distinctly, who they are, and what's their due. Now draw a Crowd of priests prepared to run, Like broken Mirchants when their stocks are gone, Some howling out their prayers forget and say; Save us St. Catch, are all our Saints away? Draw 'em in Hurry, running to and fro, Posting to Dover, Portsmouth, Tyburn too Next draw a Crowed of Lords this Label by, The Great Design is lost. Alas! they cry Who'd serve a Cause of such cursed destiny? Now draw Four Priests, show how they Rome adore, And each Man's Scarf hang to be seen before. T●● brace of Bishops fallen to despair, Armed Cap-a-Pe, but going God knows where. Now show the Judges, and with them thy Skill, That all who see it done may say, 'tis well. In Caps and Gowns, as they in order sat, 'Twixt Heaven and Earth do thou 'em elevate, Their Learned Noddles can dispense with that. Now draw the little Rogues, the Scoundrel Crew, Knights, Knaves, and Beggars they must have their due Gadbury, Butler, Ay, and Roger too. Amidst this Crowd, on a fit Spot of Land, To crown the work, let a large Gallows stand; All Trembling by, armed with Gild and Fears, Kneel to this Image, and pour out their Prayers. And then die by Association. An Abstract of the bloody Massacre in Ireland, by the Instigation of the Jesuits, Priests and Friars, etc. WHen their Plots were ripe for Execution, we find their first Proceed 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 Protestant's 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, read an Excommunication against all those, that from henceforth should relieve or harbour any English, Scotish or Welshman, 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 pity to take their Lives from them, than it is to take a Bone out of a dog's 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 Dogs, 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 causeth 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 Protestants 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 into 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 departed the Country; and when they had got what they could, they afterwards murdered them. Having thus seized upon their Goods and Cattle, ransacked 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 miserably perished through cold, nakedness and hunger. In the Town of Coleraine, many of these poor people that fled thither for succour, many thousands died in two days, so that the living could not bury the dead, but laid their Carcases in ranks in waste and wide holes, speling them up, as if they had been Herrings. One Magdalen Redman deposeth; that she, and divers other Protestants, among whom were two and twenty Widows, were first rob, and then stripped naked, and when they had covered themselves with straw, the bloody Papists threw in burning straw among them, on purpose to burn them; then they drove them out into the Woods in Frost and Snow, where many of them died with extreme cold, and those that survived, lived miserably by reason of their many wants. Yet though these bloody Villains exercised such inhuman cruelties towards the poor Protestants, they would commonly boast, That these were bu● the beginning of their sorrows, for indeed they made it good; for having disarmed the English, rob them of their goods, stripped them of their , and having their persons in their power, they furiously broke out into all manner of abominable Cruelties, horrid Massacres, and execrable Murders. For there were multitudes murdered in cold 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 Tullah, which was delivered to Mac Guire, upon composition, and faithful promises of fair quarter, as soon as he and his entered, they began to strip the People, and most cruelly put them to the Sword, murdering them all without mercy. At Lissanskeach, they hanged and killed above one hundred of the Scottish Protestants. In the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone, where the Protestants were more numorous, their murders were more multiplied, and with greater cruelty. Mac Guire coming to the castle of Lissanskeach desired to speak with Mr. Middleton, who admitted him in, he first burned the Records of the County, than demanded One thousand pounds, which was in his custody of Sir William Balfores, 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 Poradown 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 one thousand persons drowned in several places. In one place an 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 Onea● pass till they came to Portadown Bridge, an● there drowned them. At another time one hundred and forty Protestant's being thrown in at the same place, as any of them swom to the Shore, the bloody Villai●● with the Butt-end of their Muskets knocked o● their brains. At Ardmagh O Cane got together all the Protestants thereabouts, pretending to conduct them to Coleraine; but before they were a days journey they were all murdered, and so were many other though they had Protections from Sir