fall from it and turn Hereticks he with his companions presently cut all their throats In the County of Tipperary near the Silver Works some of these barbarous Papists met with eleven English men ten women and some children whom they first stript and then with Stones Pole-axes Skeins Swords c. they most barbarously massacred them all In the County of Mayo about sixty Protestants whereof fifteen were Ministers were upon Covenant to be safely conveyed to Galway by one Edmond Burk and his Souldiers but by the way this Burk and his company began to massacre these poor Protestants some they shot to death some they stab'd with their Skeins some they thrust through with their Pikes some they drowned the Women they stript naked who lying upon their husbands to save them were run through with Pikes so that very few of them escaped with life In the Town of Sligo forty Protestants were stript and locked up in a Cellar and about midnight a Butcher provided for the purpose was sent in amongst them who with his axe butchered them all In Tirawly thirty or forty English who had yielded to go to Mass were put to their choice Whether they would die by the Sword or be drowned They chose the latter and so being driven to the Sea-side these barbarous Villains with their naked swords forced them into the Sea the Mothers with their Children in their Arms wading to the Chin were overcome by the waves where they all perished The Son of Mr. Montgomery a Minister aged about fifteen years met with his School-master who drew his Skein at him whereupon the Boy said Good Master whip me as much as 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 midnight vvere all stript naked and vvere there most cruelly and barbarously murthered vvith Swords Axes Skeins c. some of them being Women great vvith-child their Infants thrust out their Arms and Legs at their Wounds after vvhich 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 vvhere 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 hearing 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 comeing out of the Wounds in her sides many others were murthered in the houses and streets About Dungannon were three hundred and sixteen Protestants in the like barbarous manner murthered About Charlemont above four hundred About Tyrone two hundred and six One Mac Crew murthered thirty one in one morning Two young Villains murthered 140 poor Women and Children that could make no resistance An Irish Woman with her own hands murthered forty five At Portendown Bridge were drowned above three hundred At Lawgh were drowned above two hundred In an other place were drowned three hundred in one day In the parish of Killmen there were murthered one thousand and two hundred Protestants Many young children they cut in quarters eighteen Scottish Infants they hanged upon a Clothiers Tenter-hooks one fat man they murthered and made Candles of his grease another Scottish man they ript up his belly took one end of his small guts tied it to a Tree and forced him round about it till they had drawn them all out of his body saying That they would try whether a dog or a Scottish mans Guts were the longer By the command of Sir Philem O Neale Master James Maxwell was drawn out of his bed being sick of a Feaver and murthered his Wife being in chid-birth the child being halfborn they stript naked drove her about a flight shot and drowned her in the black water the like or worse they did to another English Woman in the same Town One Mr. Watson they roasted alive A Scottish Woman great with-child they ript up her Belly cut the Child out of her Womb and so left it crawling on her Body Mr. Staâ—key Schoolmaster 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 them to lead their Aged Father to a Turf-pit where they drowned them all three To one Henry Cowel a gallant Gentleman they proffered his life if he would marry one of their Trulls 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 found having eaten the Grass round about him neither then would they kill him outâ—ight 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 about Twelve hundred more in that County Near Lisnegarry 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 the Barony of Munterlong In other places he murdered above two thousand Persons in their Houses so that many Houses were filled with dead bodies Above twelve thousand were slain in the High-ways as they fled towards Down Many died of Famine many died for want of Cloths being stript naked in a cold season some thousands were drowned so that in the Province of Ulster there were about one hundred and fifty thousand murdered by sundry kinds of torments and deaths Anne Kinnard testified That fifteen Protestants being imprisoned and their Feet in the Stocks a Popish Boy being not above fourteen years old flew them all in one Night with his Skein An English Woman who was newly delivered of two Children some of these Villains violently compelled her in her great pain and sickness to rise out of her Bed and took one of the Infants that was living and dashed his Brains against the Stones and then threw him into the River of Barrow The like they did by many other Infants many others they hanged up without all pity The Lord Mont Garret caused divers English Souldiers that he had 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 gotten 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
AN ACCOMPT OF THE Bloody Massacre IN IRELAND Acted by the Instigation of the JESUITS PRIESTS and FRIARS who were Promoters of those horrible Murthers prodigious Cruelties barbarous Villanies and inhumane Practices executed by the Irish Papists upon the English Protestants Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum Licensed 23. Decemb. 