REader what passages of cruelty thou shalt here peruse thou hast not the least cause to suspect of truth, they being such as by clear evidence have bin made manifestly true by faithfull Intelligence of eye and eare witnesses.

1. Within the County of Fermanagh great cruelties have been acted upon the poor English Protestants where multitudes of men women and children have been kill'd in cold blood.

2. In the Castle of Lisgoole there were above one hundred and fifty men, women, and children, burnt there when that Castle was set on fire.

3. At the Castle of Moneah about one hundred English were slain by the Barba­rous Rebels.

4. The Castle of Tullah being yeelded upon composition with promise of fair quar­ter from the Rebells, but as soon as ever they entred the same they put all to the sword without exception.

5. At Lissenskeah they murthered near one hundred of the Scotch Protestants, which they use in every place as cruelly as the Eng­lish.

6. One Mr. Middleton they compeld to heare Mass and after ward they caused him his wife and children to be hanged up and murthered.

7. In the Countys of Armagh and Ti­rone great and Barbarous cruelties have been exercised.

8. At one place there were carried out at severall times in Troops one thousand Pro­testants, which were drowned at the bridg of Portnedown, which for that purpose was broke down in the midst.

9. And within the County of Armagh foure thousand Protestants have in severall places been drowned.

10. The Protestants have been driven naked before these Barbarous Butchers in severall companies like sheep appoynted for the slaughter, to the places of execution.

11. And if any faynted or grew weary on the way, they prickt them forward with their sword poynts whereby they killed many on the way.

12. With their Pikes and swords they [...]st the poor stript Christians into the wa­ [...]rom of the Banks, or Bridges.

13. Those that assay by swiming to save their lives, they shoot or beat out their brains.

14. Sir Phellim Oneal hath proved the chief actor of these Barborous and bloody massacres.

15. He having caused all the Protestants in Armagh and there abouts under prerence of conducting them murthered of young and old five hundred persons.

16. He caused the Town of Armagh, and Cathedrall Church to be fired which were burnt down.

17. At a town called Killaman, fourty and eight families were Murthered by his direct­tion.

18. In the same town there were twenty too English Protestants Burnt in one house.

19. Within two miles of the same the Rebels murthered of English two hundred Families.

20. They have been so eager at their prey, that they would not suffer the poor Protestants to say their prayers before they murthered them.

21. They have imprisioned some in noy­some dungeons of dirt and mire, with bolts on their leggs where they were starved to death by Leasure.

22. At Cassell the Rebels cruelly mur­thered fifteen English Protestants using the rest most barbarously.

23. They have most Barbarously mangled many Protestants and left them languishing in their payn in the high ways half dead ac­counting it to favourable to end them of their payn by a suddain death.

24. They have buried many alive both men women and poor harmless infants.

25. At one time at a town called Clow­nis, they buried seventeen persons which they had half hanged which were heard to send forth Lamentable groans.

26. After they had cruelly wounded some they hung them upon tenter hooks.

27. Others when they had put rops about their necks they dragged through the water.

28. Some they dragged through the woods and Boggs till they dyed.

29. They have put ropes about the necks of many and cast them several times into the water, wherby to cause them to confess where their moneys were.

30. They have hanged up some a small time, and then taken them down again, to make them confess where their money was, which when they told them, then they hang­ed them outright.

31. When they have stript the Protest­ants naked, they bid them go look for their God, and bid him cloth them again.

32. They have hung up English by the armes and then hackt them with their swords to try how many blows they would indure before they dyed.

33. Some have had their bellys ript up and so left with their Intrails taken out.

34. They have ript up women big with child, and the young Infants hath falled out, which the Rebells have often given to doggs, and swine to eat or cast into ditches.

35. The Rebells robb'd, stript, and mur­thered a great company of Protestants in the County of Armagh, some they burnt, some they slew by the sword, and some they hang­ed, others they starved and put to death more cruelly.

37. They have hanged some by the heels, and then with their skeans cut them in peeces

38. Some young Infants have been found in the feild, Sucking the Brests of their mur­thered Mothers.

39. A great number of Protestants espe­cially of women and children, they haveslasht & mangled in many places of their bodies, and not kill'd outright, but left them wallowing in their blood.

40. Denying to kill them outright, till two or three days after, and then they would dash out their brains with stones.

51. A woman that leapt our of a window to save her self from burning was murthered by the Rebels, and the next morning her child found sucking at her breast which they also murthered.

42. The Rebels stabb'd one Jane Addis, left her sucking child alive by her, & putting the breast into its mouth said suck English bastard, so the child perisht for want, of which Act they bragg'd.

43. Many young Infants have been stifled in vaults and cellers, or starved in caves which have cryed to their mothers rather to send them out to dye by the Rebels then to starve so miserably there.

44. Multitudes of men, women, and chil­dren were drowned, cast into ditches, boggs, and turf-pits.

45. Many have been inclosed in their hou­ses which have been set on fire and burnt with their houses to ashes in a most miserable manner, and if any attempted to escape they threw them into the fire again.

46. They have dragg'd out some from their sick beds to the place of execution.

47. In the parish of Loghgall to the ri­ver of Toll they forced children to carry their aged parents out of their beds to drown them in that river.

48. They have enforced children to exe­cute their parents, and wives their own hus­bands by hanging and other ways.

49. The wife of Florence Fitz Patrick was outragious with her husbands souldiers because they brought not the grease of a Pro­testant woman whom they had cruelly mur­thered for her to make candls withall.

50. The Irish men some of them detestnot the cruelty of those bloody queans that fol­low their camp, that cry our spare neither man woman nor child.

51. They hav [...] boyld children to death in Cauldrons.

52. They hanged a woman and her daugh­ter in the hair of her own head.

53. In a frosty night they stript a woman big with child which presently after fell in la­bour, and both child and she dyed at the in­stant.

54. The Rebels often utter threatnings out to cut off all that have a drop of English blood in them, and their women cry out that the English are only meat for doggs.

55. Neare the Town of Monaghan, they most cruelly murthered one Mr. Foord in his own Garden, most inhumanely tortured his wife, Laying hot Tongs to her hands and feet (to make her tell where his money was) that with the payn thereof she died.

56. They have most villanously ravished Virgins and women, and afterwards have bin so bloody and hard-harted, as to dash their childrens brains out.

Thus have you heard of some part of the miseries and tortures inflicted upon the poor Protestants in Ireland, by the bloody Rebels; many more inhumane murthers they have committed, which I forbear for brevity sake: But such is the care and wisdom of the Parliament to put an end to the bleeding miseries of Ireland, that they have chosen that renowned, faithful, and valiant Commander Major General SKIPPON to be Field-Marshal over their Forces, and Major General MASSEY is chosen Lieutenant General of the horse, the Lord crown their endeavours with victory over those inhumane blood-thirsty Rebels, that so dying Ireland may yet live to praise him.