their Bellies and let their Infants fall out; fome of the Children they gave to Dogs.

In the County of Armagh they robbed, ftripped, and murthered abundance of Proteftants, whereof fome they burned, fome they flew with the Sword, fome they hanged, some they starved to Death; and meeting Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Frankland with fix of their Children, and themfelves both with Child, they murdered them all, ript open the Gentlewomen's Bellies, took out their Children, and threw them into a Ditch. A young Scottishwoman's Child they took by the Heels and dashed out its Brains against a Tree; the like they did to many other Children.

Anne Hill, going with a young Child on her Back, and four more by her fide, they pulled the Child off her Back, trod on it till it died; ftripped her and the other four Children naked, whereby they died of Cold.

Some others they met with, hanged them up upon a Windmill, and before they were half dead, cut them in Pieces with their Skeins.

Many other Proteftants, especially Women and Children, they pricked and ftabbed with Skeins, Forks, and Swords, flashing, cutting, and mangling them in their Heads, Faces, Breafts, Arms, and other Parts, yet killed them not, but left them wallowing in their own Blood, to languifh, ftarve and pine to Death.

The Caftle of Lifgoole being fet on Fire by thefe merciless Papifts, a Woman leapt out at a Window to fave herself from burning, who they prefently murthered; many fled to Vaults and Cellars, where they were all murthered. One Joan Addis they stabbed, and then put her Child of a quarter old to her Breast, and bid it Suck, English Baftard, and fo left it to perish.

One Mary Barlow had her Hufband hanged, herfelf with fix Children stript naked in Froft and Snow, after which fheltering themselves in a Cave, they had nothing to eat for three Weeks but two old Calves Skins, which they beat with Stones, and fo eat them Hair and all.

In the cold Weather many thousands of Proteftants of all Ranks, Ages, and Sexes, being turned out naked, perished of Cold and Hunger; thousands of others were drowned, caft into Ditches, Bogs, and Turf-pits; Multitudes miferably burnt in Houfes; fome that lay fick of Fevers they hanged up; fome Men, Women, and Children, they drove into boggy Pits, and knocked them on the Heads.

Some aged Men and Women these barbarous Papifts inforced their own Children to drown them; yea, fome Children were compelled unnaturally to execute their own Parents; Wives forced to hang their own Hufbands, and Mothers to caft 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, fuch was their Malice against the English, that they taught their Children to kill English Children.

The Irish Trulls that followed the Camp, cried out, Kill them all, Spare nei-, ther Man, Woman, nor Child. They took the Child of Thomas Stratton, being about twelve Years old, and boiled him in a Caldron. One Good wife Lin and her Daughter they carried into a Wood, firft hanged the Mother, and then the Daughter in the Hair of her Mother's Head.

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In fome Places they plucked out the Eyes, and cut off the Hands of the Proteftants, and turned them into the Fields, where they perifhed. The Women in fome Places ftoned the English Women and Children to Death. One Man they fhot through his Thighs, digged a Hole in the Ground, fet him in upon his Feet, filled 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 Munfter they hanged up many Minifters in a most barbarous manner. One Minister they stripped naked, and drove him through the Town; pricking him with Darts and Rapiers, till he fell down dead.

These barbarous Villains vowed, That if any Parents digged Graves to bury their Children in, they should be buried therein themselves. They stripped one William Loverden naked, and then killed him before his Wife and Children. Diverse Ministers Bones that had been buried fome Years before, they digged up, because they were, as they fay, Patrons of Herefy.

Poor Children that went out into the Fields to eat Weeds and Grafs, they killed without all Pity.

A poor Woman, whofe Hufband was taken by them, went to them with two Children at her Feet, and one at her Breaft, hoping to beg her Husband: But they flew her and her fucking Child, brake the Neck of another, and the third hardly efcaped: and all this Wickednefs they exercifed upon the English, without any Provocation given them. Alas! who can comprehend the Fears, Terrors, Anguish, Bitterness, and Perplexity that feized upon the poor Proteftants, finding themselves fo fuddenly furprised without Remedy, and wrapt up in all kind of outward Miferies which could poffibly by Man be inflicted upon human Creatures? What Sighs and Groans, Trembling and Aftonishment? What Shrieks, Cries, and bitter Lamentations of Wives, Children, Servants and Friends, howling and weeping; finding themfelves without all Hope of Deliverance from their prefent Miferies. How inexorable were their barbarous Tormentors, that compaffed them in on every Side, without all Bowels of Compaffion, or the leaft Commiferation or Pity; yet they boafted upon their Success.

Thefe merciless Irish Papis having fet a Caftle on fire, wherein were many Proteftants, they rejoicingly faid, O how sweetly do they fry.

