Selected quad for the lemma: death_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	die_v	great_a	year_n	6,663	5	4.6617	4	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33796	A collection of certain horrid murthers in several counties of Ireland committed since the 23 of Octob. 1641 : abstracted out of certain examinations taken by vertue of several commissions under the great seal of Ireland.		1679 (1679)	Wing C5118; ESTC R18796	19,134	35

being denied entrance they burnt the house adjoining to the Castle out of which all the people fled to the Turrets of the Castle and the abovementioned Jane Tucker seeing some of the Irish getting up the Castle and fearing they would throw her into the fire leaped off the top of the wall upon the ground and though she was then with child which is yet living and the Turret very high she received no hurt a little before which she saw and heard Mr. Pressick praying very fervently in the Turret begging strength of God to go through that fiery Tryal and ending his Prayer he declared his willingness to die for the Protestant Religion and encouraged them all to do the like upon which some of the Irish got immediately into that Turret swearing they would kill him unless he would go to Mass he with great Christian courage told them he would not forsake Christ for fear of death they then in a great fury made him pull off his shoes and slockings and thrust him down a pair of stairs the stones of which were red hot with the fire which he patiently suffered saying Christ had indured more for him and then carrying him into his Garden he was earnestly desired by Thomas Magwire then Parish Priest of Trim to turn to Mass and he should have his life which he with wonderful magnaminity slighted and refused saying he had lived in the true faith of Jesus Christ and he would die in it at which words several of them cut him and one of them cutting his cheek almost off asked him again if he would Turn and undauntedly giving them the same answer they immediately hanged him in an Apple Tree together with one James Hawkin his Son in Law and one James Wilson they themselves wondering at his courage of the rest one Child was burnt in the House some of the men shot in the Garden and the rest brought with great Pageantry shouting and scoffing into the streets of the Town having their heads struck off with a Hatchet One Mr. James Pressick a Minister did by great providence escape out of a back window they having designed great tortures for him The women were only stripped one of which did privatly push an Irish Serjeant off the Battlements into the fire where he was burnt he offering violence unto her And soon after some of those barbarous people beset the House of one Rich. Worthington near Trim who with his wife escaping in the night they killed the children and the poor mother returning next day to bring away her infants was by some who slaid plundering the house strangled in her own hair which was very long These are the only memorable murthers at that time committed here but no Age nor History can I presume parallel the horrible Massacres which in this County and all other parts of this Kingdom were afterwards commited as is best known to your good Lordship who was then miraculously preserved in the midst of their bloudy and inhuman cruelties I might write many other of their barbarous actions of which many yet living here can make Oath but an account of this was all at present commanded by your Lordship from My Lord Your Lordships Most Affectionate Humble Servant Richard Tennison Trim Apr. 13. 1674. Kings County MRS. Jane Addis of Kilcoursie after her going Margery King K. C. p. 1. A. to A. James Dowdal K. C. p. 3. A. John Wild Com. Westmeath A. p. 1. Thomas Fleetwood C. Westm p. 5. A. to p. 6. A. to Mass murthered in her house in Fox County Com. Regis having a child not a quarter old the murtherers putting the dead mothers breast into the childs mouth bade it Suck English bastard and so left it Arthur Scot murthered at Lisloouy having twenty Tho. Scott C. Regis p. 2. A. ad finem wounds given him Another English man hanged at the same place An English woman a Papist at Gerald Fitz James Dowdal K. C. p. 3. B. Geralds house at Clonard Com Meath murthered Two men murthered at Phillips Town in the James Dowdal p. 3. K. C. Richard Wilkinson K. County p. 2. A. ad finem Hugh Roberts K. C. p. 1. A. Robert Bigland K. C. A. ad finem Kings County At the Bi r seven murthered At Phillips Town Thomas Horom hanged in the Kings County Henry Bigland and eleven more hanged and murthered about Knocknemeis A woman aged Eighty years stripped naked in Frost and snow by two daughters of Rory Henry Ayliffe K. C. p. 1. A. Coghlan of Fercal Wood before whose door she dyed John Lurean murthered and chopped in pieces Idem Hen. Ayliffe p. 6. D. Kings County Sir William Stewart Com. Tyron p. 1. A. to the end Hen. Ayliffe K. C. p. 1. A. Ralph Lambert Com. Galeway p. 3. E. to F. Henry Ayliffe K. C. p. 4. C. The Counterfeiting of Letters pretended to be out of England against the Irish and Counterseiting the Kings Broad Seal That when they say they fight for the King they mean a King of their own making Four English murthered at Terrence Coglans Tho. Le Strange K. C. p. 5. A. to A. house Kilkolgan about December 1641. Twenty two Widdows and several stripped naked and covering themselves in a house with Magdalen Redmaine p. 1. A. to A. K. County Isabel Porter alias Brain K. County p. 1 A. p. 2. A. to A. straw the Rebels lighted straw and strew amongst them to burn them and they had been burned had they not been rescued by others who turned them out naked in Frost and Snow so as many dyed the children dying in their mothers Arms. Queens County FIve murthered whereof one was an English John Carpenter Q. C. p. 2. A. to A. woman turned to Mass great with child who was shot to death John Nicholson and his wife murthered by Walter Dishcome Q. C. p. 1. A. to A. Emanuel Beale Q. C. p. 1. A. to the end Tho. Berry and John Berry Q. C. p. 1. A. Elizabeth Baskervile Q. C. p. 1. A. Thomas Holt Q. C. p. 1. A. to p. 2. A. Elenor Keys Q. C. p. 1. A. to the end Samuel Ring Q. C. p. 2. A. to the end Florence Fypatrick and his Servants on the Sabbath day the first deponent hardly scaping death for burying them Elizabeth Baskervile says that Mrs. Fypatrick blamed the murtherers because they brought not Mrs. Nicolsons Fat or Grease wherewith she might have made Candles Thomas Keyes Esq a Justice of the Peace of the Queens County sixty six years old and Thomas Dubbleday both hanged near Burrowes Castle and Dubbleday shot as he was hanging both being first stripped naked and gored and prickt in several parts of their bodies Amy Mamphin's husband murthered and she compelled to stand in his blood and she being Amy Mamphin Q. C. p. 1. A. to A. stripped naked was drawn by the hair through thorns and after sent away An English Girl half hanged and buried Joseph Wheeler