can make it manifest, that the depopulations in this province of Munster do well near equal those of the whole kingdom.”
And thus in part you have heard of the merciless cruelties which the bloody Papists exercised towards the Protestants: Let us now consider at least, some of God’s judgements upon the Irish, whereby he hath not left the innocent blood of his servants to be altogether unrevenged.
These bloody hell-hounds themselves confessed, That the ghosts of divers of the Protestants which they had drowned at Portadown Bridge were daily seen walking upon the river, sometimes singing psalms, sometimes brandishing naked swords, sometimes shrieking in a most hideous and fearful manner. So that many of the Irish Papists which dwelt thereabouts, being affrighted therewith, were forced to remove their habitations farther off into the country.
Katharine Cook testified upon oath, That when the Irish had barbarously drowned one hundred and eighty Protestant men, women, and children, at Portadown Bridge; about nine days after she saw the apparition of a man bolt upright in the river, standing breast-high, with his hands lift up to heaven, and continued in that posture from December to the end of Lent, at which time some of the English army passing that way, saw it also, after which it vanished away.
Elizabeth Price, testified upon oath, That she and other women, whose husbands and
