A COLLECTION Of Certain Horrid MURTHERS IN Several COUNTIES OF IRELAND. Committed since the 23. of Octob. 1641. Abstracted out of certain Examinations taken by vertue of several Commissions under the Great Seal of IRELAND.
London: Printed for Henry Brome, at the Gun at the West-End of St. Pauls. 1679.
TO THE READER.
THE Publication of these Irish Barbarities is not intended to heighten animosities between Protestants and Papists, much less to excite to a Retaliation by a Curse ye Meroz. But because the impudence of many who are of the Romish persuasion, is such, as to deny that General Rebellion and Massacre in Ireland, which is here proved, and that those Sons of cruelty, the Jesuites and other Priests, do still persist in the like execrable and bloody designs, as appears by the present conspiracy so happily detected: it becomes necessary to revive in the minds of Protestants the former inhumanities of this sort of people, that every Loyal subject, considering what manner of Ephesian Beasts we have to fight with, may be upon his guard, to preserve His Majesty from the Trayterous and bloody designs which are against his Person, and to defend themselves, their Wifes and Children from the like Butcheries.
It is observable that in the Year 1641. Ireland was in great tranquility, and that not by accident or from any seeking of the Irish: but by reason of many Acts of Grace, which had newly passed in favour of them. So that Protestants and Papists lived very friendly together: When on a suddain upon the 23. of October, this storm arose and these and thousands more of Murders were committed. And let us consider whether any age since the Reformation can parallel the great gentleness which has been used towards those of the Romish Religion since His Majesties happy Restauration. For some years, till the prompt and busie Zeal of some of that party, had provoked to an inquiry; till the Papists to weaken our Nation by division, took up the Buckler for the Non-Conformist, reconciling Herod and Pilate to destroy Christ: it was hard to discern in the Government, whether there was such a thing as a Papist among us. And yet we now see the restlesness of these mens spirits advanced to a degree as Barbarous, as the Irish: that nothing less than the utter extirpation of Heresie, as they call it; though by cruel Murders, will serve their turn. A new way to establish that Kingdom which is not of this world, by the most abhorred of worldly practices.
These Collections are but a gleaning taken out of the Voluminous Records of Authentick Books, now remaining in the Clerk of the Councils Hands at Dublin. The Earl of Essex, when Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, did peruse them [Page] himself, and compare many of them with the Originals, finding all that he compared, to be true. If any doubt; they may have recourse to the Books themselves; which being public remembrances, may be seen by any, the Citations directing to the Volume, Page and Mark where each is to be found.
Now these few Testimonies, out of many, are not Published out of any great hopes of Converting Papists, though they may operate upon some of the more serious sort; but to dispose all Professors of the Protestant Religion to a just sense of what would have been the Fruit of this instant Hellish Plot, had it succeeded, from what has been formerly upon the like occasion: and hence to improve this admonition of Mercy in the midst of Judgment, by hastning (in this, we know not how short breathing time) to put on the whole Armor of Righteousness, that we may be able, if not to defeat, at least to stand in the day of tryal.
But what can be expected from a Kingdom divided against it self! Our divisions, like so many wide breaches, let in our enemies so fast upon us, that we are never secure: Yet if ever we shall be persuaded to enter into the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace; if ever the healing Balsam of Charity will be applyed among us; if ever one time were more necessarily inviting to it than another; it is now doubtless, when our familiar Friends and Neighbours have conspired with our greatest Enemies abroad to take away [Page] our Place and Nation. Let not the Dissenter then complain any longer in Libels and secret Whispers. Let those of the Church of England still continue with open Arms and Hearts to receive all such as will look towards them. Let us all come Face to Face, and vie in humility, meekness, and easiness to be intreated. Let things in themselves indifferent no longer rend the Seamless Garment, and give scandal to those, whose every Ordinance, that is not sinful, ought to be submitted to for the Lords sake. Let us beware of making that an offence, which the Lord has not made so, least those come upon us which are so indeed. Let Gentleness move, and Love create that Union among all Protestants for the future, which may remove all names of distinction; and so knit us into a perfect body, that one and the same spirit may have so free a Communication in us, as becomes the Members of Christ.
Methinks such awakening dangers, not yet passed over us, should make us inquire, whether the false and carnal prosecution of a true Religion has not provoked the Holy Spirit: that in this our day by amending our lives, we may invite God to avert those judgments, which press so near upon us.
For then and not before, shall we be free from terrour and amazement: when we strive to be as eminent in all Christian Vertues; as Rome is in worldly Wisdom and Superstition: when our Obedience to Magistrates, which is Gods Ordinance, when our Patience, and Humility, [Page] when our Charity, forgiving all injuries, even the cruelties herein recited, returning good for evil, and blessing for curses, which are the true marks of Christs Church, shall be as well known unto all men, as Rebellion and Massacres have been notorious both in the Principles and Practices of the Papists in all Ages.
THE CONTENTS.
- Counties. pag.
- KIlkenny 1
- Catherlagh 3
- Kildare ibid.
- Dublin ibid.
- Meath 4
- Kings County 7
- Queens County 8
- Wicklow 9
- Westmeath ibid.
- Galway 10
- Longford ibid.
- Roscommon 11
- Sligoe ibid.
- Mayo 12
- Tipperary 13
- Letrim 14
- Clare ibid.
- Tyrone ibid.
- Armagh 15
- Donnegal 18
- Down ibid.
- Cavan 19
- Monaghan 20
- Fermanagh 21
AN Estimate of the Number of Protestants in the Province of Ulster, that were murthered by the Irish in the late Rebellion of Ireland, in the Year 1641. and 1642. as appears by the examination of several Persons taken upon Oath before Commissioners appointed by his late Majesty, which Depositions were all Collected together in a Book containing 1419. pages, now remaining with the Clerk of the Council of that Kingdom.
