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A33251	The Protestant school-master containing, plain and easie directions for spelling and reading English, with all necessary rules for the true reading of the English tongue : together with a brief and true account of the bloody persecutions, massacres, plots, treasons, and most inhumane tortures committed by the papists upon Protestants, for near six hundred years past, to this very time, in all countries where they have usurped authority to exercise their cruelties ...: with a description of the variety of their tortures, curiously engraven upon copper plates ... / by Edw. Clark.	Clark, Edw. (Edward)	1680 (1680)	Wing C4437; ESTC R39367	111,345	217

many were Famished to Death Yea the Popish Monks and Fryers exhorted them with Tears not to spare the English but utterly to destroy them nay they boasted that when they had made an end of them in Ireland they would goe over into England and would not leave the memorial of an Englishman under Heaven and their Priests told them it was as lawfull to kill an English man as to kill a Sheep or a Dog and that it was no more Pity or Conscience to take their Estates from them than to take a Bone out of a Dogs mouth The day before this Horrid Massacre began the Priests gave the people a dismission at Mass with full liberty to go out and take possession of all their Lands which they pretended were unjustly detained from them by the English although they were justly forfeited by their repeated Rebellions and Treasons against the Government They further told them that they might lawfully strip rob and despoil them of all their Goods and Chattels The Protestants being as they said worse than Dogs for they were Devils and worshipped the Devil and therefore that the Killing of such was Meritorious and an Excellent Preservative against the Pains of Purgatory since the Bodies of such Catholicks as should dye in this Quarrel would not be cold before their Souls should ascend up into Heaven so that they need not fear the Pains of Purgatory which occasioned some of these Murdering Villains to Boast after they had Massacred many of the English that if they should dye presently they should go straight to Heaven When this Horrid Rebellion first began several Irish Gentlemen pretended great kindness to some of their Protestant Neighbours and perswaded them to put their Goods and Cattel into their hands ingaging that they would secure them from the rage of the Rabble which made the Protestants so confident because of former familiarity that they gave them Inventories of all they had nay they digged up some of their best things which they had hidden in the Ground and put it into their hands whereby they got vast Quantities of Goods into their hands And yet like True Papists they cheated them of it all nay which was more Barbarous they promised the English that if they would be contented to lose their Goods they and their Wives and Children should peaceably depart the Country and yet when they had got all they had they inhumanely murthered them In one place there were no less than Twenty two Widows who were first Robbed and then stript stark naked and when in an House they had covered themselves with Straw the Bloody Papists threw in burning Straw among them on purpose to burn them together And in a while after they broke forth into such abominable Cruelties Bloody Massacres and Murders as would make the heart of any Christian to ake and his Ears to tingle at the Relation of them In the Castle of Lisgol above an Hundred and Twenty Men Women and Children were burnt together Another Castle was delivered to one of the Popish Commanders upon Condition their lives should be saved but as soon as he entred he cruelly murdered and destroyed them all without Mercy At Portendown Bridge a thousand Men Women and Children were drowned in the River and it was testified upon Oath that nine days after there was the Apparition of a man bolt upright in the water Breast-high with his hands lifted up to Heaven and that he was seen several times in that Posture from December to the end of Lent at which time some of the English Army passing that way saw it likewise after which it Vanished away One Elizabeth Price made Oath that she with other Women whose Husbands and Children were drowned in that place hearing of those Apparitions went thither one Evening at which time they saw a Woman rise out of the River Breast-high her hair hanging down which was as white as Snow and so was her skin and that she often cryed out Revenge Revenge Revenge which so affrighted them that they went away In Queens County an English-man his wife five Children and a Maid were all hanged together and then cut down and put into a hole the youngest Child though it was hanged was not quite dead when it was put in but put up its hand and cryed Mammy Mammy and yet these Villains without Mercy buried it alive They stripped a Scotch-man and knocked him down for dead but he afterwards recovering went into the Town naked whereupon they hewed him all to pieces They also ript up his Wives Belly so that the Child dropped out They likewise hanged up divers other Women with Child and ripping them up they gave their Infants to be devoured by Dogs and Swine In one place they set a Castle on fire wherein were many Protestants and then rejoycingly said among themselves Oh how sweetly do they fry In one place they burnt two English Bibles and said it was Hell fire they burnt