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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89325	A remonstrance of the barbarous cruelties and bloody murders committed by the Irish rebels against the protestants in Ireland both before and since the cessation, collected out of the records at Dublin, by Thomas Morley, Gent. Being the examinations of many who were eye-witnesses of the same, and justified upon oath by many thousands; presented to the whole kingdome of England, that thereby they may see the rebels inhumane dealings, prevent their pernicious practises, relieve their poore brethrens necessities, and fight for their religion, laws, and liberties. Published by speciall command and authority.	Morley, Thomas, Gent.	1644 (1644)	Wing M2800; Thomason E50_31; ESTC R23534	10,332	15

protestant to death in a caldron or great kettle in the Church at Newton Mary Loftus Mary loftus had her husband quartered and throwne into a River and then the Rebels said it was good beefe Anne Cheetam In the County of Armagh Protestants detained prisoners with the Rebels Davy Williams Rich-Runckorn Will. Bickerdick In the Kings County Richard Warrins wife and 5 children detained In the County of Fermanagh Richard Sallyard Gent. most cruelly murthered because he would not go to masse and his wife wounded Jo. Smithsō clark her husband Io. Heys others Antony Hubert Sara Doughty Darby Lea. Will. Robinson Margret Maning Mary Comms Margery Sharp In the County of Dublin Mistris Smithson a ministers wife and her maide hanged up to death Mistris Dirrick Hubbert and others robbed and murthered at the skirries by the Rebels and all the Protestants there also robbed other foule murthers in the County of Dublin In the County of Meath Cruell murthers in the Town of Navan Mary Comin● dragg'd up and down in a rope Mr. Sharpe the minister most cruelly murthered and denied buriall the Rebels having first inforced him to trample and spoyle all his books in the water Jane Pressick Tho. Pressick Iames Haukin both most cruelly murthered at Trym being first robbed and their wives and children thereby undone Reinold Griffith In the County of Armagh Reinold Griffith robbed cruelly wounded and pursued 16 miles for his life and his wife and children imprisoned three weeks by the Rebels and then the Rebels tooke her son of 14 yeares old and drowned him in a bog-pit holding him down with a sword in her sight and this done at the New●y Rich. Warrin William VVarin robbed and imprisoned by the Rebels 12 dayes then driven into the River there stript thrown into the water and drowned with a 100 more women and children his wife and six children left at the rebels mercy Lidia Smith Isaack Keene In the County of Longford O●e Smith robbed there had his head cut off in defence of the Castle and 14 more protestants then and there murthered also and his wife and children stript Henry Palmer In the County of VVexford Divers that kept the Castle of Fethert wounded to death and others stripped and almost starved to death Henry Steele Robert throwne Clark In the County of Monoghan M. Blany a Justice of the peace and Knight of the shire and Committee for the Subsidies hanged up stript Hugh Culme Gent. Henry Calladine John Greg. and buried in a ditch by the rebels in the County of Monoghan because he would not turne and goe to masse and the next night one Luke Ward hang'd and throwne into a ditch and they and divers others were robbed and the rest kept in prison without reliefe from them that robd them Other murthers and cruelties of others within the County of Manoghan by the rebels Dorothy Ward William Perkins Anne Borrell In the County of Cavan Fourteen or fifteen hundred Protestants all rob'd and stript together and some stript 20 severall times Richard Lewis Gent. Mary Ward Elizabeth Birch John Carter Mary Owlet John Heron Nich. Michael Henry Barnes Philip Ward Christopher Ayrey Silvanus Bullock The Armes and Towne of Belturbat delivered to the ô Relys and their company of Rebels upon their promise to the Townsmen that they should enjoy their goods safe and have them preserved against the Mac Gueres and other Rebels of the County of Fermanah But after upon pretence that Mac Guere threatned them the Protestants were turned out of the Towne with their cloaths and had a guard from the ô Relys one day but the second day they were stript and a great number slain and many perished through cold and famine and many little infants left alive by the way languishing and gaping for breath Protestant houses pul'd downe and divers taken and kept prisoners many stript and many died of cold and want Franc. Posnet Tho. Taylor and many children left miserably alive by the way because the parents were able to bring them no further