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A true Description of sundry sad and lamen∣table Collections, taken from the monthes of very credible Persons, and out of Letters sent from Ireland to this Citie of London, of the perfidious outrages and barbarous cru∣elties which the Irish Papists have com∣mitted upon the persons of the Protestants, both men, women, and children in that Kingdom, since Anno Dom. 1641.
THe Irish nation is a people both proud and envious. The Commonaltie ignorant and illiterate, poor, and lazie: and will rather beg or starve, then work; and therefore fit subject for the Priests and Iesuits to spur on upon such bloudy actions and murtherous designes.
It is too well known that the Irish have mur∣thered of the Protestant party in the provinces of Vlster, Leinster, Connaght, and Munster, of men women, and children, the number of fifty thou∣sand, as it is credibly reported by Englishmen, who have been over all parts of the Kingdom, and do protest upon their oaths, that there are above five thousand families destroyed.
The Irish have most murtherously and trayte∣rously surprised them upon great advantages, and