Philemy O● aneal. The Aged people in Ardmagh were carried to Charlemont, and there murdered. Presently after, the Town of Ardmagh 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 Country was a common Butchery; many thousands perished by sword famine, fire, water, and other cruel death's tha● rage and malice could invent. At Casel they put all the Protestants into a loath some Dungeon, kept them twelve weeks in gr●● misery: Some they barbarously mangled, and left them languishing; some they hanged up twice or thrice, others they buried alive. In Queen's County, an English man, and his wife five Children and a Maid, were all hange● together. At Clownish, seventeen men were burie● alive; some were wounded, and hanged upon tenterhooks. In Castle Cumber, two Boys wounded, and hung upon Butcher's Tenters. Some hanged up, and taken down to confess money, and then Murdered. Some had their Bellies ripped 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 ripped up her belly, and let out her Guts. One they forced to Mass, than they wounded him, ripped his Belly, took out his Guts, and so left him alive. A Scotish man they stripped, and hewed to pieces, ripped up his wife's belly so that her Child dropped out; many other Women they hung up with Child, ripped their bellies, and let their infants fall out; some of the Children they gave to Dogs. In the Country of Ardmagh, they rob, stripped, and murdered abundance of Protestants, whereof some they burned, some they slew with the Sword, some they hanged, some they starved to death; and meeting Mistress Howard, and Mistress Frankland with six of their Children, and themselves both with Child, they murdered them all, ripped open the Gentlewoman's Bellies, took out their Children and threw them into a ditch. A young Scotish Woman's Child they took by the heels, and dashed out its brains against a Tree; the like they did to many other Children. Ann Hill going with a young Child on her back and four more by her side, they pulled the Child off her back, trodden on it till it died, stripped her and the other four Children naked, whereby they died of cold. Some others they met with, hanged them u● upon a Windmill, and before they were half dea● cut them in pieces with their Skeins. Many other Protestants, especially Women an● Children, they pricked and stabbed with Skein● Forks, and Swords, slashing, cutting, and mangling them in their Heads, but left them wallowing in their own blood, to languish, starve and pine to death. The Castle of Lisgoole, being set on fire by these merciless Papists; a Woman leapt out at a Window to save herself from burning, whom they presently murdered; many fled to Vaults and Celars, where they were all murdered. One Joan Addit 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, herself with six Children stripped naked, in Frost and Snow, after which, sheltering themselves in a Cave; they had nothing there to eat for three weeks, but two old Galf skins, which they beat with stones, and so eat them hair and all. In the cold weather, many thousands of Protestants of all ranks, ages, and Sexes, being turned out naked, perished of cold and hunger; thousands of others were drowned, cast into Ditches, Bogs, and Turf-pits: multitudes miserably burnt in houses; some that lay sick of Fevers they hanged up; some Men, Women, and Children they drove into Boggy Pits, and knocked them on the heads. Some Aged Men and Women these barbarous ●aeipsts 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, & 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, than caused her Son to kill her, and then hanged the Son: yea such was their malice against the English, that they ●aught 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 Sorattan, 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 Mother's 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 only 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 drove him through the Town, pricking him with Darts and Rapiers, till he se● down dead. These barbarous Villains vowed, That if a●● Parents digged Graves to bury their Children i● they should be buried therein themselves. They stripped one William Loverdon naked, then killed hi● before his Wife and Children. Divers Ministe●● bones that had been buried some years before the digged up, because they were, as they say, Patrons of Heresy. Poor Children that went out into the field to eat weeds and grass, they killed without a pity. A poor Woman whose husband was taken by them, went to them with two Children at 〈◊〉 feet, and one at her breast, hoping to beg he husband, but they slew her and her sucking Child broke the neck of another, and the third hardly escaped; and all this wickedness they exercise upon the English, without any provocation given them. Alas who can comprehend the fear terrors, anguish and bitterness, and perplexity that siezed upon the poor Protestants, finding themselves so suddenly surprised without remedy and wrapped up in all kind of outward