The witnesses. THirty persons at one time most barbarously mur­thered, and slayne out-right by the popish Re­bels, and about 150. more cruelly wounded; so that Traces of bloud issuing from their wounds, lay upon the high way 12 miles toge­ther in their flight. And many yong children were left and perished in the way, to the number of 60. The Rebels vow, if any digged graves for them they should be buried therein themselves: Adam Glover. so as many were left unburied and some hid in the bushes when they were dead, because their weake parents could carry them no further, nor bury them: and some were carried a great way before they durst bury them. And that one Phil­lip o-Rely then and yet Shierffe of the County, relenting at their continued cruelties, his own son told him that if he did revolt from that action and authority; he ought to die and should surely be hanged.

Mary Sharp.In the County of Cavan. Anthony Sharp being directed by Hugh Brady Gent. to leave his goods with him in trust, and promising to secure them for him from the other Rebels, when afterwards Sharp came for them, Brady in stead thereof, cut off his head.

Will. Bellis.In the County of Lowth. Captaine Dergis a Rebell having rob­bed [Page 3]him of his goods, and being desired to spare him somewhat of his own, he being sick, answered, he had 100 l. of the Kings Subsidy monies and 40 l. of the Bishop of Dromors, and all was too little for the Army; and so he going away was stript of all his cloathes, and getting into a bed; the Rebels set the house on fire, out of which he hardly escaped, and the rebels then hanged two Protestants.

Nathanaell Hig­ginson, Thomas Knowles, Rich-Braishagh. Richard Walker, says, 40 more were murther'd many wounded and 100 dead.In the County of Fermanagh. That Captaine Mac Roy Guire Captaine O Donnelle and other Rebels kild one of his Tenants, and at the least 80 English Protestants more and wounded, stript, and hurt so many more of the English as dwelt thereabouts: yet kild few out-right, but left them in ditches and other places mortally wounded, where they pined to death, the Rebels affirming their priest commanded them so to doe.

George Butter­wick-Iohn More­ton says, 18 Pro­testants were murthered at another time.In the County of Cavan. Phillip O Relly and others promising to conduct the Protestants to the next County, and to secure their goods, they relying thereon put their old and weak people and children upon Cars▪ taking (by the Rebels liberty) some small re­liefe with them. But before nine miles passed, an Army of their Souldiers came against them, and their Convoyes, without more money, would not help or protect them; but assisted the army to rob, strip, and wound them, so as 100 died outright, and many after: but at the beginning the Protestants were there neere two thousand young and old. Robert Hancock Barbary Moreton Will. Moreton. Agnes Machem. John Heys, Charles Short.

In the County of Fermanagh. To prove that very many, viz. 100 and above in the parish of Drumully are dead through hunger, and cold, since they were put out of their habitations, and divers able Protestants most cruelly and barbarously massacred and murthered.

Iohn Bowser, Barbary Maine, George Gascoine, Eliz. Ardwick, Eliz. Cotes, Eliz. Dewsbery, Hugh Stokes, Will. Crosse, Anne Bath her smock ripped down with a skeane. Richard Watson, Abraham James.In the County of Fermanagh. Tho. Bowser murthered in his wifes armes, and many more also at severall times murthered.

Magret Wilson, Iames pressick. Rich. Knowles, Elenor James, Margaret Fer­mony.Burning of the Houses of Protestants, and of cruell usage of the popish Rebels.

One Lund, a man of 80. yeares old most barbarously murthered. Mr. James most barbarously murthered and after stript naked, fifteen protestants more slaine.

Mary. Loftus, Eliz. Massy. Mary Loftus had her husband quartered in her sight.

Elizabeth Massies Husband kild in her armes, and two children starved.

[Page 4] Eliz. Bowser, Margret Parkin.That by credible report of all the Towne, the Rebels boyld a yong child of a protestant to death in a caldron, or great kettle in the Church at Newton.

Mary Loftus. Mary loftus had her husband quartered and throwne into a Ri­ver, and then the Rebels said it was good beefe.

Anne Cheetam.In the County of Armagh. Protestants detained prisoners with the Rebels.

Davy Williams, Rich-Runckorn. Will. Bickerdick.In the Kings County. Richard Warrins wife and 5 children detained.

In the County of Fermanagh. Richard Sallyard Gent. most cruelly murthered because he would not go to masse, and his wife wounded.

Jo. Smithsō clark her husband, Io. Heys & others Antony Hubert, Sara Doughty, Darby Lea. Will. Robinson, Margret Maning. Mary Comms. Margery Sharp.In the County of Dublin. Mistris Smithson a ministers wife and her maide hanged up to death.