And a very old woman carried 6 miles on her sonnes backe was forced to be left by the way And a Minister kild by the Rebels and throwne into a ditch who had 3 children Nich. Swainson two whereof he carried on his backe which were left by the way at his death In the County of Monoghan One who was executed the 15 of February 1641. at Dublin for murthering a Protestant woman John Montgomery Gent. and above 100 more witnesses confessed upon the gallowes that he was set on to doe it and that after he washed his hands in her blood A man who had severall young children borne and alive and his wife neere her time of delivery of another was most cruelly murthered by the rebels his wife flying into the mountaines the rebels hastily pursued her and her little children Mr. John Montgomery and found her newly delivered of her child there they pittying no such nor any distresse presently murthered her and her other children which runne with her thither and in most inhumane and barbarous manner suffered their dogs to eate up and devoure the new borne child Philip Taylor John Wisdome In the County of Armagh One hundred ninety six Protestants drowned by the Papists rebels at a Towne neere Armagh all together Many others most cruelly massacred and amongst the rest a poore woman with child had her belly ript up and two children tumbling out they threw both her and them into the ditch and after Philip Taylor found and drove away a Swine that was feeding upon them In the County of Armaugh and Province of Vlster The rebels there by speciall command from Sir Philem ô Neale dragged Lieutenant Iames Maxwell out of his bed in the rage and height of a burning-feaver and lest any of his friends or acquaintance should bury him they carried him two miles from any Church and there cruelly butchered and murthered him when he knew not what he did or said and so Sir Philem payd him 260 li. which he owed him His wife Grizell Maxwell being in child birth the child halfe borne halfe unborne they stript her starke naked and drove her about an Arrows flight to the water and drowned her The like they did to another English woman in the same parish in the beginning of the rebellion which was little inferiour if not more unnaturall and barbarous then the rosting of Mr. Watson the Minister alive after they had cut a collop out of either buttocke A scotch-Scotch-woman was found in the Glynwood lying dead her belly ript up and a living child crawling in her wombe cut out of the cawle Mr. Starkie sometime School master in Armagh a Gentleman of good parentage and parts being upwards of 100 yeeres of age they stript naked caused two of his daughters likewise naked to support him under each arme he being not able to

goe of himselfe and in that posture carried them all three a quarter of mile to a turf-pit and drowned them feeding the lust of their eyes and the cruelty of their hearts with the self-same objects at the same time At the siege of Augher they would not kill any English beast and then eate it but they cut collops out of them being alive leting them there roare till they had no flesh upon their backes so that sometimes a beast would live 2 or 3 daies together in that torment The like they did at the Towne of Armagh They murthered Hugh Eccline Esquire and hanged all his Irish servants that they thought had done him any good and had proved faithfull unto him Henry Cowell Esquire a gallant and wel-bred Gentleman was murthered because he would not consent to marry a beastly trull Mary Neale neere kinswoman to Sir Philem. He was profered his life without the blowse if he would have gone to masse but he refused to doe either They murthered also Robert Ecklin his sonne a child of 11 or 12 yeeres of age because he would not goe to masse Very many of the Brittish Protestants the rebels buried alive and tooke great pleasure to heare them speake unto them as they digged downe old ditches upon them burying none otherwise nor suffering any to performe that duty for them The rebels would send their children abroad in great troopes especially neere Kinnard armed with long wattles and whips who would therewith beate mens privy members untill they beat or rather threshed them off and then they would returne in great joy to their parents who received them for such service as it were in triumph If any women were found dead lying with their faces downward they would turne them upon their backes and in great flockes resort unto them censuring all parts of their bodies but especially such as are not to be named which afterwards they abused so many waies and so filthily as chaste eares would not endure the very naming thereof Many of the Protestants the rebels would grievously wound but not kill out-right but being halfe dead