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 in several companies, and all unmercifully drowned in the river. Yea, in that country there were one thousand persons drowned in several places.

In one place, an hundred and forty English were taken and driven like cattle, for many miles together, other companies they carried out to a fit place for execution, and then murdered them. One hundred and fifteen men, women and children, they sent with Sir Phelim O’Neal’s pass till they came to Portadown bridge, and there drowned them.

At another time one hundred and forty Protestants being thrown in at the same place, as soon as any of them swam to the shore, the bloody villains, with the butt-end of their muskets, knocked out their brains.

At Armagh O’Cane put together all the Protestants thereabouts, pretending to conduct them to Colraine; but before they were a day’s journey, they were all murdered, and so were many others, though they had protection from Sir Phelim O’Neal. The aged people in Armagh were carried to Charlemont, and there murdered.

Presently after the town of Armagh was burnt, and five hundred persons murdered and drowned. In Killoman, forty-eight families were murdered; in one house twenty two Protestants were burned. In Kilmore, all the inhabitants were stript and massacred, being two hundred families: The whole country was a common butchery; many thousands perished by sword, famine, fire,