- Deposed by Mr. Hugh Cunningham on the 21. of April, 1642. that he was told by a Priest, that the Priests of every Parish in Ulster were commanded by Sir Phelim O Neile, to return an account of the Brittish Protestants that were killed, by the Irish, in the several Parishes, the number of the men, women, and children, so murthered at that time, came to One Hundred Five Thousand—105000
- Deposed also by Mr. Maxwel, that by an account taken by the Rebels of the Murthers they had committed upon the Brittish Protestants in the North, there were slaughtered One Hundred and Fifty Thousand—150000
A COLLECTION Of Certain Horrid MURTHERS IN Several COUNTIES OF IRELAND.
County of Kilkenny.
ABout the 20. of December, 1641. the Potestants were stripped naked at Kilkenny. And whereas some of those stripped people with ropes of straw covered John Major of the City of Kilkenny. pag. 1. A. to A. pag. 3. C. to D. some part of their nakedness, the Rebels set the straw on fire, thereby burning and grievously scorching of them, six Souldiers and two Boys having quarter given them, were nevertheless hanged at Kilkenny.
A young Girl stripped about Easter, 1642. in the City of Kilkenny, by a Butcher, her belly ript William Parkinson, Com. Kilkenny, p. 4. B. James Benn, Citizen of Kilkenny p. 1. A. to p. 2. A. John More Cit. of Kilk. p. 2. to p. 3. B. up that her entrails fell out, where the Mayor upon complaint of the mother, bade away with her and dispatch her, whereupon the mother received seventeen or eighteen wounds, and her other child was also extreamly wounded, and all forced out of the City by men, women, and boys, throwing stones and dirt at them, so as the two Children dyed in a ditch.
The Aldermen of Kilkenny petitioned their Idem William Parkinson, p. 5. D. Council, that Philip Purcel, Esq; might be punished for relieving of Protestants.
A woman and two children in the City of Kilkenny was by the Inhabitants hunted, baited, torn Joseph Wheeler, Esq; Cit. Kilkenny, p. 5. B. to C. by dogs, stabbed with skeans, one of her childrens guts being pulled out.
At Kilkenny seven English men hanged, and one Anne Maudesley, Cit. Kilkenny, p. 1. A. to A. Irishman because he was taken in their company.
Twelve Murthered at Graige, in the County of Kilkenny, one of them (being a woman great with child) had her belly ript up, the child falling out Joseph Wheeler, Esq; & al. Com. Kilkenny, pag. 56. alive, and a child of a year and half old hanged: Another of them named Robert Pyne (being twice hanged up) was cast into his grave, where he sate up, saying, Christ receive my Soul. and so was buried quick.
An old man hanged afterward, and dragged Joseph. Wheeler, & al. p. 5. D. Will. Parkinson, Kilk. p. 3. A. John Watkinson, Cler. Com. Kilk. p. 2. A. to A. up and down till his Bowels fell out.
Christopher Morley and two English boys at Castle Com. hanged, one other English boy (eight or nine years old) had his head cleft, and before he was dead hanged on his Fathers Tenterhooks.
About threescore men, women and children John Mayre, Cit Kilk. p. 3. D. to p. 4. D. Murthered at the Graige in the County of Kilkenny, many of them buried alive.
County of Catherlagh.
RIchard Lake hanged at Leighlin-bridg: Sixteen more hanged near that place. Two more Murthered near Catherlagh. Two women James Shawe, Com. Cather. p. 1. A. to the end. hanged up by the hair of their heads all night, the next day being found still alive they were Murthered.
At or near Leighlin-bridg three men with their wives and children Murthered. One woman and her daughter Murthered. A woman newly delivered Dame Anne Butler, Com. Catherlagh. p. 1. A. to the end. of two children, the one of them had his brains beaten out against the stones, and after thrown into the River of Barrow. About forty English murthered thereabouts. Almost all the English about Gowran and Wells hanged and murthered.
County of Kildare.
RAlph Heyward (having turned to Mass) was Will Hewetson, Cler. Com. Kildare, A. to the end. murthered, his wife and two Children hanged, the one at her neck, the other at her girdle, a dog and a cat hanged with them.
Robert Woods shot to death. William Collis, Com. Kildare, p. 1. A. to A.
John Morley and his wife and children, and one John Plivie (after they were turned to Mass) murthered. Robert Brown, Com. Kildare, p. 1. A. to A.
County of Dublin.
ABout the twenty eighth of December, 1641. the wife of Joseph Smithson, Minister, was Joseph Smithson, p. 1. A. ad finem, Com. Dublin. conveyed from Deans Grange, near Dublin, to Stillorgan, from thence to Powerscourt, and there she and her servant hanged.
Mr. Henry Maudley, hanged at Moretown. George Cashel, Com. Dublin p. A. to the end.
At Balrothery, William Runmer, a Packet Post, and Mr. Pardoe, a Minister, murthered, Mr. Pardoe being after cast upon a Dunghil, and his head Tho. Clitheroe, Cler. Com. Dublin, p. 2. A. eaten with swine.
The soul murther of Derricke Hubert, of Holme Margaret Hubert, Com. Dublin, p. 1. A. to the end. John Johnson, Com. Dublin, p. 1. A. to A. Margaret Fagan, Com. Dublin, A. Patrick, Com. Dublin, Esq; the second day of Decem. Anno Domini 1641.
Nicholas Kerdiffe, murthered, near Dublin, since the Cessation, the eighteenth of September, 1643.
Robert Fagan, murthered at Clonduffe, Com. Dublin, about November, 1641.
