Bloudy nevves from Ireland,: or the barbarous crueltie by the papists used in that kingdome. By putting men to the svvord, deflovvring women, and dragging them up and downe the streets, and cruelly murdering them, and thrusting their speeres through their little infants before their eyes, and carrying them up and downe on pike-points, in great reproach, and hanging mens quarters on their gates in the street, at Armagh, Logall, at the Fort of Lease, and divers other places in Ireland. As also, the bloudy acts of Lord Mack-queere their ri[n]g-leader, and cousin to that arch-rebell Mack-queere Generall to Tyron, in the time of Queene Elizabeth of never dying memory. / Related by James Salmon lately come from thence, who hath lived there with his wife and children, these 10 yeeres last past, and now to escape the bloud-thirsty rebels, made an escape away by night, who is here resident in this city, Decemb. the 1. 1641.

3 The first rising of the Rebels.

The first rising was in the County of Farmanar, the Lord Maquare being the chiefe Agent in their Rebellion, who lived about 13 miles from Beltur bit Northward, toward Eniskillen, which Lord Maquare is since taken, and now prisoner in the Castle at Dublin, he is of the bloud of that great Traytor, Ma∣quere the Generall of Terhones Army, that great Rebell to Queene Elizabeth.

The first morning which vvas of their rising, was suspected from the words of one Daniell Caton of Mountragh, which was to this effect: that the times were better when the strongest men had most, and that he (being a great Irish papist) did hope to see it so againe ere long: whereupon he was examined by Mr. Vlmstid, Minister of the said Mountragh, and Justice of peace for the County, and by him com∣mitted to prison, till the next Sizes: at which time he was censured to stand in the pillory, which he did at the Fortilesse in the Market place, vvhich hee would not confesse any thing: onely vvhat vvas ga∣thered upon comectures.

Another, one Dono Glay vvas hanged, dravvne, and quartered, at Bandon bridge, for saying that the Crovvne of Ireland vvas too good for the King of England, or to that effect.

And novv have the Rebels camped themselves, ri∣sing in rebellion, to doe vvhat they can to ruine the Protestants in that Kingdome.

They rose in the night, and marched towards Bel∣turbit with a running Camp, which Town they took and also the L••die But••ers Castle, where she and her child en were; but (by the provide••ce of God) made an escape, and got away. Mr. Rodes the Minister with some other also m••de an escape, and fled into a wood neare the said Castle and there hid themselves, and the rest of the English remaining in the towne, were forced to yeeld it up to the Rebels.

Others of the Rebels marched to Armagh the same night: for they are a running Camp scattered up and (owne the Country, which Towne they prefently tooke, and burned the same night also, which was a Towne full of rich Marchants, both English and Scottish, whom they murdered in a most cruell and bloudy manner, with their wives and children: first deflowring many of the women, then cruelly mur∣dering them, and pulling them about the street by the haire of the head, and dashing their childrens brains out against the posts and stones in the street, and tos∣sing their children upon their pikes, and so running with them from place to place, saying, that those were the pigs of the English soves. In like manner have they dealt with the Inhabitants at Logall, a town five mile from the said Armagh, an English Planta∣tion.