 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1895 - 1134 pages
...end. " No spectacle," wrote Mountjoy's English secretary, " was more frequent in the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground."... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1902 - 1118 pages
...end " No spectacle," wrote Mountjoy's English secretary, " was more frequent in the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground."... | |
 | Charles Augustus Hanna - Scots-Irish - 1902 - 648 pages
...horses of our English troopes, and they dying thereupon to bee readie to teare out one another's throate for a share of them. And no spectacle was more frequent in the Ditches of Townes, and especiallie in wasted Countries, then to see multitudes of these poore people dead with... | |
 | Thomas Addis Emmet - Ireland - 1903 - 382 pages
...people were brought, are too horrible and disgusting to be quoted here. He remarks generally: ' ' ' No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns...see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all colored green by eating nettles, docks and all things they could rend up above ground. These... | |
 | Francis Ryan Montgomery Hitchcock - Ireland - 1908 - 336 pages
...his rebellion. An eyewitness, Moryson, says, " No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground.''... | |
 | James Harvey Robinson, Charles Austin Beard - Europe - 1908 - 528 pages
...wrought in the island that a contemporary declared that " Nothing was more frequent in the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all colored green by eating nettles, docks, and all things which they could rend up above ground."... | |
 | Fynes Moryson - Europe - 1908 - 536 pages
...English troopes, and they dying thereupon, to bee readie to teare 1602. 1602. out one anothers throate for a share of them. And no spectacle was more frequent in the Ditches of Townes, and especiallie in wasted Countries, then to see multitudes of these poore people dead with... | |
 | Louis François Alphonse Paul-Dubois - Ireland - 1908 - 558 pages
...same way in the North. " In the single county of Tyrone 3,000 persons in a few months were starved. No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns and especially of wasted counties, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with 11 Leland. of. cit. IV.,... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1910 - 1208 pages
...end. " No spectacle," wrote Mountjoy's English secretary, " was more frequent in the ditches of the towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to...see multitudes of these poor people dead, with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground."... | |
 | Anthony Guggenberger - Europe - 1913 - 490 pages
...in addition to their arms to destroy the crops of whole districts. An English eyewitness reports : " No spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns...see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all colored green by eating nettles, docks and all things they could rend above jiround." In... | |
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And no spectacle was more frequent in the ditches of towns, and especially in wasted countries, than to see multitudes of these poor people dead with their mouths all coloured green by eating nettles, docks, and all things they could rend up above ground. 