County of Meath.
NEar Navan the son of James Wignal murthered James Wignal, Com. Meath, p. 1 A. to p. 2. A. William Medcalf, Com. Meath. James Penniscook, Com. Meath, p. 2. A. to p. 3. A. William Potter, Com. Meath, p. 1. A. to p. 3. A. about the last of November, 1641.
Mrs Heglin and her daughter, with two young children murthered, at Wilkinstown Com. Meath, and Robert Robin murthered near Sir William Hills House.
Mr. John Ware, murthered at Moylough Com. Meath.
The above-named Mrs. Heglin, her daughter and two children, murthered by two men hired thereunto, Dennis Kelly, Com. Meath, p. 1. A. to the end. by Gerrot Tallon of Crewestown, Com. Meath, for two Barrels of Wheat. Four more hanged at the Navan.
The murther of Thomas Pressick, and others at A Letter from Master Richard Tennison, of Trim, Com. Meath, Minister, Apr. 13. 1674. Trim, Com. Meath, see for that
ACcording to your Lordships desire, I have fully inquired into the murther of Mr. Thomas Pressick, a rich Saddler at Trim, and have received this dismal relation thereof, from two of his children, and one Jane Tucker, then present with him, and several others now living here, viz. That in the first year of the late horrid Rebellion, about a month before Christmas, one Miles Reyly, and Captain Betagh, with many of the Irish under their Command, came to the Parsonage Castle of Trim, in which Mr. Thomas Pressick (a very strict and Religious Protestant, of great honesty and good repute) then lived, into which also many other Protestants had then fled for safety, and being denied entrance, they burnt the house adjoining to the Castle, out of which all the people fled to the Turrets of the Castle, and the abovementioned Jane Tucker, seeing some of the Irish getting up the Castle, and fearing they would throw her into the fire, leaped off the top of the wall, upon the ground, and though she was then with child (which is yet living) and the Turret very high, she received no hurt; a little before which she saw and heard Mr. Pressick praying very fervently in the Turret, begging strength of God to go through that fiery Tryal, and ending his Prayer, he declared his willingness to die for the Protestant Religion, and encouraged them all to do the like, upon which some of the Irish got immediately into that Turret swearing they would kill him, unless he would go to Mass; he with great Christian courage told them he would not forsake Christ for fear of death, they then in a great fury made him pull off his shoes and slockings, and thrust him down a pair of stairs, the stones of which were red hot with the fire, which he patiently suffered, saying Christ had indured more for him, and then carrying him into his Garden he was earnestly desired, by Thomas Magwire, then Parish Priest of Trim, to turn to Mass, and he should have [Page 6] his life, which he with wonderful magnaminity slighted and refused, saying he had lived in the true faith of Jesus Christ, and he would die in it, at which words several of them cut him, and one of them cutting his cheek almost off, asked him again if he would Turn, and undauntedly giving them the same answer, they immediately hanged him in an Apple Tree (together with one James Hawkin his Son in Law, and one James Wilson) they themselves wondering at his courage: of the rest one Child was burnt in the House, some of the men shot in the Garden, and the rest brought with great Pageantry, shouting and scoffing, into the streets of the Town, having their heads struck off with a Hatchet. One Mr. James Pressick, a Minister, did by great providence escape out of a back window, they having designed great tortures for him. The women were only stripped, one of which did privatly push an Irish Serjeant off the Battlements into the fire, where he was burnt, he offering violence unto her. And soon after some of those barbarous people beset the House of one Rich. Worthington, near Trim, who with his wife escaping in the night, they killed the children, and the poor mother returning next day to bring away her infants, was by some who slaid plundering the house, strangled in her own hair which was very long. These are the only memorable murthers at that time committed here, but no Age nor History can, I presume, parallel the horrible Massacres, which in this County, and all other parts of this Kingdom were afterwards commited, as is best known to your good Lordship, who was then miraculously preserved in the midst of their bloudy and inhuman cruelties, I might write many other of their barbarous actions, of which many yet living here can make Oath, but an account of this was all at present commanded by your Lordship from
Kings County.
MRS. Jane Addis of Kilcoursie (after her going Margery King, K. C. p. 1. A. to A. James Dowdal, K. C. p. 3. A. John Wild, Com. Westmeath. A. p. 1. Thomas Fleetwood, C. Westm. p. 5. A. to. p. 6. A. to Mass) murthered in her house in Fox County, Com. Regis, having a child not a quarter old, the murtherers putting the dead mothers breast into the childs mouth, bade it, Suck English bastard, and so left it.
Arthur Scot murthered at Lisloouy having twenty Tho. Scott, C. Regis. p. 2. A. ad finem. wounds given him. Another English man hanged at the same place.
An English woman (a Papist) at Gerald Fitz James Dowdal, K. C. p. 3. B. Geralds house at Clonard, Com Meath, murthered.
Two men murthered at Phillips Town in the James Dowdal. p. 3. K. C. Richard Wilkinson, K. County. p. 2. A. ad finem. Hugh Roberts, K. C. p. 1. A. Robert Bigland, K. C. A. ad finem. Kings County.
At the Bir seven murthered.
At Phillips Town, Thomas Horom hanged, in the Kings County.
Henry Bigland, and eleven more, hanged and murthered about Knocknemeis.
A woman aged Eighty years, stripped naked in Frost and snow, by two daughters of Rory Henry Ayliffe, K. C. p. 1. A. Coghlan, of Fercal Wood, before whose door she dyed.
