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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B01306	An abstract of the bloody massacre in Ireland. Acted by the instigation of the Jesuits, priests, and friars, who were chief promoters of those horrible murthers; prodigious cruelties, barbarous villanies, and inhumane practices, executed by the Irish Papists upon the English Protestants, in the year 1641. And intended to have been acted over again, on Sabbath Day, December the 9th 1688. But by the wonderful providence of God was prevented.		1700 (1700)	Wing A124BA_1700; ESTC R229464	11,319	25

all the Protestants were first robbed of their Estates then cast into Goal and about Mid-night were all stript naked and were there most cruelly and barbarously murthered with Swords Axes Skeins c. some of them being Women great with Child their Infants thrust out their Arms and Legs at their wounds after which 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 where 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 Child's feet coming 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 〈◊〉 men and Children that could make no resistance An Irish Woman with her own Hands mu●thered forty five At Portadown Bridge were drowned above three hundred At Lawgh were drowned above two hundred in one day In the Parish of Killamen there were murthered one thousand and two hundred Protestants Many young Children they cut in Quarters eighteen Scottish Infants they hanged upon Clothiers Tenterhooks 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 Dogs or a Scottish Mans Gu●s were the longest By the Command of Sir Philem O Neal Mr. James Maxwel was drawn out of his Bed-being sick of a Fever and murthered his Wife being in Child-birth the Child being half born 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 reasted 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. Starkey Schoolmaster at Ardmagh 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 Turs-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 Trully or go to Mass but he chose death rather then to consent to either Many of the Protestants they buried alive solacing 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 out-right 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 Lisnegarvy they forced twenty four Protestants into a House and burnt them all Sir Philem O Neal 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 murthered 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 Cloaths 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 murthered by sundry kinds of torments and deaths The Popish English were no whit inferiour yea rather exceeded the natural Irish in their cruelty against the Protestants that lived amongst them within the Pale being not satisfied with their Blood till they had seen the last drop thereof Ann Kinnard testified That fifteen Protestants being Imprisoned and their Feet in the Stocks a Popish boy being not above fourteen years old slew 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 they did by divers others Some English mens heads they cut off and carried them to Kilkenny and on the Market-day set them on the Cross where many especially the Women stab'd cut and slash'd them A poor Protestant Woman with her two Children going to Kilkenny these bloody miscreants baited them with dogs stabbed them with skeins and pulled out the Guts of one of the Children whereby they died and not far off they took divers Men Women and Children and hanged them up one of the Women being great with Child they ripped up her Belly as she hanged so that the Child fell out in the Cawl alive Some after they were hanged they drew up and down till their bowels were torn out How many thousands of Protestants were thus inhumanely butchered by sundry kinds of deaths we cannot ascertain In the Province of Ulster we find about 150000. murthered as before what the number of the slain was in the three other Provinces I find not upon Record but certainly it was very great for you have these passages in a general Remonstrance of the distressed Protestants in the Province of Munster We may say they compare our woe to the saddest Parallel of any Story Our Churches are prophanded by Sacrifices to Idols Our Habitations are become ruinous heaps No quality Age or Sex priviledged from Massacre and lingring deaths by being robbed stript naked and so exposed to cold and famine The famished Infants of murthered Parents swarm in our Streets and for want of food perish before our faces c. And all this cruelty that is exercised upon us we know not for what cause offence or seeming provocation it

they had got what they could they afterwards murthered 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 penalties 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 dyed in two days so that the living could not bury the dead but laid their Carcasses in ranks in waste and wide holes speling them up as if they had been Herrings One Magdalen Redman deposeth that she and divers other Protestants among 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 among them on purpose to burn them then they drove them out into the Woods in Frost and Snow where many of them dyed 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 bu● the beginning of their sorrows for indeed they made it good for having disarmed the English robbed them of their goods stript them of their cloathes and having their persons in their power they furiously broke out into all manner of abominable 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 suddently destroyed In the Castle of Lisgool 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 entred they began to strip the People and most cruelly put them to the Sword murdering them all without mercy At Lissanskeach they hanged and killed above one hundred of the Scottish Protestants In the Counties of Armagh and Tyrone where the Protestants were more numorous their murthers were more multiplied and with greater cruelty Mac Guire coming to the Castel of Lissanskeach 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 William 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 murthering above one hundred persons besides in that place At Poradown Bridge there were one thousand Men Women and Children carried in several Companies and all unmercifully drowned in the River Yea in that Country there were one 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 Onea● pass till they came to Portadown Bridge an● there drowned them At another time one hundred and forty Pr●testants being thrown in at the same place as any of them swom to the Shore the bloody Villai●● with the But-end of their Muskets knockt o● their brains At Ardmagh O Cane got together all the Protestants thereabouts pretending to conduct them to Coleraine but before they were a days journey they were all murthered and so were many other though they had Protections from Sir Philemy O● aneal The Aged people in Ardmagh were carried to Charlemont and there murthered Presently after the Town of Ardmagh was burnt and five hundred persons murthered and drowned In Killoman were forty eight families murthered in one house twenty two Protestants were burned In Kilmore all the inhabitants were stript and Massacred being two hundred families the whole Countrey was a common Butchery many thousands perished by sword famine fire water and other cruel deaths tha● rage and malice could invent At Casel they put all the Protestants into a loath some Dungeon kept them twelve weeks in gr●● 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 and his wife five Children and a Maid were all hange● together At Clownish seventeen men were burie● 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 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 Scotish man they stript and hewed to pieces ript up his wifes belly so that her Child dropt 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 Country of Ardmagh they robbed stripped and murdered abundance of Protestants whereof some they burned some they slew with the Sword some they hanged some they starved to death and meeting Mistress Howard and Mistress 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 Ann Hill going with a young Child on her back and four more by her side they pulled the Child off her back trode on it till it dyed stripped her and the other four Children naked whereby they dyed of cold Some others they met with hanged them u● upon a Windmil and before they were half dea● cut them in pieces with their Skeins Many other Protestants especially Women an● Children they pricked and stabbed with Skein● Forks and Swords slashing cutting and mangling them in their Heads 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 merciless Papists a Woman leapt out at a Window to save her self from burning whom they presently murthered many fled to Vaults and Celars where they were all murthered One Joan Addit 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