Mistris Dirrick Hubbert, and others robbed and murthered at the skirries by the Rebels, and all the Protestants there also robbed; other foule murthers in the County of Dublin.

In the County of Meath. Cruell murthers in the Town of Navan.

Mary Comin [...] dragg'd up and down in a rope.

Mr. Sharpe the minister most cruelly murthered, and denied buriall, the Rebels having first inforced him to trample and spoyle all his books in the water.

Jane Pressick. Tho. Pressick, Iames Haukin, both most cruelly murthered at Trym, being first robbed, and their wives and children thereby undone.

Reinold GriffithIn the County of Armagh. Reinold Griffith robbed, cruelly woun­ded, and pursued 16 miles for his life, and his wife and children imprisoned three weeks by the Rebels, and then the Rebels tooke her son of 14 yeares old and drowned him in a bog-pit, holding him down with a sword in her sight, and this done at the New [...]y.

Rich. Warrin. William VVarin robbed, and imprisoned by the Rebels 12 dayes, then driven into the River, there stript, thrown into the water and drowned with a 100 more women and children: his wife and six children left at the rebels mercy.

Lidia Smith, Isaack Keene.In the County of Longford. O [...]e Smith robbed there, had his head cut off in defence of the Castle, and 14 more protestants then, and there murthered also, and his wife and children stript.

Henry Palmer.In the County of VVexford. Divers that kept the Castle of Fethert wounded to death, and others stripped, and almost starved to death.

Henry Steele, Robert throwne, Clark.In the County of Monoghan. M. Blany a Justice of the peace and Knight of the shire, and Committee for the Subsidies, hanged [Page 5]up, stript, Hugh Culme, Gent. Henry Calladine John Greg. and buried in a ditch by the rebels in the County of Mo­noghan, because he would not turne and goe to masse; and the next night one Luke Ward hang'd and throwne into a ditch; and they and divers others were robbed, and the rest kept in prison, without reliefe from them that robd them.

Other murthers and cruelties of others, within the County of Manoghan by the rebels. Dorothy Ward.

William Perkins Anne Borrell.In the County of Cavan. Fourteen or fifteen hundred Protestants all rob'd and stript together, and some stript 20 severall times.

Richard Lewis, Gent. Mary Ward Elizabeth Birch John Carter Mary Owlet John Heron Nich. Michael Henry Barnes Philip Ward Christopher Ayrey Silvanus BullockThe Armes and Towne of Belturbat delivered to the ô Relys, and their company of Rebels, upon their promise to the Townsmen that they should enjoy their goods safe, and have them preserved against the Mac Gueres, and other Rebels of the County of Fermanah. But after, upon pretence that Mac Guere threatned them, the Protestants were turned out of the Towne, with their cloaths, and had a guard from the ô Relys one day; but the second day they were stript and a great number slain, and many perished through cold and famine; and many little infants left alive by the way languishing, and gaping for breath.

Protestant houses pul'd downe, and divers taken and kept priso­ners, many stript, and many died of cold and want, Franc. Posnet Tho. Taylor and many chil­dren left miserably alive by the way, because the parents were able to bring them no further.

And a very old woman carried 6 miles on her sonnes backe, was forced to be left by the way. And a Minister kild by the Rebels and throwne into a ditch, who had 3 children, Nich. Swainson two whereof he carried on his backe, which were left by the way at his death.

In the County of Monoghan. One who was executed the 15 of February 1641. at Dublin for murthering a Protestant woman, John Montgo­mery, Gent. and above 100 more witnesses con­fessed upon the gallowes that he was set on to doe it, and that after he washed his hands in her blood.

A man who had severall young children borne and alive, and his wife neere her time of delivery of another, was most cruelly murthe­red by the rebels, his wife flying into the mountaines, the rebels hastily pursued her and her little children, Mr. John Mont­gomery. and found her newly de­livered of her child there; they pittying no such, nor any distresse, presently murthered her and her other children which runne with her thither, and in most inhumane and barbarous manner suffered their dogs to eate up and devoure the new borne child.

[Page 6] Philip Taylor John WisdomeIn the County of Armagh. One hundred ninety six Protestants drowned by the Papists, rebels, at a Towne neere Armagh, all toge­ther. Many others most cruelly massacred, and amongst the rest a poore woman with child had her belly ript up, and two children tumbling out, they threw both her and them into the ditch; and after Philip Taylor found and drove away a Swine that was feeding upon them.