John Lurean, murthered and chopped in pieces. Idem Hen. Ayliffe, p. 6. D. Kings County. Sir William Stewart, Com. Tyron, p. 1. A. to the end. Hen. Ayliffe, K. C. p. 1. A. Ralph Lambert, Com. Galeway. p. 3. E. to F. Henry Ayliffe, K. C. p. 4. C.
The Counterfeiting of Letters, pretended to be out of England, against the Irish, and Counterseiting the Kings Broad Seal.
That when they say they fight for the King, they mean a King of their own making.
Four English murthered at Terrence Coglans Tho. Le Strange, K. C. p. 5. A. to A. house Kilkolgan about December, 1641.
Twenty two Widdows, and several stripped naked and covering themselves in a house with Magdalen Redmaine. p. 1. A. to A. K. County. Isabel Porter, alias Brain, K. County, p. 1, A. p. 2. A. to A. straw, the Rebels lighted straw, and strew amongst them to burn them, and they had been burned had they not been rescued by others, who turned them out naked in Frost and Snow, so as many dyed, the children dying in their mothers Arms.
Queens County.
FIve murthered, whereof one was an English John Carpenter, Q. C. p. 2. A. to A. woman turned to Mass, great with child, who was shot to death.
John Nicholson and his wife murthered by Walter Dishcome, Q. C. p. 1. A. to A. Emanuel Beale, Q. C. p. 1. A. to the end. Tho. Berry, and John Berry, Q. C. p. 1. A. Elizabeth Baskervile, Q. C. p. 1. A. Thomas Holt, Q. C. p. 1. A. to p. 2. A. Elenor Keys, Q. C. p. 1. A. to the end. Samuel Ring, Q. C. p. 2. A. to the end. Florence Fypatrick and his Servants, on the Sabbath day, the first deponent hardly scaping death for burying them. Elizabeth Baskervile says that Mrs. Fypatrick blamed the murtherers because they brought not Mrs. Nicolsons Fat or Grease, wherewith she might have made Candles.
Thomas Keyes, Esq; (a Justice of the Peace of the Queens County (sixty six years old) and Thomas Dubbleday, both hanged near Burrowes Castle, and Dubbleday shot as he was hanging, both being first stripped naked, and gored, and prickt in several parts of their bodies.
Amy Mamphin's husband murthered, and she compelled to stand in his blood, and she being Amy Mamphin, Q. C. p. 1. A. to A. stripped naked, was drawn by the hair through thorns, and after sent away.
An English Girl half hanged, and buried Joseph Wheeler, Esq; Kilk. p. 2. A. to A. Lieu. Henry Gilbert, Q. C. p. 1. A. to the end of the page. quick.
Six English hanged up by Florence Fitz Patrick, (after Quarter promised) about the 23. of January, 1641.
Near Kilefeckel in the Qu. County, an English man with his wife, and four or five children, hanged by command of Sir Morgan Cavanagh, Will. Perkinson, Esq. Com. Kilkenny, p. 4. C to C. and Mr. Robert Harpole, all afterwards cast into one hole, the youngest child not fully dead, putting up the hand, and crying Mammy, Mammy, yet buried alive.
County of Wickloe.
AT Knockrath Park, Edward Snape, and two others of Knockrath, hanged about the 20. of Thomas Holway, Com. Wickloe. A. November, 1641.
John the son of William Leeson, stript and William Leeson, Com. Wickl. Elizabeth, Leeson, Com. Wick. p. 1. A. to A. hanged at Balligarny, about the 25. of November, 1641.
A young child (a year and quarter old) of the Deponents, taken from her back, thrown down, and trodden upon that it died, the mother and three other children stript naked, so as the said Ann Hill, Com. Catherlagh, p. 1. A. to A. three children died, this was done upon the Lands of Bordkillamore, Com. Wickloe, about the 11. of November, 1641.
County of Westmeath.
IN Kilbeggan a boy, and a woman hanged, one of them having a sucking child, desiring it John Naughtin, Com. Westmeath, p. 2. A. to A. might be buried with her, knowing it would suffer afterwards, but it was cast out, and starved to death.
William Sibthorp, Parish Clerk of Mullingare, Tho. Fleetwood, Clerk, C. Westm. p. 6. B. to B. and p. 7. C. to p. 8. C. hanged. Edmund Dalton, and Mr. Moreheads son, murthered.
County of Galway.
MR. Adam Novel, and six more hanged and Will. Shuttleworth, C. Galway, A. to the end. murthered by Lord of Clanmorris.
Hugh Langridge, murthered near Loghreogh, having received sixteen wounds, and his son having Ralph Lambert, Com. Galway, p. 1. A. to p. 2. B. nine wounds, being left for dead, yet recovered.
Mr. Corbet, an old Minister, had his head cut Idem, p. 2. B. to C. off by two young Cowheards near Loghreogh.
The son of an Englishman murthered. A child so beaten, that it died within three days. Idem, p. 2. C. to p. 3. D.
Threescore and five Protestants, some say eighty, Elizabeth Bucanon, C. Mayo, p. 1. A. to the end of the page. Hen. Bringhurst, Com. praed. p. 2. A. to p. 4. A. & p. 5. to p 7. D. to p. 8. E. some ninety, many of them Ministers (and amongst them the Bishop of Killalla) for the most part all murthered at the bridg of Shreele, Com. Galway, very few escaping.
John Goldsmith, Clerk, p. 6. A. to p. 8. A.
Henry Langford, Robert Brown, and James Brown, Com. Roscomon. p. 3. C.
Thomas Johnson, Clerk, Com. Mayo, p. 3. A. to p. 4. A.
Andrew Adaire, Esq; Com. Mayo. p. 5. D. to E.
Thomas Hewet, Com. Mayo, p. 3. A.
County of Longford.
