thirty miles a bloody spectacle Sixty women were cruelly rackt so that the cords peirced their Arms and Leggs to the bones and then being cast into prison dyed all but nine of the handsomest who were taken away from thence and never heard of more And thus they continued their cruelty till they had quite rooted out and extirped all professing that Religion in Calabria The Waldenses in Province who had fled thither out of Piedmont Province Daupheny and other places encreasing and being near Avignion the Popes Seat he soon raised against them an horrid persecution but the greatest was in the year 1360. in the time of Lewis the 12th in which many suffer'd and continued more or less rigorously to the year 1540. in which was the cruel Massacre by the means of the Popes Agents at Merindol and Chabriers Pepin and other places Where the Towns were fired wholly destroyed and all the Lands about laid waste The poor people were slain the young Virgins ravished and barbarously used Children pulled alive out of their Mothers Bellies the breasts of divers women cut off and their sucking Children left on the floor to dye with Famine or sucking the gore that ran from the wounds of their dead Mothers At Cabriers there being but sixty six weak men left in the Town the rest being fled they caused them to be brought all forth to a field and there the bloody Papists cut them to peeces And all the women they found in the Town with their young Children they lockt up together in a Barn and so set it on fire and burnt them and some that endeavoured to escape thorow the flames they knockt on the head with their Halberts and ript open the bellies of others that were with Childe their Children falling under their feet and others being bound back to back were broach'd in sport upon one Sword So that in this place were slain above a thousand Men Women and Children that could not lift up their hands to resist At Costa another Town they committed great slaughters and where they used several Women and Malds that fled into an Orchard for safety with so much cruel and inhumane beastliness that they dyed most thereof This long and bloody persecution of these Waldenses Collected out of Luthers Forerunners Cades Justification of the Church of England lasted near five hundred years in which time they spread their Tenents over Bohemia Austria Germany Flanders England Poland Italy Spain Dalmatia Oroatia Sclavonia Greecia Livonia Sarmatia and Bulgaria in all which places they were persecuted and tormented more or less according as the Pope and his Ministers had power and Influences over the Princes of those Countrys The persecution also of those called Albingenses was very notorious The persecution of the Albingenses they were of the same principles and Tenents as the Waldenses and differ'd only in Country and Name being Inhabitants of the Country of Albi the chief of whom was Arnold from whom they were called Arnoldists Pope Alexander the third began with them and his successors followed his steps and Pope Innocent the third raised a War against them calling it the Holy War and gave out the same pardons and Indulgences for encouragement of those who went against these people as he did to those that went into the Holy Land against the Saracens in which War he so thundered against Raimond Earl of Tholouse that he was forced to submit and for penance to be led publiquely stript to his drawers with a cord about his neck and so whipt by the Fryers nine times about the grave of one Peter the Hermite kill'd in that War And then wou'd have forced him against his Conscience to have fought against the Albingenses His Legat playing the part of a General In Beziers besieges and takes Beziers by storm seting the whole City in fire and burnt it to ashes and slew all they could meet with without distinction both Catholicks as well as those they termed Hereticks for there were of both in the City At which time they slew in this City 60000 persons Their next morsel was the Town of Carcasson Carcasson Town which the Holy Pilgrims as they called themselves took also by storm burning destroying and slaying all as they had done before at Beziers After that they set upon the City of Carcasson Carcasson City defended by the Earl of Beziers and when they offered to Capitulate the Legat would grant no other conditions but that the Earl and twelve more should come forth with their baggage but all the rest both men women and children should come forth stark naked without covering of either Shirt or Smock and humble themselves before him But they disdaining such unworthy and ignominious terms stand it out till they had told the Earl forth of Town under pretence of parly with the Legat having given his Oath for his safe return but having him without regard thereto stormed the City to the amazement of the poor amazed Citizens who looked for nothing less but there being a certain Vault under ground which went to a Castle not far of most of them convey'd themselves away by it leaving their City and all therein to the fury and rage of the unholy Pilgrims Then they surprized the Castle of Beron Beron. where they pull'd out the Eyes of an hundred Albingenses and cut off their noses leaving only one with one Eye to guide the rest to Cabaret They took also the Castle of Menerby Menerby defended by the Lord of Termes whom they flung into a filthy Prison till he dyed his wife sister and daughter who was a Maid they burnt in one fire because they would not recant their Religion And after that they cast into one fire for the same cause 180 men and women at the same place who dyed rejoycing At