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A91115	A prospect of bleeding Irelands miseries presented in a brief recitement to the eyes and hearts of all her commiserating friends in England and Scotland, as one maine 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 blood-thirsty rebels, putting them to the most cruell kinds of death they could invent, as you may read by this following relation. Diligently collected from the most certain intelligence.		1647 (1647)	Wing P3805; Thomason 669.f.11[4]; ESTC R210404	3,092	1

A Prospect of bleeding IRELANDS miseries Presented in a Brief Recitement to the eyes and hearts of all her commiserating friends in England and Scotland as one maine 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 blood-thirsty Rebels putting them to the most cruell kinds of death that they could invent as you may read by this following Relation Diligently Collected from the most certain Intelligence Recompence 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 bin made manifestly true by faithfull Intelligence of eye and eare 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 kill'd 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 yeelded upon composition with promise of fair quarter from the Rebells but as soon as ever they entred the same they put all to the sword without exception 5. At Lissenskeah they murthered near one hundred of the Scotch Protestants which they use in every place as cruelly as the English 6. One Mr. Middleton they compeld to heare Mass and after ward they caused him his wife and children to be hanged up and murthered 7. In the Countys of Armagh and Tirone great and Barbarous cruelties have been exercised 8. At one place there were carried out at severall times in Troops one thousand Protestants which were drowned at the bridg of Portnedown which for that purpose was broke down in the midst 9. And within the County of Armagh foure thousand Protestants have in severall places been drowned 10. The Protestants have been driven naked before these Barbarous Butchers in severall companies like sheep appoynted for the slaughter to the places of execution 11. And if any faynted or grew weary on the way they prickt them forward with their sword poynts whereby they killed many on the way 12. With their Pikes and swords they ●…st the poor stript Christians into the wa●…rom of the Banks or Bridges 13. Those that assay by swiming to save their lives they shoot or beat out their brains 14. Sir Phellim Oneal hath proved the chief actor of these Barborous and bloody massacres 15. He having caused all the Protestants in Armagh and there abouts under prerence of conducting them murthered of young and old five hundred persons 16. He caused the Town of Armagh and Cathedrall Church to be fired which were burnt down 17. At a town called Killaman fourty and eight families were Murthered 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 murthered 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 murthered them 21. They have imprisioned some in noysome dungeons of dirt and mire with bolts on their leggs where they were starved to death by Leasure 22. At Cassell the Rebels cruelly murthered fifteen English Protestants using the rest most barbarously 23. They have most Barbarously mangled many Protestants and left them languishing in their payn in the high ways half dead accounting it to favourable to end them of their payn by a suddain 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 Boggs till they dyed 29. They have put ropes about the necks of many and cast them several times into the water wherby 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 then they hanged them outright 31. When they have stript the Protestants naked they bid them go look for their God and bid him cloth them again 32. They have hung up English by the armes and then hackt them with their swords to try how many blows they would indure before they dyed 33. Some have had their bellys ript up and so left with their Intrails taken out 34. They have ript up women big with child and the young Infants hath falled out which the Rebells have often given to doggs and swine to eat or cast into ditches 35. The Rebells robb'd stript and murthered a great company of Protestants in the County of Armagh some they burnt 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 peeces 38. Some young Infants have been found in the feild Sucking the Brests of their murthered Mothers 39. A great number of Protestants especially of women and children they haveslasht mangled in many places of their bodies and not kill'd 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 her self from burning was murthered by the Rebels and the next morning her child found sucking at her breast which they also murthered 42. The Rebels stabb'd one Jane Addis left her sucking child alive by her putting the breast into its mouth said suck English bastard so the child perisht for want of which Act they bragg'd 43. Many young Infants have been stifled in vaults and cellers or starved in caves which have cryed to their mothers rather to send them out to dye by the Rebels then to starve so miserably there 44. Multitudes of men women and children were drowned cast into ditches boggs and turf-pits 45. Many have been inclosed 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 dragg'd 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 outragious with her husbands souldiers because they brought not the grease of a Protestant woman whom they had cruelly murthered for her to make candls withall 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● boyld 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 stript a woman big with child which presently after fell in labour and both child and she dyed at the instant 54. The Rebels often utter threatnings 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 doggs 55. Neare the Town of Monaghan they most cruelly murthered one Mr. Foord in his own Garden most inhumanely tortured his wife Laying hot Tongs to her hands and feet to make her tell where his money was that with the payn thereof she died 56. They have most villanously ravished Virgins and women and afterwards have bin so bloody and hard-harted as to dash their childrens 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 inhumane murthers 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 inhumane blood-thirsty Rebels that so dying Ireland may yet live to praise him London Printed for J. H. and are to be sold in Popes head Alley 1647.