In the County of Armaugh and Province of Ʋlster. The rebels there by speciall command from Sir Philem ô Neale, dragged Lieutenant Iames Maxwell out of his bed in the rage and height of a burning-feaver; and lest any of his friends or acquaintance should bury him, they carried him two miles from any Church, and there cruelly butchered and murthered him, when he knew not what he did or said, and so Sir Philem payd him 260 li. which he owed him.

His wife Grizell Maxwell being in child birth (the child halfe borne, halfe unborne) they stript her starke naked, and drove her about an Arrows flight to the water and drowned her.

The like they did to another English woman in the same parish in the beginning of the rebellion; which was little inferiour (if not more unnaturall and barbarous then the rosting of Mr. Watson the Minister alive after they had cut a collop out of either buttocke.

A Scotch-woman was found in the Glynwood, lying dead, her belly ript up, and a living child crawling in her wombe cut out of the cawle.

Mr. Starkie, sometime School master in Armagh, a Gentleman of good parentage and parts, being upwards of 100 yeeres of age, they stript naked, caused two of his daughters likewise naked to support him under each arme, (he being not able to goe of himselfe;) and in that posture carried them all three a quarter of mile to a turf-pit and drowned them, feeding the lust of their eyes and the cruelty of their hearts with the self-same objects at the same time.

At the siege of Augher they would not kill any English beast, and then eate it, but they cut collops out of them being alive, leting them there roare till they had no flesh upon their backes, so that sometimes a beast would live 2 or 3 daies together in that torment. The like they did at the Towne of Armagh.

They murthered Hugh Eccline Esquire, and hanged all his Irish servants that they thought had done him any good, and had proved faithfull unto him.

[Page 7] Henry Cowell Esquire, a gallant and wel-bred Gentleman was mur­thered because he would not consent to marry a beastly trull Mary Neale, neere kinswoman to Sir Philem. He was profered his life without the blowse if he would have gone to masse, but he refused to doe either.

They murthered also Robert Ecklin his sonne (a child of 11 or 12 yeeres of age, because he would not goe to masse.

Very many of the Brittish Protestants the rebels buried alive, and tooke great pleasure to heare them speake unto them as they digged downe old ditches upon them, burying none otherwise, nor suffering any to performe that duty for them.

The rebels would send their children abroad in great troopes, especially neere Kinnard, armed with long wattles and whips, who would therewith beate mens privy members untill they beat or ra­ther threshed them off, and then they would returne in great joy to their parents, who received them for such service, as it were in triumph.

If any women were found dead, lying with their faces downward, they would turne them upon their backes, and in great flockes resort unto them, censuring all parts of their bodies, but especially such as are not to be named; which afterwards they abused so many waies and so filthily, as chaste eares would not endure the very naming thereof.

Many of the Protestants the rebels would grievously wound, but not kill out-right, but being halfe dead would leave them intreating for no greater favour at their hands three or foure daies after but to kill them out-right, which sometimes was granted, sometimes denied.

A young youth having his backe bone broken was found in a field, having like a beast eaten all the grasse round about him: it could not be learned that they kild him out-right, but that they removed him to a place of better pasture.

County of Antrim.The rebels themselves confessed and told it to Dr. Maxwell while he was prisoner among them, that they killed 954 in one morning in the County of Antrim; and that besides them they supposed they had kild 1100. or 1200 more in that County.

County of Downe.They told him likewise that Colonell Brian ô Neille kild about 1000 in the County of Downe, besides 300 killd neere Killelengh and many hundreds both before and after in both Counties.

[Page 8] At Sir Philems returne from Lisuegarvy, some of his souldiers for­ced about 24 Brittish into a house, where they burnd them alive; whose terrible out-cries they desired very much to imitate and ex­presse unto others.

Sir Philem himselfe confessed and reported that he killd 600 Eng­lish at Gervah in the County of Derry; County of Derry, Tirone. and that he had neither left man, woman, nor child alive in the Barony of Mounterlong in the County of Tinone betwixt Armagh and the Newry in the severall Lands and Plantations of Sir Archebald Atcheson, Iohn Hamilton Esq the Lord Cawfield, and the l. Mountnorris,

There were above 2000 Brittish murthered in their owne houses for the most part) whose houses were seen by a Scottish man filled with their dead bodies.

In the Glenwood towards Drumore there were slaughtred above 1200 in all, Armagh. who were all killd in their flight to the County of Downe.

