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A40565	A Full and true account of the inhumane and bloudy cruelties of the papists to the poor Protestants in Ireland in the year, 1641 published now to encourage all Protestants to be liberal in their contribution for their relief and speedy delivering them now out of the hands of those bloudy-minded people.	Digby, Lettice, Lady, 1588?-1658.; Dempsy, Henry.	1689 (1689)	Wing F2304A; ESTC R9576	16,613	39

laying wagers who should cut deepest into their flesh with their Skeins At Carvagh near Colerane the Rebells came to begirt the Town Mr. Rowly Brother to the worthy Knight Sir John Clotworthy came forth with a small Company about three hundred men to prevent them they came upon them with a very great company and slew all but eight of the Protestants base cowardise where they want courage they make it up with heaps and multitudes of frighted Hares and the more fearfull and cowardly ever the more cruel upon any advantage All their cruelties were usually on disarmed Men in small Villages where was no strength to resist them there they have tyrannized over the weaker Sex Women and they basely triumphed over little Children their rage hath been exercised Oh base cowardise if they ventured sometimes on our Men it hath been when they were naked as they have been flying from those Furies which their party have newly stripped naked by and by they met with more of those white-livered Villains in companies They would likewise abuse those poor naked Protestants like Dogs adding to their misery beating them and bruising their naked Bodys with Cudgels breaking the Heads of some and wounding others that if they had not died they have been dangerously sick with the inhumane usage of those merciless wretches nay rather than they will be no body they will shew their manhood in abusing dead Bodys as this story declares by very credible testimony from their own Country-men Here I shall acquaint you with a remarkable Story which I received from a Citizen of Dublin's testimony of good repute there and here wherein you may behold the promise made good to the Protestant side which the Lord himself made to his People Israel that five should chase a hundred It pleased God by one man and few with him to out-dare about thirty thousand of those cowardly Rebells whose cause is base whose Religion is but a mere pretence for their bloudy designs and thus it was as that Citizen related A very great Army of about thirty thousand Rebels besieged Drohedah wherein was that valliant and religious Commander Sir Henry Tichbourn with a few of the Protestant party with him in comparison of those multitudes of Rebells trusting to their great Army boldly demanded the Town if they would yield no question but they should have fair Quarter But Sir Henry knowing them its likely very well how perfidious they were and the less to be believed the more they swore and execrated themselves resolutely replied and sent the Rebells this Answer Be it known to you I am a Soldier bred and will never yield but upon Three Conditions 1. Before I Surrender I will kill all the Papists in the Town 2. I will destroy all the Nunneries 3. I will fire the Town and march in the light of it by the help of God to Dublin Nay rather than I will give up I will feed on a piece of a dead Horse and if that fail I will eat the Soulders of an old Popish Alderman This Bone he threw among those hungry Dogs and you may imagine how they relished it And that remarkable instance which was published by order of the Right Honourable the House of Lords concerning this Noble and Religious Knight Sir Henry Tichbourn how it pleased God to honour him with a successfull Victory against the Rebells they being driven in Drohedah to eat Horse-flesh for want of other provision The Rebells having chained up the River in hope to keep out provision by Sea that no relief might come from Dublin it pleased God to raise such a storm that broke the Chain and scattered the Enemies Boats and opened a free passage from Dublin whereby they were relieved blessed be God. Thus the Lord Fought for them by Winds and Seas Pulling them about the Streets by the hair of the Head dashing the Childrens Brains against the Posts saying These are the Pigs of the English Sows And also by Land an Army lying before the City assaulted them in hopes to famish them whereupon this Noble Captain Sir Henry Tichbourn sallied out of the Town but with forty Musquetiers and as many Horse beat off four hundred of the Enemies killed above threescore of them recovered fourscore Cows and Oxen and two hundred Sheep burned four Towns and brought home two of their Colours Here take notice of their cowardise again attempted on a Noble Lady by a Letter sent from seven of the grand Rebells with her resolute and undunted Answer to them as follows THE Rebells Letter To the LADY OFFALIA In her Castle at Geshel TO The Right Honourable and thrice Vertuous Lady the Lady Digby these give Honourable WE His Majesty's Loyal Subjects being at the present employed in his Highness Service for the taking of this your Castle you are therefore to deliver unto us free possession of your said Castle promising faithfully that your Ladyship together with the rest in the said Castle restant shall have a reasonable composition otherwise upon yielding of the Castle we do assure you that we will burn the whole Town kill all the Protestants and spare neither Man Woman nor Child upon taking the Castle Consider Madam of this our offer and impute not the blame of your own folly unto us think not that here we brag your Ladyship upon submission shall have a safe Convoy to secure you from the hands of your Enemies and to lead you where you please A speedy reply is desired with all expedition and thus we surcease Henry Dempsy Charles Dempsy Andrew Fitz-Patrick Conn Dempsy Phelim Dempsy John Vicars James Mac-Donel The Lady OFF ALIA her Answer to the Rebells For my Cosin Henry Dempsy and the rest I Received your Letter wherein you threaten to sack this my Castle by his Majestys Authority I am and ever have been a Loyal Subject and a good Neighbour amongst you and therefore cannot but wonder at such an Assault I thank you for your offer of a Convoy wherein I hold little safety and therefore my resolution is that being free from offending His Majesty or doing wrong to any of you I will live and dye Innocently and will doe my best to defend my own leaving the issue to God and though I have been and still am desirous to avoid the shedding of Christian bloud yet being provoked your threats shall no whit dismay me Lettice Offalia These Stories I relate that all true-hearted Protestants may take heart and likewise take notice that God is vindicating his own Glory against these desperate Atheists that began to insult and to ask as we are credibly informed what is become of the God of the Protestants and likewise what spirit and courage God is able to put into the hearts of those that fight for him and for his cause against his bloud-thirsty enemies And therefore be not dismaid you Protestants 't is a great honour to fight under the Banner of Christ they fight under the banner of Anti-christ the Lord is

