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A23722	The absolute necessity of standing by the present government, or, A view of what both church men and dissenters must expect if by their unhappy divisions popery and tyranny should return again		1689 (1689)	Wing A112; ESTC R9768	37,630	52

the Irish Rebels after the Cessation confess'd That their Priests had given them the Sacrament upon condition they should spare neither Man Woman nor Child that were Protestants Nor did those Caitif Priests and Fryers stick to stir up the Multitude by promising them Celestial Wages for the Reward of Slaughter and Massacres Insomuch that one Ocullan a Priest told his Auditors That the Bodies of such as dy'd in the Quarrel should not be cold before their Souls should ascend up into Heaven and that they should be free from all the Pains of Purgatory But the most comfortable Encouragement was the Licence which their hellish Priests gave them under the Assurances of its being Lawful and Meritorious to Strip Rob and Dispoil the Protestants there being no greater Incentive to provoke the Multitude to Wickedness and Villany then Plunder and Rapine The Rabble being thus let loose and prepossess'd by their Priests with a belief that it was lawful for them to rise up and destroy all the Protestants as being worse then Dogs or rather Devils and such as serv'd the Devil and assuring them that the Killing of such was a Meritorious Act and a rare Preservative against the Pains of Purgatory presently fell to work and having partly by Force and partly by Treachery possess'd themselves of the Chief Places of Strength in several Provinces disarm'd the Protestants robb'd them of their Goods stripp'd them to the Skins and gotten their Persons into their Power could no longer contain from acting in all Places where they became Masters those horrid Massacres and execrable Murthers which Canibals themselves would be asham'd to own Then the True Spirit of Popery began to appear in her own Colours and with delight to satiate her ancient implacable Malice in her long wish'd for and often plotted Destruction of the Inhabitants At the Castle of Lisgool in the County of Fermanagh the said Castle being set on Fire an Hundred and fifty Men Women and Children were either burnt or smothered to death not above two or three escaping The same bloody Company being admitted into the Castle of Tullah tho' it were deliver'd into the hands Rorie Mac ●uire upon Composition and faithful Promises of fair Quarter yet the Protestants having surrender'd their Arms were first all stripp'd by the Rebels and them most cruelly murther'd to the number of an hundred For they massacred still by Whole-sale In the same County of Fermanagh seventeen Protestants were half hang'd in the Church of Clownish and so buried For should we number single Murthers we should never have done and therefore we pick out the choicest of their Cruelties And thus they were not content to Murther a Child of one Thomas Stratton of Newton but Boyl'd it to Death in a Caldron In the Parish of Kilmore they thrust two and twenty Protestants into a thatch'd House and then burnt them alive In another place they compell'd a Woman to hang her own Husband One John Greg was quarter'd alive in the Church of Loghgall and his Quarters thrown in his Father's Face Lieutenant James Maxwell by Order of Sir Phelim Oneale was drag'd out of his Bed raving in the height of a Fever driven two Miles and murther'd and his Wife great with Child stripp'd stark naked and drown'd in the Black-water the Child halfborn At Leighlin Bridge a Woman was deliver'd of two Children of which one had the Brains dash'd out against the Stones the other was more mercifully murthered A Dyar's Wife of Ross-Trevor being great with Child of two Children had her Belly ripp'd up by the Rebels and was thrown both she and her Children in a Ditch In the County of Roscommon one William Stewart had Collops of Flesh cut off from his Body while he was alive Fire-coals put into his Mouth and his Belly ripp'd up and his Entrails wrapt about his Neck and Wrists Near Temple-House in Slego ten Men Women and Children were buried alive And in the same County the Rebels forc'd one Lewis the Younger to kill his Father and then hang'd the Son. In the County of Tyrone they hang'd up eight Scoth Infants upon a Cloather's Tenter-hooks and having ripp'd up the Belly of a Scotchman they ty'd the end of his small Guts to a Tree and then wound him round and round the Tree that they might try as they said whether a Dog 's or a Scotchman's Guts were longest With such an inhuman Violence and unsatiable