they cut other Bibles to pieces and burnt them threatning to do the like to all English Bibles and in one place they took a Bible and laid it in a puddle of water and then stamping on it said A Plague on it this Bible hath bred all the Quarrel A Papist would have perswaded a man and his wife to have joyned with them in the Massacre but they protested That rather than they would forsake their Religion they would dye upon the Swords point then they would have had the Woman burn her Bible but she told him Rather than she would burn her Bible she would dye the Death whereupon they were both cruelly murdered These Barbarous Villains caused some Children to carry their Aged Parents to the River and drown them some Wives were forced to help to hang their Husbands in one Town they caused a young man to Murder his own Father and then hanged him up in another place they forced a Woman to kill her Husband and then caused her Son to kill his Mother and then immediately hanged her Son and their cursed malice was thereby shewn that they might as much as in them lay destroy Soul and Body together Yea so detestable was their Cruelty that they taught Irish Children to kill English Children and two Boys boasted that they had at several times murthered and drowned thirty six English Women and Children The Irish Women followed this Army of Murderers and provoked the men to Cruelty crying out Kill them all spare neither Man Woman nor Child and many of them stoned the English Women and their Children to Death and cryed Slay them all the English are fit meat for Dogs and their Children are Bastards Yea so Implacable was their malice that one of them was very angry with her Husband because he did not bring the Grease of a Fat Gentlewoman whom they had slain for them to make Candles of which was commonly practised by them in other places Yea they Boasted that the day was their own and that ere long they would not

the most barbarous manner they could possibly devise There joyned immediately to this Army a great number of Outlaws Prisoners and other Offenders who thought to have saved their Souls and filled their Purses by killing Hereticks Six Regiments of French besides Irish likewise helped them in this good work the Country being promised to the Irish when cleared of Protestants With these and several other Troops of Highway-men and Vagabonds by the License of their General and the encouragement of Popish Priests and Monks the most unheard-of Villanies were committed upon the poor Protestants So that there was nothing to be seen through the Protestant Valleys but Churches burning Towns smoaking Houses flaming Men Women and Children massacred and murdered nothing to be heard but the confused cryes of people flying the piercing groans of others dying and the horrid shrieks of others that were tormented and indeed so dreadful was their usage that it is scarce to be expressed In one place they most cruelly tormented an hundred and fifty Women and Children and afterwards chopped off the Heads of some and dashed out the Brains of others against the Rocks they took multitudes of Prisoners and such of them who were fifteen years of age and upwards if they refused to go to Mass some of them were hanged up others had their feet nail'd to Trees with their Heads hanging down all which they constantly endured A Franciscan Fryar and another Priest set fire to all the Churches and Houses at S. Giovanni La Toure and other places so that they left not one standing In these Desolations the Mother was bereaved of her sweet Child the Husband of his dear Wife those which were richest among them were forced to beg their bread yea they lay weltring in their own blood and the pretence for all those bloody Massacres and Cruelties was that they were Rebels to their Princes Commands in not performing an absolute impossibility by immediately departing from their Habitations in so short a time and likewise for their frequent Petitioning to the Duke to take pity upon them The truth is the Cruelties which were executed would exceed the belief of man but that they are so fully proved by the Attestations of Eye-witnesses by the woful cryes of so many poor desolate Wretches who have been miserably robbed and despoiled of their Relations Friends Lands and Houses yea one of the chief Commanders of their own Army that acted these cruelties made a formal Oath of the reality thereof and Signed it with his own hand before two sufficient Witnesses and likewise the voluntary confession of one of the Souldiers who told some of his Fellows that during the heat of the Massacre he had divers times surfeited with eating the boiled Brains of Protestants The barbarous cruelties following which were exercised upon those poor people are likewise attested by divers Persons of Honour and Integrity who were for the most part eye or ear-witnesses of the same One Sarah Vi●ues about threescore years of age was commanded to say her prayers and because she refused to say Ave Maria they ript her up alive by putting a Sickle into her privy parts and so slit up her Belly after which they dragged her about and at last cut off her Head Other Women had their Breasts Noses Privities and Hands cut off and so left to perish miserably another they stab d in the soles of his feet then cut off his Privities and fry'd them giving them their Comrades to eat as a delicate Dish then they seared his Wounds with flaming Candles cut off his Ears and tore off his Nails with burning