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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

with you while ye are with him See the blasphemies and cruelties of these bloudy men it is that their names as Amalek may be blotted out from under Heaven for surely the day of recompence is comming that God will make his Arrows drunk in their bloud they love bloud and therefore God will give them bloud in great measure As for instance I shall relate you a bloudy story of one of those cruell beasts The Protestant Troopers about the beginning of Febr. 1641. marched out of Dublin as they used to do to view the Coasts they espied a cruell Rebel hewing and mangling a Woman in so horrid a manner that it was impossible to know her having acted his Devilish part he triumphed over her dead Corpse and washed his hands in her bloud whereupon the Troopers apprehended this barbarous Villain in the very act of cruelty and brought him to Dublin with his hands all bloudy and was adjudged to be hanged immediately he ascended the Ladder and would not stay till the Executioner turned him off but desperately leaped off and hanged himself This was in the beginning of February and was credibly reported by a Citizen of Dublin who saw him thus hanged with his hands all bloudy It is remarkable to take notice of the rise of this bloudy act it was thus A Fryar and this Villain was drinking together in a Village the Fryar hearing a poor English Woman there he commanded this Rebel to murther her which he did as you have read attested by a Gentleman of Ireland of good credit Thus these poor deluded wretches gull'd with their Jesuits damnable Doctrine who assure them on their words that the more cruel the more meritorious An Article no where to be found but in the Devil's Creed Would any man believe that these Villains should take Children and toss them with pitch-forks like Dung into Rivers one was an Eye-witness who lost a great Estate there but since received relief from the Parliament who saw a cruel wretch throw a Woman crying with tears one way and her Child with a pitch-fork another way They cruelly murthered Women great with Child and then left them in Ditches to the fury of their Dogs who learned to be cruel from their bloudy Masters for they eat the Children out of the Bowels of the Mother At Lesgoole Castle in the County of Fourmanagh they burned fifty Scots Men Women and Children Sixteen Scots more they barbarously hanged at Cloynes in the County of Monaghan Thirty Scots they burned in Tolagh It is remarkable that they dealt thus cruelly with those Noble Scots who have been renowned through the Christian World for their zeal against that Antichristian Rabble that these Rebells would wish they had but one neck that they might cut them off at one blow but the Protestant Cause shall stand in England and Scotland when they and their Babel shall be cast into the bottomless Pit. Rory Mack-Quire at New-Town in the County of Fourmanagh above four hundred poor Protestants fled into the Church to shrowd themselves under its roof for safety from the rage of those men of bloud where they might have been famished but the mercy of this merciless beast affords them quarter to go away with their Cloaths to Dublin and vows he will not hurt them before they got out of the Town the Soldiers stript some and killed others like base perfidious wretches The Irish Lieutenant pretending they came from the King perfidiously come under favour pretends to borrow the Arms of the Inhabitants as they said to quell the Rebells then break into their Houses and turn their weapons against themselves made havock taking their feather-beds and throwing out their feathers and in the Ticks put up what pretious things they could find in the House and carried all away and so turned them out of doors the next company taking away their cloaths and cloathing them with their rags The next company thinking they may have Money in those rags take them also search their Mouths and those parts which modesty will not admit of an expression if they can find none they set their Skeins at their Breasts to try if they can extort any thing when the poor Protestants are naked Blush O Sun to behold the inhumane cruelties and beastly usages of these unheard of Cannibals They enslaved the poor Protestants under them making them work like Horses all day digging and delving for them and then shut them up all Night not knowing what wages whether life or death should be allotted and so every Night lay trembling and praying that they might be delivered from their cruelties Some Ministers they whipped others they set in the Stocks and made others to go to Mass against their wills then told them now that they had saved their Souls they would hang they Bodies A Minister seeing his Wife abused and his Children roasted and desiring them to put him out of his extremity of anguish which he suffered by seeing such cruelty committed on those so near him they most inhumanely cut his Tongue out of his Head. And for a conclusion of this dreadfull Tragedy it is related from one of the last Letters from Ireland that seventeen of those barbarous monsters came to a Minister's house where they violently fell on him and his Wife stript them naked bound them back to back then cut off the Ministers privy members afterward ravished his Wife on his back and then inhumanely cut their Throats transcendent cruelty exceeding Pagans and Atheists For the Oppression of the Poor and for the Sighing of Needy now will I arise saith the Lord and set him at liberty from him that Oppresseth him Psal 12. 5. FINIS

