Minister they hanged after pulled his flesh from his bones in his Wifes sight Many Ladys and Gentlewomen which they have surprized in the Province of Vlster being great with Child they have turned them out of their houses naked into the fields where they have been delivered without the help of any Women and so have ended their misery others that have escaped death in Child-bearing they have mercilesly carred away upon Carts lying in lowsie and stinking straw naked to places where they and their poor Infants have been destroyed There was one Gentlewoman which was Wife to Mr. King a Dean Brother to the Bishop of Glogue and Parson of Dundalke in the County of Lowth who having three thousand Inhabitants in his Parish had but thirty Communicants of the Protestant Party the rest being all Irish and Papist and although this Gentleman did for many days together by his own relation to me sollicite his Wife to go to Dublin and to remove his goods thither living at a place about two miles from Dundalke she being great with Child yet would not be persuaded although she knew the Rebels were at the Newry within eight miles of Dundalke whereupon he left her and his Family and going to a Friend's House within two miles of his own for fear of the multitude of the Irish that lived about his own House he remained there but two days when tidings was brought him that the Irish had seized upon his Wife and all that he had so that he was forced to fly away for his Life with his Friends who was pursued by the Rebels about twelve miles but through God's mercy he escaped with his precious Life which they hunted after with the loss of his whole estate and Wife whom they turned out of doors having first abused her where she was delivered in straw without the heip of any Woman and so perished She was a charitable Gentlewoman and in her life time had relieved many hundreds of the poor Irish and this mercy they afforded her for her Charity The Lord Blany escaped their cruelty being forced to ride fourteen miles upon a poor carrion Jade without either Bridle or Saddle to save his Life his vertuous Lady being surprized by these Villains the same day and his Children who use her most ignobly and cruelly neither regarding her Nobleness of Birth nor her Lord but forced her to lodge in straw with a poor allowance of two pence a day to relieve her and her Children and to add affliction to the good Ladys misery slew a Kinsman of hers and caused him to be hanged up before her face two days and two nights in the Room where she lay to terrifie her telling her withall she must expect that end In the County of Tir-Oen even in that rebellious part whith is above all other inhabited by those Romish Locusts and Wolves which in Nature differ not from the Dog-Wolves that breed amongst them was the cruellest murther of all the rest committed by some of the Soldiers belonging to Sir Philem Oneal that Tyronish off-spring and Rory Mack-Guire the Lord Mack-Guire's Brother who are known to be the most eminent Rebells in this Treason upon the Bodies of one Mr. Charles Davenant his Wife and two young Children The Villain which first entred the House and most forwardest in cruelty was known by his name to one of the servants in the House to be sometime a servant to this Mr. Davenant and lived at the time of this Tragedy not far from Dunxannon in the County of Tir-Oen The Servant of the house that knew him was born in Ireland in the City of Clogher in the said County but of English Parents his name is Thomas Maddin but he could speak good Irish and so escaped being an Eye-witness of these passages ensuing This Swillyvane and his rout broke in forcibly into the House where they found three or four servants that made no resistence in the Kitchin but going farther into the house they found Mr. Davenant sitting by a fire with his Wife and Children two young Daughters they immediately seized upon him and his Wife and bound them both fast to their Chairs making a very huge and great fire after they stripped the two Children the eldest being not seven years old slew them in the sight of their Parents and after roasted them upon spits before their faces such barbarous cruelty was never known With great patience they were compelled poor souls to behold that cruelty which they could not help after they stript his Wife forcing her most uncivilly and unmercifully before his face and afterward cut her Throat the distressed Gentleman being overpressed with the lamentable sight of the death of his Wife and Children strived and strugled in his Chair where he was bound and held hoping they would have killed him chusing rather to dye the death than to live any longer So when they had made an end of his Wife and Children in this barbarous manner they untied him and stript him and afterwards murthered him when he had confest to them where his money was There was a Letter written about the middle of November last from Stabound in the said County of Tir-Oen by one Mr. Birrom unto one Mr. Cusack dwelling in High-street in Dublin which Letter I read and took a Copy of and before I came out of Ireland the abovesaid Thomas Maddin came from the City of Clogher in the County of Fermanagh unto Dublin and testified the contents of this Letter being an Eye-witness of the certain passages thereof and did give God great thanks that he had escaped their hands in my hearing for he said his Soul could not endure to be any longer amongst them they did daily commit such cruelty murther and outrages upon the English Protestants in those parts At the Burrough of Kello or as some Letters report at the Burrough of Trim being both in the County of Meath in the Province of Vlster the Rebells surprized the house of one Arthur Robinson he himself being at that time in Dublin which was upon the sixâ—h day of November last about some suits he had in Law being in the last Michaelmas Term he not knowing that the Rebells were risen in those parts there he intending to have gone home to his Wife and Family five or six days after hoping by that time to have ended his business and indeed when he came from his house to Dublin which was on the twentieth day of October the Rebellion was not begun in any part of Ireland but before his appointed time to return home a Messenger prevented him with heavy tidings even his onely Daughter whom he quickly knew though she were much disguized for the Rebels had slain 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 being about fourteen years of age who had hid her self in a Barn where the Villains quickly found her but she made what resistence