Pincers to make him renounce his Religion but he still continuing constant they tyed one of his Legs to a Mule and so drag'd him about the Streets till he was almost dead and after all this they bound a Cord about his Head and twisted it with a Stick till his eyes and brains burst out and then cast his body into a River One Peter Simond of Angrogna they bound hand and foot and then flung him down a dreadful Rock or Precipice but he happened in his fall to hang upon the stump of an old Tree where he continued alive several days in a miserable languishing condition before he died not being able to help himself and the Precipice being so high that no other could come at him They cut the body of an old man of ninety years of age into small pieces and then cut off his head Others had their bodies torn and cut in pieces and their limbs strowed in the high-ways and hung upon Hedges An old Woman had her Hands and Nose cut off and so was left alive The body of another Woman was found in a Cave with all the flesh sliced from the bones and chopt like minced meat These bloody Papists took many little Children and tender Infants and threw them down the sleep Rocks whereby they were dashed to pieces They took a Gentlemans Daughter and put a long Stake into her body and then carried her upon their shoulders till at last being weary they stuck the Stake into the ground and so left her as a miserable Spectacle Andrea Michalin being taken Prisoner made his escape strangely having first seen three of his own Children torn limb from limb and the fourth and youngest had its brains beaten out against the Rocks They wofully tormented others by fleying off their skins alive in long slices of which they made Points The Daughter of one Peter Fontana a beautiful Girl of about ten years of age being surprized by some of these lecherous Bruits because they could not ravish her in an ordinary way they so inhumanely abused her that they left her for dead The Daughter of one Moses Long they spitted upon a Pike and roasted her alive with a fire made upon a broad stone One Jacob Michelino they took and binding his hands to his Privities hanged him upon a gate and there left him in exquisite torments in that shameful manner as they like wise did by many others in the same kind 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 were torn to pieces The Schoolmaster of Roras being stript naked after they had torn off his Nails with Pincers and made a thousand holes in his hands with their Daggers they dragg'd him through the Town of Lucerna and at every turn one Souldier cut off a Collop of his flesh from one side and another from another crying What sayst thou wilt thou go to Mass thou Dog To which with admirable constancy he answered Much rather death than the Mass dispatch me quickly for the love of God At last they cut off his head and flung him into the River One Giovanni with his Wife and Child were thrown down from a very high Rock the Mother holding the Child in her arms and three days after they were found dead only the Child was alive and clasped so

greatest abhorrency and indignation for some of them were stoned to death others hanged upon a Beam and with a soft fire made under them were roasted to death others were cut piece-meal One Minister they laid on his back and ramming his mouth full of Gunpowder set fire to it and blew his head all to pieces Another they hanged up by the Privy Members being seventy years old and burnt his own Books under him and at last shot him to death after he had endured all manner of torment and pain In the year 1621. all the Ministers were banished out of the Kingdom of Bohemia and all the Provinces thereunto belonging never more to return and it was made death to harbour or conceal any of them About the same time twenty one Ministers were banished from Cuttenburg A Popish Captain caused a Ministers hand first to be stricken off and then his head his bowels to be taken out and wrapt in his shirt and his four quarters to be set upon four Stakes and his head on another At the same time likewise fifty of the Nobility were condemned some to death some to banishment and others to perpetual imprisonment twenty seven were executed who all died with great constancy of mind and fervency of spirit sealing the Protestant Cause with their blood the heads and right hands of some of them were hung upon the Tower of the Bridge but when the Valiant Gustavus Adolphus King of Sweden came into Germany their heads and hands were by his Order taken down and solemnly buried Not long after there was an Edict published in Bohemia for the banishing of all Protestants in general and that their Children should be taken from them that they might be brought up in the Popish Religion Another Edict was published that all Protestant Women who had married Popish Husbands should be banished and removed away from them unless they would turn Papists and likewise that no Papists should have any Commerce with Protestants And upon this there followed a cruel Persecution so that there was scarce a City Town or Village in the whole Country but the poor Protestants suffered very great torments and barbarities In one City they slew the Mayor together with sixteen hundred men women and children and suffered their bodies to lye unburied several days in the dirt and mire and the remainders of the Citizens they cast into Prisons where they lay in a miserable condition Bibles and all manner of Religious Books were prohibited