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 Many young children they cut in quarters; eighteen Scotch infants they hanged upon clothiers tenter-hooks; one fat man they murdered and made candles of his grease; another Scotchman they ripped up his belly, took one end of his small guts, tied it to a tree, and forced him round about it, till they had drawn them all out of his body, saying, That they would try whither a dog's or a Scotchman's guts were the longest.

By the command of Sir Phelim O’Neil: Mr. James Maxwell was drawn out of his bed being sick of a fever, and murdered; his wife being in child-birth, the child being half born, they stripped naked, drove her about a slight shot, and drowned her in the black water; the like or worse, they did to another English woman in the same town. One Mr. Watson they roasted alive. A Scotch woman great with child, they ripped up her belly, cut the child out of her womb, and so left it crawling on her body.

Mr. Sturkey, school-master at Armagh, being above one hundred years old, they stripped him naked, then took his two daughters, being virgins, whom they also stripped naked, and then forced them to lead their aged-father to a turf-pit, where they drowned them all three.

To one Henry Crowel, a gallant gentleman, they proffered his life, if he would marry one of their trulls, or go to mass; but he chose death rather than consent to either.

Many of the Protestants they buried alive,