1678. LONDON Printed for R.G. 1678 WHen their Plots were ripe for Execution 〈…〉 then first proceedings against the English various some of the Irish only stripping and expelling them others murderâ—â—â— Men Women and Children without mercy all resolving universally to root out all the Protestants of Ireland so deeply malicious were they against the English Protestant that they would not so much as endure the sound of their Language The Priests gave the Sacrament unto divers of the Irish upon condition they should neither spare Man Woman nor Child of the Protestants One Hulligan a Priest read an Excomunication against all those that from thenceforth should relieve or harbour any English Scotish or Welch man or give them almes whereby many were Famished to dearth The Friars exhorted them with tears not to spare any of the English The day before this Massacre began Anno 1642 the Priests gave the People a dismiss at Mass with liberty to go out and take possession of all their Lands as also to strip and rob and despoil them of all their goods and cattle The Irish when the Massacre began perswaded many of their Protestant Neighbours to bring their Goods to them and they would secure them and hereby they got abundance peaceably into their hands whereof they cheated the Protestants refusing â—o restore them again yet so confident were the Protestants at first of them that they gave them Inventories of all they had and digged up their best things that were hidden in the ground and deposited them in their custody They also got much into their hands by fair Promises deep Oaths and Engagements that if they would deliver them their goods they would suffer them with their Wives and Children quietly to depart the Country and when they had got what they could they afterwards murdered them Having thus seized upon their goods and cattle ransackt their houses got their persons stript Man Woman and Child naked and so turned them out of doors strictly prohibiting the Irish under great penalities not to give them any relief by means hereof many miserably perisht through cold nakedness and hunger In the Town of Coleraine many of these poor people that fled thither for succour many thousands died in two dayes so that the living could not bury the dead but laid their Carcasses in ranks in waste and wide holes piling them up as if they had been Herrings One Magdalen Redman deposeth that she and divers other Protestants amongst whom were two and twenty Widows were first robbed and then stript Naked and when they had covered themselves with Straw the bloody Papists threw in burning straw amongst them on purpose to burn them then they drove them out into the Woods in Frost and Snow where many of them died with extream Cold and those that survived lived miserably by reason of their many wants Yet though these bloody Villains exercised such inhumane Cruelties towards the poor Protestants they would commonly boast That these were but the beginning of their 〈◊〉 for indeed they made it good for having disarmed the English â—â—â—â—ed them of their Goods stript them of their Cloths and having their Persons in their power they furiously broke out into all manner of abomirable Cruelties horrid Massacres and execrable Murders For there were multitudes Murdered in cold Blood some as they were at Plough others in their Houses others in the High-ways all without any provocation were suddenly destroyed In the Castle of Lisgâ—â—â— were about One hundred and fifty Men Women and Children consumed with Fire At the Castle of Tullah which was delivered to Mac Guire upon composition and faithful promises of fair quarter as soon as he and his entered they began to strip the People and most cruelly put them to the Sword Murdering them all without mercy At Lissenskeath they Hanged and Killed above One hundred of the Scottish Protestants In the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone where the Frotestants were more numerous their Murthers were more multiplied and with greater cruelty Mac Guire coming to the Castle of Lassenskeath desired to speak with Mr. Middleton who admitted him in he first burnt the Records of the County then demanded One thousand pounds which was in his custody of Sir Williane Balfores which as soon as he had he caused Mr. Middleton to hear Mass and to swear that he would never alter from it and then Hanged him up with his Wife and Children Hanging and Murdering above One hundred Persons besides in that place At Portendown Bridge there were One thousand Men Women and Children carried in several Companies and all unmercifully drowned in the River Yea in that Countrey there were four thousand persons drowned in several places In one place an hundred and forty English were taken and driven like Cattle for many miles together Other companies they carried out to a place fit for execution and then murthered them One hundred and fifteen Men Women and Children they sent with Sir Philem Oneal's Pass till they came to Portendown Bridge and there drowned them At another time One hundred and forty Protestants being thrown in at the same place as any of them swam to the shore the bloody Villains with the Butt-ends of their Muskets knockt out their Brains At Armagh O Cane got together all the Protestants thereabouts pretending to conduct them to Coleraine but before they were a days journey they were all murdered and so were many others though they had Protections from Sir Philem Oneal The Aged People in Armagh were carried to Charlemont and there murthered Presently after the Town of Armagh was burnt and Five hundred Persons murthered and drowned In Killoman were Forty eight Families Murthered In one houâ—â— twenty two Protestants were burned In Kilmore all the Inhabitants were Stript and Massacred being Two hundred Families the whole Country was a Common Butchery many thousands perished by Sword Famine Fire Water and all other cruel Deaths that rage and malice could invent At Casel they put all the Protestants into a loathsome Dungeon kept them twelve Weeks in great misery Some they barbarously mangled and left them languishing some they hanged up twice or thrice others they buried alive In Queens County an English Man his Wife five Children and a Maid were all hanged together At Clâ—wns seventeen Men were buried alive some were wounded and hanged upon Tenter-hooks In Castle-Cumber Two Boys wounded and hung upon Butchers Tenters Some hanged up and taken down to confess money and then murthered Some had their Bellies ript up and so left with their Guts about their Heels In Kilkenny an English Woman was beaten into a Ditch where she died her Child about six years old they
