A true and credible relation of the barbarovs crveltie and bloudy massacres of the English Protestants that lived in the kingdome of Ireland anno dom. 1641, in the province of Vlster, and other of the provinces there, by the Irish rebellious traytors written by a Gentleman who was an eye witness of most of the passages hereafter following, who was fore'd with his wife, to abandon house, estate and country, for feare of the rebells, and arrived in London, this 15 of Ianuary, 1642.
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A true and credible relation of the barbarovs crveltie and bloudy massacres of the English Protestants that lived in the kingdome of Ireland anno dom. 1641, in the province of Vlster, and other of the provinces there, by the Irish rebellious traytors written by a Gentleman who was an eye witness of most of the passages hereafter following, who was fore'd with his wife, to abandon house, estate and country, for feare of the rebells, and arrived in London, this 15 of Ianuary, 1642.
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A
True
and
Credible
Relation
,
OF
THE
BARBAROVS
CRVELTIE
AND
BLOUDY
MASSACRES
OF
THE
ENGLISH
PROTESTANTS
That
lived
in
the
kingdome
of
Ireland
,
Anne
Dom.
1641.
In
the
province
of
Vlster
,
and
other
of
the
Provinces
there
,
by
the
Irish
Rebellious
Traytors
.
Written
by
a
Gentleman
,
who
was
an
eye
witnesse
,
of
most
of
the
passages
hereafter
following
,
who
was
forc'd
with
his
wife
,
to
abandon
,
house
,
estate
and
Country
,
for
feare
of
the
Rebells
,
and
arrived
in
London
,
this
15.
of
Ianuary
.
1642.
LONDON
,
Printed
by
E.
Griffin
,
1642.
A
true
and
credible
Relation
of
the
Barbarous
cruelty
,
and
bloody
Massacres
of
the
English
Protestants
,
that
lived
in
the
kingdome
of
Ireland
,
in
Anno
Domini
,
1641.
In
the
province
of
Ulster
;
and
other
of
the
Provinces
there
by
the
Irish
Rebellious
Traytors
.
THeir
Cruell
and
Damnable
Designe
,
was
first
to
have
surprised
the
Castle
of
Dublin
upon
the
23.
day
of
October
Anno
predicto
,
upon
a
Saturday
;
the
same
night
all
the
Popish
houses
were
to
be
marked
with
a
Crosse
to
be
knowne
from
the
Protestants
houses
,
their
intent
being
upon
the
Sunday
following
to
have
surprised
all
the
protestants
and
to
have
stript
them
naked
,
as
they
did
many
thousands
of
men
,
women
and
children
in
other
parts
of
the
kingdome
of
Ireland
upon
the
same
day
,
and
also
to
have
surprised
all
the
English
shipping
,
riding
at
Anchor
at
a
Harbor
commonly
called
the
Rings
End
,
about
a
mile
distant
from
the
City
of
Dublin
.
But
God
that
saw
their
bloudy
intent
discovered
their
practice
by
one
of
their
owne
faction
suffering
them
to
run
on
in
their
owne
wicked
hope
and
cruell
imagination
,
untill
the
night
before
their
practise
should
have
bin
put
in
execution
,
for
the
same
night
the
Lord
Mack-Gueere
an
Irish
man
,
and
Captaine
Mack-Mahowne
also
an
Irish
man
(
who
confessed
the
whole
plot
)
were
apprehended
,
the
one
in
Cookstreet
within
the
City
of
Dublin
,
the
other
neere
Dublin
in
Saint
Mary
Abby
in
the
suburbes
of
the
same
City
,
both
which
have
been
ever
since
imprisoned
in
the
Castle
of
Dublin
,
and
doe
still
remaine
there
:
what
man
so
blind
as
may
not
herein
see
the
finger
of
God
,
and
how
their
malitious
hearts
are
bent
to
shed
innocent
bloud
,
that
notwithstanding
they
have
so
often
failed
in
their
wicked
and
bloudy
purposes
and
intents
both
private
and
publik
,
which
they
have
secretly
attempted
in
darknesse
will
take
no
warning
,
but
still
run
on
in
their
bloud-thirstines
,
to
extirpate
whole
states
,
to
suppresse
the
truth
,
and
to
shed
the
bloud
of
Gods
Saints
,
the
Lord
confound
their
devices
▪
It
is
too
manifest
that
the
Iesuits
those
firebrands
of
hell
,
and
Popish
priests
were
the
plotters
of
this
and
other
Treasons
,
which
can
at
their
pleasure
absolve
subjects
of
their
obedience
to
their
princes
,
and
give
power
to
murther
▪
and
depose
Kings
,
neither
could
they
worke
upon
a
more
rebellious
and
forward
Nation
to
doe
mischiefe
.