At Kilkenny, when they had committed many cruel Murders, they brought feven Proteftants Heads, one the Head of a reverend Minifter; all which they fet upon the Market-Crofs on a Market-Day; triumphing, flashing, and mangling them: They put a Gag in the Minister's Mouth, flit up his Cheeks to his Ears, and laid a Leaf of a Bible upon it, and bid him, Preach, for his Mouth was wide enough.

At Kilmore they put many Proteftants, Men, Women, and Children, into a thatched Houfe, and there burnt them. They threw Mrs. Maxwell into the Ri ver when in Labour, the Child being half-born when the Mother was drowned.

In one Place they burnt two Proteftant Bibles, and then faid, It was Hell Fire they burnt. Other Bibles they took, cut in Pieces and burnt them; faying, They would do the like to all Puritan Bibles. They took the Bible of a Mi.. nifter, called Mr. Slack, and opening it, they laid it in a Puddle of Water, and then ftamped upon it, faying, A Plague on it, this Bible bath bred all the Quarrel.

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At Glaftow, a Prieft, with fome others, drew about forty English and Scottish Proteftants to be reconciled to the Church of Rome, and then told them, They were in a good Faith, and for fear they should fall from it and turn Hereticks, he with his Companions prefently cut all their Throats.

In the County of Tipperary, near the Silver Works, fome of these barbarous Papifts met with eleven Englishmen, ten Women, and fome Children; whom they firft ftript, and then with Stones, Pole-axes, Skeins, Swords, &c. they moft barbarously maffacred them all.

In the County of Mayo about fixty Proteftants, whereof fifteen were Minifters, were upon Covenant to be fafely conveyed to Galway by one Edmond Burk and his Soldiers; but by the Way, this Burk and his Company began to maffacre these poor Proteftants: Some they fhot to Death; fome they stabbed with their Skeins; fome they thruft through with their Pikes; fome they drowned; the Women they ftript naked, who lying upon their Husbands to fave them, were run through with Pikes; fo that very few of them efcaped with Life.

In the Town of Sligo, forty Proteftants were ftript and locked up in a Cellar, and about Midnight a Butcher provided for the purpose, was fent in amongst them; who with his Axe butchered them all.

In Tyrawley, thirty or forty English, who had yielded to go to Mass, were put to their Choice, Whether they would die by the Sword or be drowned? They chofe the latter, and fo being driven to the Sea-fide, thefe barbarous Villains with their naked Swords forced them into the Sea; the Mothers with their Children in their Arms, wading to their Chin, were overcome by the Waves, where . they all perished.

The Son of Mr. Montgomery a Minifter, aged about fifteen Years, met with his Schoolmaster, who drew his Skein at him; whereupon the Boy faid, Good Mafter, whip me as much as you will, but do not kill me. Yet this merciless

Tyger barbarously murthered him without all Pity.

In the Town of Sligo all the Proteftants were first robbed of their Eftates, then caft into Goal, and about Midnight were all ftript naked, and were there most cruelly and barbarously murthered with Swords, Axes, Skeins, &c. fome of them being Women great with Child, their Infants thruft out their Arms and Legs at their Wounds; after which execrable Murthers, thefe Hell-hounds laid the dead naked Bodies of the Men upon the naked Bodies of the Women, in a most immodest Pofture; where they left them till the next Day to be looked upon by the Irish, who beheld it with great Delight. Alfo Ifabel Beard, great with Child, hearing the lamentable Cries of those that were murthering, ran out into the Streets; where he 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 Houfes and Streets.

About Dungannon were three hundred and fixteen Proteftants in the like barbarous manner murthered: About Charlemont, above four hundred : About Tyrone, two hundred and fix.

One Mac Grew murthered thirty-one in one Morning.

Two young Villains murthered one hundred and forty poor Women and Children, that could make no Resistance. An Irish Woman with her own Hands murthered forty-five.

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At Portendown Bridge were drowned above three hundred. At Lawgh were drowned above two hundred. In another Place were drowned three hundred in one Day. In the Parish of Killmen, there were murthered one thousand two hundred Proteftants.

Many young Children they cut in Quarters; eighteen Scottish Infants they hanged upon a Clothier's Tenter-hooks; one fat Man they murthered and made Candles of his Greafe; another Scottish Man they ript up his Belly, took one end of his fmall Guts, tied it to a Tree, and forced him round about it, till they had drawn them all out of his Body, faying, That they would try whether Dogs or a Scottish Man's Guts were the longer.

By the Command of Sir Philem O Neal, Master James Maxwell was drawn out of his Bed, being fick of a Fever, and murthered, his Wife being in Childbirth, 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 fame Town. One Mr. Watfon they roafted alive. A Scottish Woman great with Child, they ript up her Belly, cut the Child out of her Womb, and fo left it crawling on her Body.

