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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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