1651. The said Ingoldsby and his dragoons murdered in one day about three hundred protected persons in the territory of Tullagh-hill.

County of Kerry.

1653. The inhabitants of the barony of Dunkueren, being ordered by lieutenant colonel Nelson, then governor of the county for Cromwell, to remove, with their goods and cattle, for their greater security, were met by the said Nelson, major Peppard, captain Thomas Barrington, captain Hasset, and other officers, with a party of horse, and under colour to secure their removal; and on a sudden, upon a sign given, the soldiers fell upon the poor people, and killed upwards of three hundred men, women, and children: the cruelty of Barrington and Hasset in that massacre was remarkable, causing many women to be shamefully stripped naked, and afterwards most inhumanly butchered; the fingers of such as wore rings to be cut off, and the babes and infants to be tossed on pikes and halberts, in sight of their dying parents.

1653. The said Nelson having granted his protection under hand and seal to Tecig Morcarty and Conor Mac Donogh, catholic priests, until their transportation for Flanders by a time limited, before half that time was expired apprehended the said priests, and hanged them with their protection in their hands.

1653. The said Nelson and captain Peter Cary, meeting with one Thomas O'Bryne, a butcher by trade, hanged him for being sometime a lay-friar.

Many hundreds of the poor people of that county, reduced by the exaction and cruelty of their governors to a starving condition, were by Nelson's orders, for smelling of horse-flesh, which they were necessitated to eat or starve, hanged.

1653. Captain Thomas Barrington, aforesaid, caused the arm of a poor woman to be cut off with a hatchet; and perceiving that she grasped with the other hand a sucking babe she had at her breast, he caused that arm to be also cut off, and the infant's head dashed against a rock in her presence.

The said Barrington caused a lieutenant and some soldiers of his majesty's army, taken prisoners upon quarter, to be stripped naked, and their brains knocked out with a hatchet.

County of Cork.

1641. In Condon's country, above three hundred labourers, women, and children, were murdered by some of the now earl of Orrory's soldiers.

In the said county, amongst others they gelded one Dennis Downey, and pulled out one of his eyes, and sent him in that posture to his wife.

1641. Item, fifty-six persons, or thereabouts, were brought prisoners to Castle Lyons, (most of them labourers, who did never bear arms,) were put into a stable, and the women in that garrison at night fired their beards and the hair of their heads, which so disfigured them and burnt them, that their nearest friends could not know them next day, when they were hanging.

1642. In the same county, three hundred and fifty-five persons, men, women, and children, were murdered with clubs and stones, being in protection.

1642. Mr. Henly, an English gentleman, dwelling in Roche's country, but a Roman catholic, had his wife and children barbarously stripped, and most of his tenants inhumanly murdered by adjacent English garrisons; he the said Henly, nor his tenants, being never in arms; and such cruelty was used, that they stabbed young infants, and left them so half dead on their mothers' dead carcases. In the said Henly's town, and in the adjacent villages, at that time there were murdered about nine hundred labourers, women, and children.

1643. Cloglegh being garrisoned by the Irish, and surrendered upon quarter of life to sir Charles Vavasor, were all inhumanly murdered, and the hearts of some of them pulled out and put into their mouths; and many other massacres were committed the same time there on women and children.

1643. At Lisllee, twenty-four men in protection were murdered by colonel Mynn's soldiers.

At Beallauere, the same year, Teig O'Mungan and David Broge, blowing by command into pistols, were shot to death by some of captain Bridge's men; and eight poor labourers more were killed by them, being in protection, and then employed in saving some harvest of English.

1642. At Clogheiulty, about two hundred and thirty-eight

men, women, and children were murdered, of which number seventeen children were taken by the legs, by soldiers, who knocked out their brains against the walls. This was done by Phorbis's men, and the garrison of Bandon Bridge.

At Garranne, near Ross, Conor Kinedy, who had protection for himself and his tenants, to save their harvest, were murdered by the said garrison of Ross, as they were ditching about their

corn.

1641. At Bandon Bridge, the garrison there tied eighty-eight Irishmen of the said town back to back, and threw them off the bridge into the river, where they were all drowned.

1650. At Shiell, there were forty labourers, with women and children, put on the edge of a great cliff over the sea, a rope being drawn about them, with six soldiers on each end, and so thrown into the sea and drowned. This was done by major Wallis and his party, who about the same time murdered in the west of Carbery upwards of eight hundred men, women, and children.

1641. Patrick Hacket, master of a ship in Waterford; the duchess of Ormond being desirous to be conveyed by him to Dublin, after leaving her safe with her family and goods there, the lords justices and the duke of Ormond gave him a pass for his safe return; who being driven by a storm into Dungarvan, the said master and all his men were hanged by direction of the commander in chief there, notwithstanding he produced his said pass.

1647. Sir Alexander Mac Donnel, a known eminent servitor to his late majesty in the wars of Scotland, was murdered by major Purdome after quarter.

1651. Charles Mac Carty of Killmydy, being in a party with colonel Phayre at the grate of his castle, colonel Ingoldsby rides up to the grate with a spanned pistol, and shot him dead; at which action the said Phayre was much dissatisfied, being commander in chief of that party.

1641. The English party of this county burned O'Sulevan Beare's house in Bantry, and all the rest of that country, killing man, woman, and child, turning many into their houses then on fire, to be burnt therein, and amongst others, Thomas de Bucke, a cooper, about eighty years old, and his wife, being

little less and all this was done without provocation, the said O'Sulevan being a known reliever of the English in that country.

Observe, that this county is not charged in the late abstract with any murders.

County of Waterford.

1641. In Decy's country the neighbouring English garrisons of the county of Cork, after burning and pillaging all that country, they murdered above three thousand persons, men, women, and children, before any rebellion began in Munster, and led a hundred labourers prisoners to Caperquine, where being tied by couples were cast into the river, and made sport to see them drowned.

Observe, that this county is not charged with any murders to be committed on protestants.

The information of the marquis of Antrim.

My lord of Antrim, by letters, earnestly pressing to a conference with us, whose names are under-written, being then at the camp of Killahan in the county of Meath, there was a meeting with his lordship assented unto, and accordingly we this day, being the 9th of May, 1650, met him at Miltown, between Killahan and Killehan, in the said county, where and when, amongst other discourses, and particularly concerning a commission supposed to have been by the late king given to the Irish for their rising and acting as they have done in Ireland, on the 23d day of October, 1641, and after he the said lord of Antrim said that he knew nothing of any such commission, but that the late king before the said rising of the Irish in Ireland sent one Thomas Bourk, kinsman to the earl of Clanrickard, to the lord of Ormond, and to him the lord of Antrim, with a message, that it was the king's pleasure and command, that those eight thousand men raised by the earl of Strafford in Ireland should be continued without disbanding, and that they should be made up twenty thousand, and that they should be armed out of the store of Dublin, and employed against the parliament; and particularly that the castle of Dublin should be surprised and secured: which the said lord of Antrim's discourse, in substance aforesaid, was delivered at the time and place before mentioned, in the presence of us,

The 11th of May, 1650, another meeting was given by us under-named to the lord of Antrim at the aforesaid place, when and where, amongst other discourses, and in pursuance of that formerly by his lordship delivered, of the king's instructions concerning the rising of the Irish in Ireland, the lord of Antrim further added, that the letters of credence by the late