'cut off the head of this most holy man (who was equally renowned throughout the kingdom for his life, his doctrine, and his lineage.) They 'affixed his head to a spike over the town gate 'to be meat foa the fowls of the air, and left his 'flesh to be devoured by the beasts of the field. 'Nor was the inhuman fury of the Protestants 'satiated with this slaughter of men; but they also drew their swords against women.'Thus,

'The noble Lady Roche, wife of Maurice Viscount of Fermoy and Roche, a chaste and holy matron, whose mind was solely occupied with 'prayer and piety, being falsely accused of murder by a certain ungrateful English maid-servant (whom she had compassionately taken when a desolate orphan, and supported and edu'cated,) was hanged at Cork in 1654, although 'stricken in years, and destined in the course of " nature soon to die.

'The noble Lady Bridget of the house of Darcy, ⚫ wife of Florence Fitzpatrick, one of the Barons ' of Ossory, was hanged by the Protestants at • Dublin in 1652, without the form of law or of 'justice.

What shall I yet say? Time would fail me 'to narrate the martyrdoms of chiefs, nobles, pre'lates, priests, friars, citizens, and others of the 'Irish Catholics, (whose purple gore has stained ⚫ the scaffolds almost without end;) who 'by faith conquered kingdoms and wrought justice.' Of 'whom some had trials in mockeries and stripes, moreover also of chains and prisons. Others were stoned, cut asunder, racked, or put to death ' with the sword. (Heb. xi.) Others have wan'dered over the world in hunger, thirst, cold, and 'nakedness; being in want, distressed, afflicted; wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens ' and in caves of the earth. And all these being approved by the testimony of the faith, without 'doubt received the promise. Amen.'-(pp. 65-72.)

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Ossoriensium sue de Ossory, qui ad quandam speluncam, a rabie hæreticorum confugiens, eum hæretici insecuti, sanctissimum virum (erat enim vità, doctrinâ, et prosapiâ conspicuus, et in toto Regno notus) capite plexerunt in spelunca : caput in porta cujusdam oppidi, infixa perticâ, in escam volatilibus cœli appenderunt, & carnes ibi pro, bestiis terræ, reliquerunt.

Nec hac virorum cæde, immanis hæreticorum rabies satiata fuit, set contra mulieres gladios strinxerunt. Itaque,

Illustrissimi D. Rocha, uxor illustrissimi D. Mauritii Roch, Vice-Comitis, de Farmoy & Rupe, matrona prudens, & sancta, quæ nulli rei, nisi soli orationi intenta erat, a quadam sua ingrata ancilla Angla (quam orphanellam, derelictam, misericorditer enutrivit & educavit) notorio mendacio de homicido accusata, jam grandæva, et secundo cursû naturæ diu vivere nequiens, patibulo suspensa est, Corcagiæ, 1654.

Illustrissima D. Brigida, ex familia Darsæ, conjux illustrissimi D. Florenti Fitz-Patrick, ex Baronibus Ossoriensibus, absque forma juris aut rationis, ab Hæreticis patibulo suspensa est, Dublinii, anno 1652.

Quid adhuc decam? Deficiet enim me tempus ennarantem de Martyrio Magnatum, Nobilium, Prælatorum, Presbyterorum, Religiosorum, Civíum, cæterorúmque Catholicorum Regni Hiberniæ (quorum sanguine, infinita fere purpurata sunt patibula) qui per fidem vicerunt Regna, operati sunt justitiam ; quorum, alii ludibria, et verbera experti, insuper et vincula et carceres; Alii lapidati sunt, secti sunt entati sunt, in occasione gladii mortui sunt. Alii circuierunt totum mundum, in fame, siti, frigore, & nuditate, egentes, angustiati, afflicti, in solitudinibus errantes, in montibus, & speluncis, et in cavernis terræ, et hi omnes testimonio fidei probati, proculdubio, acceperunt repromissionem. Amen.'-pp. 65-72.

The above long extract is copied verbatim from an exceedingly scarce and curious tract, written by a Catholic Priest 'named Maurice Morrison; and which is entitled, 'THRENODIA HIBERNO-CATHOLICA, sive PLANCTUS UNIVERSALIS TOTIUS CLERI ET Populi Regni Hiberniæ. In qua verdicè et sincere recensetur epitome inauditæ and transcendentis cru

The conclusion of this chapter shall be the following extract from a pamphlet published in London in the year 1647, and which passed through several editions. It serves to show what the sentiments of the English people were, and what the topics were that excited their interest, and obtained their approbation :

THE SIMPLE COBBLER OF AGGAVAM IN AMERICA. 'BY THEODORE DE LA GUARD.

'A word of Ireland: not of the nation universally, nor of any man in it, that hath so much 'as one haire of Christianity or humanity grow'ing on his head, or beard; but only of the truc'ulent cut-throats, and such as shall take up armes ' in their defence.

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'These Irish, anciently called Anthropophagi, 'man-eaters, have a tradition among them, that ' when the devil showed our Saviour all the king'domes of the earth and their glory, that he 'would not show him Ireland, but reserved it for 'himself. It is most probably true, for he hath 'kept it ever since for his own peculiar; the old 'fox foresaw that it would eclipse the glory of all 'the rest he thought it wisdome to keep it for, 'a boggards for himself and all his unclean spirits employed in this hemisphere, and the people 'to do his son and heire, I mean the Pope, that 'service for which Lewis the Eleventh kept his barber, Oliver, which makes them to be so 'blood-thirsty. They are the very offal of men, dregges of mankind, reproache of Christendome, 'the bots that crawle on the beaste's taile. I ·wonder Rome itself is not ashamed of them.

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'I beg upon my hands and knees that the ex'pedition against them may be undertaken while 'the hearts and hands of our soldiery are hot, to 'whome I will be bold to say briefly: Happy is 'he that shall reward them as they have served us; and cursed is he that shall do the work of 'the Lord negligently. Cursed be he that holdeth 'back his sword from blood; yea, cursed be he 'that maketh not his sword starke drunk with 'Irish blood; that doth not recompense them 'double for their hellish treachery to the English; 'that maketh them not heaps upon heaps, and 'their country a dwelling-place for dragons, an ' astonishment to nations! Let not that eye look 'for pity, nor that hand be spared, that pities or spares them and let him be accursed that curseth them not bitterly.'-London, printed by J. D. and R. I. for Stephen Bowtell, at the sign of the Bible, in Pope's-Head Alley--1647.

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There is no person who will read this work, but must exclaim with me, that no people on the face of the earth were ever treated with such cruelty as the Irish.

The pamphlet I have last quoted contains, in fact, a short development of the spirit which animated the conduct of the English Government towards the people of Ireland.

'delitatis, qua Catholici Regni Hiberniæ tyrannicè opprimuntur ab Anglo Antheistis sub Archi-tyranno Crumuello, trium Regnorum, nempe Angliæ, Hiberniæ, & Scotiæ, usurpatore 'et destructore. PER F. M. MORISONUM, ORDINIS Min. 'strict. Observantiæ, S. Theologiæ Lectorem. Præfatæ Crudelitatis testem ocularem.-ENIPONTI, 1659.'

This very curious account of the Persecution of the Irish Catholics by Cromwell is extremely rare.