 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1878 - 734 pages
...place was in their power, Cromwell gave orders that no quarter should be given.1 Ormond wrote that ' the cruelties exercised there for five days after...Book of Martyrs," or in the relation of Amboyna.' 1 This description comes from an enemy, and, though it has never been refuted, 1 Carte. i [bid. it... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Great Britain - 1878 - 672 pages
...DROGHEDA. 171 their power, Cromwell gave orders that no quarter should be given.i Ormond wrote that ' the cruelties exercised there for five days after...Book of Martyrs," or in the relation of Amboyna.' 2 This description comes from an enemy, and, though it has never been refuted, it may perhaps be exaggerated.... | |
 | William Edward H. Lecky - 1879 - 668 pages
...place was in their power, Cromwell gave orders that no quarter should be given.1 Ormond wrote that ' the cruelties exercised there for five days after...found in the "Book of Martyrs," or in the relation of Amboyna.'2 This description comes from an enemy, and, though it has never been refuted, it may perhaps... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Ireland - 1880 - 352 pages
...indeed, all the officers, except some few of least consideration, that escaped by miracle. The eruelty exercised there for five days, after the town was...found in the Book of Martyrs, or in the Relation of Amboyna."2 The author of the *' Aphorismical Discovery" mentions Cromwell's army at Drogheda as numbering... | |
 | Denis Murphy - Ireland - 1883 - 538 pages
...exceeded himself and any thing he had ever heard of in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity ; and that the cruelties exercised there for five days after...several pictures of inhumanity as are to be found in The BooR Martyrs or in The Relation of Amboyna.'3 Ludlow calls it an ' extraordinary severity.'4 Of the... | |
 | Denis Murphy - Ireland - 1885 - 548 pages
...exceeded himself and any thing he had ever heard of in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity ; and that the cruelties exercised there for five days after...found in The Book of Martyrs or in The Relation of Amboi/na.'8 Ludlow calls it an ' extraordinary severity.'4 Of the inhabitants only thirty survived,... | |
 | William Anderson O'Conor - Ireland - 1887 - 204 pages
...of Letters," vol. ii., p. 402.) "The cruelty exercised there for five days after the town (Drogheda) was taken, would make as many several pictures of...Book of Martyrs,' or in the relation of Amboyna." (Extract from letter of the Marquis of Ormonde to Lord Byron, dated Kilkenny, 29th Sept., 1649. Carte's... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - Ireland - 1892 - 518 pages
...that no quarter should be given.1 Ormond wrote that ' the cruelties exercised there Carte, ii. 84. for five days after the town was taken would make...Book of Martyrs," or in the relation of Amboyna.' 1 This description comes from an enemy, and, though it has never been refuted, it may perhaps be exaggerated.... | |
 | Colomb (Colonel, George Hatton) - Great Britain - 1892 - 228 pages
...exceeded himself, and anything he had ever heard of, in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity ; and that the cruelties exercised there for five days after...inhumanity as are to be found in the Book of Martyrs and in the relation of Amboyna.'" Peters' sermon, a week or two later, in the great church in Dublin... | |
 | Thomas Earnshaw Bradley - 1856 - 844 pages
...the cruelties exercised for five days after the town was takeu would make as many several pictures o( inhumanity as are to be found in the ' Book of Martyrs,' or in the relation of Amboyna." Cromwell, in his letters, which have been frequently published, denies the offer of quarter, but admits... | |
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that on this occasion Cromwell exceeded himself and. any thing he had ever heard of, in breach of faith and bloody inhumanity ; and that the cruelties exercised there, for five days after the town was taken, would make as many several pictures of inhumanity,... 