MAny cruelly murthered in Longford after Ruth Martin, Com. Longf. p. 1. A. to the end. Eliz. Trafford, Com. Longford, A. the to end. Isabel Allen, Com. Longf. p. 1. B. to the end. John Stibbs, C. Longf. p. 1. A. to A. Susan Steel, C. Longf. p. 2. A. to B. quarter promised.
William Steel, and four others hanged at a Wind-Mill which is near unto Racleene.
The wife of Henry Mead hanged, the said Henry himself being placed in a ring amongst the Rebels, each stabbing of him as he was forced to flee Susan Steele, Com. Longford, p. 2. B. to C. from side to side, and so continued, until his shoulder and brest were cut in two with a Bill-hook.
George Foster, with his wife and child, and the wife of John Bizel, murthered at Ballisnecorr in the Susan Steele, Com. Longford, p. 3. D. to D. County of Longford. One other drowned. Some children there buried alive.
County of Roscommon.
SIxteen English hanged at Ballileage, Com. Roscommon, Edward Pierson, Com. Rosemmon, p. 1. A. to A. by Oliver Boy Fitz-Gerald of Ballileige.
Nine murthered at Ballinefadd, Com. Roscommon, whereof four were children, and one woman great with child, through whose belly the Eliz. Hollywell, Com. Roscommon, p. 1. A. to A. Rebels thrust their Pikes, as she was hanging, because (as they said) the child should not live.
John Price, and several others, murthered in John Dodwel, Com. Rose. p. 2. B. to B. Athlone.
William Stewart had Collops cut off him being alive, fire Coals put into his mouth, his belly ript Andrew Adaire, Esq; C. Mayo, p. 6. G. to H. up, and his entrails wrapt about his neck, and wrist of his Arms.
County of Sligoe.
THirty eight Protestants put into the Goal of Edw. Braxton, Com. Sligoe, p. 1. A. Amy Hawkesworth, Com. Roscommon, A. Ralph Lambert, Com. Galway, p. 3. G. to H. Henry Langford, Robert Brown, James Brown, Com. Roscommon, p. 1. A. to p. 3. B. and p. 3. Jane Stewart, Com. Sligoe, p. 1. A. to p. 3. B. Will. Welsh, Com. Sligoe, p. 3. B. to C. p. 4. John Harrison, Esq; Com Sligoe, p. 1. A. Jo. Goldsmith, Clerk, Com. Mayo, p. 8. A. Sligoe, all except two or three murthered there the same night, by divers breaking in upon them at mid-night: For proof whereof, and of the foulness of the Act, with the circumstances, see
A Friar, with some Souldiers, undertaking to conduct Mr. Thomas Walker, a Minister, his man, and two Gentlewomen, from Roserch to Abbyboile, the Friar riding away, they fell into an Ambush John Shrawley, Clerk, Com. Sligoe, p. 1. A. to A. p. 2. B. laid for them, where Mr. Walker, (being on his knees at Prayer) the cleft his scull to the mouth, killed his man, and stript the women stark naked as they were born, one of the women being afterwards murthered near Ballymeat.
Thirty five men women and children killed, and Idem, p. 2. B. to C. murthered, near Ballykerry.
Four murthered in the streets of Sligoe, and Isabel Jane Stewart, p. 1. A. p. 3. B. p. 3. C. to B. Amy Hawksworth, C. Sligoe, p. 4. B. to B. Will. Welsh, C. Sligoe, p. 4. C. to the end. Beard (great with child) pursued by one of the Friars men into the River, where he murthered her, the very childs feet appearing through one of the wounds he gave her.
Mr. William Ollifant, Clerk, stript and half Andrew Adaire, Esq; Com. Mayo, p. 4. Jane Brown, p. 7. A. to A. John Harrison, Esq; p. 1. B. to C. hanged, at Temple House Com. Sligoe, and after dragged with a rope about his neck at a Horses heels, up and down, because he would not turn Papist, another Minister the same time murthered, this was about the middle of February, 1641.
At Ardneglass and Skreen, Com. Sligoe, about Henry Langford, Com. Rosc. p. 3. B. to C. thirty Protestants, men, women and children, murthered.
Ten men, women and children, buried alive Andrew Adaire, Esq; Com. Mayo, p. 4. A. to L. near Titemple, alias Temple House.
County of Mayo.
ABout twenty seven persons, besides children, drowned in the Bay or Harbour, Henry Bringhurst, Com. Mayo, p. 8. near Killalla, by the instigation of the Friars.
Thirty, or forty English (formerly turned Papists) John Goldsmith, Cler. p. 8. driven, and forced into the Sea near Killalla, and drowned.
A young boy killed by one that had been his School-Master, the boy the while crying, good Master do not kill me, but whip me as much as you will. A man wounded and buried alive. Idem p. 9. A Minister murthered after he had gone to Mass. Another hanged near Ballehen.
At the Moyne in the County of Mayo, fifty Thomas Huet, Com. Mayo, p. 6. c. Henry Langford, Com. Roscommon, p. 3. John Shrewly, Clerk, Com. Sligoe. nine Protestants stripped naked, and after Barbarously murthered, some make the number much more.
William Gibb, and his wife (both very old) murthered at the Moyne.
The 19. of January, 1641. a hundred and twenty men women and children stripped naked, Andrew Adaire, Esq; Com. Mayo, p. 4. B. to p. 5. C. and after murthered at Belliek in the County of Mayo.
About the 20. of November, 1641. near the Strade, Com. Mayo, George Buchanon, having received many wounds, was after buried alive, by Thomas Huet, Com. Mayo, P. 6. Edmond O Magbery, and his Souldiers, whom he as Captain commanded.
