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A25337 An Account of the late barbarous proceedings of the Earl of Tyrconnel and his soldiers against the poor Protestants in Ireland with their killing and driving some thousands out of Cork and Lymmerick stark naked in the cold, their besieging Bandon, taking the Honourable Capt. Boyle, and their bloody association to destroy all the Protestants of that kingdom. 1689 (1689) Wing A306B; ESTC R1178 1,155 1

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AN ACCOUNT Of the late Barbarous Proceedings of the Earl of Tyrconnel And his Soldiers against the poor PROTESTANTS in Ireland With their Killing and Driving some Thousands out of Cork and Lymmerick Stark Naked in the Cold Their Besieging Bandon Taking the Honourable Capt. Boyle and their Bloody Association to destroy all the Protestants of that Kingdom THE Lord Tyrconnel the late King James's Deputy of the Kingdom of Ireland since the said Kings Departure and Abdication of the Kingdom of England being as it seems resolved to keep the Kingdom is a reserve and refuge for his Master upon occasion or by a Vigorous seeming Preparation for War to lay a seasonable and sure foundation for Tollerable and Advantagious Conditions for himself behav'd himself with some sort of pretended Conscience and Mercy towards the p●●●… 〈…〉 down that Kingdom until the News of the Prince of O●●●ge 〈…〉 King which so enraged him that he publickly Swore that he would ●●●●●…ged on all the Protestants in that Kingdom And about the same time receiving both Arms and Ammunition from France as also full assurance of the late King with a good supply of Men and Arms would arrive there to his and the papists Assistance in that Kingdom and then immediately threw of the Disguise of Justice pretended in his late Proclamation and give publick Liberty and encouragement to hls Souldiers and Officers to plunder and destroy the Protestants as they should think fit Whereupon the Papists in s most of the great Towns in Munster assemble and first striping Men Women and Children they Drive them out of the Towns and leave them to the Mercy of the rest about the Roads In Cork they gathered Three Thousand protestants Men Women and Children and Robbing them of all their Effects in their Habitations they without regard to Modesty Charity or Sex strip them stark naked and drive them out of the Town the Soldiers Slapping and Beating them with Cudgels and using most Barbarous and Undecent Actions to the Women In Lymrick they have done the same driving out and abusing some Hundreds in the Cold without one Rag about them The Honouroble Captain Boyle by Treachery of some abot him they have Teken and are in close pursuit after the Earl of Inchiqueen the greatest protestant Champion in Munster The strong Town of Bandon they have sent Eight Thousand Men to Besiege and threaten most horribly to destroy Man Woman and Child unless they yield upon Summons and it is remarkable that one Cartie an Officer in Bandon desiting leave to go out of the Town the protestants having Disarm'd his Company before for fear of their Villany they freely gave him leave and the Villain had scarce got half a mile from the Town when he meets with Two protestant English Children a Boy and a Girl and alighting he Barbarously Murthered cutting their Throats and ripping them up These are the first so Bloody Attempts which so nearly resemble their Beginnings in their last so horrid Rebellion in Forty One that unless speedy Succor be sent whibh God Almighty grant we may quickly hear of the utter and Barbarous Extirpation of all the protestants besides the hazard of not being able to recover that Kingdom without the Expence and Trouble of a long and tedious war. London Printed for W. Downing in Bartholomew-Close 1689.