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 wood, first hanged the mother, and then the daughter in the hair of her mother’s head.

In some places they plucked out the eyes, and cut off the hands of the Protestants, and turned them into the fields, where they perished. The women in some places, stoned the English women and children to death. One man they shot through his thighs, digged a hole in the ground, set him in upon his feet, filled up the hole, left out only his head, where he languished to death. Another man they held his feet in the fire till he was burnt to death.

In Munster, they hanged up many ministers in a most barbarous manner. One minister they stripped naked and drove him through the town, pricked him with darts and rapiers, till he fell down dead.

These barbarous villains vowed, That if any parents digged graves to bury their children in; they should be buried therein themselves. They stripped one William Loverdon naked, then killed him before his wife and children. Divers minister’s bones that had been buried some years before, they digged up, because they were, as they say, patrons of heresy.

Poor children that went out into the fields to eat weeds and grass, they killed without all pity.

A poor woman whose husband was taken by them, went to them with two children at her feet, and one at her breast, hoping to beg her husband’s life, but they slew her and her sucking child; brake the neck of another,