the taking of the Castle of Lavaur Lavaur by Simon Monford who succeeded the Legat in his Generalship all the Souldiers therein were put to the Sword except 80. Gentlemen whom that cruel Earl caused to be hanged and the Lord Aimery on a Gibbet higher then all the rest And the Lady his Sister east into a ditch and there covered with stones The rest of the people who were about 400. persons were forced into a great fire made purposely for them and so burnt except those that for fear recanted their Religion which were sew At this time one Reynard Lollard by his preaching stirred up the English in Guienne to assist the Albingenses this Lollard was a holy man and a Prophet and afterwards was burnt at Collen by the Papists those in England of that Judgment were from him afterwards called Lollards These men still proceeding in their cruelty against the Albingenses take the Town of St. Anthonys St. Anthonys where they caused thirty of the principal men to be hanged in cold blood after they had granted them their lives and several other Towns where they put all to the sword without
could not stifle him they stab'd him with daggers and so both kill'd and drowned him at once In the same place abundance more were martyr'd for the Truth and cleaving to their Religion embraed death cheerfully Also at Breda divers suffered for the same cause and indeed all Flanders over their dead Bodies being cast forth to be gazed on in every place and multitudes both men and women were imprisoned for their belief and Conscience In the City of Valence they executed 57. persons most of them Burgesses only because they professed the true Faith of Jesus Christ and dissented from the Religion of the Papists And to conclude the sad Catastrophe Strada we may also remember that Prince William of Nassaw Prince of Orange was shot by a villain called Joanville encouraged thereto by a Jacobine Friar who was hang'd for the Fact though it proved not mortal But that attempt not being enough to satisfie these blood-suckers and Prince-killers they hired one Gerard a Burgundian who taking better aim shot this Prince the head of the protestants so that he dyed immediatly as he was coming from dinner at Delf in Holland 1584. Let us now stept into France France Histr of France Hist of the Tragical Massacres in France and see whether the gospel has any freedome there from their persecutions you will then behold the same picture of cruelty murther and Blood they change not their principles with the aire of the Country they are not bloody and cruel because they are Spanyards but because they are Papists t is infused into them by the Priests and as principles of their Religion and not sucked into them from without they are the same in France as elsewhere bloody and murtherous persecutors of such as fall not down and worship the Idoll of their setting up meer Nebuchadnezzars and cruel Tyrants They began there ill the year 1209. with several learned and good men at Paris who dissenting in some points were burnt At Metz in Lorraine for professing the Gospel and throwing down some Images they caused one John Clark who denyed not the fact to have his right hand cut off his nose to be pulled from his Face with snarp pincers and his arms and breasts pulled off by the some instrument and then cast into the fire and consumed to ashes At Paris at Melda in Limosine at Fountains Rutiers Roan Troyes Bourdeaux St. Michael Lions Meaux and Fera and in several other places a great number were burnt rack'd whipt beaten and divers ways tormented to death at last they made a Law that all that were condemned to be burnt if they recanted not at the stake should have their tongues cut out that they might not with their holy and dying speeches move others And this was dilligently observed In Paris one Florent Venote a Minister was imprisoned in so narrow a place that he could neither stand nor lye in it in which they kept him 7. weeks whereas there was never a malefactor that could endure it 15 days without growing mad or dying Afterwards they cut out his Tongue and lastly was so mercifull as to execute him The Duke of Guise another of the Popes Instruments of persecution upon the Hugonots as they call the Protestants in those parts committed with his Soldiers many bloody and barbarous murthers among the rest at Vessy he put several hundreds to death of men women and children that were assembled to hear a Sermon mangling their Limbs and strewing them about the seats and galleries of the Church At Sentis many suffer'd some were beheaded some murther'd some whipt some beaten and sent to the Gallies not sparing the simple women And the same also at Charlons where they tortur'd one Fournier a minister by straining his thumbs with a small cord till the blood came out at the ends of them being so tyed fast behind his back with another Rope they hoist him up by the Thumbs twitching him up and down then tying great stones to his great Toes let him hang so till his Spirits failed him and then suddenly loosing the rope let him fall with all the weights on his face upon the hard floor and then casting him into prison would not let him have the benefit of a Chirurgion with which barbarous usage being above 50 years old he not long after dyed At Amiens all the Bibles Testaments and Psalm-books were burnt and the ministers Pulpit with divers persons men and women At Abbeville they slew the Lord of Harcourt and dragged some along the streets with their faces in the kennell At Meaux there were about 400. of the religious Citizens slain besides a 1000. villanies committed the women and maids ravished openly