and likewise Marriages Burial and Baptism were denied to all that would not turn Papists Some Protestants were thrust into Dungeons and Vaults full of Snakes Toads and other filthy Vermin others were put into places full of Iron Spikes so that they could neither sit nor stand others were laid upon narrow Beams over deep waters that if they did but stir their bodies they were in danger to be drowned They put Gags into the mouths of some and then thrust their Host or Wafer Cake down their Throats others were beaten on the Calves of their Legs so that they could not stand nor go but were forced to fall down on their knees that they might adore their Host And thus briefly of the multitude of cruelties committed by the Papists on the Protestants in Bohemia the whole whereof would not be contained in a large Volume The next Theater where we may behold these bloody Papists acting their Tragedies is GERMANY which was miserably torn and rent to pieces by their cruelties they endeavouring by all manner of severity to have extinguished the light of the Gospel which was discovered by Martin Luther and others who were stirred up of God to expose the corruptions and superstitions of the Romish Church whereupon in the year 1523. the Pope excited the Emperour Charles the Fifth to destroy all the Protestants as Hereticks and allowed him two hundred thousand Crowns toward the raising of Souldiers to that purpose the Pope likewise further engaging to raise twelve thousand Foot and six hundred Horse at his own charge for carrying on the work and thus he began with the Sword that he might end with the Faggot The Duke of Saxony and the Lansgrave of Hessen stand up for the Protestants and are taken Prisoners in the year 1547. And where ever the Papists got the better all sorts of cruelties murders racks tortures fire and faggots followed upon the Protestants so that all Germany was as it were in a flame and combustion at once all places being in a lamentable condition some flying and others suffering death on every side for their Conscience and Religion At a Town called Meldorp they took a godly Minister named Sutphen out of his Bed and forced him to go miles on foot in Frost and Snow upon the Ice bare-footed and bare-legg'd beating cutting and flashing him and pricking him forward with their Halberts and at last they barbarously roasted him to death Many were drowned at Vienna and put to several sorts of death Ladies and Gentlewomen were yoakt together like Beasts and so were turned out into the Woods where they were ravished and abused and then had their Hair and Ears cut off and disfigured In Pomeren they forced the people to eat their own Excrements and if they refused them they thrust them down their Throats till they were choaked They cram'd the secret parts of several women with Gunpowder and so setting fire to it most barbarously tore their Bellies and Wombs Divers were hung up by the 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 men they gelt in the presence of their wives and children others had their bodies hung up by Cords and by tying great weights to their limbs all the joynts of their body were put out of joynt some had Gags put in their mouths and had stinking water and piss powred down their Throats through a Tunnel till their bellies swell'd like a Tun whereby they died in most cruel torment They sawed off the legs of some alive and one Minister they bound upon a Table and placing a great Cat upon his belly so provoked the Cat that she scratcht his guts out of his belly with her Teeth and Nails till he miserably died At Magdenbur they ravished the Wife and Daughter of a famous Minister before his face and then violently snatcht a sucking Infant from its Mothers breast and stuck it on the top of a Lance and when they had tormented his Eyes and Heart with these horrid Spectacles they brought the Minister into the Street and burnt him with his own Books Yea such was their abominable filthiness in Pomeren that they ravished the fairest Virgins before their Parents faces forcing them to sing Psalms the while one beautiful young woman they ravished and then cut to pieces hanging up her quarters in the Church Girls of ten years old and under they ravished and abused till they killed them

mean time great Triumphs were preparing for the marriage of the Kings Sister and Daughter and the day being come He spent all the morning in Examining matters against Du Bourg and some others charged with the same Doctrines intending to glut his Eyes with their Execution and then went to Dinner After Dinner the King ran at Tilt near the Prison where Du Bourg was and brake many Spears against the Count Montgomery and others and all thinking he had done enough desired him to give over with praise But the King being inflamed with their Commendations would needs run another course with Count Montgomery who upon his knees beg'd his Majesty pardon but the King being resolved commanded him to do it upon his Allegiance Montogomery being compel'd addrest himself to it and the King and he meeting broke their Spears and the Kings Helmet falling down at the same Instant one of the Splinters of Montgomeries Spear entred just into his right eye and so pierced his head that his brains were perished which wound being incurable he dyed thereof within Eleven days after whereby his great hopes of seeing the Death of Du Bourg were frustrated And the Execution of Du Bourg was deferr'd for six Months longer all which time