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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58436	A Relation of the bloody massacre in Ireland acted by the instigation of the Jesuits, priests, and friars who were promoters of those horrible murders, prodigious cruelties, barbarous villanies, and inhuman practices executed by the Irish papists upon the English Protestants with an account of the Spanish Inquisition.		1689 (1689)	Wing R817; ESTC R6131	8,092	12

you will but do not kill me Yet this merciless Tiger barbarously murthered him without all pity In the Town of Sligo all the Protestants were first robbed of their Estates then cast into Goal and about mid-night were all stript naked and were there most cruelly and barbarously murthered with Swords Axes Skeins c. Some of them being Women great with Child their Infants thrust out their Arms and Legs at their Wounds after which execrable murthers these Hell-hounds laid the dead naked bodies of the Men upon the naked bodies of the Women in a most immodest posture where they left them till the next day to be looked upon by the Irish who beheld it with great delight Also Isabel Beard great with Child bearing the lamentable cries of those that were murthering ran out into the Streets where she was murthered and the next day was found with the Childs feet coming out of the Wounds in her sides Many others were murthered in the Houses and Streets Mr. Starkey School-master at Armagh being above one hundred years old they stript him naked then took his two Daughters being Virgins whom they also stript naked and then forced then to lead their aged Father to a Turf-pit where they drowned them all three To one Henry Cowl a gallant Gentleman they proffered his life if he would marry one of their Truils or go to Mass but he chose death rather than to consent to either Many of the Protestants they buried alive sollacing themselves whilst they were digging down old Ditches upon them They brake the Back-bone of a Youth and left him in the Fields some days after he was sound having eaten the Grass round about him neither then would they kill him out-right but removed him to better Pasture wherein was fulfilled that saying The tender mercies of the wicked are cruelty In the County of Antrim they murthered Nine hundred fifty four Protestants in one morning and afterwards above Twelve hundred more in that County Near Lisnegarvey they forced Twenty four Protestants into a House and burnt them all Sir Philem O Neale boasted That he had slain above Six hundred at Garvah and that he had left neither Man Woman nor Child alive in that Barony of Munterlong In other places he murdered above Two thousand Persons in their Houses so that many Houses were filled with dead bodies The Lord Mont Garret caused divers English Souldiers that had been taken about Kilkenny to be hanged hardly suffering them to pray before their death One Fitz Patrick an Irish Papist enticed a rich Merchant that was a Protestant to bring all his Goods to his House promising safely to keep them and to re-deliver them to him but when he had got them into his possession he took the Merchant and his Wife and hanged them both The like he did by divers others Some English-mens Heads they cut off and carried them to Kilkenny and on the Market-day set them on the Cross where many especially the Women stab'd cut and slashed them A poor Protestant Woman with her two Children going to Kilkenny these bloody Miscreants baited them with Dogs stabbed them with Skeins and pulled out the Guts of the Children whereby they died and not far off they took divers Men Women and Children and hanged them up one of the Women being great with Child they ripped up her Belly as she hanged so that the Child fell out in the Cawl alive Some after they were hanged they drew up and down till their Bowels were torn out How many Thousands of Protestants were there thus inhumanly butchered by sundry kinds of death we cannot ascertain In the Province of Vlster we find vast numbers murdered as before what the number of the slain was in the three Provinces I find not upon Record but certainly it was very great for you have these passages in a general Remonstrance of the distressed Protestants in the Province of Munster We may say they compare our woe to the saddest parallel of any Story Our Churches are prophaned by Sacrifices to Idols Our Habitations are become ruinous heaps No Quality Age or Sex priviledged from Massacres and lingring Deaths by being robbed stript naked and so exposed to cold and samine The famished Infants of murdered Parents swarm in our Streets and for want of food perish before our Faces c. And all this cruelty that is exercised upon us we know not for what cause offence or seeming provocation it is inflicted upon us sin excepted saving that we were Protestants c. We can make it manifest that the depopulations in this Province of Murther do well near equal those of the whole Kingdom c. And thus in part you have heard of the merciless Cruelties which the bloody Irish Papists exercised towards the Protestants Let us now consider at least some of Gods Judgments upon the Irish whereby he hath not left the innocent Blood of his Servants to be altogether unrevenged These bloody Hell-hounds themselves confessed That the Ghost of divers of the Protestants which they had drowned at Portendown-Bridge were daily seen to walk upon the River sometimes singing Psalms sometimes brandishing naked Swords sometimes shreaking in a most hideous and fearful manner So that many of the Popish Irish which dwelt near thereabouts being affrighted herewith were forced to remove their Habitations farther off into the Country Catherine Cook testified upon Oath That when the Irish had barbarously drowned One hundred and eighty Protestants Men Women and Children at Portendown Bridge about nine Days after she saw the apparition of a Man bolt-upright in the River standing breast-high with his hands lifted up to Heaven and continued in that posture from December to the end of Lent at which time some of the English Army passing that way saw it also after which it vanished away Elizabeth Price testified upon Oath That she and other Women whose Husbands Children were drowned in that place hearing of those Apparitions went thither one Evening at which time they saw one like a Woman rise out of the River breast-high her Hair hanging down which with her Skin was as white as Snow often crying out Revenge Revenge Revenge which so affrighted them that they went away A View of the Spanish Inquisition and the Torments used towards such as fall into their Merciless Hands THis Inquisition was Erected by King Ferdinand of Spain when he Conquered Granado of a long time possessed by the Moors and Jews and design'd to oblige them to confess the Christian Faith but was soon at the Instigation of the Pope and his Clergy turned against the true Professors of the Gospel The manner is as soon as any Information is given in to cite the Party who dares not refuse to come or if he fly they have their Scouts to find him out When he is come they wheadle him to make him accuse himself pretending they are ignorant of the Cause of his coming in which Cause to deny he knows is the best otherwise they send him to Prison and Triumph they have what to accuse him out of his own Mouth Or if he denies one or other steps up and accuses him then is he sent to Prison in a dark Dungeon strictly examined When if he comply not with all their Demands they put him to the Rack The first Torture they use is the Pulley when binding Hands and Thumbs and hanging heavy Weights at his Feet they draw him up and then suddenly suffering him to sink half way with the Jerk dislocate all his Joints When he cryes out the Lords Inquisitors roars as loud calling him Heretick Dog or if he call upon Christ they revile him bidding him let Christ alone and tell the Truth When they have tortured him a long while they demand of the Tormentor who is dressed up in black Canvis like a Devil if he has his other Torturing Engines ready to which he replyes No. Then they bid him get them against to morrow telling the Prisoner if he recant not all that he has suffered is but a Flea-biting to what he must feel when three daies after they torture him again upon a Wheel or Roaler or by laying him in a Trough pour Water down his Throat driving before it a Rag at the pulling out of which a great quantity of Blood follows They likewise anoint their Feet with Lard and set them on hot Irons and stretch them on a Rack put lighted Torches to their Arm-pits Nor do they spare Matrons or Virgins stripping them stark naked And if at twice Racking they recant not then they are burnt And thus a young English Gentleman was served for throwing down the Host as the Priests were carrying it through the Streets of Rome whilst the ignorant Vulgar kneeled as it passed and Worshipped it he at the same time saying Ah Wretches that you are Do you Worship a Morsel of Bread And so much of Popish Cruelties From which the Lord deliver all such as Worship Him in Spirit and in Truth These Particulars with many more were Attested before the Commissioners appointed for that purpose See more of such Cruelties in Clark's Martirology London Printed for Rowland Reynolds 1689. The Spanish Inquisition One Burned for throwing down the Host Some tortured in the Inquisition Others Rack'd in the Inquisition