About August, 1643. the wife of John Gardner, of the Barrony of Carrogh, Com. Mayo, having Thomas Huett, Com. Mayo, p. 7. D. leave, and a Convoy of two Irishmen, for visiting her children of Bellecke, was by the said Convoy on the way cruelly murthered.
County of Tipperary.
ABout the first of January, 1641. fifteen men and women, Protestants, were murthered Edward Banks, Clerk, p. 1. A. to A. p. 2. B. to B. at the City of Cashell, Com. Tipperary. And near Cashel were three or four children murthered by a Convoy.
Twenty four English, at the Silver Mines, Com. Ann Sherring, Com. Tipper. p. 1. A. to p. 2. A. Richard Bourke, Com. Ferm. p. 3. A. Tipperary (after they had revolted to Mass) murthered.
The same Massacre at the Silver Mines also John Powel, Com. Tipperary, p. 1. A. to the end. William Tyms, Com. Tipperary. proved by
County of Leytrim.
MR. William Liston, and Mr. Tho. Fullerton, Clerks, kept two days without meat or Andrew Adaire, Com. Mayo, p. 6. I. to K. drink, then murthered near Mannor Hamilton, the 24. of January, 1641.
An English child taken by the heels, and its Idem, And. Adaire, C. Mayo, p. 6. F. to G. brains dasht out against a block of Timber.
County of Clare.
CHristopher Hepditch, and sixteen more English Bettrice Hebditch, Com. Clare, p. 1. A. to p. 2. A. Protestants, murthered at or near the Castle of Inchecrony.
County of Tyron.
RObert Bickerdick and his wife drowned in the Black water. Thomas Carlile put to Gartrude Carlile, Com. Tyrone, p. 2. B. to p. 3. B. death. James Carlile, and his wife also murthered. And so were about fourscore and seventeen more.
The murther of Mr. John Mather, and Mr. Blyth, John Perkins, Esq; Com. Tyrone, p. 1. B. to p. 2. C. Anthony Stratford, C. Armagh, p. 1. A. (both Clerks, in or near Dungannon,) although Mr. Blyth had Sir Phelim O Neyles Protection, and threescore Families of the Town of Dungannon Murthered.
About three hundred murthered in the way to Colraine, by direction of Sir Phelim O Neale, and Idem John Perkins, C. to D. p. 6. Tirlagh his Brother.
In and about Dungannon were murthered three hundred and sixteen. Between Charlemount, and Capt. Anthony Stratford, Com. Armagh, p. 1. B. to C. Dungannon about four hundred murthered and drowned, at and in the River of Benbarb, and the Black water two hundred and six.
Thirteen murthered in one Morning by Patrick Mac Crew of Dungannon. And two young Rebels did murther in the County of Tyrone, one Idem, Anth. Stratford, p. 1. C. to C. hundred and forty women and children. The wife of Bryan Kelly of Loghgall, murthered forty and five with her own hands.
At a Mill-pond in the Parish of Killamon, and County of Tyrone, were drowned in one day Idem, p. 2. E. to E. three hundred.
Eighteen Scottish infants hanged on Clothiers Tenter-hooks, and one young fat Scotchman murthered, and Candles made of his Grease. Another Scotchmans belly ript up, the end of his small guts tied to a Tree, then he drawn about, Idem, p. 3. F. to F. till his guts were pulled out, that they might try (said they) whether a dogs or Scotchmans guts were the longest.
County of Armagh.
PRotestants in multitudes forced over the Bridg Gertrude Carlile, Com. Tyrone p. 3. C. Christian Stanhaw, C. Arm. and Owen Frankland, p. 2. A. Margaret Bromley, Com. Armagh, p. 1. B. Rich. Newberry, C. Arm. p. 2. A. Eleaner Fullerton, Com. Arm. p. 2. B. Dr. Maxwel, Com Armagh, p. 11. A. and p. 12. A. to the end of the page. Henry Read, C. Monaghan, p. 1. A. Eliz. Price, Com. Arm. p. 1. A. Joan Constable C. Arm. p. 3. C. Tho. Green, C. Arm. p. 1. A. William Clerk, C. Arm. p. 1. A. Edw. Saltonstal, George Littlefield, Com. Armagh, p. 3. B. of Portadown, Com. Armagh, whereby at several times there were drowned in the River of Bann above one thousand.
Great number of Protestants drowned at Corbridg, Dr. Maxwel. C. Arm. p. 12. C. Alex Creighton, C. Monaghan. p. 1. A. William Holland, C. Mon. p. 3. B. William Clerk. C. Arm. p. 1. B. Jo. Mongomery, C. Monaghan. Mr. Garet Fillis, Com. Arm. p. 1. A. to the end. Christian Stanhaw, and Owen Frankland, C. Arm. p. 1. A. Ann Smith, and Margaret Clerk, C. Armagh, p. 1 ad finem. Eleanor Fullerton, Com. Armagh, p. 2. B. ad finem. and Kinnard in the County of Armagh.
Mr. Fullerton Clerk, Mr. Aubrey, Mr. Gladwich, murthered in their way towards Portadown.
Many others murthered. Five murthered soon after the beginning of the Rebellion. One hundred and forty, or one hundred and sixty drowned at Portadown. Fifty murthered at Black-Water-Church. Twenty drowned near the water of Callon. And several others murthered.
Mr. William Blunden, drawn by the neck in a rope, up and down Black-Water, to confess mony, and three weeks after, he with his wife and Edw. Saltonstal, and Geo. Littlefield, C. Arm. p. 4. c. ad finem. seven children drowned. Forty and four at several times murthered. A Wife compelled to hang her own Husband, with several other notorious murthers.
