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A Protestant Woman being delivered in the Fields, they gave the new born In∣fant to the Dogs to be devou∣red. The Irish Women follow∣ed the Camp, and stirred up the Men to Cruelty, crying, Kill them all; spare neither Man, Woman, or Child; yea, such was their detestable Malice, that they taught their Chil∣dren to kill English Children.
An Irish Woman was very angry with a Soldier, that he did not bring the Grease of a ••at English Gentlewoman, who was murdered, to make Can∣dles with; which they bar∣barously did in many places.
By all manner of cursed Cruelties, the Irish and English Papists, in a short time, mur∣dered near three hundred thousand Protestants, without the least cause or provocation, whose bloud yet crys loud for Vengeance from Heaven a∣gainst them, and doubt not but God will avenge it in his due time.
Children have been cast to Dogs and Swine to be devou∣red by them.
Women great with Child have been hanged up, and their Bellies ripped open, that the Infant has dropped out, and been thrown into a Ditch.
Youths have had their
brains dashedout against Trees, and some have been trampled to death.
Some Infants have been found sucking the Breasts of their dead Mother.
A great Commander took delight to ••lea off the skins of Men, and to Head his Drums with them.
Some have been driven to a River where the Bridge has been broken down, and there drowned; if any of them could swim, they either shot at them with Musquets, or knock∣ed them on the head, as they came near the Land.
Some were put into Dunge∣ons full of mire and dirt, and having Bolts put on their Legs there perish'd with hunger.
Some had their eyes plucked out, and their hands cut off, and so let go, to pine away in Misery.
Many have been stoned to
death, and some have been stripped stark naked, and dri∣ven into the Woods and Moun∣tains in the extremity of Frost and Snow, and there starved.
Some have been compelled to carry their own Parents to Execution, others to give fire to the Wood that burnt them. Mothers have been forced to throw their own Children in∣to the Water; Wives to hang their own Husbands; Chil∣dren to hang up their own Pa∣rents; and when they have done all this, in hope, and upon promise of Life, they themselves were barbarously Murthered.
Some have been boiled a∣live in Cauldrons; some have been put into a hole in the ground, all but the head, and there forc'd to continue till they died.
Some have been driven through the streets naked;
and if, through weakness, they kept not their pace, they were pricked forward with Spears and Swords.
Some have been so rack'd and tormented, that Worms have bred in their putrified Sores; Infants have been clo∣sed again in their Mothers Bellies, which the Villains had ript up, and there strang∣led, some have been wounded deadly, and then hung upon Tenter-hooks, and others have been hung by the Arms, that the Souldiers might try their valour, and the strength of their Swords upon them.
Some have been ript up, and their Guts let out to trail a∣bout their heels, others have been dragged with Wythes and Ropes about their Necks, through the VVaters, Bogs, Woods, and Streets, to force them to confess their Trea∣sure, which when they had
gotten, they were basely murdered. One hundred and four sheltred themselves in Caves, and by smoak, made with wet straw, at the mouth thereof, have been smothered.
The same Cruelties we must have expected again to have ••aln upon all Protestants, if God in his great Mercy had not prevented them.