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Title:
The teares of Ireland wherein is lively presented as in a map a list of the unheard off [sic] cruelties and perfidious treacheries of blood-thirsty Jesuits and the popish faction : as a warning piece to her sister nations to prevent the like miseries, as are now acted on the stage of this fresh bleeding nation / reported by gentlemen of good credit living there, but forced to flie for their lives... illustrated by pictures ; fit to be reserved by all true Protestants as a monument of their perpetuall reproach and ignominy, and to animate the spirits of Protestants against such bloody villains.
Author: Cranford, James, d. 1657.
Collection:
Early English Books Online
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Here begins the bloudie attempts up∣on
the Kingdome of Ireland in the
generall, and on Dublin in
particular.UPon the three and twentieth
day of October last 1641, the
Castle of Dublin, should have surpri∣zed
(as at that time it might easily
have beene) for there was no feare or
suspition of Treachery, there being at
that time foure hundred Irish Papists
elected out of most parts of Ireland,
desperate persons designed and ap∣pointed
for that bloudy and desperate
attempt, all lodging and sculking in
severall places of the City and Sub∣urbs,
waiting and expecting the time
and watch-word, when to give the
onset. But that God that keepeth
Israel saw their bloudy intentions
to overthrow and ruinate all the
professours of the true Religion,
disapointed their wicked hopes, and
(to their owne shame and confusi∣on)
discovered and laid open their
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