The
Irish
is
well
knowne
to
be
a
people
both
proud
and
envious
,
for
the
commonaltie
they
are
for
the
most
part
ignorant
and
illiterate
,
Lazie
and
poore
,
and
will
rather
begge
then
worke
,
and
therefore
fit
subjects
for
the
Iesuits
,
to
spur
on
upon
such
bloody
Actions
,
for
Ignorance
is
without
mercy
,
for
never
was
it
heard
or
knowne
,
that
ever
Turk
or
Infidell
did
ever
use
a
Christian
so
unmercifully
as
they
have
used
the
English
protestants
,
who
have
releived
them
,
and
kept
them
from
starving
,
It
is
too
well
knowne
(
the
more
is
the
pittie
and
to
be
lamented
)
that
they
have
murthered
,
and
starved
to
death
of
the
English
in
the
province
of
Vlster
and
other
provinces
where
they
are
risen
up
in
bellion
,
of
men
,
women
and
Children
above
20000.
Their
manner
is
and
hath
beene
,
cowardly
and
trecherously
to
surprise
them
upon
great
advantages
,
and
without
respect
of
persons
▪
to
rob
them
of
all
they
have
,
but
being
not
content
therewith
(
but
as
insatiable
of
bloud
)
hunting
after
their
pretious
lives
,
stript
Ladyes
,
and
gentlewomen
,
Virgins
and
Babes
,
old
and
young
,
naked
as
ever
they
were
borne
,
from
their
clothes
,
turning
them
into
the
open
fields
,
(
where
having
first
destroyed
the
husbands
and
Parents
,
before
their
wives
and
childrens
faces
)
many
hundreds
have
beene
found
dead
in
ditches
with
cold
for
want
of
food
and
rayment
,
the
Irish
having
no
more
compassion
of
their
age
or
youth
,
then
of
Doggs
.
As
for
the
protestant
Ministers
,
those
they
take
(
which
have
been
many
)
they
use
them
with
such
cruelty
,
as
it
would
make
any
heart
to
melt
into
teares
that
doth
but
heare
this
relation
;
Their
manner
is
first
to
hang
them
up
,
and
then
they
cut
off
their
heads
,
after
they
quarter
them
,
then
they
dismember
their
secret
parts
,
stopping
their
mouthes
therewith
,
a
thing
indeed
for
modestie
sake
,
more
fit
to
bee
omitted
then
related
.
Many
of
their
wives
,
they
have
ravished
in
their
sights
before
the
multitude
,
stripping
them
naked
to
the
view
of
their
wicked
Companions
,
taunting
and
mocking
them
with
reproachfull
words
,
sending
them
away
in
such
a
shamefull
,
or
rather
shamelesse
manner
that
they
have
(
most
of
them
)
either
dyed
for
griefe
,
or
starved
with
want
and
cold
,
such
cruelty
was
never
knowne
before
.