in the streets and market-place men women and children massacred some forced to be remarried and others to be rebabtized The very Priests slaying divers with their own hands At Bar the same cruelties and murthers were committed if not worse for some pulled out the hearts of these poor wretches and most inhumanely gnawed them with their teeth rejoycing that they tasted of an Hugenots Heart At Sens an hundred protestants were barbarously massacred and their naked bodies thrown into the River their houses plundered and then burnt together with the Church At Crant the like many murthered At Auxerre the like At Nevers and Chastillen the like horrid murthers were committed where they left no manner of cruelty unacted neither upon women or Children old nor young not sparing the children in their mothers bellies but ripping them out and dashing their brains against the pavement At Guyen they used all the cruelties could be invented where some Italians cut a child in two and eat the Liver in hatred to its Religion At Montargis they committed many outrages against those of the Religion and had done more but that they were opposed by the Lady Rene Daughter of King Lewis the 12th and Dutchess Dowager of Ferrara At Monlins many suffered At Mans 200. men women and children were put to death and such as fled had their houses pillaged and were executed in Effigy and their children made incapable of inheriting their goods or lands Above 120. men women and children Murthered in the Neighbour-Villages some hang'd some beheaded some drowned And one Captain flung above 50. persons into his fish-ponds to feed his pikes and as many more were drowned in the ditches At Anger 's they committed the like cruelties and above 80. persons executed at one time and an aged Gentlewoman of above 70. years of age beaten to death with pistols And one Gentleman they broke upon a Cross and so left him hanging with many other unspeakable Villanies At Liguel they did the like putting out the Ministers eyes and then burning him with a small fire The Village of Aze they burnt to the ground drowned the Minister of 70. years old and Massacred 30. persons In Tours they Murthered an 140. and cast them into the river sparing not so much as the president because he favour'd them for
they slew the Major and 1600 men women and children letting their bodys lye unburied for divers days in the dirt and mire and all the remainders they cast into prisons keeping them in a miserable condition several Months Bibles and godly Books were prohibited also marriages and burials and Baptism deny'd all such as would not turn Catholicks Some were thrust into Cellars and holes full of Snakes and Toads and such like creatures Others into places full of spikes so that they could neither sit nor stand Others into narrow places over water so that if they but moved their bodys they would fall into the water others they gag'd and thrust the host down their throats others again were beaten on the calves of their legs till they could not stand but fall down on their knees that they might adore the Host And thus much for their cruelties acted on this Stage The next Theater The persecution of the Protestant in Germany by the Papists Out of D. Vincents Collections where we may behold these sort of people acting their bloody parts is Germany miserably torn and rent to pieces by their doings and endeavours to extinguish the light of the Gospel shining forth through Luther and others then stirred up by God to perfect the work of Reformation This persecution began Anno Christi 1523. by the Popes stirring up the Emperor Charles the 5th to destroy the Protestants as Hereticks allowing him 200000 Crowns towards the raising Soldiers for that end with an engagement also to raise at his own cost 12000 foot and 600 Horse Thus he began with the sword that he might end with the fagot The Duke of Saxony aud the Lantgrave stand up for the Protestants and are taken prisoners 1547. and whereever they got the day all sorts of Cruelties murthers torments racks sire and fagot followed So that all Germany was at once in a flame and combustion and in a most miserable condition flying and dying in all places for their Conscience and Religion At Meldrop they took the Minister a godly man out of his bed and forced him to go many miles on foot in frost and snow upon the ce bare-footed and bare-legg'd beating cutting and flashing him and pricking him with halberds and at last they barbarously roasted him on coals to death his name was Sutphen At Vienna many were drowned and put to several sorts of death At the sacking of Miltenburg many suffer'd one Minister they hung up by the hands with a mighty stone fastned to his seet where he remained 6 hours in that great torment Death was accounted a mercy and hanging they thought to easie a punishment At Schalt at Merspurg and Munchen and several other places the rage of their malice and spite was shown in putting to death many poor Souls At Pasewalk they committed many villanies ravishing the women deslouring the maids killing the men burning the houses and smothering the children with straw set on fire in the cellers whether they had crept for safety At Mudenburg they did the like 1631 where they burnt the whole City to ashes and where they put at least 20000 persons to death 6000 were drowned in the River Elb. Ladys and Gentlewomen were yoaked together like beasts and so turned out to the woods where they were ravished and abused and then had their hair and ears cropt off and disfigured At Hocster 1634 they spared none neither man woman nor child but put all to sword and