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 water, and other deaths the most cruel, that rage and malice could invent.

At Cashel they put all the protestants into a loathsome dungeon, kept them twelve weeks in great misery: Some they barbarously mangled, and left languishing; some they hanged up twice or thrice, others they buried alive.

In Queen’s county, an Englishman, his wife, five children and a maid, were all hanged together. At Clownish seventeen men were buried alive; some were wounded, and hanged upon tenter-hooks. In Castle Cumber, two boys were wounded, and hung upon butchers’-tenters. Some hanged up, and taken down to confess money, and then murdered. Some had their bellies ripped up, and were left with their guts about their heels.

In Kilkenny, an English woman was beaten into a ditch were she died; her child about six years old, they ripped up her belly, and let out her guts. One they forced to mass, then they wounded him, ripped up his belly, took out his guts, and so left him to die.

A Scotchman they stripped, and hewed to pieces ripped up his wife’s belly, so that her child dropped out; many other women they hung up with child, ripped up their bellies, and let their infants fall out; some of the children they gave to the dogs.

In the county of Armagh, they robbed, stripped, and murdered abundance of Protestants, whereof some they burned, some they slew with the sword, some they hanged, some