Selected quad for the lemma: woman_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
woman_n	belly_n	child_n	womb_n	1,413	5	9.6916	5	false

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65422	Popery anatomized, or, A learned, pious, and elaborat treatise wherein many of the greatest and weightiest points of controversie, between us and papists, are handled, and the truth of our doctrine clearly proved : and the falshood of their religion and doctrine anatomized, and laid open, and most evidently convicted and confuted by Scripture, fathers, and also by some of their own popes, doctors, cardinals, and of their own writers : in answer to M. Gilbert Brown, priest / by that learned, singularly pious, and eminently faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. John Welsch ...; Reply against Mr. Gilbert Browne, priest	Welch, John, 1568?-1622.; Craford, Matthew. Brief discovery of the bloody, rebellious and treasonable principles and practises of papists.	1672 (1672)	Wing W1312; ESTC R38526	397,536	586

in the Goal and about midnight they were all stript stark naked and there most cruelly and barbarously murdered with swords axes skeens some of them being women great with child their infants thrust out their arms and legs at their wounds after which execrable murders they laid the dead naked bodies of the men upon the dead naked bodies of the women in a most immodest posture where they left them while the next day to be looked on as a delectable spectacle to the Irish About Dunganon were 316. Protestants in the like barbarous manner murdered about Charlmont above 510. about Tiron 250. One M. Crew murdered 31. in one morning Two young villains murdered 140. poor women and children An Irish women with her own hands murdered 45. At Portendown-bridge were drowned above 300. At Lawgh were drowned above 200. In another place 300. were drowned in one day In the Parish of Killamen there were murdered 1200. Protestants In the County of Antrum they murdered 954. Protestants in one morning and afterwards about 1200 more in that County Sir Philem Oneal boasted that he had slain above 600 at Garvagh and that he had left neither man woman nor child alive in the Barrony of Munterlong In other places he murdered above 2000. persons in their houses above 12000 were slain in the high wayes as they fled towards Down Not only the men but also the boyes murdered Protestants for there were 15. Protestants all murdered in one night by a Popish boy of 14. years who slew them with his skeen they being imprisoned and their feet in the stocks Another of twelve years killed two women An English Papist woman killed seven men and women of her neighbors in one morning and it was usual for the Papists children to murder the Protestants children and sometimes with their wooden swords sharp and heavy they would venture upon people of riper years An English woman who was newly delivered of two children some of these vilains violently compelled her in great pains and sickness to rise from 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 The like they did with many other infants Many others they hanged without all pity yea many young children they cut into quarters and goblets Eighteen Scots infants they hanged upon a clothiers tenter-hooks One fat man they murdered and made candles of his greass Another Scottish man they ript up his belly and an end of his smal guts tyed it to a tree and forced him round about it till he had drawn them all out of his body saying they would try whither a Scots-man or a dogs guts were the longer They took one M. Watson and cutting two colops out of his buttocks they roasted him alive They ript up a Scottish woman great with child cut the child out of her womb and so left it crawling on her body They used also to send their children abroad in troups armed with long watles and whips wherewith they use to beat dead mens bodies about the privy members till they beat them off They brake the back-bone of a young youth and so left him in the fields and some days after he was found having like a beast eaten all the grass round about him yet neither then would they kill him outright but removed him to a place of better pasture These and many mo cruelties were used among the poor Protestants who desires to see their monstrous and more then barbarous cruelties at more length let him peruse a book written on purpose called Irelands tears and M. Clerks Martyrology from pag. 347. to pag. 369. which books never Papist could convince of falshood Now lest any should think this was a natural quarrel that the Irish had against the English Ans Certainly that could not be because they were no more merciful to the Scottish whom all acknowledge to be of their own Nation 2. The English Papists were no whit inferior but rather exceeded the natural Irish in their cruelty against the Protestants that lived among them within the Pale being never satisfied with their blood till they had seen the last drop thereof Now was ever such inhumane cruelty heard or read of among Turks or Heathens as they exercised against the poor Protestants who never provoked them thereto yea that had always lived peaceably with them administring help and pitie to them in distress cherishing them as friends and loving neighbors yet they shewed them no favor nor pity Alace who can conceive the fears terrors anguish bitterness and perplexity that seazed upon the hearts of the poor Protestants finding themselves so suddenly surprized without remedy and inextricably 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 schricks cryes 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 torments without all bowels of compassion The most barbarous Nation never used more cruelty then they did upon the poor Protestants all the land over I believe the Irish in this massacre destroyed by several sorts of torments several hundred thousands for there were given up upon oath 150000. put to several sorts of death in the Province of Ulster What the number of the slain was in the three other Provinces is not on record but certainly it was very great As among other things the Remonstrance of the distressed Protestants in Munster set down in M. Clarks Martyrology evidenceth By all that is said I hope it is sufficiently proved that the principles and practises of Papists are bloody treasonable cruel and inhumane yet they are not only so impudent as to deny this calling it a loud slander but also to charge Protestants of integrity as they call us with treasonable and rebellious principles Whereas we in all our Confessions acknowledge that Magistracy is an ordinance of God and that every soul is to be subject to the higher powers and that fidelity and obedience is due to them in and for the Lord. The publick Confessions of our Churches plead for this See the Augustan French Belgick Helvetick Bohemian Saxonick Suevick Scottish English and the Assemblies Confessions Did ever any of our Divines teach any such doctrine or to commit any such practises as Papists teach Do we not all hold that an oath is strictissimi juris of most strict obligation and can be dispensed by none under heaven and ought to be kept even to hereticks infidels or any other whatsoever We acknowledge that Church-men as well as others are subject to the Magistrat according to the Word of God Rom. 13.1 None of us did ever teach that the Pope or any Church-man may dethrone Kings and alien at their Crowns to others neither do we teach that Church men are loosed from the positive laws of Emperors and Kings