then threw their bodys into the Weser At Grippenbourg they tormented the Senators and chief of the place to death with smoak and starving At Heildeburg they shut up in prison a great many Ministers seeding them only with bread and water At Frankendale contrary to agreement and Articles they put many to death and others to unreasonable ransoms In Saxony they tortured the Protestants by pressing their Thumbs between wheels In Pomeren they forced them to eat their own excrements and if they refused them they thrust them down their throats till they were choaked Some they tormented with cords about their heads till they twisted their eyes out and that the blood run out at their ears noses and mouths To others they tyed burning matches between their fingers yea to their eyes ears noses tongues cheeks breasts legs and secret parts Yea they cram'd the secret parts of several women with gunpowder and so setting fire to it blew up their bellies and wombs most barbarously Others they tormented with Bodkins and Knives and to some they made holes thorow the sleshy part of their Armes thighs and Legs and so thrusting cords thorow them tormented them after that fashion Some they hung up in the smoak drying them with small fires and sometimes giving them small drink or water to refresh them that they might not dye too soon and be freed from their torments Some they roasted with fire made of straw others had their hands and feet bound so hard till the blood sprung forth of the ends of their fingers and toes Some had their hands and feet bound backwards together and their mouths stopped with rags to hinder them from praying And several they hung up by their privy parts They plained the faces of others with Chisels others they caused to draw on boots filled with scalding Oyl and so roasted their legs over the fire Some they gelt in the presence of their wives and Children Others had their bodys hung up by cords and every joynt dislocated by tying of weights to their several limbs Some were gag'd and with Tunnels had stinking water and piss powred down their throats till their bellies swelled like Tuns whereby they dyed with most horrid torment Then they thrust down the throats of some knotted clouts with a string fastened to them whereby they pull'd them out again and puting them to miserable torment by misplacing their bowels that many became blinde dumb deaf and lame for ever Some they sawed off their legs alive one Minister they bound upon a Table and placing a great Cat upon his belly so provoked the Cat that she scratched his guts forth of his belly with its teeth and nails till he dyed At Madenburg they ravished the wife and daughters of one of the Ministers before his face and tore from the Mothers breast a sucking infant and stuck it on the top of a Lance and after they had made him see all this they brought him into the street and burnt him with his own Books Yea such was the abominable beastliness commited at this time that no pen can write it In Pomeren they made the Parents sing Psalms whilst they ravished their daughters before their faces Nay they spared not their dead Corpses but lay with the women after they had out their throats At Basil and Friburg and other places they did the like eating the young children and wearing the noses and ears as a bravery in their Caps Thus these Massacres and bloody Murthers defiled the whole Land and Germany groaned under the
Vallies but Churches burning Towns smoaking Houses Flaming men women and children massacring nor any thing to be heard but the confused crys of people flying the peircing groans of some dying and horrid screeks of others tormented so wicked and barbarous was their usuage that 't is scarce to be expressed In one place they cut off the heads of 150 women got together for shelter and all their childrens brains they dash'd out against the pavements and Rocks some they slit in two and roasted And one of the Soldiers afterwards related how he surfitted by eating too much of the fryed brains of a Protestant It was afterwards certified from very good hands of all these execrable murthers committed upon these poor people by people of Honour and credit and many of them eye-witnesses One Sarah Vignes because they could not make her say Jesus Maria they ript up alive by putting a Sickel into her privy parts and so slit up her belly Others had their breasts Hands noses and privities cut off and so left for miserable spectacles Another they stab'd often in the soles of his feet then cut off his privities and fry'd them and gave their comrades to eat as a delicate dish then they sear'd his wounds with staming Candles cut off his ears and then tore off his nails with burning pincers and all this to renounce his Religion which he still persisting in they tyed one of his Leggs to a mule and so dragg'd him about the streets till he was almost dead and lastly binding a cord about his head they twisted it with a stick till his eyes and brains burst forth casting his body into the River Another one Peter Simond of Angrogna they bound hand and foot and slung him down a fearful precipice but in his fall by the way lighting on the stump of an old tree growing in the Rocks he there hung in a most languishing condition for several days ere he dy'd not being able to help himself and the precipice being so great that no other could come at him One of 90. years old they hack'd limbmeal and then cut off his head Others had their bellies ript'd up and their Gutts hung upon the hedges in the high ways One very old woman had her hands and nose cut off and so left They sliced all the flesh from