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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

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Licensed according to Order May 24th 1689. 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 LONDON Printed for Peter Richman in Duck-Lane 1689. Here followeth a true Description or Relation of sundry sad and lamentable Collections taken from the mouths of very credible persons and out of Letters sent from Ireland to this City of London of the perfidious outrages and barbarous cruelties which the Irish Papists have committed upon the persons of the Protestants both Men Women and Children in that Kingdom Annoque Domini 1641. THE Irish Nation is well known to be a people both proud and envious For the Commonalty they are for the most part ignorant and illeterate poor and lazy and will rather beg or starve than work and therefore fit subjects for the Priests and Jesuits to spur on upon such bloudy Actions and murtherous Designs Ignorance is their Mother which is devoid of mercy God deliver all good Christians from the Cruelty of such a Mother and Children It is too well known the more is the pity and to be lamented that the Irish have murthered of the Protestant party in the Provinces of Vlster Lempster Connaght and Munster of Men Women and Children the number of fifty thousand as it is credibly reported by Englishmen who have been over all parts of the Kingdom and do protest upon their Oaths that there are above five thousand Families destroyed The Kingdom of Ireland hath four Provinces wherein there are contained two and thirty Counties besides Cities and County Towns in all which places the English are planted up and down in all parts where the Irish have most murtherously and traiterously surprized them upon great advantages and without respect of persons either of age youth or infancy of young Men or Maids or of old Men or Babes stript all to their skins naked as ever they were born into the World so they have gone out of the World many hundreds having been found starved to death in Ditches for want of food and rayment where the rebellious Irish have shewed them no more mercy or compassion no not so much as they would do to their Dogs Thus much for the general now I come to particulars At one Mr. Atkins's house seven Papists brake in and beat out his brains then ripped up his Wife with child after they had ravished her and Nero like view'd Natures bed of conception they then took the child and sacrificed it in the fire They have flead the skin from the bones of others like Butchers the principles of whose Religion is bloud Witness our Books of Martyrs those Chronicles of bloud Witness those thousands of butcher'd Protestants in France and Germany They burned others firing their Houses Towns Villages those sons of the Coal as if their habitation were in Hell. They vowed to root out all the English Nation out of this Kingdom They turned all the Protestants out of Kilkeny At Belturbalt in the County of Cavan the Popish Rebels demanded the Town on promise that if they would surrender they should pass free with bag and baggage they back'd their promise with Oaths and Execrations cursing themselves if they did not let them go withall On serious considerations of the Inhabitants and the Governour they were persuaded to yield it up which when they had done and drawing away their goods and moneys they like treacherous Villians sent about twenty or thirty to-guard them when they had guarded them seven miles from the Town they with more of that desperate forsworn rabble seized on them robbed all the Protestants being between five hundred and a thousand persons Men Women and Children who submitting themselves to their mercy found no quarter but cruelty they stript them all naked and turn'd them out of their houses into the open fields in bitter could weather in a most vile and shamefull manner not affording them one of their lowzy rags to hide those parts which should be covered Take notice of the faith of a Papist who for his own advantage casts off all bounds of fidelity and common honesty They are remarkable for persidiousness and treachery as you may behold in that Master of Mis-rule the Arch-rebell Sir Philem O-Neal basely pretending to be a Suiter to the old Lady Cawfield being a Widow and made fair promises of his respects to her and when he had his advantage of possession of her house and goods turned them out of all and bound them prisoners and made her whom he intended his nearest Companion to be his lowest Vassal In the Town of Lurgon in the County of Armagh the Mac-kans skirmishing with the Englishmen slew divers of our men whereupon they entred parly demanding the Town Sir Willian Brunlow being Governour of the Castle on some considerations thought good to yield thereupon they promised and backt it with Oaths and great Protestations that they should have fair quarter and pass without prejudice to their lives yet behold the perfidiousness of these brutish creatures as men not fearing God or Devil whose practice they imitate who was a lier from the beginning Notwithstanding all these fair pretences they knew no mercy killed Men spoiled Women nay in their boundless rage slew and massacared and stript helpless Ministers whose calling might have pleaded pity But what speak we of pity to men that have no bowels In London-Derry at the Town of Belly-hagh belonging to the Londoners Sir Philem O-Neal promised under hand and seal to let the poor Protestants to pass with bag and baggage onely to part with their Town which was a fair goodly place yet this perfidious Rebel as if it was not enough to make these poor souls harborless to lay them open to wind and weather but to add to all their misery stript Man Woman and Child took their cloaths for a prey and sent them out naked without a shirt or smock to their backs left them not worth a groat this was one of their works of mercy if they scaped with their lives but how many lives might be lost by this immodest and inhumane act judge The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel Will you behold another mercifull Act and Record it Captain Rory Macquire at the beginning of the Robellion for the first fortnight commands his Soldiers to give quarter to Women and Children but to massacare all the Men to spare none Wo to him that makes the Wife a Widow and the Children Fatherless but after they began to resist and to gather into Companies then hear the Charge of this bloudy man Gi●e no quarter no not to Women though Tears and Prayers interpose yet know no pity no not to harmless Babes though it was death enough to kill their Parents nor spare neither Man Woman or Child It is
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