Thirst of Innocent Blood with such Savage Butcheries of Men Women and Children without respect either of Age Sex or Quality unparallell'd in Story did this barbarous and cruel Rebellion overflow the whole Kingdom of Ireland And all this by the Contrivance and at the Instigation of the most immortal and bloody Generation of Men the Jesuites Popish Priests and Sacrilegious Fryers a sort of People so wickedly inhuman and so inhumanly cruel that the Damned may look for more Mercy in Hell then Protestants at their hands where-ever they come under their tyrannical and destructive Power For not only by the recited Examples but by a cloud of other Proofs it appears that the Execrable Rage of the Irish Murtherers inflam'd by those Infernal Incendiaries was not satisfied with the variety of Tortures and cruel Deaths of the Living by Stripping Starving Burning Strangling burying alive and by many Exquisite Torments putting Men Women and Children to death insomuch that a quick dispatch was a great Mercy so cruel are the Mercies of the wicked but their Hellish Rage and Fury extended also to the Babes unborn ripping them out of their Mothers Womb and destroying those Innocent Creatures to glut their Savage Inhumanity Nor stopp'd it there but extended also to the Ransacking of the Graves of the dead while they dragg'd the dead Carkases of the Protestants out of their Graves that they might not rest in hallow'd ground Neither did their Execrable Malice stay here but became boundless not only to the Destruction and Devastation of the Houses Castles and whole substance of the Protestants but even to the utter Extirpation of the English Nation and the Protestant Religion out of the Kingdom All which they acted with that brutish fury as if the wild Beasts of the Deserts Wolves Bears and Tigres nay Finds and Furies had bin let loofe from Hell upon the Land. In short words are not sufficient to declare how those horrid Rebels actuated by their bloody Priests and Jesuites violated all Laws of God and Man all Bonds of Charity and Human Society and how persidious and treacherous they were yet how true in the Observation of that Maxim of Rome That there is no Faith to be kept with Heretics From hence it is now time to waft over into France which brings up the Scene of these Tragical Relations or rather terrible Lessons to warn all that are free from the Slavery of Rome how they supinely suffer themselves to be reduc'd under the Oppressions of her Cruelty Hitherto the Jesuits Priests and Fryers have bin all for Massacre

and buried under a Dunghil But at length after the Death of Queen Mary this Persecution ceas'd after the burning of two hundred eighty four tho' Grindal who liv'd in that time reports That in two Years eight hundred were burnt besides sixty who after most Severe and Cruel Usage dy'd in Prison And to shew that it was not the Conversion but the utter extirpation of the Heretics which those mischievous Papists aimed and still do aim at may readily appear by the story of Bembridge who was burnt near Winchester This Man feeling the Violence of the Fire cryed out That he recanted whereupon the Sheriff caused his People to put out the Fire in hopes that since the Popish Clergy desired the Conversion and not the Destruction of Heretics such an act of Mercy would not displease them But the Council sent him Orders in Writing To go on and execute the Sentence and to take care that the Prisoner dy'd a good Catholic for it was said if he recanted sincerely he was fit to dye if he did it not sincerely he was not fit to live And after all was done the Sheriff was committed to the Fleet for his Presumption But Harpsfield was not of the Sheriff's mind he understood the Sense of the Roman Catholics better for he having several condemned Prisoners under his Custody in Canterbury and being at London at the time when Queen Mary lay dangerously sick made hast home for fear the miserable Creatures should escape by her death and was so speedy that five were burnt before the News of her Death could arrive After all this what difference between the Religion of these Cruel Papists and the Religion of the Ancient Druids in France which Suetonius calls Religionem dirae immanitatis The Druids were always besmearing their Altars with the Blood of their Slain Captives and Popish Cruelty is never satisfy'd but when they are fumigating their Host with the Blood of Heretic Holocausts so that the same Reason which moved Claudius a Heathen Emperour to abolish the one may justifie a Christian Prince in at least exterminating the other out of his Dominions But now to trace them into other Countries