As
to
speake
of
the
ravishing
of
wives
,
maids
and
Virgins
in
particular
,
it
would
take
up
a
great
volume
,
and
therefore
I
leave
that
to
the
consideration
of
such
as
have
learned
,
what
effects
fruits
and
mischiefes
,
wars
and
Rebellions
produce
,
The
Priests
and
Iesuits
commonly
annoint
the
rebells
with
their
sacrament
of
the
unction
,
before
they
goe
to
murther
and
rob
,
assuring
them
that
for
their
meritorious
service
,
if
they
chance
to
dye
or
bee
killed
,
they
shall
escape
Purgatory
and
goe
to
heaven
immediately
,
and
what
they
can
get
by
stealing
and
murthering
shall
be
their
own
,
a
good
reward
for
such
a
bloudy
and
murthering
service
,
and
what
man
will
not
venter
upon
such
conditions
to
get
wealth
upon
earth
,
and
heaven
for
murther
?
O
Damnable
Doctrine
,
and
Doctors
!
After
they
have
murthered
men
;
surprising
them
cowardly
and
treacherously
,
they
doe
usually
mangle
their
dead
Carcases
,
laying
wagers
which
shall
cut
deepest
into
their
dead
flesh
with
their
skeyns
as
they
did
unto
one
master
Champion
,
a
Iustice
of
the
peace
in
the
province
of
Vlster
,
whom
they
cruelly
murthered
by
trechery
,
and
one
Master
Iremonger
,
whom
they
kild
,
as
he
was
at
prayers
in
Master
Champions
house
,
and
also
destroying
the
whole
houshold
.
One
worthy
gentleman
nere
Belturbat
,
in
the
province
of
Vlster
,
was
surprised
as
hee
was
at
Dinner
with
his
vertuous
▪
wife
and
foure
small
children
,
and
after
they
had
robbed
them
,
and
all
his
family
,
and
stripped
them
naked
,
they
threatned
them
to
kill
them
,
if
they
went
not
away
presently
,
who
comming
towards
Dublin
,
hoping
that
way
to
find
some
comfort
,
the
further
they
came
the
more
miserable
they
were
beholding
others
of
their
friends
handled
in
the
same
manner
,
which
struck
in
them
such
amasement
,
and
bred
in
them
such
feare
,
that
being
hopeles
,
&
helplesse
they
,
sat
downe
in
a
Ditch
,
where
they
were
all
found
dead
by
some
Troopers
,
the
Gentleman
and
his
wife
having
their
armes
imbracing
one
th
▪
other
were
found
dead
,
but
a
sucking
Child
,
which
was
betweene
them
,
was
alive
grabling
and
striving
for
the
dead
Mothers
breast
,
who
was
taken
up
by
the
Troopers
and
carried
to
a
Nurse
.
At
Belturbat
they
robbed
all
the
English
,
being
about
500.
persons
,
who
submitting
themselves
to
their
mercy
found
no
quarter
but
cruelty
,
for
they
stripped
them
all
naked
,
and
so
turned
them
out
of
the
Towne
to
shift
for
themselves
in
bitter
cold
weather
,
in
a
most
shamefull
manner
,
not
affording
them
a
ragg
to
cover
those
parts
,
which
should
be
hid
,
amongst
which
company
there
was
one
Master
Hudson
the
Minister
of
the
said
Towne
of
Belturbat
,
a
Religious
and
Godly
Minister
and
his
wife
,
whom
they
abused
in
a
shamefull
manner
,
not
sit
to
be
spoken
.
In
another
Towne
the
English
fled
all
into
the
Church
being
ab
one
two
hundred
and
twenty
,
where
they
remained
3.
dayes
and
nights
both
men
,
women
,
and
children
,
till
they
were
almost
starved
,
and
so
were
forced
to
come
forth
,
whom
these
cruell
Rebells
stripped
out
of
their
Clothes
,
and
drove
them
over
the
Bridge
at
the
Townes
end
naked
,
having
before
cut
off
the
middle
Arch
,
unknowne
to
those
poore
Christians
,
with
a
devillish
intent
there
to
murther
them
(
as
they
did
)
for
comming
to
the
middle
of
the
Bridge
,
they
found
no
passage
;
for
the
poore
naked
Soules
must
either
goe
back
,
or
fall
in
and
bee
drowned
:
some
that
went
back
they
kil●d
,
some
that
fell
in
the
water
were
drowned
,
some
that
could
swim
,
the
cruell
Rebells
run
and
met
them
at
the
water
side
,
and
knockt
them
on
the
heads
in
the
water
,
O
mercylesse
and
cruell
murtherers
!
