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A97166	A brief narration of the plotting, beginning & carrying on of that execrable rebellion and butcherie in Ireland. With the unheard of devilish-cruelties and massacres by the Irish-rebels, exercised upon the Protestants and English there. Faithfully collected out of depositions, taken by commissioners under the Great Seal of Ireland. Hereunto are added observations, discovering the actions of the late King; and manifesting the concernment of the Protestant-army now imployed in Ireland. Published by special authority.	Waring, Thomas, 17th cent.	1650 (1650)	Wing W873; Thomason E596_2; ESTC R204016	31,881	70

them so long as any of the Protestants were alive This wicked force so united encreasing their pride malice and envy their rage and force out of England to represse them not comming but being retarded they fell upon the remaining Protestants that were not murthered nor escaped and cut off many of them stripped and robbed all the rest This also gave further encouragement to all other Irish and old English Papists of Connaght and Munster to prosecute the former design and agreement for spoiling the English Protestants within those two Provinces so as none escaped robbing and stripping many extreamly tortured and very many suffered death And although you may amongst the Examinations at large when they are printed find out the true relations of numerous various and most strange tortures murthers such as I am confident cannot be parallel'd by story in any former age or Country where no manner of provocation can truly be alledged to be given but rather all invitations of love Yet the more to move you to read thē at large I shall give you some short touches of a few of them as they stand proved by testimony of witnesses upon oath First you may see what vast numbers after robbing and stripping naked were murthered and perished many by the swōrd See all the depositions under the Head for murthers and cruelties many by hanging drowning strangling burning in Churches houses and other places many buried quick some baited and worried with dogs some stoned to death some thrown into boiling water some roasted at the fire some their bowels gored through their fundaments some their bellies ripped up and their bowels pulled out the skuls of some broken by twisting ropes and withes about their heads some having their backs arms thighes and leggs broken and cut off others most miserably wounded slashed and gored and so left to languish freez and starve in their blouds some hanged up by the hair of their heads little Children deprived of fathers and mothers crying mourning and famishing by their dead bodies some poor infants rather drawing than sucking their dead mothers brests none helping none relieving and none putting them out of their pain but as they lay gasping upon the earth suffering doggs swine and other ravenous creatures to put an end to their miseries by devouring of them There may you find many whose backs leggs or thighs being broken and so disabled to stir lying in the fields and having like beasts eaten all the grasse round about them would after two or three days desire the Irish comming to rejoice and glory over their miseries to kill and put them out of their pain if they granted this courtesie it was rare to some it was denied onely they would change their pasture in carrying them where more grass was not so much to feed or relieve them as to prolong their pining misery A cruell mercy There you may find the Irish which were servants insulting robbing torturing wounding and reviling their English late Masters who fed them from their infancies There may you find poor women hanging by their necks and their children also about their necks some at their girdles and in scorn dogs and cats hanging up with them There you may find many poor Christian Protestāts forced through holes under the ice there drowned and many pursued and pricked forward with pikes so far into the Sea and others into other waters where that they were also drowned many as they swam to the shore knocked on the heads and run through with pikes and so turned into the water again and drowned There you may find the demolished houses Churches Castles and other buildings lie full of dead-slaughtered bodies of Protestants unburied and those that were covered with earth had for the most part old banks pulled upon them in ditches others lay stinking above ground infecting the air except such as doggs and ravenous creatures devoured There may you find poor harmlesse little children wounded and then hanged up by the flesh upon tenter-hooks There shall you find a poor Christian Protestant brought in naked laid upon a board and the Irish insulting after dinner drawing their swords and at every healths drinking giving him a gash or wound but not mortall untill his whole body becommeth as it were one generall wound and thereafter they cast him upon a Dung-hill there to die partly of his wounds and partly of famine none daring to relieve him There may be found how the savage Irish took a wooden prick or broach and thrust it up into the fundament of a Protestant and then after draw him about the room with a joint stoole to force the broach untill with extream pain he either fainted or gave content to the spectators by some notable skips and frisks There may you find a poor Protestant surprized and after stripping his belly ripped up till they came to his small guts one end whereof they tied to a branch of a tree and then forced him to turn round the tree till all his bowells were pulled out The cruel Monsters then saying they would then try whether his guts or a dogs were longer Other incredible barbarous acts of their graceles Children you may find As their going abroad in great troops armed with long wattles and whips wherewith they would beat mens bodies about their privy-members untill they beat or rather threshed them off And then returning with great joy to their Parents were by them received for such service as if it were in triumph And where they found any slain women being with their faces downward those they would turn upon their backs and in great flocks resort unto them Censuring all parts of their bodies but especially such as are not to be named which afterwards they abused so many ways as chast ears would by no means hear There you may find their manner of shutting up in houses and Churches severall great numbers of Protestants And those being strongly guarded and kept in had those Churches and houses burned over their heads and all they consumed in the flame There you may find the bloudy butchers in a Church dissecting and quartering the father and the son and then throwing their quarters at the head of the much wounded mother There you may find some proper Gentlewomen hanged up by the hair of their heads in a tree a whole night and the next morning cut down and life being found in them killed outright There you may find three poor Protestant children whose Parents were murthered stripped naked and turned out of their late fathers house and sheltering themselves in an Oven from the cold fire was put after them and there burned by the mercilesse wretches A great bellied woman with her little children flying away to save their lives she by the fright and hast was suddenly delivered of a Child which the pursuers doggs eat up and devoured those villains there killing the Woman and the other Children Severall Gentlewomens bellies ript up when great with Child their

