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IN IRELAND.
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into goal, and about midnight were all stripped naked, and there most cruelly and barbarously murdered with swords, axes, skeins, &c. some of them being women great with child, their infants thrust out their arms and legs at their wounds, after which execrable murders, these hell hounds laid the dead naked bodies of the men upon the naked bodies of the women, in a most immodest posture, where they left them till the next day to be looked upon by the Irish, who beheld it with great delight. Also Isobel Baird, great with child, hearing the lamentable cries of those they were murdering, ran out into the streets, where she was murdered, and the next day was found with the child’s feet coming out of the wounds in her sides; many others were murdered in the houses and streets.

About Dungannon, were three hundred and sixteen Protestants in the like barbarous manner murdered; about Charlemont, above four hundred; about Tyrone, two hundred and six.

One MacCraw, murdered thirty-one in one morning.

Two young villains murdered a hundred poor women and children that could make no resistance. An Irish woman, with her own hands, murdered forty-five.

At Portadown-Bridge were drowned above three hundred. At Laugh were drowned above two hundred in one day. In the parish of Killamen, there were murdered one thousand and two hundred Protestants.