of the cold and famine suffered in the way But these were but the beginnings of sorrows for they fell on and murdered in cold blood some at plough others in their houses others travelling in the way without provocation In the Castle of Lisgool there were about 152. persons consumed with fire At the Castle of Monea were an hundred slain together All that was in the Castle of Tullah were all cruelly murdered after the Castle was yeelded upon composition and faithful promises of fair quarter At Lissenkea they hanged and killed above an hundred of the Scots Protestants Some they caused upon hopes of life to hear Mass and to swear never to alter from it and presently thereafter hanged or killed them At Portendoun-bridge they drave a thousand persons into the river and drowned them all yea in that County they drowned four thousand persons driving them to the river and if any were slack in their pace they pricked them forward with their swords and picks and to terrifie the rest they killed some and wounded others and if any essayed to swim to the shore they stood and shot at them Some they gave passes and sent of the Irish with them under the pretence of safe-conducting them while they came to some place fit for execution where they either murdered or drowned them At Armach Onel got together all the Protestants thereabout pretending to conduct them to Colrain but before they were gone a days journey they were all murdered and so were many others though they had Oneals protection In Armach town there were 500. persons murdered and drowned In Kilmore all the inhabitants were stript and massacred being 200. families The whole County was a common butchery where many thousands perished in a short time by sword famine fire water and all other cruel manner of deaths that rage and malice could invent yea their cruelty was so great that they would not grant them so much liberty as to pray before they murdered them Some when they were kneeling and praying they would cut off their head When some on their knees begged but leave to pray before they were slain they would bid them bequeath their souls to the Devil Others would ask them Why do you desire to pray your souls are already with the Devil and so would immediatly slaughter them Some they put in filthy dungeons full of dirt and myre and there clapping bolts on their legs suffered them to perish at leasure Some they barbarously mangled and left them languishing upon the high ways crying out but for so much mercy as to be dispatched out of their pain Some they buried alive Some when they were half hanged they cast into pits covering them with a little earth where they sent out most lamentable groans for a good while after Some they hacked slashed and wounded and then put and kept them under with stones where they lay languishing and groaning while their own wives stopped their breath with handkerchiefs to put them out of pain Some they buried alive yet so as their pityful cryes were heard afar off Some were deadly wounded and so were hung by the chocks upon tenter hooks Some with ropes about their necks were drawn through the water Some with ropes about their middles were drawn through woods and bogs Some were hung up by the arms and then with their swords they made experiment how many blows an English Protestant would endure ere he died Some had their bellies ript up and so were left with their guts running about their heels Many women great with child they hung up then ript their bellies and let the infants fall out and gave them to be devoured of dogs and swine Many children they took by the heels and dashed their brains out against a tree Many they pucked and stabbed with their skeens forks and swords slashing cutting and mangling them in their heads faces breasts arms and other parts yet killed them not but left them wallowing in their blood to languish starve and pine to death and when they desired them to kill them out of their pain they refused yet sometimes after a day or two they would dash out their brains with stones or clubs which they accounted as a great favor In the cold weather many thousands of Protestants of all ranks ages and sexes being turned out stark naked perished of cold and hunger Thousands of others were drowned cast into ditches bogs and turff-pits Multitudes were inclosed in houses which being set on fire they were burnt miserably Some that lay sick of fevers they drew out of their beds and hanged them Some men women and children they drove into boggy pits and if any of them endeavored to get out they knockt them on their heads Some aged men and women they forced them to carry their own children to the river where they were drowned yea some children were compelled unnaturally to be the executioners of their own parents Wives were forced to help to hang their own husbands and mothers to cast their own children into the water after all which themselves were murdered In Slego they forced a young man to kill his own 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 immediatly hanged the son and this they did that they might destroy both soul and body yea the women were as bloody as the men killing women and children yea they boyled a child of twelve years of age in a caldron and in some places the women stoned the English women to death In some places they plucked out the eyes and cut off the hands of the Protestants and so turned them out into the fields to wander till they perished Neither did their cruelty end with the lives of the Protestants but extended after death to the denying burial to their carkasses casting some into ditches leaving others to be devoured of ravenous beasts and fowls yea some that had been formerly buried they digged up and left them as dung upon the face of the earth and they vowed if any parents or wives digged graves to bury their husbands or children in they should be buried therein themselves Yea they abused and triumphed over the dead for at Kilkenny when they had committed many cruel murders they brought seven Protestant heads among which was the head of a Minister all which they set on the Market Cross on a Market day triumphing● slashing and mangling of them and putting a gag into the Ministers mouth they slit up his cheeks to his ears and laying a leaf of the Bible before it they bid him preach for his mouth was wide enough When they put many Protestants in houses and set fire in them and burnt them they exulted over them imitating in scorn their cryes and saying O how sweetly do they fry Yea they made their boast how many Protestants they killed yea they burnt and blasphemously abused the Bible At Slego they put all the Protestants