At Servagh Bridg, Com. Downe, one hundred Captain Henry Smith, C. Down, p. 7. B. to B. Margaret Bromley, C. Arm. Margaret Bromley, C. Arm. Ann Smith, and Margaret Clerk, C. Arm. p. 1. to the end. Margaret Fillis, C. Arm. p. 1. to the end. Christian Stanhaw, C. Arm. p. 2. A. to A. Eleanor Fullerton, C. Arm. p. 2. A. Eleanor Matchet, C. Armagh, p. 2. A. to the end. Joan Constable, C. Armagh, p. 1. B. to p. 2. B. (some say one hundred and twenty) drowned. More eighty. More sixty. More fifty. More sixty. Twenty seven men murthered.
Twelve murthered, whereof Mr. Robinson, the Minister, and his wife and three children were part.
Many Protestants put into a Thatcht-house, and there burned alive.
The Lord Cawfield murthered. Capt. John Perkins, Com. Tyrone, p. 3. c. Eliz. Price, Com. Arm. p. 1. A. to p. 2. B.
Many burned in the Church of Black-water. The Wife of Arnold Taylor great with child, had her Eliz. Price, Com. Arm. p. 8. D. to p. 9. E. belly ript up, then drowned. Thomas Mason buried alive.
Seventeen men, women and children, cast into Tho. Green, Com. Arm. p. 1. A. a Bog Pit. Many more murthered.
One thousand five hundred, in three Parishes murthered. Twenty seven more murthered. Jam. Shaw, Com. Arm. p. 1. A. ad finem. Mr. Cambel drowned.
Three hundred Protestants stripped naked, and put into the Church of Loghgall, whereof about one hundred murthered within the Church, among whom John Gregg was quartered alive, his quarters thrown into the face of Richard Gregg his Father, the said Richard was after there murthered, having Allice Gregg, C. Arm. p. 1. A. to the end. received seventeen or eighteen wounds, after cut into quarters in the Deponent his wifes presence, such as were not murthered were turned out a begging among the Irish naked, and into the cold, most of which were killed by Irish Cripples, their Truls and Children.
One hundred and fourscore drowned at twice, Capt. Anthony Stratford, Com. Arm. p. 2. D. to D. at the Bridg of Callon. One hundred (some say two hundred) more drowned in a Lough near Ballimakilmoerogh, within two miles of Loghgal.
Mr. Gabriel Constable, and his mother (eighty Joan Constable, Com. Armagh, p. 1. A. Capt. Jo. Perkins, C. Tyrone, p. 6. D. p. 7. E. Anthony Stratford, C. Arm. p. 2. E. to. E. years old) murthered.
Murthered to the number of five hundred. And forty eight Families murthered in the Parish of Killaman.
Three men had their brains knockt out with a Hatchet within the Church of Benburb. Eight Jo. Parry, Com. Arm. p. 2. A. to A. women drowned in a River under the same Church. Christopher Glover murthered.
By special command from Sir Phelim O Neale. Mr. James Maxwel, Lieutenant, was dragged out Dr. Robert Maxwel, C. Arm. p. 9. A. to B. John Parry, Com. Arm. p. 3. B. to C. of his Bed (raving in the height of a burning Feaver) driven two miles, and murthered; his wife (great with child) stript stark naked and drowned in the Black-Water, the child half born.
Mr. Starkey (about one hundred years old) and his two daughters stript naked, the daughters Dr. Robert Maxwel, C. Armagh, p. 9. C. to D. Capt. John Perkins, C. Tyrone, p. 6. D. p. 7. E. inforced to support, and lead their father, he being not able to go of himself, and having gone three quarters of a mile, were all three drowned in a Turf pit.
County of Donnegall.
WIlliam Mac Kenny, and his mother in Law, and his wife great with child murthered, his said wife having her belly ript up, and the child cut out of the womb.
The murther of Robert Akins, Clerk, and Mulrony Carrol, Com. Donnegal, p. 1. A. to A. thirteen more at Castledoe, Com. Donnegal.
Threescore persons that came in Boats from Andrew Adaire, Esq; Com. Mayo, p 5. E. to F. Killalla, murthered by the Mac Swines, and the O Boyles, Com. Donnegal.
County of Down.
FOurscore forced to go on the Ice on Lough Peter Hill, Esq; Com. Down, p. 13. A. to A. and p. 14. C. to the end. Peter Hill, p. 13. O. to O. Eliz. Piers, C. Down, p. 1. A. to A. Captain Henry Smith, Com. Down, p. 7. A. to A. Elizabeth Crook, Com. Down, p. 2. A. to A. Arthur Magennis, Com. Down, p. 1. A. to A. Earn, till they break the Ice and were drowned.
Mr. Tudge the Minister of the Newry, Lieut. Trevor, and his wife and twenty four more (some accompt fisty) murthered, and cut in pieces at the pass of Ballonery.
Divers murthered at Castle Island, and Down. William Gore, Com. Down p. 1. A to B.
A Scotchman, an Englishman, and a Welshman, imprisoned in the Stocks at Newcastle, where they lay without Breeches upon raw Hides, that Elizabeth Pierce, Com. Down, p. 2. B to B. their Joints rotted, insomuch, that when two of them were afterwards hanged, one of their Feet fell off by the Ankle.
County of Cavan.
MAny Protestants forced over the Bridg of William North, Com. Cavan, p. 2. A. John Whitson, Com. Cavan, A. Arthur Culme, Esq; Com. Cavan, p. 6. B. Robert Bennet, Com. Cavan, p. 1. A. Thomas Smith, and Joan Killin, Com. Cavan, p. 1. A. to the end. Simon Westham, Com. Cavan. p. 3. A. Marmaduke Batemanson, Com. Cavan, p. 1. A. John Stephenson, C. Cavan, p. 3. A. Jane Cuthbertson, Com: Cavan, p. 1. A. Elizabeth Poke, Com. Cavan, p. 1. A. ad finem. Mr. Richard Parsons, Com. Cavan. p. 6. A.