Many
Ladies
,
and
Gentlewomen
,
which
have
beene
great
with
Child
they
have
turned
them
out
of
doores
,
where
they
have
beene
delivered
in
the
open
fields
upon
a
little
straw
,
without
the
helpe
of
any
woman
,
and
so
having
ended
their
misery
▪
others
that
have
escaped
death
in
Childbearing
,
they
have
mercilesly
carried
away
upon
Carts
(
lying
in
stinking
and
lowsie
straw
stark
naked
)
to
places
where
they
and
their
poore
infants
have
been
murthered
The
Lord
Blany
escaped
their
cruelty
,
being
forced
to
ride
14.
miles
upon
a
poore
Garroon
or
Iade
without
Bridle
or
Saddle
to
save
his
life
,
his
Lady
being
taken
and
his
children
the
same
day
,
and
imprisoned
by
the
bloody
and
cruell
villaines
,
who
use
her
most
barbarously
and
her
children
,
neither
regarding
her
noblenesse
of
birth
nor
her
Lord
,
but
suffer
her
,
or
rather
force
her
to
lodge
in
straw
,
with
a
poore
allowance
of
two
pence
a
day
,
for
her
reliefe
▪
and
poore
sweet
children
▪
and
to
ad
affliction
to
the
good
Ladyes
misery
,
slew
a
kinsman
of
hers
▪
and
caused
him
to
be
hanged
up
two
dayes
and
nights
before
her
face
to
afflict
and
terrifie
her
.
It
is
most
certaine
that
many
thousands
have
suffered
in
this
nature
and
worse
▪
as
I
have
heard
reported
by
very
honest
and
credible
persons
who
(
through
Gods
mercy
)
have
escaped
their
crueltie
,
for
it
hath
beene
told
mee
by
the
mouths
of
very
Religious
and
Godly
Divines
▪
who
came
over
with
me
in
the
same
ship
,
wherein
I
came
from
Dublin
▪
how
they
had
lost
their
wives
▪
their
children
▪
and
their
estates
,
being
glad
to
flye
for
their
lives
,
having
not
left
wherewithall
to
pay
for
their
owne
carriage
into
England
,
some
of
them
to
mine
owne
knowledge
▪
having
lost
very
great
estates
.
Vpon
the
8.
of
December
last
,
the
Lords
of
the
Pale
▪
(
so
called
because
they
live
round
about
the
City
of
Dublin
,
in
the
province
of
Leinster
)
did
generally
meet
at
a
village
called
the
Saintred
,
&
there
did
mutually
protest
against
the
Kings
Government
,
and
then
and
there
proclaimed
that
all
the
English
should
depart
the
kingdome
within
14
▪
dayes
▪
or
otherwise
they
should
expect
nothing
but
fire
and
sword
▪
which
being
knowne
to
the
Lords
Iustices
,
all
the
Papists
in
Dublin
were
presently
disarmed
:
at
or
about
the
same
time
the
Lord
Fitz
William
of
Miriam
,
living
nere
Bullock
,
and
within
two
miles
of
Dublin
,
sent
word
to
the
Lords
Iustices
that
there
was
1500.
of
the
Rebells
would
come
downe
from
the
County
of
Wickloe
to
Bulloch
,
and
so
come
from
thence
in
flat
boats
,
to
surprise
the
shipping
at
the
Rings
end
which
is
the
harbour
,
and
where
there
lay
at
that
time
about
27.
ships
of
the
English
and
Dutch
,
whereupon
the
Lords
Iustices
,
sent
a
hundred
Souldiers
from
Dublin
,
to
be
dispersed
into
severall
ships
for
their
safety
,
and
gave
order
,
under
their
hands
to
the
Capt.
