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 they starved to death; and meeting mistress Howard, and mistress Frankland with six of their children, and themselves both with child, they murdered them all, ripped open the gentlewomen’s bellies, took out their children, and threw them in the ditch. A young Scotch woman’s child they took by the heels, and dashed out its brains against a tree; the like they did to many other children.

Ann Hill, going with a young child upon her back, and four more by her side, they pulled the child off her back, trode on it till it died stripped her and the other four children naked, whereby they died of cold.

Some others they met with, hanged them up upon a wind mill, and before they were half dead, cut them in pieces with their skeins.

Many other Protestants, especially women and children, they pricked and stabbed with skeins, forks and swords, slashing, cutting and mangling them in their heads, but left them wallowing in their own blood, to languish, starve, and pine to death.

The castle of Lisgoole, being set on fire by these merciless Papists, a woman leaped out at a window to save herself from burning, whom they presently murdered; many fled to vaults and cellars, where they were all murdered. One Joan Addit they stabbed, and then put her child of a quarter old to her breast, and bade it suck, English bastard, and so left it to perish.

One Marry Burlow had her husband hanged, herself with six children stripped naked,