The number of people drowned at the bridge of Portadon are di­versly reported; but by their owne report there were 150 drowned with Mr. Fullertor. At another time they threw 140 over the bridge. At another time 36 or 37. and so continued drowning every day more or fewer for seven or eight weekes, so that the fewest that can be supposed there to have perished must needs be above one thou­sand; besides as many more drowned betwixt the bridge and the great Lough of Mountjoy; besides those who perished by the Sword, Fire, and Famine in Cloubrassill and the English plantation adjacent, which in regard there escaped not 300 out of all those quarters, must needs amount to many thousands; neere unto Doctor Maxwels house 37 persons were throwne from the Curr-bridge at one time 18 or 19. at another time 56 men, women, and children, all taken out of Doctor Maxwels owne house; and at severall other times se­verall other numbers; besides those who were drowned in the black­water at Kinnard; in which Towne and Parish of Tynon there were drowned, slaughtred, and died of famine, and for want of clothes, about 600.

To these may be added many thousands more; but reference be­ing had to the number in grosse which the Rebels themselves have upon enquiry found out and acknowledged, which notwithstan­ding will come farre short of all those that have beene murthered in [Page 9] Ireland, there being above one hundred fifty foure thousand wan­ting of Brittish within the very precincts of Ʋlster in March 1641. as by their monethly bills brought in and made by their Priests by speciall direction appeareth.

It is proved by divers witnesses, that after the drowning of the many Protestants at Portadowne, strange visions and apparitions have been seen and heard there upon the water; sometime a spirit assuming the shape of a man hath been seen there with his hands held up and closed together; and sometimes in the likenesse of a woman, appearing waste high above the water, with haire disheve­led, eyes twinkled, elevated and clasped hands, crying out, revenge, revenge, &c. and appearing, and crying so many nights together. Other visions and strange voices, and fearefull scritchings have been heard where they have drowned the English at other places, as at Belturbat-river in the County of Cavan; a lough neere Loghgall in the County of Armagh, which have also deterred and affrighted the Irish souldiers and others, that they durst not stay neere the place, but fled away:

A boy not above fourteene yeeres of age killed at Kinnard in the County of Tirone fifteene able men with his Skeine, they being dis­armed, and most of their feet in the stockes. And it hath beene most usuall in all parts for the very Irish women and children to murder the English, and to be more fierce and cruell to their powers then the men themselves. And sometimes the rebels children with lath Swords, heavy and well sharpned, would venture upon men and wo­men of ripe yeeres.

In the Countie of Armagh it was ordinary and common for the rebels to expose the murthered bodies of the Brittish so long unto publique view and censure, that they began to stinke and infest the ayre, (which being a thing very strange) would not sometimes hap­pen untill foure or five weekes after the murther committed. Then at length they would permit some of their bodies to be removed and cast into ditches, but so as they must be laid with their faces downward. The reason they gave for the same was, that they so placed them to the intent they might have a prospect and sight of Hell onely. And therefore when they kild any of the Protestants they used alwaies these words, Anim Dewll, which is, thy soule to the Divell.

[Page 10] It was usuall sport with one Mr. Maghan Captaine of the Castle and Towne of Monoghan, to take a wodden prick or broach and thrust it up into the fundament of an English man or Scottish-man; And thereafter to draw him up and down the roome with a Joint-stoole, untill through extreame paine, he either fainted or gave content to the spectators by some noteable skips and frisks. And it is further of undeniable truth that the said Maghan, and other Rebels in the County of Monoghan (after a great feast there held,) tooke an English or Welsh-man, and bound him naked upon the Table; At which they dranke after dinner, and at every health gave him a gash or wound (but not mortall) untill his whole body became (as it were) one continued wound; And thereafter flung him out upon a dunghill where he died, partly of his wounds, and partly of famine, none daring to relieve him.

In the County of Kildare and province of Leinster, the Rebells shot an English protestant in his thigh, then tooke him, made a deepe hole in the ground, and made him stand upright therein whilest they filled the hole full of earth againe; and fast ram'd all his body and Armes and all but his head therein, so as he could not stir nor help himselfe; In which state and posture the barba­rous villains left him to Languish, Pine, Starve and die there as hee did.

In the County of Catherlagh two English protestants being al­most starved for want of food at Catherlagh Castle, went out to ga­ther a few eares of Corne; were seized on and hung up on a Tree by the haire of their heads all a whole night and more; The next day the Rebels took them downe, and finding yet life in them both, mangled, murthered, and cut them in pieces.

Tipprreary Pro­vince of Munster.At the silver works in the County of Tipperarie, one Captaine Kenedy and two Souldiers on a Sabbath day, suddenly fell upon above 20 of the miners being Englishmen, and murthered them all. And soone after the same Captaine (because hee was hin­dred from doing the like mischiefe upon others of the English) sell into a mad frantick fit and drowned himselfe.

