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 being satisfied with their blood till they had seen the last drop thereof.

Ann Kinnaird testified, That fifteen Protestants being imprisoned, and their feet in the stocks, a Popish boy not above fourteen years old, slew them all in one night with his skein.

An English woman, who was newly delivered of two children, some of these villains violently compelled her, in great pain and sickness, to rise out of her bed, and took one of the infants that was living, and dashed his brains against the stones, and then threw him into the river of Barrow. The like they did to many other infants. Many others they hanged up without all pity.

The Lord Montgarret. caused divers English soldiers, that he had taken about Kilkenny, to be hanged, hardly suffering them to pray before their death.

One Fitz Patrick, an Irish Papist, enticed a rich merchant that was a Protestant, to bring all his goods to his house, promising to keep them safely, and to re-deliver them to him; but when he had gotten them into his possession, he took the merchant and his wife and hanged them both: The like they did to divers others. Some Englishmen’s heads they cut off and carried them to Kilkenny, and on the market-day set them on the cross; where many, especially the women stabbed cut and slashed them.

A poor Protestant woman with her two children, going to Kilkenny, these bloody miscreants baited them with the dogs, stabbed