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A28828	The history of the execrable Irish rebellion trac'd from many preceding acts to the grand eruption the 23 of October, 1641, and thence pursued to the Act of Settlement, MDCLXII.	Borlase, Edmund, d. 1682?	1680 (1680)	Wing B3768; ESTC R32855	554,451	526

unto us in the holy Scriptures and of the other Laws against Murther And herein consider first The Law against Murther in the beginning in the infancy of the World before the Flood a general Deluge over the World The Law against Murther immediately after the Flood The Moral Law of God The Judicial and Political Law of the Jews The Law under the Gospel The Law of England The Law of Ireland Jus Belli the Law of War This same horrid sin of Murther this Devil crept into the World it began in the beginning what can expulse this Devil We find in the holy Scriptures that the Devil was the first Murtherer and Lyar and that he is the Father of Murtherers and Lyars The unbelieving Jews bragged they had Abraham to their Father and yet they sought to kill Christ whereupon our Saviour tells them that they are of their Father the Devil and the lusts of their Father they will do He was a Murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him When he speaketh a Lye he speaketh of his own So that from hence the Lyars and Murtherers take their beginning and from hence these inseparable Twins make and derive their Pedigree and Descent from the Devil viz. He was a Lyar and a Murtherer from the beginning and he is the Father of Lyars and Murtherers The first and eldest of these in the Stock and Progeny was Cain Non sicut Cain qui ex maligno erat occidit fratrem suum propter quid occidit eum quoniam opera ejus maligna erunt fratris autem ejus justa And therefore John saith Not as Cain who was of that wicked one and slew his brother and wherefore slew he him because his own works were evil and his brothers righteous Wo unto them saith he for they have gone in the way of Cain This way of Cain is chalked out unto us in the beginning of the holy Bible Gen. 4. 8. that he talked with his brother Abel and it came to pass when they were in the field that Cain rose up against Abel his Brother and slew him As soon as this innocent Blood was shed upon the Earth the cry thereof ascended up to Heaven And the Lord said to Cain What hast thou done the voice of thy Brothers blood crieth to me from the ground Gen. 4. 10 11. And now thou art accursed from the earth which hath opened her mouth to receive thy Brothers blood from thy hand When thou tillest the ground it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the Earth The Learned Divines observe upon the Text that whereas our Translation is The voice of thy Brothers blood crieth unto me the Original is The voice of thy Brothers bloods in the Plural Number for in killing Abel he did not onely kill him but also all that posterity the whole Line that should have descended from Abel and therefore thy Brothers bloods crieth unto me from the ground It is not the single blood as one of the murthered that crieth for vengeance but even the blood of all that Posterity as should have descended from him crieth to Heaven for Vengeance against the Murtherer We find this innocent blood of Abel shed in the begining of the World still in remembrance uttering her voice in the highest strain and crying against Murtherers even to the Worlds end Our Saviour denouncing several woes against the Scribes and Pharisees tells them that they should kill the Prophets that should be sent unto them that on them may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth even from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias whom they slew between the Temple and the Altar By faith Abel offered unto God a more acceptable Sacrifice than Cain by which he obtained witness that he was righteous God testifying of his gift and by it he being dead yet speaketh And we are come to Jesus the Mediator of the New Testament and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel The blood of righteous Abel is still in remembrance and yet speaking And in the latter end of the Bible Revel 6. 9 10. we find the Souls of them that were slain for the testimony of Jesus under the Altar crying with a loud voyce How long O Lord holy and true dost thou not revenge our blood on them that dwell on earth So that the blood of righteous Abel and all the innocent blood shed on the Earth yet speaketh and still crieth for vengeance and justice against the Murtherers And to conclude the Case of Murther before the Flood we find that one of the main causes which provoked Gods wrath and brought that great destruction of the whole World by Noah's Flood was because the earth was filled with violence Gen. 6. 11 18. And will not that which destroyeth the whole World over-whelm these Nations if they be not purged by Justice The Law against Murther after the Flood Now because the Old World perished through violence God in his new re-establishment of the World provided against violence and for the preventing of Murther ordered this to be one of his first Fundamental Laws Surely the blood of your lives will I require at the hands of every beast will I require it and at the hands of man and at the hands of every mans brother will I require the life of man Ver. 6. Whoso sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made he man The Moral Law of God delivered upon Mount Sinai and written by God himself in Tables of Stone and by his Spirit engraven in every mans heart Thou shalt do no murther Exod. 20. 13. The Judicial Law Next to the Moral Law of God I come to the Judicial and Political Law of the Jews He that killeth any man shall surely be put to death There are several Cases of Murther put and upon every of them the Law is delivered That the Murtherer shall surely be put to death Moreover you shall take no satisfaction for the life of a Murtherer which is guilty of death but he shall surely be put to death Ye shall not pollute your Land wherein you are for blood defileth the Land and the Land cannot be cleansed of blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that sheddeth it Thine eye shall not pity but life shall go for life Upon these Laws I will onely put a case or two which I conceive may be useful to us upon these points in the discharge of this service The case of Agag King of the Amalekites whose life Saul spared being brought before Samuel the great Judge in Israel And Samuel said unto him As thy sword hath made women childless so shall thy Mother be