miser● which could possibly by man be inflicted on humane creatures? What sighs and groans, trembling and astonishment, what skrieks, cries, and bitt●● lamentations of wives, Children, Servants a●● Friends, howling and weeping, finding themselves without all hope of deliverance from their present miseries. How inexorable were their barbarous Torments, that compassed them in on every side, without all bowels of compassion, or the least commiseration or pity; yea they boast●● upon their success, That the day was their own, ●●d that e'er long they would not leave one Protestant ●●gue living, but would utterly destroy every one ●●at had a drop of English Blood in them. There Women crying out, Slay them all, the English ●●e fit meat for Dogs, and their Children are ●●stards. These merciless Papists having set a Castle on ●re, wherein were many Protestants, they rejoicing said, O how sweetly do they fry! At Killkenny, when they had committed many ●ruel murders, they brought seven Protestants ●eads, on the head of a reverend Minister, all which they set upon the Market-cross, on a Market day, triumphing, flashing and mangling them; they put a gag in the Minister's mouth, sit up his cheeks to his ears and laid a leaf of a ●●ible 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. Maxwell into the river when in labour, the child being half born when the mother was drowned. In one place they burned two Protestants Bibles, and then said, It was Hell fire they burnt. Other Bibles, they took, cut in pieces, and then burned them, saying, they would do the like to all Puritan Bibles. They took the Bible of a Minister, called Mr. Edward Slack, and opening it, they laid 〈◊〉 in a Puddle of Water, and then stamped upon 〈◊〉, saying, A Plague on in it, this Bible hath ●red all the Quarrel. At Glastow, a Priest, with some others, 〈◊〉 about forty English and Scotish Protestant's 〈◊〉 reconciled to the Church of Rome, and then 〈◊〉 them, They were in a good Faith, and for fear 〈◊〉 should fall from it, and turn Heriticks, he w●● his Companions presently cut all their Throats. In the County of Tipperary, near the S●● Works, some of these barbarous Papists met w● eleven English-Men, ten Women, some Children whom they first stripped, and then with Sto●● Pole-axes, Skeins, Swords, etc. they most 〈◊〉 barously Massacred them all. In the County of Mayo, about sixty protestants whereof fifteen were Ministers, 〈◊〉 upon covenant to be safely conveyed to Gal●● by one Edmund Burk, and his Soldiers; 〈◊〉 by the way, this Burk and his Company be● to massacre these poor Protestants, some they 〈◊〉 to death, some they stabbed with Skeins, so they thrust through with their Pikes, some th● drowned; the Women they stripped naked, 〈◊〉 lying upon their Husbands to save them, w● run through with Pikes, so that very few 〈◊〉 them escaped with Life. In the Town of Sligo, forty Protestants 〈◊〉 stripped and locked up in a Cellar, and about M●● night, a Butcher provided for the purpose, 〈◊〉 sent in among them, who with his Axe butche● them all. In Tyrawly, thirty or forty English, who 〈◊〉 yielded to go to Mass, were put to their Choi●● whether they would die by the Sword, or be drowne● they chose the latter; and so being driven to the Seaside, these barbarous Villains, with the● 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 Schoolmaster, withdrew 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 pity. In the Town of Sligo, all the Protestants were first rob 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, etc. 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 beheld 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 Child's 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 〈◊〉 men and Children that could make no resistance. An Irish Woman, with her own Hands, mu●thered forty five. At Portadown Bridge, were drowned above three hundred. At Lawgh were drowned above two 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 Clothier's Tenterhooks; one fat Man they murdered and made Candles of his Grease; another Scottish Man, they ripped up his Belly, took one end of his small Guts, tied it to a Tree, 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 Man's Gu●s were the longest. By the Command of Sir Philem O Neal; Mr. James Maxwel was drawn out of his Bed-being sick of a Fever, and murdered his Wife being in Childbirth, the Child being half born, they stripped naked, drove 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 rested alive. A Scottish Woman great with Child, they ripped up her Belly, cut the Child out of her Womb, and so left it crawling on her Body. Mr. Starkey, Schoolmaster at Ardmagh, 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 lead their aged Father to a Turs-pit, where they drowned them all three. To one Henry Cowel a gallant Gentleman, they proffered his life, if he would marry one of their True; or go to Mass; but he chose death rather than to consent to either. Many of the Protestants they buried alive, solacing 