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 As for the protestant ministers whom they surprised, their manner was first to strip them and after bind them to a tree or post, where they pleased, and then ravish their wives and daughters before their faces (in sight of all their merciless rabble) with the basest villains they could pick out, after which they hanged up their husbands and parents before their faces, and then cut them down before they were half dead, then quartered them, after dismembered them, and stopped their mouths therewith.

They basely abused one Mr. Trafford a minister in the north of Ireland, who was assaulted by these bloody wolves of Rome’s brood that knew not God, nor any bowels of mercy. This distressed minister desired but so much time as to call upon God, before he went out of the world: But these merciless wretches would admit no time, but instantly fell upon him, hacked and hewed him to pieces.

They ravished Sir Barck Dunfian’s wife before him, slew his servants, spurned his children till they died, bound him with a match to a board that his eyes burst out, cut off his ears and nose, tore off both his cheeks, after cut off his arms and legs, cut out his tongue, And after ran a red hot iron into him.

These particulars with many more were attested before the Commissioners appointed for that purpose.