reported by an ominent Gentleman that had long dwelt among the Rebels but it s thought fit to forbear the names of those that gave intelligence of the barbarous cruelties of these savage beasts because they threaten to be the death of them that shall unmask them It is reported by this Gentleman that the Handlowans came to Town-regis divers of them assaulted the Castle of which Captain Saint John was Commander he with his Son got away with some difficulty leaping over the wall they fearing they might setch supplies to recover their lost Castle most inhumanly took the Captain 's Wife poor Gentlewoman and set her on the wall having stript her to her smock who was big with Child and within an hour of her delivery that in case the Captain and his Son should have assaulted the Town his Wife should have been the white at which he must have levelled Oh extreme and unheard of cruelty As for the Protestant Ministers whom they surprize their cruelty is such towards them at it would make the hardest heart to melt into tears Their manner is first to strip them and after bind them to a tree or some post where they please and then to ravish their Wives and Daughters before their faces in sight of all their merciless rabble with the basest Villains they can pick out after they hang up their Husbands and Parents before their faces and then cut them down before they be half dead then quarter them after dismember them and stop their mouths therewith They basely abused one Mr. Trafford a Minister in the North of Ireland who was assaulted by these bloudy Wolves of Rome's brood that know not God nor any bowels of mercy This poor distressed Minister desired but so much time to bethink himself before he took his farewell of the World to call upon God but these merciless wretches would admit no time but instantly fell on him hackt and hewed him to pieces Dr. Tate Minister of Belly-Hayes they stript starke naked and then wounded him dangerously in the head and then let him go towards Dublin where he lay long sick Sir Patrick Dunston's Wife ravished before him slew his Servants spurned his Children till they died bound him with rouls of Match to a board that his Eyes burst out cut off his Ears and Nose teared off both his Cheecks and cut off his Armes and Legs cut out his Tongue after run a red hot Iron into him Many Gentlewomen they ravished before their Husbands faces stripping them first naked to the view of their wicked companions taunting and mockings them after they have spoiled them with bitter and reproachsull words sending them away in such a shamefull or rather shameless manner that most of them have died with pain and grief or else have starved with want and cold Base cruelty unheard of exceeding the brute beasts and so much the worse because they are reasonable which makes them skilfull to destroy One Mr. Luttrell dwelling within three miles of the Burrough of Cavan a Gentleman worth by report two or three hundred pounds a year with a very great stock of Cattel was basely betrayed by an Irish Boy that he had bred up in his house See the baseness of the Popish brood who when he was at Dinner being upon the thirtieth day of October last was surprized by threescore of those Irish unmercifull Villains with a company of dirty Whores and Bastards that followed them which this Boy let in at a back door where pulling him and his vertuous Wife from the Table and four small Children the eldest of them being not six years of age and one sucking at her breast without pity or humanity stript them naked notwithstanding their prayers and tears to have let them kept their cloaths and then thrusting them in a cruel and violent manner out of doors threatned to kill them if they went not speedily away Take notice how uncertain all our outward comforts are So they departed for fear away being ashamed to be seen of their servants some of them running one way and some another to shift for themselves but the distressed Gentleman with his Wife and Children and a little youth directed their course towards Dublin hoping to find some of their friends in the way to relieve them but the farther they came the more miserable they were meeting their loving Friends robbed by others in the same manner which struck in them such amazement and fear that their hearts failed them so that being naked and hungry helpless and hopeless the poor Infants crying in their Ears which must needs kill their Hearts they went not far but sate down under a Hedge or Ditch and there died being not at that time above six miles from his own house for this little youth that he had bred up being an English Boy forsook not his Master when the rest ran from him but continued with him till death the same day some Horsemen or Troopers riding that way to coast the Countrey met this youth unto whom he told this sad story and being not far from the place led them to this lemantable sight where they beheld the true love of Man and Wife embracing each other in their death the three eldest Children dead but the suckling Child was preserved through heat being between them both and grabling and gaping for the dead Mothers Breast So the Troopers took up the Child carrying it to a Nurse for they knew the Parents well and bestowed some Cloaths upon the English youth who came to Dublin within few days after and related the story in my hearing In the County of Roscommon near the Town of Roscommon there fled into the Parish Church eleven-score of the English Men Women and Children where they remained three Days and Nights without any sustenance till they were almost starved so that at last what with the cries of their Children and their own wants they were forced to commit themselves to the cruelty of the Irish who according to their usual manner first stript them naked after drove them through the Town like so many harmless Sheep and Lambs over a Bridge at the Towns end having before broke down 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 Sickly Weak and Faint for want of Food and Sleep yet unwilling to hasten their own ends some returned back whome they killed without mercy others they thrust into the Water who were drowned some that could did swim towards the shoar and there Inhumame Villians Bruitish Furies ran and met them before they got to Land and knock'd them in the head in the Water some few escaped that did swim to the other side of the River where the Irish could not come at them having before broken down the Bridge themselves and so escaped to Dublin to be sad witnesses of this lamentable Tragedy Mr. Blandry a
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