good Christians from the cruelty of
such a Mother and Children.It is too well knowne, (the more is
the pitie and to be lamented) that the
Irish have murther'd of the Protestant
party in the Provinces of Vlster, Lemp∣ster,
Connaght and Munster, of men, wo∣men,
and children, the number of fifty
thousand, as it is credibly reported by
Englishmen, who have beene over all
parts of the Kingdome, and doe pro∣test
upon their oaths that there are a∣bove
five thousand Families de∣stroyed.The Kingdome of Ireland hath
foure Provinces, wherein there are
contained two and thirty Counties,
besides Cities and County Townes,
in all which places the English are
planted up and downe in all parts,
where the Irish have most murthe∣rously
and trayterously surprized
them upon great advantages, and with
out respect of persons either of age,
youth, or infancy, of yongmen or
maids, or of old men or babes, stript
all to their skins, naked as ever they
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