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 hand and cried, Mammy, mammy, and yet these villains without mercy buried it alive.

They stripped a Scotchman, and knocked him down for dead, but he afterwards recovering, went into the town naked, whereupon they hewed him all to pieces. They also ripped up his wife's belly, so that the child dropped out. They likewise hanged up divers other women with child, and ripping them up, gave the infants to be devoured by dogs and swine.

In one place they burned two English Bibles, and said it was hell fire they burned. A Papist would have persuaded a man and his wife to have joined with them in the massacre; but they protested, That rather than they would forsake their religion, they would die upon the sword's point; whereupon they were both cruelly murdered.

These barbarous villains caused some children to carry their aged parents to the river, and drown them: some wives were forced to help to hang their husbands; and in one town they caused a young man to murder his own father, and then hanged him up. In another place they forced a woman to kill her husband, then caused the son to kill his mother, and then immediately hanged the son.

By these, and all manner of cruelties which hell itself could invent, the Irish and English Papists murdered and destroyed, in a few months, near three hundred thousand Protestants, as it is commonly computed, without any manner of provocation, but only because they were Protestants; whose deaths the Divine vengeance recompensed upon the chief murderers, many thousands perishing by the sword and the plague.