Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	body_n	kill_v	soul_n	5,768	5	5.6613	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87197	Ireland. Or a booke : together with an exact mappe of the most principall townes, great and small, in the said kingdome. Wherein the longitude, latitude, and distance of one towne from another, as also the county or province such place is in, alphabetically set down. Very usefull for all sorts of people, that have or may have any interest in that kingdome.		1647 (1647)	Wing I1016; Thomason E1175_3; ESTC R208884	12,923	41

into him Pulling them about the streetes by the haire of the head dashing the Childrens braines against the postes saynge these were the Pigges of the English Sowes Droghedah so bloked up that a bushell of wheate was sold for 23. Skill meate scarce to be had at any rate ●an 4 1641. In the County of Roscommon there fled into the parish Church eleven score of the English men women and children where they remained three daies and nights without any sustenance till they were almost starved so that at last they were forced to commit themselves to the cruelty of the Irish who stript them naked after drove them through the Towne like so many harmlesse Lambs over a Bridge at the Townes end having before broke downe one of the middle arches where a strong water runneth so that either they must leap in or come back their intent being there to murther them as they did For the poor wretches being sick weak and faint for food and sleep some returned back whom they killed without mercy others they thrust into the water who were drowned some that could did swimme towards the shore and there inhumane villains they ran and met them before they could get to land and knockt them on the head in the water Master Blundry a Minister they hanged after pulled his flesh from his bones in his wifes sight Driuinge Men Women Children by hundreds vpon Briges casting them into Riuers who drowned not were killed with poles shot with muskets Mr Blandry Minister hanged after pulled his flesh from his bones in his wiffes sight the Lord Blany forced to ride 14 Miles without Bridle or Sadell to saue his life his Lady Lodged in Strawe beeing allowed 2● a day to releue her her Children slew a kindsman of hers and hanged him up before her face 2 dayes telling her she must expect the same to terrifie her the meere Mr Dauenant and his Wife bound in their Chaires Striped the 2 Eldest Children of 7 years old rosted them upon Spittes before their Parents faces Cutt heir throte and after murdred him At the Borough of Kello the Rebells surprized the house of one Arthur Robinson hee himselfe being at that time in Dublin he not knowing that the Rebels were risen in those parts there intending to have gone home to his wife and family before his appointed time to return home a Messenger prevented him with heavy tidings even his only Daughter whom hee quickly knew though she were much disguized for the Rebels had slaine most of his family robbed and pillaged the house after they had stripped his wife and ravished her they sought out for this young Virgin who had hid her self in a barne where the Villanes found her but she made what resistance shee could and with a knife shee had unseene to them wounded one of them which the rest perceiving seized upon her violently stripped her then bound her with her arms abroad in such manner as she could not help her selfe any way and so destoured her one after another puld the hair from her head and cut out her tongue because shee should not report the truth and their cruelty but the maid could write though she could not speak and so discovered their inhumane usage to her and her mother The maid was sent with a letter from her father in Dublin to her uncle at Mynhead in Somersetshire Arthur Robinsons daughter 14 yeares old the Rebbels bounde her armes a broad deflowerd her one after an other tell they spoyled he● then pulled the haire from her head and cut out her tongue that she might not tell of their Cruelty but she declared it by writing A Minister and his wife came to Dublin Ian 30 1641 left behinde him some goods with a supposed frend sent for them but could not be deliuered vnlesse he or his wife come for them she came and presently they hanged her upe In the County of Fermannagh Mr Champion was betrayed by an Irish Villaine his Tenant whom he had saved twice before from the gallows the rogues name was Patrick Mack-Dermot who finding one of his Companions brings him to Master Champion's house and tells Mr Champion that hee found this thief stealing of his cattle the Gentleman knowing this Mack-Dermot said unto him before one Mr Iremonger I am glad thou art turn'd from a thief to catch a thief whereupon hee returned him this answer that Hee was no more thief than himselfe No sooner had he utter'd these words in the Court before his house but there rushes in upon them a great number of rebells who stabd Mr Champion before he could get into his house but their fury went further for they wounded him with their Skeins in thirty places after he was dead and then cut off his head while the rest ran into the house after Mr Iremonger they fell upon him and ran him thorow Then the Rebells entered the house and killed more his wife's sister and her brother in law his wife was down on her knees to beg a sheet to put her husbands dead body in And other friends that came to visit him lost their lives The Preestes Iesuites anointe the Rebells with there Sacrament of vnction before they goe to murther robe ashuringe them that for there meritorious Service if they be killed he shall escape Purgatory go to heauen immediatly They do usually mangell there dead Carcases layng wagens who shall cut deepest into there dead flesh with there Skeyns they destroy our English Sheepe in detestation of us although one is better then 4 of theirs they haue uowed to roote out the name of the English They have set up Gallows five miles distant in diverse places on purpose to hang up the Protestant Spies they ●ave likewise set women and men on red hot Gridirons to make them confesse the mony and goods they had or whether they have hid or sold any Mr FFordes house rifled and to make her Confesse where her mony lay they tooke hot tonges clappinge them to the Soules of her feete to the Palmes of her handes so tormented her that with the paine thereof shee died They haue set men women on hot Grideorns to make them Confesse where there money was These bloudy Papists forced the Protestants to pull off their clothes and then killed them on purpose that they might have their clothes without holes They have forced as is reported some to turn to their cursed bloudy Religion and then perswaded them that they were fittest to die and then treacherously kill their bodies and doe what in them lies to kill their soules Others they have wounded to death and then left them languishing their bellies being ript up and guts issuing out An Irish Rebell as a credible friend reports snatcht an innocent babe out of the arms 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 brake his neck