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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63355	A true and credible relation of the barbarovs crveltie and bloudy massacres of the English Protestants that lived in the kingdome of Ireland anno dom. 1641, in the province of Vlster, and other of the provinces there, by the Irish rebellious traytors written by a Gentleman who was an eye witness of most of the passages hereafter following, who was fore'd with his wife, to abandon house, estate and country, for feare of the rebells, and arrived in London, this 15 of Ianuary, 1642.	Gentleman who was an eye witnesse of most of the passages hereafter following.	1642 (1642)	Wing T2427; ESTC R11292	5,028	9

armes imbracing one th other were found dead but a sucking Child which was betweene them was alive grabling and striving for the dead Mothers breast who was taken up by the Troopers and carried to a Nurse At Belturbat they robbed all the English being about 500. persons who submitting themselves to their mercy found no quarter but cruelty for they stripped them all naked and so turned them out of the Towne to shift for themselves in bitter cold weather in a most shamefull manner not affording them a ragg to cover those parts which should be hid amongst which company there was one Master Hudson the Minister of the said Towne of Belturbat a Religious and Godly Minister and his wife whom they abused in a shamefull manner not sit to be spoken In another Towne the English fled all into the Church being ab one two hundred and twenty where they remained 3. dayes and nights both men women and children till they were almost starved and so were forced to come forth whom these cruell Rebells stripped out of their Clothes and drove them over the Bridge at the Townes end naked having before cut off the middle Arch unknowne to those poore Christians with a devillish intent there to murther them as they did for comming to the middle of the Bridge they found no passage for the poore naked Soules must either goe back or fall in and bee drowned some that went back they kil●d some that fell in the water were drowned some that could swim the cruell Rebells run and met them at the water side and knockt them on the heads in the water O mercylesse and cruell murtherers Many Ladies and Gentlewomen which have beene great with Child they have turned them out of doores where they have beene delivered in the open fields upon a little straw without the helpe of any woman and so having ended their misery others that have escaped death in Childbearing they have mercilesly carried away upon Carts lying in stinking and lowsie straw stark naked to places where they and their poore infants have been murthered The Lord Blany escaped their cruelty being forced to ride 14. miles upon a poore Garroon or Iade without Bridle or Saddle to save his life his Lady being taken and his children the same day and imprisoned by the bloody and cruell villaines who use her most barbarously and her children neither regarding her noblenesse of birth nor her Lord but suffer her or rather force her to lodge in straw with a poore allowance of two pence a day for her reliefe and poore sweet children and to ad affliction to the good Ladyes misery slew a kinsman of hers and caused him to be hanged up two dayes and nights before her face to afflict and terrifie her It is most certaine that many thousands have suffered in this nature and worse as I have heard reported by very honest and credible persons who through Gods mercy have escaped their crueltie for it hath beene told mee by the mouths of very Religious and Godly Divines who came over with me in the same ship wherein I came from Dublin how they had lost their wives their children and their estates being glad to flye for their lives having not left wherewithall to pay for their owne carriage into England some of them to mine owne knowledge having lost very great estates Vpon the 8. of December last the Lords of the Pale so called because they live round about the City of Dublin in the province of Leinster did generally meet at a village called the Saintred there did mutually protest against the Kings Government and then and there proclaimed that all the English should depart the kingdome within 14 dayes or otherwise they should expect nothing but fire and sword which being knowne to the Lords Iustices all the Papists in Dublin were presently disarmed at or about the same time the Lord Fitz William of Miriam living nere Bullock and within two miles of Dublin sent word to the Lords Iustices that there was 1500. of the Rebells would come downe from the County of Wickloe to Bulloch and so come from thence in flat boats to surprise the shipping at the Rings end which is the harbour and where there lay at that time about 27. ships of the English and Dutch whereupon the Lords Iustices sent a hundred Souldiers from Dublin to be dispersed into severall ships for their safety and gave order under their hands to the Capt. of the Kings Frygot a man of war who rid at Anchor by us to have a speciall care of our ship called the Phenix and if occasion were to guard us safe over the Ba● of Dublin so that we were driven to keepe a Guard many nights on ship-board for feare of a surprise for the Rebells were come to a place called Finglas within two miles of Dublin so that we were driven to leave our houses living in the Suburbes for feare of firing and so lay aboard 14. dayes and nights in our Clothes before wee had a wind to carry us to Hollyhead the Kings Attorney for Ireland Sir Thomas Tempest the Bishop of Ardagh Sir Robert Dixon Sir Robert Foord Mr. Carleton and divers Ladies and Gentlewomen being all passengers in the same Ship As for the number of the Rebells it is not certainly knowne but without question there is a great many of them but not the third part of them armed and those armes they have they have taken from the English in surprising and murthering them cowardly and trecherously and some of them under pretence of being rob'd by the Rebells have deceiptfully gotten Armes to goe fight against them and then have run away from their Captaines to the Rebells and indeed there is no trust nor confidence to be put in them they are so trecherously perfidious It is suspected that the chiefe Rebells doe intend to steale away by Sea having gotten a great estate from the English Plantators whom they have robbed and murthered and so leave the ignorant rabble of Irish in the lurch There is a great want of English protestants for Souldiers not only to secure the City of Dublin and the Suburbs but also to releeve the distressed estate of the Lord Viscount Moore in Drogheda who deserves both love praise and honour It is to be beleeved that the Rebells will never give a Battell and that in short time they will be starved for want of food for they have gotten in most parts from the English all they can get and they wast and devoure that plenty they have and there is neither plowing nor sowing in those parts so that it will be impossible for them to subsist long It is most certaine that 1400. Souldiers volunteers were landed at Dublin under the Command of Captaine Harcot and other Captaines upon the second day of Ianuary last Anno 1641. which was a great comfort to the English and 400. Souldiers which were not in pay went along with them so that the whole number was 1800. men and marched along from the Rings end to Dublin in Battell Array in very good order They report and alleadge that Religion is the cause of their war but that is false for they have had too much liberty and freedome of conscience in Ireland and that hath made them Rebell I hope that God that hath discovered their bloudy practice will confound their devices and bring them to confusion To the which God be all honour praise and Glory for ever FINIS