Proclamation was made that neither English nor Irish should either sell or keep in their houses any Powder upon the loss of Goods and Life except with license and at two shillings the pound Ministers they hate and breath out cruelty Massacaring their Bodys burning their Books and tearing them in pieces and it is likely where they can light on them they use them accordingly They robbed all English Protestants stripping them starke naked and so turned them into the open Fields and Mountains in Frost and Snow where hundreds perished They destroyed the English breed of Cattel out of malice to the Protestants that the poor dumb creatures fared the worse and were spoiled though one of ours is worth four of theirs They cut off Mens Privy Members and stopt their Mouths with them like cruel savage beasts that they might commit such horrid villanies without noise and lest their pittiless bowels might be moved with the cries of those so cruelly Massacared Protestants At. Waterford some poor Protestants ready to be starved came to the Town for relief and their charity threw them some Bread over the wall it is likely the Dogs should have had the same entertainment These bloudy Papists forced the Protestants to pull off their Cloaths and then killed them on purpose that they might have their Cloaths without holes After they had knocked a man down dead they fearing he might counterfeit they doe run their Swords twenty times into his Body lest he might revive again They stripped Ladys and Gentlewomen Virgins both old and young stark naked turning them into the open Fields Many hundreds were sound dead in Ditches with cold and want of food and rayment esteeming them no better than Dogs They laboured what they could to make death appear more dreadfull then it was in it self they hanged up Husband Kindred Children before the faces of their living Wives and tender Mothers ready to dye for grief a death worse than death it self and this they do on purpose to increase their dolorous pain and anguish They forced as is reported some to turn to their cursed bloudy Religion and then persuaded them that they were fittest to dye and then treacherously murthered them and so did what in them lay to damn their Souls Debtours basely murthering their Creditours Tenants sheathing their Swords in their Landlord's bowels Servants unnaturally slaying their Masters others possessing themselves of their Lands Goods Plates Money Jewels Houshould-stuff Corn and Cattel and thrust them out of door naked Oh inhumane cruelty Many great Men's Servants being Irish ran away from their Masters with their best Horses to the Rebels Many of the Protestants usually took into their Houses Irish Boys as Servants and those did basely betray their Masters like Judas into the hands of these bloudy Wolves A good Caveat to look to our Servants before we take them and to instruct them in the fear of God when we have them Others they wounded to death and then left them languishing their Bellys being ripped up and Guts issuing out they poor wretches lying on Dunghills see the charity of cruell Papists all this lest they should be out of their misery too soon It seems it was their delight to linger out their cruelties like men that wanted Bowels for whereas the primitive Persecutions were exquisitely cruell yet they made a quick Dispatch of them but these sons of Belial found new ways of persecution by extreme Cold and Hunger to starve which aggravates their cruelty tender Women with Child poor helpless Insants and sucklings An Irish Rebell as a credible friend reports snatched an innocent Babe out of the Armes of the Mother and cast it into the fire before her face but God met with this bloudy wretch for before he went from that place he broke his Neck The Rebells burned all the Plantation Towns in the County of London-Derry One hundred and twenty they threw into the water by force drowning some that could not swim others that could they knocked on the head Many rich and great Men fled into England and carrying their Estates with them they left no relief for the poor distressed people that came hither Thousands thus fled into Dublin many hundreds starved to death with Hunger and Cold the poor Citizens relieved them beyond their abilities the charge lying on the poorer sort Many of their Wives they ravished in their sights before the multitude like brute beasts stripping them naked to the view of their wicked companions taunting them scoffing them and then sending them away shamefully that they died with Grief or starved with Cold. One Mr. Wells Minister losing his Notes went back to look them and as he returned he met the Rebells crying Kill all kill all the head Rebells command Thereupon he fled over a Mountain was up to the Breast in cold Snow-water and so scaped to Dublin very hardly with his Life Three thousand six hundred poor souls fled naked into Dublin and starved with Hunger came to eat something and died with eating twenty in a daylay dead in the open Streets as Men smitten with the Plague Sir James Crag being in his Castle having many with him was besieged with the Rebels and almost famished the Knight was constrained to put forty out of the Castle which else must have been famished with the the rest behold the cruelty of these bloud-sucking Papists when they were turned out and lest to their mercy they made quick dispatch set on them and slew every man. Another came into an English Gentleman's House and found him a Bed and there began to cruciate and torture his naked Body that he might extort of him a consession where his Treasure lay which when this poor distracted Gentleman acknowledged in hopes to be eased they cruelly killed him and then stripped his Wife naked and turned her out of doors as if they would make all savage like themselves and lastly Mac-Quire took his Daughter being a proper Gentlewoman and satisfied his beastly lust on her deflouring her as if that was too little to kill her Father turn her Mother out of doors and abuse her himself but like an inhumane Villain cut off her Garments by the middle and then turned her to the mercy of the common Soldiers to be abused at their pleasure Take notice of the bloudy practices and cruelties of the Romish party especially of the Jesuits and Priests those fire brands of Hell who at this very day to incourage their Disciples to murther as is afore-written do anoint them with the Sacrament of the Unction assuring them that for their meritorious service if they chance to be killed they shall immediately enter into Heaven and escape Purgatory and what they get from the Protestant party by Murthering Robbing and Stealing the one half shall be their own and what man would not be willing to venture upon such conditions to get Wealth upon Earth and purchase Heaven for Murther Oh damnable Doctrine and Doctours They usually mangled their dead Carcasses