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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

is inflicted on us sin excepted saving that we were Protestants c. Who can make it manifest that the depopulations in this Province 〈◊〉 Munster do well near equal those of the whol● Kingdom And thus in part you have heard of the merciless cruelties which the bloody Papists exercised towards the Protestants Let us now consider at least some of God's Judgments upon the Irish whereby he hath not left the Innocent blood 〈◊〉 His Servants to be altogether unrevenged These bloody Hell-hounds themselves confessed That the Ghost of divers of the Protestants which they had drowned at Portadown Bridg● were daily seen to walk upon the River sometimes singing of Psalms sometimes brandishin● naked Swords sometimes shreeking in a mo●● hideous fearful manner So that many of the P●pish Irish which dwelt thereabouts being affrig●ted therewith were forced to remove their H●●bitations further off into the Country Katrine Cook testified upon Oath That wh●● the Irish had barbarously drowned one hundred and eighty Protestant Men Women and Children at Portadown Bridge about nine days 〈◊〉 she saw apparition of a Man bolt upright in 〈◊〉 River standing brest high with his hands li●●● up to Heaven and continued in that Postu●● from December to the end of Lent at which ti●● some of the English Army passing that way sa●● it also after which it vanished away Elizabeth Price testified upon Oath That 〈◊〉 and other Women whose Husbands and Children were drowned in that place hearing of the● Apparitions went thither one evening at whic● time thy saw one like a Woman rise out of th● River brest high her hair hanging down which with her Skin was as white as Snow often crying out Revenge Revenge Revenge which so affrighted them that they went their way Divers Protestants were thrown into the River of Belterbert and when any of them offered to swim to the Land they were knocked on the head with Poles after which their Bodies were not seen of six weeks but after the end thereof the murtherers coming again that way the bodies came floating up to the very Bridge where they were Sir Con Mac Gennis with his Company slew Mr. Turge Minister of Newry with divers other Protestants after which the said Mac Ginnis was so affrighted with the Apprehension of the said Mr. Turge his being continually in his presence that he commanded his Souldiers not to slay any more of them but such at should be slain in battle A young Woman being stript naked there came 〈◊〉 Rogue to her bidding her Give him her money or he would run her through with his Sword Her answer was You cannot kill me except God give you leave Whereupon he ran three times at her ●aked body with his drawn Sword and yet never pierced her Skin whereat he being consounded went his way and left her This was ●●tested by Divers Women that were Present and saw it As for the Protestant Ministers whom they surprized their manner was first to strip them and after bind them to a Tree or Post where they pleased and then to ravish their Wives and Daughters before their faces in sight of their merciless rable with the basest Villa● they could pick out after they hanged up th● Husbands and Parents before their faces a● then cut them down before they were half d●● then quarter'd them after dismember'd the and stopped their mouths therewith They basely abused one Mr. Trafford a M●ster in the North of Ireland who being assa● by these bloody Wolves of Romes brood 〈◊〉 know not God nor any bowels of mercy T● distressed Minister desired but so much time to call upon God before he went out of World but these merciless wretches would mit no time but instantly fell upon him 〈◊〉 and hewed him to Pieces Sir Barck Dunstan's Wife ravished before 〈◊〉 flew his Servants spurned his Children till 〈◊〉 dyed bound him with a Match to a board 〈◊〉 his eyes burst out cut off his ears and nose ●●ed off both his cheeks after cut off his arms legs cut out his tongue and after run a re●● Iron into him These Particulars with 〈◊〉 more were Attested before the Commissioners pointed for that purpose FINIS

had nothing there to eat for three weeks but two old Galf 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 knock't them on the heads Some Aged Men and Women these barbarous ●aeipsts enforced their own children to drown them yea some Children were compelled unnaturally to execute their own Parents Wives forced to hang their own Husbands 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 ●aught their Children to kill English Children The Irish Women that followed the camp cryed out Kill them all spare neither Man Woman nor Child They took the Child of Thomas Sorattan being about twelve years old and boiled him in a Cauldron 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 se● down dead These barbarous Villains vowed That if a●● Parents digged Graves to bury their Children i● they should be buried therein themselves They stripped one William Loverdon naked then killed hi● before his Wife and Children Divers Ministe●● bones that had been buried some years before the digged up because they were as they say Patrons of Heresie Poor Children that went out into the field to eat weeds and grass they killed without a pity A poor Woman whose husband was taken by them went to them with two Children at 〈◊〉 feet and one at her breast hoping to beg he husband but they slew her and her sucking Child brake the neck of another and the third hardly escaped and all this wickedness they exercise upon the English without any provocation given them Alas who can comprehend the fear terrors anguish and bitterness and perplexity that siezed upon the poor Protestants finding them selves so suddently surprized without remedy and wrapt up in all kind of outward miser● which could possibly by man be inflicted on humane creatures What sighs and groans trembli●● and astonishment what skrieks cries and bitt●● lamentations of wives Children Servants a●● Friends howling and weeping finding themselves without all hope of deliverance from their present miseries How inexorable were their barbarous Torments that compassed them in on every side withour all bowels of compassion or the least commiseration or pity yea they boast●● upon their success That the day was their own ●●d that e're long they would not leave one Protestant ●●gue living but would utterly destroy every one ●●at had a drop of English Blood in them There Women crying out Slay them all the English ●●e fit meat for Dogs and their Children are ●●stards These merciless Papists having set a Castle on ●re wherein were many Protestants they rejoic●ng said O how sweetly do they fry At Killkenny when they had committed many ●ruel murthers they brought seven Protestants ●eads on the head of a reverend Minister all which they set upon the Market-cross on a Market day triumphing flashing and mangling them they put a gag in the Ministers mouth sit up his cheeks to his ears and laid a leaf of a ●●ible 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 Protestants 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 Puritan Bibles They took the Bible of a Minister called Mr. Edward Slack and opening it they laid 〈◊〉 in a Puddle of Water and then stamped upon 〈◊〉 saying A Plague on in it this Bible hath ●red all the Quarrel At Glastow a Priest with some others 〈◊〉 about forty English and Scotish Protestants 〈◊〉 reconciled to the Church of Rome and then 〈◊〉 them They were in a good Faith and for fear 〈◊〉 should fall from it and turn Heriticks he w●● his Companions presently cut all their Throats In the County of Tipperary near the S●● Works some of these barbarous Papists met w● eleven English-Men ten Women some Children whom they first stript and then with Sto●● Pole-axes Skeins Swords c. they most 〈◊〉 barously Massacred them all In the County of Mayo about sixty ●●●testants whereof fifteen were Ministers 〈◊〉 upon covenant to be safely conveyed to Gal●● by one Edmund Burk and his Souldiers 〈◊〉 by the way this Burk and his Company be● to massacre these poor Protestants some they 〈◊〉 to death some they stab'd with Skeins so they thrust through with their Pikes some th● drowned the Women they stript naked 〈◊〉 lying upon their Husbands to save them w● run through with Pikes so that very few 〈◊〉 them escaped with Life In the Town of Sligo forty Protestants 〈◊〉 stript and locked up in a Cellar and about M●● night a Butcher provided for the purpose 〈◊〉 sent in among them who with his Ax butche● them all In Tyrawly thirty or forty English who 〈◊〉 yielded to go to Mass were put to their Choi●● whether they would die by the Sword or be drowne● they chose the latter and so being driven to the Sea-side these barbarous Villains with the● 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 withdrew 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 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