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 upon covenant to be safely conveyed to Galway, by one Edmond Burk, and his soldiers; but by the way, this Burk and his company began to massacre these poor Protestants, some they shot to death, some they stabbed with skeins, some they thrust through with their pikes, some they drowned; the women they stripped naked, who lying upon their husband’s to save them, were run thro' with pikes, so that very few of them escaped with life.

In the town of Sligo, forty Protestants were stripped, and locked up in a cellar, and about mid-night, a butcher provided for the purpose, was sent in among them, who with his ax butchered them all.

In Terawly, thirty or forty English, who had yielded to go to mass, were put to their choice, Whether they would die by the sword, or be drowned, they chose the latter; and so, being driven to the sea-side, these barbarous villains, with their naked swords, forced them into the sea; the mothers with their children in their arms, wading to the chin, were overcome by the waves, whereby they all perished.

The son of Mr. Montgomery a minister, aged about fifteen years, met with his schoolmaster, who drew his skein at him, whereupon the boy said, Good master, whip me as much as you will, but do not kill me. Yet this merciless tyger, barbarously murdered him without all pity.

In the town of Sligo, all the Protestants were first robbed of their estates, then cast