Table-talk amongst the Rebels that the Ghosts of Mr. William Fullerton Timothy Jephes and the most of those who were thrown over Portadown Bridge were daily and nightly seen to walk upon the River sometimes singing of Psalms sometimes brandishing of naked Swords and sometimes screeching in a most hideous and fearful manner The Deponent did not believe the same at first and yet is doubtful whether to believe it or not but saith that divers of the Rebels assured him that they themselves did dwell near to the said River and being daily frighted with those apparitions but especially with their horrible screeching were in conclusion forced to remove further into the Country Their own Priests and Friars could not deny the truth thereof but as oft as it was by the Deponent objected unto them they said That it was but a cunning slight of the Devil to hinder this great work of propagating the Catholick Faith and killing of Hereticks or that it was wrought by witchcraft The Deponent himself lived within thirteen miles of the Bridge and never heard any man so much as doubt of the truth thereof howsoever the Deponent obligeth no man's faith in regard he saw it not with his own eyes otherwise he had as much certainty as morally could be required of such a matter And the Deponent further saith That the Degenerated Pale-English were most cruel amongst the British Protestants being beaten from their own Lands and were never satisfied with their blood until they had in a manner seen the last drop thereof affrighting Sir Phelim O Neil every day with their numbers perswading him that while they meaning the Protestants lived there would neither be room for them nor safety for him It was easie to spur on the cowardly bloody Rebel yet no sooner were the Protestants cut off but contrary to their expectation the meer Irish took present possessions of their Lands and Houses whereat they of the Pale very much grumbled and said Sir Phelim had not kept promise with them howsoever they were forced to swallow those and many other injuries And further saith That he knew one boy near unto himself not exceeding fourteen years of age who killed at Kynard in one night fifteen able strong men with his Skean they being disarmed and most of their feet in the stocks Another not above twelve years of age killed two women and one man at the siege of Augher A woman Tenant to the Deponent killed seven men and women of her English Fellow-tenants in one morning And it was very usual in all parts for their children to murther the Protestants children and sometimes with lath Swords heavy and well sharpned they would venture upon men and women of riper years cruelties not to be believed if there were not so many Eye-witnesses of them And the Deponent further saith That the first three days and nights of this present Rebellion viz. Octob. 23 24 and 25. it was generally observed That no Cock crew or any Dogg was heard to bark no not when the Rebels came in great multitudes unto the Protestants Houses by night to rob and murther them and about three or four nights before the six and fifty persons were taken out of the Deponent's House and drowned and amongst those the Deponents brother Lieutenant James Maxwell in the dark of the Moon about one of the clock at night a Light was observed in manner of a long Pillar to shine for a long way through the Air and refracted upon the North Gabel of the House It gave so great a light about an hour together that divers of the watch read both Letters and Books of a very small Character thereby The former the Deponent knoweth to be most true both by his own Experience and the general observation of as many as the Deponent met with within the County of Armagh The later was seen by all those of the Deponents Family and besides by many of his Irish guard For some of them at that time were drunk and could see nothing who interpreted the same to be an immediate expression and token of Divine Providence and watchfulness over the Protestants affirming that many times the Rebels had purposed to destroy the Deponent and his Family but were always hindred and interrupted but which way themselves could not tell But the Deponent as is well known made a far contrary interpretation thereof which shortly after fell out to be the truer of the two for presaging thereby that bloody Massacre which ensued the Deponent with the rest of his Family gave themselves to Fasting and Prayer expecting each hour that universal cutting off which fell out very shortly after Robert Maxwell Deposed 22 August 1642. John Watson William Aldrich Post-Information the 7th of July 1643. AND further this Deponent saith that the Rebels having exposed the murthered bodies of the British so long unto the publick view and censure that they began to stink and infect the Air which commonly being a thing very strange would not sometimes happen until four or five weeks after the murthers committed they usually permitted some of their bodies to be removed and cast into Ditches but so as they must ever be laid with their faces downward the reason whereof this Deponent not understanding asked the Rebels themselves what was meant thereby who readily answered that they so placed them to the intent they might have a prospect and sight of Hell only and therefore when they killed any of us they used always these words Anima Dewll which is thy soul to the Devil And this Deponent further saith That notwithstanding all the moderation formerly pretended by the forenamed Alexander Hovenden and the many real favours done by him unto many of the British and in particular to this Deponent that yet he heard him both say and swear That he wished them all damned both body and soul who were against them in this cause Further this Deponent saith That it was usual sport with one mac Mahon Capt. of the Castle and Town of Monaghan as he said Mr. Mahon confessed before Mr. Hugh Echline and many others to take a wooden Prick or Broach and thrust it up into the Fundament of an English or Scotchman and then after drive him about the Room with a Joynt-stool until through extream pain he either fainted or gave content to the Spectators by some notable skips and frisks which rare invention he offered to put in practice at the same time and in the same place where he boasted thereof but that the said Mr. Echline prevailed with him to omit it as sufficiently without any further demonstration believing the excellency of the sport And it is further of undeniable truth That the said mac Mahon and other Rebels in the Castle of Monaghan after a great Feast there held took an English or Welshman and bound him naked upon the Table at which they drank after dinner and at every Health gave him a gash or wound but not mortal