of
the
Kings
Frygot
a
man
of
war
,
who
rid
at
Anchor
by
us
,
to
have
a
speciall
care
of
our
ship
called
the
Phenix
and
(
if
occasion
were
)
to
guard
us
safe
over
the
Ba●
of
Dublin
so
that
we
were
driven
to
keepe
a
Guard
many
nights
on
ship-board
for
feare
of
a
surprise
,
for
the
Rebells
were
come
to
a
place
called
Finglas
within
two
miles
of
Dublin
,
so
that
we
were
driven
to
leave
our
houses
(
living
in
the
Suburbes
)
for
feare
of
firing
,
and
so
lay
aboard
14.
dayes
and
nights
in
our
Clothes
,
before
wee
had
a
wind
to
carry
us
to
Hollyhead
,
the
Kings
Attorney
for
Ireland
,
Sir
Thomas
Tempest
,
the
Bishop
of
Ardagh
,
Sir
Robert
Dixon
,
Sir
Robert
Foord
,
Mr.
Carleton
,
and
divers
Ladies
and
Gentlewomen
,
being
all
passengers
in
the
same
Ship
.
As
for
the
number
of
the
Rebells
,
it
is
not
certainly
knowne
;
but
without
question
there
is
a
great
many
of
them
,
but
not
the
third
part
of
them
armed
,
and
those
armes
they
have
,
they
have
taken
from
the
English
▪
in
surprising
and
murthering
them
cowardly
and
trecherously
,
and
some
of
them
under
pretence
of
being
rob'd
by
the
Rebells
,
have
deceiptfully
gotten
Armes
to
goe
fight
against
them
,
and
then
have
run
away
from
their
Captaines
to
the
Rebells
,
and
indeed
there
is
no
trust
nor
confidence
to
be
put
in
them
,
they
are
so
trecherously
perfidious
.
It
is
suspected
,
that
the
chiefe
Rebells
doe
intend
to
steale
away
by
Sea
(
having
gotten
a
great
estate
from
the
English
Plantators
whom
they
have
robbed
and
murthered
)
and
so
leave
the
ignorant
rabble
of
Irish
in
the
lurch
.
There
is
a
great
want
of
English
protestants
for
Souldiers
,
not
only
to
secure
the
City
of
Dublin
and
the
Suburbs
,
but
also
to
releeve
the
distressed
estate
of
the
Lord
Viscount
Moore
in
Drogheda
,
who
deserves
both
love
,
praise
,
and
honour
.
It
is
to
be
beleeved
that
the
Rebells
will
never
give
a
Battell
▪
and
that
in
short
time
they
will
be
starved
for
want
of
food
,
for
they
have
gotten
in
most
parts
from
the
English
all
they
can
get
,
and
they
wast
and
devoure
that
plenty
they
have
,
and
there
is
neither
plowing
nor
sowing
in
those
parts
,
so
that
it
will
be
impossible
for
them
to
subsist
long
.
It
is
most
certaine
that
1400.
Souldiers
volunteers
,
were
landed
at
Dublin
,
under
the
Command
of
Captaine
Harcot
,
and
other
Captaines
upon
the
second
day
of
Ianuary
last
Anno
1641.
which
was
a
great
comfort
to
the
English
,
and
400.
Souldiers
which
were
not
in
pay
went
along
with
them
,
so
that
the
whole
number
was
1800.
men
.
and
marched
along
from
the
Rings
end
to
Dublin
in
Battell
Array
in
very
good
order
.
They
report
and
alleadge
that
Religion
is
the
cause
of
their
war
,
but
that
is
false
,
for
they
have
had
too
much
liberty
and
freedome
of
conscience
in
Ireland
,
and
that
hath
made
them
Rebell
.
I
hope
that
God
that
hath
discovered
their
bloudy
practice
,
will
confound
their
devices
,
and
bring
them
to
confusion
.
To
the
which
God
be
all
honour
,
praise
and
Glory
for
ever
.
FINIS
.