persevering constantly in the truth he was first degraded and then accompanied with six or seven hundred Horse and Foot well armed he was guarded to Execution being first hang'd and then burnt to Ashes At Amiens in France all the Bibles Testaments and Psalm Books were burnt the Ministers Pulpit and several Men and Women At Abbevilla they slew the Lord of Harcourt and dragg'd some along the Streets with their faces in the Kennel At Meux above Four Hundred Religious Citizens were slain the Women and Maids were openly ravished in the Streets and market-places Men VVomen and Children were Massacred the very Popish Priests themselves slaying divers with their own hands At a place called Bar the same if not worse Villanies were committed for the Papists pull'd out the hearts of these poor Protestants and most barbarously gnawed them with their Teeth rejoycing that they tasted of an Hugonots heart At another place seven Hundred Protestants were inhumanely massacred and their naked Bodies thrown into the River Their Houses and Church being likewise plundred and Burnt At Angies they murthered a Godly Minister and many others and finding a Fair Bible guilt they hung it upon an Halbert and carried it in procession blasphemously crying Behold Truth hanged the Truth of the Hugonots The Truth of all the Devils behold the Mighty God behold the Everlasting God will speak and when they came to the Bridge they threw it into the River crying lowder Behold the Truth of all the Devils drown'd At Tours an hundred and forty were murdered and cast into the River and neither Man VVoman nor Child spared nay the President of the City being only suspected to be a Favourer of the Protestants was first beaten with Staves then script to his shirt hang'd up by one Foot his Head in the water up to the Breast and whilst he was yet alive they ript up his Belly pluckt out his Guts threw them into the River and sticking his heart on a Lance they carried it about saying This is the Heart of the President of the Hugonots A Poor VVoman whose Husband was a while before drown'd having a young Infant sucking at her Breasts and a beautiful Daughter of about sixteen years old in her hand these bloody Villains drove them to a River and taking the Daughter aside some of the Rascals endeavoured to seduce her to Popery and one of them who was finer then the rest promised to marry her so that the poor Maid began to doubt which her Mother who was just going to be thrown into the River perceiving she earnestly exhorted her Daughter to persist in the Truth whereupon the Daughter cryed out I will live and dye with my Mother whom I know to be a Virtuous Woman and as for your Threats and promises I regard them not do with me what you please Before the Mother was quite drowned the Daughter was likewise thrown in who making toward her Mother they mutually embraced each other and so yielded up their Souls into the hands of God In the same City of Yours there was a very Religious Woman who being brought before the Captain she there gave an Account of her Faith which she confirmed by Scripture insomuch that the Fryers who discoursed with her could not return any answer but only told her That she was in a damnable condition It seems so indeed said she being in your hands And being then committed to prison she declared her mind freely and comforted the other Protestant Prisoners she was afterward condemn'd to be hang'd and the Rope being put about her neck she kneeled down praising and magnifying the name of God in shewing her so much mercy as by that death to deliver her out of this wretched world and that she was so far honoured as to dye for the Truth and to wear Gods Livery as she reckoned the halter to be she then brake her fast with the rest of the Company and exhorted them to be of good courage and to trust in the free mercy of God to the end As she went to Execution one of her kindred brought her own little Children to see her and perswaded her to recant and save her life to provide for these Innocent Babes This was a very great Temptation and wrought so upon her Motherly Affection as drew plenty of Tears from her Eyes But a while after refusing her former Courage and Constancy she said I love my Children dearly yet neither for love to them nor for any thing else in this World will I renounce my God or his Truth God will be a Father to these my Children and will provide better for them then I could have done and therefore to his Providence and protection I commend and leave them After which she went cheerfully to the place of Execution and having there prayed to and praised God she quietly resigned up her Spirit to him A while after the City of Roan was besieged and two of the Forts taken wherein they put all the Protestants to the Sword and the Queen Mother being at the Siege she led the young King Charles the Ninth who was then but twelve years old to shew him the Naked Bodies of several poor Women who weltred in their Blood At last the City was taken wherein all sorts of monstrous Cruelties were used massacring all they met with and divers English and Scotch Souldiers were hanged and the Sick and wounded were cast into the River In Valogues divers Persons of good Quality were massacred and among the rest a Godly Minister whose body they stripped and with many scoffs and scorns dragged it about the House and at last bringing it into a Room where he used to preach they kickt and spurn'd his Corps saying Now pray to God and preach if thou