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death_n	infancy_n	young_a	youth_n	26	3	7.2327	4	false

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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

have he answered he must needs speak with his Lord the Porter replyed his Lord was in bed It is no matter answered Owen Mack-Connel I must and will speak with him for my businesse concerns both King and Kingdom then the Porter let him in wondring to see him in such a pickle still he hastened the porter until he had called up one of his Lords Gentlemen who got up speedily and went into his Lords bed-chamber where he acquainted his Lord with the earnest desire this Owen Mack-Connel had to speak with him concerning a businesse of weighty consequence but would not reveal it to any but his Honour whereupon he was called up had accesse to my Lord unto whom he discovered the whole plot which was to be executed the same morning at 9. of the clock this being between twelve and one At the first the Lord Parsons did seem to slight it but Owen Mack-Connel confidently affirmed the thing to be true and withal told him thus my lord I have discharged my duty and my conscience look you to it I will go back to my master because neither he nor the rest shall suspect me Owen Macke-onell who discouered the plot of takinge Dublin had a Pistoll Charaed with too Bullets the pane primed with powder Brimstone twice offered against him tooke not fire so the Rebells said God will not suffer him to be killed he will be on our side I warrant you This bloudy Masacer in IRELAND by the PAPIST began oct the 23 1641 Owen Macke-onell leapinge ouer a wall escaped was sent to our Parlament with letters was rewarded 500 lb. 200 per Annum Your Lordship shall find my lord Mack-Gueere at M. Cadowgans house and Capt. Mack-Mahowne at the Artichoak whither I now goe This Owen Mack-Connel going to his masters lodging takes dirt in his hands and besmuts his face that they might think he had tumbled over and over in the dirt whose approach into the room where many were assembled together drinking for they intended not to go to bed was so ridiculous that the company burst out into such a laughter the place rung of them round about and to welcome him home the company fell to their old course to make him drink more but he told them that he must needs go into the yard so they suffered him but commanded two of his companions to attend him and bring him up again but they let him go into the yard by himself no sooner was he in the yard but he leaped over the pale and so escaped A true Description of sundry sad and lamentable Collections taken from the monthes of very credible Persons and out of Letters sent from Ireland to this Citie 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 since Anno Dom. 1641. THe Irish nation is a people both proud and envious The Commonaltie ignorant and illiterate poor and lazie and will rather beg or starve then work and therefore fit subject for the Priests and Iesuits to spur on upon such bloudy actions and murtherous designes It is too well known that the Irish have murthered of the Protestant party in the provinces of Vlster Leinster 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 Irish have most murtherously and trayterously surprised them upon great advantages and without respect of persons either of age youth or infancie 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 starved to death for want of food and rayment the Irish have shewed them no more compassion nor so much as they do to their dogs At Belturbait in the County of Cavan the Popish Rebels demanded the Town on promise that if they would surrender they should passe free with bag and baggage On serious considerations of the inhabitants and the Governour they were perswaded to yeeld it up which when they had done they sent about twenty or thirty to guard them when they had guarded them seven miles from the Town they seised 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 turned them into the open fields in bitter cold weather not affording them one of their lowzy rags to hide those parts which even nature commands to be covered At one Mr Atkins house Papistes brake in beate out his braines then riped upe his wife with Childe after they had rauished her Nero like vewed natures bed of conception then tooke they the Childe sacrificed it in the fire English Protestantes striped naked turned into the mountaines in the frost snowe whereof many hundreds are perished to death many l●ynge dead in diches Sauages upbraided them saynge now are ye wilde Irisch as well as wee The Lord Macquires brother at the beginning of the rebellion for the first fortnight commands his souldiers to give quarter to women and children but to massacre all the men The Handlowans came to Tom-regis divers of them assaulted the Castle of which Captain Saint Iohn was Commander he with his son got away with some difficulty leaping over the wall they fearing they might fetch some supplies took the Captains wife and set her on the wall having stript her to her smock who was big with child and within an hour of her deliverie that in case the Captain and his son should have assaulted the Towne his wife should have been the white at which he must have levelled M. Trafford a minister was assaulted by these bloudy wolves who desired but to call upon God yet they would admit no time but fell on him and hackt him to peeces William Harmar Leftenant under Captaine Roger Moynes in ● r Charles C●ots Regement Being asked to serue under the Rebbels said hee c●●e not to bow the knee to Ball nor any of Ball's-preests soe hee stabed him into the belly and caused one to lay his hand ●● the wound till the excrament came forth and when hee asked any 〈◊〉 g to sustaine him they smetared that excr●ment upon his mouth and said that was a cordall for him and soe hee liued three dayes his wife in London to testifie it Sr Patrike Dunsons Wiffe rauished before him slew his Seruants spurned his Children tell they died bound him with Rowles of match to a Bord that his eyes bursted out cut of his eares nose teared ofe both his Cheekes after cut of his armes legges cut out his tongue after rune a red hot Iron