Mr. Starkey, Schoolmafter at Armagh, being above one hundred Years old, they ftript him naked, then took his two Daughters, being Virgins, who they alfo ftript naked, and then forced them to lead their aged Father to a Turf-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 Trulls, or go to Mafs, but he chofe Death rather than to confent to either.

They brake the Back-bone of a Youth, and left him in the Fields, fome Days after he was found, having eaten the Grafs round about him; neither then would they kill him outright, but removed him to better Pasture, wherein was fulfilled that faying, The tender Mercies of the Wicked are Cruelty.

In the County of Antrim, they murthered nine hundred fifty-four Proteftants in one Morning, and afterwards about twelve hundred more in that County. Near Lifnegarry, they forced twenty-four Proteftants into a House and burnt them all.

Sir Philem O Neal boasted, That he had flain above fix 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 thoufand Perfons in their Houses; fo that many Houfes were filled with dead Bodies.

Above twelve thousand were flain in the Highways, as they fled towards Down. Many died of Famine, many died for the Want of Clothes, being ftript naked in a cold Seafon; fome thoufands were drowned; fo that in the Province of Ulfter, there were about one hundred and fifty thousand murdered by fundry kinds of Torments and Deaths.

Anne Kinnard teftified, That fifteen Protestants being imprisoned, and their Feet in the Stocks, a Popish Boy, being not above fourteen Years old, flew them all in one Night with his Skein.

An English Woman, who was newly delivered of two Children, fome of thefe Villains' violently compelled her, in her great Pain and Sickrefs, to rife out of her Bed, and took one of the Infants that was living, and difhed his VOL. III. Brains

Brains against the Stones, and then threw him into the River Barrow: The like they did by many other Infants; many others they hanged up without all Pity. The Lord Mont-Garret, caufed diverfe English Soldiers that he had taken about Kilkenny, to be hanged, hardly fuffering them, to pray before their Death.

One Fitzpatrick, an Irish Papift, enticed a rich Merchant, that was a Proteftant, to bring all his Goods to his Houfe, promifing fafely to keep them, and to re-deliver them to him, and when he had gotten them into his Poffeffion, he took the Merchant and his Wife and hanged them both. The like he did by diverfe others.

Some English Men's Heads they cut off, and carried them to Kilkenny, and on the Market-Day, fet them on the Crofs, where many, especially the Women, ftabbed, cut, and flafhed them.

A poor Proteftant Woman, with her two Children, going to Kilkenny, these bloody Miscreants baited them with Dogs, ftabbed them with Skeins, and pulled cut the Guts of one of the Children, whereby they died; and not far off they took diverse Men, Women, and Children, and hanged them up; one of the Women being great with Child, they ripped up her Belly as fhe hanged, fo 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 Proteftants were there thus inhumanly butchered, by fundry kinds of Death, we cannot ascertain.

In the Province of Ulfter, we find vast Numbers murdered, as before; what the Number of the Slain was in the three Provinces, I find not upon Record, but certainly it was very great, for you have these Paffages in a general Remonftance of the diftreffed Proteftants in the Province of Munster. We may (fay they) compare our Woe to the faddeft Parallel of any Story: Our Churches are prophaned by Sacrifices to Idols; our Habitations are become ruinous Heaps: No Quality, Age, or Sex, privileged from Maffacres and lingering Deaths, by being robbed, fript naked, and fo expofed to Cold and Famine. The famished Infants of murdered Parents fwarm in our Streets, and for Want of Food perif before our Faces, &c. And all this Cruelty that is exercised upon us, we know not for what Cause, Offence, or feeming Provocation it is inflicted upon us (Sin. excepted) faving that we were Proteftants, &c. We can make it manifeft, that the Depopulations in this Province of Munster, do well near equal thofe of the whole Kingdom, &c.

And thus in part you have heard of the merciless Cruelties which the bloody Irish Papifts exercised toward the Proteftants. Let us now confider, at least some of God's Judgments upon the Irifb, whereby he hath not left the innocent Blood of his Servants to be altogether unrevenged.

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The bloody Hell-hounds themfelves confeffed, That the Ghost of diverse of the Proteftants which they had drowned at Portendown Bridge, were daily. fren to walk upon the River; femetimes finging of Pfalms; fometimes brandishing naked Swords; fometimes fbricking in a most bideous and fearful manner. that many of the Popish Irish, which dwelt near thereabouts, being affrighted therewith, were forced to remove their Habitations farther off into the Country. Katherine Cook teftified upon Oath, That when the Irish bad barbarously drawned one hundred and eighty Proteftants, Men, Women and Children at Por

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