with you while ye are with him See the blasphemies and cruelties of these bloudy men it is that their names as Amalek may be blotted out from under Heaven for surely the day of recompence is comming that God will make his Arrows drunk in their bloud they love bloud and therefore God will give them bloud in great measure As for instance I shall relate you a bloudy story of one of those cruell beasts The Protestant Troopers about the beginning of Febr. 1641. marched out of Dublin as they used to do to view the Coasts they espied a cruell Rebel hewing and mangling a Woman in so horrid a manner that it was impossible to know her having acted his Devilish part he triumphed over her dead Corpse and washed his hands in her bloud whereupon the Troopers apprehended this barbarous Villain in the very act of cruelty and brought him to Dublin with his hands all bloudy and was adjudged to be hanged immediately he ascended the Ladder and would not stay till the Executioner turned him off but desperately leaped off and hanged himself This was in the beginning of February and was credibly reported by a Citizen of Dublin who saw him thus hanged with his hands all bloudy It is remarkable to take notice of the rise of this bloudy act it was thus A Fryar and this Villain was drinking together in a Village the Fryar hearing a poor English Woman there he commanded this Rebel to murther her which he did as you have read attested by a Gentleman of Ireland of good credit Thus these poor deluded wretches gull'd with their Jesuits damnable Doctrine who assure them on their words that the more cruel the more meritorious An Article no where to be found but in the Devil's Creed Would any man believe that these Villains should take Children and toss them with pitch-forks like Dung into Rivers one was an Eye-witness who lost a great Estate there but since received relief from the Parliament who saw a cruel wretch throw a Woman crying with tears one way and her Child with a pitch-fork another way They cruelly murthered Women great with Child and then left them in Ditches to the fury of their Dogs who learned to be cruel from their bloudy Masters for they eat the Children out of the Bowels of the Mother At Lesgoole Castle in the County of Fourmanagh they burned fifty Scots Men Women and Children Sixteen Scots more they barbarously hanged at Cloynes in the County of Monaghan Thirty Scots they burned in Tolagh It is remarkable that they dealt thus cruelly with those Noble Scots who have been renowned through the Christian World for their zeal against that Antichristian Rabble that these Rebells would wish they had but one neck that they might cut them off at one blow but the Protestant Cause shall stand in England and Scotland when they and their Babel shall be cast into the bottomless Pit. Rory Mack-Quire at New-Town in the County of Fourmanagh above four hundred poor Protestants fled into the Church to shrowd themselves under its roof for safety from the rage of those men of bloud where they might have been famished but the mercy of this merciless beast affords them quarter to go away with their Cloaths to Dublin and vows he will not hurt them before they got out of the Town the Soldiers stript some and killed others like base perfidious wretches The Irish Lieutenant pretending they came from the King perfidiously come under favour pretends to borrow the Arms of the Inhabitants as they said to quell the Rebells then break into their Houses and turn their weapons against themselves made havock taking their feather-beds and throwing out their feathers and in the Ticks put up what pretious things they could find in the House and carried all away and so turned them out of doors the next company taking away their cloaths and cloathing them with their rags The next company thinking they may have Money in those rags take them also search their Mouths and those parts which modesty will not admit of an expression if they can find none they set their Skeins at their Breasts to try if they can extort any thing when the poor Protestants are naked Blush O Sun to behold the inhumane cruelties and beastly usages of these unheard of Cannibals They enslaved the poor Protestants under them making them work like Horses all day digging and delving for them and then shut them up all Night not knowing what wages whether life or death should be allotted and so every Night lay trembling and praying that they might be delivered from their cruelties Some Ministers they whipped others they set in the Stocks and made others to go to Mass against their wills then told them now that they had saved their Souls they would hang they Bodies A Minister seeing his Wife abused and his Children roasted and desiring them to put him out of his extremity of anguish which he suffered by seeing such cruelty committed on those so near him they most inhumanely cut his Tongue out of his Head. And for a conclusion of this dreadfull Tragedy it is related from one of the last Letters from Ireland that seventeen of those barbarous monsters came to a Minister's house where they violently fell on him and his Wife stript them naked bound them back to back then cut off the Ministers privy members afterward ravished his Wife on his back and then inhumanely cut their Throats transcendent cruelty exceeding Pagans and Atheists For the Oppression of the Poor and for the Sighing of Needy now will I arise saith the Lord and set him at liberty from him that Oppresseth him Psal 12. 5. FINIS