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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89325	A remonstrance of the barbarous cruelties and bloody murders committed by the Irish rebels against the protestants in Ireland both before and since the cessation, collected out of the records at Dublin, by Thomas Morley, Gent. Being the examinations of many who were eye-witnesses of the same, and justified upon oath by many thousands; presented to the whole kingdome of England, that thereby they may see the rebels inhumane dealings, prevent their pernicious practises, relieve their poore brethrens necessities, and fight for their religion, laws, and liberties. Published by speciall command and authority.	Morley, Thomas, Gent.	1644 (1644)	Wing M2800; Thomason E50_31; ESTC R23534	10,332	15

protestant to death in a caldron or great kettle in the Church at Newton Mary Loftus Mary loftus had her husband quartered and throwne into a River and then the Rebels said it was good beefe Anne Cheetam In the County of Armagh Protestants detained prisoners with the Rebels Davy Williams Rich-Runckorn Will. Bickerdick In the Kings County Richard Warrins wife and 5 children detained In the County of Fermanagh Richard Sallyard Gent. most cruelly murthered because he would not go to masse and his wife wounded Jo. Smithsō clark her husband Io. Heys others Antony Hubert Sara Doughty Darby Lea. Will. Robinson Margret Maning Mary Comms Margery Sharp In the County of Dublin Mistris Smithson a ministers wife and her maide hanged up to death Mistris Dirrick Hubbert and others robbed and murthered at the skirries by the Rebels and all the Protestants there also robbed other foule murthers in the County of Dublin In the County of Meath Cruell murthers in the Town of Navan Mary Comin● dragg'd up and down in a rope Mr. Sharpe the minister most cruelly murthered and denied buriall the Rebels having first inforced him to trample and spoyle all his books in the water Jane Pressick Tho. Pressick Iames Haukin both most cruelly murthered at Trym being first robbed and their wives and children thereby undone Reinold Griffith In the County of Armagh Reinold Griffith robbed cruelly wounded and pursued 16 miles for his life and his wife and children imprisoned three weeks by the Rebels and then the Rebels tooke her son of 14 yeares old and drowned him in a bog-pit holding him down with a sword in her sight and this done at the New●y Rich. Warrin William VVarin robbed and imprisoned by the Rebels 12 dayes then driven into the River there stript thrown into the water and drowned with a 100 more women and children his wife and six children left at the rebels mercy Lidia Smith Isaack Keene In the County of Longford O●e Smith robbed there had his head cut off in defence of the Castle and 14 more protestants then and there murthered also and his wife and children stript Henry Palmer In the County of VVexford Divers that kept the Castle of Fethert wounded to death and others stripped and almost starved to death Henry Steele Robert throwne Clark In the County of Monoghan M. Blany a Justice of the peace and Knight of the shire and Committee for the Subsidies hanged up stript Hugh Culme Gent. Henry Calladine John Greg. and buried in a ditch by the rebels in the County of Monoghan because he would not turne and goe to masse and the next night one Luke Ward hang'd and throwne into a ditch and they and divers others were robbed and the rest kept in prison without reliefe from them that robd them Other murthers and cruelties of others within the County of Manoghan by the rebels Dorothy Ward William Perkins Anne Borrell In the County of Cavan Fourteen or fifteen hundred Protestants all rob'd and stript together and some stript 20 severall times Richard Lewis Gent. Mary Ward Elizabeth Birch John Carter Mary Owlet John Heron Nich. Michael Henry Barnes Philip Ward Christopher Ayrey Silvanus Bullock The Armes and Towne of Belturbat delivered to the ô Relys and their company of Rebels upon their promise to the Townsmen that they should enjoy their goods safe and have them preserved against the Mac Gueres and other Rebels of the County of Fermanah But after upon pretence that Mac Guere threatned them the Protestants were turned out of the Towne with their cloaths and had a guard from the ô Relys one day but the second day they were stript and a great number slain and many perished through cold and famine and many little infants left alive by the way languishing and gaping for breath Protestant houses pul'd downe and divers taken and kept prisoners many stript and many died of cold and want Franc. Posnet Tho. Taylor and many children left miserably alive by the way because the parents were able to bring them no further And a very old woman carried 6 miles on her sonnes backe was forced to be left by the way And a Minister kild by the Rebels and throwne into a ditch who had 3 children Nich. Swainson two whereof he carried on his backe which were left by the way at his death In the County of Monoghan One who was executed the 15 of February 1641. at Dublin for murthering a Protestant woman John Montgomery Gent. and above 100 more witnesses confessed upon the gallowes that he was set on to doe it and that after he washed his hands in her blood A man who had severall young children borne and alive and his wife neere her time of delivery of another was most cruelly murthered by the rebels his wife flying into the mountaines the rebels hastily pursued her and her little children Mr. John Montgomery and found her newly delivered of her child there they pittying no such nor any distresse presently murthered her and her other children which runne with her thither and in most inhumane and barbarous manner suffered their dogs to eate up and devoure the new borne child Philip Taylor John Wisdome In the County of Armagh One hundred ninety six Protestants drowned by the Papists rebels at a Towne neere Armagh all together Many others most cruelly massacred and amongst the rest a poore woman with child had her belly ript up and two children tumbling out they threw both her and them into the ditch and after Philip Taylor found and drove away a Swine that was feeding upon them In the County of Armaugh and Province of Vlster The rebels there by speciall command from Sir Philem ô Neale dragged Lieutenant Iames Maxwell out of his bed in the rage and height of a burning-feaver and lest any of his friends or acquaintance should bury him they carried him two miles from any Church and there cruelly butchered and murthered him when he knew not what he did or said and so Sir Philem payd him 260 li. which he owed him His wife Grizell Maxwell being in child birth the child halfe borne halfe unborne they stript her starke naked and drove her about an Arrows flight to the water and drowned her The like they did to another English woman in the same parish in the beginning of the rebellion which was little inferiour if not more unnaturall and barbarous then the rosting of Mr. Watson the Minister alive after they had cut a collop out of either buttocke A scotch-Scotch-woman was found in the Glynwood lying dead her belly ript up and a living child crawling in her wombe cut out of the cawle Mr. Starkie sometime School master in Armagh a Gentleman of good parentage and parts being upwards of 100 yeeres of age they stript naked caused two of his daughters likewise naked to support him under each arme he being not able to