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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24038	An Abstract of the unnatural rebellion and barbarous massacre of the Protestants in the kingdom of Ireland in the year 1641 collected from the most authentick copies.		1689 (1689)	Wing A146; ESTC R5978	17,369	32

they destroyed above five hundred Persons Young and Old. Forty eight Families at the Parish of Keblaman were Barbarously murdered by Direction from the said Sir Phelim after they had been protected by him three quarters of a Year Within two Miles of Kilmore there were two and twenty English Protestants burnt in one house and the Rebels strip't kill'd or murdered all or the most of the English in that Parish which consisted of two hundred Families they likewise set many in the Stocks that would not Confess their Money and when they had all they could get then they Murdered them Many other Horrid Inhumane Cruelties were used in the murdering of Multitudes of poor Innocent Souls To many these bloody Villains shewed so much favour as suddenly to dispatch them out of their Pain by no means allowing them leave or time to make their Prayers for others they held a sudden Death too easie a Punishment Therefore they Imprison'd some in most beastly Dungeons full of Dirt and Mire and there Clapping bolts on their Heels suffered them to perish at leisure Others they barbrously mangled and left Languishing upon the High-wayes crying out for so much Mercy as to be delivered out of their Pain Others they buryed alive a manner of Death they used to several of the English in several places An English-man his Wife four or five Children and a Maid were hang'd and afterwards put all into one Hole the Youngest Child being not fully dead put out the Hand and crying Mammy Mammy when without Mercy they buryed him alive At Clowms within the County of Fermanagh there were seventeen having been hanged till they were half dead cast together into a Pit and being covered over with a little Earth lay Pittifully sending out most lamentable Groans for a good time after Some were deadly wounded and so hanged upon Tenter-hooks Some had Ropes put about their Necks and so drawn through the Water some had Wit hs and so drawn up and down thorow Woods and Bogs others were hanged up and taken down and hanged up several times and all to make them confess their Money which as soon as they told they then dispatcht them out of the way Others were hanged up by the Arms and with many slashes and cuts they made the Experiment with their Swords how many blows an English-man would endure before he dyed Some had their Bellies Ript up and so left with their Guts running about their Heels But this kind of Cruelty was principally reserved by these Inhumane Monsters for the Women whose Sex they neither pitied nor spared hanging up several Women many of them great with Child whose Bellies they ript up as they hung and so let the little Infants fall out A course they often took with them they found in that sad Condition And sometimes they gave their Children to Swine some the Dogs eat and some taken alive out of their Mothers Bellies they cast into Ditches And for sucking Children and others of a Riper Age some had their Brains knock't out others were trampled under foot to Death Some of the Rebels meeting one Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Frankland both great with Child and six of their Children with them with their Pikes killed and murdered them all and after ripped open the Gentlewomens Bellies took out their Children and threw them into a Ditch Some they cut in Goblets and Pieces others they Ript up alive Some were found in the Fields sucking the Breasts of their murdered Mothers Others lay stifled in Vaults and Cellars others starved in Caves crying out to their Mothers rather to send them out to be kill'd by the Rebels than to suffer them to starve there One Mary Barlow deposeth up Oath That Her Husband being hanged by the Rebels before her Face she and six Children were stripped stark Naked and turn'd out a begging in Frost and Snow by means whereof they were almost starved having nothing to Eat in three Weeks while they lay in a Cave but two old Calf-skins which they beat with Stones and so eat them hair and all Multitudes of Men Women and Children were found drowned cast into Ditches Bogs and Turf-Pits the ordinary Sepulchres of the Brittish Nation Thousands dyed of cold and want in all parts of the Countrey being neither permitted to depart nor relieved where they were enforced to stay Multitudes enclosed in Houses which being set on fire they were there most miserably consumed some dragg'd out of their Sick-beds to the place of Execution Such was the barbarous and inhumane Cruelty of the Rebels that sometimes they enforced the Wife to kill the Husband the Son to kill the Father and the Daughter to kill the Mother and then they world hang or put to Death the last Bloodshedder In the Town of Slego they forced one Lears the younger to kill his Father and then hanged the Son and in Mogne they forced one Simon Lepers Wife to kill her Husband and then caused her Son to kill her and then they hanged the Son. Children were enforced to carry their Aged Parents to the places designed for their Slaughter Mothers to cast their own Children into the Water and yet after these enforced Acts which no doubt were performed out of Hopes and Assurance to have their own Lives saved alwayes Murdered And such was the Malice and most detestable hatred born to the English by the Irish as they taught their Children to kill English Children and the Irish Women did naturally express as much Cruelty as the chiefest Rebels among them If these be not sufficient let us look over the particular Ends of some particular Persons and we shall in them behold more Horrid Cruelties than these before mentioned What shall we say to a Child boyl'd to Death in a Cauldron being the Child of one Tho. Straton of Newtown A Woman hanged on a Tree and in the Hair of her Head her own Daughter hanged up with her A Woman miserably Rent and Torn to pieces Some taken by the Rebels their Eyes pluckt out their Hands cut off and so turn'd out to wander up and down others stoned to Death A Man wounded and set upright in a hole digged in the Earth and so covered up to the very Chin there left in that miserable manner to Pine and perish A Mans Feet held in the Fire till he was burnt to Death his Wife hanged at his Door A Minister stript stark naked and so driven like a Beast through the Town of Cashel the Rebels following him and pricking him forward with Darts and Rapiers A Company of Men Women and Children put into a House and as they were burning some Children that made an escape out of the Flames were taken by some of the Rebels who stood by cut them in pieces with Sithes and so cast them into the Fire again Neither did these Horrible Tortures which they put these Innocent Christians unto a-slake their Fury their Malice towards them did not Determine with their Breath But after so many several Bloody