ript up her Belly and let out her Guts One they forced to Mass then they wounded him ript his Belly took out his Guts and so left him alive A Scottish Man they stript and hewed to pieces ript up his Wifes Belly so that her Child drop out many other Women they hung up with-child ript their Bellies and let their Infants fall out some of the Children they gave to Dogs In the County of Armagh they robbed stripped and murthered abundance of Protestants whereof some they burned some they slew with the Sword some they hanged some they starved to death and meeting Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Frankland with six of their Children and themselves both with-child they murdered them all ript open the Gentlewomens Bellies took out their Children and threw them into a ditch A young Scotish Womans Child they took by the heels and dasht out its brains against a Tree the like they did to many other Children Anne Hill Going with a young Child on her Back and four more by her side they pulled the Child off her Back trod on it till it died stripped her and the other four Children naked whereby they died of Cold. Some others they met with hanged them up upon a Windmill and before they were half dead cut them in pieces with their Skeins Many other Protestants especially Women and Children they pricked and stabbed with Skeins Forks and Swords flashing cutting and mangling them in their Heads Faces Breasts Arms and other parts yet killed them not but left them wallowing in their own blood to languish starve and pine to death The Castle of Lisgoole being set on fire by these merâ—â—â—ess Papists a Woman leapt out at a Window to face her â— vault and Cellars where they were all murthered One Joan Addis they stabbed and then put her Child of a quarter old to her Breast and bid it Suck English Bastard and so left it to perish One Mary Barlow had her husband hanged her self with six Children stript naked in Frost and Snow after which sheltring themselves in a Cave they had nothing to eat for three weeks but two old Calves-skins which they beat with stones and so eat them hair and all In the cold weather many thousands of Protestants of all ranks ages and sexes being turned out naked perished of cold and hunger thousands of others were drowned cast into Ditches Bogs and Turf-pits multitudes miserably burnt in houses some that lay sick of Feavers they hanged up some Men Women and Children they drove into Boggy Pits and knockt them on the heads Some aged Men and Women these barbarous Papists inforced their own Children to drown them yea some Children were compelled unnaturally to execute their own Parents Wives forced to hang their own Husbands and Mothers to cast their own Children into the Waters after which themselves were murthered In Sligo they forced a young Man to kill his Father and then hanged him up In another place they forced a Woman to kill her Husband then caused her Son to kill her and then hanged the Son yea such was their malice against the English that they taught their Children to kill English Children The Irish Trulls that followed the Camp cried out Kill them all spare neither Man Woman nor Child They took the Child of Thomas Stratton being about twelve years old and boiled him in a Caldron One good wife Lin and her Daughter they carried into a Wood first hanged the Mother and then the Daughter in the hair of her Mothers head In some places they plucked out the eyes and cut off the hands of the Protestants and turned them into the Fields where they perished The Women in some places stoned the English Women and Children to death One man they shot through his thighs digged a hole in the ground set him in upon his feet fill'd up the hole left out only his head where he languished to death Another man they held his feet in the Fire till he was burnt to death In Munster they hanged up many Ministers in a most barbarous manner One Minister they stripped naked and drove him through the Town pricking him with Darts and Rapiers till he fell down dead These barbarous Villains vowed That if any Parents digged Graves to bury their Children in they should be buried therein themselves They stripped one William Loverden naked then killed him before his Wife and Children Divers Ministers bones that had been buried some years before they digged up because they were as they say Patrons of Heresie Poor Children that went out into the fields to eat weeds and grass they killed without all pity A poor Woman whose Husband was taken by them went to them with two Children at her feet and one at her breast hoping to beg her Husband but they slew her and her sucking Child brake the neck of another and the third hardly escaped and all this wickedness they exercised upon the English without any provocation given them Alas who can comprehend the fears terrors anguish bitterness and perplexity that seized upon the poor Protestants finding themselves so suddenly surprized without remedy and wrapt up in all kind of outward miseries which could possibly by man be inflicted upon humane Creatures What sighs and groans trembling and astonishment what shrieks cries and bitter lamentations of wives children servants and friends howling and weeping finding themselves without all hope of deliverance from their present miseries How inexorable were their barbarous Tormentors that compassed them in on every side without all bowels of compassion or the least commiseration or pity yea they boasted upon their success These merciless Irish Papists having set a Castle on fire wherein were many Protestants they rejoycingly said O how sweetly do they fry At Kilkenny when they had committed many cruel murthers they brought seven Protestants heads one the head of a reverend Minister all which they set upon the Market-cross on a Market-day triumphing slashing and mangling them they put a Gag in the Ministers mouth slit up his cheeks to his ears and laid a leaf of a Bible upon it and bid him Preach for his Mouth was wide enough At Kilmore they put many Protestants Men Women and Children into a thatched House and there burnt them They threw Mrs. Maxwell into the River when in labour the child being half born when the Mother was drowned In one place they burnt two Protestant Bibles and then said It was Hell fire they burnt Other Bibles they took cut in pieces and then burnt them saying They would do the like to all Puritane Bibles They took the Bible of a Minister called Mr. Edward Slack and opening it they laid it in a puddle of Water and then stamped upon it saying A plague on it this Bible hath bred all the quarrel At Glastow a Priest with some others drew about forty English and Scottish Protestants to be reconciled to the Church of Rome and then told them They were in a good faith and for fear they should