would leave them intreating for no greater favour at their hands three or foure daies after but to kill them out-right which sometimes was granted sometimes denied A young youth having his backe bone broken was found in a field having like a beast eaten all the grasse round about him it could not be learned that they kild him out-right but that they removed him to a place of better pasture County of Antrim The rebels themselves confessed and told it to Dr. Maxwell while he was prisoner among them that they killed 954 in one morning in the County of Antrim and that besides them they supposed they had kild 1100. or 1200 more in that County County of Downe They told him likewise that Colonell Brian ô Neille kild about 1000 in the County of Downe besides 300 killd neere Killelengh and many hundreds both before and after in both Counties At Sir Philems returne from Lisuegarvy some of his souldiers forced about 24 Brittish into a house where they burnd them alive whose terrible out-cries they desired very much to imitate and expresse unto others Sir Philem himselfe confessed and reported that he killd 600 English at Gervah in the County of Derry County of Derry Tirone and that he had neither left man woman nor child alive in the Barony of Mounterlong in the County of Tinone betwixt Armagh and the Newry in the severall Lands and Plantations of Sir Archebald Atcheson Iohn Hamilton Esq the Lord Cawfield and the l. Mountnorris There were above 2000 Brittish murthered in their owne houses for the most part whose houses were seen by a Scottish man filled with their dead bodies In the Glenwood towards Drumore there were slaughtred above 1200 in all Armagh who were all killd in their flight to the County of Downe The number of people drowned at the bridge of Portadon are diversly reported but by their owne report there were 150 drowned with Mr. Fullertor At another time they threw 140 over the bridge At another time 36 or 37. and so continued drowning every day more or fewer for seven or eight weekes so that the fewest that can be supposed there to have perished must needs be above one thousand besides as many more drowned betwixt the bridge and the great Lough of Mountjoy besides those who perished by the Sword Fire and Famine in Cloubrassill and the English plantation adjacent which in regard there escaped not 300 out of all those quarters must needs amount to many thousands neere unto Doctor Maxwels house 37 persons were throwne from the Curr-bridge at one time 18 or 19. at another time 56 men women and children all taken out of Doctor Maxwels owne house and at severall other times severall other numbers besides those who were drowned in the black-water at Kinnard in which Towne and Parish of Tynon there were drowned slaughtred and died of famine and for want of clothes about 600. To these may be added many thousands more but reference being had to the number in grosse which the Rebels themselves have upon enquiry found out and acknowledged which notwithstanding will come farre short of all those that have beene murthered in Ireland there being above one hundred fifty foure thousand wanting of Brittish within the very precincts of Vlster in March 1641. as by their monethly bills brought in and made by their Priests by speciall direction appeareth It is proved by divers witnesses that after the drowning of the many Protestants at Portadowne strange visions and apparitions have been seen and heard there upon the water sometime a spirit assuming the shape of a man hath been seen there with his hands held up and closed together and sometimes in the likenesse of a woman appearing waste high above the water with haire disheveled eyes twinkled elevated and clasped hands crying out revenge revenge c. and appearing and crying so many nights together Other visions and strange voices and fearefull scritchings have been heard where they have drowned the English at other places as at Belturbat-river in the County of Cavan a lough neere Loghgall in the County of Armagh which have also deterred and affrighted the Irish souldiers and others that they durst not stay neere the place but fled away A boy not above fourteene yeeres of age killed at Kinnard in the County of Tirone fifteene able men with his Skeine they being disarmed and most of their feet in the stockes And it hath beene most usuall in all parts for the very Irish women and children to murder the English and to be more fierce and cruell to their powers then the men themselves And sometimes the rebels children with lath Swords heavy and well sharpned would venture upon men and women of ripe yeeres In the Countie of Armagh it was ordinary and common for the rebels to expose the murthered bodies of the Brittish so long unto publique view