Sligo Province of Connaght. Teige O Conniers Sligo, reputed Generall of the Rebelt in the County of Sligo, and his brothers and divers other bloudy Cap­tains, and a great number of their Souldiers in December, 1641. [Page 11]Surprised and tooke the Towne of Sligo; and quarter promised to the Brittish there for their lives, they being 38. who were kept three weeks by the said Teige O Conniers; he having taken all their goods of great value. But then those 38. Brittish were by consent of the said Teige put into the goale of Sligo: and a­bout midnight were most barbarously murthered, with butchers Axes, Sledges and other things, and cut all to peeces by the brothers of the said Teige, and others of the name and Sect of the Conniers; And a Gentlewoman there attempting to goe away, shee being great with Child, was taken and had her belly ript up: So as her Childs Arme appeared in her Wombe.

In the County of Kilkenny, in the Province of Munster, and elsewhere in that Province (aswell as in Ʋlster in the North) It is a thing most common, and ordinary to bury the English a­live. To digge up the dead Corps of others in the Churches and Church-yard, and to cast them out to open view, and there to leave them: And those that attempted to bury any of the English were murthered and denied buriall themselves.

In Dungavon in the County of Tirone, or neere thereunto the Rebells murthered 316 Protestants, betweene Charlemont and Dungavon above 400.

By Benbarb in the black water in Com. Armagh, were dround 206. And the rebell Patrick Mac Crew of Dungavon murthered 31. in one morning.

Two yound Rebells named Iohn Begg, and Brian Harvy murthered in the County of Tirone 140. poore Women and children.

The Wife of Brian Kelly of Loghgall, in Com. Armagh, did with her own hands murther 45.

Doctor Hodges with forty foure more, was murthered within a quarter of a mile of Charlemount, in the County of Armagh.

At a Mill-pond in the Parish of Killaman, and County of Tirone, there were drowned in one Day 300. protestants, and in that parish there were murthered, of English and Scotch, 1200.

Many young Children were cut into quarters and gobbets by the [Page 12]Rebels, and 18. Scotch infants were hanged up upon a clothiers Tenter-hooks.

A young fat Scotch-man was murthered, and the Rebels made Candles of his grease.

They tooke another Scotchman and ripped up his belly, that they might come to his small guts. The one end whereof they tied to a Tree, and made him go round untill he had drawne them all out of his body. They then saying, they would try whether a dog, or a Scotchmans guts were longer.

Many other bloudy murthers and massacres of protestants by the popish Rebels, and other most intollerable outrages, within twenty severall Counties of the Kingdom of Ireland at the least; and all protestants generally dispoiled of all their goods, and clothes, turned away from their habitations naked; whereby many thousand have died of cold, hunger, and want: to prove which there are now in Dublin many thousands of witnesses.

HƲgh ô Rely a ring-leader of the rebels in the County of Cavan, William Hoe. said, that the English thought to cut the throats of the Irish for their Religion, but the Irish would prevent them and cut their throats first for their Religion.

In the County of Cavan, Iames ô Rely, Hugh Brady, and other rebels often tooke the Protestant Bibles and wetting them in pud­dle water, Adam Glover. did five or six severall times dash the same in the faces of Protestants, saying, come I know you love a good lesson, here is a most excellent one for you, and come to morrow and you shall have [Page 13]as good a Sermon. And as the Protestants were going to the Church the rebels tooke and dragged them into the Church by the haire of the head; where they whipt, rob'd, stript, and most cruelly used them, saying, that to morrow you shall heare the like sermon.

Robert Brown, Io. Montgomery Iohn Wisdom. Eliz. Taylor, and many others.That Rory Mac Guire, Sir Philem O Neale, and the Nor­thren Rebells in the Counties of Monoghan, Armagh, Lowth, Cavan, Meath and other places where they came, burnt, tore, or otherwise trampled under their feete, and spoyled all the Protestants Bibles, and other good Bookes of the Prote­stants.

Henry Palmer.In the County of VVexford. That Derucot ma [...] Dooley, the Rebell, and his company went into the Church at Fethert, and cut the Pulpit-Cloath, and Ministers bookes in peeces: and strewed them about the Church-Yard; and caused the Piper to play whilest they danced, and trampled upon them under their feete, calling the Minister dogge, and stripping him of his Cloathes.

The Generall cruelty to Ministers against Protestants and that religion duly exercised by the Papist-rebells scornfull malicious and contemptuous words and blasphemies, are so many and fre­quently used, and by too wofull experience found and proved by a multitude of witnesses.