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 days after he was found, having eaten the grass round about him: neither then would they kill him outright, 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 Lisnegarvy, they forced twenty four Protestants into a House, and burned them all. Sir Philem O Neal boasted, that he had slain above six hundred at Garvah, 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 highways, as they fled towards Down. Many died of Famine, many died for want of being stripped naked in a cold 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. Ann Kinnard testified, That fifteen Protestants being Imprisoned, and their Feet in the Stocks, a Popish boy being not above fourteen years old, slew 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 pity. The Lord Mont Garret, caused divers English Soldiers, that he had 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 redeliver 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 they did by divers others. Some English men's heads they cut off, and carried them to Kilkenny, and on the Market-day set them on the Cross; 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 inhumanely butchered by sundry kinds 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 prophanded by Sacrifices to Idols; Our Habitations are become ruinous heaps; No quality Age or Sex, privileged from Massacre, and lingering deaths, by being rob, stripped naked, and so exposed to cold and famine, The famished Infants of murdered Parents swarm in our Streets, and for want of food, perish before our faces etc. 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, etc. Who can make it manifest, that the depopulations in this Province 〈◊〉 Munster do well near equal those of the whol● Kingdom. 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 Judgements upon the Irish whereby he hath not left the Innocent blood 〈◊〉 His Servants to be altogether unrevenged. These bloody Hellhounds, themselves confessed, That the Ghost of divers of the Protestants which they had drowned at Portadown Bridg● were daily seen to walk upon the River, sometimes singing of Psalms, sometimes brandishing naked Swords, sometimes shrieking in a mo●● hideous & fearful manner. So that many of the P●pish Irish which dwelled thereabouts, being affrighted therewith were forced to remove their H●●bitations further off into the Country. Katrine Cook testified upon Oath, That wh●● the Irish had barbarously drowned one hundred and eighty Protestant Men, Women, and Children, at Portadown Bridge; about nine days 〈◊〉 she saw apparition of a Man bolt upright in 〈◊〉 River, standing breast high, with his hands li●●● up to Heaven; and continued in that Postu●● from December to the end of Lent, at which ti●● some of the English Army passing that way, sa●● it also, after which it vanished away. Elizabeth Price, testified upon Oath, That 〈◊〉 and other Women, whose Husbands and Children were drowned in that place, hearing of the● Apparitions; went thither one evening, at whic● time thy saw one like a Woman rise out of th● 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 murderers coming again that way, the bodies came floating up to the very Bridge where they were. Sir Con Mac Gennis with his Company slew Mr. Turge, Minister of Newry with divers other Protestants, after which the said Mac Ginnis was so affrighted with the Apprehension of the said Mr. Turge his being continually in his presence, that he commanded his Soldiers not to slay any more of them, but such at should be slain in battle. A young Woman being stripped naked there came 〈◊〉 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 ●aked body with his drawn Sword, and yet never pierced her Skin, whereat he being confounded went his way and left her. This was ●●tested 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 Tree or Post, where they pleased, and then to ravish their Wives and Daughters before their faces (in sight of their merciless rabble) with the basest Villa● they could pick out, after they hanged up th● Husbands and Parents before their faces, a● then cut them down before they were half d●● then quartered them, after dismembered the and stopped their mouths therewith. They basely abused one Mr. Trafford, a M●ster in the North of Ireland, who being assa● by these bloody Wolves of Rome's brood 〈◊〉 know not God, nor any bowels of mercy. T● distressed Minister desired but so much time to call upon God, before he went out of World: but these merciless wretches would mit not time, but instantly fell upon him, 〈◊〉 and hewed him to Pieces. Sir Bark Dunstan's Wife ravished before 〈◊〉 flew his Servants, spurned his Children till 〈◊〉 died, bound him with a Match to a board 〈◊〉 his eyes burst out, cut off his ears and nose, ●●ed off both his cheeks, after cut off his arms legs, cut out his tongue, and after run a re●● Iron into him. These Particulars with 〈◊〉 more were Attested before the Commissioners pointed for that purpose. FINIS.