them, and Iulled the Poor Protestants in Security with words of
Peace, and sure protection, and then gave them up to the Shambles.
The bloody Butchers did not onely drive them out of their dwellings
and possessions, but forced some (which was mercy in comparison
of what they did to others) to wander up and down in desolate
and snowy Mountains, without Food or Cloathing, where many
were starved by cold and Famine, Women great with childe frozen
to death; others newly delivered, and Infants hanging upon their
dry Brests. Some were led to the tops of Rocks and Precipices, and
their heads being tied down between their legs, they were tumbled
down; some had themselves and houses blown up together; some
burnt in and with their houses; some spitted in at the Fundament;
some stabbed; some cl[unr]en from head to foot; some hanged; some
cut asunder in the middle, and some in pieces; some had their flash
torn away in bits from the Bones; some their Bodies cut and flashed,
and then the wounds being filled with Salt and Gun-powder,
their shirts were put on them, and set on fire; some burnt out right
in the fire; one, an old man of 95 years, being asked, whether he
would go to Mass, and refusing, had his nose first cut off; then being
asked again, and he still refusing, he had one ear cut off, then
the other; and so one limb after another, as often as they asked, and
he refused, till all his Members were cut off, and then they hanged
him. They cut off the Genitals of men, and committed such abuses
upon women, as are not to be named, so that it was a favor to be cut
in pieces, and no more. They clove the Sculls of Women and infants,
took out the Brains and boiled, and eat them. They took
little children, one Soldier by one leg, and another by the other, and
splitting them by the Twist asunder; they buffeted one another in
sport, with the torn limbs, &c. It were too redious to relate all
now. Shortly a full Narrative of their most horrible dealings will be
made publick.
May 26. His Highness retired to Hampton-Court.
Yesterday Petitions of Serjeant Maynard, Serjeant Twisden, and
Mr. Windham, prisoners in the Tower, were presented to his Highness,
but nothing done yet concerning them.
May 28. Mr. Coney appeared (it being the last day of the Term)
at the Upper-Beach, the determination of whose business is deferred
till the next Term.
This day, Mr. Serjeant Steel, Recorder of the City of London, was
admitted Lord Chief Baron of his Highnesses Court of Exchequet,
where the Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, being set in
Court, and Mr. Serjeant brought to the Bar; after a Speech made
by the Lord Whitelock, and a Reply thereto by the Serjeant, he was
desired to come within the Bar, and had the usual Oath of Lord
Chief Baron administred to him by the Lords Commissioners of the
Seal.
This day his Highness returned from Hampton Court.
May 29.By later Letters from the Barbadoes, it appeared, That
be Generals and Fleet departed there on the 30 of March; that they