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 beds. One Daniel Rambout, because he refused to say Jesu Maria, or pray to the Virgin Mary, they first cut off one finger, then another, till they had cut then all off, then they cut off his hands and arms, till after this manner he was cruelly mangled to death. Others they shut up between two stone walls, and starved them to death. And to conclude, there was no manner of death, no kind of cruelty or torment, that these first-born of hell could invent or devise, but were executed with the utmost severity upon the poor miserable Protestants; and it would be almost endless to give a particular account of all that were murdered, drowned, burned, shot, starved, smothered, knocked on the head, and cut in pieces, by these barbarous Papists.

These horrid and inhuman practices made the rest of the Protestants fly to their arms, in the natural defence of themselves and their families, against the rage and fury of lions, tygers, and bears, in the shape of men. But those that were so brisk at massacring and murdering such as did not resist them, were mere cowards at fighting, and the Protestants prevailed against them with small numbers, and defended themselves against their cruelty.

But at last, by the mediation of the Switzers, Hollanders, and other Protestant Princes, and especially the English, who contributed above thirty thousand pounds to the relief of their wants and miseries, the breach was made up; but yet so made, that the poor remaining Protestants live under the tyrany of their Popish task-masters; being forbid all manner of traffic, wronged of their estates and goods, their ministers banished,