the bones of another woman and chopped it like mince-meat The daughter of Giovanni Carbonier of la Torce they took and putting a long stake into her privities carried her so on their shoulders till being weary they stuck the stake fast into the ground and so left her Andrea Michalim saw three of his Children torn limb-meal before his face and the youngest being the fourth its brains dash'd out against the Rocks Others they tormented by slaying off their skins alive in long slices to make them points several drawn at the tayls of their mules thorow the streets and others following them with brickbats and stones miserably brusing them till they dyed The daughter of one Peter Fontana a beautifull Girl being about ten years old taken by these lecheerous beasts because she was not capable of being forced in an ordinary way they tore her so inhumanly that they left her almost dead wallowing in her blood The daughter of one Moses Long about ten years old they brauched upon a pike and roasted her alive with a fire made upon a broad stone One of the Elders of the Church of Bobio they took and binding his hands and privities together hang'd him up by them upon a Gate and so left him in exquisite torments in that shamefull posture and several others they hang'd up by their privities and their hands bound behind them One Rostagnal of Bobio being 80. years old had his nose ears and other Parts of his body cut off and so left languishing in the snow till he dyed Four Brothers and a man and his wife all at one time had their mouths crammed full of gunpowder and so being fired their heads blown to peeces The Schoolmaster of Roras being stript naked after they had torn off his nails with pincers and made a 1000. holes in his hands with their daggers they drag'd him thorow the Borough of Lucerna with a cord the Souldiers standing on each side hacking and cutting off collops of his flesh as he was hauld along still crying to him will you go to Mass you dog at last they cut off his head and slung him into the River Pelis Another of the same place they took and put out his eyes then cut off his privities and thrusting his yard into his mouth exposed him in that posture to their publique scorn several days together and after that they flea'd him alive after a most inhumane manner and then cutting his skin in 4 peeces hung it in the windows of 4 of the principal houses of Lucerna They took out the brains of one Daniel Cardon and frying them in a pan eat them up like Canibals Four old women being 80. and 90. years old apeece they burned alive Several they cut to peeces and gave their flesh to the dogs In another place having taken 11. men they heated a great Furnace and forced them to sling one another into it till they came to the last man which they flung in themselves Others they stab'd with impoysoned knives in the legs and feet and so left them in torment till they dyed One Chiairet was flea'd alive and his grease taken out of his body The like was done to several others One Bâ—rtino had his nose paps and privities cut off and then his head cleft in twane Several Infants were in the snow Several stoned to death One Gros the Son of a Minister being taken by them had his flesh cut off alive by small gobbets in the presence of his wife and children which they murther'd before his face One woman with 7. children were all barbarously murther'd in their Beds One Daniel Rambant of Villaro because he refused to say Jesus Maria or pray to the Virgin Mary they first cut off one finger then another till they had cut them all off then his hands and arms till fter this manner they cruelly mangled him to death Others they shut up between two stone walls and miserably starv'd them to death No kinds of death and no kinds of torments were wanting to these poor miserable people And it would be an endless peece of work to go about to give a particular account of all that were put to the sword drowned burnt shot starv'd smother'd knock'd on the head and cut to peeces These horrible doings caused the rest of the Protestants to fly to their Armes which they termed Rebellion though it were only to defend their lives from these bloody cut-throats Those who were so good at Massacring and murthering are not so good at sighting the Protestants get the better and with their Arms in their hands defend themselves till by the mediation of the Neighbour Protestant Princes and especially
were accursed and condemned to hell and detestation These were the pious benedictions of these Holy Fathers and Brothers the Priests and Fryers so that it was no wonder that the rascally rish were so merciless and cruel believing they merited Heaven thereby though afterwards some of them met with a halter for their pains All things being prepared by the opish Agents and this Massacre long before secretly plotred and cunningly contrived on the 23d of October 1641. it broke forth at once thorow all parts of Ireland Dublin excepted where the conspirators were discovered and prevented But in all places else the whole Land was in a combustion and nothing but blood murthers rapes robberys and barbarous usages of the Protestants in every County Village Town and City that it is not to be expressed As it would be too tedious to give you a full relation of it and which hath been formerly done by others so we cannot pass it altogether in silence without remembring some of their most horrid and unparralel'd cruelties Multitudes were kill'd by the Sword in cold blood some in their beds some in their houses some in the fields in all places whereever they could light on them At Lisgol there were