Adam Baily, and several other murthered at Jane Cutbertsen, Com. Cavan, p. 1. A. to p. 2. A. Alexand. Anderson, C. Cavan, p. 5. A. Jennet Kernes, C. Cavan, p. 1. A. to A. Simon Grame, p. 1. A. to the end. Sarah Ranson, C. Fer. A. Kilkolly in the County of Cavan.
William Rocket, drowned near Eelturbert.
Several Scotish Families destroyed. Two of the Hovies, and Abraham Jones murthered. With Ric. Parsons, C. Cavan, p. 5. A. to B. p. 6. B. several other murthers committed at Butlers Bridg.
A distracted Englishman run through with a Simon Wesnam, C. Cavan, p. 3. B. Pike, he laughing the while.
County of Monaghan.
MAny Protestants hanged at Carrigmaeross, Robert Branthwait, p. Robert Boyle, Clerk, p. 1. A. to the end. Jane Hughes, A. to the end. Eliz. Williams, p. 2. A. All the of County of Monaghan. Robert Aldrich, p. 3. to the end. James Gown, p. 2. A. Matth. Brown, p. 1. A. Honcrah Beamond, p. 1. A. All of the County of Monaghan. Francis Wynne, C. Ferm. p. 1. A. to A. Elizabeth Northorp, C. Monaghan, p. 1. A. to B. George Cottingham, C. Monaghan, p. 1. A. Henry Steel, C. Monaghan, p. 1. A. Bridget Leigh, Com. Monagh. p. 1. A. John Montgomery, C. Monaghan, p. 11. A. Jane Hughes, Com. Monaghan, p. 1. to the end. Robert Aldrich, C. Monaghan, p. 2. A. to the end of the page. John Martin, Com. Monagban, p. 1. A. C. Monaghan.
Sixteen Protestants at once hanged at Clouns in the County of Monaghan. Several others there also hanged. And sixteen women and children in a Turf pit drowned.
The Deponents Father, and her Son murthered.
Richard Blaney, Esq; hanged.
Some murthered in Monaghan.
Seven murthered in the Fewes, C. Monaghan. Ensign Lloyd and others murthered. And one buried quick.
The murther of John Hughes, and twenty four more.
At Tully, C. Monaghan threescore murthered after quarter given.
Eighteen murthered.
Seventeen men, women and children, drowned Elizabeth Clark, C. Monaghan, p. 1. A. George Cottingham, p. B. C. Monaghan. Will, Holland, C. Mon. p. 2. E. to the end. at Balliross.
Many murthered. And four drowned.
Cornet Clinton, and his Grand-child drowned. Many others murthered.
The Deponents husband, and thirty others by name, and divers others, that the Deponent remembereth not, all murthered in Farney, Com. Eliz. Clark, C. Mon. p. 1. A. to p. the 2. B. Monaghan, two of them so aged that they went upon staves, and another had (at least) forty wounds.
One Mac Maghan, Captain of Monaghan sported himself by thrusting a wooden broach into the Fundament of an Englishman or Scotchman, then driving him about the Room with a Joynt-stool, being much affected at the miserable gestures of Dr. Robert Maxwell, C. Armagh, p. 15. O. to O. the poor party so tormented. The said Mac Maghan, and his Confederates at a Feast after Dinner, had an Englishman bound before them, and at each Healths end every one gave him a wound, after which they cast him upon the Dunghil, where languishing he dyed.
County of Fermanagh.
ARthur Champian, and sixteen more with William Ban. p. 2. A. to A. Patrick O Bryen, C. Fermanagh, p. 2. A. to the end. Robert Aldrich, C. Monaghan, A. to the end of the page. Elizabeth Dowsbery, C. Ferm. A. Elizabeth Fletcher, C. Fermanagh, p. 1. to the end. him, murthered. At another time twenty four. At another time two more murthered.
One killed, and fourteen hanged.
Seven hanged at one time, and divers others Margery Barlow, C. Ferm. A. to the end. Matthew Brown, C. Monagh. p. B. to B. Alice Champan, C. Ferm. p. 3. B. to p. 4. B. Thomas Wenslow, C. Fermanagh, p. 1. A. to p. 2. A. Robert Flack, Com. Ferm. p. 2. A. to p. 3. A. John Parry, C. Ferm. A. John Martin, Com. Fermanagh, p. 1. A. Hugh Stokes, Com. Ferm. Robert French, Com. Ferm. Ann Ogden his wife, C. Ferm. Robert Aldrich, Com. Monagh, p. 1. A. to the end of the page. Richard Bourke, Com. Ferm. p. 1. A. Richard Bourke, Com. Ferm. p. 1. A. to A. put to death.
Fourscore men, women and children, burned, and killed in Lisgoole, in the C. of Fermanagh.
At Castle eighteen. At Fullogh Castle fourscore murthered. Near Cordiller three hanged. One more hanged.
Fourteen Protestants hanged in the County of Fermanagh.
Forty Protestants in the Parish of Newtown, and C. Fermanagh, murthered.
Eighteen murthered.
Thirty murthered in the Parish of Clankelly, C. Fermanagh.
Twelve murthered in Newtown, C. Fermanagh.
William Ogden murthered.
Sixty (another says a hundred) murthered at Tully, C. Fermanagh, after quarter given or promised them.
Fifteen hanged at Lotherstown, C. Fermanagh. Two murther at Kinnally.