Anonymous

“ In the county of Mayo about sixty Protestants, whereof fifteen were ministers, were upon covenant to be safely conveyed to Galway, by one Edmond Burk, and his soldiers; but by the way, this Burk and his company began to massacre these poor Protestants, some they shot to death, some they stabbed with skeins, some they thrust through with their pikes, some they drowned; the women they stripped naked, who lying upon their husband’s to save them, were run thro' with pikes, so that very few of them escaped with life. ”

“ WHEN their plots were ripe for execution, we find their first proceedings against the English various: some of the Irish only stripping and expelling them; others murdering men, women, and children without mercy; all resolving universally to root all the Protestants out of Ireland; so deeply malicious were they against the English Protestants, that they would not so much as endure the sound of their language.
The priests gave the sacrament unto divers of the Irish, upon condition they would neither spare man, woman nor child of the Protestants. ”

“ The aged people in Armagh were carried to Charlemont, and there murdered.
Presently after the town of Armagh was burnt, and five hundred persons murdered and drowned. In Killoman, forty-eight families were murdered; in one house twenty two Protestants were burned. In Kilmore, all the inhabitants were stript and massacred, being two hundred families: The whole country was a common butchery; many thousands perished by sword, famine, fire, water, and other deaths the most cruel, that rage and malice could invent. ”

“ Alas! who can comprehend the fears, terrors, anguish, bitterness, and perplexity that seized upon the poor Protestants, finding themselves so suddenly surprized without remedy, and wrapped up in all kind of outward miseries which could possibly by man be inflicted on human creatures. ”

“ In the town of Sligo, all the Protestants were first robbed of their estates, then cast into goal, and about midnight were all stripped naked, and there most cruelly and barbarously murdered with swords, axes, skeins, &c. some of them being women great with child, their infants thrust out their arms and legs at their wounds, after which execrable murders, these hell hounds laid the dead naked bodies of the men upon the naked bodies of the women, in a most immodest posture, where they left them till the next day to be looked upon by the Irish, who beheld it with great delight. ”

“ In the cold weather, many thousands of Protestants of all ranks, ages, and sexes, being turned out naked, perished of cold and hunger; thousands of others were drowned, cast into ditches, bogs, and turf-pits; multitudes miserably burnt in houses; some that lay sick of fevers they hanged up; some men, women and children they drove into boggy pits, and knocked them on the head.
Some aged men, and women, these barbarous Papists enforced their own children to drown them ”

“ Sodom on account of its notorious filthiness, and Egypt on account of its being a house of bondage to the people of God, whom they refuse to let go, even when the Lord is visiting them with plagues for detaining them; and to whom these characters are justly applicable, one may see almost with half an eye. The believers of the gospel, so far as the faith of it reigns in their hearts, will ever be disposed to live peaceably, as much as in them lies, with all men. ”

“ The same thing is plain from the following narrative, which it is judged expedient to reprint at this time; when the successors of these bloody men are, like beasts of prey, beginning to look out from their dens, and are not ashamed to ly in wait to deceive in our most populous cities. Still they discover their old temper by studying to recover the free exercise of their formerly abused power, and exclaiming against the rigour of those laws which were only imposed upon them as a necessary check to their cruelty. ”

“ One Magdalen Kedman deposeth, that she and divers other Protestants, among whom were two and twenty widows, were first robbed, and then stripped naked, and when they had covered themselves with straw, the bloody Papists threw in burning straw among them, on purpose to burn them; then they drove them out into the woods in frost and snow, where many of them died with extreme cold, and those that survived, lived miserably by reason of their many wants. ”

“ One Halligan a priest, read an excommunication against all those, that from henceforth should relieve or harbour any English, Scotch, or Welchmen, or give them alms, whereby many were famished to death. ”

“ Turge, minister of Newry, with divers other Protestants, after which, the said MacGennis was so affrighted with the apprehension of the said Mr Turge his being continually in his presence, that he commanded his soldiers not to slay any more of them, but such as should be slain in battle
A young woman being stripped naked, there came a rogue to her, bidding her, Give him her money, or he would run her through with his sword. ”

“ They also got much into their hands by fair promises, deep oaths and engagements, that if they would deliver them their goods, they would suffer them, with their wives and children, quietly to depart the country ”