above 150. men women and children consumed with fire At Moehan above an 100. knock'd on the head At Tullagh after fair quarter given they were put to the Sword and murthered without mercy At Lisnaskey they hung above an 100. most of the Scottish Nation at which place Mac Guire made the keeper of the Castle Mr. Middleton to hear Mass and to swear he would never alter from it and then immediately caused him his wife and children to be hanged There were a 1000. men women and children drowned at one time at Portadown Bridge and in several places of that County 4000. more driving them into the loughs and Rivers pricking them forward being all stark naked with their skenes and butcherly knives Many to whom they had given passes to go to some place of shelter or to Dublin when they had let them go to some convenient place they sent Soldiers after them Many Towns they laid waste and in ashes among the rest Armagh and the Cathedral Church there and in some parishes two hundred Families were murthered and a common butchery was through the whole County and in all parts of it many thousands perisâ—ed by Sword Famine Fire Water and all other manner of deaths that rage and malice could invent Nay they would not spare the very cattle horses beasts sheep were all destroyed not to eat but out of spight leting thousands lie stinking and rotting up and down in the fields and high-ways In Colrain the living could not bury the dead and the slain carcases were flung in wide and waste holes and packed one upon another like herrings In Killoman were 48. Families murther'd In one house 22. Protestants burned In Kilmore 200. Families Massacred The villains were so wicked that they would not give them leave to pray before they dyed Some they buried alive and some they half buried others they set up into the Earth and so left them to starve Some they put into deep dungeons to perish at leasure others they mangled and left languishing in the high ways Some being grievously wounded they hung upon tenter hooks some thrown into bogs others hang'd up by the arms whilst they slash'd their bodys with their skenes to know how many cuts an Englishman would endure ere he dyed Many women great with child were hanged up others ript up and their guts pull'd out and their children thrown to the dogs and swine Some they cut to peeces by gobbets and collops Multitudes were drowned in Turf-pits and thousands were starved to death with cold in the bogs whether they were driven or sled for shelter Children were forced to execute their parents and parents their children and brothers and sisters one another The women were as barbarous as the men and as ready in their bloody executions nay they taught their children to kill and shewed them to kill an Englishman Some they boyled to death in Cauldrons and they hang'd one woman near Caterlaugh on a tree and her daughter in the mothers hair another had his feet burnt off by a slow fire their spight and malice reached to the graves and Tombs which they opened and dispightfully mangled the dead carcases of all they could meet with It is impossible to recollect or express the abominable wickedness of their mischievous inventions or the horror of their bloody executions performed with all kinds of circumstances that might aggravate the heighth of their cruelty towards them and that did express their inveterate malice to our Religion Alas who can comprehend the fears terrors anguish bitterness and perplexities of the souls of these suffering wretches their dispairing passions and consternations of minde or relate truly their deep groans heavy sighs loud schreches sad lamentations bitter tears and horrid trembling and astonishment Their reviling speeches and wicked boasts and brags increased their misery To see candles made of the fat and grease of thoir friends and kindred to burn before them and to hear them cry they are almost tired with slaughtering and that a young Cow-boy should boast to have slain 36. Protestants as a meritorious Act they never dispatched any without expressing great malice and hatred and usually with this their ordinary sarewell anim a duel they soul to the devil They used several blasphemous speeches against God and the Scriptures At Kilkenny on a Marketday they brought 7 Protestants heads and set them in the Market place one of them being a Ministers they slit from the mouth to the ears and puting a leaf of a Bible before it they bid him preach for his mouth was wide enough Another they took and riping up his belly took out the end of his guts and tying it to a post whipped him and prick'd him with their skins round the post drawing forth his guts by that means that they might see how long his puddings were Some women in Labour and with their children half born they flung into the Rivers and bogs without any pity or regard Some they burnt to death with seting fire to the straw that the poor wretches had tyed about them to hide their nakedness Others they worried to death with dogs The number was great of all those that fell under their many cruelties About Dangannon were 316. Protestants slain At Charlemont â—00 about Tyre was 6. barbarously murther'd At Laugh 200. drowned In another place 300. drowned and in the Parish of Kallamen were murther'd 1200 Protestants They roasted one Mr. Watson alive and cut collops out of his Buttocks They broke the back bone of a poor youth and so left him in the fields and some days after he was found having knawn all the grass round about him and eaten it for sustenance not being able to wag from the place yet they would not kill him out right but remov'd him to