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 and mangling them: they put a gag in the minister’s mouth, slit up his cheeks to his ears, and laid a leaf of the Bible upon it, and bade him preach, for his mouth was wide enough.

At Kilmore, they put many Protestants, men, women and children into a thatched house, and there burnt them. They threw Mrs. Maxwell into the river when in labour, the child being half born when the mother was drowned.

In one place they burnt two Protestants' Bibles, and then said, It was hell fire they burnt. Other Bibles they took, cut in pieces, and then burnt them, saying, They would do the like to all puritan Bibles. They took the Bible of a minister, called Mr. Edward Slack, and opening it, they laid it in a puddle of water, and then stamped upon it saying, A plague on it, This Bible has bred all the quarrel.

At Glasgow, a priest, with some others, drew about forty English and Scotch Protestants to be reconciled to the church of Rome, and then told them, They were in a good faith, and for fear they should fall from it, and turn heretics, he with his companions presently cut all their throats.

In the county of Tipperary, near the Silver Works some of these barbarous Papists met with eleven Englishmen, ten women, and some children, whom they first stripped, and then with stones, pole-axes, skeins, swords, &c. they most barbarously destroyed them all

In the county of Mayo about sixty Protestants, whereof fifteen were ministers, were