we find this cruel Generation of Men still perpetrating the same or worse Acts of Inhumanity if worse can be wherever they get footing and Power and either by the Fury and exorbitant Tyranny of their Inquisition or by the Arms of bigotted Zealots whole Country 's wasted and depopulated and the Natives cut off from the Face of the Earth by Rapine and tormenting Murder In the Persecution of the Waldenses of Provence such was the merciless Cruelty of Miniers at the Instigation of the Pope and his Legates that he invaded their Territories with an arm'd Force by the Permission of Francis I at what time the People were slain without resistance Women and their Daughters ravished the Breasts of many Women with Child cut off many that were with Child murthered after which their Infants were famish'd to Death All their Habitations were pillag'd sack'd and burnt and Proclamation made That no Man should give any Relief to those that remain'd alive Upon the taking of Cabrieres Miniers caus'd all the Men to be brought into a Field and to be cut in Peices the Soldiers striving who should shew the best of their Manhood in cutting off Heads Legs and Arms. And as for the Women he caus'd them to be lockt in a Barn with a great quantity of Straw and so set sire to it so that many Women with Children were burnt Upon which a Soldier mov'd with Compassion opened a Hole in the Wall for some of them to escape but Miniers caused them to be beaten back again with Pikes and Halberts Some of them also that came forth he slew with his own Hands ripping open their Bellies so that their Children came forth which he trod under his Feet Many fled into Cellars and Caves which he caus'd to be dragg'd out driven into the Field stuipp'd stark nak'd and then slain After this Miniers sent one of his Captains to the Church whither several Women and Children were fled for Sanctuary whom he put all to the Sword sparing neither Young nor old Then marching to a Place call'd Costa where his Men committed the same Outrages and Slaughters ravishing Women and Virgins to that beastly degree that the Women with Child and young Maids dyed presently after Such as hid themselves in Rocks and Caves were either famished to Death or else choak'd with Fire and Smoak put to the Mouths of the Caves In the beginning of this Persecution there was one John de Roma a Monk who had got a Commission to examin those whom he suspected to be Heretics and which he exercis'd with all sorts of Cruelties upon those that fell into his Clutches among the rest this was one He filled Boots full of boiling Grease and put them upon their Legs tying them backwards over a Form with their Legs hanging down over a Fire after which manner he most cruelly tormented several and then as Cruelty put them to Death No less was their Rage against the Heretics in Bohemia where they made nothing to pistol the Reformed Pastors in their Pulpits and shot one Aged Minister among the rest as he lay sick in his Bed. In the Town of Minion the Commissioners demanded of the People a positive Answer Whether they would turn Catholics or no And when one in the name of the rest reply'd That Conscience neither would nor could be forc'd he was presently laid upon the Ground and beaten and still denying to turn Catholic when he could hardly speak was torn in pieces At another Place the Senators refusing to turn Apostates the chiefest of them was made to ride the Wooden-Horse in the Market-place for six Hours together tho' he were very Ancient so that he was lame and half dead when he was taken off In some Places they shut up the People in the Church and forced them to receive in one kind and if they would not kneel before the Host they used to beat their Legs with Clubs till they fell down others they gag'd and when they had propt their Mouths wide open they thrust the Host down their Throats Others were detain'd in Prisons and Bonds so long till they dy'd and particularly one was kept in a loathsome Dungeon so long till his Feet rotted off If any to avoid this Tyrannie fled to the Woods or other Private Places for Shelter Edicts were publish'd forbidding all to entertain them upon Pain of forfeiting great Sums of Money for every Nights Entertainment The Country People were fetch'd out of their Houses nay out of their very Beds by Troops of Soldiers who drove them before them like Beasts in the sharpest of cold and bitter Weather And with these poor Creatures they filled the common Prisons Towers Cellars Stables nay and Hog-sties too where they were kill'd with Hunger Cold and Thirst Marriage Burial and Baptism were forbidden to the Protestants and if