children ripped up out of their wombs and in that posture some hanged up Some poor Gentlewomen in child-birth drowned their children half born Young children tossed upon the Rebels pikes who gloried in their destruction Two Gentlewomen the daughters of a very aged decrepit father all stripped naked enforced to support their said father under each arm to a bog pit of water where they were all drowned together The wife enforced to kill the husband the son the mother the daughter to kill the brother and still the Rebels to kill the last bloud-shedder There may you find very many Ministers some drowned some their heads and hands cut off as they were upon their knees praying before death some hanged some smothered some drawn to death at horses tails some tortured famished put to the sword and others by various ways of torment cruelly brought to death There you may find some Protestants whom the blondy Assassinats found to be fat and corpulent murthered and Candles made of their grease A good professour of Gods truth was set and rammed upright in the earth all but the very head to pine and starve till Crows and Ravens picked out his eys and ravenous creatures devoured him Great numbers buried quick and one so intumulated or kept in the earth with weight of stones and rubbish that he cried out there a long time his wife being lame wounded and not able to help him out yet scraped to his face and to terminate his dolour which she could not help tied a handkerchiff over his mouth and so stopped his breath Very many good Protestants there were some of which had the soals of their feet fried against the-fire some affrighted with a block and a hatchet some drawn in a rope up and down the water some half hanged and letten down some kept in the stocks till they rotted many others cruelly tortured to confesse their moneys oftentimes when they had none left Many stript naked and imprisoned there famished and starved those that survived enduring hardship and miseries unspeakable In finite numbers of Protestants after fair quarter promised and sworn to be given them murthered by heaps in most lamentable and inhuman manner The carcases and bones of many formerly deceased worthy Christians digged out of their graves some cast into ditches some upon dunghils others upon hedges banks fields and open places deprived of such buriall as was denyed to the late slaughtred English the Rebels rejoycing to behold the bodies of the English in that condition especially the Ministers and the greatest professours of Gods truth Which Carkases as is here proved these Barbarians cast out like Carrion or as the dead bodies of Doggs or Swine thereby shewing what base esteem they had of them And here this hellish crew do greatly insult and rejoyce at the deaths of the Lords Witnesses Expressing such their joy by sending guifts and presents one to another as if they had received some great benefit or had heard the most comfortable news The like things made the Holy Ghost say The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat for the fowls of Heaven and the flesh of the Saints unto the beasts of the earth I have here particularized but a very few of the barbarous cruelties tortures murthers and massacres exercised upon the Protestants and Brittish most because Protestants some because Brittish though Papists All because Brittish The wicked and causeless quarrel of the present Rebels being as well Nationall and Personall as their pretended Religion But these few may I believe induce you to read over the rest The which because you may with the more facility find out I have drawn severall heads of all their Plots Designes and actions and of the sufferings of the English and other Protestants under each of which heads you shall find the names of the several Deponents or witnesses proving the particulars of the things contained and concerned in the same together with the places and Counties where those Witnesses had residence The Books of examinations being divided into Counties and those Counties into the severall Provinces of Vlster Lemster Connaght and Munster Wherein by the way you may observe that as this last Plot was chiefly at the first layd by the Romish Priests and Friers so they after their fury was made visible to the world were the main actors and bloudy executioners of most of the cruelties Aswel admonishing as administring the Sacrament to the Souldiers not to spare but destroy the English and all Protestants Amongst which murthers and cruelties it is to be observed how the audacious Rebels often fell into high and threatning tearms sometimes against the High Court of Parliament in England at other times against the Lords Justices and Councel of Ireland against all Protestants in general but principally against the English all which they vowed to destroy and for that purpose to send forces after they should have subdued and spoiled them in Ireland into England as is afore mentioned with a full resolution that none should draw breath but such as should acknowledge the Supremacy of the Pope and professe the Romish Religion And which is to be much admired the ancient English of the Palle being Papists were by the instigation of the Priests and Friers as much engaged in the Plot and little lesse in the action than the meer Irish and every way as cruell in the execution as they The truth being that without their concurrence and partaking which both in number value and power farre exceed the meer Irish those meer Irish neverthelesse their inveterate and scornfull malice and Brutish insolency never could nor durst have attempted any such thing against the English at this time but all joyning in confedracie it was resolved that the the English Protestants should be destroyed and loose the Land of Ireland And not so much as any living creature of the latter English race permitted to have a being there Insomuch as some of our witnesses complain That the degenerated Palle-English were most cruell amongst the Brittish Protestants never being satisfied with their bloud untill they had in a manner seen the last drop thereof And the more to engage the inferiours of all these confederates in their wicked action both the meer Irish and the old English Papists shewed in very many places a Parchment Writing with a broad seal thereunto which they affirmed was a Commission from the King for disarming and destroying the Protestants and for all that which they the Irish did And because that none should stand out for want of seeing some authority The Priests Friers and others in two places as is proved in imitation of the said originall Commissions framed and produced severall writings purporting to be the Kings Commission or to that purpose By occasion whereof all the rude multitude took further encouragement to execute their own wills and wreak their causelesse malice upon whom they pleased Wherein they had no little assistance by their women and children Who as