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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34925	The teares of Ireland wherein is lively presented as in a map a list of the unheard off [sic] cruelties and perfidious treacheries of blood-thirsty Jesuits and the popish faction : as a warning piece to her sister nations to prevent the like miseries, as are now acted on the stage of this fresh bleeding nation / reported by gentlemen of good credit living there, but forced to flie for their lives... illustrated by pictures ; fit to be reserved by all true Protestants as a monument of their perpetuall reproach and ignominy, and to animate the spirits of Protestants against such bloody villains.	Cranford, James, d. 1657.	1642 (1642)	Wing C6824; ESTC R32373	25,594	76

he had so that he was forced to fly away for his life with his friends who was pursued by the Rebels above twelve miles but through Gods 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 doores having first abused her where shee was delivered in straw without the helpe of any woman and so perished She was a charitable Gentlewoman and in her life time had relieved many hundreds of the poore Irish and this mercy they afforded her for her charity The Lord Blany escaped their cruelty being forced to ride fourteene miles upon a poore 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 noblenesse of birth nor her Lord but forc'd her to lodge in straw with a poore allowance of two pence a day to relieve her and her children and to adde affliction to the good Ladies misery slue a Kinsman of hers and caused him to be hanged up before her face two days and two nights in the roome where shee lay to terrifie her telling her withall she must expect that end 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 moore 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 or as some Letters report at the Borough of Trim being both in the County of Meath in the Province of Vlster the Rebels surprized the house of one Arthur Robinson he himselfe being at that time in Dublin which was upon the sixt day of November last about some suits hee had in law being in the last Michaelmas Terme he not knowing that the Rebels were risen in those parts there hee intending to have gone home to his wife and family five or six days after hoping by that time to have ended his businesse 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 tydings even his only Daughter whom hee quickly knew though shee were much disguized for the Rebels have slain most of his Family robbed and pillaged the house after they had stripped his wife and ravished her they sought ought for this young Virgin being about fourteene yeares of age who had hid her selfe in a Barne where the Villains quickly found her but she made what resistance she could to preserve her Chastity and with a Knife shee had unseen to them wounded one of them which the rest perceiving seized upon her violently stripped her and then bound her with her armes abroad in such manner as she could not help her self any way and so like hel-hounds defloured her one after another till they had spoiled her and to shew their unheard off malice were not herewith content but puld the haire from her head and cut out her tongue because shee should not report the truth and their cruelty but the maid could write though shee 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 Mynhead in Somersetshire to her Uncle William Dyer her Mothers Brother living within three miles of Mynhead which letter I have seen here in Towne containing the contents above-written being dated at Dublin the twentieth of November last About the eighth of January last a distressed Minister came to Dublin that had left some goods with a supposed Friend sent for them the goods could not be delivered unlesse he or his wife came for them hee would not goe but she went and when she came where her goods were as if that were too little to lose her estate but her life must goe also they hanged her up Was there ever such Barbarisme among the Heathen Arthur Robinsons daughter 14. yeares old the Rebbels bounde her armes a broad deflowerd her one after an other tell they spoyled her 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 Countie of Fermannagh in the Province of Vlster they murthered one Master Champion a Justice of Peace and a Burgesse of the Parliament for the Borough of Iniskillin in the said County who was betray'd by an Irish Villaine his Tenant whom hee had saved himself twice before from the gallows The Rogue's name was Patrick Mack-Dermot who finding one of his Companion brings him to Master Champion's House and tels Master Champion that he found this Thiefe stealing of his cattle The Gentleman knowing this Mack-Dermot said unto him before one Master Iremonger an Attorney I am glad thou art turn'd from a Thiefe to catch a Thiefe whereupon he return'd him this peremptory answer That hee was no more Thiefe 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 these rebels who without respect of mercy stabb'd Master Champion instantly before hee could get into his house so that hee fell down immediatly but their fury went further then death for they wounded him with their Skeins in thirty places after hee was dead and then cut off his head to make sure worke while the rest ran into the house after Master Iremonger whom they followed so close that hee had not time to lay hold on his sword to help himself but falling down upon his knees and calling upon God for mercy they fell upon him and ran him thorow and thorow and so he died One of Master Champions servants escaped to Dublin and reported this in my hearing in December last A third was likewise slaine then the Rebels entred the House and kild more his wife's sister and her brother in law with two others in the house they keep prisoners to this day taking possession of all they had within the house and without his wife was down on her knees to beg a sheet to put her hubands dead body in And another Gentleman with other Friends that came to visit him over night lost their lives next morning Mr: FFordes house rifled and to make her Confesse where